Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Accelerators generally accept startups at a slightly later stage, and attempt to compress the timeline to commercialization into a few months, instead of a year or more. To get started, go to the International Business Innovation Association web site, and use the lookup tool provided to see what’s available in your area.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Consumers have grown increasingly impatient when it comes to using the Internet, so it is important to catch their attention early with content that will keep them engaged. These optimization tips can help companies at early and even later stages make great strides to optimize the potential of their website… and business.

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Austin Startup

MAY 11, 2017

We focus primarily on software and Internet companies in areas such as SaaS, application software, financial software, consumer internet, and online marketplaces. These sectors generally leverage the Internet or software in a fundamental way. For most of us, we have been the only woman partner or senior executive in our firm.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

PEVCTech is partnering with Blue Future Partners to run the first large-scale survey of VCs’ technology stack. Johann Kratzer of Blue Future Partners , a fund of funds, observed, “The majority of the hundreds of funds we’ve diligenced rely predominantly on their relationships to source deals. Greylock Partners.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

And funds also have investments from the partners of the firm. For example, my firm, GRP Partners, has a $200 million fund that was closed in March 2009 and we have 4 investment partners. A fund size of $100 million – $200 million is likely to either be an A round investor or “stage agnostic&#.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

Accelerators generally accept startups at a slightly later stage, and attempt to compress the timeline to commercialization into a few months, instead of a year or more. To get started, go to the International Business Innovation Association web site, and use the lookup tool provided to see what’s available in your area.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

Accelerators generally accept startups at a slightly later stage, and attempt to compress the timeline to commercialization into a few months, instead of a year or more. Another good online approach is a simple Internet search for articles like the “ The 15 Best Startup Accelerators in the U.S. ”

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2016

With the advent of the Internet, the size and address of your office is irrelevant. Most new teams are geographically dispersed these days anyway, so paying rent for an office should be differed to later stages when revenue is plentiful. Use your equity for key executives and business partners.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Accelerators generally accept startups at a slightly later stage, and attempt to compress the timeline to commercialization into a few months, instead of a year or more. To get started, go to the National Business Incubation Association (NBIA) web site, and use the lookup tool provided to see what’s available in your area.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

But the larger funds usually have lower returns because they are often investing bigger dollars at later stages with less risk and therefore lower returns. As you can see in this Cambridge Associates data, early-stage investing beat later stage investing in returns in 70% of the past 30 years. Yeah, true.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

Home to the Internet’s first true “accelerator,” Idealab led by Bill Gross. Deviant Art, led by Angelo Sotira, which is one of the largest online communities on the Internet [Hollywood]. So many had names of partners (Kleiner Perkins) or local favorite identifiers like trees (Sequoia). North of the 101].

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But in business, you want a lot of partners. In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers. See Bessemer Venture Partners’ A comprehensive guide to security for startups. Cobalt for General Partners helps GPs to optimize their fundraising strategy. 1) Manage the firm

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

These are all potential customers and strategic partners for startups. In short, the first wave of internet companies were widely distributed and brought people online (AOL in Virginia, Microsoft in Albuquerque and Seattle, Dell in Austin, etc.) More than 50 Fortune 500 companies are headquartered in Texas and six of the Fortune 50.

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www.ashmaurya.com

AUGUST 29, 2012

Running through the complete process in the early stages makes you much more efficient in later stages as you get a feel for the industry and have warm introductions. This is the mold for Internet marketing with the education pitch. I run a software startup and I want to partner with you to improve your business.”

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thebarefootvc

MARCH 8, 2012

While the initial fund is $120M we will have access to ru-Net’s (the Russian LP) $700M of capital to support growth of portfolio companies and opportunistically invest at later stages where we can add value beyond capital. Startups are not immune to globalization and can accelerate growth if thinking globally from launch.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 12, 2023

Angels are more likely to fund new entrepreneurs, and early-stage or seed rounds, while VCs tend to focus on entrepreneurs with a successful track record, and later stage rounds. Sending unsolicited business pitches to every angel and VC investor you can find on the Internet is a waste of your time as well as theirs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2020

Angels are more likely to fund new entrepreneurs, and early-stage or seed rounds, while VCs tend to focus on entrepreneurs with a successful track record, and later stage rounds. Sending unsolicited business pitches to every angel and VC investor you can find on the Internet is a waste of your time as well as theirs.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

The venture capital industry is continuing its evolution from an upside-down pyramid (typically 3-10 Partners, plus some administrative support) to a traditional hierarchical pyramid. Investors with dedicated, large-scale sourcing teams are almost all top-quartile performers across stage, vintage, and sector.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2013

Who are the partners? These sources are a lot more forgiving of iterations and pivots than later-stage venture-capital funds. In times of unlimited cash (internet bubbles, frothy venture climates) you can fix your mistakes by burning more dollars. How do the fund and the partners make money? And what are its costs?

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VC Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

In addition, Battery’s partners showed their commitment by putting more money into the fund themselves than in its past funds, among other moves, he said. Maturity : Battery invests in companies at all stages – from seed to later stage private equity buyouts.

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Rob Go

JANUARY 10, 2017

This requires that you go one or two layers deeper than someone who is smart and has done a few hours of internet research. Some of the firms that have analyst sourcing programs include places like Summit Partners, Insight Venture Partners, Bessemer, OpenView, and Volition. That’s pretty much it.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Object Communications (now often called “the Internet of Things”). I normally look to invest my first money below a $20 million valuation and when deals get to lofty prices I normally bow out to later-stage investors who have deeper pockets. I stated that Twitter provided. Predictive Data. Augmented Data.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2013

Who are the partners? These sources are a lot more forgiving of iterations and pivots than later-stage venture-capital funds. In times of unlimited cash (internet bubbles, frothy venture climates) you can fix your mistakes by burning more dollars. How do the fund and the partners make money? And what are its costs?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 2, 2014

Angels are more likely to fund new entrepreneurs, and early-stage or seed rounds, while VCs tend to focus on entrepreneurs with a successful track record, and later stage rounds. Sending unsolicited business pitches to every Angel and VC investor you can find on the Internet is a waste of your time as well as theirs.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 19, 2021

They might both be accomplished writers or editors, but for a particular project, each partner focuses on a single role, and their different foci make the partnership stronger. As investors, we are active partners to the founders and CEO. I am the invited partner in the room who is here to help this company succeed.”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2016

Angels are more likely to fund new entrepreneurs, and early-stage or seed rounds, while VCs tend to focus on entrepreneurs with a successful track record, and later stage rounds. Sending unsolicited business pitches to every Angel and VC investor you can find on the Internet is a waste of your time as well as theirs.

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A Crowded Space

AUGUST 4, 2011

I’m your host, Marcus, and today we’re talking to Josh Breinlinger, who currently works as a senior associate at Sigma Partners, a venture capital firm in Menlo Park. Shortly after that, I was approached by Sigma Partners to join the team and help them find other great startups. . Josh: Thanks for having me. Marcus: Okay.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. I can’t tell you how frequently teams of three business school students tell me they’re going to start the next great consumer Internet company. I don’t know any developers.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

All Unicorn participants — founders, company employees, venture investors and their limited partners (LPs) — are seeing their fortunes put at risk from the very nature of the Unicorn phenomenon itself. The same thing happened to many Internet stocks. LIMITED PARTNERS (LPS). They are the real capital that make the system work.

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Up and Running

JUNE 22, 2010

Here’s Audrey’s excellent summary: In it, Sacca observes that 10 years ago, it cost more than a million dollars for a tech business to launch, with steep hardware, software, office and internet costs, not to mention the “lavish parties so print media would write about their pipe dreams.&#. Lowercase Capital’s Creed.

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The Startup Lawyer

JANUARY 6, 2011

Founder and Partner at AOL Ventures , a few weeks ago. Sure – AOL Ventures is the VC arm of AOL , focused on early stage investing in consumer internet businesses. Later stage opportunities are also out of the mandate of our fund. I had the chance to chat with Mike Brown Jr., That’s an interesting question.

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David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

Foundry Group, investing primarily in “ Software and Internet ”, follows six major themes, e.g., Human Computer Interaction (HCI) or Distribution. Alpha Partners and Proof provide capital when their partner VCs don’t have pro rata, and share the economics on the investments. 6) Situation-defined funds.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 9, 2010

The combination of companies looking for capital and investors looking for liquidity put a strain on early stage start ups but seemed to have played favourably for growth equity investments and later stage companies. Genesis Partners Ltd. Benchmark Capital; Bessemer Venture Partners; Mangrove Capital Partners.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 7, 2015

My partners and I have noticed an interesting trend over the past few years: an increase in the number of entrepreneurs who prefer to pitch us without the use of a presentation deck. You will raise more money at later stages. On one hand, this is totally understandable. You will spend a large portion of your time recruiting.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 6, 2014

That''s why I''ll probably hang around the Canary board a little longer than I would otherwise--to learn from future later stage investors as the fast growing company, now around 20 people, grows over the next few years into a powerhouse. I was at that Internet Week when Katia and Hayley were networking pre-raise.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

Editor’s Note: This testimony was delivered by a16z managing partner Scott Kupor to the U.S. By way of background, I am the Managing Partner for Andreessen Horowitz, a $16.5 billion multi-stage venture capital firm focused on IT-related investments… I also serve on various investment committees, including for the St.

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VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2010

To learn more, VC Cafe interviewed Brian Rosenzweig, one of the managing partners in the new fund and the former marketing director at 21Ventures. Janvest: To my previous answer – the market for seed stage companies is not crowded at all in Israel. VCs are investing in later stage companies.

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