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The Audacious Plan to Make Electricity as Easy as WiFi

Both Sides of the Table

It’s true the some VCs have started writing so many checks that they resemble stock pickers but the majority of us still have less than 10 board seats at any time and tend to go pretty deep so the result is that we care deeply about where we commit our time. The practical uses for uBeam technology is limitless. Was it safe?

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Common B2B Challenges and How To Solve Them

ConversionXL

At the time we were planning a workshop for B2B tech startups from the IMEC accelerator (Ghent, Belgium) and had a chance to interview many of the companies that had signed up. To do this we partnered with the RevGenius community to get a better understanding the challenges mature companies faced. Sales cycle length increased.

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The Legal Side of Entrepreneurship

YoungUpstarts

by John Vrionis, partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. Law firms that focus on emerging technology companies understand their legal issues from multiple perspectives and offer excellent advice. Startups bear the costs of their financing, from the first seed investment to the sale of Series A stock.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. Our categorization is not a technical one. Additionally, Flexible VC can accommodate all types of companies, not just asset-lite, tech-enabled companies.”. Novel Growth Partners, Lighter Capital, Rev Up, Corl, Flow Capital. Of the Inc.

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Time is the Enemy of All Deals

Both Sides of the Table

We were trying to optimize around a few criteria: price, size of round, number of syndicate partners and, of course, terms. We moved into the legal process and final due diligence in January and February of 2000. Push hard to set up the technical reviews, the due diligence meetings, the reference calls – whatever.

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In a Strong Wind Even Turkeys Can Fly

Both Sides of the Table

On July 27th, 2001 Accenture IPO’s and many of the partners grew fabulously wealthy. Since that date the S&P 500 is up 2.45% while Accenture stock is up 206% with revenue of $23 billion and a market cap of $32 billion. Double-down on great people, process & IP. The things that always differentiated Accenture?

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How to Scale a Venture Capital (or Private Equity) Fund

David Teten

My Partners at HOF Capital are younger than I am, which means that we have a half-century horizon for the franchise we are building. – Build out low-cost force multipliers such as scouts , Advisors, Entrepreneurs in Residence, Venture Partners, and so on. So we think about scaling a lot.