David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But, most of use raise capital and source deals the same way people looked for dates 20 years ago: by networking at conferences (or bars). . The proportion of LPs using technology to manage their portfolios will continue to increase, and GPs unable to provide quality data to LPs will find it increasingly hard to retain and attract LPs.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Other players such as Obopay have set out to focus on mobile person-to-person cash transfers, mFoundry (a GRP portfolio company) has focused on mobile banking and a mobile wallet and one of my favorite companies m-via is focusing on mobile remittances (right now between the US and Mexico). Read more: TechCrunch. Wildfire Interactive.

Venture Capital 270

Venture Capital Cofounder Spain San Diego 270

Genuine VC

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

There’s a sea of information, both in the blogosphere and residing in the heads of everyone your informal network, which an individual job-seeker needs to wade through to find strong startup and the right role in it. My advice: search for heat, but don’t follow - evaluate.

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Startup Portfolio Later Stage Hiring 148

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

When he entered the industry he caught the tail end of the dot com bubble and then was immediately thrust into a 3-year period of “triage&# where VC’s had to deal with problems in portfolio companies. He says they are just as selective on seed investments as they are in later stage deals. Total raised: $17.0mm.

San Francisco 230

San Francisco Los Angeles Cofounder SMS 230

Brandanew

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

If one had to determine the whole marketing funnel to generate any business, the steps would be as follows: Stage 1 Awareness – Making sure you’re only getting business in front of your niche of consumers that are likely to spend money with you at a later stage. You must have some content worthy of people’s attention.

Viral 100

Viral Social Media SEO Later Stage 100

Rob Go

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

In addition to reporting on the progress of our funds and the exciting stuff happening with the portfolio, we shared some thoughts on the broader market environment for VC’s and venture backed technology companies. But, looking further downstream, the later stage funding landscape has been incredibly robust.

Later Stage 28

Later Stage Marketing Early Stage Ratchet 28

View from Seed

APRIL 7, 2015

For instance, one compelling thing about our former portfolio company Sunrise ( recently acquired by Microsoft ) is that the company actually never really had a website. That’s why early stage fundraising is about searching for true believers, not convincing skeptics.). Almost all VCs say they like to invest really early.

Early Stage 120

Early Stage Founder Later Stage Engineer 120

Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

It possesses a strong corporate base, talented workforce, and a vast network of nationally ranked universities, startup development organizations and innovation-minded companies to support a robust tech ecosystem,” said Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner. A significant strength of Texas lies in its diversified portfolio of unique cities.

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Texas San Antonio Houston Dallas 90

Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 1, 2013

The first company listed is an earlier stage company (either jungle or dirt road) and the second company is a later stage company (either dirt road or highway). full disclosure: tracx, 10gen and Savingstar are Flybridge portfolio companies). Once this heuristic is complete, you now have your target list.

Boston 52

Boston B2C Salary Cofounder 52

David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Just do a search online and the VC’s job is done! Most investors rely on their network of colleagues and service providers to source investments. These funds use a combination of cold-calling, travel, firm networks, paid expert networks, and technology to identify investment opportunities outside of their neighborhood.

Private Equity 114

Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Equity 114

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Most are sitting on large portfolios of private companies that are raising money now or will need to do so in the future and they know that they’re up against some headwinds. Social networking finally came of age connected the planet and leading to enormous wealth creation for Facebook employees and investors. Even Sequoia.

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Valuation Down Round Startup Later Stage 150

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 27, 2018

Domain authority is a search engine’s (like Google’s) way of attributing value to your site to scale it up those SERPs. If your content is as relevant at a later stage as it is now, it has evergreen qualities. Remember to keep your published works as examples of your future work – start building that portfolio.

Marketing 113

Marketing PR Later Stage Startup 113

Professor VC

DECEMBER 8, 2015

one company running out of cash and another with cash but searching for a business model). Often times those involve trading within a venture capital portfolio or between two venture firms portfolios. But what about the case where both companies are well capitalized and doing well?

Merger 28

Merger LP IPO Redemption 28

K9 Ventures

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

A couple of years into it, the friendly neighborhood search giant, Big Kahuna, shows up and decides to acquire Little Fish for $100M. The venture business is a people business — it’s all about meeting people, networking, evaluating ideas (and people) and making educated bets (on people). The money side is flexible.

IRR 48

IRR Venture Capital LP Early Stage 48

David Teten

JANUARY 13, 2015

I also was fortunate to gain a lot of insight on this topic from Don Charlton, Founder/CEO, TheResumator *, a ffVC portfolio company. So how can you network in to them if you didn’t win the genetic lottery? for the simple reason that online networks gave them a much larger pond to fish in than they could find locally.

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Advisory Board Greece Cofounder 60

VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2010

In addition, we are working with more modest capital, for example, the current fund we are putting together (first of many), is $5.0M, which will be used to invest up to $500K in approximately 10 seed stage companies in the Internet, software, telecom, security/defense and alternative energy sectors.

Technical Review 106

Technical Review Software Review Seed Stage 106

techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Researchers divided the portfolio companies into six stages and startups are still operating a loss in each of the first four. Those categories represent roughly 84% of all portfolio companies. Google couldn’t become #1 search engine without VC money. The internet business is a game of scale (network externalities).

Venture Capital 62

Venture Capital Technical Review Sweat Equity Valuation 62