Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

This week’s guest was David Travers from Rustic Canyon Partners. In late April 2010, VentureBeat published that Blippy credit card numbers were published on Google search: [link] followed by Blippy’s response. What I found strange about this funded was the fact that it was led by Summit Partners. Read more: TechCrunch.

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NZ Entrepreneur

AUGUST 12, 2020

Intellectual property can create trouble for startups in their early stages, and getting it right is a crucial aspect to running a successful business. For example, you can begin by performing your own searches of existing intellectual property owned by third parties. i) Assuming your intellectual property is not important.

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Intellectual Property New Zealand Startup Early Stage 91

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But in business, you want a lot of partners. However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. 1) Manage the firm .

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Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Genuine VC

MAY 5, 2015

Today, I’m thrilled to publicly announce NextView’s Talent Exchange, a program helping both top talent and NextView-backed startups connect with each other more easily, beginning with Boston companies (which make up just over half our portfolio). Below, I’ll quickly explain the genesis of this initiative and share a few more key details.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

The birthplace of sponsored search (Overture), semantic search (Applied Semantics which became Google AdSense), comparison shopping (ShopZilla, PriceGrabber) and many others. So many had names of partners (Kleiner Perkins) or local favorite identifiers like trees (Sequoia). An innovator in technology, especially monetization.

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Community Los Angeles Startup Silicon Valley 304

Rob Go

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

In October, we held our annual Limited Partners meeting at NextView. 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. This is a bad thing for investor returns.

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Later Stage Marketing Early Stage Ratchet 28

Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

These are all potential customers and strategic partners for startups. In order for Frisco to achieve its full vision to be a destination city for VC’s, we have to be part of a larger, statewide network to support our partners and entrepreneur support organizations to help advance our collective and common goals.”

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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. Rather than go down this road, my partner David Beisel likes to caveat the occasional feedback by saying, “But that’s just my perspective from the cheap seats.”

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Just do a search online and the VC’s job is done! 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. Leading Late-Stage Technology Investors’ Portfolio by Geography, 2001-1Q2010.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Equity 114

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2017

A huge thank you to all of the Limited Partners who have entrusted us with your capital, time and reputations. Upfront’s Base As you probably know we are based in Santa Monica and as my partner Greg Bettinelli coined, we’re #LongLA. We’ll invest in about 15 new companies every year or just over 2 per partner.

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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. Many experienced partners are funds have 7-10 boards and most of these will need more capital. There is reason for despondency. This is how VCs feel.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 19, 2021

You can listen to the podcast here, or search for Greymatter Podcast in your podcatcher. 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.

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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. I was a Limited Partner in Angel Investors II (Ron Conway's angel fund) that was an investor in Confinity.

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Rob Go

AUGUST 1, 2013

In addition to our typical (but contracted) partner meeting, we also said goodbye to our office at 186 South Street and moved in to our new space at 179 Lincoln Street. I’ve blogged a bit about this before, but we specifically searched for our first space knowing that we had very similar requirements to the types of companies we would fund.

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K9 Ventures

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

The General Partners (GPs) are the operating guys. The money that the GPs and other employees of the firm invest comes from Limited Partners (LPs) — typically the big university endowments, retirement funds, charitable organizations, family offices and high net-worth individuals. over the initial investment of $10M.

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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. Ultimately it is up to the Management Team, Advisory Board and Board of Directors to make the investment decisions, manage the capital investments and oversee portfolio company development.

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Technical Review Software Review Seed Stage 106

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. Your potential investors search for you on Google before doing business with you. For early-stage founders, I suggest AngelList and Crunchbase. ff Venture Capital portfolio company.

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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. A few more stats make that picture look worse.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Sweat Equity Valuation 62

Seeing Both Sides

JANUARY 13, 2015

I have been thinking about the challenges of crossing the chasm - that is, taking a cutting-edge product and selling it successfully to the mainstream, not just early adopters who are more tolerant of less complete solutions - and the challenges of scaling in general as many of my portfolio companies are dealing with these issues.

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