Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2011

The awareness phase is where other later-stage investors start to notice the momentum, bringing additional money in and pushing prices higher. Meanwhile, the bubble for “seed stage&# startups began when Ron Conway’s Silicon Valley Angels and DST guaranteed every startup out of a YCombinator $150,000.

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Silicon Valley Stealth Valuation Mississippi 327

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2010

This is part of my ongoing series on Understanding Venture Capital. I recently wrote a blog post on understanding how the size and age of a venture capital fund might affect you when you’re raising money. I believe these VC funds have suffered some amount of reputation fall out. Same with True Ventures.

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Venture Capital Term Sheet Early Stage Silicon Valley 265

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

Maybe I need to do slightly later stage.” He shut down his company gracefully and even thought it must have felt like a crap sandwich doing so I’ll bet his reputation is still solid with his backers. ” He probably didn’t know but he has more in his account than most Americans so there’s that.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 6, 2015

We raised our first fund on reputation and history. Charlie: Who are the three most underrated investors in venture capital? By the way, I was tempted to call this category “later stage” because it totally pisses these guys off when you call A Round “later stage.”. Our second fund on momentum.

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Seed Stage Later Stage Venture Capital Valuation 48

Gust

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Maybe I need to do slightly later stage.”. He shut down his company gracefully and even thought it must have felt like a crap sandwich doing so I’ll bet his reputation is still solid with his backers. He has staked his reputation on a project to use the software of some shitty 2-year-old startup company because he believes!

Monaco 122

Monaco Cofounder Chicago Mexico 122

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2017

I am so proud and humbled to be able to formally announce that Upfront Ventures has raised its 6th venture capital fund in the past 21 years. Upfront VI is our latest core fund and is $400 million to invest in early stage entrepreneurs. This brings our combined funds under management to nearly $2 billion.

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Rob Go

JANUARY 10, 2017

BTW, once you are an investor, it will serve you well to continue to cement your reputation as one of the up-and-comers that is an established expert in this emerging space. My last word of advice – think hard about whether you really want to pursue venture capital.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

In Silicon Valley boardrooms, where “growth at all costs” had been the mantra for many years, people began to imagine a world where the cost of capital could rise dramatically, and profits could come back in vogue. Competition also has access to capital. They use the reputation of the other investors as a proxy for due diligence.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2012

Generally, the same criteria applies to venture capital investors, although they invest other people’s money, at a later stage, in larger amounts. This type of business is usually based on the expert skill and reputation of an individual or small group.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2011

Generally, the same criteria applies to venture capital investors, although they invest other people’s money, at a later stage, in larger amounts. This type of business is usually based on the expert skill and reputation of an individual or small group.

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Gust

JULY 1, 2012

Generally, the same criteria applies to venture capital investors, although they invest other people’s money, at a later stage, in larger amounts. This type of business is usually based on the expert skill and reputation of an individual or small group.

Angel Groups 143

Angel Groups Angel Investor Early Stage Startup 143

www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

One of the dangers of taking investment from individual angels,rather than through an angel group or investment firm, is that theyhave less reputation to protect. Angels and even VC firms occasionally do this, but they alsoinvest at later stages. The problems are different in the early stages.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Startup Software Review Angel Investor 76

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2010

Generally, the same criteria applies to venture capital investors, although they invest other people’s money, at a later stage, in larger amounts. This type of business is usually based on the expert skill and reputation of an individual or small group.

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Angel Groups Angel Investor Early Stage Later Stage 121

K9 Ventures

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

The business of venture capital is relatively young. The birth of modern-day venture capital (not considering the European monarchs financing explorations and projects as venture capital) can be traced back to American Research and Development, which was started by Georges Doriot.

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IRR Venture Capital LP Early Stage 48

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The timing is perfect, there is more than a little overlap with Vivek Wadhwa’s guest post on venture capital earlier today. 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. Johnny Good post.

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Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2010

Some people assert that the later stage investors didn’t make a high enough return. Let me outline the contra viewpoint, which is never expressed openly, but it what I believe gives our industry a bad reputation. Large early stage rounds. • Not so venture capital. This is the “Patzer Problem.” Closing text.

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Entrepreneur Warrant Silicon Valley Early Stage 321