Lightspeed Venture Partners

APRIL 12, 2016

Some of the better known companies in our consumer portfolio include Affirm, Bonobos, DianPing, Giphy, Grubhub, Nest, OutBrain, Oyo Rooms, Playdom, Snapchat, Stitchfix, Nest, Grubhub, TaskRabbit and The Honest Company. His full time job is CEO of Cheddar , the OTT video company he founded, and where Lightspeed is the lead investor.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Why Investing Our Savings Instead of Other People’s Money Let Us Rethink What Venture Capital PMF Looks Like in the Decade Ahead. We announced this change publicly (aka Homebrew Forever ) in February and spent all of 2022 in this mode, revisiting, and in some cases revising, our core assumptions about venture capital.

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Cap Table Venture Capital Cofounder Portfolio 67

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

I’ve written on the expert network industry a fair amount in the past: see How to Earn More Consulting Revenue from Expert Networks and How Executives Can Work with Private Equity and Venture Capital Portfolio Companies. Prabhdeep Singh: GLG Share works in concert with the startup’s investors and VCs however we can.

New York 114

New York Technical Review Networking Advisory Board 114

Genuine VC

JULY 10, 2012

There are essentially two distinct basic strategies for startup entrepreneurs to raise a seed round of capital: Subscription approach – An entrepreneur sets a structure (usually a convertible note) and recruits individual angel investors who subscribe to the round, all without a term-driving lead investor.

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Syndicate Syndication Seed Stage Portfolio 207

Babbling VC

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Technically, co-investors would fall under the "People" heading above but here I'm focussing more on the funds themselves and not specific partners or people at that fund. . I had a business in the portfolio doing fairly well. My fund at that time was only investing as a side-investor. We never led rounds.

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Technical Review Europe Portfolio Germany 76

Rob Go

JULY 17, 2014

For a seed stage venture capital firm, product/market fit comes down to two questions. 1) How is the portfolio performing? On performance, we are happy with how things are shaping up in our early NextView I portfolio. Our new fund size allows us to do that and continue to play the part of the lead investor.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Instead of investors holding onto proprietary connections and introductions for their portfolio companies, these relationships are being displaced by the dominate social networks ( Facebook , Linkedin , Quora ). Most indices are cap-weighted - more in line with a concentrated portfolio (i.e. AngelList is a community.

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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. They don’t mind being the lead investor on deals that they seeded. Same with True Ventures.

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Venture Capital Term Sheet Early Stage Silicon Valley 265

Professor VC

JANUARY 20, 2009

The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic. This brought in a new set of prospective investors and required a lower investment from the lead investor as our existing investors were committed and on board. Our lead investor, Triangle Peak Partners closed on a $170 million first fund in late 2008.

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Venture Capital Silicon Valley San Jose Bootstrapping 28

Hunter Walker

JANUARY 10, 2022

In industry terms, I’d call this a “miss/loss,” which VCs tend to not write about for obvious reasons (I’ve got a whole other rant on the fake performative anti-portfolio lists — Bessemer’s aside). I certainly didn’t know a ton about venture capital or the tech industry at large. The needs of the lead investor for ownership?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

For simplicity I’ll assume you’ve raised some money from angels or seed investors and you’re either raising an A round or a B round of venture capital. I like to start with a list of approximately 40 qualified investors. Of course there’s no exact number of VCs you should meet?—?these these are simply guidelines.

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Term Sheet Due Diligence Campaign Sales 332

David Teten

JULY 12, 2017

When I meet with other VCs, family offices, and other institutional investors, the most common question I get is: “What are the highest-potential companies in your portfolio which are raising now?” If I can reduce a portfolio company’s time burden, I create value for them. Fundraising is burdensome.

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Syndicate Syndication Institutional Investors LP 60

K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 19, 2015

If you’re even remotely connected to the “industry” of Venture Capital, you need to read Howard Marks’ It’s Not Easy memo. And it isn’t the venture capital firms that are paying these exorbitant prices in private markets it is the hedge funds, corporate funds, and sometimes sovereign wealth funds.

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Venture Capital Liquidation Preference Valuation Portfolio 48

David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Prior to joining ff Venture Capital , I published the first-ever study of how private equity and venture capital funds originate new investments, with my coauthor Chris Farmer , CEO of SignalFire and an experienced VC. Annual Deal Pipeline for Selected VCs and Angel Investor Groups. Acquirer/ Investor.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Equity 114

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

How To Pitch A Product - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , August 4, 2010 I've said a bunch of times on this blog that the perfect pitch is a very short intro to provide context followed immediately by a demo. Last night at the NY Tech Meetup, John Britton of our portfolio company Twilio showed how it is done.

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Startup CTO Hire Cofounder Venture Capital 191

David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

He is an active angel with many successful angel investments including: Rent.com, (purchased by Ebay in 2005 for $415 million), Golfnow.com (purchased by Comcast in June 2008), and Lifelock (lead investors include Bessemer Venture Partners and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers).

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Technical Review Technology North Carolina Switzerland 128

Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 26, 2021

Selecting your investor board members should be a careful and thoughtful process, even if that means it requires more work. One common mistake is for entrepreneurs to simply select whichever venture capital firm is offering the highest valuation. Or when should a board member be fired?

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Startup Equity Early Stage Green 36

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

“Steve, we thought we’d tell you this before the board meeting, but both our firms are going to pass on leading your next round.” I felt like I had just been kicked in the gut and stabbed in the back These were my lead investors. Their fiduciary responsibility was to manage a portfolio of investments for their limited partners.

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San Francisco Silicon Valley Limited Partner Venture Capital 331

reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

It doesn’t matter whether an entrepreneur is in our portfolio, whether we’re considering an investment, or whether we’re casually meeting for the first time. Even though we glossed over those slides, investors knew they could come back to those slides later and dig into them if necessary. Who will be the next investors you pitch?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

I think how hard it is for me to be hands-on with a handful of portfolio companies. He was talking profusely about their portfolio company email lists and the knowledge that is shared. I ask Naval about the importance of a lead investor. What if nobody stands up as a lead investor? So I thought, WTF?

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Valuation Deal Flow Lead Investor Cofounder 292

David Teten

JUNE 12, 2014

Klein, CEO of On Grid Ventures , will serve as the new Chairman of Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of Greater NY. I will continue to work closely with the group, while continuing to serve as a Partner at ff Venture Capital. To date, 11 companies have been approved for Fast Track, and 8 have raised capital from our members.

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Venture Chronicles

JULY 16, 2010

Throughout my years in the venture capital business I was witness to some questionable behaviors and tactics, which in reality is par for the course in any business, but nothing could have prepared me for what I have seen in the last 2 years.

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Due Diligence Term Sheet Limited Partner LP 28

Austin Startup

JUNE 4, 2017

Lead Investor : The person or firm who defines the terms of the round. Capital Factory served as a fantastic launching point for us and I owe Josh Baer and Gordon Daugherty a debt of gratitude for including me as a mentor, EIR, accelerator company, portfolio company, and friend.

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Austin Institutional Investors Angel Groups Deal Flow 54

The Startup Lawyer

JANUARY 6, 2011

We’re just through our first year and pleasantly surprised with where we’re at – Rather than single anyone out you can see a full list of our announced portfolio companies and other relevant investment information on CrunchBase. CrunchBase Profile for AOL Ventures ). Do you look at portfolio companies as future acquisition targets?

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