David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

a “Bitcoin Fund”, a “Social Media Fund”, a “Nanotech Fund”), you’re going to raise capital from Limited Partners who are very focused on Theme X. The importance of reputation is why, for example, Andreessen Horowitz invested early and heavily in their own PR, adding PR guru Margit Wennmachers as a Partner. .

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2013

But through expressing points-of-view I can raise above the consciousness of my customers (entrepreneurs and limited partners who invest in VC funds) in ways that I couldn’t without breaking through the noise of the hundreds of others of VCs who also have money. Think about Luma Partners. They’re different.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2016

Venture capitalists raise money with a goal of returning 4x the amount they raise to their Limited Partners (LPs). And if you do happen to be lucky and find the right mountain to climb, if you find that you’ve started ascending the peak before others have found the right trail — then venture capital is for you. I hope you enjoy it.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Every year I invited my largest investors to NYC to have an LPAC meeting (Limited Partner Advisory Committee?—?kind Some board members spend all of their time in the meeting on electronic devices doing email or even checking social media. I practice what I preach. kind of like a board for a VC firm). I’ve seen both quite a bit.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

In addition, there will be 8 thematic panels: Leveraged Buyout, Real Estate, Energy, Distressed, Venture Capital & Growth, Media & Entertainment, Emerging Markets, and Limited Partners & Secondaries.

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David Teten

JANUARY 23, 2021

I’ve been fortunate to be a Partner at two different VC firms over the past 9 years, and we’ve grown AUM 10X both times. Build the firm as much as possible before you solicit limited partners. . The next best move is to build your core team, e.g., recruit an Advisory Board, Venture Partners, and EIRs.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Smaller funds are always looking for limited partners and co-investors in their deals—so starting an angel group or just being willing to make such introductions in your network goes a long way. Media is a great opportunity for companies as well. the types of companies you want to be talking to.

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K9 Ventures

JULY 19, 2012

No three-way business models and no content, media, advertising-based companies. This new $40M fund is backed by several high quality institutional limited partners including university endowments, foundations, family offices and fund of funds and key individuals.

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K9 Ventures

JULY 19, 2012

No three-way business models and no content, media, advertising-based companies. This new $40M fund is backed by several high quality institutional limited partners including university endowments, foundations, family offices and fund of funds and key individuals.

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David Teten

AUGUST 18, 2017

Social media presence. Social media presence. To the extent possible, we try to use our social media presence to point back to our website, our Partners, and/or our portfolio companies’ websites. Your company (or your fund, if you’re a VC) typically has a 7-layer stack of marketing content. Email templates.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But in business, you want a lot of partners. In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers. See Bessemer Venture Partners’ A comprehensive guide to security for startups. We’re using … TinyLetter for our “Content Newsletter” … and Buffer to schedule social media posts.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

She had so much insight to share that we broke the interview into two parts, 1) Corporate Venture Capital and more broadly, 2) How the Fortune 500 Can Buy, Invest and Partner with the Innovation Economy (coming soon). . The alternative model is to set up a dedicated venture fund and even supplement it with outside limited partners.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

While the M&A story has been widely reported perhaps far fewer people know that Limited Partners (LPs), the people who fund VC firms, have finally been able to restock their coffers in the past 4 years with significantly more money coming to them in distributions than capital calls to fund VC firm investments.

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K9 Ventures

MAY 14, 2011

In my view the terminology being used for early stage investors by the press and the media is not as clear as it should be. They are still individual investors, they invest on a full-time basis as professionals, but they have funds with Limited Partners. They have 4-10 partners who are investing on their behalf.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

and Vincenzo Morelli (Partner – TPG Capital and Chairman of European Private Equity Roundtable). and Vincenzo Morelli (Partner – TPG Capital and Chairman of European Private Equity Roundtable). VC Cafe is proud to be a media partner.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 22, 2016

Today, I'm happy to announce that Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, the firm I founded and continue to run as the sole General Partner, has raised a second fund, totalling $15.1 The truth is you won't really know how good you are for years and years--so don't be so quick to think you know what you're doing, no matter what the media tells you.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Sentiment is strong in personal portfolios and up commensurately with VC’s expectations that their last fund will now be worth something (and along with that increase the partners’ personal wealth). As of near the end of September 2009, we’re up 46% since the March 9th nadir (yes, I need to find a way to use one of my SAT words ; – ).

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 28, 2010

No advertising, content or media businesses which may have a three-way business model, but rather companies which deliver direct value to paying customers. I would like to take a moment to thank K9′s Limited Partners for their support of this first fund. Technical Product : The product must have some technical depth.

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David Teten

MARCH 2, 2013

See the Techcrunch posts by my Partner John Frankel and Professor Robert Wiltbank , my recent post on the quality of angel returns data , as well as reports from the Silicon Valley Bank and Kauffman Foundation. Partners at smaller funds, by contrast, have to hustle before they can cover their mortgage.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

(written by Philipp von dem Knesebeck , Managing Partner, Blue Future Partners (bluefp.com, @bluefutureteam ), and David Teten ). Based on this paper, Blue Future Partners and PEVCTech recently completed a large-scale survey to find out which tools are most commonly used by venture capital firms.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

And I also now have to raise money myself, but this time from bigger institutions that our industry calls LPs (limited partners). Partners make investment decisions. Also recognize that WITHIN a VC you have partners who focus on different areas. I now observes the fund raising process as a profession. Meet in person.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2009

Their VC firm, In-Q-Tel , has been in business for 10 years, and like most VC firms they have an annual event where they show off their new portfolio companies to their limited partners and other VC partners. Air travel, media that conducts waves, velocity, acceleration.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

For the last two years, I’ve been pretty vocal about politics on social media , in my weekly tech community newsletter and on this blog. It’s an entirely fair question—and the risk is that limited partners, founders, or other VCs might not want to work with me because I’m vocal about my political views.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

He knew a bunch of other VCs in NYC and seemed like a great potential Limited Partner connection. They’re not setup to take inbound, so they don’t put up websites or participate much on social media—so it’s nearly impossible to tell who from the family office world is legitimate. There was only one problem.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 26, 2023

Several of our limited partners are media and entertainment strategics: broadcasters, publishers, telcos etc, so content creation, distribution and monetisation has always been close to our core focus. At Remagine Ventures we started investing in the generative AI space very early back in 2019.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

When the Mets got to the World Series, they release a kettle corn flavored ice cream with blue and orange M&Ms and a contest on social media around naming the ice cream. We're also joined by Red Sea Ventures and the founders of Seamless, as well as a bunch of angels and limited partners from my fund. That's Ample Hills.

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