David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. As two fund managers employing Flexible VC, we think it is a healthy addition to the ecosystem and will yield more predictable and stable healthy returns for investors. Novel Growth Partners, Lighter Capital, Rev Up, Corl, Flow Capital. Of the Inc.

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David Teten

JULY 12, 2017

First, a formal definition: According to Capital Dynamics , “Co-investments are direct investments in a company made alongside and on the same terms as a lead [General Partner]. We see our potential coinvestors in four primary buckets: 1) HOF Capital ’s own limited partners. 2) Investors with very specific value-add. Economic benefit.

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David Teten

JANUARY 11, 2020

They’re taking a $1m check from me, or giving $5m to me as a limited partner. Other coinvestors: Limited partners, other VCs who are coinvestors, private equity funds which are potential growth-stage investors, etc. Mailchimp.com **, to manage my mailing lists, which people join by registering on Teten.com or PEVCTech.com.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

” I spend more time helping manage Upfront Ventures so that we as a firm are better prepared as a team to succeed vs. just any individual. partners and now principals making investments that number is the right-sized fit for our firm. Not less work but fewer “things.”

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VC Adventure

MAY 21, 2014

A few months ago AngelList announced Syndicates - enabling investors on AngelList to create fund-like groups of investors to invest together in AngelList companies (following a single lead investor). It’s a great idea and at Foundry we quickly decided it would be an interesting experiment to form our own syndicate.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

PEVCTech is partnering with Blue Future Partners to run the first large-scale survey of VCs’ technology stack. Johann Kratzer of Blue Future Partners , a fund of funds, observed, “The majority of the hundreds of funds we’ve diligenced rely predominantly on their relationships to source deals. Greylock Partners.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 6, 2016

Evangelos Simoudis’ is the founder and managing director of Synapse Partners. His investing career started 15 years ago at Apax Partners and continued with Trident Capital. If you can’t hear the clip, click here. If you can’t hear the clip, click here. Steve : Does that mean changing out people or does that mean growing people?

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

In this article, you’ll learn about how a demand generation manager benefits an organization and which qualities they need to fuel your sales pipeline. What is a demand generation manager and why do they matter? The role of a demand generation manager (DGM) is to manage the team and the campaigns that create awareness and interest.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 21, 2014

And finally, in Darwinian fashion, competition for market share amongst the venture capitalists as a result of increased numbers of angel investment syndicates will clear the decks of the low-value add venture capital dollars. Or at least learn to manage those fears. Now, how do we become successful founders? Don’t fear Goliath.

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Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Also portfolio management strategy has shifted a bit in recent years, and many large investors now evaluate at all risky assets together (US tech IPOs, Brazilian bonds, Chinese private equity, etc) rather than making discrete allocations to each bucket. My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 5 days ago Search. Previous Entries.

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Growthink Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Get Satisfaction Inc. ( [link] ) raised $6 million led by Azure Capital Partners. million led by Greycroft Partners and BV Capital. It enables merchants to sell their products anywhere by syndicating goods to multiple marketplaces. Rypple ( [link] ) raised $7 million in a financing round led by Bridgescale Partners.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 15, 2022

4:32] Is that was that the initial vision was to just make it easier to get those shows syndicated? [5:48] Is that, was that the initial vision was to just make it easier to get those shows syndicated. Even the blogging software is really referred to as just content management, mm-hmm software systems.

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View from Seed

APRIL 30, 2015

Below, we talk to Glen Mello , Managing Director of Silicon Valley Bank’s accelerator team in Boston. Use good judgment, talk to your co-founders/investors/lawyers, and partner with a bank that values transparency and relationships such as SVB.]. As a startup grows, venture debt becomes a viable option to continue that growth.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

I have seen this criticism at various places where this recap is syndicated on a weekly basis, as well as in certain random forums on the internet. Next Pascal Nicolas presented SalesVu , a cloud based sales management tool for restaurants interested in tracking the value of their promotions. What we have taken on is hard enough.

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Genuine VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

PROS: Industry-insider who serves as a validator for the rest of the investment syndicate, extremely helpful advice and network connections. Having someone who the entrepreneur(ial team) has worked with before can be a good validator to other syndicate investors and future investors that they all work well together.

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

He is a serial entrepreneur, internationally syndicated columnist, angel investor, public speaker and author of the best-selling book Never Get a “Real&# Job: How To Dump Your Boss, Build a Business and Not Go Broke. They need to be able to communicate as a peer to engineers and management. Have an account?

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VC Adventure

MAY 21, 2014

A few months ago AngelList announced Syndicates – enabling investors on AngelList to create fund-like groups of investors to invest together in AngelList companies (following a single lead investor). It’s a great idea and at Foundry we quickly decided it would be an interesting experiment to form our own syndicate.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

The terms and valuation for both offers were comparable and when the team debated which path to choose, we all agreed both firms would have made good partners. We three partners are working hard. Great to see you had such a good partner to start with. We’re a how-to site and community for small business on marketing. .

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ConversionXL

APRIL 7, 2020

Once objectives are identified and prioritized, your podcasting plan should outline strategies and tactics, which include format, frequency, duration, host/s, point of view, guests, research, syndication, and marketing. podcast directories) pick up and syndicate your podcasts for free via RSS feeds. From there, podcatchers (i.e.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

I told my friend that I felt that in 2014 too many new VCs feel the pressure to chase deals, to be a part of syndicates with other brand names and to pounce on top of every startup whose numbers are trending up quickly. At our partner meetings the number one thing I look for in our decisions is the conviction level of the sponsoring partner.

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Genuine VC

JULY 26, 2010

Micro VCs are notorious for building large and friendly syndicates. While traditional VCs sometimes have a love/hate relationship with their syndicate partners (often depending on how well their mutual portfolio companies are performing), it seems as though in the Micro VC arena all of the players speak and act like best friends.

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www.allthingsdistributed.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Technology Visionary andOperations Manager – This pattern is usually found in dot.com and othertechnology-oriented companies where information technology is key ingredient inimplementing business strategy. I have metCTOs who manage divisions that had 500 - 1000 engineers or more.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Perhaps you implement a ritual of telling your child one reason you’re proud of them over breakfast or your partner three things you love about them before you go to bed. A ritual also doesn’t need to be something you do; it can be something you say. Some couples create more formal weekly check-ins complete with spreadsheets (swoon!)

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Pascal's View

JULY 9, 2017

In contrast, there is limited benefit for being the 2 nd investor or the 10 th investor joining the syndicate of a priced round, so it is common for investors to wait to see “who else is involved”. The CEO/founder often has leeway to influence or negotiate the cap value (especially when the headline cap is softened by a discount).

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David Teten

JULY 10, 2017

Why couldn’t a large company offer 1:1 or greater matching of the angel investing of their senior management? – If an employee wants to invest at least $25K in a private company, she can nominate it to the Syndicate VC (“SVC”). Alex Vassilev observes that another issue is managing employee attention.

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David Teten

JANUARY 7, 2019

A retail investor might join an existing syndicate on a crowdfunding site based on a deck and maybe an email. At the majority of VCs (including ours), you don’t just have to persuade one Partner. Providing answers in writing makes it easier for the lead Partner to share your view, and persuade her colleagues to back the investment.

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Agile VC

DECEMBER 19, 2013

As a VC investing not only personal capital, but on behalf of limited partners, one can’t take this strategy. This can include learning more about technologies, markets, and people that may be impactful to the angel’s other endeavors. ” But as an angel one can overweight this factor.

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Hippoland

MAY 15, 2016

It would’ve been something like: Angels: Uses his/her own money to do investments Writes small checks Mostly sole decision maker VCs: Uses 3rd party money to do investments (from limited partners) Writes large checks Multiple decision makers and a concrete process But today, some of these things have changed. Assume no management fees.)

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OnlyOnce

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

I’ve never written before about those other “potential business opportunities” that our team was exploring along with our prior investment syndicate, Fred Wilson from Union Square Ventures, Greg Sands from Costanoa Ventures, and Brad Feld from Foundry. What about the middle? Most good ideas swim in a sea of comparables.

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Genuine VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

PROS: Industry-insider who serves as a validator for the rest of the investment syndicate, extremely helpful advice and network connections. Having someone who the entrepreneur(ial team) has worked with before can be a good validator to other syndicate investors and future investors that they all work well together.

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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). . Previously she was Co-Founder and CEO of SNAZZ, a cloud-based event management platform. I don’t think we are.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 1, 2015

We’ve made over 60 investments through FG Angels – our AngelList syndicate – and are one of the most prolific investors on that platform. We’ve invested in over 30 VC seed funds and emerging managers, supporting even more investors and founders at the early stages. We have a lot of investments in Seattle.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 1, 2010

Many (Union Square Ventures, Foundry Group, True Ventures, GRP Partners, Mike Hirshland at Polaris Ventures) do it the right way – we treat it as a normal investment and we don’t have a “options&# strategy with our investment. The investor strategy is really determined by the management team.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 4, 2014

There’s a influx of capital to back new funds: crowding funding via AngelList syndicates. The result has been many new managers, many new funds. It’s being a partner of conviction to an entrepreneur and working with them for several years. high net worth individuals. family offices. It’s not a lifestyle job.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 25, 2015

” Each of our funds is $225 million, we have four partners and no other investment staff, and we work out of the same office we’ve worked out of since we started in 2007. .” These deeply held beliefs tangibly define our values and give us a frame of reference to operate.

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Gust

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Sessions are all about how to improve angel investing and manage angel groups, as well as connecting with other industry players and getting technical presentations. Further down the scale are the regional events that the organizations put on, which usually combine regional investment syndication with classes and tutorials.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 29, 2012

You're going to want syndication partners on the deals you find and sounding boards on the thesis behind each of your potential investments. A mutual fund manager won't give you their portfolio strategy but most seed funds love having a network of angels to syndicate deals with.

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