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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

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.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

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. Too often, investment structures force the management team to make decisions between misaligned growth and investment (return) objectives. Funder Category. Example VC.

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ProfessorVC: Negotiating an Angel Deal in your PJ's

Professor VC

There has been a lot of discussion and publishing of standard term sheets, including Y Combinator, TechStars and SeriesSeed. A good comparison of the various "standard" term sheets can be found at Start-up Company Lawyer. Marios firm, Wilson, Sonsini, even has a term sheet generator on their site.

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Time is the Enemy of All Deals

Both Sides of the Table

We had many term sheets (it was 1999 and we had a pulse) and we were deciding which one to take. We were trying to optimize around a few criteria: price, size of round, number of syndicate partners and, of course, terms. We ended up agreeing a term sheet for $16.5 I was resolute. Any deal. Things change.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . 1) Manage the firm . Before you can actually invest, you have to manage your fund. In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers.

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Understanding a VC’s Seed Funding Policy is Critical

Both Sides of the Table

They either do too many seed investments (for which they can spend no quality time with any) or they treat it as an option (“if you succeed come back and see us and we’ll match any term sheet you get&# ) – they view it as a sort of “right of first refusal.&#. The signaling affect is overrated.

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ProfessorVC: How much is enough?

Professor VC

And this is a company that has managed to get an A+ list of investors and is executing very well. At this time, we had secured a term sheet from a co-investor from one of my other angel investments (Thanks, Graeme!) Labels: angel investing , entrepreneurial finance , entrepreneurial lessons , venture capital.