David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Most investors rely on their network of colleagues and service providers to source investments. Out of 5,923 investment professionals in our dataset, 916 (15.5%) were focused primarily on origination and marketing. The funds with more traditional origination are primarily focused on their local venture center network.

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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?” Although EquityZen is primarily an online marketplace for secondary shares in private companies, they also offer syndicated primary investments.

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David Teten

JANUARY 11, 2020

The challenge is that my time and money budget for “influencing”–content creation and marketing– is minimal. Also, since I’m not trying to be a full-time marketer, I can’t use some of the standard celebrity techniques. We market to four populations: High-potential founders. Tech stack. I host on Hostforweb **.

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thebarefootvc

MAY 8, 2012

The best VCs are the ones that balance their optimism, vision and enthusiasm for startups with realism based on very real constraints (the primary one being his/her own time, but also includes market development and exit timing). Too many pivots, and you can lose the market opportunity, even with the greatest idea.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

Her work included heading Nokia’s location-based services business and app portfolio for emerging markets, which she built from a back-of-a-napkin idea to a 100-person organization with over 10 million users. At Virgin Mobile USA, Mari led early initiatives in mobile commerce, social networking and advertising.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

The extreme example of this are algorithmic investors in the public markets, who design algorithms which trade on the designer’s behalf, as opposed to making trading decisions directly. High-frequency trading, algorithmic by its nature, is estimated to account for at least 50% of US equity markets trading volume. . 1) Market fund.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

View from Seed

AUGUST 26, 2015

Maybe you’ll do better as an angel since you are investing smaller dollars which is easier to deploy in this segment of the market, but maybe not. There are a lot of options to expand your deal sourcing, like AngelList, syndicates, angel groups, etc. There is no sub-prime market in early-stage investing. Just a few pointers.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 26, 2015

Maybe you’ll do better as an angel since you are investing smaller dollars which is easier to deploy in this segment of the market, but maybe not. There are a lot of options to expand your deal sourcing, like AngelList, syndicates, angel groups, etc. There is no sub-prime market in early-stage investing. Just a few pointers.

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Technical Review Angel Investor Software Review Silicon Valley 120

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 21, 2009

We meet to discuss trends in the industry and to find ways to work together to help with SoCal deal syndication – somethings that happens automatically on Sand Hill Road in NorCal due to proximity. Fred Wilson supports Montgomery’s view in this thoughtful post on the return of the tech IPO market.

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Technical Review IPO Southern California Venture Capital 241

Agile VC

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Now that end users spend as much of their personal time with software (in the form of social networks, tablet/smartphone apps, streaming media, etc) as they do with business software they’ve become much more discriminating buyers. RentJuice is doing much the same in real estate software. What’s Your Favorite Future?

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Haystack

AUGUST 18, 2019

If you’ve been following my tweets lately, you’ve read some of my quick musings on the state of the seed market this summer. years is not a long arc – I have not experienced a prolonged down market as a private investor. And if you don’t hit one or two right, you end up with a mediocre portfolio. Granted, 6.5

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Seed Stage Cap Table Early Stage Malaysia 108

David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

The value ascribed by subsequent investors (in a secondary); buyers (acquisition); or the public markets (IPO). Seed-stage compatible: Like traditional equity VC investors, Flexible VCs accomodate early-stage investment risk within their portfolios better than a traditional RBI funder. Volatile, uncapped. Flexible VC: Revenue -based.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

I started in 2007 with a thesis that my primary investment decision would be about the team (70%) and only afterward about the market opportunity (30%). Of course these are great places to network with other investors, meet great entrepreneurs and keep your connections strong with senior execs at larger companies like Yahoo!,

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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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Version One Ventures

APRIL 8, 2014

start-up databases/networks like CrunchBase and AngelList ) has led to unparalleled access to investment capital as more seed funds, angels, and syndicates emerge on the scene. Business data on start-ups, VCs, PE, financial markets, sales and marketing is being created at an alarming rate. Why we’re excited.

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VC Adventure

MARCH 17, 2016

I think what we’re really seeing here is market excitement around angel investing leading to a quick surge, followed by (I hope) a more normal and sustained level of activity. I’ve always felt that a robust angel financing market was important to startup ecosystems and the data on the next two charts really brings that home.

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www.allthingsdistributed.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

External Facing Technologist –We see this model often in companies where technology is used to provideproducts and services to customers and partners; the CTO is the intermediarybetween clients and internal development and the main influencer in thedevelopment of the product portfolio.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 29, 2012

2) Network with as many other angel investors as possible. You're going to want syndication partners on the deals you find and sounding boards on the thesis behind each of your potential investments. Other angels are a source of dealflow and can be leads to the kind of talent your portfolio needs to hire to be successful.

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Agile VC

APRIL 27, 2012

We love meeting entrepreneurs who take this blank canvas approach when thinking about disrupting markets. This is how new markets get created. What’s Your Favorite Future?

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Hippoland

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

I have friends who save $10k a year just to angel invest $1000 in 10 companies a year via syndicates on websites such as AngelList. They invest in startups much like they invest in index funds on the public markets by putting a little bit of money into many different companies. For them, they see this activity as an investment.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Texas is the most promising technology market in the United States. If you want to launch a new business, this is a great market to launch from because you can easily reach all of the major Texas cities with one office. A significant strength of Texas lies in its diversified portfolio of unique cities.

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Rob Go

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

The reason is that most seed syndicates have room for 5-10 angels or more, but only room for 1-3 funds. As an angel, it’s possible to get to an investment a bit late, or follow the signal of a strong syndicate and still do pretty well. They also should be doing due diligence of some sort.

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Agile VC

MAY 16, 2012

Thematic investing is where VCs research a macro trend or specific market, form a thesis around why this trend/market will serve as a good basis for building great startups, and then pursue as many exceptional investments in this theme as appropriate for the VC’s strategy. What’s Your Favorite Future?

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Seed Stage Silicon Valley B2B Syndicate 124

View from Seed

JANUARY 28, 2016

On Wednesday, my partner David wrote about how we’ve been using our office space (and network and other resources) to support pre-seed companies. So when it comes to what the market regards as “pre-seeds,” we simply do the same things we typically do, but slightly tuned to this stage of company. You can find that here.

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Cofounder Finance Founder Syndicate 120

Rob Go

JANUARY 8, 2014

It’s been a yearly tradition for me to share a semi-quantitative view into our portfolio at NextView. Three years ago, I published our first “Stroll through the portfolio” and I’ve published updates each year in January. Syndicates: We have a bias to lead rounds. Traction in Ad Tech Portfolio.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

This forces some level of intellectual honestly about one’s position in the market, and can push you to try to see around corners and respond. In a frothy market, rounds can get done in this way at pretty high prices (or valuation caps for notes) albeit with less value-added investors involved. Alternative funding sources.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

At my firm, ff Venture Capital, we’re trying our part to rethink how the industry works, and also actively looking for opportunities to invest in companies creatively disrupting this sector, e.g., our portfolio companies Addepar and Indiegogo. The average equity fund investor earned a market return of only 4.25%.

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Management Pre-Money Valuation Venture Capital New Hampshire 114

Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 9, 2006

Done deal: after a quick syndication with the kitchen team (their job was at stake, so they were easy to convince.), Portfolio. (3). sales and marketing. (10). Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. Measuring sales and marketing effectiveness of Saa. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing.

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Software Review Technical Review Europe Venture Capital 48

VC Cafe

JULY 4, 2011

Fitch also noted that the Israel market would likely benefit from recent substantial gas discoveries and a much lower level of unfunded pension liabilities than in other OECD countries. MediaMind operates in the fast-growing $71 billion global online advertising market, with 37 sales and representation offices covering 64 countries.

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Balance Sheet Acquisition Africa 90

Gust

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Active angels invest in a diversified portfolio of 10 or more companies, usually spreading their investments over a few years. In the end, such a portfolio might yield the angel investor a total return on investment of 25% per year or more. A local network of angels is critical to achieving a diversified portfolio.

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Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Intellectual Property Technical Review 146

Rob Go

JANUARY 28, 2016

On Wednesday, my partner David wrote about how we’ve been using our office space (and network and other resources) to support pre-seed companies. So when it comes to what the market regards as “pre-seeds,” we simply do the same things we typically do, but slightly tuned to this stage of company. You can find that here.

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Cofounder Finance Founder Syndicate 28

Tim Keane

APRIL 12, 2006

When they discuss market size, do they distinguish between current and addressable markets? This whole topic is of interest to investors for a number of reasons beyond the logic of market dynamics. Can you get references from their portfolio companies? Does the group have an interest only in a specific area?

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