The Equity Kicker

JULY 8, 2019

When I started in venture capital in the late 1990s VCs were regularly lambasted for taking long summer holidays and spending too much time on the golf course. Then from the mid 2000s, value add began moving beyond the partner to the firm as VCs began employing people who’s full time job was helping their portfolio.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 14, 2012

On top of that, they tend to be the locus of innovation networks. It's no accident that the people who give out money have the largest networks of people floating around them. Techstars and other accelerators have also become major network hubs in the NYC ecosystem, bringing investors together from all across the country.

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Genuine VC

JULY 10, 2012

Term-driving investor approach – An entrepreneur finds a lead (quasi-)institutional venture investor to price and set the structure/dynamics of the round, working together to bring in additional syndicate partners (either/both other funds and individual angels). We’ve seen it directly in our portfolio companies raising successive rounds.

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Genuine VC

MAY 5, 2015

Today, I’m thrilled to publicly announce NextView’s Talent Exchange, a program helping both top talent and NextView-backed startups connect with each other more easily, beginning with Boston companies (which make up just over half our portfolio). These great people are in our network. Even more of them are within our network’s network.

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VC Adventure

AUGUST 12, 2014

The typical “successful” venture portfolio is often described as having the following outcome: 1/3 of companies fail. 1/3 of companies return capital (or make a small amount of money). But does this heuristic match reality? If they had missed it, they would have failed to return capital after fees. Actually no.

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Platform as a Service (PaaS) is the service and management layer of the cloud platform, and is evolving dynamically to include things such as intelligent provisioning, as well as application and network management. Cloud accounting is all about matching revenue and costs to consumption…well, except for professional services!

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

And my specialty was computer networks. So I joined this group called Network Solutions, we did computer networking, the predecessor to the internet. So then when I wanted to go into venture capital, they said, “You can’t do that, you need to be in EIR.” It was all technical.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 29, 2011

Reality is that we're probably connected in some way anyway through various social networks anyway and I'm very quick to figure out all of those connections to ask about you. I don't mind cold intros at all--but it's hard when I can't figure out who you are in the context of my network. Oh, and by the way, it's charlie@firstround.com.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

V: Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? If the company sells or raises enough capital, the investment converts into an agreed-upon percentage of equity. GCVF is pioneering the future of venture capital and high growth startups for all small communities.

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Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

While Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to drop out of Harvard and move to Silicon Valley was a plot point in in the movie “The Social Network,” it looked like a watershed event to many in the local technology community.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Before AngelList, investment dealflow was private and networks revolved around a few connected angels and VC?s. Since the angel network was created, transparent angel investing has exploded and entrepreneurs from any background can get funded. Most indices are cap-weighted - more in line with a concentrated portfolio (i.e.

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Technical Review Due Diligence Startup Angel Investor 50

www.kernelmag.com

MARCH 8, 2012

People waiting to be someone else’s technical co-founders don’t exist, and they’re certainly not on “founder dating” sites or hanging out at networking events. They tend to have a multitude of side projects, Github portfolios and hacking workshops on the go at once. Nic Brisbourne on venture capital.

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VC Adventure

AUGUST 12, 2014

The typical “successful” venture portfolio is often described as having the following outcome: 1/3 of companies fail. 1/3 of companies return capital (or make a small amount of money). But does this heuristic match reality? If they had missed it, they would have failed to return capital after fees. Actually no.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2015

In the first stage the Outpost focusses on networking and partnering in the Innovation Cluster in which it is based (i.e. Each stage needs a clearly defined set of objectives, and the right team to match those objectives. Each stage needs a clearly defined set of objectives, and the right team to match those objectives.

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 2, 2006

The time they spend with customers is usually limited to transactional core products sales, generating lower margins – The resource allocation is not always matching the opportunity (geography, customer segment, vertical.) – The rules of engagement for technical resources (solution or product specialists) are not clear.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

It did so by building a national network of a 1,000+ Productivity Promotion Centers. Part 3, the next post describes the rise of Chinese venture capital. Torch has four major parts: Clusters, Business Incubators, Seed Funding, and Funds to support Venture Capital firms. Technology Business Incubators (TBIs).

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Correspondingly, while large public company CEOs and CFOs are judged as a matter of the highest honor on their ability to deliver on projections, exceedingly rare is the entrepreneurial executive that comes anywhere close to consistently matching their actual to forecasted results. And it is not for a lack of education.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 1, 2020

For those remaining employees, offer remote therapy to deal with the stress of working from home and pay for any equipment/network upgrades. Then walk them through why the changes you’re suggesting match that plan. They may have seen new ideas from other companies in their portfolio so be open to additional suggestions.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

” These are people with whom there is a likely match for your product or service. He’s focused on that sector (not exclusively but predominantly) and therefore has an amazing network at large financial services firms to help you with business development. ” But focusing on too many is a mistake. Do your homework.

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Seeing Both Sides

JULY 21, 2014

At Flybridge, we have added "business model", with a particularly weighting towards recurring models with high gross margins, as one of the important evaluation criteria when we make investment decisions alongside market and team, which are the two canonical criteria for all venture capital firms. .

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

It did so by building a national network of a 1,000+ Productivity Promotion Centers. Part 3, the next post describes the rise of Chinese venture capital. Torch has four major parts: Clusters, Business Incubators, Seed Funding, and Funds to support Venture Capital firms. Technology Business Incubators (TBIs).

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Programming Technical Review SBIR China 172

Up and Running

AUGUST 19, 2014

Always look at the portfolio of investments the firm has made, and contact the CEOs and founders of those companies to find out what it’s like having those investors as a part of their company. And what have been the pros and cons of taking venture capital? What impresses angels?

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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. This gave me an idea: I could help many more entrepreneurs by making the deck available not just to the Greylock network of entrepreneurs, but to everyone. Why is it valuable?

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Check out one of these directories for a magazine that matches your skillset. Because they are venture capital funded so they don’t depend on sales profit to sustain them. To this end, I just wanted to say that as a tech recruiter based in Los Angeles whose client portfolio is predominantly Saas, web 2.0,

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

Another idea would be to say matching up. the sort of pain solution match-up process can work. But assuming it’s a fair exit, a venture capitalist, and I’m explicitly not saying angel because we could talk about angel and they’re sort of special so that might work out. For venture capital, right?

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

If you are an entrepreneur seeking funding, try our free Funding Recommendation Engine to identify a list of angels, venture capital and state grant programs that best match your business. Post-Mortem Title : Key Lessons from Cryptine Networks’ Failure. Company : Cryptine Networks. It’s free.

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David Teten

JUNE 1, 2011

Estimated 100 – 200 total entities Friends & family – basic networking. Staying on the buyers’ lists is based on how well you conduct yourself in the diligence processes, “beauty contest” Banks are aware of your funding situation and your portfolio / investment thesis.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 10, 2010

Tell me who 5%-10% of my network follows that I don’t—so I don’t get recommendations to follow Fred Wilson or Robert Scoble, but I do get the entrepreneur in my network that I’m probably bound to run into and say, “How have we not met yet? Tags: First Round Capital Venture Capital & Technology.

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David Teten

APRIL 29, 2014

According to the National Venture Capital Association/Dow Jones VentureSource, the VC industry is dominated by men (89% of VC Partners), specifically white men (76% of the total). Despite all this, we are living on a different planet when it comes to which companies receive venture capital.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Kapor Capital’s expansive portfolio includes Bit.ly Qualcomm Ventures is invested in a number of startups including Livescribe, Obopay , Arieso and Zeebo. The firm’s portfolio includes the likes of Gist , Lijit , Brightleaf, Memeo, SimpleGeo , StockTwits and Zynga.

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David Teten

JANUARY 13, 2015

I also was fortunate to gain a lot of insight on this topic from Don Charlton, Founder/CEO, TheResumator *, a ffVC portfolio company. So how can you network in to them if you didn’t win the genetic lottery? for the simple reason that online networks gave them a much larger pond to fish in than they could find locally.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 30, 2022

Ground floor — platforms and networks The ground floor of the metaverse will be built on top of these interoperable protocols and standards. This is the intermediary layer where platforms, institutions and other networks will create the universe of products that make up the 3D worlds of the metaverse.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 10, 2021

A few months ago, I got a pitch from a company providing a kind of “last mile” for computer vision—an always-on human network that would take images that computers couldn’t identify, and spit back whether or not a roof tile was broken or if a signature matched. No other VC asked questions like this.”

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 13, 2021

He said, “outside of investing in companies with proven network effects, what are some of your recent investment theses?”. So let’s see, generally speaking, obviously, I tend to orient towards things with network effects in the background. Let’s think about a network of biases, one you’ve said something about before.

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