Gust

DECEMBER 13, 2011

I’ve recently taken a look at seed stage funding by venture capitalists (VCs) and angel investors over the past five years. For VCs, I chose to look at all seed stage VC deals (from MoneyTree©) as well as those in five of the most active regions in the country. All Seed-VC. Silicon Valley.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

The previous post described the evolution of the Chinese Venture Capital system. But what made the overwhelming impression for me was finding an entrepreneurial software cluster on par with the Internet software portion of Silicon Valley. China Venture Capital. Entrepreneurship in Beijing.

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Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 267

Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

I happen to be fascinated by the history of the VC industry, and one of the things we discussed at a recent offsite are the common threads behind the rise and fall of great venture capital firms. Some disgruntled younger partners left in the mid-90s… two co-founded Benchmark Capital (Bruce Dunlevie & Andy Rachleff).

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Silicon Valley Carried Interest Cofounder Boston 240

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

For much of 2014 and 2015, I banged my head against a plane window flying back and forth between Austin and Silicon Valley while trying to raise institutional VC money for Localeur. Are there amazing Silicon Valley VCs out there with whom entrepreneurs should work to partner? but it’s true. Most definitely.

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David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

of venture capital deals. Those companies have garnered only about 2% of all capital invested. ” In venture capital, the industry- or sector-focused funds specifically disavow diversification: Andreessen Horowitz, which is a generalist as a whole, has launched dedicated funds across Crypto , Bio , and Fintech. .

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Technical Review Cofounder Venture Capital Deal Flow 78

SiliconHills

DECEMBER 19, 2020

Active Capital recently announced it has closed on its second fund worth $25 million. A year ago, the San Antonio-based venture capital firm raised a $21.5 The post Active Capital Raises Second Fund Worth $25 Million appeared first on SiliconHills. million fund.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

One is the “denominator problem&# which says that if an LP invests X% (the denominator) into “alternative investments&# such as venture capital and if their total amount available to invest (the numerator) goes down by 30% then the amount they allocate to VC will by definition need to go down by 30% to stay the same percentage.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

. “Yes&# was given to me by one of my favorite angel investor / seed VC’s to work with – John Greathouse of Rincon Venture Partners and author of the blog InfoChachkie that you should check out because it is filled with great info from a guy who has been a very successful operator. So what are you waiting for?

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Silicon Valley Technical Review Southern California Angel Investor 293

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 8, 2012

Silicon Forest, Silicon Prairie, Silicon Beach, Silicon Hills, Silicon Sandbar. Startups anywhere outside the two major tech hubs of Silicon Valley and Silicon Alley have even more troublr attracting serious venture capital than they do finding a food truck with a decent bulgogi burrito.

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Silicon Valley St. Louis Venture Capital Houston 143

Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

The previous post described the evolution of the Chinese Venture Capital system. But what made the overwhelming impression for me was finding an entrepreneurial software cluster on par with the Internet software portion of Silicon Valley. China Venture Capital. Entrepreneurship in Beijing.

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Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 159

K9 Ventures

JUNE 5, 2015

Almost two years ago, in a private/closed meeting with K9 Ventures’ LPs only, I claimed that: What was being referred to in the press as the “Series A Crunch” was not because fewer Series A deals were being done, but because there were too many Seed deals being done. The risk here is what I refer to as the curse of over-capitalization.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Pre-seed Round of Funding. In the pre-seed stage, a startup is searching for product/market fit. Funding: Startups typically raise anywhere from $100K to $750,000 in pre-seed. Goal/Time: By the end of the pre-seed stage the company ought to have evidence that it has found product/market fit. Silicon Valley.

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Cofounder Seed Stage Valuation Metrics 429

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 8, 2012

Silicon Forest, Silicon Prairie, Silicon Beach, Silicon Hills, Silicon Sandbar. Startups anywhere outside the two major tech hubs of Silicon Valley and Silicon Alley have even more trouble attracting serious venture capital than they do finding a food truck with a decent bulgogi burrito.

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Silicon Valley St. Louis Venture Capital Houston 60

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 8, 2012

Silicon Forest, Silicon Prairie, Silicon Beach, Silicon Hills, Silicon Sandbar. Startups anywhere outside the two major tech hubs of Silicon Valley and Silicon Alley have even more trouble attracting serious venture capital than they do finding a food truck with a decent bulgogi burrito.

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Silicon Valley St. Louis Venture Capital Houston 60

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 24, 2012

Dan: My question is related to all this talk that I hear in the Silicon Valley about Internet scale. Trying to figure out how the Silicon Valley… again, my last venture was not built here. of companies should never raise venture capital. Venture capital, it’s a very particular industry.

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Silicon Valley Software Review Internet Technical Review 204

Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2011

Today, the signs of the new bubble are the Linked-In initial public offering (IPO), Facebook’s stratospheric valuation and the rapid rise of early-stage startup valuation. Hiring technology talent in Silicon Valley is getting difficult, and the time it takes to drive across Palo Alto has tripled—all signs of the impending apocalypse.

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Silicon Valley Stealth Valuation Mississippi 327

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 11, 2019

Ann Miura-Ko is a founding partner at Floodgate , a seed-stage VC firm. I've been in venture now twice. I was in Boston, working for the first time in venture capital as an analyst for this guy who was incredible and an amazing mentor. How do you develop power within a venture capital firm?

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 12, 2012

I’ve written before about how Capital Efficiency doesn’t exist and is an oxymoron. However, there is an important corollary to the non-existence of Capital Efficiency and that is The Curse of Over Capitalization. Some days in Silicon Valley it feels like there are more investors than there are entrepreneurs.

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Venture Capital Silicon Valley Founder Seed Stage 117

K9 Ventures

JUNE 12, 2012

I’ve written before about how Capital Efficiency doesn’t exist and is an oxymoron. However, there is an important corollary to the non-existence of Capital Efficiency and that is The Curse of Over Capitalization. Some days in Silicon Valley it feels like there are more investors than there are entrepreneurs.

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Venture Capital Silicon Valley Founder Seed Stage 105

Up and Running

MARCH 16, 2016

As we head into 2016, we leave behind a year of robust trends for venture capital—or “VC”—funding. The Pacific Northwest had a great overall year for venture capital activity in 2015—even if you count the 59 percent dip in Q4. See Also: 17 Venture Capital Blogs You Should Be Reading.

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Southern California Silicon Valley Venture Capital Early Stage 60

BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

Year of HQ2 and Distributed Teams: It was a banner year for non-Silicon Valley cities as NYC and Northern Virginia were selected as Amazon’s HQ2. On the seed side, we are seeing more firms focus on smaller and more concentrated portfolios instead of a spray and pray mentality.

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Stealth Advisory Board Cloud Virginia 79

Gust

OCTOBER 17, 2012

In addition, angels were up against a selection problem: All the best entrepreneurs and opportunities would naturally gravitate to the best venture capital funds, leaving only the “scraps” for angel investors. This is absolutely competitive with venture capital returns. So which is it? Only they’re not. and the U.K.,

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Angel Investor Venture Capital Seed Stage Silicon Valley 152

Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

“It is deeply telling that the vocabulary of venture capital begins with ‘the friends and family round’,” she writes. But inequitable access to seed-stage capital is a pervasive structural issue. The more risk you can take, the more likely you are to get wealthier.

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Technical Review America Government Silicon Valley 28

View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2023

Our kickoff day will be hosted in New York and will focus on establishing inter-cohort relationships while commencing our pre-seed tailored programming. Our wrap-up day will be hosted in San Francisco and will focus on exposing our geographically diverse teams to the epicenter of venture capital within Silicon Valley.

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Programming Sacramento San Francisco Founder 156

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 7, 2011

Since 2002, the law form of Fenwick & West has conducted a venture capital survey, a response to "the burst of the 'dot-come bubble' and a desire to provide the entrepreneurial community with objective information about the status of the venture environment."

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Preferred Stock Silicon Valley Seed Stage Venture Capital 115

Genuine VC

JULY 8, 2010

” Thanks to the support of our current sponsors Microsoft NERD , Gesmer Updegrove , and Silicon Valley Bank , the event will not only continue to thrive but also evolve. My new partners, Rob Go and Lee Hower , and I are very enthusiastic about starting our new firm, NextView Ventures.

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Silicon Valley Seed Stage Cofounder Venture Capital 154

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Today, seed funding in Israel got a little boost with the launch of the first Israeli Super Angel Seed Fund (or a so-called “Micro Venture Capital Fund&# ) with $25 million in funding, most of which has already been raised. In total the fund hopes to make $120 million in profit from its investments.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2015

As they say, you only get one chance to make a great first impression, so don’t pitch to a key angel group or venture capital team for practice. Investors are not interested in “mulligans” at this stage, since they don’t expect to provide money for restarts later. Don’t be a total unknown to every investor in a meeting.

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Cost Angel Groups Due Diligence Silicon Valley 120

Haystack

APRIL 10, 2018

Earlier today, the folks from Afore Capital hosted their inaugural “Pre-Seed Summit” in San Francisco. About 150 people showed up, a healthy mix of founders, seed-stage investors and big fund VCs, and a bunch of LPs of various sizes. 4/ LPs noted that the term “pre-seed” is really a U.S.

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Seed Stage San Francisco Ratchet Silicon Valley 60

Professor VC

JANUARY 27, 2011

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. I strongly believe (at least for very early stage technology ventures) that you will get diminishing returns and arguably negative returns once you get past an initial threshold of team, product, market and financial diligence. The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic.

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Technical Review Due Diligence Silicon Valley San Jose 31

Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

A similar pattern exists for venture capital funding: In 2020, just three regions — the Bay Area, New York, and Massachusetts — accounted for 70%+ of total venture funding in the U.S. In the case of Silicon Valley, it was a combination of: Universities like Stanford. Furthermore, as of 2016, the U.S.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 13, 2012

In addition, angels were up against a selection problem: All the best entrepreneurs and opportunities would naturally gravitate to the best venture capital funds, leaving only the “scraps” for angel investors. This is absolutely competitive with venture capital returns. So which is it? Only they’re not. and the U.K.,

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Angel Investor Venture Capital Seed Stage Silicon Valley 103

Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

We’ll look at the model stage-by-stage. Concept and Seed Stage In the Concept and Seed Stage, founders capture their passion and vision for the new company and turn them into a set of key ideas, which quickly becomes a business plan, sometimes on the back of the proverbial napkin. Order Here.

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Silicon Valley Product Startup Product Development 260

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. steve Reply Leave a Reply Cancel reply Order Here. For International Orders Now In Print! Follow me on twitter @sgblank Follow my speaking schedule on Plancast @sgblank Get the Podcasts for Free The Four Steps to the Epiphany now available in Japanese. startupcto

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Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 6, 2014

Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and investors love our premium socks, and we’re spreading that love around the country with growing sales sparked by creative marketing campaigns – all made affordable through digital management of sales and inventory. But as an avowed startup junkie, I’m always looking forward to the next thing.

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Hippoland

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

She has advised on dozens of startups across Los Angeles, Silicon Valley, China, and Southeast Asia. She was on the cover of Forbes Asia as a 30 Under 30 in Venture Capital, a LinkedIn Top Voices in VC & Entrepreneurship, and was featured on BBC, CCTV, Inc., The Straits Times, Harper’s BAZAAR, etc.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Seed Startups. VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Boilerplate Venture Funding Documents. National Venture Capital Association â?? Series Seed Documents â?? Raising Venture Capital.

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