Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

I’ve heard a lot of people question whether there is too much money in venture capital chasing too few great deals. Others believe that new business models are emerging that could replace venture capital all together. We’re in a new tech bubble!” some have pronounced. Follow the money. Want some context?

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund and mutual fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. Relationship Science makes it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. Stanford List of Venture Capital and Private Equity Sources.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

There has been much discussion in the past few years of the changing structure of the venture capital industry. The rise of alternative sources of capital (crowd funding and the like). The overall trends in our industry have breathed a new life into the venture capital industry. The iPhone was released.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Early today I gave a keynote at the VCJ Venture Alpha conference here in San Francisco. I was asked to speak about the topic of “what is going on in the venture capital world and what is the next big thing after social networking?”. Future of VC Internet – Tough topic, but what the heck?

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

6/ Venture Capital In Expansion Phase. Public investors, cross-over investors, and even traditional private equity firms have taken notice, further blurring the lines of what constitutes true venture capital. 1/ Social Network Interference. However, many cities and its citizens did not disagree.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2011

I just read the Q1 2011 report from CB Insights , which shows venture capital is back. Back to VCs, Silicon Valley venture capital firms are still the most active. So what can you do to get to the head of the venture capital investment queue? Overall, investors put $7.5 That represents a $1.5

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Draw Your Ideas - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 16, 2010 I saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. The Yin and Yang of Product and Engineering - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 22, 2010 For a tech company, product and engineering are the heart and soul of the business.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

On December 3rd Brad Feld wrote a one paragraph blog post titled “ Raising Venture Capital &# in which he linked to my blog. There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. Thus is venture capital. Tempus Fugit.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

Xobni “Social plug-in for Microsoft Outlook&# – As Enrique Gutierrez said on Twitter today, Xobni is “ the best damn thing ever for Outlook.&# Here’s the thing. Increasing this is also migrating to social network messaging but email is still king. The build “implicit social networks.&#

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2009

This is a story of one of the risks of venture capital. But some companies have entrepreneurs that seem talented on paper, are in a space that seems interesting to investors and are able to raise venture capital early in the company’s existence. True story.) 2 weeks later and we may never have raised any more VC.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

The startup Tracx , which provides a SaaS solution for tracking and managing marketing campaign on social networks, has received an undisclosed investment from Israeli angel Zohar Gilon. million in a second round led by previous backer Genesis Partners and joined by T-Venture , the venture capital company of Deutsche Telekom.

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Professor VC

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? Got around to seeing The Social Network this past weekend. I did a little searching around the web to try and find a truth vs. fiction comparison, but the closest I found was "The 10 Most Glaring Lies In The Social Network" on the Business Insider. Venture News.

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SiliconHills

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

The fast growing data.world, a social network for data people, Tuesday announced it has closed on $18.7 million in venture capital funding. Million More in Venture Capital Funding appeared first on SiliconHills. Million More in Venture Capital Funding appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

This is part of my series on Raising Venture Capital. Many businesses that pitch to me have White Elephant issues and I’d like to tell you how to deal with these when you’re raising venture capital. million for a social networking site 18 months ago. I sometimes call these White Elephants.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

It’s my job to invest wisely in entrepreneurs who are capital efficient, who innovate in ways that pay off economically in good markets or bad and who plan for worst-case scenarios. Tags: Pitching VCs Start-up Advice VC Industry startup technology vc venture capital. It is also a result of pent-up demand.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2021

In startup business plans, a bubble is too many entrepreneurs and too many investors chasing the latest “next big thing,” like Google search engine, Facebook social network, or Amazon e-commerce site. In finance, a bubble is too much money chasing assets, greater asset production and a herd mentality. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2010

Back to VCs, Silicon Valley venture capital firms are still the most active. For the 1st quarter, Healthcare remained the largest single sector for venture money. So what can you do to get to the head of the venture capital investment queue? Tags: startups venture capital business. Marty Zwilling.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Israel is on track to reach $10 billion in venture capital invested in startups in 2019. While there’s a huge growth in the capital volume, it is concentrated in mega rounds for growth companies. To take on the US market, will likely mean the CEO needs to relocate to the US and build a team there. Is there too much money?

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

The first panel will focus on public markets and will discuss the use and effectiveness of social media tools and data mining technologies in harnessing the wisdom of crowds to generate investment ideas. Howard Lindzon is Co-Founder and CEO of StockTwits, a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information.

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Gust

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

A quick look at the really nice sites developed in just a few months by companies like CircleUp, FundersClub, Bolstr, Seedrs, et al will show you that the base technical challenge of creating a marketplace/social network is not particularly difficult.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2021

Social commerce is a thing – Over 76M people in the US will make a purchase via a social network at least once this year (38.4% of US social network users) according to Falcon.io’s 2021 digital marketing trends. Snap and Tiktok fighting for users (source: eMarketer ). Immersive ar/vr/xr.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 10, 2009

social network start up – trademark and copyright are more likely. Posted in Technology, Venture Capital. Tags: Technology Venture Capital. For example if you are a: Medical device company – patents are key. Enterprise software company – copyright and trade secrets are probable.

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Gust

OCTOBER 8, 2014

He has founded 7 startups to date, including sixdegrees, the first social network, and he advises many others. If you can build an audience to watch you rack up those 7-minute miles, you’ve got a good chance that somewhere along your run, some of them will be willing to bet on an amazing finish time for your marathon. _.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

For the last 10 years China essentially closed its search, media and social network software market to foreign companies with the result that Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Dropbox, and 30,000 other websites were not accessible from China. Filed under: China , Customer Development , Technology , Venture Capital.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The $130 million Series D investment round was co-led by New York-based global private equity and venture capital firm Insight Partners and Hanaco Venture Capital. Hanaco Venture Capital is a fund located in New York and Tel Aviv that invests in developing and late-stage startups from across the world.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

We believe the long-term opportunity is potentially larger and more profound than the various innovations we’ve seen in social networking, messaging and video… We believe the economic opportunity for immersive co-experience is vast. Honorary mention – Animoca Brands.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

The venture capital industry is facing real competition for the first time in decades. Not only that, but the growing battle between venture capital firms and “super angels&# presents an amazing opportunity for entrepreneurs trying to build the next big thing. The answer is the rise of super angels, Graham said.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 21, 2022

Crypto projects like BAYC have successfully created a new social network, transportable to any other social platform, yet exclusive with real-life benefits. BAYC is a social network, crypto culture, that can become a game, a commercial brand or something we have not thought of yet. Picture: nftculture.com.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

With the recent influx of startups, there is a lot of competition for venture capital funding. However, the majority of venture capital goes to men, with only 16.8% Female-founded, VC-funded: The numbers behind venture investment in women [datagraphic]. PitchBook News. Published March 15, 2017.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

How else can you explain this headline matching a story about a professional social network still trying to explore revenues raising $17mm on an $80mm valuation? While job recovery is slow, it seems that we've probably ducked that bullet and there won't be a major shift in people's interest in funding the venture capital asset class.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . Boardex and Relationship Science make it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. Stanford List of Venture Capital and Private Equity Sources.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series about Raising Venture Capital. One of the hotter companies lately in the mobile social networking is FourSquare, which raised $1.35 million from Albert Wenger and Fred Wilson at Union Square Ventures and O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

The venture capital industry is facing real competition for the first time in decades. Not only that, but the growing battle between venture capital firms and “super angels&# presents an amazing opportunity for entrepreneurs trying to build the next big thing. The answer is the rise of super angels, Graham said.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 18, 2012

The idea, termed “an implicit social network,” intrigued many innovators and media types, including ReadWriteWeb founder Richard MacManus, who once predicted that Color would be the next Twitter. A sketchy company gets way too much money and everybody says that the entire venture capital market is about to implode.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2010

I’m writing this post as part of my series with Advice on Raising Venture Capital but will file it under Sales Tips as well since it applies equally to both scenarios. If one vocal person blurts out, “just give us the details, we all know social networking&# don’t assume that person speaks for the entire room.

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

Now that September is here, venture capital activity will pick up as usual. Here are a few of the companies who raised venture capital in August that I found really interesting. JiWire : JiWire has created an advertising network which reaches users at wi-fi hotspots. The company raised $2.1 The company raised $1.2

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 18, 2012

The idea, termed “an implicit social network,” intrigued many innovators and media types, including ReadWriteWeb founder Richard MacManus, who once predicted that Color would be the next Twitter. A sketchy company gets way too much money and everybody says that the entire venture capital market is about to implode.

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