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APRIL 27, 2014

I told my friend that I felt that in 2014 too many new VCs feel the pressure to chase deals, to be a part of syndicates with other brand names and to pounce on top of every startup whose numbers are trending up quickly. I guess if you’re in high-volume, low-differentiation mode perhaps this is efficient for you. I don’t.

Cofounder 374

Cofounder Syndicate Syndication Early Stage 374

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JANUARY 18, 2014

If the deal is from out of your geography and/or out of your focus area or a deal is being referred by a well-know investor who normally co-invests with similar syndicates – at least ask yourself, “Why am I so lucky to be getting this call.”

Cofounder 337

Cofounder Syndicate Syndication Angel Investor 337

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MARCH 6, 2015

*. If you are a 20-something tech entrepreneur you could be forgiven for thinking that seed-stage investors, Angellist Syndicates and widely available angel money always existed. It is, of course, a very recent phenomenon. Let me take you back just 10 years ago to 2005 in Silicon Valley where I returned after 11 years of living in Europe.

Seed Stage 150

Seed Stage Silicon Valley Syndicate Syndication 150

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DECEMBER 20, 2010

Then came RSS ( Really Simple Syndication ) widely credited to Dave Winer for driving the spec & adoption. When we found stuff we liked we “bookmarked&# it so that we could come back to the website later. We visited portals or the handful of websites that we could remember.

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XML Curation RSS Viral 349

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AUGUST 1, 2010

Like Brad Feld I’m syndication agnostic but I have a slight preference toward working with others. We’ll probably end up paying more than we’d want to because we want to take the investment off the market and the entrepreneur will likely feel they should get a higher price if they shopped it broadly on the open market.

Post-Money Valuation 298

Post-Money Valuation Term Sheet Warrant Partner 298

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APRIL 3, 2010

In my third seed deal we co-invested with a seed fund and then syndicated the rest to strategic angels. In my first deal we took angel money in the seed round (from 2 angels) and an early-stage co-investor in the A round. In my second seed deal I did the whole round. I like the way he thinks.

Venture Capital 265

Venture Capital Term Sheet Early Stage Silicon Valley 265

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FEBRUARY 25, 2010

We were trying to optimize around a few criteria: price, size of round, number of syndicate partners and, of course, terms. 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 million at a $15 million pre-money valuation.

Technical Review 301

Technical Review Term Sheet Due Diligence Venture Capital 301

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NOVEMBER 8, 2010

They monetize via high-priced advertisements during the prime-time airing on TV, via syndication to international audiences or less-watched channels after the original series has run and via DVD sales in retail channels. Many reasons but a clue is that the studios have to honor “time windows&# for when the show runs.

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Video Technical Review Advertising Distribution 292

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APRIL 12, 2015

DataSift was never built on a single platform and never desired or expected to be Twitter’s re-syndication provider as its sole business. Never mind that Twitter in writing specifically asked us to build this re-syndication product with them and that every step of the way encouraged us to build out the service. billion people.

Syndicate 150

Syndicate Syndication Semantic Artificial Inteligence 150

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JULY 10, 2011

Twitter as a company has encouraged this by granting DataSift “re-syndication rights,” which means that the company can ingest the full Twitter fire hose and resell subsets of it to other parties who want to consume a smaller stream, which is more cost effective in data licenses and in IT resources needed to consume the data.

Viral 307

Viral Las Vegas Tunisia Syndicate 307

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OCTOBER 18, 2015

And what many people don’t realize is that most syndicates get what is known as “deal-by-deal” carry. The platforms often get free carry.

IPO 150

IPO Venture Capital LP SEC 150

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

Do you know how many people I meet these days who are “packaging up money in SPVs (special purpose vehicles),” or raising syndicates or doing secondaries or advising high-net-worth individuals how to get into unicorns? For a fee, of course. I’ve met people straight out of their MBA program doing this.

Detroit 150

Detroit Government Syndicate Syndication 150