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. . Coalesce address the more general problem of searching through large data sets for best fits. Pacer is useful to search prior litigation, bankruptcies, etc.

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Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Fred Wilson warns that it is starting to feel like a bubble again, with VCs writing $5 and $10 million dollar checks with very little due diligence, sometimes showing up to a first meeting with a term sheet… Israeli startup headlines for Nov 15, 2010. Other venture capital links. Funding news. venturebeat ].

Technical Review 79

Technical Review Matching Venture Capital 79

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Fred Wilson warns that it is starting to feel like a bubble again, with VCs writing $5 and $10 million dollar checks with very little due diligence, sometimes showing up to a first meeting with a term sheet… Israeli startup headlines for Nov 15, 2010. Other venture capital links. Funding news. venturebeat ].

Technical Review 79

Technical Review Matching Venture Capital 79

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Fred Wilson warns that it is starting to feel like a bubble again, with VCs writing $5 and $10 million dollar checks with very little due diligence, sometimes showing up to a first meeting with a term sheet… Israeli startup headlines for Nov 15, 2010. Other venture capital links. Funding news. venturebeat ].

Technical Review 79

Technical Review Matching Venture Capital 79

The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

The venture capital landscape in Asia is varied and complex, as most of the active firms on the continent are concentrated in just a few areas. The term sheets tend to be fairly standardized and straightforward as well. Term sheets are littered with many more obscure protective provisions and onerous terms.

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Asia Silicon Valley India Term Sheet 132

Altgate

APRIL 22, 2009

 Today,  Wilson Sonsini  announced the launch of a " term sheet generator.  Today,  Wilson Sonsini  announced the launch of a " term sheet generator." "  It's basically a web tool that creates draft preferred financing term sheets for startups.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Every year I teach classrooms full of students who leave class understanding the basics of how to search for product/market fit—and thinking their next goal is to “get funded.”. In a pre-seed round you are focused on building minimal viable products, testing your insights and searching for product/market fit. That’s a mistake.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Whether you’re wondering what site search you should use or what is the best email marketing tool, knowledge is power. Â Search for apps tools. Google Custom Search Engine. Search Engine Optimization Tools. Outlook plugin to search.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

While that post resulted in term sheets for Dennis and Naveen from VCs, the original intention was actually to get Yelp to invest in the company. What I wouldn't be surprised is if someone like Bing starts using Foursquare for their local search API.

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Term Sheet API Search Technical Review 108

www.gabrielweinberg.com

OCTOBER 24, 2011

I recently raised venture capital for the first time. If you checked out our graph, it's nice, but looking back it is unclear to me how much things would have been different if I had tried to raise after reaching 1,000,000 direct searches a month instead of 7,000,000. I realize most companies can't get multiple term sheets.

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Venture Capital Term Sheet Cofounder Partner 90

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2010

They had received a term sheet from a VC and were wondering whether to work with this firm. I often tell people that raising venture capital is more difficult than getting married. Not so in venture capital. But what about once you have a term sheet? You’re tied at the hip to your VC.

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Term Sheet Venture Capital Stealth Cofounder 298

Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2010

Staring at us in the board meeting were three term-sheets from brand name VC’s and an unexpected buy-out offer from Google. In fact, Google’s offer for $15 Million was equal to the highest valuation from the venture firms. Lets take venture capital and grow this thing into a real business.”. The Scalable Startup.

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Hockey Stick Venture Capital Startup Cofounder 276

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Your goal was to preserve your cash while you turned these guesses into facts and searched for a repeatable and scalable sales model. Reply Raising capital - The 50 or so things you should read first | JonBischke.com , on November 9, 2009 at 10:59 am Said: [.] & Get back up and running.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Because unlike Google search or other means, it involves people you already trust. Thus, our pitch framed LinkedIn as a platform for finding the people you need, which we called “professional people search 2.0″, Normally, you’d expect us to explain our product — i.e., what “professional people search 2.0”

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Entrepreneur Revenue Viral Networking 111

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

This is part of my ongoing series on Raising Venture Capital. Not so in venture capital. But what about once you have a term sheet? Do a web search to find companies that they didn’t give you. One small hack – go to LinkedIn and do a search for the company name.

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Venture Capital Term Sheet Cofounder Partner 288

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

The birthplace of sponsored search (Overture), semantic search (Applied Semantics which became Google AdSense), comparison shopping (ShopZilla, PriceGrabber) and many others. Think about venture capital. But if you were going to start a venture capital fund today, you’d want to stand out.

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Community Los Angeles Startup Silicon Valley 304

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Home Books for Startups Guide Secret History-Bibliography Steve Blank Startup Tools Steve Blank Entries RSS | Comments RSS Email Subscription Get Steve Blank via your RSS Feed RSS - Posts RSS - Comments Categories Air Force (12) Ardent (10) Audubon (1) Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan (39) Business Model versus Business Plan (..)

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Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110

Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

While VCs are the toughest nut to crack, there are many other (often better) sources of seed capital that may be available to you. Rather than limiting your search to venture funds, therefore, consider the full range of startup options.

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Angel Groups Elevator Pitch Software Review Deal Flow 159

SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

10 Ways To Be Your Own Boss - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , June 18, 2010 The folks at Behance and Cool Hunting asked me to talk at their 99% Conference a couple months ago. Here are the top 30 along with a brief snippet from the post. had two occasions recently to review products which had clear market leadership.

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Cofounder Technical Cofounder Term Sheet Startup 175

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

While this post is written about raising venture capital (which I always remind entrepreneurs IS a sales process) the lessons can be applied to any sale or biz dev deal. And frankly if you do get a term sheet one day these are the people you’ll be working with so the more you know them (and their reputation) the better.

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Partner Term Sheet Sales Portfolio 308

finance.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 21, 2012

Term Sheet. Term Sheet The latest on private equity, M&A, deals and movements — from Wall Street to Silicon Valley. FORTUNE -- Its no secret that venture capitalists were hit hard by last decades dotcom bust, considering that median returns for 1998-2001 vintage funds are all underwater. Term Sheet.

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Naming Term Sheet Private Equity Equity 49

Rob Go

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

A friend of mine just completed a very successful fundraise for an institutionally led seed-round of capital. Increasingly, these seem to be the most common ways that venture-funded companies get started. You want to be able to say “they are in, assuming reasonable terms. Feel free to call them”. Some thoughts.

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Term Sheet Due Diligence Valuation Seed Stage 73

Professor VC

JANUARY 20, 2009

The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic. The funding search began the day after Labor Day and continued throughout the fall as the environment continued to worsen, and resulted in a term sheet the day before Thanksgiving. Labels: bootstrapping , CFO , Fliqz , venture capital , venture financing.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

Venture Capital Funds VC firms are like seed firms in that theyre actual companies, butthey invest other peoples money, and much larger amounts of it.VC One experienced CFO said: The better ones usually will not give a term sheet unless they really want to do a deal. investments average several million dollars.

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Technical Review Startup Software Review Angel Investor 76

Tim Keane

MARCH 8, 2010

A philosophy of valuations and term-sheets » March 08, 2010. And the National Venture Capital Association and the Angel Capital Association have both weighed in.  And the National Venture Capital Association and the Angel Capital Association have both weighed in. 

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Accredited Investor Wisconsin Angel Investor Bootstrapping 60

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

When I was an entrepreneur there was no public information about how term sheets worked or how investors thought. Put simply, it’s really hard to build a strong company when all of your competitors are giving away free s**t fueled by venture capital chasing winner-take-all returns. All of these are false.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

The current valuation of $2B is 3,000X the proposed post-money valuation of that seed term sheet. I couldn''t find a linkedin profile, but a quick google search did turn up a number of lawsuits and foreclosures. bubble IPO unicorn valuation venture capital' igthwghjg2q2g8hu4). Sorry about that.

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Las Vegas IPO Pre-Money Valuation Valuation 28

Steve Blank

APRIL 16, 2009

As a test search twitter for tweets about non-consumer companies on the Fortune 500.) Reply steveblank , on April 16, 2009 at 10:36 am Said: Jerry, As Domino’s and Amazon found out this week, social networks can quickly disseminate information faster than most traditional marketing organizations can react.

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