VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

One of the most frequent questions I get asked is “how do I get a job in venture?” The number of new venture firms raising their first fund has increased markedly – especially since 2011 (new funds are a good barometer of the growth of the industry, and a leading indicator of job growth in venture capital).

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Investors: Google Ventures. In the program we also talked about much debated topic of large VC’s and whether they should have seed programs. If you’re interested in the topic you should check out the program. Index Seed : Index Ventures carves out seed fund from existing $400mm fund. Read more: TechCrunch.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

Social Media for Service Professionals LearnTrends Speakers and Topics Accounced Tags not Folders - LinkedIn Saved Profiles Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – S. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles. Los Angeles Social Media Starters What is Visible Networking?

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

I recently had a chance to interview Mari Joller , an expert on corporate innovation, on this topic. She had so much insight to share that we broke the interview into two parts, 1) Corporate Venture Capital and more broadly, 2) How the Fortune 500 Can Buy, Invest and Partner with the Innovation Economy (coming soon). .

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View from Seed

APRIL 6, 2021

You have a deep desire to learn the venture capital business and are ready to hustle to meet the next great founder. This role will be a full-fledged member of the close-knit NextView investment team, and we expect you to actively contribute to investment discussions and strategy topics to help sharpen our collective thinking.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

SIGNIFICANCE PROMINENT. --> The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail. An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. The National Venture Capital Association estimates that 25% to 30% of venture-backed businesses fail. NAME David Cowan.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2021

The Alexa Fund also provides up to $200 million in venture capital funding to fuel voice technology innovation. AWS Startups Blog – Head here for insights on startup related topics and guest posts from startup founders/leaders. Amazon and AWS take a hands on approach to supporting startups across stages. Physical space.

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David Teten

APRIL 6, 2015

All venture capital and NIH funding data for CY 2010 – 2014 in USA. A standardized way to look at the issue is to calculate funding per DALY, i.e., the amount of venture capital (both private and corporate) and NIH research funding allocated to combat each year of healthy life lost. Source: NIH, CB Insights.

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View from Seed

JULY 6, 2020

You have a deep desire to learn the venture capital business and are ready to hustle to meet the next great founder. . This role will be a full-fledged member of the close-knit NextView investment team, and we expect you to actively contribute to investment discussions and strategy topics to help sharpen our collective thinking. .

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

My partner Seth Levine has written several posts over the years on the topic of how to get a job in venture capital. His 2019 post, titled creatively How To Get A Job In Venture Capital is excellent. And How to get a job in venture capital (revisited – 2008).

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 6, 2017

I titled this post “We Must Have Zero Tolerance in Venture Capital” but of course I could just say “zero tolerance anywhere” because that’s true. And complete silence on this topic is what many of my female friends in the industry are telling me has been so hurtful about this past week. Men must speak up, too.

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Rob Go

OCTOBER 6, 2013

For additional reading on this topic, check out this great article at the FRC review from Neil Roseman on Technical Hiring at Amazon. By data driven, I mean looking at real data across many many companies and trying to draw the information that informs that rubric. For example, this. Data Analysis.

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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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allthingsd.com

JULY 16, 2012

Venture Capital Has Its Biggest Quarter Since Dot-Com Days. venture capitalists put $8.1 venture capitalists put $8.1 It’s clear that factors like the greater American economy and the bumpy tech IPO market don’t necessarily have a direct and/or timely correlation with venture capital spending.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

A comprehensive post on this topic could be 5,000+ words, but we do not do such things here. 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.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 13, 2014

I introduce this topic with that reworked joke because so many people say “venture capital” when they really mean “angel investors” or “outside investors.” ” Venture capital is very specialized. There are about 500 venture capital firms in the U.S. Angel Investment on Steroids.

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Our top three topics from the year: . Over the past 18 months, the pandemic has reset these expectations, leading to huge increases in valuations for both public and private tech companies…not to mention venture capital returns that are far better than what we have traditionally seen! 1/ Is 10x the new 3x?

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View from Seed

MAY 24, 2021

You have a deep desire to learn the venture capital business and are ready to hustle to meet the next great founder. This role will be a full-fledged member of the close-knit NextView investment team, and we expect you to actively contribute to investment discussions and strategy topics to help sharpen our collective thinking.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

I find myself nodding – even when the topic is one I don’t expect to agree with such as “fail fast.” I interviewed Eric for an hour for - This Week in Venture Capital. And there are very few people who so consistently exceed my expectations when I hear them speak. ” This week was no exception.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2019

I also wrote an entire series on the topic of Startup Boards if you want to do any more reading that link has several articles you can dig into. I think the best run companies let executives make most of the hard decisions and should try to be helpful in thinking through high-level strategy and weigh in on difficult topics.

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OnlyOnce

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

A couple of months ago, I was doing an internal lunch & learn for senior managers, and the topic came up as to “how do our VC firms work?” I redacted our cap table and pictures of our VCs, but otherwise, feel free to use it with your own management team, or even your whole company.

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

This is a post I’ve wanted to write for a long time, but I needed the time to digest all the other great posts on the topics by other investors, and to analyze specific portfolio data from Haystack over the last five years. One topic Fred has been writing about for many years is the geographic diversity at his firm, USV.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

The following is a brief series of quotes from just ten of the approximately 30 different topics discussed in this incredible interview. Yeah, that was when I changed for me…” “…there was so much positive feedback on demystifying this one element of venture capital. Brad’s start in Venture Capital. was starting.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 31, 2018

If this topic is interesting or important to you, either as a leader or a feeder in a startup community, or someone in government, academic, or a large company who is exploring or participating in innovation in a geographic ecosystem, give me a shout anytime!

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Haystack

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

On a slightly smaller impact scale, there isn’t a lot of content out there about “How to build a venture fund.” In this podcast, Eggers details his view of the phases the venture capital industry has gone through and recounts some stories about how Lightspeed was able to break through, and how hard it was to get that chance.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 4, 2019

If you really like learning about this sort of thing, there are a bunch of places to learn more, but I’d start at OpenLP , which is a great collection of writing on these topics brought together by Beezer Clarkson and our friends at Sapphire Ventures. That 10% might start to look more like 12% or 15%.

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

New San Diego VC Firm Emerges as ‘The Moneyball of Venture Capital’. Here’s some big news for San Diego’s innovation economy: There’s a new venture capital firm in town—and its investment methodology represents a fundamentally different approach to the conventional business model for venture investing. Hacker News.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Just as with any company, the most important issue is the team; see “ How to Negotiate a Partner Role at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Firm “ . See How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood. . 3) Raise capital. 4) Originate investments. 6) Due diligence.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Just as with any company, the most important issue is the team; see “ How to Negotiate a Partner Role at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Firm “ . See How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood. . 3) Raise capital. 4) Originate investments. 6) Due diligence.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

The new hot topic for entrepreneurs the last couple of years is crowd funding, which is anticipated to at least supplement, if not replace, the slow and mysterious process of current Angel and venture capital investors. Marty Zwilling. crowd funding entrepreneur hype startup'

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2013

Perhaps the biggest piece of new news is that after 17 years of operations we’ve changed our name from GRP Partners to Upfront Ventures. Well, the venture capital industry has changed a lot in the past 20 years … and we have too. What’s up with that? Our portfolio companies value us as sparring partners.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 25, 2015

I am obsessed with a topic because it has literally become my job. There is no better post to read on this topic than Ev Williams “ A Mile Wide and An Inch Deep.” If venture capital is propping up your business performance – good luck when the spigot slows one day.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

On the other side of the spectrum, the idea of finding a unicorn has attracted many investors toward the much riskier venture capital and emerging technologies. Private equity investments offer access to growth in more scaled businesses.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 12, 2022

As investors in gaming, entertainment tech and consumer, this is a topic my partner Kevin Baxpehler and I have been actively researching and investing in at Remagine Ventures for the past few years. . As a venture capital fund, our success is driven by backing companies with large financial outcomes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2012

The new hot topic for entrepreneurs these days is crowd funding, which is anticipated to at least supplement, if not replace, the slow and mysterious process of current Angel and venture capital investors. Crowd funding is exciting new territory, but I don’t see it replacing Angel and venture capital investors any time soon.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

That’s on average the time venture capital investors spend on a pre-seed pitch deck, according to the latest Dropbox/Docsend funding research report. You’d be surprised how many pitch decks I get that have absolutely nothing to do with what we focus on at Remagine Ventures. 2 and a half minutes.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

This post by Rex Woodbury of Index Ventures has some interesting insights for consumer businesses on this topic. 2021 gave us plenty of examples for bad governance in both startups and venture capital. Watch your CAC < LTV and focus on ways to make the growth sustainable.

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