David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Over the past decade, I’ve (somewhat accidentally) put together on this blog a syllabus on how to launch, manage, and invest a VC fund. See How Private Equity and VC Investors Are Using Social Media. Best Practices of Private Equity and Venture Capital Funds in Originating Investment Opportunities. 3) Raise capital.

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Technical Review Private Equity Management Cap Table 60

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Over the past decade, I’ve (somewhat accidentally) put together on this blog a syllabus on how to launch, manage, and invest a VC fund. See How Private Equity and VC Investors Are Using Social Media. Best Practices of Private Equity and Venture Capital Funds in Originating Investment Opportunities. 3) Raise capital.

Technical Review 60

Technical Review Private Equity Management Cap Table 60

This is going to be BIG.

MAY 12, 2014

Two years ago I started a fund. For the fund to be viable, it had to be at least $5 million, but somewhere in the neighborhood of $8-10 million would have been perfect. How does one make money raising a venture fund of this size? You''re running pretty lean when you''re on your first fund. So how does it work?

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Investment Bankers Term Sheet Venture Capital Technical Review 167

YFS Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2021

It’s time to double down on support of women-led funds and women VC partners. Here's a look at four ways to get started.

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Partner Venture Capital Equity Finance 158

View from Seed

DECEMBER 4, 2019

At the time, I spent most of my time describing the metrics themselves and how VCs and their LPs evaluate performance based on these measurements. This time, I’ll spend a bit more time thinking through the benchmarks themselves to get a sense for how the VC business is doing. 1.68) and the median fund now has distributed 1.27X (vs.

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LP IRR Distribution Portfolio 256

Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2023

He said that from what he read, the path to building and funding a company seemed to be: 1) come up with an idea, 2) form a team, 3) start testing minimal viable products, 4) raise seed funding, 5) then obtain venture capital. In some cases the accelerator provides initial funding themselves.) Comparing Startup Funding Options.

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Technical Cofounder Intellectual Property Technical Review Incubator 346

VC Cafe

AUGUST 11, 2022

When founders (hammers in this case) are fundraising they might rush to email every VC (all nails) they can get in touch with, thinking it’s a numbers game. In VC, when we aren’t supporting our portfolio companies, we are constantly busy trying to finding the next investment. Choose a partner, not just a fund.

Founder 187

Founder Term Sheet Cofounder Venture Capital 187

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

The most important advice I could give you before you set out in fund raising mode is to understand that fund-raising a sales & marketing process and needs to be managed. The typical VC process is as follows: They say there are three rules in property: Location, location, location.

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Term Sheet Due Diligence Campaign Sales 332

View from Seed

MARCH 4, 2020

In a few months, we are likely to see the annual Forbes Midas list of top performing early stage VC investors. There is always some debate about the methodology and accuracy of the list, but I think it’s a pretty interesting data set that reflects some of the things that have been happening in tech and VC over time.

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Venture Capital China Technical Review Africa 313

Berkonomics

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Many of the start-ups my various angel funds have financed died a slow death , not because of poor concept but because of poor execution, wasting fixed overhead and draining the financial resources from the company coffers. Growth before the VC arrived was not a problem. All investors, including the VC firm, lost everything.

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Silicon Valley Burn Rate Angel Investor Down Round 118

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2021

Entrepreneurs who require funding for their startup have long counted on self-accredited high net worth individuals (“angels”) to fill their needs, after friends and family, and before they qualify for institutional investments (“VCs”). Here again, the entrepreneur will be the one hurt most, by having fewer funding sources to access.

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Angel Investor Accredited Investor IRR Angel Groups 361

Gust

DECEMBER 17, 2017

The post Beyond VC: Funding Options for Early-Stage Startups appeared first on The Gust Blog. This is also the time when a lot of entrepreneurs wrestle with their plans for the next year, asking themselves: Where should I bet big? Are the growth targets right? How am I going to pay for all these. Read more >.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 13, 2021

Like a number of funds of our era, early fundraising was not terribly easy. I want to share the top 3 most common areas of push-back that we faced as a new institutional seed fund and share some perspective on what we’ve learned in the last 10 years that might shed some insight into the years ahead. Objection #1: Adverse Selection.

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Dilution Later Stage Portfolio Technical Review 399

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Many companies need venture capital funding, including startups. The process of getting venture capital funding may be difficult, but it pays off in a cash infusion for your business which may be able to make the difference between failure and success. What is Venture Capital Funding? Steps Toward Venture Capital Funding.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Software Review Security 144

David Teten

MAY 1, 2013

I agree with James Siminoff that, if you’re a VC-backed startup, you should conceal your personal information when you initiate the negotiation process for a good domain name in order to detach the valuation of the name from your status. Note one of the key ways VCs filter the deluge of companies raising funding is their domain name.

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Naming Semantic Venture Capital Startup 114

View from Seed

OCTOBER 11, 2022

We are also excited to add another investor who has been a champion for greater access and representation in VC and entrepreneurship through her efforts as a founding member of AllRaise, as well as other initiatives. We see the new fund and the addition of Stephanie as cementing what has become true about NextView over the past several years.

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Cofounder San Francisco Portfolio Limited Partner 156

Gust

MARCH 14, 2023

The average length of a funding pitch to angel investors is ten minutes. Even if you have booked an hour with a VC, you should plan to talk only for the first fifteen minutes. The post 10 Ways To Make Your Funding Pitch More Hard-Hitting appeared first on Gust.

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Technical Review Angel Investor Founder Startup 113

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 4, 2018

According to the most recent edition of PitchBook’s Venture Monitor, the first half of 2018 saw 94 investment deals surpassing the $100 million mark, continuing a trend in which late-stage successful startups and larger companies receive the lion’s share of VC funding allocations.

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Startup 139

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. It may seem trivial, but the deck is critical document for VCs to assess fit with their fund’s investment criteria. How to make your pitch deck stand out.

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Technical Review Early Stage Cofounder Portfolio 166

View from Seed

APRIL 2, 2024

When we started NextView back in 2012, we often used the metaphor of the beer industry to describe the evolution of the VC business. From 2012 to 2021, VC dollar inflows went from about $25B to over $128B in 2021. These excesses allow large funds to continue to grow without needing to pay a huge multiple to acquire a new platform.

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Merger Non-Compete Early Stage Venture Capital 343

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 14, 2017

There are over 500 seed funds in the market right now. Many of them are angels raising a VC fund. Others are entrepreneurs / operators raising a VC fund. A few are existing VCs who are starting a new firm. Regional funds are trendy again. Your fund size is X. Maybe there’s a thousand.

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Differentiation Later Stage Equity Founder 147

David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. raised money from VCs and 7.7% Where else can fast-growing companies get funding? Flexible VC offers you this. Flexible VC offers you this.

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Cofounder Technical Review Equity Dividend 78

Our Own Start-up

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

However, one of the common options is venture capital funding. The post Everything you need to know about early stage VC funds first appeared on Our Own Startup. There are heaps of financial alternatives for firms trying to innovate and expand.

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Early Stage Venture Capital Startup 103

SiliconHills

JANUARY 13, 2024

The fourth quarter VC funding is also an almost 46 percent increase from the $607 million […] Austin startups raised more than $1.12

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Austin Venture Capital Startup 71

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

I previously wrote about startup benchmarks in the context of funding readiness, so it was time to give it a re-fresh. In a contracted venture capital environment, where external funding is more difficult to raise, founders know that they need to make due with less, and extend the runway further. Hope you find this helpful.

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Retention Conversion Churn Rate B2C 109

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 16, 2011

Adeo asked me to speak about fund raising. I generally don’t like to speak about fund raising in a frothy market. VC Funding in a Frothy Market. I had the privilege of keynoting at the Founder Showcase tonight in San Francisco. But Adeo asked so I obliged. See you in the comments section for our debate.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2023

Tightening of monetary policies has led to skyrocketing interest rates as central banks try to manage rampant running inflation, supply chain issues persist despite the fact that the pandemic is now in the rearview — and venture capital funding has looked to dry up almost overnight.

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South Africa New York City San Francisco Technical Review 136

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

We have significant VC commitments (listed below) – every entering company will get $50,000 in funding, mentorship from top VCs and successful entrepreneurs plus free office space. Of these 19 have received funding (10 have received significant amounts of VC funding) and 5 have been acquired (2 for more than $30 million).

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Los Angeles Silicon Valley Incubator Startup 287

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

AUGUST 19, 2021

Elizabeth Yin is the co-founder and General Partner of a venture capital firm that, and I quote from their website, invests in “hilariously early startups” Hustle Fund typically invests $25,000 as a starting point into startups that have yet to show any revenues.

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Founder Partner Venture Capital Cofounder 98

David Cohen

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

I’m a personal investor in about 20 micro-VC funds. She told me that most of her Limited Partners (investors in her fund) didn’t seem to care about the frequency of capital account statements. It turns out that 73% of the sample of micro-VC funds issue quarterly capital account statements.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 4, 2024

As Andrew Chen points out in this tweet: WHY INVESTORS DON'T FUND AI STARTUPS you might know A16Z is running a seed-stage startup accelerator called SPEEDRUN where we're funding 40+ companies in the next 2 months with $750k per company. apply here: [link] ). Therefore addressing several shortcomings of their competitors.

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Generative AI Artificial Inteligence Technical Review ChatGPT 78

Version One Ventures

MAY 3, 2023

Version One has made only one investment in the region ( Headout , a fast growing marketplace for travel experiences) and I had written a small LP cheque into an emerging fund manager ( 1947 Rise , run by the awesome Shiva Sangwan ). And I had more than 20 1:1 meetings with founders, angels, emerging fund managers and institutional VC funds.

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India LP Silicon Valley Vertical 87

Up and Running

AUGUST 1, 2017

While there’s a certain cachet that comes with being able to say you raised a round of funding for your startup, realize that it’s a lot of hard work to actually secure venture capital (VC) funding , and there are reasons you might not want to. Otherwise, start looking for funding elsewhere. You don’t need funding.

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Venture Capital Cofounder Finance Security 113

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Transitions do happen in VC funds but many fail to make the move in a timely fashion and lose key younger personnel who break off and do their own funds or else the strong personalities of senior partners make it harder for new partners to flourish. How can high profile VC personalities best transition to younger partners.

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Leadership LP Venture Capital Silicon Valley 161

ReadWriteStart

JULY 11, 2023

Raft recently raised $30 million in Series B funding with leadership from Eight Roads VC. Eight Roads VC Partner Michael Treskow praises Raft’s industry knowledge and cutting-edge AI capabilities, noting the firm’s potential to solve more problems in the logistics sector.

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Artificial Inteligence Algorithm Global Technical Review 99

Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 11, 2023

I *think* Daniel and I met at a VC happy hour many years ago. It might ‘exit’ again at a later point (anything from a sale to an IPO), but it’s no long dependent on VC funding. We ended up partnering with two different funds at TPG; the TPG Growth Fund and the RISE Fund.

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Private Equity Equity DC Leveraged Buyout 78

SiliconHills

AUGUST 2, 2019

The Austin-based startup plans to use the funding for global sales and marketing expansion and product development. LiveOak Venture Partners of Austin led the Series B funding round. The post TalentGuard Lands $4 Million in VC Funding appeared first on SiliconHills. Previously, the company raised $3.5

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Austin Global Product Development Software 89