David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

Does the traditional VC financing model make sense for all companies? Lighter reports that from 2015 to 2018, the number of VC investments under $5m dropped 23% from 6,709 to 5,139. 2018 also had the fewest number of angel-led financing rounds since before 2010. Absolutely not.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

A popular approach these days seems to be for founders to regale investors early with a pitch touting the newest “million-dollar idea.” If your strength is technology, find a co-founder who has a comparable strength in business, finance or marketing. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 11/20/2015.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

When you first start your company and raise initial venture capital your board probably consists of 1-3 founders and 1-2 VCs. Most experienced VCs won’t push you to give up founder control at this stage of the business nor should they. Founder’s perspective. You’ll get empathy. Experience. Relationships.

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Version One Ventures

JULY 20, 2016

For example, Trim co-founder Daniel Petkevich realized he was still paying renter’s insurance for an apartment he no longer rented. Since Trim launched in November 2015, it has saved users more than $6 million in unwanted subscriptions alone. If you’re interested, try out Trim: [link].

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 20, 2015

As an advisor to startups, I often get asked what to look for in an ideal co-founder or business partner. For example, a technologist needs a strong finance person or a strong sales person who is willing and able to make decisions. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 7/08/2015.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

We first invested in co-founders Ben Forgan & Pat Wilbur in early 2015, when NextView led a $1.3M We champion founders redesigning the Everyday Economy , and to many, that brings to mind consumer businesses in particular. The Hologram story is near and dear to our hearts here at NextView for a number of reasons.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

We first invested in co-founders Ben Forgan & Pat Wilbur in early 2015, when NextView led a $1.3M We champion founders redesigning the Everyday Economy , and to many, that brings to mind consumer businesses in particular. The Hologram story is near and dear to our hearts here at NextView for a number of reasons.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

We set lofty goals in self improvement, education, weight loss, finances, our careers and our relationships, hit roadblocks and find it difficult to sustain the proposed change long term. But the difference between typical New Year’s resolutions and my 2015 goals is the very specific plan I have in place to guarantee achievement.

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NZ Entrepreneur

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Founded in 2015, Niesh provides an app designed to meet the challenges of the modern university student, and now offers both a suite of services for brands to connect with the youth market and deals to make every student’s life easier. The free Niesh app has saved 30,000 NZ tertiary students over $1.2M It didn’t work. “We

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

by Anthony Coundouris , trade finance evangelist for ApexPeak. Alternative finance has grown slowly in these countries, because both are the historical treasurers of Asia. In Asia Pacific, the volumes in alternative finance have come from South Korea and China. For many businesses, alternative financing was the alternative.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

We first invested in co-founders Ben Forgan & Pat Wilbur in early 2015, when NextView led a $1.3M We champion founders redesigning the Everyday Economy , and to many, that brings to mind consumer businesses in particular. The Hologram story is near and dear to our hearts here at NextView for a number of reasons.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 4, 2016

We just led a $35 million financing at Formlabs. Last week we announced that we led a $22 million financing for Glowforge. By the end of 2015, Formlabs shipped their Form 2 printer, which is a spectacular product. This spring, Max and his cofounder Natan Linder reached out to me about having Foundry Group lead a financing.

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Austin Startup

MAY 2, 2017

Today, May 2nd, two years from the day I invested in the angel round, the company announces Series A financing with major institutional support and launches Bitfusion Flex in beta. I met the founders, Subbu Rama , Mazhar Memon , and Maciej Bajkowski in the spring of 2015 during the Techstars Cloud program.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Amanda is the Co-founder at Barney an M&A firm that specializes in the digital marketing space. Since 2015, her company, Barney, has guided over 150 media, marketing & tech companies through acquisitions. 17:49] Have you ever experienced a transaction where a Founder sold the company to their existing team? [18:35]

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 20, 2023

He is co-founder of Monograph Capital, a life sciences venture firm in London and San Francisco, and was previously CEO of the Rhodes Trust in Oxford. Charles is the co-author of the bestselling book Bulletproof Problem Solving: The One Skill That Changes Everything and The Imperfectionists: Strategic Mindsets for Uncertain Times.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

In the summer of 2015, our co-founder/managing editor, Stephanie Choporis, was a graduate student at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and tasked with the following assignment: develop an idea for a new media product. Team Info: Co-Founder/Managing Editor: Stephanie Choporis.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The Startup Magazine continues our Founder Interview series with entrepreneur Richard Lavina, Co-Founder and CEO of accounting services platform, Taxfyle. Prior to founding Taxfyle in 2015, Richard worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers as an auditor. Richard Lavina, CPA, Co-Founder and CEO of Taxfyle.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

M&A experience (Morgan Stanley and later co-headed M&A for Barry Diller at IAC). Helped merge company with Seedling – on track to do $20 million combined revenue in 2015 – will now become Chairman). Kara has worked in finance in Boston, NYC and Silicon Valley. XO along with my good friend Soleil Moon Frye.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 12, 2019

Being a co-founder of a real estate investment company allows me to set my own objectives, determine my work hours, and reap the rewards of my actions. Thanks to Dave Munson, Saddleback Leather Co. ! #16- As a business owner, you’re the marketing team, the finance specialist, and the creative department all at once.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 21, 2021

My co-founder, Paul Pirner and I were old friends and craft beer lovers who had each decided (independently of one another) to adopt an alcohol-free lifestyle. At its core, De La Calle, translated as in the streets celebrates food, drink and all the traditions that come along with togetherness. 13- To correct several things.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

These shares propelled him to billionaire status in 2015 when the firm’s market value soared. Peter is the founder of Bay Street Capital Partners. Guss is 28 years old and he is the co-founder of Octane Lending. Collison co-founded Auctomatic in 2007 when he was a teenager. Today, he is worth $1 billion.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 16, 2015

The new regional headquarters will be home to a wide range of business functions, including sales, partnerships, marketing, HR, finance, user services, legal, policy, and trust & safety. Co-founder Jack Dorsey will replace Costolo on an interim basis.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2012

Lauren Bush at Under30CEO , April 21, 2011 : Lauren Bush, co-founder of FEED Projects, discusses how she applied her entrepreneurial skills to the nonprofit, social justice sector. Future innovators looking to launch their own startup can easily find inspiration in her perseverance and seemingly boundless work ethic.

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David Teten

JANUARY 18, 2015

We’re now gearing up for the 2015 version of ffMASSIVE , ffVC’s annual conference as part of SXSW. VEI is an in-school, live, global business simulation that offers students the development of skills in entrepreneurship, communication, personal finance, and technology. Lori Cheek , Founder/CEO, Cheekd.

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Up and Running

APRIL 11, 2016

Once you do that, Tim Frie, co-founder of Norman & Page Real Estate says, “You have just as much opportunity as any other agent at any other firm. Step 5: Getting financed. Real estate agent Jamal Asskoumi, took the finances for his business from personal savings. “If How to Name Your Company.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

Most founders have a strong sense of what they’re trying to achieve. They hire their initial co-founders and early employees and everybody has a sense of “mission.” We tend to stick by founders in tough times and often roll up our sleeves in the darkest hours. A Sense of Purpose. Team Building.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

It’s been a few years now since BlackBerry made phones, and this represents its largest purchase to date (by a factor of 3) since its 2015 acquisition of Good Technology. 4/ The Big Winners: Cylance raised around ~$280M in financing, with large equity stakeholders being Khosla Ventures, Fairhaven, and Blackstone.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 26, 2022

I had gone to high school with the founders in the Seattle area, and we had recently reconnected. My boss, Jen Grant , was an incredible manager, and Aaron Levie, the co-founder and CEO, was a fantastic partner on all things communications. I tried to get hired at Better Place and failed. Enter Box. They gave me a shot.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

The founder of early internet startup Freeloader (acquired for $38 million in 1996) and anti-spam company Brightmail (acquired for $370 million in 2004), Paul went on to pioneer the ride-hailing space. And yet Uber and Lyft are the market leaders, with a combined 98% of the US market , while Sidecar shut down in 2015. The difference?

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

It was 2009 and it was terribly difficult to get any financing (if you can remember a time like that!) She joined Launchpad as a very non-traditional founder and defied every conventional expectation to build one of LA’s fastest growing companies. We have some announcements set for 2015. We had a specific goal in mind.

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Version One Ventures

MAY 24, 2016

billion in financing in 2015 (with 395 deals). Over the past month, I’ve spent a lot of time in NYC, Toronto, and Ottawa for board meetings, conferences, meetings with our founders, re-connecting with co-investors, and meeting new entrepreneurs. And VC money is rolling into NYC: NYC companies received 5.95

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Or, put another way, great product managers are often the “weird kids” in the MBA program who, while sitting in a finance class, wonder if they should have enrolled in a design school or coding bootcamp instead. (I Hunter Brennick , co-founder and COO of Landing Lion , emphasizes humility and listening for product managers.

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 7, 2016

These people are true founders and entrepreneurs just like any venture backed company. Our brick and mortar has only been open since November 2015. HW: How have you financed your business to date? BS: As co-founders, Suzanne and I are equal business partners 50/50. How did it all begin?

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 7, 2016

These people are true founders and entrepreneurs just like any venture backed company. Our brick and mortar has only been open since November 2015. HW: How have you financed your business to date? BS: As co-founders, Suzanne and I are equal business partners 50/50. How did it all begin?

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Spencer Fry

APRIL 17, 2017

It wasn’t enough at the end of 2015 to have a working prototype and a handful of customers to somehow take over the market. As a bootstrapped startup, the only accountability you have is to yourself and to your co-founder if you have one. These are all things that, in 2017, can’t be overlooked as “I’ll get to them eventually”.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

As of November 2015, there were 4,144 breweries in the U.S.—more In this two-part guide to starting a brewery, we’re going to talk with brewers who’ve been there-done-that, and we’ll get insights from experts in supporting industries such as insurance and finance, as well as discuss regulatory issues.

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