Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

I lovingly call him the curmudgeon of fintech – in this episode we go deep into how he is building a venture capital firm and practice, not just running a fund and how he views the world of fintech investing. One of the ones that really bothers me is how Venture Capitalists try and conflate what they do as being complicated.

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David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2013

Partners for a New Beginning (PNB), a public-private partnership housed at the Aspen Institute, is organizing a Venture Capital, Private Equity and Angel Investor Delegation from the Maghreb. David Teten, HBS 98, Partner, ff Venture Capital, will discuss his research study on VC portfolio operations, recently featured in Forbes ).

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 2, 2010

If you’re a pure startup and haven’t raised any money – you might change the life of every person you hire. You can also spend time with a newer startup helping them navigate the world of product management, venture capital or team building. We made some changes and things are going better.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 5, 2012

The son is off in Africa combating disease with Doctors without Borders, and the other son. Unlike a venture capital firm that states its criteria on its website and has forms, e-mail addresses, etc to encourage outreach, your site does a lot better job of saying "Go away!". The next generation isn't interested in socks.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 19, 2020

“Because COVID is shaking our habits and beliefs it opens the door to discussion to whether we should change our whole system,” says veteran investor Sir Ronald Cohen, chairman of the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment and the man known as “the father of British venture capital” . A Global Impact Tech Alliance.

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David Teten

MARCH 24, 2014

ff Venture Capital is both an investor and also runs our back office on Addepar.). Imagine a biotech startup, Melchisedec Medicals. We did this again, overweighting emerging markets like Africa and EMEA (Middle East) in 2007 because they were cheap with high growth rates. In fact, Melchisedec is a placebo.

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Austin Startup

JULY 14, 2017

Fortunately, Europe and Asia as well as Africa are making great breakthroughs in technology such as mobile payments, blockchain and distributed ledgers and artificial intelligence as well as robotics. China has built up beautiful and diverse tech hubs that will make anybody forget about Silicon Valley existence altogether.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

He first came to see me in 2008 when we was raising money for his 1st startup – NextMedium. Startup DNA. Hamet started his career in Venture Capital working for the first post-apartheid VC fund in South Africa. I’ve known Hamet for 5 years. The idea immediately resonated. Media relationships.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

The “official dignitary” tour of Silicon Valley is like taking the jungle cruise at Disneyland and saying you’ve been to Africa. There are no tours of companies or venture capital firms. Cram into Coupa Café full of startup founders going through team formation and fundraising discussions.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Back in early 2017, I worked with ABANA (network of financial professionals with ties to the Middle East/North Africa); Harvard Arab Alumni Association ; and Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of NY (which I founded) to launch an annual Tech Summit in New York focused on the Middle East/North Africa region (“MENA”). Siraj Capital.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

At the time, he was advising the campaign while also serving as Executive Vice President and General Counsel at Revolution, a DC-based VC firm created to fund startups led by diverse founders all over the country. We ultimately put 10,000 people on the ground in West Africa to fight the disease there. And then we had a U.S.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 21, 2014

While our data does apply to a US audience, the reasons for starting a business really aren’t going to be that different, whether you’re in Canada or South Africa. If you’re working from home and not seeing clients, you may find your startup costs are limited to marketing, stationery and legal. Startup costs.

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David Teten

APRIL 30, 2018

Why are more US VCs investing in international startups? While fundraising of US VCs has dropped slowly as a percentage of global limited partner allocations over the last decade, non-US startups are receiving a more rapidly increasing percentage of that money. Source: NVCA, Pitchbook. Companies founded by immigrants.

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David Teten

APRIL 30, 2018

Why are more US VCs investing in international startups? While fundraising of US VCs has dropped slowly as a percentage of global limited partner allocations over the last decade, non-US startups are receiving a more rapidly increasing percentage of that money. Source: NVCA, Pitchbook. Companies founded by immigrants.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

When I looked at my inbox this morning, I had emails from six organizations I have advised/worked with over the past couple of years (including Astia and Techstars ) announcing their partnership with the White House’s Startup America initiative.

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David Teten

APRIL 7, 2017

Because of that insight, we co-founded the Venture Capital Access Program , focused on helping women and minority entrepreneurs raise capital from HBS Alumni Angels. The event is being organized by ABANA , the Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of New York (HBSAANY), HOF Capital , and the Harvard Arab Alumni Association.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Startups such as Shopkick offered real time deals when users were in stores and Shopsavvy and similar mobile price comparison tools from Amazon and Google empowered consumers to find the best deals. As Western growth stalls, and emerging and frontier markets (such as Africa) grow, we will collaborate in ways not imagined before.

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thebarefootvc

JUNE 15, 2014

The ingenuity of a rural farmer in Africa is on par with some of the greatest innovation I’ve seen in the heart of Silicon Valley, particularly in light of the lack of “formal” training and mentorship many of us experience in the developed world.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 7, 2012

As Managing Director of T2 Venture Capital , a Silicon Valley venture firm that helps build “innovation ecosystems” around the globe, Victor Hwang knows quite a lot about what it takes to create an environment where high-tech startups can grow and thrive. Photo courtesy of T2 Venture Capital.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 6, 2019

She is the Founder and Managing Partner of Backstage Capital, a venture capital firm dedicated to minimizing funding disparities in tech by investing in high-potential founders who are people of color, women, and/or LGBT. Entrepreneur, and Quartz. If you'll be at @sxsw , my session is on Monday, March 11th.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

They’re investing directly in Israeli companies and are also investing in domestic venture capital funds. In fact, Israeli VCs are increasingly viewing China as their main source of capital. For Israeli tech companies – startups and bigger companies alike – this is a rare opportunity, and it won’t last forever.

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Up and Running

APRIL 11, 2013

It all started with the great startup entrepreneur Bobby Jones and the Wall Street venture capitalist Clifford Roberts. Remember, he’s 77… Just like any startup entrepreneur, Bobby Jones needed to raise capital to make this dream a reality, enter Clifford Roberts, the New York City financier. Let me explain….

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

I’m not going to cover in this post the obvious post-show marketing tasks such as following up on all those business cards you grabbed, communicating with all those people who registered at your site and leveraging your new found fame to score venture capital. Tags: Start-up Advice startup technology.

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thebarefootvc

JULY 3, 2016

New York City : NYC is growing as a startup hub; yet early stage (seed, small A rounds) institutional capital has not kept up with the local growth. While focus is essential in early startup days, we live in a hyperconnected world, and a global network and perspective is becoming essential to startup success.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

New York City : NYC is growing as a startup hub; yet early stage (seed, small A rounds) institutional capital has not kept up with the local growth. While focus is essential in early startup days, we live in a hyperconnected world, and a global network and perspective is becoming essential to startup success.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

In the episode, Kristy Kruger talks about picturing unicorns roaming the planes in Africa as a kid and being at a party many years later when the topic of conversation turned to endangered species: It was about a group of five to seven people, kind of standing around the keg, just talking. bubble IPO unicorn valuation venture capital'

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2009

Being in a startup and having a successful relationship and family was very hard work. Biological Clocks After Convergent and now single again, I was a co-founder of my next two startups; MIPS and Ardent. But entrepreneurs can be great spouses and parents. Our circumstances were unique and your mileage will vary.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2020

And I and my vice chair of this group at the time, Constance Benson, who became Chair of the group after me, worked with the NIH to develop the first therapeutic research centers in Africa and Latin America and Asia. A lot of the most exciting fundamental research used to go on within companies.

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