View from Seed

MAY 11, 2016

This mentality is good for keeping the raw, early-stage muscles in shape, and sometimes these side projects actually lead to something much more substantial. Repeat founders are often excited to “get the band back together” or aggregate talent. But I find it definitely hurts to do it too early.

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David Teten

JUNE 14, 2011

I am delighted to announce that I’m joining ff Venture Capital as a Partner. In addition, Michael Yavonditte , CEO of Hashable , is joining as a Venture Partner. I’m honored to be the second partner since the firm’s founding. Official blog post and more details here.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

PEVCTech is partnering with Blue Future Partners to run the first large-scale survey of VCs’ technology stack. Johann Kratzer of Blue Future Partners , a fund of funds, observed, “The majority of the hundreds of funds we’ve diligenced rely predominantly on their relationships to source deals. Greylock Partners.

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David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

the “TOPSCAN” framework from my research study on value creation by VCs ): T eam-Building – We aggregate openings across our portfolio on our jobs page. We also have a better known brand than some of our early stage companies, so we can leverage that to help source talent. I’ve listed a few ideas below.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. 5mm in Series A – Investors: GRP (Mark Suster)(lead), Greycroft Partners (Dana Settle), and Matt Coffin (founder of LowerMyBills) – Read more: TechCrunch , SoCalTech. Rumored to be appox.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2021

million, and we can write as little as $250k or as much as $15 million in our first check (we can follow on with $50 million + in follow-on rounds) We build a portfolio that is diversified given the focus areas of our partners. The outcome of this is that each partner does about 2 new deals per year or 5.5 We do other things, too.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

They do that by aggregating America’s startups, providing them with pro bono services, and promoting regional ecosystem development. Connect with our partners, e.g., Derek Holt. Aggregate America’s startups. in aggregate commitments. Now that we have 50+ partners, we want to scale. There are 1.4m-1.6m

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 28, 2015

by John Vrionis, partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. Although the data is public, the startup may not have been able to manually aggregate that data on its own, or the owner of the website may expressly prohibit use of the data outside of the services the owner offers.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But in business, you want a lot of partners. In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers. See Bessemer Venture Partners’ A comprehensive guide to security for startups. Cobalt for General Partners helps GPs to optimize their fundraising strategy. 1) Manage the firm

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

She is a go to person for me when I have questions around technology or early stage marketing and branding. Same partner all along: Jorge Alonso, Creative Director. We do a lot of B2B and also have an "Early Stage Branding" practice for technology startups. I've known Farida for quite a while.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Aggregate VC investment in 2009 hits a low of roughly $20B, a figure last seen in 2003 in the wake of the bursting of the dotcom and telecom bubble and 2001 recession. And even for early stage startups, VCs raise eyebrows at companies that have modest gross margins. We’re only a few months past Sequoia’s famous “R.I.P.

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Austin Startup

JULY 6, 2018

Ask the Users Startup Accelerators: Bundled and Unbundled Over the past several years, accelerators have emerged as a powerful filtering and signaling mechanism in early-stage startup ecosystems, allowing high-potential young startups to connect with investors, advisors, and other strategic partners far faster and more efficiently than before.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 13, 2011

You may choose some where your customers aggregate, others where you hope to find biz dev partners & still others where you want to meet investors. Don’t assume that you’ll fortuitously run into potential customers or biz dev partners. Be very targeted in which events you attend.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

Please note that we expect our members to invest at least $25,000/year in early-stage investments, although there is no contractual commitment to do so. The company aggregates a tremendous amount of medical news and research and personalizes it into a user friendly experience. Docphin ( [link] ) is the Bloomberg for doctors.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

Over the quarter, teams of students would put the theory to work, using these tools to get out of the building and talk to customer/partners, etc. It will be an improvement over mammography by detecting abnormal cells in an early stage, is radiation-free, and is 2-5 times less expensive than mammographs.

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David Teten

JUNE 1, 2011

High Road Capital Partners Deal Sourcing Keynote. Fitzsimmons, High Road Capital Partners. Deal aggregation websites Increasing in popularity, trying to increase market efficiency. Prestegaard, High Road Capital Partners. Glickman, Resilience Capital Partners LLC Luke Johnson, Platinum Equity LLC Robert B.

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Aggregate VC investment in 2009 hits a low of roughly $20B, a figure last seen in 2003 in the wake of the bursting of the dotcom and telecom bubble and 2001 recession. And even for early stage startups, VCs raise eyebrows at companies that have modest gross margins. We’re only a few months past Sequoia’s famous “R.I.P.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2019

The first check I wrote was just over 10 years ago into a company called Invoca who just announced a new $56 million in funding led by Scott Hilleboe at HIG Growth Partners. It proved to be fortuitous because it allowed me the time & space I needed to get to know tons of founders and VCs and to hone my craft. Over the past 2.5

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

With new micro VC entrants into to early-stage investing plus increased competition from angels, incubators and the like – traditional VCs have taken notice. So VCs spent a couple of years experimenting with earlier-stage investing, which is OK. The Explosion in Early-Stage Innovation. There are also others.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 26, 2022

My boss, Jen Grant , was an incredible manager, and Aaron Levie, the co-founder and CEO, was a fantastic partner on all things communications. For some early stage startups, investing in comms won’t meaningfully move the needle; for others, it can be transformative. What type of opportunities are you most interested in?

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www.seriesseed.com

MARCH 2, 2010

Mahatma Gandhi I hesitate to use a quote from one of the greatest people ever to grace planet earth, and certainly the question of how to structure early stage investment is a laughable cause as compared to the rights that Ghandi (also a lawyer) fought to advance.  I’ve attached version 2.0 How’s it going otherwise?

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

These three tools allow startups to focus on the parts of an early stage venture that matter the most: the product, product/market fit, customer acquisition, revenue and cost model, channels and partners. Teams use the Lean Startup toolkit: the Business Model Canvas + Customer Development process + Agile Engineering.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

There’s no doubt (at least anecdotally) that the pace of VC investments in early-stage technology companies has picked up in the past few months. I hear from several sources that Sequoia is very active in the market aggressively chasing several deals and even driving up prices on some early-stage deals.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 12, 2016

These findings are informative, but often consist of aggregated data and use sophisticated statistical techniques to infer or explain what is going on with customers. To augment performance data, almost all companies use various forms of customer research, surveys, focus groups, mystery shoppers, and other techniques.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

But ultimately great people drive the ideas and Highland Capital is proactive in reaching out to entrepreneurs even at early stages. Richard De Silva is based in Menlo Park with three other partners, there and 5 partners in Boston. They aggregate other people’s content and curate it into categories. 16:35-19:35).

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Mark Suster GRP Partners Advice. Seed Stage Valuation Guide. Philippe Botteri, Bessemer Venture Partners. Their Partners all come from industry, where each has held senior level executive positions delivering industry-leading products.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 27, 2011

When you talk to investors, partners, customers and most potential new team members one of the first thing all of them are going to do is get a sense for who you are and what you've done. Aggregate and curate to reinforce. This is even more true for professionals today and no group more so than entrepreneurs.

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K9 Ventures

MAY 14, 2011

In my view the terminology being used for early stage investors by the press and the media is not as clear as it should be. I’ve talked about this on several occasions when I’ve been at conference and on panels, but I figured it would make sense to do a post explaining my taxonomy of the early-stage investing world.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 7, 2010

It’s hard to establish that a decrease in funding in the aggregate level is an indicator for future trends in the market, as the graphs below clearly show the strong cyclicality of VC investments, at least in some of the tech segments. The average early stage round was $6.7 Overall, 343 US companies raised $1.8

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Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 4, 2020

I first met Joe when he was working as a General Partner for Entrepreneur First , a Greylock -backed early stage tech fund which has gone on to raise and run $200 million in capital for start-ups, creating a global portfolio with an aggregate value of more than $2 billion. companies and U.K.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2019

Early stage sales and product-market fit are topics that I love talking about,” said Schwartzfarb. I’ve spent my entire career helping to build early stage companies and I feel very fortunate to share my experience with founders everywhere.” Find Amos Schwartzfarb on Twitter and LinkedIn.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 21, 2010

The company was accepted into Capital Factory, an early stage technology accelerator, where the team was given some funding, free services, and some mentorship to help them get to the next level. At the 2009 Demo Day , the company announced on stage that they had secured a round of significant seed funding. Silverton Partners.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

This time around, there has been an explosion at the early stages, and the very late pre-IPO growth stages. But the angels who’ve staked their funds on spreading bits of money all over the Valley are increasingly anxious that only 20 percent of their deals — in aggregate — will get the chance to keep going.

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VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2010

PeerTV was linux on DSP, which aggregated content from the Internet like Boxee and BeeTV. All the peripheral services are profitable, but there was no place that aggregated everything under one roof. we today aggregate 30,000 conferences on the site. Me and my partner, Boaz Yehuda, worked without a salary.

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ConversionXL

JULY 29, 2015

Most project creators describe their project using aggregate framing. When we intentionally or unintentionally hurt our relationship partners, we apologize.” ( Estrada-Hollenbeck & Heatherton, 1998 ). Yet they incentive people to donate, even in the early stages of a campaign. The problem? donating to your campaign).

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 13, 2012

He is on the board of the Angel Resource Institute, and is a partner with Montlake Capital (a late stage growth capital fund) and with Revenue Capital Management (a royalty based lender). Conventional wisdom dictated that they made reckless investments in very early-stage ventures mostly doomed to fail. Only they’re not.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

of VCs said they had a decreased appetite for risk and that more than half of those polled expect their firms to do between zero and three deals in the next year and you start to get the feeling things are going to get a lot worse for private companies, in aggregate, before they get better. Add to this that 72.7%

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