VC Cafe

JULY 21, 2022

Investment bank Drake Star Partners published a report on the gaming investment and M&A activity in the first half of 2022. Private financing market continued to see strong deal activity with $3.6B in total financings in Q2, surpassing Q1 total through 169 deals. Source: Minecraft blog. Over 3 billion.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 24, 2014

Helping companies get to next financing round successfully: I was just beginning this phase in Sept 2010 and said so. I’ve now been involved with many other successful foll0w-on financings. “Ok, so this guy can write a blog and source deals but can he make any money? Sourcing high-quality leads : 9/10. Since then?

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Or, if you can’t skip a round, when should you try to work extra hard to minimize dilution and when should you be prepared to take more dilution for the right partner/situation? Also, the benefit of raising a pre-seed from great partners probably outweighs the cost. Founders with limited experience. should be avoided.

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Board Effect

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Getting the right data to improve finances, measure impact and reach peak efficiency can seem too difficult, too expensive, or both. Adopt Smart Partnerships Smart colleges can also tie their success to the right partners. But many educational boards are at an earlier stage of data maturity than they would like to be.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

Understanding where your VC partner sits in their respective fund and where their fund is in the cycle of its investment lifecycle will help you understand your VCs behavior. So what are Rob’s secret hacks that he didn’t spill in his blog post? . What Rob wrote in his post is right. That in itself is quite a challenge.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 12, 2022

This has led me to launch an affiliate marketing blog, where I get to write about my passions, but also work towards the ultimate goal of generating passive income. As a small business owner in the finance and accounting field, I have learned that the majority of my customers have issues understanding the basic concepts of finance.

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Board Effect

AUGUST 18, 2023

They show how an organization behaves in terms of sustainability and social conscience, covering environmental impact, diversity and inclusion, and finances, with a focus on leadership. Here are some examples: Are you partnering with a group that, while it feeds children, also generates an unsustainable amount of environmental waste?

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View from Seed

MARCH 24, 2021

7 Common Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make in VC Pitches and How to Fix Them “Different partners in a VC firm are different. How Decisions are Made After the Partner Meeting “The lead partner might also be using this opportunity to dive deeper into areas that you might not have had the chance to cover during the first/second meetings.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

As an agenda for each meeting, I suggest: – How can we most add value, in addition to helping with financing? Dan Kozikowski, Partner and Head of Platform, First Mark Capital , said to me, “Firms should match services to the stage-specific needs of companies. I have developed a founder curriculum on my blog. AskAnything.VC

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www.seriesseed.com

DECEMBER 9, 2012

Series Seed Financing Documents Blog. Blog Archives. Series Seed Financing Documents. Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Series Seed Financing Documents : 1 Reblog. My quest is to simplify financing for seed stage investments. Series Seed Financing Documents. SeriesSeed.com. Reblog (1).

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View from Seed

JANUARY 13, 2021

As seed has become the mainstream path to early-stage financing, the definition of seed has changed, and if one is to be a credible first institutional seed investor, he or she would need a fund big enough to be competitive and write $1-2M initial checks. This is because the market actually has changed.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Some websites will generate a fairly decent blog post from a few key intent phrases, but they are still not as good as something written by an experienced content marketer. As someone who works in finance, specifically investments, technology is constantly growing and becoming a huge part of how finance and investments work.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

JANUARY 2, 2023

This blog post will discuss the top 10 tips for starting your own cosmetics business. Partnering with influencers and using digital platforms such as Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok will help spread awareness about your cosmetics business. Well, you’re in luck! Research the Market. Network with Influencers and Platforms.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2013

Anyway, as I winnowed my way through the comments section of my blog post on relationships I realized my own wife has posted a response! So I had to learn how to best interact with him to be a supportive partner yet get what I wanted / needed, too. office manager, finance manager and/or assistant if he has one. Hope that helps.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. Similar to the explosion of seed funds in the past decade, we (and some limited partners too ) believe these Flexible VCs are on the forefront of what will become a major segment of the venture ecosystem. Of the Inc. 5000 companies, only 6.5% return cap.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

Bessemer Venture Partners Expands BVP VII Fund. 26 Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP), the oldest venture capital practice in the United States, today announced the closing of a $350 million supplement to its current fund family, BVP VII, which closed in June 2007. 2009 Bessemer Venture Partners. Friday, February 27, 2009.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 30, 2023

“Since ChatGPT’s launch just nine months ago, we’ve seen teams adopt it in over 80% of Fortune 500 companies” OpenAI blog OpenAI announced this that ChatGPT Enterprise is now available , offering better data protection/privacy, more security, improved speed/performance and longer context windows. But not all is rosy.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 23, 2022

In 2014, I created and started writing on my blog. Now that I look back, I'm quite grateful that I began blogging at the time I did! I also have to spend time on social media because I run a blog. Every day for a month, I wrote and published a blog article and it completely transformed my life.

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View from Seed

JUNE 10, 2020

However, in our conversations over the past few weeks with both Founder applicants and others in the ecosystem (like co-investors), it became apparent that some of the assumptions about what an accelerator is and how ours is different wasn’t fully appreciated from our original Accelerator blog post.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 28, 2022

She is an author and founding partner of Y Combinator, which Lovd.com (W21) was lucky enough to be a part of as well as 3,500 other companies including Airbnb, Instacart, DoorDash, Coinbase, Dropbox and many others. I learned from her that even if finances are an issue, it's worth taking risks if you know your idea would change the market.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Websites and blogs help you establish yourself as an authority through helpful content to your audience. Andrew Schrage, a co-founder of MoneyCrashers strives to offer valuable financial content to individuals and businesses to help them manage their finances. But the main goal in mind was to help people that needed financial guidance.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 26, 2024

This blog will guide you through the process of starting a farm business in Pennsylvania, including conducting market research, providing valuable insights and resources to help you succeed. Secure Financing and Grants: Explore financing options and grants available for beginning farmers in Pennsylvania.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

They emailed billionaire investor Mark Cuban, asking him for financing. How a law firm got funded thanks to partners that wouldn’t give up. In 2003, Ben Luftman, fresh out of law school, started Luftman, Heck & Associates, LLP, with partner, Jeremy Heck. After all, what have you got to lose?

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 28, 2019

But this financing contour description is just a proxy for underlying business metrics. In reality, a pre-seed is “an early round of financing that is designed to help a company achieve certain intermediate milestones PRIOR to the magic combination of strong PMF + meaningful traction.”.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 23, 2012

Partnered with engineering trying to understand what customers really wanted, needed and would pay for, versus what we could actually build and deliver (and learning the difference between a simply good engineer and working in the presence of sheer genius.) Building a company in all its complexity is computationally unsolvable.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 27, 2021

. $100M is a meaningful increase from our $50M third fund, though it’s still quite small in the grand scheme of venture, especially amid the recent wave of late stage financings and SPACs. We believe that this fund is the perfect size for us to be the best possible partners to early-stage entrepreneurs today.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 28, 2015

Part of the fun of having a blog for a long time is that it captures some of the history – in the moment – of what’s going on. For example, from a post in 2008 about Rally’s $16.85m financing , I riffed on the origins of the company. About a year after he got started, he was ready to raise a venture financing.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2010

I recently wrote a piece for Mashable on how to create a company blog. Since it’s already written (and since I promised not to republish on my blog other than a summary) if you’re interested please have a read over there. Summary notes and then I’ll extend: Should you blog? What should you blog about?

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Thanks to Pete McPherson, Do You Even Blog ! #4- Luckily I didn’t have to – a friend ended up texting me and my business partner, suggesting the name Codal. My business partner, Adam Hale, and I were both in Fort Wayne, Indiana when the company was founded. He helps people who have made a complete mess of their finances.

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SiliconHills

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Capital Factory, Silverton Partners and Floodgate announced Monday morning they are teaming up to provide matching investments for all Capital Factory incubator companies. Josh Baer, co-founder of Capital Factory, made the announcement via a blog post and on Twitter. Austin Capital Factory Floodgate Silverton Partners'

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 18, 2022

I plan to use a combination of personal capital, debt financing, and private equity investment to fund the business. 25- A second blogging venture. As a blogging coach and blogger, I've witnessed how effective blogging companies are repeatedly, for both myself and my clients. Thanks to Chenise Bhimull, ZFC Real Estate !

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

At this point, the investor and the entrepreneur work together to develop their perfect list of potential partners, and then do targeted outreach to try to bring this investor into the round. What you sometimes lose is the strength of the syndicate to support the company in the future if intermediate financing is needed.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Badly tracked finances can cause your business a world of problems—from poor cash flow to improper tax filings and beyond. Entrepreneurs should approach their accountants as business partners, not just tax prep, and find someone who can offer insight into the business. These kinds of problems can put a young business at serious risk.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

In previous blog posts I’ve written about the two main approaches to building a seed round syndicate – the subscription method (where an entrepreneur presets a structure with a convertible note or SAFE and recruits investors who subscribe to the round, all without a term-driving lead investor) and a term-driving lead investor approach.

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OnlyOnce

JANUARY 24, 2024

The metrics for understanding whether or not your CBDO is scaling differs from other functions like Sales, People Ops, Customer Service, and Finance because throughout the scaling process the CBDO team is likely to be small. A third sign is if your CBDO is focused on quantity rather than on quality.

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 27, 2011

In August/September 2009, the founders and I agreed to work together to raise a round of financing for the company. We pulled together about $600K of commitments and interest, for a $500K-target financing round. The lawsuit completely killed the financing prospects for Ugmode. At this stage, the team had had no prior financing.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

I lived in Düsseldorf for some time, and there I came up with the company name idea: “one (idea) for one (client)”, “each custom product for each client”, and “one and only solution for each business partner. 9- How my life and finances came to be. That’s why ein (one in German) is present in the name. Photo Credit: Derek Sall.

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