Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 27, 2016

Investor due diligence on a startup is not a mysterious black art, but is nothing more than a final integrity check on all aspects of your business model, team, product, customers, and plan. To get the terms you want, it’s better to start with your own term sheet. Know your partner well before you get married.

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Mucker Lab

AUGUST 27, 2014

For the last couple of years, I’ve been investing in startups as a partner at Mucker, while spending a lot of time in the Valley working with potential co-investors and partners. Encyclopedic knowledge of term sheets and startup buzzwords can be quickly learned, trained, and packaged. Diversity” and “Domain Experience”.

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

VP of Strategic and Emerging Business Development, Microsoft. Managing Director, Enterprise Partners. New San Diego VC Firm Emerges as ‘The Moneyball of Venture Capital’. The firm, Correlation Ventures, is using predictive analytics technology to tilt the odds in its favor. venture investments since 1987.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 19, 2011

Called Tim Spicer (c-companies partner) and he told him matt, they only want one thing, more warrant coverage!!! Raised money from Splitrock Partners (of whom Matt thinks very highly) experience was so emotionally traumatic he came out of it vowing he’d never go thru that again – get cash flow positive RIGHT NOW!!! [if

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance.

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Scott Edward Walker

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Financial buyers are investors that are interested in a return on their investment business – which is the business of buying and selling companies. venture capital), they buy and sell companies and seek a return that way. Instead of investing in the stock market or in startups (e.g.,

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . But, most of use raise capital and source deals the same way people looked for dates 20 years ago: by networking at conferences (or bars). . But in business, you want a lot of partners.

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Professor VC

APRIL 7, 2011

My partner in Menlo Incubator , Gary Kremen , and I had a recent debate on which one of us hates convertible debt more. From my experience, negotiating debt deals with an experienced investor will result in a number of the same terms and wont save much (if anything) on legal fees. The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic.

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San Jose Technical Review Angel Investor Valuation 36

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

Because VC’s (not unlike yourself) are tremendously busy. The partner you saw is probably sitting on 5-6 boards which means he or she will be busy helping existing portfolio companies. Don’t be surprised if your logs don’t show that the partner has been using your product. ahead of thinking about you).

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

Scott Kupor is the managing partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he’s responsible for all operational aspects of running the firm. I caught up with him recently to talk about venture capital from both sides of the equation, investing for the long-term, missed opportunities, and how he gets good ideas. ** Let's start with something basic.

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 30, 2016

Every few weeks one of the founders of K9 Ventures’ portfolio companies forward over an email they’ve received from a “Partner” at a VC firm. Before you go any further, go read this post: Partner, Partner, Partner. Partner. <Firm Can we schedule an introductory call this week?

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Professor VC

JANUARY 20, 2009

The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic. The funding search began the day after Labor Day and continued throughout the fall as the environment continued to worsen, and resulted in a term sheet the day before Thanksgiving. We decided to raise some venture debt as an insurance policy and extend our cash runway.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

Greylock Partners · Reid Hoffman | Philosopher Versus MBA. If they don’t have the right skills or resources, they’ll pick them up along the way by hiring someone, partnering with someone, or just learning it themselves. MBA programs teach valuable analytical skills that can help you evaluate and refine strategies and business models.

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Silicon Valley Venture Capital Balance Sheet Cofounder 69

Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

Greylock Partners · Reid Hoffman | Philosopher Versus MBA. If they don’t have the right skills or resources, they’ll pick them up along the way by hiring someone, partnering with someone, or just learning it themselves. MBA programs teach valuable analytical skills that can help you evaluate and refine strategies and business models.

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Silicon Valley Venture Capital Balance Sheet Cofounder 69

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Chasing funding versus chasing customers and a repeatable and scalable business model, is one reason startups fail. Is there a profitable business model? The Traditional VC Pitch Entrepreneurs who pursue the traditional product development model don’t have customer data to answer these questions. Can it scale?”

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

× At Greylock , my partners and I are driven by one guiding mission: always help entrepreneurs. Neither is a particularly good backdrop for trying to raise capital, because. But with so many investors still licking their wounds from the dot-com bust, many focused on proven business models, such as advertising or e-commerce.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Luckily, I teach with two great VCs, Mar Hershenson of Pear Ventures and Jeff Epstein of Bessemer Venture Partners who both put together presentations unraveling the mysteries of how and why startups raise money. Series B is about proving your net revenue model (can you be profitable?). Business Model.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

When I was an entrepreneur there was no public information about how term sheets worked or how investors thought. Many experienced partners are funds have 7-10 boards and most of these will need more capital. Just as with the late 90s there is no new “business model” that defies the laws of gravity.

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Up and Running

MARCH 29, 2017

See Also: What Do Venture Capital Firms Want? My partner and I sold the company in 2012, right when mainstream companies at both the SMB and enterprise level were starting to adopt cloud-based SaaS solutions. My biggest takeaway from that process was that you have to have some kind of “magic” in order to raise venture capital.

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Life Beyond Code

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

We want every entrepreneur to have access to our curriculum and incubation services, and give them an opportunity to build their businesses, irrespective of the scale of their entrepreneurial aspirations. The latter is the domain of venture capital, but the former is what we need to build the foundation for Capitalism 2.0

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

– Mike [link] Reply Jeff Skinner , on May 24, 2010 at 9:28 am said: Steve, you don’t know me though I use your ‘Customer Development process’ video in my classes (Entrepreneurship at London Business School). Jeff skinner Faculty, London Business School. Can we touch base on this.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). National Venture Capital Association â?? model legal documents. TechStars Model Seed Funding Documents â?? WSGR Term Sheet Generator. Orrick, Herrington Term Sheet Generator. Raising Venture Capital.

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