David Teten

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

It’s hard enough to get a job at a venture capital or private equity firm; it’s even more complex to join as a Partner. Sean Seton-Rogers, Partner, Profounders Capital, breaks the conversation into three areas: Control: voting/veto for new deals, share of management company. For some examples of public transparency on what investors are looking for, see HOF Capital , KEC ( Brian Laung Aoaeh ), IA ( Roger Ehrenberg ); and Georgian Partners.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 8, 2010

The proceeds of this round will be used to scale operations, continue building its platform for real-time location data and move its headquarters from Israel to Palo Alto, California, according to the CEO’s post on the company blog, By The Waze.

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Early Growth Financial Services

AUGUST 22, 2013

New VP of Sales to lead EGFS business development efforts in California San Francisco, CA Early Growth Financial Services (EGFS), an outsource accounting, finance, and tax support firm that provides on-demand services to early-stage companies, has just announced a new partner to their leadership team. Gadiel Morantes is an accomplished executive with 15+ years of sales, marketing, and operations experience. Originally published in PRWeb.

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Inc Startups

JULY 31, 2012

She was my original partner, but we battled constantly over strategy and the business plan. When we realized we couldn't work together without killing each other, she dropped out of day-to-day operations.

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Recent Buzzes - VC Experts, Inc.

JULY 14, 2011

80% of venture capital and Angel investors operate here, and, where else will patent attorneys, new business formation attorneys, equity attorneys give you their time without payment in advance of receiving venture capital funding?

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Ask the Angels

JULY 2, 2014

This is a great example of the Angels partnering with a gifted management team to build a growing company.”. Over the past 14 years, we have invested more than $40 million dollars of early-stage capital in over 100 companies in Southern California, from $100 thousand up to $1.5 Biotechnology Blog Company Creation/Operation Finance & Accounting General Healthcare Services Intellectual Property Product/Technology $2 Million Round Will Power Continued Growth.

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Ask the Angels

MARCH 2, 2014

For the past 10 years, Terry has been an active member of the Pasadena Angels, investing in early stage startup companies in Southern California. The Pasadena Angels are one of the most respected angel groups in Southern California.

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Ask the Angels

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

For the past 10 years, Terry has been an active member of the Pasadena Angels, investing in early stage startup companies in Southern California. The Pasadena Angels are one of the most respected angel groups in Southern California.

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ArcticStartup

JULY 21, 2014

However, for venture capital firm ACTIVE Venture Partners , last month has been more than just recharging batteries. The announcement comes after a month of heavy investing, during which Active Venture Partners has led funding rounds for Spanish startups Traity ( $4.7

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Passionate Intensity

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

So, a new fund, Ru-Net Technology Partners (and our U.S. operation, RTP Ventures) will be formed and I will be running it. Last, but certainly not least, I want to especially thank my colleagues at Greycroft Partners who gave me a chance to see how real venture capital works.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2015

My guests this past week on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Pete Newell , managing partner of BMNT Partners. John Kuhn , who works at BMNT Partners. Army special operations before retiring from active duty service in 2014.

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Early Growth Financial Services

MAY 19, 2015

Co-hosted by First Ascent Associates and Runway Incubator, “Cannabis Startups: Exploring the Opportunities & Challenges” will take place on May 26, 2015 at Runway Incubator in San Francisco, California. This event will be a chance for founders within the cannabis industry to hear from and network with other founders, meet potential investors and others interested in the industry, and learn from business partners who support the space. Originally published on PRWeb.

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Early Stage Adventures

AUGUST 24, 2011

Because of my involvement in the Boston and NYC ecosystem as a managing partner at CommonAngels, I’ve been asked by several entrepreneurs a very simple but loaded question: “How should I think about pulling together my seed round?” Have a clear sense of your milestones and an operating plan that makes sense to achieve them. Cons: you probably won’t get the full time attention of the general partner. Individual general partners.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2017

That if we could get teams to rapidly discover the real problems in the field using Lean methods, and only then articulate the requirements to solve them, could defense acquisition programs operate at speed and urgency and deliver timely and needed solutions.

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Steve Blank

JULY 19, 2017

As I later discovered, Joe’s first act was 24 years in the Army Special Operations Forces (SOF), retiring as a Colonel. Putting theory into practice, he went to Iraq in 2008 as part of the 75th Ranger Regiment, in support of a Joint Special Operations Task Force. Ironically, I was first introduced to Joe not at Stanford but through one of his other lives – that of an entrepreneur and businessman – at the company he founded, BMNT Partners.

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Chris Dixon

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Earlier this year I got to meet the a16z team and observe the operation directly. The “startup idea” behind a16z is: instead of spending the bulk of the fund fees on partner salaries, spend it on operations to help entrepreneurs. So I’m super excited to say that I’m joining a16z as their seventh General Partner. I’ll be based in California, but plan to do a lot of investing in NYC.

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Early Stage Adventures

AUGUST 24, 2011

Because of my involvement in the Boston and NYC ecosystem as a managing partner at CommonAngels, I’ve been asked by several entrepreneurs a very simple but loaded question: “How should I think about pulling together my seed round?” Have a clear sense of your milestones and an operating plan that makes sense to achieve them. Cons: you probably won’t get the full time attention of the general partner. Individual general partners.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Think about the tension between media companies and cable operators like last year when Viacom threatened to pull Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, MTV, BET, etc. In Venice, California they opened a “Parachute Hotel” that let consumers experience the product for a night in a world-class location.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 15, 2010

Having grown up in Northern California and living near a Japanese family when I was really young, I always had a fascination with Japan and wanted to live there. I looked in the worldwide directory to find the partner in charge of the project who happened to be based in San Francisco.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2015

The University of California managed research and development of the bomb design at Los Alamos while the US Army managed the Los Alamos facilities and the overall administration of the project. Lead, follow or get the heck out of the way. In peacetime the U.S.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 21, 2016

But our hundreds of alumni — the fellows, employees, and government partners who have worked with us over the past six years — are a truly powerful movement that’s growing incredibly fast. Many of them have been carried on by the cities, counties or states we partnered with.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 24, 2013

Smart startups prepare to face off against rent seekers and map out creative strategies for doing so… First, however, they need to understand what a rent seeker is and how they operate… ———-.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 24, 2013

Smart startups prepare to face off against rent seekers and map out creative strategies for doing so… First, however, they need to understand what a rent seeker is and how they operate… ———-.

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Up and Running

JUNE 22, 2017

We work with like-minded partners who also want to help your businesses succeed by providing the best tools and content for the job. If our readers choose to learn more or purchase from links to our partners, sometimes we earn affiliate commissions that support Bplans’ mission.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

And gaming companies like EA, Ubisoft, Bioware, and Capcom are either based out of Canada or have large operations in the country. There are a handful of respected incubators operating in the city, including Startup Edmonton and TEC Edmonton.

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Hunter Walker

JULY 29, 2017

Hunter Walk : You went from Wall St Trader to VC at OATV to operating side now at Haven , a logistics startup. And I love being on the operating side. Badass. Renee DiResta is badass. Not self-proclaimed badass. But like seriously badass. Click on that bio link in the previous line.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

One of the drivers for that growth is that for European, Israeli, Latin American, and Eastern Canada-linked companies, the East Coast is much closer than California. New York is now the second-most-active tech ecosystem in the US on all key metrics, after the Bay Area.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 9, 2018

And, in various ways we help all new businesses make connections with local organizations that can link them with potential partners or customers, which is particularly useful for companies just entering this market from other parts of the country or the world.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 20, 2014

When Customer Development and the Lean Startup were just a sketch on the napkin, Dino Vendetti, a VC at Bay Partners, was one of the first venture capitalists I shared my ideas with.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 6, 2016

Evangelos Simoudis’ is the founder and managing director of Synapse Partners. His investing career started 15 years ago at Apax Partners and continued with Trident Capital. Innovation outposts in Silicon Valley allow big companies to sense and respond to rapid changes in technology.

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Blogtrepreneur | Entrepreneur Blog

MARCH 13, 2014

It wasn’t too long ago that few people were familiar with this term, however, now it’s become a staple that even has its own Fast Casual Executive Summit for owners and operators of fast casual chains to come together.

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Active Garage

AUGUST 27, 2010

Sale of a partnership interest in a professional firm to a new partner. Repurchase of a partnership interest in a professional firm from a retiring, or otherwise terminating, partner.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 13, 2017

The entrepreneur must have a clear vision & focus, must operate in an optimized environment and, most importantly, must work with good people who share the vision. Second, they operate in the flourishing Parisian tech scene. Only one in ten startups succeed.

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Gust

DECEMBER 15, 2011

Having taken stock of the main legal documents and actions involved in forming and operating a new startup, let’s crack open the “case” (disregarding the warnings about voiding your warranty) and examine a few of the steps, documents and key decisions to be made in getting a new startup ready for business. Most entrepreneurs focus on #3, and perhaps are also aware of the ability to search state business entity databases online (as with Delaware or California ).

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Inc Startups

DECEMBER 31, 2012

Indeed, a lack of major acquisitions and the high-profile slumps of Facebook’s and Groupon’s public offerings put a damper on investors’ appetite for venture-funded deals, says Tracy Lefteroff, global managing partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers venture capital practice.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2016

And you can now negotiate for fees for cable and satellite operators to carry your channels. Mitu Network is the largest digital media company for Latinos in the US and also targeting Mexico and South America.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 6, 2013

” Michelle and her business partner Andrew Ekelem are the founders of Chariot Mobility, a company dedicated to updating the manual wheelchair to a low-profile, efficient and ergonomic chair that better serves the needs of its users.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 11, 2018

We created virality in small pockets, such as Venice Beach, California, and the virality spilled over to the next pocket, Santa Monica.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 21, 2017

To put that benchmark in context, the latest estimates place the total number of businesses operating in the U.S. Upfront Ventures, a California-based VC firm, released its annual VC Survey Results in January.

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Mike Michalowicz

MARCH 15, 2017

My aim was not to uncover the basics, but to dig deeper into the financial operating processes and mindsets of highly profitable firms. Wendy is a member of the California Society of CPAs and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

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