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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. Coinvestors: Flexible VC terms have not been standardized, which may make the investment harder to syndicate. Lower level of community familiarity. (co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. Of the Inc.

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How Many Angels is the Right Amount for a Startup to Have?

Both Sides of the Table

If you have 50 investors on your cap table – I’m sorry but you really don’t know what the f**k they’re telling people about your company or whom they’re tell it to. If you have 8 well known, high quality angels with impeccable reputations then be as transparent as you like. But let me tell you for free.

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How VCs Structure a Syndicate and Recruit Coinvestors

David Teten

I thought it might be helpful to provide transparency on how we and many of our VC peers think about optimizing the cap table for our companies. . Although EquityZen is primarily an online marketplace for secondary shares in private companies, they also offer syndicated primary investments. Market Insight.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. . Investors are also mining for leads such sources as: – product crowdfunding sites ( Indiegogo *); – tech communities ( Producthunt ); – angel group platforms ( Gust ); – expert networks (e.g., 1) Manage the firm .

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How to Leverage Micro VC Funds to Build an Angel Portfolio

This is going to be BIG.

This is above and beyond whatever events and educational opportunities the fund provides for its community, which could also be very useful. We’re not talking about syndicates here, which would mean you’re paying a layer of carry and relying on other people’s deal flow, which is pretty much like fund investing. So is everyone else.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

My colleagues Sebastian Soler , Steven Greenberg and I recently launched a new online community, PEVCTech.com , exclusively for PE/VC investors; engineers who work at PE/VC funds; and other technologists who specialize in working on this problem. EShares is an increasingly popular tool in our portfolio for tracking private company cap tables.