Hunter Walker

JULY 20, 2019

While this hasn’t happened to any of our portfolio CEOs in a while, there’s one reason for a VC passing on a funding round that just sets me off: “I wanted to do the deal but couldn’t convince my partners.” c) You never believed in the first place, and are blaming your partners versus just passing.

Partner 92

Partner Cap Table Vertical Portfolio 92

David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

In 2019 we partnered with several revenue-based lending providers, effectively creating a marketplace. “. We collect more data on an individual business than, to our knowledge, any other RBI investor, through our application process, data partners, and various public sources online. The average monthly operating expenses is $70,335.

Revenue 60

Revenue Technical Review Software Review Equity 60

Hunter Walker

MARCH 14, 2019

Then he tells you he likes being an investor but *really* misses being an operator, and is joining another one of his other portfolio companies as COO. Across town a different CEO is having a breakfast with her Series A Board partner. You grit out a smile and weak ‘congrats’ while thinking ‘“fuuuuuuck.” Such as Homebrew.

Cap Table 95

Cap Table Dilution Silicon Valley Portfolio 95

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

Focus on the partner you would be working with. I always try operate on the “Fixed Fee +&# arrangement. One issue he talked about was working with partners. I also like to work with partners. But I also know it’s not realistic for the partners to do all of the work. Good people and evil people.

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Southern California Silicon Valley IP Stock Options 318

techcrunch.com

APRIL 26, 2013

AngelList also partnered with SecondMarket to create an investment vehicle for these investments. That way, startups only have one entity in the cap table, which simplifies documentation and structure. European M-Payments Startup SumUp Partners With Revel Systems, An iPad POS Provider, For Its Push Into Europe.

SEC 61

SEC Accredited Investor San Diego New York City 61

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.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

www.informationarbitrage.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Home About Press IA Capital Partners Archives After 17 years in M&A, Derivatives and Trading, Im spending my time with young entrepreneurs in and around financial technology and digital media. But I am doing this from the vantage point of an investor / Board member, not an operating executive. Lack of confidence?

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CTO Hire Founder Cap Table Vesting 40

Hunter Walker

AUGUST 26, 2022

I’m an Ashley Mayer superfan so beyond the affinity, have been fortunate enough to also bring her into Homebrew as an advisor to our portfolio companies, and invest in Coalition , a venture firm she founded along with three other amazing female operators. Every milestone was an opportunity to tell the biggest possible story.

IPO 91

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OnlyOnce

MAY 26, 2022

Do you spend a lot of your time dealing with finance-related issues like fundraising, debt, investors, or cap table questions? If you have even a little uneasiness about how your CFO is operating, it’s probably worth heeding. Do they spend time in-market with customers, partners, or vendors? Trust your gut.

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Cap Table Forecast Finance Metrics 62

OnlyOnce

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The one our team was particularly excited about was a concept we were calling at the time “Venture Acceleration Partners.” We’ve worked together and along with the rest of the team at Bolster to bring in an amazingly talented group of experienced former and current CEOs and other senior operators as our first group of mentors.

Silicon Valley 62

Silicon Valley Venture Capital Cap Table Early Stage 62

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But in business, you want a lot of partners. I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations. In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers. Most of us want one spouse and we’re done. 1) Manage the firm .

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

David Teten

JULY 12, 2017

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. . First, a formal definition: According to Capital Dynamics , “Co-investments are direct investments in a company made alongside and on the same terms as a lead [General Partner].

Syndicate 60

Syndicate Syndication Institutional Investors LP 60

David Teten

AUGUST 21, 2019

There is a huge universe of compelling, growth-focused companies that operate outside of the technology world, and they sometimes don’t get the attention that they deserve from institutional venture equity investors.” . Works for non-tech companies. Works for early-stage companies. May make it harder to raise traditional equity VC.

Revenue 60

Revenue Liquidation Preference Equity Cofounder 60

VC Adventure

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Your KPIs should cover the key financial and operating metrics (and health) of your business and the department level reporting should include functional level KPIs followed by some bullets that outline key areas for discussion at the meeting. .” Help them do that with the materials you provide.

Design 91

Design Cap Table Email Operations 91

David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

(written by Philipp von dem Knesebeck , Managing Partner, Blue Future Partners (bluefp.com, @bluefutureteam ), and David Teten ). Based on this paper, Blue Future Partners and PEVCTech recently completed a large-scale survey to find out which tools are most commonly used by venture capital firms.

Early Stage 60

Early Stage Technical Review Software Review Venture Capital 60

View from Seed

MAY 29, 2019

This segment of the market is basically mirroring other segments of the venture ecosystem which has operated this way for some time. But taken to the extreme, you would have rounds with only one lead and almost no one else on the cap table. Repercussions for Investors. I think there are two big ones. Repercussions for Founders.

Syndicate 267

Syndicate Syndication Cofounder Cap Table 267

David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

portfolio operator VCs, e.g., Andreessen Horowitz, ff Venture Capital, First Round Capital, Google Ventures. Partnering with a source of capital, connections, and expertise for a large equity chunk is often worth it in those scenarios (e.g., I spoke with Thatcher Bell , Managing Partner, CoVenture. mentor VCs, e.g., most VCs.

Software Developers 60

Software Developers Software Development Software Review Technical Cofounder 60

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 11, 2019

Ann Miura-Ko is a founding partner at Floodgate , a seed-stage VC firm. There were none in the firm, so I remember asking him if he knew of any general partners who were women in the Boston area. In a place where there are many, many venture capital firms, he couldn't think of a single female general partner.

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Founder Lean Venture Capital Cofounder 68

www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

Most startups operate close to themargin of failure, and the distraction of having to deal with clientscould be enough to put you over the edge. And we think its better if startups operate out of their ownpremises, however crappy, than the offices of their investors. Not all the people who work at VC firms are partners.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Startup Software Review Angel Investor 76

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

All Unicorn participants — founders, company employees, venture investors and their limited partners (LPs) — are seeing their fortunes put at risk from the very nature of the Unicorn phenomenon itself. You can no longer simply look at the cap table and estimate your return. LIMITED PARTNERS (LPS).

IPO 40

IPO Term Sheet Silicon Valley Valuation 40

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

One by one the markets in which you operate shut down. A complete collapse of revenue that simultaneously affects your employees and your customers, your partners, your investors, everyone all at once and all the news is bad. Your customers and your investors like partners? We're going to treat our hosts like partners.

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Silicon Valley Hosting Cofounder Employee 60

David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

Avataar Ventures invests exclusively in companies which fit these criteria: “$15 Million + in Annual Recurring Revenues; Strong Tech-Led B2B & SaaS Companies; Core Operations in India/ South East Asia; Open to Active Partnering.” 6) Situation-defined funds. Some firms optimized around certain aspects of the investment situation.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Cofounder Venture Capital Deal Flow 78

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

A few weeks ago, Coinbase , which facilitates buying, storing and purchasing cryptocurrency and also operates a cryptocurrency exchange, went public. Coinbase was founded in 2012 and operates a cryptocurrency exchange. The company's market cap at the time of their entry into the public markets topped $100 billion dollars.

IPO 113

IPO Cofounder Technical Review Government 113

Hunter Walker

AUGUST 1, 2017

Hunter Walk: After a successful career on the operating side, what prompted starting BBG Ventures in 2014? Two things happened there: I found the perfect person to partner with: Nisha Dua. Many venture funds lack a female partner, let alone gender balance. What was the original relationship between BBGV and AOL/TW?

IPO 75

IPO Cap Table NDA Vietnam 75

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 10, 2017

Over time a successful startup will grow to take on many of the operational functions in house and, it’s only natural for builders like me to work themselves out of a job and move on to the next. We raised significant capital at a high valuation based on his credibility, and he certainly was entitled to call the shots on decisions like that.

Georgia 48

Georgia Startup Incubator Harvest 48

Haystack

DECEMBER 28, 2019

Facebook tried to build a crypto-alliance with Libra, but that seems to have fell flat out of the gate; at the same time, the Chinese government counter-intuitively signaled their interest in using blockchain technologies in a centralized manner for state operations.

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China Startup Lock-up Period Cap Table 146