David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

“We’re using … TinyLetter for our “Content Newsletter” … and Buffer to schedule social media posts. Point Nine Capital uses Mention for media monitoring. I use Hootsuite to coordinate my social media activity, which consists of Teten.com, PEVCTech.com , Linkedin , AngelList , and (passively) Twitter and Facebook.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

We gain insight into the management style of portfolio company management by assessing their social media activities and digital exhaust, e.g., I use Fullcontact as my “chief of staff” to brief me on the interests and backgrounds of the people I meet. 6) Negotiate deal. Accompany focuses on this use case.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

Hunter Walker

JANUARY 20, 2015

Despite being the smallest line on a founder’s cap table, we were often one of the first calls they made when confronted with a problem to solve or opportunity to consider. 0x Angels love to talk about their success on social media, making it about them, not the company. And relationships are long term equities.

Cap Table 48

Cap Table Warrant Syndicate Syndication 48

Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Ryan and his co-founders proved us wrong big time and built one of the largest social media management companies. Carta went on to become the standard for cap table management and is a unicorn many times over. . We had the chance to invest in the Series B of Shopify in 2011. Philip Krim reached out cold in 2013.

Portfolio 202

Portfolio Cap Table Early Stage Valuation 202

David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

The goal is to intelligently structure the information collected and combine it with additional information scraped from the web and social media. Insight into a negotiating partner’s social media activities and digital exhaust to inform negotiation tactics can be helpful during deal negotiations.

Early Stage 60

Early Stage Technical Review Software Review Venture Capital 60

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Plus, if the business doesn’t raise enough the capital in the first round to become self-sustaining, the crowdfunding round’s cap table and/or terms may make the deal unattractive or not doable for follow-on, institutional investors. One way is with early adopters who will champion your startup on social media.

Equity 100

Equity United Kingdom Cap Table Oklahoma 100

This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 16, 2012

Perhaps we'll find a scalable participation business model one day, but for now, it's been relgated to clever usage of social media that generates a lot of attention, but never really makes anyone much money. They're about "participation", sharing, and curation. Wordpress can't be the answer for publishing 20 years from now.

Cap Table 100

Cap Table Sales Cycle Venture Capital Curation 100

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

Well the same could be viewed as a community, a marketplace, social media company, anything. And the good thing is, was it included people that were already in our cap table. If I had a food company, I just didn't want to know what the carbon footprint of the greenhouse gas offsets of the food I was making was.

Silicon Valley 60

Silicon Valley Hosting Cofounder Employee 60

Haystack

JANUARY 13, 2020

Plaid is known within the startup and VC community as a strong company, but it is also a relatively quiet company in terms of its own PR and social media chatter. Earlier today, the news leaked that Visa was to acquire fintech startup Plaid for $5.3B.

Acquisition 74

Acquisition Cap Table API Venture Capital 74

Haystack

DECEMBER 28, 2019

These combined effects have helped open new markets, new geographies, and new economic opportunities for people worldwide; they’ve also drawn the ire of privacy advocates, aspiring politicians, and the airwaves on social media and the traditional media at-large. That’s the politics.

China 146

China Startup Lock-up Period Cap Table 146

This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 10, 2021

Better yet, how confident are you that the investors behind the big social media and content platforms will insist on better polices going forward? How many years did VCs continue to pour money into these companies before there was ever a “what if” board conversation? Was there ever that kind of conversation at the board level?

Venture Capital 150

Venture Capital Cap Table Accredited Investor Silicon Valley 150