David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

We found six categories of VC theses, plus a 7th: the non-thesis. We found seven categories of VC theses, plus an 8th: the non-thesis. Total Round Size: $50K – $500K. These tend to fall into two main categories: VCs investing in specific geographies. VC theses are often so vague that they’re meaningless.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

It is only fundable from an investor’s point of view if it has the potential to scale up and give exponential returns. ? Secondly, funding is not an indicator of success. Reasons for funding. ? Scale up your operations. Now you may want to scale up your operations or expand your presence. Sources of funding. ?

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Mucker Lab

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Brian and Zach set out to build not just a conversational text message platform for eCommerce brands, but to create one-to-one, human-to-human marketing as a new category, centering the consumer as a unique individual with unique needs. To receive Mucker’s updates, you can sign up for our newsletter here.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 22, 2021

In recent years we’ve seen mega-rounds of investment and sky-high valuations. billion Series D round giving the company a valuation of about $14 billion!* The rise of no-code and low-code tools means it’s never been easier to set up and build an online business. London) and category (e.g. They raised a whopping $2.4

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Of course none of these funds (my own included) want to be lumped into just one category because we all move across the spectrum. An obvious example that comes to mind is Roger Ehrenberg, whose fund Information Arbitrage , is looking at companies in these categories. It will be tough for there to be many huge winners in this category.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

My friend Michael Broukhim, founder & co-CEO of FabFitFun and I recently had a catch-up meeting for 3-miles on the Santa Monica “Bird Trail” No company has ever elicited so many questions by friends, colleagues, entrepreneurs, fellow VCs and journalists as has Bird, the company that pioneered the electronic scooter as a service market.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

My partner Steven Dietz is an auto enthusiast and more than just an admirer of amazing cars he has worked around the auto industry for 20 years and backed a couple of billion-dollar startups in the category. I want to wake up in the morning on weekends thinking about the company, the product, their positioning.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

One question that keeps coming up when speaking with early stage entrepreneurs when it comes to funding, is what metrics the company needs to hit to raise seed/series A/B etc: What’s a good conversion rate? Is my churn rate below the category average? Rob Go: How Much Traction Do You Really Need to Raise a Seed or Series A Round?

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

A new category of VCs have emerged offering a hybrid between VC and RBI, which we call “Flexible VC”. . At any point, should the founder wish to pursue a traditional equity VC round, or get bought, the revenue share is paused, and the investor’s then-current ownership converts to equate to a traditional equity VC investor. .

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

However, equally important is the ability for entrepreneurs to break down that path to world domination into realistic milestones that line up with funding rounds. Funding rounds typically occur in 18-month periods. Then they broke each category down into six-week sprints. Think baby steps.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 6, 2013

I typed in my brothers zip code and ton of houses popped up in his area and I was able to search out on a map view. I said, “This category is going to be huge. Like most markets online it will likely be a ‘winner take most’ category so if you’re going to go for it … you better be prepared to win.”

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 16, 2020

If your business model is profitable but you’ve mismanaged one of the above categories, you need to build a 13-week cash forecast to manage your short-term crisis. If growth were that simple, you probably wouldn’t have ended up in a cash crisis to begin with. But be prepared to give up some control in exchange for the funding.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 30, 2023

Once you go through the process of setting up a data room, it will serve you well as a template for future rounds as well. So what goes in the Data Room The data room can be a Google Drive / Dropbox/ Docsend series of folders. SAFE note), shareholder agreements, company formation and governance documents (e.g.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

He couldn’t have imagined power users would be global political figures, dictatorships, small factions of people standing up to the Iranian army or every sports figure & celebrity in the world. If we’re doing too many deals in eCommerce or healthcare IT we might ask whether we’re seeing enough deals in other categories.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 25, 2021

On the back of this momentum, Melio today announced a $110m funding round, rocketing the company to a valuation of $1.3b With Melio, small businesses can now pay their bills for free using a bank transfer or debit cards, payment approval workflows can be easily set up and due dates managed - all via one cloud platform. over 190 rounds.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2019

Who is buying from them and how are they keeping up their cash flow?’. Now you are coming up with some tentative plans around your startup. Now come up with solutions that can fix those problems. Refine it further and come up with some sellable features. And, you must have wondered, ‘Man! How are they doing it?

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

This event focused on relationship building and a lot of work was put into building curated groups to have fruitful round table discussions. You can’t beat category kings, and the only exception for this is through tech disruption. They don’t usually fit within the consideration set where only category kings go.

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Up and Running

MAY 17, 2021

If you’re like many start-up founders, that might not be enough. But if you require an external round of funding and are getting ready to fundraise from VCs, ask as many of your founder friends for their advice on how to tackle the process. So you’ve started a company and it’s growing. So, what do you do?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

But as a source of deal flow it is last on my list and both entrepreneurs and VCs should be careful about working with bankers on an early-stage (seed, a-round) deal. [no, When you are raising a large, later-stage round given by this time you’ve likely got a fairly large business to run. start-ups are overvalued.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 29, 2024

In 2023 all crossover funds were part of just $34B of VC rounds. Dealroom global tech report ( source ) As a result, 2023 has also seen a 43% decline in mega rounds of over $100M, though they still exist. Many startups extended runway, cut costs and took on painful down rounds or expensive debt to avoid raising in 2023.

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 7, 2020

seed round. Outreach was named to this prestigious list thanks in part to triple-digit year-over-year revenue growth and the largest customer base in the sales engagement category. You can read the write up in the Financial Post here. . With Coinbase Pro, you can set up advanced order types, such as limit orders.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 4, 2014

Two round-trip, economy-class tickets cost just 80,000 points. Both of these categories qualify you for double points on any purchases, which means more points would be accrued toward free travel. As hotel rooms start to fill up, the rates go up accordingly. Others credit card travel'

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View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2024

We don’t like to try to jam square technology pegs into round holes. This is re-imagining an existing solution or workflow in a way that utilizes the new technology from the ground up. In the current wave of AI innovation, it’s fair to think that every category of software is going to be replaced by an AI-Native product.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 7, 2022

One of the big questions that every entrepreneur struggles with is how much funding they should request from investors in the first round. Angel investors will perk up if you have a prototype or a few real customers, while venture capitalists will likely choose to wait until you have achieved several million in revenue or customer count.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Over the past few years, “pre-seed” as a distinct category has emerged within the early stage fundraising landscape. In reality, a pre-seed is “an early round of financing that is designed to help a company achieve certain intermediate milestones PRIOR to the magic combination of strong PMF + meaningful traction.”.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

When you are raising a large, later-stage round given by this time you’ve likely got a fairly large business to run. I think the issue I have always had with investment bank pitches was best summed up in this article about Y Combinator in which Paul Graham apparently made the following quotes. start-ups are overvalued.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

billion merger with IronSource , an Israeli scale-up specialising in mobile gaming monetisation might also position them as a big player in crypto gaming – offering developers the ability to integrate a simplified crypto wallet into their games in the near future. In the gaming category Microsoft is a power house.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 29, 2022

Add to this the constantly increasing compliance and privacy needs, including GDPR and CCPA, and the growth of cyber threats, and you end up with the following equation: Data reality: cloud migration x growing data sets x increased compliance x cyber-attacks = big headache for CTOs and CISOs So how do you solve this equation?

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 5, 2014

Today, Orbotix , the maker of Sphero, has raised a new round of $15.5 Connected play is a new category that I’m completely obsessed about. For a kid like me who grew up with video games on an Apple ][, this was pretty awesome. million, led by Shea Ventures and including new investor Grishin Robotics.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

You’ll be depending on the people you hire to execute your directives, collaborate to solve problems, and perhaps most importantly, come up with new ideas on their own. Additionally, hiring people is costly—and labor expenses will be one of the biggest categories of expenses for your business. Second, prioritize establishing revenue.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

Seed-round investment. In fact, most often, it is limited to seeding a startup business rollout or scale-up after development is completed from friends and family. A seed round is intended to be followed by a bigger Series A round. Frothy is good for entrepreneurs. Super-angel investors (micro-VCs). Deep-dive meeting.

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Austin Startup

MAY 24, 2021

In the last post , we started with this chart, and we focused on RPA (the bright blue at the bottom of the bar chart), the most explosively growing enterprise software category I’ve ever seen. More generally, the RPA vendors are taking a bottom-up approach: “process definitions and context will emerge from the task automation work”.

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View from Seed

MARCH 24, 2021

” Below are our favorite pieces from the past few years, divided in to a few key categories: fundraising, company building, product development, industry trends, and the life of a VC. Should You Have a Lifecycle VC in your Seed Round? So, we decided to aggregate NextView’s “greatest hits.” ” (Rob Go).

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 27, 2021

And the list goes on, from All Hands to RealTalk and many other initiatives popping up to tackle exhausting, online meetings. So much so, there’s a “remote work tools” category at this year’s Golden Kitty Awards , annually celebrating ProductHunt’s products, makers, and community members. –JJ Oslund, The Startup.

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Up and Running

MARCH 14, 2018

Additionally, investors will want you to be able to back up your claims. You must back up your numbers by sharing your assumptions. Ideally, you have check marks across the top for every category, and your competitors lack in key areas to show your competitive advantage. Will you need to raise multiple rounds of financing?

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View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

Today Hologram announced their $65M Series B round of funding led by Tiger Global. pre-seed round for the company (Hologram was fka Konekt). Hologram is a leader in enabling large-scale connectivity of internet of things (IoT) devices, across the globe with 400+ wireless carriers, all through a robust but easy-to-use API.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The classic scenario is when a VC has a signed term sheet to lead a round, but has left room open for another meaningful investor. At this point, the investor and the entrepreneur work together to develop their perfect list of potential partners, and then do targeted outreach to try to bring this investor into the round.

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