VC Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2022

It’s a tough time for a lot of startup founders right now. This is not meant to be a negative post, but rather a temperature check of today’s market environment and the levers founders can pull on to survive this period. The later the stage, the bigger the impact. What is a founder to do? In Q3/2022, $2.6

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David Teten

JANUARY 13, 2015

I’m speaking on a panel this afternoon on fundraising for minority founders at the Rainbow PUSH Wall Street Project. Fundraising is always difficult for all founders; the median PE/VC fund sources and reviews 87 companies before investing in 1. This young, talented girl is given no chance of being the founder of the next Facebook.”. “I

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

An MVP strategy is the only way to generate the early wins that build credibility with both internal and external audiences, thus allowing me the space to learn, improve, deploy again, learn, improve, and so on. Using her experiences as a guide, we built a suite of tools that she wished she’d had during those tough two years.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Real estate was previously a huge headache for small businesses before WeWork made co-working mainstream. A lot of people think early stage and seed is really risky, but risk is a function of return—and returns are a function of price. I also think seed and early stage managers are more aligned with their LPs.

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