David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance. For background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. Key elements: . “We

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David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2013

In addition, as part of the program, I’ll be making my first public presentation of our research study on VC portfolio operations value creation. David Teten, HBS 98, Partner, ff Venture Capital, will discuss his research study on VC portfolio operations, recently featured in Forbes ).

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Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2023

I just spent a month and a half at Imperial College London co-teaching a “Wicked” Entrepreneurship class. Co mpanies also face Wicked problems. Startups vs. Large Companies vs. Governments Innovation at Speed for Horizon 1, 2 and 3 (Managing the Portfolio across Horizons) What is Systems Thinking?

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Change agents inside a corporation or government agency know how to build consensus and be a rebel at work. The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Don Burke has worked 24+ years in the Federal government.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 4, 2019

It starts with a pilot, with often is pretty small: just one or two teams of co-founders dedicated to growth opportunity areas for six months or so. It starts small but before the pilot is over our partners are always ready to talk about our next year together, and then the year after that.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Census data directly drives the number of congressional representatives you’re entitled to and allocation of government dollars into your local school system, fire department, roads, and other community infrastructure. Organize volunteer days with the Census to help get communities completion rates up. Focus on local politics, not national.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

Previously she was Co-Founder and CEO of SNAZZ, a cloud-based event management platform. Her work included heading Nokia’s location-based services business and app portfolio for emerging markets, which she built from a back-of-a-napkin idea to a 100-person organization with over 10 million users.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

Friday, March 9 Attracting VC Funding Outside Silicon Valley Panel with HomeAway founder Brian Sharples & Capital Factory Director Gordon Daugherty We do a lot of things differently in Texas, including fundraising. Gayle King is co-host of CBS This Morning. as in pro wrestling?—?you’re you’re going to take some hits.

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Ben's Blog

JANUARY 31, 2012

That excitement took a sharp downhill turn when one of the top partners said to me, in front of my co-founders, “When are you going to get a real CEO?”. As we set out to design a venture capital firm that would enable founders to run their own companies, we began by asking: In what ways are professional CEOs superior to founder CEOs?

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NZ Entrepreneur

AUGUST 16, 2021

Not all of us are built to be founders but we can all find a way to back ambitious, world-changing businesses; whether it’s buying their products, using their services, promoting them, encouraging and supporting them or investing in them. None of us can escape noticing there is a big relevant shift going on in the world at the moment.

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David Teten

MAY 16, 2011

I’m excited about the program below on “Investing in Intellectual Capital: Intellectual Capital: Patents, Trademarks, Domain Names, Litigation, Government Rights, and other Intangible Assets” Click here to make a reservation. He began his career as a consultant with McKinsey & Co.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Carolyn Yarina , Co-Founder and CEO of Sisu Global Health. Sisu is currently expanding its product portfolio and geographic scale to develop additional cutting-edge, patented, clinically proven medical devices, and to create a system for medical device commercialization in emerging markets. It is not only U.S-.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Kathy : … The law at the time said the government (not the university) owned these patents. In the 20th century) the U.S. Is that correct? Kathy : Right.

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Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

While Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to drop out of Harvard and move to Silicon Valley was a plot point in in the movie “The Social Network,” it looked like a watershed event to many in the local technology community. And many of them view the local government as an irrelevant factor in their business.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 28, 2020

Joshua Baer, Founder, General Partner & CEO In partnership with JP Morgan, we invited dozens of investors from around the world on a three day Texas Startups Roadshow highlighting the best of Austin, Dallas, Houston and San Antonio. applies to our startup portfolio. and we expect that number to grow significantly in 2020.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Should you co-found your company with a software development shop? portfolio operator VCs, e.g., Andreessen Horowitz, ff Venture Capital, First Round Capital, Google Ventures. portfolio operator VCs, e.g., Andreessen Horowitz, ff Venture Capital, First Round Capital, Google Ventures. equity that belongs to departed cofounders)?

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

It seems like every day there is a new headline about an exceptional startup founder, investor, or corporate headquarters moving to Texas. Are they running from high prices, high taxes, dysfunctional government, and wildfires? All of the investors, all of the big companies, all of the government groups?—?they Joe Lonsdale.

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

I sat down (virtually) with Chainalysis co-founder and CEO Michael Gronager to discuss his learnings from almost seven years at the helm of a high-growth company. I met [Kraken co-founder] Jesse Powell here. ? Many European founders wonder where to start their company - move to the US or stay in Europe.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

I’ve recently met with several universities, nonprofits, and government employees who’ve all asked the same question: how can we promote entrepreneurship? By contrast, as a venture capitalist, I can report that almost all of our portfolio companies are desperate to hire talented software engineers, and eager to hire in a range of other roles.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2019

“I didn’t set out to write a book but as we looked around the market for an operational playbook for sales, we couldn’t find one, so I tapped into my 20 years of sales experience and my network so that we could create a valuable resource for founders everywhere,” said Schwartzfarb. Denver, CO?—? RSVP here Sept. New York City, NY Sept.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 12, 2012

This post is a translation of the article: « Pigeons » : le cri d'alarme d'un fonds américain published on LaTribune (12/10/2012) and is a response to the proposed tax law proposed by the government of Francois Hollande, suggesting to tax all capital gain at the same level than salaries or 60%.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

It could be studying entrepreneurship in school or it could have been working with a government contractor or maybe someone had a sales job. Today I own and manage a company specifically designed to help people grow their portfolios. No one even “born entrepreneurs”aren’t born as CEOs. It’s usually a process.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

Economic inequality and opportunities for job growth are directly correlated with overall spending levels on R&D and with the geographic concentration (or distribution) or those dollars — both public funding (government) and private (as with VC). As noted above, government spending on R&D has fallen and at the same time U.S.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Driven by strong customer demand for its award-winning identity governance solution, SailPoint achieved record growth in 2010, with revenue up 200% over 2009. “Our aggressive business expansion in 2010 was based on the tremendous market opportunity we see for identity governance,&# said Mark McClain, CEO and cofounder of SailPoint.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

As you know, the Google productivity apps portfolio is getting very good traction within enterprises, and through our Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing series , we've heard from various CIOs who are moving from Lotus Notes or Microsoft Exchange to Google's Office suite. One of the primary drivers of the switch is cost.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

Dan is the co-founder of Standard Treasury, a Y Combinator backed company. He is also co-founder and Managing Partner of Deciens Capital, an early stage investment fund. How do you get to that point if you have that kind of a view of the world, of founders, and of this space? On Sushi and VC. Everything we do.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 29, 2012

You also need infrastructure and friendly government. 5) Diversified Portfolio of Industries – The best startups draw from several disparate industries around them to be able to grow and learn and diversify. Again, New York blows California away here. (3)

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 1, 2021

As part of The Startup Magazine Founder Interview Series , we interviewed Maha and David Harper, wife and husband co-founders of Atlas Group London, a construction-tech startup that has digitized the building of healthcare facilities. Governments are prioritizing healthcare projects now, more than ever. David Harper.

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 10, 2008

It’s hard to fire a developer with 10,000 podcast listeners, not because she might say bad things about the company, but because co-workers look up to her as an alpha-geek. Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder. Fire her and morale will take a big hit.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 31, 2019

Accel put forward Arthur Patterson, the co-founder of Accel and a venture capitalist since 1973, to join our Board of Directors alongside me, Keith, and Bong Suh (our independent Director, and a really terrific mentor even to this day). The new CEO then drove out the founders of the business and the business hasn’t recovered since.

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Ben's Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2010

He introduced me to Christian Gheorghe, founder of TIAN Software, a predictive analytics company acquired by OutlookSoft, where, as Chief Technology Officer, he introduced important and innovative Enterprise Performance Management applications into the market. Tags: Companies People Portfolio Companies Proferi.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Last night at the NY Tech Meetup, John Britton of our portfolio company Twilio showed how it is done. He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us. Before I get into the details for founders, let me talk about options-hungry employees. Dying at 70? equity debate.

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Ben's Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2012

government knocking on the cloud provider’s door with a copy of the Patriot Act in hand. We are very excited to work with Founder and CEO Pravin Kothari on introducing this solution to security in the cloud. Pravin was a co-founder at ArcSight, which went on to become the market leader by all measures in the SIEM security segment.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

You may know him as the founder of Soylent, the nutrition company he started in his kitchen and scaled nationwide. Many of you will know Robert as the founder of Soylent, which he started out of his kitchen and then grew into a nationwide phenomenon. Portfolio theory construction, alpha and beta into the science process.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Word of mouth is no substitute for market research, says Ben Price, co-founder of Hard Knocks Brewing, a small brewpub in its second year of operation. Co-founders Jamie Floyd and Nikos Ridge leased their startup system from a family running a German restaurant out of a former brewpub. Relationships. Click To Tweet. “No

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 11, 2020

He was president of the startup accelerator YCombinator from 2014-2019, and is currently the CEO of OpenAI, which he co-founded. SA : I want to echo again that in a perfect world, this response would be led by the government, not the private sector. SA : I think this is the kind of thing the government's supposed to be good at.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

As a registered user of The Wall Street Journal Online, you will be able to: Setup and manage your portfolio. Andreessen Horowitz is telling entrepreneurs it prefers situations where the founders have controlling stakes, reckoning that theyll be better able to resist outside distraction and focus on making great products. Why Register?

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