VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

Here we go! Tim Sweeney, the founder and CEO of Epic is a long term visionary of our online future and the Metaverse. Tim Sweeney, Epic Games’ founder and CEO. monthly active end-users who are engaging with content created or operated by Unity solutions in 2020. Epic Games. There are now 2.8B

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

I am thrilled to announce that we have added Hamet Watt as a Partner at Upfront Ventures. But as sweet as that success has been (we invested pre-revenue in a small team) today my even more important news was the further expansion of our partner ranks. We have been on a drive to add more operational partners.

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David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2013

Partners for a New Beginning (PNB), a public-private partnership housed at the Aspen Institute, is organizing a Venture Capital, Private Equity and Angel Investor Delegation from the Maghreb. 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.

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View from Seed

JULY 24, 2015

The invite-only event was attended by 300 of the area’s best tech leaders, founders, product managers, designers, developers, investors, engineers, salesmen and women, and more, all of whom are hard at work in consumer tech. Still others point to the collective sensibility and logic of New Englanders as an operating philosophy.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

How to Scale Unicorns With Partner David Zhang, TVC. Joining us for this episode is our partner David Zhang, Partner at TCV (( Technology Crossover Ventures ). Here is the full YouTube — Please enjoy this episode: How to Scale Unicorns. I’m a partner at TCV, which we founded in 1996. Welcome, David.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

A popular approach these days seems to be for founders to regale investors early with a pitch touting the newest “million-dollar idea.” Here are my recommendations for establishing the right sequence: Nail down a specific problem and solution before incorporating. Find a partner and core team early to supplement your expertise.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Continuing my series of posts that I’ve been collecting that live at the intersection of Startups and being a Startup CTO : Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March here are the top posts from May 2010. But founders need to know how to ask for their advice and when to ignore it. Here’s why.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

PEVCTech is partnering with Blue Future Partners to run the first large-scale survey of VCs’ technology stack. You can register for the survey here. Greylock Partners. Funds which fill out the survey will get access to the detailed results of what technology their peers are using. VC Firm. $ Tech % of workforce.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2018

When we create new platform initiatives, our team tries to think about how we can be the most impactful with our portfolio companies. Today, we’re thrilled to announce a new program that we hope will help our portfolio companies with two of these bullets. We’re calling them NextView Operator Guilds. . Back to Top).

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 2, 2018

It’s been 6 month since my co-founder and I started Reset ?—?a In July I spoke on a panel at 3 Day Startup Global Roundup, an opportunity that sprung out of a connection in a Female Founders Facebook Group. We’ve got powerhouses led by women here?—?WP If you’re reading this and you don’t know where to start, start here.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 21, 2013

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the unsung hero of many start-ups: the other founder. A lot has been written about the founder/CEO and her growth and evolution as a company grows. In the image above, most everyone knows the name and image of Larry Page - cofounder and now CEO of Google. Larry Page is the other founder.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Here are six ways to make money from your patents. Dan Brown, the inventor of Bionic Wrench and founder of Logger Head Tools, is a prime example. You can read the bright side of Dan’s story here. It partners with many companies/inventors and splits the licensing revenue 50-50. Start a business: Product conversion.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2020

Here are some keys to that mindset that I have seen working for successful entrepreneurs: Think customer-centric rather than technology-centric. Nurture advocates and partners with complementary skills. Assimilate a team with the range of skills you need in your business, including development, operations, and marketing.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Founder Dialogues : Eric Paley plays talk show host on this recurring fireside chat style event that has featured Boston’s BEST founders. OnStartups: One of the largest online startup communities founded by HubSpot founder Dharmesh Shah. Boston Hardware Startup Meetup – Meetup organized by the founders of BOLT.

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David Cohen

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

Here’s quick review of the eleven companies valued at $1B or more that Techstars has funded to date. The three founders (Isaac, Tim, and Jose) were based in the Los Angeles area when they moved the company to Boulder for the Techstars Boulder Accelerator in 2009. Here’s their demo day pitch. 1: SendGrid (2009).

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VC Adventure

JANUARY 19, 2024

I wanted to add a few personal thoughts here. When we started Foundry, we were very open about our intention to eventually wind our operations down rather than try to build a generational firm. About a year ago, I started talking publicly about my plan for the 2022 Foundry fund to be my last as a partner at Foundry.

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 25, 2015

Forerunner Ventures is one of Homebrew’s favorite co-investors for consumer commerce/retail startups. Firm founder Kirsten Green has an amazing analytical mind combined with empathy for the consumer. How do you convey to founders why your backgrounds are valuable to them? EK: It’s a great question.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Or if you used a paper map to find your way here? In fact, it was only 7 years ago that Apple shipped its first iPhone and Google introduced its Android operating system. If they don’t, then the management team has simply become caretakers of the founders’ legacy. How about any Nokia phones? Let’s start with Joseph Schumpter.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 10, 2022

I love working with great people and as a venture capitalist, am fortunate the number of founders I’m impressed by far exceeds our investment capacity. Here’s an example of a founder that I’ve known for a while who recently raised a seed round with different firms than ours. and we also had a great relationship with the partner.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

While firms define platforms differently, let’s just say they are the services that a VC offers outside of investment capital and partner time on boards or providing intros. Side Note : Upfront has hired Kerry Bennett as a member of our executive management team to run marketing – please follow her on Twitter here ].

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Ben's Blog

JANUARY 31, 2012

Like why are we here? As founding CEO, I remember being quite excited to meet our financial backers and talk about how we could partner to build a great company. 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?”.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 3, 2014

by Jay Eum, co-founder and Managing Director of TransLink Capital. However, aside from the geographic challenges, pursuing new business opportunities in Asia takes careful planning, a clear understanding of cultural nuances and an experienced and engaged partner to help you establish a presence on the ground. 5: Get help.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

I’m a female founder. I don’t have a technical co-founder. These are all of the things I heard from a founder that I recently backed. So what about all of the above statements—things that founders widely hold to be true barriers to fundraising? Was she just an anomaly or is there something else going on here?

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OnlyOnce

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

In our prior lives, the Bolster founders worked together to scale up a business called Return Path and also. worked as advisors and mentors to numerous early stage founders and startups. The one our team was particularly excited about was a concept we were calling at the time “Venture Acceleration Partners.”

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Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

For investors outside of Austin and LPs: Austin is a a vibrant startup market and this list of capital sources can help you identify firms to co-invest with and funds to invest in. VC Firms Actively investing in Austin Companies Finally, there are a group of venture capital firms that are not based in Austin that are active investors here.

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www.allthingsdistributed.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

I am posting it here as it might be of generalinterest. When John Brockman ,founder of Edge , interviewed NathanMyhrvold his first question was “ What’s a CTO ”,to which Nathan replied: “Hell if I know. In this pattern the CTO is often a co-founder ofthe business, or one of the first hires.

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Hunter Walker

JULY 25, 2017

So when Joe Marchese introduced me to Heather Hartnett for more information about the NYC startup studio they were cofounding, I was predisposed to feel a kinship. I can see this in the people they bring onboard and the founders they work with. We sit on the side of the founder and we let the market value the company.

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View from Seed

JULY 9, 2015

As an operator, not an investor, I’m amazed at how many casual, throwaway comments that happen inside a VC’s office would be genuinely useful to entrepreneurs building their businesses. Be sure you have an honest and direct discussion with your lawyers, who should be viewed as true partners who understand these things.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 9, 2015

by Mark Fabian Henkel, co-founder and CEO of Paymill. Here are three tips detailing how shops can avoid stumbles with their international expansion: 1. In addition, using the right language as well as favored color and design pattern or product portfolio is mandatory. Challenges In Operation.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders?

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

The HBR study contrasts Office Depot and Staples during the 2000 recession: Office Depot cut 6% of its workforce, but it couldn’t reduce operating costs significantly. At the same time, the company contained its operating costs and came out of the recession stronger, bigger, and more profitable than it had been in 1999. Image source ).

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2016

Other entrepreneurs don’t even realize that they badly need a co-founder or team leader who can complement their own skills. Here are my top ten tips to get the best ones interested in you, as well as deciding if the entrepreneurial fit is right for you: Optimize visibility and image on the Internet.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 28, 2016

You can find that here. On Wednesday, my partner David wrote about how we’ve been using our office space (and network and other resources) to support pre-seed companies. As a founder, you and your team are building value every day, but there are certain step-function moments where the value creation significantly increases.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But in business, you want a lot of partners. However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. 1) Manage the firm .

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 22, 2018

Co-owner and founder Michael Heyne said that people didn’t understand the original name, a reference to doner kebabs (which isn’t even available on the menu anymore). Surely there are some operational things people can point to. I remember making a note to watch that space because the move was so bizarre. He was stuck.

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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. What’s bringing them here? People are moving to Texas because they see a better future here than what they are leaving behind. Startups and investors should treat Texas like one big city.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Click here to make a reservation. David Teten, Partner, ff Venture Capital ; Chairman, HBS Alumni Angels of Greater New York. . David Teten, Partner, ff Venture Capital ; Chairman, HBS Alumni Angels of Greater New York. How to build a portfolio of startup investments. How to add value to a portfolio company.

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