David Teten

JULY 12, 2017

Although EquityZen is primarily an online marketplace for secondary shares in private companies, they also offer syndicated primary investments. Many VCs and family offices market themselves based on their network, internal resources, and other levers to accelerate value creation. . Fundraising is burdensome. Market Insight.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2021

But many have no insight or connections to the ethereal angel investment community, which In the U.S. Groups of angels may syndicate multiple individual amounts, but if your total request exceeds $1 million, you need to focus on the venture capital alternatives. contributes more than $25 billion to fund 70,000 startups every year.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 21, 2014

And finally, in Darwinian fashion, competition for market share amongst the venture capitalists as a result of increased numbers of angel investment syndicates will clear the decks of the low-value add venture capital dollars. All of these attributes will effectively benefit the entrepreneurial community. Implement digital detox.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2020

These organizations, like Y Combinator , are very popular these days, and are often associated with major universities, community development organizations, or even large companies. Use online platforms like Gust to find them, and local networking to find ones that relate to your industry and passion.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

Much like networking online today, it’s important to test different techniques to see what works best for you and what resonates well with others. Facilitate networking opportunities. They’ll be of value to other members in the marketing community. It’s a virtuous circle.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Platform that provides radio music programming via crowd sourced contributions from social community; programming is syndicated nationally. Tested platform on San Francisco’s Live 105; then scaled out for national syndication with positive audience uplift. Read more: VentureWire (requires login) , SF Business Times.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 13, 2014

Pros of taking their angel money include the feeder system to venture financing of the next round and the vast network of portfolio CEOs which can be tapped into for connections and help. Pros: Industry-insider who serves as a validator for the rest of the investment syndicate, extremely helpful advice and network connections.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 16, 2014

It''s also not the best way to create a helpful syndicate of investors that share the founder''s vision for the company. One of the most important assets you have is your network--but it''s not your network of founders. It''s the network of people who respect what you can do for a founder enough to make an intro.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Stop Networking and Start Focusing on Relationships That Matter written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. He is the co-founder and CEO of The Community Company as well as Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) and Forbes Councils. What networking habits do people need to adopt? Marketing Podcast with Scott Gerber.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 17, 2021

They may also communicate. Entrepreneurs can find people with whom they want to collaborate through networking possibilities. Today she is the ex-host of one of the most successful syndicated television shows in history (The Oprah Winfrey Show), a producer and actress in her own television specials, a philanthropist, and an author.

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Mike Michalowicz

AUGUST 30, 2012

As you volunteer your time whether painting fences for a community park or serving pizza to school kids, look around at the other generous givers. is within volunteer communities. Thanks to Kenny Jahng of Big Click Syndicate LLC. Passive Job Seekers Abound At Networking Events. The perfect way to find a great recruit.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 5, 2023

I’ll also continue to work within the NYC tech community—now thriving at a level I could hardly have imagined when I first got the pitch deck for USV’s first fund as a Limited Partner at the GM pension fund. To think, I almost didn’t take that 2004 meeting because it was a NYC-based fund. This is how Fred Wilson described me back in 2010.

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David Teten

JANUARY 11, 2020

PEVCTech.com , a community for investors and technologists responsible for investing in private companies, primarily at private equity and venture capital funds. Kevin Lee, Executive Chairman of Didit, emphasizes the importance of having a content syndication strategy alongside a content creation strategy. I host on Hostforweb **.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Online social networking is a concept still being evangelized even in Silicon Valley… Friendster is in private beta (wasn’t until Oct 2003 they received Google acquisition offer which they turned down for Kleiner/Benchmark round). We’re a how-to site and community for small business on marketing. . link] leehower.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 3, 2020

If you’re not showing up at all the events, putting out content, constantly networking, generating enough deal flow—more specifically enough high-quality deal flow—being able to co-invest next to experienced professionals can really boost your funnel. Access to other investors. Option #2 Do 50/50 angel investing and fund investing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2018

These organizations, like Y Combinator , are very popular these days, and are often associated with major universities, community development organizations, or even large companies. Use online platforms like Gust to find them, and local networking to find ones that relate to your industry and passion.

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Growthink Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Get Satisfaction has developed a private label social network platform for businesses to use to communicate with their customers, and to help customers communicate with each other. It enables merchants to sell their products anywhere by syndicating goods to multiple marketplaces. Ixtens ( [link] ) raised $4.6

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 20, 2017

A key ingredient of Techstars accelerator programs is our experienced and engaged mentor community. Our global network now consists of over 5,000 mentors, including many successful Techstars alumni. It provides an outlet for mentors to engage in their local startup communities and keep a pulse on emerging technologies.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. Coinvestors: Flexible VC terms have not been standardized, which may make the investment harder to syndicate. Lower level of community familiarity. (co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. Of the Inc.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

a production company that produced Phat TV for Canadian broadcaster CFMT Television, as well as a year-end television special, “Phat TV 97”, that was syndicated nationally in the U.S. a nonprofit organization that helps disadvantaged communities learn about and experience culture.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 15, 2021

Duct Tape Marketing is a brand partner – We are often called upon to produce sponsored content, syndicated and cobranded eBooks, training, channel marketing programs, and consulting – for brands such as HP, Dell, UPS, FedEx Office, Sage Software, and Microsoft.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2014

These organizations, like Y Combinator , are very popular these days, and are often associated with major universities, community development organizations, or even large companies. Use online platforms like Gust to find them, and local networking to find ones that relate to your industry and passion.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 7, 2020

Once objectives are identified and prioritized, your podcasting plan should outline strategies and tactics, which include format, frequency, duration, host/s, point of view, guests, research, syndication, and marketing. podcast directories) pick up and syndicate your podcasts for free via RSS feeds. From there, podcatchers (i.e.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

My colleagues Sebastian Soler , Steven Greenberg and I recently launched a new online community, PEVCTech.com , exclusively for PE/VC investors; engineers who work at PE/VC funds; and other technologists who specialize in working on this problem. The historic capital-raising process is driven by face-to-face networking and salesmanship.

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Eric Friedman

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

I recently started using BufferApp both on my phone and my browser to syndicate content to my other networks. Buffer is a web service that takes content from you or others, and syndicates it via a shortened URL across multiple services. I also use Buffer on my phone to send content (but mainly through the email function).

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 8, 2014

Look across virtually any industry and you’ll see great examples where traditional spaces are being disrupted by software, access to data, and massive online communities. Like with most VCs, our inbound leads come from our network. Image via CrunchBase. Today, the boom of information (i.e.

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Venture Chronicles

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Rather than data sets that are samples and customer segmentation that attempts to discern coarse grained distinctions between customer groups, social networks and engagement tools enable companies with a capability that scales down to individual customers and up to every customer and prospective customer a company has.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

At Virgin Mobile USA, Mari led early initiatives in mobile commerce, social networking and advertising. In either case, corporations have to set up their investment vehicles so that the venture capital community sees them as serious players. Corporate VC networks extend beyond their own parent companies. Mari Holds a B.A.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2015

If you post on industry sites, or get syndicated to popular sites, your scores and visibility will go up even more. A good blog is a short and tightly-written message, which is key to every business communication. Your reach with a blog is much broader than traditional business networking channels and industry conferences.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

But many have no insight or connections to the ethereal angel investment community, which actually funds more startups then all other venture sources combined (over $25 billion annually). They prefer local opportunities where they can meet and work face-to-face with your team. Individual investments are limited to less than $100,000.

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VC Adventure

MARCH 17, 2016

While the audience was Colorado focused, the overall message I delivered about the angel ecosystem is very relevant to all entrepreneurial communities. Most angel deals happen in syndicates (meaning multiple investors participate), yet many angels are extremely poor at working together with other potential investors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

These organizations, like Y Combinator , are very popular these days, and are often associated with major universities, community development organizations, or even large companies. Use online platforms like Gust to find them, and local networking to find ones that relate to your industry and passion.

Equity 120

Equity Small Business Administration SBA Syndicate 120

Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Our community colleges are excellent as well, including the Alamo Colleges, Austin Community College, the Dallas College and the Lone Star Community College. In San Antonio we take great pride in our diverse, artistic, affordable and culturally rich community filled with a young and burgeoning creative class workforce.

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Genuine VC

MAY 1, 2014

In the intervening years while I pursued a career investing in startups rather than creating them, Josh continued as an entrepreneur starting a handful of companies including early social networking site Sconex, successfully sold to Alloy Media. Today BookBub is announcing its $3.8M Series A financing.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 29, 2012

2) Network with as many other angel investors as possible. You're going to want syndication partners on the deals you find and sounding boards on the thesis behind each of your potential investments. The NYC tech community in particular has been built on knowledge sharing. Bonus: Never stop learning.

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Brandanew

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

As I told you last month, I’m a featured contributor at SheOwnsIt which has a wonderful community to learn with. i) Get out and network with REAL people. This post seemed to be hitting the pain points well, and was syndicated by the folks at Business2Community as well.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Find out what the buzz is all about and make valuable connections with local investors who you can syndicate deals with. Join Me On an Epic 3 Day Roadshow Across the Great State of Texas Get your ticket on this exclusive journey across the 10th largest economy in the world and 4 of the 10 largest and fastest growing cities in the U.S.

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