David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

HOF Capital has stitched together our workflow across Google Suite , Slack , Airtable , Asana , Copper , and some other tools (leveraging Zapier for basic 3rd party integration, in addition to custom development for certain other integrations). This tool serves to standardize & automate the process of collecting inbound deal flow.

Technical Review 60

Technical Review Private Equity Management Cap Table 60

Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Lolli : gives customers bitcoin when they shop online (n.b. US VC deal flow in healthcare hit an all-time high this year as we continue to refine our thesis on the space. Celo : An open platform for fast, secure, stable digital payments to any mobile number at a fraction of today’s cost. Bio/healthcare.

Technical Review 124

Technical Review North America Seattle Deal Flow 124

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 7, 2013

Sure, there will always some seed funding (10% of overall deal flow), but you can bet that this money goes to entrepreneurs who have been there before and won. Don’t try to talk your way to a deal before you have the documentation. Angels are also moving up-stage, leaving a bigger and bigger black hole for new startups.

Venture Capital 252

Venture Capital IPO Elevator Pitch Initial Public Offering 252

Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2010

A business plan is the execution document that large companies write when planning product-line extensions where customer, market and product features are known. Most startups are facing unknown customer needs, an unknown product feature set and is an organization formed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.

Business Plan 312

Business Plan Business Model Customer Development Deal Flow 312

View from Seed

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Be optimistic about the future, but take care of customers today. BUT, it’s easy to translate this into being too optimistic about how customers will engage with your product or service. But I’ve found that the best companies tend to accept that their customers are unlikely to change their behavior, even for a very good cause.

Early Stage 120

Early Stage Florida Deal Flow Venture Capital 120

The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

FUND is a national connector of entrepreneurs, VCs, angel investors, and industry experts with a focus on deal flow and making connections. But this allowed us to learn more about our users and real estate customers. Like many startups, we were self-funded and had to launch an MVP that wasn’t the product we had in our minds.

Chad 112

Chad Illinois Nepal Haiti 112

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

This is why we actually have one of the lowest # of investments/partner among all institutional seed funds, and have invested in developing a platform of resources to support founders around team building, product, customers acquisition, and capital planning. Belief #4: The Best Way to Spot Outliers is to be Thematic.

North America 120

North America Seed Stage Early Stage Lead Investor 120

The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2023

This suggests the firm should have a list of paying customers, consistent sales cycles, a clear value proposition, and a developing revenue pipeline in the ideal situation. This setup is incredibly investor-friendly because investors may pick and choose whatever companies they want to invest in from the deal flow.

Seed Stage 132

Seed Stage Technical Review Early Stage Due Diligence 132

David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

Similarly, customer introductions are invaluable in the early days, but become less valuable once a company has a fully-formed go to market function.”. Customer Development. FirstMark Platform’s 100+ annual events and 50,000+ members are also extensive customer opportunities for their portcos. Disadvantages.

Private Equity 78

Private Equity Venture Capital Portfolio Equity 78

Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

That means they spend a lot less time actively seeking out new deals than they do responding to inbound deal flow. VCs therefore use whatever heuristics they can in order to triage the deal flow. And don’t forget the ability to customize your profile’s background.

Angel Groups 159

Angel Groups Elevator Pitch Software Review Deal Flow 159

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Deal Flow I often talk about how I think the best VCs “ play offense ,” by which I mean proactive go out and find a market segment or niche that they uniquely know, can uniquely serve or have some other natural advantage and go out and find deals you like. Deal flow and winning will drive change faster than any other outcome.

Founder 256

Founder San Francisco Deal Flow Los Angeles 256

Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

As a mentor, you are expected to bring to the table real experience, sound advice, relevance, customer and/or funding connections, enough technical grasp to speak the language, and adequate availability to see the startup process through. No founder has time to train you. That’s a good start to finding the best match when help is needed.

Incubator 48

Incubator Vertical Deal Flow Technical Review 48

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 13, 2020

How good are you as an organization at going from an idea to launching that idea within your company and for your customers? As for the output: you’re becoming customers of startups, you’re co-developing ideas, you’re investing, and you’re acquiring with the startup community. The Deal Flow Session. “But

Silicon Valley 78

Silicon Valley Deal Flow IP Curation 78

Steve Blank

AUGUST 12, 2013

I’m not an investor, and I’m really not looking for meetings with entrepreneurs for deal flow. Irony – it’s Customer Discovery. Filed under: Customer Development , Family/Career/Culture. Customer Development Family/Career/Culture' So I’ve come up with is a method to sort out who I take meetings with.

Silicon Valley 335

Silicon Valley Deal Flow Customer Development Stock 335

Gust

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

Instead, it is our eight years of indefatigable relationship and customer building with large segments of the world’s early stage finance industry.

Belarus 107

Belarus Kazakhstan Portugal Accredited Investor 107

Mucker Lab

AUGUST 27, 2014

If you took a random sample of 100 entrepreneurs here in LA, over 50% might not be able to tell you how to technically calculate 90-day cohort retention or how to build a cash flow statement. The top tier funds see almost all of the best deals. Oftentimes they see a market need and simply want to serve those customers.

Los Angeles 138

Los Angeles Southern California Silicon Valley Technical Review 138

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 29, 2010

We received better customer service from Taco Bell and the police department than from Stockmann, the top tier department store in Finland! It seems they are more comfortable with small talk with the customer. This makes for a more fluid deal flow, with more standardized and competitive terms, with more contacts and experience on top.

Silicon Valley 156

Silicon Valley Finland Sweat Equity Entrepreneur 156

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 16, 2011

Understanding customer requirement ? Increase your deal flow. Whatever amount you’re getting out and talking with prospects, customers, employees, recruits, competitors, press, investors, potential investors … it’s never enough. Don’t listen to people who advise you otherwise. They’re wrong.

Dividend 410

Dividend Deal Flow Hiring Advertising 410

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

A number of analysts have particular focus on serving the customers of technology companies, e.g., Gartner and 451 Research. Sebastian Soler recently launched Knowledge.vc , which uses software and machine learning to enhance deal sourcing and diligence for VC firms. 4) Manage deal flow. She is a model for us all!

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

To do this they have to accomplish five things; 1) get deal flow – via networking and legwork, they identify likely industries, companies and teams with the potential for rapid growth (less than 10 years), 2) evaluate those companies and teams on the basis of technology, market opportunity, and team.

Silicon Valley 217

Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 217

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

This is why we actually have one of the lowest # of investments/partner among all institutional seed funds, and have invested in developing a platform of resources to support founders around team building, product, customers acquisition, and capital planning. Belief #4: The Best Way to Spot Outliers is to be Thematic.

North America 36

North America Seed Stage Early Stage Lead Investor 36

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

I find that one of my best sources of deal flow is from lawyers. When you’re doing biz dev deals or customer deals you need to start with a list of the things that you think could go wrong or that you want to protect against. And Brad Feld. This is a must read for all entrepreneurs. Not the other way around.

Southern California 318

Southern California Silicon Valley IP Stock Options 318

Gust

JANUARY 15, 2014

Boy, do I wish there was a magical Gmail extension to let me manage my startup deals! Gust (the company I founded) is the online platform used by over 45,000 accredited angel investors and VCs, from over 1,000 angel groups and venture funds, in 74 countries, to manage their startup deals. But I digress [harumph].

Angel Investor 119

Angel Investor Belarus Portugal Accredited Investor 119

www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Angelrounds are their whole business, as online video was for YouTube.Whereas VCs who make angel investments mostly do it as a way togenerate deal flow for series A rounds. [ Investors all compete with oneanother for deals, but they arent one anothers main competitor.Our main competitor is employers.

Startup 93

Startup Valuation Non-Compete Deal Flow 93

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2011

billion jump in funding over the same quarter of 2010 with a similar number of deals, so it clearly shows a trend to larger deal sizes for fewer startups. Sure, there is always some seed funding (10% of overall deal flow), but you can bet that this money goes to entrepreneurs who have been there before and won.

Venture Capital 233

Venture Capital Revenue Elevator Pitch Silicon Valley 233

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

If you choose your name well and it represents what your customers value in you then it will be memorable, differentiated and meaningful. He is already increasing our deal flow in key areas in “the quantified self” and digital media and begun working operationally with existing companies.

Ireland 324

Ireland Jordan Portfolio Flash 324

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

All of these could potentially be customers for the startup you just backed. Building out your own network of other Angel or Seed investors increases the quality of your deal flow. This also means you are likely to have a network of other successful people around you. Ask yourself, where is your startup currently struggling?

Pre-Money Valuation 167

Pre-Money Valuation Seed Stage IP Deal Flow 167

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

Anything from intense customer love despite barely even having a product, pre-sales, a deal for access to data that creates a moat that no one else has—the list goes on. This is lazy, sexist, and racist—and also stupid because it has no provable impact on deal flow quality. What counts as a rabbit?

Venture Capital 162

Venture Capital Cofounder Deal Flow Later Stage 162

Austin Startup

JANUARY 28, 2020

In 2017, we released the Texas Startup Manifesto , outlining a vision of a united Texas startup ecosytsem where startup entrepreneurs treat the four major metropolitan areas as one big city when they are recruiting talent, fundraising, and acquiring customers. that’s a full third of our deal flow in our first full year of operation.

Houston 86

Houston San Antonio Fort Worth Dallas 86

View from Seed

JANUARY 30, 2020

Has this investor ever introduced you to a customer you closed or to a candidate that you gave an offer to? These partners are probably inundated with new deal flow, are managing some high-fliers in the firms portfolio, and are probably just starting to take on a leadership role in fundraising and firm management.

Due Diligence 195

Due Diligence Partner Term Sheet Finance 195

Gust

JANUARY 15, 2014

Boy, do I wish there was a magical Gmail extension to let me manage my startup deals! Gust (the company I founded) is the online platform used by over 45,000 accredited angel investors and VCs, from over 1,000 angel groups and venture funds, in 74 countries, to manage their startup deals. But I digress [harumph].

Angel Investor 70

Angel Investor Belarus Portugal Accredited Investor 70

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Homebuyer (Cincinnati, OH) Dan Green, CEO Homebuyer is a lead nurture system for mortgage lenders that reduces customer acquisition costs and increases per-loan profits. Investors connect with Techstars to gain access to quality deal flow.

Austin 62

Austin Curation Startup Dallas 62

The Startup Magazine

JUNE 19, 2018

FUND is a national connector of entrepreneurs, VCs, angel investors, and industry experts with a focus on deal flow and making connections. We proudly choose to be a collaborative organization willing to share our components and discoveries with partners and customers around the world.

Texas 75

Texas Advisory Board Startup Angel Investor 75

The Startup Magazine

MAY 21, 2018

FUND is a national connector of entrepreneurs, VCs, angel investors, and industry experts with a focus on deal flow and making connections. Photo Inventory – We provide customers with a photo inventory of what is in storage that they can easily see what they have from their phone. Whatever the customer needs.

Fort Worth 61

Fort Worth Phoenix Houston Dallas 61

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Part 1 – Access to Great Deal Flow – is here. Most people think that being a successful investor is about finding the right deals and nurturing the teams through the difficult times to come out with a great company. This is the fifth & final (I promise!) Access to buyers – I saved the least obvious for last.

Silicon Valley 280

Silicon Valley Early Stage Portfolio Chad 280

A Crowded Space

DECEMBER 14, 2012

The questions are: How good is the deal flow of the referrer? In addition, seeing a lot of deal flow tends to increase the referrer’s judgment. Quality of Referrer’s Network (their deal flow). They have a good instinctive sense of what their customers will adopt and what they will not. .

Angel Investor 68

Angel Investor Deal Flow Networking Portfolio 68

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Customer support – After my pre-breakfast meeting I had my actual breakfast meeting. But it’s mostly customer service. But what kind of business person would I be if I allocated 100% of my time to customer service and zero to marketing? Marketing = deal flow = share of mind = start of future relationships.

Email 314

Email Product Term Sheet Portfolio 314