YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2017

by Joe Duncan, founder of Duncan Capital LP. An early example occurred in 2010 when UBS Analyst Neil Currie accessed satellite imagery to monitor activity in Walmart parking lots, running the data thru a mathematical regression to translate it into customer activity for better earnings forecasts. Underwriting.

Technical Review 154

Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Software Review IPO 154

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

Partly out of the fact that in 1 week I depart for England to speak at LeWeb, attend our DataSift board meeting and generally make myself available to the DataSift team to meet their customers, partners and employees. He sets goals for revenue diversification (can’t get all revenue from few customers or few partners).

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Advisory Board CTO Hire Fractional CTO Los Angeles 365

Eric Friedman

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Operating as a sort of fund-of-funds model there is an economy of scale program for figuring out the GP/LP structure, working out the services providers like legal, audit, and tax handling. A unified approach means cross platform comparability, easier subscription support, and better customer experience. . Bonus: Maybe I do this.

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Balance Sheet Stock Private Equity Option Pool 97

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The board also needs to be mindful of the interests of other “stakeholders” including debt holders, employees, customers and suppliers. If the Founder & CEO is popular the company faces risks of executive departures and customer defections. The legal duty of the board is to the company and all of its shareholders. And importantly?

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Venture Capital Startup Angel Investor Silicon Valley 236

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 19, 2015

Sales people (and website customer acquisition folks) all think in terms of funnels and yet non-sales professionals seldom do. Today I’d like to give that advice in more tangible terms and with a framework to think about your tasks – the funnel. Having interesting and frequent opportunities at the top of your funnel matters.

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LP Warrant Portfolio Framework 150

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

Instant growth = huge valuation from follow-on investors = big VC mark-up on our quarterly reports = LP interest. It might be for technical reasons or it might be for customer adoption reasons. They want to know that you’re in Twitter, Facebook, Square, Fab and the like. Grow or die. I built two companies.

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Silicon Valley Venture Capital Startup Technical Review 390

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

We then do a cocktail party so that everybody can have informal conversations (including LP to LP) and then we do a dinner in a private room at a restaurant. We do lunch where everybody has a casual conversation followed by 6 hours of content and discussion. Summary: Making Your Board More Effective Chose the right members.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 17, 2021

Competition matters when it comes to talent, customers, funders, partners, attention, and others. I can tell a story looking backwards why our LP base was carefully constructed. And to some degree, I believe that, especially when you are talking about bigger, slow moving incumbents.

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IRR Dilution Founder Portfolio 205

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 6, 2015

Most importantly – this should encourage LP funds to back more local firms and I would hope to see more indigenous funds to develop. There are so many great, young funds in the market and many of them are attracting LP capital. We are a customer. You were right, Alex , he is a superstar. Thank you for the referral!

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LP Los Angeles Marketing Partner 150

View from Seed

AUGUST 17, 2021

Competition matters when it comes to talent, customers, funders, partners, attention, and others. I can tell a story looking backwards why our LP base was carefully constructed. And to some degree, I believe that, especially when you are talking about bigger, slow moving incumbents.

IRR 156

IRR Dilution Founder Portfolio 156

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2010

If your idea is so amazing that it warrants my hard-earned angel money or the money of my LP investors from our fund then why should I take a risk on you if you won’t take a risk on yourself? I want our associate to have empathy for the customers we serve — our portfolio companies. Why should I be? Was I too harsh? I don’t think so.

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Entrepreneur CTO Hire South America Salary 293

David Teten

AUGUST 15, 2013

Some corporations emulate this model by creating their own wholly-owned VC entities, typically with one LP: the corporate balance sheet. This promotes the company’s core services to new customers, and hopefully locks them in as permanent customers.

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Startup Technical Support Venture Capital Balance Sheet 114

Genuine VC

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

The only other way for a firm to compete effectively is for it to narrow the scope of its offering so that it only appeals to a subsegment of the market consumers, but it does so because its specialization appeals specifically to that narrow customer-set. the larger the corporation’s position in the market, the more profitable it is).

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Seed Stage Belgium Differentiation LP 191

View from Seed

AUGUST 17, 2021

Competition matters when it comes to talent, customers, funders, partners, attention, and others. I can tell a story looking backwards why our LP base was carefully constructed. And to some degree, I believe that, especially when you are talking about bigger, slow moving incumbents.

IRR 136

IRR Dilution Founder Portfolio 136

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

But as an LP you can’t count on that any more than VCs can. The goal of an LP is to get into the top decile. When it went to raise its fund 10 years ago the rumor was that many LPs were disappointed with recent returns and did not re-up. In 2000 our industry had more than $100 billion in LP money. hours / day.

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LP Later Stage IRR Term Sheet 374

David Teten

JANUARY 23, 2021

For example, one LP told me she prefers customized emails from fund principals, as opposed to a bulk-mailed quarterly update. See How Emerging Venture Capital Fund Managers Should Think About Their LP Fundraising Strategies. Use online networks to more efficiently identify the right potential LPs.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Software Review 78

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. Custom CRM solutions for PE/VC funds are offered by Altvia , Backstop Solutions , DealCloud , EquityTouch , SalesLogistix , Satuit , Sevanta Dealflow , Navatar , Salesforce , SalesforceIQ , and Touchstone.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Most firms still have founders involved and they live fund to fund the way startups live customer to customer. Some VC partners might be a little far removed from it these days, but there was a time when they were going around with a plan and a Powerpoint just like you.

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LP New York City New York Chad 112

Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

This new hire was a commercial hustler (code named Scott), moving quickly and broadly to try to secure customers and partners, including some of the tech industry’s largest companies. He’s an LP in several Techstars funds and a direct investor in a selection of Techstars companies. The post Mentors 18/18: Have Empathy.

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Boston LP Startup Equity 118

Version One Ventures

JUNE 3, 2013

Performing market research and due diligence for potential investments (interviewing customers/users, testing products and services, and/or financial modeling). Helping with reporting for our investors, including writing quarterly updates and preparing LP advisory board meetings.

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Hiring North America Los Angeles Advisory Board 156

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

This provides us more time to develop meaningful relationships with prospects and customers. Tim Friedman, Founder, PE Stack , said, “If I could offer one piece of advice to today’s managers, it would be to take the time to understand the demands of the modern institutional LP. 3) Raise capital. 6) Due diligence.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Cindy Revol, Joe Beard and Anurag Jain from Perot Jain, LP We received a warm welcome from Trey Bowles when we first came to Dallas and there have been many others who have opened their arms to us since. We meet the best entrepreneurs in Austin and introduce them to their first investors, employees, mentors and customers.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Thomson Reuters data shows that around $10 billion of LP money went into VCs per year pre bubble. By 2000 the total LP commitments had mushroomed to more than $100 billion. Try charging customers for your product when you have 12 competitors giving the product away free finances by $20 million of VC. The Funding Problem.

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Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 14, 2015

I spoke at Michael Kim’s excellent annual Cendana VC/LP conference today. Here’s my take away. This will be seen as a watershed moment in the wake-up call and rationalization of our industry. You can read it in VCs discussions about hedge fund managers, activist investors or the need to have dual-share voting structures.

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Burn Rate San Francisco Private Equity LP 150

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

allows for more information to be gathered for your end customer. and Alarmforce LP, SkyBell Technologies, In August Home Inc., Most importantly within the business strategy is a focus on team building which will allow for the completion of all components associated with the getting a patent and monetization. Patents and A.I.

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Intellectual Property Forecast LLC Acquisition 157

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

It’s a virtue of the laws of large numbers ($100 million in ARR ) plus strong growth compounding off of large numbers plus large customers relying on our products for 7+ years or longer. And while it hasn’t been an “overnight success,” we’ll happily follow in ProCore’s footsteps.

Venture Capital 363

Venture Capital LP Valuation Later Stage 363

Andrew Payne

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

As a modestly active angel investor and an LP in several venture funds, I hear many, many startup pitches. This is just for pitch and company feedback, and not for: networking, investment, board seats, advisor relationships, customer leads, partnerships, and/or investor introductions. Let me know!

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LP Startup Angel Investor Software 84

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

We call these investors “LPs” for limited partners. I had lunch with an LP. Customer support – After my pre-breakfast meeting I had my actual breakfast meeting. But it’s mostly customer service. I met for coffee with one of my favorite “startup advisors” in LA. I get tons of.

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Email Product Term Sheet Portfolio 314

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2018

The investor is a customer and they have money to spend but only for a limited number of companies. I figured I was wasting my time unless the LP was leaning in on my first meeting. The hardest thing is that after you’ve had a great first meeting with a VC (or LP) you expect it’s all going to start happening!

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LP San Francisco Minneapolis Partner 215

The Equity Kicker

JULY 16, 2012

The secret is to find your Niche – that is, the initial customer segmentation / product differentiation combo that enables you to beat your more established, mature competition with a much crappier product. Actually, this is quite far from the truth – in fact, you can be incredibly mediocre and still be quite successful.

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LP Early Stage Valuation Differentiation 105

This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 12, 2011

The process is extremely insightful—not only to hear how your team is pitching, but to hear, first hand, customer objections as well. Helping companies build a culture of continuous improvement in the sales process, listening to customers, and focusing on best practices is something that every VP of Sales we talked to wants to do.

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LP New York Sales Web 108

Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

While our customer for each product was the same (a webmaster or a company trying to build a website), we were having trouble leading with all three products. I eventually co-founded SoftBank Technology Partners (which became Mobius Venture Capital) and SoftBank (the corporation) became a 50% LP in Flatiron with Chase.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 10, 2011

The LP's that fund booms are, after all, pension, municipal, and sovereign wealth funds. It's anything but cool: product prioritization meetings, deciding which customers to listen to and which to ignore, and valiantly trying to keep the vision alive in the face of contradictory facts.

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LP Incubator New York Programming 168

Andrew Payne

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

As a modestly active angel investor and an LP in several venture funds, I hear many, many startup pitches. This is just for pitch and company feedback, and not for: networking, investment, board seats, advisor relationships, customer leads, partnerships, and/or investor introductions. Let me know!

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LP Startup Angel Investor Software 54

Rob Go

JULY 9, 2012

Now, as an LP, you just have to be comfortable being a concentrated investor in a small fund to put a meaningful amount of capital to work, but a number of LP’s have been showing more comfort in doing this recently. 5% ownership is quite good in that situation! With no rules, you essentially have no strategy.

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LP Institutional Investors Early Stage Venture Capital 53

This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 9, 2012

Instead, they’re kicking up a notch the kind of mentality that the record industry had when it was suing its own customers instead of coming up with innovative new business models. This is what movie studios and the rest of the SOPA supporters need to do. Back to Senators Schumer and Gillibrand.

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IP New York LP Internet 131

Bryce Dot VC

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Prior to our retreat, I attended the VC/LP day of the Upfront Summit. Instead, we shared stories of success and struggles as the participating companies focus their attention and resources on growing revenue and attracting/serving customers. I plan to write some release notes prior to rolling out v.

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