Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2010

Venture Firms use the contests as another source of deal flow and talent. Filed under: Customer Development Manifesto , Durant versus Sloan: Startups Verus Companies , Teaching. Tags: Customer Development Manifesto Durant versus Sloan: Startups Verus Companies Teaching. Business plans are easy to grade, score and judge.

Business Plan 312

Business Plan Business Model Customer Development Deal Flow 312

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. In 2013, Chad and I founded Build Abroad, a nonprofit organization that builds homes in developing countries. I guess it’s only fitting that Digs deals housing too.

Chad 111

Chad Illinois Nepal Haiti 111

Gust

OCTOBER 29, 2014

On October 1st, 2014, after more than two years of partnership and development, Gust proudly joined the Mayor of the City of New York and IBM in announcing the launch of Digital.NYC , NYC’s new official hub for tech and startups. From our inception we have been perfecting this process from the perspective of deal flow.

Early Stage 133

Early Stage Technical Review New York Deal Flow 133

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

As seed funds have raised larger and larger funds, more have developed the muscle around issuing term sheets and “leading”. The question then becomes whether these lead investors remain impactful after the deal closes or shifts into a mode of monitoring progress and hunting for the next deal. .

North America 120

North America Seed Stage Early Stage Lead Investor 120

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Part 1 – Access to Great Deal Flow – is here. The first three skills I espoused were: access to the highest-quality deal-flow, domain knowledge of the topic area in which you’re investing and access to VCs to help fund the next stages of development.

Cap Table 283

Cap Table Angel Investor Liquidation Preference Deal Flow 283

The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

The event presenter, FUND, is a national connector of entrepreneurs, VCs, angel investors, and industry experts with a focus on deal flow and making connections. Anticipating the challenges of due diligence helped me to crystallize our tech development strategy and the sales strategy, and guided our financial planning.

Technical Review 153

Technical Review Software Review Illinois Due Diligence 153

David Teten

MAY 9, 2012

VCAP© will be operated through NAIC’s subsidiary, The Marathon Foundation, a business development network that supports entrepreneurial growth, access to capital and deal flow. The Marathon Foundation (TMF) is a business development network dedicated to entrepreneurial growth, access to capital and deal flow.

Venture Capital 154

Venture Capital Programming Accredited Investor New York 154

David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

Nick Kim , Crosscut’s Head of Platform, in his presentation at the 4th Annual VC Platform Summit, shared their Platform development methodology, which he viewed as an exercise in product development. For example, recruiting writ large is useful at all stages of development. I have developed a founder curriculum on my blog.

Private Equity 78

Private Equity Venture Capital Portfolio Equity 78

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2021

If your denominator is too low you’ll fund deals you consider compelling at the time that wouldn’t pass muster with your future self. So my advice boils down to these simple points: Make sure you see tons of deals. You need to develop pattern recognition for what truly exceptional looks like. Don’t rush to do deals.

Angel Investor 301

Angel Investor Deal Flow Portfolio Forecast 301

View from Seed

DECEMBER 6, 2018

They are disciplined about their time, their strategy, the way they engage with founders, and the way they fight to develop an independent point of view. The belief is that the best founders and investment opportunities are quite obvious to any smart investor, so it’s imperative to have proprietary deal flow and relationships.

Early Stage 120

Early Stage Florida Deal Flow Venture Capital 120

David Teten

JUNE 1, 2011

I enjoyed participating in last week’s Capital Roundtable Private Equity Masterclass on “ Best Practices for Sourcing Quality Deal Flow & Developing New Business ” (May 26 th , 2011). High Road Capital Partners Deal Sourcing Keynote. Question : What portion of your deal flow is proprietary?

Private Equity 122

Private Equity Deal Flow Equity Developer 122

Gust

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

When people would ask a similar question back then about the difficulty of software development, my usual response was “anyone can write a TAP program over a weekend that will work with 80% of the paging systems in the world…but getting it to work on the other 20% will take you a year.” despite having lots of competitors.

Belarus 107

Belarus Kazakhstan Portugal Accredited Investor 107

ithacaVC

MAY 24, 2014

Good perspective though I am favorably biased towards activity that I see “up here” Our deal flow is strong and constantly growing. It is worth reviewing if you are interested in entrepreneurship and VC in upstate NY. It is actually better than ever. Enjoy the long weekend.

New York 79

New York Venture Capital Technical Review New York City 79

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 13, 2020

Will Decker has expertise advising companies large and small on strategy, product, marketing, and business development. 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.

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. 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. What are you offering?

Silicon Valley 335

Silicon Valley Deal Flow Customer Development Stock 335

David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

The firm attracts deal flow by promising a decision (positive or negative) in under 2 weeks, with minimal paperwork and without repeating due diligence. engineers, designers, business developers). Typically they get cofounder common equity, in addition to the preferred stock that a conventional VC gets.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Cofounder 60

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Part 1 – Access to Great Deal Flow – is here. But the problem is that most deals – even really promising ones – fail. Access to Deal Flow. This is the second article in a series on what it takes to be a great angel investor (and why this should matter to entrepreneurs). Domain Knowledge.

Angel Investor 288

Angel Investor Deal Flow Viral Algorithm 288

Gust

DECEMBER 21, 2011

(This is not to say that there is no competition for deals in Seattle, Boston, New York and elsewhere.) While deal flow may not be as high where you are now located, attempting to break into the Valley will be daunting. To economic developers : Don’t think or say “we are going to create the next Silicon Valley here!”

Silicon Valley 107

Silicon Valley Southern California Tucson Seattle 107

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Access to the best deal flow – I think the most obvious thing you need to be successful is access to the right deals in the first place. Do you have access to that kind of deal flow? Deal flow alone is not good enough. That’s Ann Miura-Ko of Floodgate. Are you sure? Is yes, have a seat.

Silicon Valley 306

Silicon Valley Deal Flow Angel Investor Cofounder 306

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Startups are keen on business development and will seek partnerships. The most striking difference was to see a fully fleshed out capital market, where hobbyist and professional angels, superangels, top tier VCs and smaller firms compete for the more attractive deals.

Silicon Valley 156

Silicon Valley Finland Sweat Equity Entrepreneur 156

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

produced this analysis of engineering representation within VC firms: Selected VCs with Highest Representation of Developers in Workforce. HOF Capital is currently developing a proprietary sourcing tool to automatically filter for potential deal prospects that fit our criteria. 4) Manage deal flow. VC Firm. $

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Venture Capitalists on your board developed the expertise to get your firm public as soon as possible using whatever it took including hype, spin, expand, and grab market share because the sooner you got your billion dollar market cap, the sooner the VC firm could sell their shares and distribute their profits.

Silicon Valley 217

Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 217

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

As seed funds have raised larger and larger funds, more have developed the muscle around issuing term sheets and “leading”. The question then becomes whether these lead investors remain impactful after the deal closes or shifts into a mode of monitoring progress and hunting for the next deal. .

North America 36

North America Seed Stage Early Stage Lead Investor 36

This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 12, 2020

It was a frustrating development because I was counting on them to be a part of the first close. That’s why I share my deal flow with them free of any additional fees and carry. They wanted to make sure I was “viable” and I assured them that I was by far the scrappiest GP they new.

LP 136

LP Technical Review Software Review Valuation 136

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Perhaps you know a Marketer, a Developer or Sales Manager that could fill a gap in one of the startups you back. Building out your own network of other Angel or Seed investors increases the quality of your deal flow. Cultivate Other Relationships. The earlier you back a startup the more important this is likely to be.

Pre-Money Valuation 187

Pre-Money Valuation Seed Stage IP Deal Flow 187

This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 18, 2019

Across the world, various economic development organizations, government agencies, and non-profits are putting in admirable and well-intentioned efforts to develop startup ecosystems. Not only that—these people are doing all sorts of different kinds of deals—and you don’t do deals without deal flow.

Prospectus 124

Prospectus Startup .Net Deal Flow 124

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

I know he’s smart but you wouldn’t hire a Javascript developer to do your database design – would you? I find that one of my best sources of deal flow is from lawyers. But I don’t have money to pay a fancy lawyer – I’ll just have my cousin do it - Don’t. Here’s a hack for you.

Southern California 318

Southern California Silicon Valley IP Stock Options 318

The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

FUND is a national connector of entrepreneurs, VCs, angel investors, and industry experts with a focus on deal flow and making connections. At this year’s FUND Conference in Chicago, Illinois, over 100 startups presented their early-stage companies in front of hundreds of investors and industry leaders. Sounds like a great team.

Chicago 147

Chicago Illinois New York City Cofounder 147

Haystack

JANUARY 18, 2020

While I don’t think founders expect a SWAT team to show up and build their startup with them, they do expect some high-leverage support in business development, executive recruiting, and capital formation. There are too many angels, accelerators, scouts, and seed funds who are giving them checks early, potentially diverting deal flow.

Seattle 130

Seattle Seed Stage Deal Flow Vertical 130

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. Apptronik Systems specializes in developing robotic systems that can live and work with humans to make our lives safer, more productive and easier. Tell us more about what Apptronik does?

Texas 74

Texas Advisory Board Startup Angel Investor 74

David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Should you co-found your company with a software development shop? I’ve talked with a number of software development shops who are eager to get into the business of cofounding companies, i.e., getting product revenue and equity instead of just consulting revenue. Vlad is also the CEO at DarwinApps , a software development shop.

Software Developers 60

Software Developers Software Development Software Review Technical Cofounder 60

Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

The best introductions come from people who have brought good deal flows to investors in the past. There’s rarely a shortcut to easy money, so be ready to develop your strategy and put in the time. Identify the strongest “in” to the particular investor. This often means not jumping on the first person who can introduce you.

Due Diligence 161

Due Diligence Venture Capital Deal Flow Social Media 161

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Investing early in the lifecycle of a startups history where we can have the biggest impact on strategy & team development and deliver the highest returns if we are successful. 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

Tim Keane

MAY 22, 2006

   He's also requiring that you source your software development through his consulting company at a price "to be negotiated."  "  Finally, if you fail to agree on a price for the development within 6 months, he gets his money back with 18% interest.    Do the same. 

Wisconsin 60

Wisconsin Offshore Warrant Angel Investor 60

David Teten

MAY 4, 2011

The Capital Roundtable is holding a MasterClass May 26 on “ Best Practices for Sourcing Quality Deal Flow & Developing New Business for Private Equity Funds “, and I’m honored to be one of the speakers. The conference is being chaired by Bob Fitzsimmons, of High Road Capital Partners.

Private Equity 122

Private Equity LLC LP Equity 122

Austin Startup

JANUARY 28, 2020

that’s a full third of our deal flow in our first full year of operation. The money is flowing in Dallas too?—?our Capital Factory is one of the top startup development organizations in the country, and it’s awesome to see them expanding their footprint in Houston. It’s working?—?40

Houston 86

Houston San Antonio Fort Worth Dallas 86

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

You should come along for the ride if you are interested in investing more in Texas technology and disruptive commerce companies and want to develop relationships with local investors who can be your deal flow. You’ll learn about the Texas startup ecosystem, develop relationships with other investors, and have a lot of fun.

Texas 50

Texas San Antonio Houston Dallas 50