View from Seed

MAY 12, 2015

For entrepreneurs setting out to raise a round of VC financing, with some diligent research, it’s reasonably straightforward to put together a list of target firms to pitch. Yet once the right firms are identified, I believe that the tougher challenge is to determine which partner at these firms to approach.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 30, 2020

Partnering with an investor and/or board member is very long term commitment, and I’m always surprised by how little diligence founders do prior to signing up for what could be a 10+ year collaboration. Did you ever face serious financing risk? How did this differ in a weak vs. strong financing round? Does he/she know this?

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Mucker Lab

AUGUST 27, 2014

For the last couple of years, I’ve been investing in startups as a partner at Mucker, while spending a lot of time in the Valley working with potential co-investors and partners. The top tier funds see almost all of the best deals. Furthermore, entrepreneurs don’t necessary build their businesses to be venture-funded.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The partner at the fund, the VC, gets to do the fun part—the meeting with founders, vetting deals, negotiating, helping, etc. Are investors allowed to come into deals that the fund does side by side with the fund? This creates a source of deal flow for investors who aren’t out there full time creating opportunities.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

If you’re an associate, an assistant, in finance or a new partner interviewing with the firm – you know what we expect! Greg Bettinelli – You may know that we added partner Greg Bettinelli earlier this year. Hamet Watt – More recently we announced that we hired Hamet Watt as a partner as well.

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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. Along with professional stories created by our in-house team, we will eventually allow freelance journalists/podcasters, media partners and listeners to contribute stories as well.

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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. Warning sign? At best. ~

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2011

billion to work across 738 financing deals with U.S. 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. Investment firms specialize by business sectors, and each partner within the firm has a specialty.

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Venture Capital Revenue Elevator Pitch Silicon Valley 233

ReadWriteStart

JULY 21, 2011

Earlier, of course, we covered AngelList at length , also a crowd sourcing venture in the angel financing space, and this week, we have covered SecondMarket , which is powering Facebook's private market capital raising. Andrew also asked how he could partner with the 1M/1M program. peerbackers. efforts to get them.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 28, 2011

On July 1, 2006, commenting on the Indian startup scenario, I had written a blog post called Too Much Money, Too Few Deals. Today, the Indian scenario has improved greatly, but still the issue of lack of a mature deal flow remains. An ad-supported network, the company has achieved over $1 million in revenue and is profitable.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But, most of use raise capital and source deals the same way people looked for dates 20 years ago: by networking at conferences (or bars). . But in business, you want a lot of partners. In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers. I said we had a lot of deal flow.

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Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Business Plan Blog

JANUARY 2, 2014

government’s long standing restrictions on fundraising has given life to a new type of financing called crowdfunding that allows Angel and other early stage investors to quickly assemble a group of investors over the internet. An easing on some of the U.S. Want To Learn More? Download our free Raising Capital from Angel Investors eBook.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

One of few ways to learn is by doing (or observing your own partners, or other senior investors). I also find this as an invaluable source of future deal flow, future recruiting and future decisions about whom I want to co-invest with. A new investor wants to finance the company?—?is I try not to be. should we sell?

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K9 Ventures

MAY 14, 2011

They are still individual investors, they invest on a full-time basis as professionals, but they have funds with Limited Partners. The limited partners may themselves run the gamut from individuals, family offices, venture capital funds to institutional LPs. This also changes the types of deal terms that micro-VCs will undertake.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 7, 2011

Andrew Wong, CEO of MAD, has been working with us for almost a year, and we have made a mutual choice to deepen the partnership by making MAD a premiere value-added reseller partner of the 1M/1M program. This, we believe, will create a strong downstream deal flow for all of you - incubators, angel investors, and VCs.

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Malaysia Incubator Silicon Valley Entrepreneur 114

This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 22, 2018

Vetting deal flow is part of the job. I don't want to outsource my deal vetting to people who don't do what I do for a living. Another thing that skews the process is the lack of accessibility of many partner-level VCs, especially to diverse communities. You're a partner at a firm, you're married, have kids, etc.,

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Rather than going through their networks or targeting specific sectors for deal flow, they are going to rely on an algorithm to select companies. My first reaction is incredulity that limited partners would buy into this idea. Labels: entrepreneur , seed investing , venture capital , venture financing. Steve Bennet.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

I still think it’s best to take money from Dave when you’re also partnered with a more focused, hands-on seed-stage VC who brings different things to the table – like more ability to write larger checks in a downturn (for one) or solving a deep crisis that involves super hands-on involvement. My Personal Take on AngelList.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

You have your general management meeting and in your general management meeting you talk about product development, about marketing and about finance. Why not get a partner? And so professional angels that have access to real deal flow? It’s bundled in different groups. Edwin: I know. I know, that’s.

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David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

Avataar Ventures invests exclusively in companies which fit these criteria: “$15 Million + in Annual Recurring Revenues; Strong Tech-Led B2B & SaaS Companies; Core Operations in India/ South East Asia; Open to Active Partnering.” They exist as heuristics, but at the end of the day, deal flow trumps everything.

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Technical Review Cofounder Venture Capital Deal Flow 78

Professor VC

MARCH 12, 2015

The above was the opening salvo of a controversial tweetstorm yesterday by my former student and 500 Startups founding partner, Dave McClure (full venom below). I don''t know the reasons for selling, but presumably Authy felt their prospects weren''t promising as a standalone entity and may have had difficulty raising further financing.

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Rob Go

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Given this definition, we continue to see dedicated seed funds providing strong benefits for founders, including: Minimal signaling risk at the next round of financing. Partner Time. Chris Dixon has written most articulately about this, but many others have as well. The Institutional Seed is the New Series A?

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Mashable Mashable reached out to angels, seed stage investors and VC firm partners and asked them to share their wisdom with the rest of us. Here’s an overview: Mitch Kapor: Kapor is founding partner of Kapor Capital , a firm that invests in seed and early stage startups.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 1, 2020

Sure, that means exponentially opening up the flow of deals and going through a ton of deal flow. I currently work in a corporate finance setting but would be interested in VC if the opportunity ever presented itself." It's not enough just to be open--because it doesn't address other systematic barriers, like fear.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Blue Future Partners, a venture capital fund of funds, recently interviewed me on ESG in venture capital. – Forte has developed an innovative structure to finance vocational reskilling at no cost to individuals or governments. The results were more diverse inbound deal flow, and which we assessed using a neutral filter.

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