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An Investor’s Personal Social Media Tech Stack: In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 followers

David Teten

They’re taking a $1m check from me, or giving $5m to me as a limited partner. Other coinvestors: Limited partners, other VCs who are coinvestors, private equity funds which are potential growth-stage investors, etc. Distributing content. Kevin has written over 620 syndicated columns). (E.g.,

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The Twenty Year Itch: My Last VC Investment Out of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures

This is going to be BIG.

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.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

Similar to the explosion of seed funds in the past decade, we (and some limited partners too ) believe these Flexible VCs are on the forefront of what will become a major segment of the venture ecosystem. Flexible VC creates early liquidity which can be either reinvested or distributed to LPs. Early liquidity.

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Announcing K9 Ventures II – A $40M technology-focused micro-VC fund

K9 Ventures

K9 Ventures II will still be syndicating most investments with other seed and angel investors. No distributed teams, no overseas teams, and definitely no companies that rely on “outsourcing” to build their core technology. Hyper-local : The entire team should be located in the SF Bay Area.

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Announcing K9 Ventures II – A $40M technology-focused micro-VC fund

K9 Ventures

K9 Ventures II will still be syndicating most investments with other seed and angel investors. No distributed teams, no overseas teams, and definitely no companies that rely on “outsourcing” to build their core technology. Hyper-local : The entire team should be located in the SF Bay Area.

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Announcing NextView Ventures II

Rob Go

On #2, we have been fortunate to collaborate with a wide group of exceptional entrepreneurs, coinvestors, and limited partners. Just like any other startup, the question we are focused on post series A is whether we are doing the right things to allow us to win in a competitive market with a power-law outcome distribution.

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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

Austin Startup

San Antonio has Geekdom with USAA and Port San Antonio with the Air Force Cyber Command; Houston has The Ion with Rice University, Microsoft and NASA and The Cannon distributed across the city; Dallas has Pegasus Park with UT Southwestern and Lyda Hill Philanthropies; and Austin has Capital Factory with the Army Futures Command.

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