NZ Entrepreneur

MAY 31, 2021

The Angel Association of New Zealand ( AANZ ) is co-hosting with New Zealand Growth Capital Partners ( NZGCP ) a series of workshops on early-stage investment. Jason Graham from Movac provided an early-stage venture capital fund perspective, detailing 35 investments made across 5 funds and 22 years.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

According to the Angel Capital Association: Angels (private money) invest in 55,000 startups each year versus 1,500 companies by VC (venture capital) funding. Angels invest in one out of every forty deals they review (2.5%) versus the one out of 400 by VC’s (0.25%). So, who are these unlikely angels? Go for the gut.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

Yeah, that was when I changed for me…” “…there was so much positive feedback on demystifying this one element of venture capital. A deep dive into the Foundry Group investment philosophy including an interesting discussion of their investing Themes. “… our lens is: Internet Software Companies anywhere in the U.S. was starting.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

This term refers to an initial venture-capital investment, often wrongly sought to seed early product development. After viewing your slide deck, if investors are still interested in your startup, they will ask for a deep-dive meeting to drill in on any hard questions before commencing due diligence. Sweat equity.

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Managing Director, Enterprise Partners. New San Diego VC Firm Emerges as ‘The Moneyball of Venture Capital’. The firm, Correlation Ventures, is using predictive analytics technology to tilt the odds in its favor. venture investments since 1987. venture investments since 1987. Dan'l Lewin. Ben Elowitz.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 18, 2013

RocketHub also recently partnered with the TV channel A&E for marketing and funding help for their favorite fundraising campaigns. Kiva is a non-profit organization that partners with microfinance institutions (Kiva’s “field partners”) in third-world countries to offer small loans to budding entrepreneurs.

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ithacaVC

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

But over our months of due diligence the understanding grows. And sometimes my partners’ understanding is a good proxy. The entrepreneurs (also mostly white men) often work on a lot of meaningless stuff, like using code to deliver frozen yogurt more expeditiously or apps that let you say “Yo!” (and and only “Yo!”)

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ithacaVC

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

But over our months of due diligence the understanding grows. And sometimes my partners’ understanding is a good proxy. The entrepreneurs (also mostly white men) often work on a lot of meaningless stuff, like using code to deliver frozen yogurt more expeditiously or apps that let you say “Yo!” (and and only “Yo!”)

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David Teten

JANUARY 23, 2021

I’ve been fortunate to be a Partner at two different VC firms over the past 9 years, and we’ve grown AUM 10X both times. Build the firm as much as possible before you solicit limited partners. . The next best move is to build your core team, e.g., recruit an Advisory Board, Venture Partners, and EIRs.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

Yet two smart VC firms, Sigma and Matrix Partners, realized that somewhere in this mess there was value. Now with a new infusion of $8 million dollars of venture capital, SuperMac had been resurrected from the dead and was attempting to restart. And with all of that they had gone broke, out of business and into Chapter 11.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

In fact, before the final event, the investors have already done due diligence. The worst was one where the startup founder took it as a prize for winning, and never saw the angel investors as partners, or, for that matter, anything except usurpers. Angel investment events where the due diligence isn’t done before the event.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . 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.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Investors use a consulting CTO for technical due diligence. Also, working with a consulting CTO will prepare you for finding and selecting a permanent technology partner. Avoid delay by using a consulting CTO on a short-term basis while you are searching for a permanent technology partner.

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Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 14, 2010

I also reviewed the TechStars documents last year and they are similar in concept to the Y Combinator documents as the chart below indicates.). If you don’t, please educate yourself on this site, Venture Hacks and the term sheet series by Brad Feld/Jason Mendelson, among other places. under $500K). Legal opinion.

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Babbling VC

JUNE 10, 2010

The heavy lifting which takes place on both sides as part of the due diligence process is not addressed with this post. Since joining Neuhaus Partners in late 2006, I've done 6 deals directly. This was before my time with Neuhaus Partners. As a side not, this was my first investment at Neuhaus Partners.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

The initial hypothesis for Epiphany (from my much smarter partner Ben ) was that as departments in the enterprise (manufacturing, finance, customer support sales) became automated, the marketing department would eventually get its turn. Are These Your Slides? I quickly leafed through them and replied, “Sure they’re our original slides.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 27, 2014

In the popular imagination, Silicon Valley is mythologized as a place where entrepreneurs who are barely old enough to vote conjure a few thousand lines of code into billion-dollar companies in a matter of months. The prototypical Silicon Valley venture capital approach to investing is structured around the pace that start-ups evolve.

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Rob Go

OCTOBER 6, 2013

For additional reading on this topic, check out this great article at the FRC review from Neil Roseman on Technical Hiring at Amazon. Instead, many decisions are driven off the occasional anecdotal datapoint that happens to stick in a partners’ memory. Even experimenting with different tools, software, internal apps.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

(written by Philipp von dem Knesebeck , Managing Partner, Blue Future Partners (bluefp.com, @bluefutureteam ), and David Teten ). Based on this paper, Blue Future Partners and PEVCTech recently completed a large-scale survey to find out which tools are most commonly used by venture capital firms.

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BeyondVC

OCTOBER 13, 2004

To make a long story short, one of the co-founders of the company built the company’s software in his spare time. My advice to you if you are going to raise a round is to make sure that you are prepared for all that may come at you in terms of due diligence. One other point to remember, do not overnegotiate.

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David Teten

MARCH 24, 2014

Addepar is precisely trying to collect and convert into software these best practices. (ff ff Venture Capital is both an investor and also runs our back office on Addepar.). To quote my Partner John Frankel , traditional money managers are great at managing your money until there is none left. Chernick: Exactly.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2009

To an entrepreneur, being asked to join a venture firm with an Entrepreneur-in-Residence title means you have been tapped on the shoulder by the VC gods. There are still no laws like that in the venture capital business. Now he wanted to go off start his own company. I was going to find out why this wasn’t a good idea.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

” Our featured speaker was Caroline Cummings, the VP of Business Development at Palo Alto Software. As the former co-founder and CEO of two technology companies, Caroline has experienced both start-up failures and successes, and has raised close to $1 million in investment capital. That’s really the purpose of the pitch.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

I wassurprised recently when I realized that all the worst problems wefaced in our startup were due not to competitors, but investors.Dealing with competitors was easy by comparison. Your natural tendency when an investor says yes willbe to relax and go back to writing code. Not all the people who work at VC firms are partners.

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www.thisisgoingtobebig.com

OCTOBER 25, 2010

links » Attracting a CTO to your startup Wednesday, March 11, 2009 at 05:29AM by Charlie ODonnell Businesspeople ask me all the time how to find a technical partner for a startup. Dont forget that this person is adding you as a partner just as much as youre adding them, so look in the mirror and think about what you bring to the table.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

My delusions of coding grandeur quickly subsided and realized that I was not going to hack it. Then, what’s missing — clearly an engineer — and why do I want a partner? Prior to that, she worked in venture capital at OpenView Venture Partners. Partner Events. Partner Events.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Also worth a read after you review these startup failure post-mortems. If you are an entrepreneur seeking funding, try our free Funding Recommendation Engine to identify a list of angels, venture capital and state grant programs that best match your business. You should sign up for our newsletter here. It’s free.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

A recent article on Venture Beat talks about how Venture Capital firms are starting to take a Moneyball approach: “ In Silicon Valley, new firms are going a step further by creating an entire investment thesis around data. It’s the only way to cut through human bias.”. Test subjects NEED to match your ideal customer profile.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

The right sort of person is so passionate about coding, they can’t be stopped from doing it. But every day spent in that kitchen is a day NOT spent in a real kitchen, learning how to cook real food, and write real code. I currently work in information security, and I help teach developers how to write better, more secure code.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. s the new way to code, and quite easy to learn. You can write back end code in javascript, one language conquers all! Code Igniter.

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