Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Our guest this week on #TWiVC was Dana Settle , partner at Greycroft Partners , a venture capital firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. It’s always fun debating companies with Dana because she’s always so knowledgeable on deals – particularly those in the digital media, ad-tech and eCommerce spaces. OTHER DEALS: 1.

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Partner New York City Cofounder Syndicate 240

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

Enthusiastic startup founders may try to deflect or minimize these questions in true media-training style, so you need to be patient, calm, and persistent to get the whole story. Early stage burn rates over $50K per month, or a runway of less than six months may indicate an inefficient or desperate startup.

Sweat Equity 207

Sweat Equity Burn Rate Technical Review Intellectual Property 207

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 13, 2020

It takes more than one person to build a business, so the lone entrepreneur, without support from any visible team, advisors, partners, or potential customers, will not attract investors. In this context, investors are attracted to thought-leaders visible on social media, and people with strong technical credentials.

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Intellectual Property Angel Investor Early Stage Venture Capital 316

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2020

They couldn’t possibly understand the new social media culture, new technologies, or have the determination to beat their younger counterparts in the market. Every young entrepreneur needs an experienced partner for credibility with investors, and as a trusted cohort for strategy and growth discussions.

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Advisory Board Startup Dividend Angel Investor 312

techcrunch.com

AUGUST 12, 2012

Zachary Bogue And Matt Ocko Launch Data Collective, An Early Stage Fund For Big Data Startups. She attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA, majoring in Writing and Art, and moved to New York City shortly after graduation to work in the Media industry. Headphones. CrunchBase. Hot topics. Disrupt SF.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 3, 2011

One of the companies that will feature at the upcoming web and mobile technology startup conference Echelon 2011 is Fetch Plus , a social media and mobile application development company. This then enables companies to rapidly roll out a widespread and pervasive social media footprint through its product. What Could Have Been.

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Social Media Media Management Application Development 187

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

The functions of an early-stage board are pretty obvious and well understood: Providing introductions to customers, biz dev partners, recruits, the press, other investors, etc. Offering a sparring-partner function on strategic decisions. how much energy to put into channel partners vs. direct sales.

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Technical Review Early Stage Software Review Los Angeles 325

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 30, 2016

I was reminded of this yesterday watching my friend Justin Kan on Snapchat with this 10-second reminder, “No matter how much you raise at your company you’ll end up spending it in 12–24 months” https://medium.com/media/8594cb16d022a083932b0f3d60b79ebd/href I would probably amend it to say 12–18 months. People do what people do.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2014

It takes more than one person to build a business, so the lone entrepreneur, without support from any visible team, advisors, partners, or potential customers, will not attract investors. In this context, investors are attracted to thought-leaders visible on social media, and people with strong technical credentials.

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Angel Investor Intellectual Property Entrepreneur Early Stage 268

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2014

They couldn’t possibly understand the new social media culture, new technologies, or have the determination to beat their younger counterparts in the market. Every young entrepreneur needs an experienced partner for credibility with investors, and as a trusted cohort for strategy and growth discussions.

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Entrepreneur Advisory Board Dividend Angel Investor 266

The Startup Magazine

MARCH 14, 2022

Media tech. The journey of a startup is pretty adventurous, and the stages involved are as follows: 1) The ideation phase. At this stage, the idea is pitched mainly to family and friends. A business plan is drawn up to attract investors and partners. Indian startups have excelled in various segments and industries.

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Technical Review Due Diligence India Startup 146

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 23, 2012

In case you don’t know, they are one of the biggest media companies in the world. They are also very active as an early-stage tech investor, partner and acquirer. He also covered how “traditional media companies” think about the future and how they view disruption. That they own Reddit?

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Detroit Partner Media Early Stage 285

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 24, 2014

Working with early-stage teams : coaching, mentoring, setting strategy, rolling up sleeves: 9/10. And while the press always likes to mention the other big media investors who participated in the investments (Time Warner, Canal+, Astro, Singtel, Elisabeth Murdoch, Robert Downey, Jr. Sourcing high-quality leads : 9/10.

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Los Angeles Intellectual Property LP Venture Capital 387

ConversionXL

MARCH 31, 2021

For example, if organic traffic is a priority for you, include a statement like this: From an SEO perspective, our primary goal in the early stages of this content strategy is to focus on low-volume, high-buyer intent keywords and queries related to specific pain points. This sets the intention for your early-stage priorities.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. 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. Of the Inc. 5000 companies, only 6.5% return cap.

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Cofounder Technical Review Equity Dividend 78

David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

Dan Kozikowski, Partner and Head of Platform, First Mark Capital , said to me, “Firms should match services to the stage-specific needs of companies. For example, recruiting writ large is useful at all stages of development. Real Ventures , an early-stage, Canadian-based fund, runs a two-day Founder Camp every six months.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Portfolio Equity 78

Up and Running

AUGUST 1, 2018

The former provides services from banking to media, and gaming to social media, while the latter produces cars as it builds energy storage capabilities for a variety of high-energy needs. 3 steps to take as an early stage entrepreneur. Many people characterize business ecosystems as a set of partners to engage with.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

I know that sounds trite but that is exactly how my firm talks about things in partner meetings. It becomes a large part of the conversation in our partners’ meeting afterward. I’m proud to say that most early-stage VCs that I know really do care about making money ethically.

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Technical Review Due Diligence Entrepreneur Early Stage 284

Gust

OCTOBER 29, 2014

In the first 36 hours, mentions of the hub were viewed more than 42 million times on social media, and over 100,000 pages on the site were perused. IBM partnered to provide sponsorship and hosting on it’s Bluemix cloud platform. For Gust, Digital.NYC represents a new paradigm for connecting the early-stage ecosystem.

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Early Stage Technical Review New York Deal Flow 133

ReadWriteStart

MAY 22, 2023

The Challenge of Talent and Funding FOV Ventures, the first venture capital firm in Europe to invest exclusively in early-stage Metaverse companies, has announced €25 million in funding for early-stage or seed-stage startups. Some critics argue that Metaverse suppliers are just “old wine in new bottles.”

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SiliconHills

JUNE 18, 2018

Morgan Flager, a general partner of Silverton Partners, one of Austin’s oldest home-grown VC firms, is an active investor in early-stage technology startups in Austin. The post Morgan Flager, General Partner with Silverton Partners, on How the Firm Picks Investments appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 29, 2023

As an advisor to early-stage entrepreneurs, I see a lot of dreams, but not so many business results. The business world doesn’t thrive with yet another social media or dating site – it’s begging for paradigm shifts in the technology or business model. A business entity has to be created and real resources applied.

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Startup Early Stage Social Media Business Model 264

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

She is a go to person for me when I have questions around technology or early stage marketing and branding. I hadn't talked to her in a while and then because of a presentation I did around Social Media for Service Professionals she and I reconnected. Same partner all along: Jorge Alonso, Creative Director. Absolutely.

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Early Stage Southern California Los Angeles Marketing 150

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2014

The partner most obsessed with the startup lifestyle tests the water by going to work in an early-stage startup, similar to one they might hope to start someday. There are many networking groups on FaceBook, LinkedIn, and others social media sites, which can help you increase your odds of finding a match early.

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Technical Review Stock Options Due Diligence Silicon Valley 250

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

They want to lock in future clients at an early stage. For a very small fee they can get your Delaware C corp registration, make sure that you have IP protection and ensure you didn’t make an early bumbling mistakes that you’ll pay for dearly in the next 7-10 years of hard work. I also like to work with partners.

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Southern California Silicon Valley IP Stock Options 318

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2012

Trusted partners quit, personal friends become enemies, and staff management becomes a huge burden. Stretch” goals in early-stage are not advised. Instead, you need to undertake an aggressive campaign in the new media, with creative selling messages and promotions. Too slow or too fast to change.

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Advisory Board Forecast Early Stage Product Development 240

The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 10, 2020

See below for a good description of what we like to see in deals at Forward Partners and what makes us different from other VCs. An interview with Nic Brisbourne, Forward Partners. I think we differ a little from the rest of the industry, though, particularly with our focus on early stage companies.

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Partner Early Stage Portfolio Metrics 68

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2022

As a mentor for aspiring and early-stage entrepreneurs, I talk to a fair number who may have a great vision and a strong engineering background, but have a negative interest in the role of public speaking in business. In her book, Jan devotes a whole chapter to speaking to the media, as a key aspect of public speaking.

Marketing 283

Marketing Early Stage Lead Generation Hosting 283

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

PEVCTech is partnering with Blue Future Partners to run the first large-scale survey of VCs’ technology stack. Johann Kratzer of Blue Future Partners , a fund of funds, observed, “The majority of the hundreds of funds we’ve diligenced rely predominantly on their relationships to source deals. Greylock Partners.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

My firm GRP Partners recently funded a young LA based company named Ad.Ly We’re clearly in the early stages on Twitter monetization but let me offer some views on why we find Ad.ly We’re clearly in the early stages on Twitter monetization but let me offer some views on why we find Ad.ly

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Technical Review Advertising Early Stage Internet 286

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2023

The cost of entry has never been lower, with new tools to create your own website , and free social media to get your message out everywhere. Pick a name, location, and marketing strategy early. Make sure the name and trademarks you want are available, as well as web site address, social media tags, and any other intellectual property.

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Intellectual Property Social Media Angel Investor Metrics 245

The Equity Kicker

OCTOBER 14, 2014

He was on the money when he said that for early stage investments having a great team is most important but for later stage investments the market matters more. Early stage investors like Forward Partners look for a minimum of a great entrepreneur and a great idea.

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Early Stage Institutional Investors Venture Capital Startup 123

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 10, 2016

Enthusiastic startup founders may try to deflect or minimize these questions in true media-training style, so you need to be patient, calm, and persistent to get the whole story. Early stage burn rates over $50K per month, or a runway of less than six months may indicate an inefficient or desperate startup.

Sweat Equity 120

Sweat Equity Burn Rate Technical Review Intellectual Property 120

Up and Running

OCTOBER 13, 2021

People noticed they would browse for something like dog collars and suddenly get ads for the same thing on social media sites. Using buyer personas works well in the early stages of contact, but once the person gives you details, create their experience based on specifics. Treat your customers the way you’d want to be treated.

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Customer Marketing Artificial Inteligence Technical Review 118

The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

He is currently CEO of Bubbly , a social media startup backed by Sequoia Capital, SingTel Innov8, and JAFCO. But the problem with this is that most VCs in the Valley, especially early stage ones, only like to invest in companies that are within driving distance from their offices. Golden Gate Ventures , Jungle Ventures , etc.),

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Asia Silicon Valley India Term Sheet 132

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Almost every day I'm talking to early stage startup founders (see Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions ) about what they plan to do. Do you need to process user-contributed media? I tend to ask a lot of questions, challenge aspects, make suggestions. But I've often been very surprised by one aspect of these conversations.

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Developer Founder Viral Oauth 396

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2011

Trusted partners quit, personal friends become enemies, and staff management becomes a huge burden. Stretch” goals in early-stage are not advised. Instead, you need to undertake an aggressive campaign in the new media, with creative selling messages and promotions. Too slow or too fast to change.

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Advisory Board Startup Forecast Early Stage 232