David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

Many VCs focus on specific verticals, usually based on the sector in which a VC initially made her reputation. That said, one limitation in early-stage investing particularly is that 2022’s growth sectors probably don’t fit neatly into a vertical we can define today. – Network. – Reputation.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Some five years into an early stage technology company, I found myself, an experienced technology manager, as a CEO in search of competent manufacturing. It wasn’t like we were packaging software we were producing the highest performing vertical axis wind turbine. Thanks Pamela. Where is the innovation workforce? –

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

In venture capital in particular, early-stage companies are often operating in frontier industries, where the rules are unpredictable and conventional analytic frameworks may be misleading. The historic capital-raising process is driven by face-to-face networking and salesmanship. 2) Raise capital.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 13, 2014

Pros of taking their angel money include the feeder system to venture financing of the next round and the vast network of portfolio CEOs which can be tapped into for connections and help. Pros: Industry-insider who serves as a validator for the rest of the investment syndicate, extremely helpful advice and network connections.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

At Uber, the system has “perfect” information in an industry where just two years ago there was a complete lack of visibility (on both sides of the network) that led to enormous waste of resources. But in the early stages, this friction slows your roll-out and increases the costs associated with supplier aggregation.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 29, 2022

As an investor in early stage startups in gaming and metaverse/web3 at Remagine Ventures , I naturally consume a lot of content on this topic, and this post also helps me digest and separate signal from noise. Now the mobile networks are good enough that it’s starting to be a lot more video. Industry reports.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 17, 2018

It’s an exciting time to be launching a new fund as our focus on network effects and broad geography are driving opportunities in both existing and emerging markets. We invest in the early stages of company creation , leading or participating in pre-seed and seed-rounds with cheque sizes between $500K and $750K. About Fund III.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 6, 2011

This curriculum is based on the various questions entrepreneurs have asked me over these 64 sessions, spanning financing, positioning, customer acquisition, marketing, sales, channel, and various other early stage, startup-related issues. In the case of J.J's business, the customer is the Network. Mava Consulting. tomorrow.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

With the sting of losses so fresh, much of the angel activity dried up in the early 2000s, but it restarted with the launch of Central Texas Angel Network in 2006 and Capital Factory opening its doors in 2009. Local funding networks have a direct impact on the amount of total funding that goes into a region.

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A Crowded Space

OCTOBER 2, 2018

I’ve been exclusively focused on marketplace and network effect business opportunities for the past several years. While a big incumbent is stuck working on their existing core business and platform, early stage startups can focus on new platforms or niche parts of the market to build up initial traction.

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Genuine VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

Addressing both of those issues can stem from the motivations as to why someone would want to put their hard-earned cash into a risky early-stage startup in the first place. Investors in this category are usually operating executives who have spent their entire careers in a specific industry vertical, like internet travel, for example.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 20, 2017

Our global network now consists of over 5,000 mentors, including many successful Techstars alumni. As Techstars continues to selectively expand into new geographies and industry verticals, our mentors are important as ever. AngelList syndicates helps enable seed stage investing at scale.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

We spent the first 45 minutes or so talking about industry trends (in this order): The history and background of True Ventures, one of my favorite early-stage VC’s (and the one with whom Om is a venture partner). Competitors: Playdom , Social Gaming Network. first vertical to launch by 2010 Holiday Season.

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Genuine VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

Addressing both of those issues can stem from the motivations as to why someone would want to put their hard-earned cash into a risky early-stage startup in the first place. Investors in this category are usually operating executives who have spent their entire careers in a specific industry vertical, like internet travel, for example.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 10, 2015

Our early stage fund Homebrew debuted just two years ago in early 2013 but already I’ve witnessed a dramatic change in how BigVC thinks of seed. It plays out like this -> $500m fund leads a bunch of seed rounds, putting $2m into $2-$3m rounds for early stage startups. Uh oh, potential conflict.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

Feenix focuses on companies in the consumer space across a number of industry verticals including: multi-unit Food & Beverage operators, hospitality, managed workspace (office or food halls), location based entertainment venues, and various direct to consumer online companies. Apply for funding.

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A Crowded Space

AUGUST 26, 2013

Consider an early stage company - and assume they have 2 choices, pursue crowd-funding or raise VC money. The VC option brings longer cycles and more meetings, but also provides greater control, secrecy, better access to networks, deeper pockets, and experience and advice. Let’s discuss the quality challenge. Conclusion.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

This is useful for a number of reasons, the most obvious of which is to help you navigate the right channels in your vertical and open doors to potential customers. The strength of their network is something you’ll want to confirm ahead of signing them on. The more disruptive an idea, the harder it is the evaluate at an early stage.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 22, 2016

Estimote is the leader in beacon and spatial hardware, and we were able to slide a check into cofounder’s Steve Cheney’s pocket when he joined the early team. Alongside these investments we started spending more time with hardware entrepreneurs and working with vertical accelerators/funds such as Lemnos Labs, Bolt, PCH/Highway1.

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Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

Especially in the early stages, keeping a relationship with your customers can be paid off exponentially, not only in overall engagement but with extremely valuable word of mouth marketing. Get used to monitoring Twitter conversations around your vertical and try to engage with as many as you can. Masterful onboarding (cheap).

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VC Cafe

APRIL 27, 2011

Depending on the stage of the company, sources may range from FFF (Friends, Family and Fools), angel investors, incubators, startup competitions, grants, crowd funding and off course, VC (though often a last resort in the earliest stages). Create events around guests arriving from abroad or experts in a vertical area.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2020

He’s been programming since he was a kid running some of the first online communities and networked games. Now he is a VC at Moonshots Capital , focused on investing in early stage tech companies with a special focus on backing military veterans.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Here’s what you’ll learn how to do: Use LinkedIn, and later other social networks like Twitter, to curate a list of high-value, warmly-connected prospects. Even if you’re at a very early stage, if you’re reading this, it’s safe to say that research tasks are below your pay grade, and conducting them will leave you time for little else.

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Genuine VC

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Once you’ve figured out whether you want to find a very early stage startup or a late stage one (the topic of my first post in this series ), the real hard work begins. The right approach is to think broadly but network and search to ask specifically. At first, you're just looking for early indications of success.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

VI: Revenue-based financing: The next step for private equity and early-stage investment. In addition to a fund, the overall Capacity organization provides direct mentorship, consulting and connects founders to a broad network of talent, diverse forms of capital, and existing resources focused on the post-startup stage of growth.

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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). . Boardex and Relationship Science make it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. That’s why 40 million Americans use online dating sites.

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Gust

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Wilmington Investor Network. Central Texas Angel Network. Speaking with many angel leaders , I believe we have identified several possible explanations for group-to-group variations: 1) Clearly, startup ventures in some business verticals command high pre-money valuations that others. increasing. DC Dinner Clubs. DC/Virginia.

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cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

But it’s probably wise to be more secretive in some vertical markets: [link]. Great points, though your bio does read “Personal investor in early-stage technology companies, including … a handful of other startups that are still in stealth mode!” link] Nivi. People copy success, not ideas. ” chris.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 30, 2015

HW: In 2006 you created Wallstrip, an online video company focused on the finance vertical. HW: Social Leverage is your early stage VC fund and even prior to SL, you were an angel investor. Most founder and startup advice is available for free on the web and at your fingertips on your social networks. We never left.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 13, 2010

StoredIQ has rapidly gained traction with customers across several vertical industries, including financial services, healthcare and oil and gas. “Buddy has substantial channel and business development experience working with a range of companies, from early stage to multinational corporations.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

They are already closing up shop but still a good crowd networking after a busy schedule of #atxstartupweek sessions. Frank is responsible for sales, marketing and business development and has over 20 years of experience in cybersecurity, networking and software. Lots of people at @WeWork in #austin 4 @ATXStartupCrawl.

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Babbling VC

MAY 20, 2010

All too often though I am surprised to see how often early-stage companies poorly analyze their market, especially when doing a competitive analysis. If you're launching a vertical social network and you tell me Facebook is not competition, I'm going to think you're delusional. If you're BMW, there's Mercedes.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

That’s why early stage companies aren’t run by accountants with spreadsheets. weeks ago, positioning it as a tool designed to help small businesses effectively manage their social media efforts. Reply steveblank , on August 21, 2009 at 10:20 pm Said: David, No advice is applicable in all cases.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 25, 2023

It's brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network, the audio destination for business professionals. And as a business, you know, a lot of your audience is small business owners or solopreneurs or early stage, you know, entrepreneurs. But yeah, I mean, why you would self-publish really blows down to your goals and your motives.

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 3, 2019

This was not our early-stage sweet spot and the $100M valuation felt rich. Anyone who has ever spent time with Apoorva knows how smart he is, but we were too focused on how how operationally tough it would be to build up such a shopping delivery network. Early-stage investing is not easy and we make a wrong decision every day!

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Steve Blank

JULY 9, 2009

Also, are you available for talks at a Silicon Valley networking group for job seekers. Don’t confuse your passion for your tools with why your customers will buy your product. There is talk about trying to make a “vision&# into a non-profit.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 5, 2019

He is the founder and CEO of Vertical Measures. Actually, one of the things that we’ve worked on here at Vertical Measures the last couple of years is we’ve created something that if you see it, it looks almost too simple if I told you it took us hundreds of hours to do it. Arnie Kuenn: Oh, absolutely. Arnie Kuenn: Yeah.

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