David Teten

MARCH 28, 2012

Best Practices in Venture Capital Portfolio Company Value Creation. In addition, in light of increasing competition in the startup funding space, a methodology for helping portfolio companies consistently is a strong competitive advantage. I’ve also posted this at Betabeat.). View more presentations from David Teten.

Portfolio 144

Portfolio Private Equity Venture Capital Early Stage 144

View from Seed

JANUARY 13, 2021

It turns out capital is not a weapon, especially in the early stages of building a business, and even experienced founders who can raise huge sums often realize this and right-size their asks. First, the winners in most portfolios don’t often have a true recap round. There are a few reasons. I think this is a real issue.

Dilution 399

Dilution Later Stage Portfolio Technical Review 399

David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

As I’ve worked to build out HOF Capital ’s portfolio acceleration platform , the #1 question I think about is: how do we scalably support our companies? Many VCs offer (or strive to offer) a bundle of levers and support structures to help their portfolio companies. We have lower AUM, therefore lower management fees.

Portfolio 60

Portfolio Technical Review Private Equity Database 60

View from Seed

JULY 15, 2020

One topic of conversation among VC’s over the last few months is how their portfolios are faring during the Covid pandemic. So I thought I’d share my observations, informed by what’s going on in our portfolio and from what I can gather from others in the ecosystem. Reshuffling the deck.

Portfolio 215

Portfolio IRR Dilution Distribution 215

Genuine VC

JULY 9, 2013

Recently, we surveyed our Boston-based NextView portfolio Founder/CEOs asking them about which service provider firms they’ve been using. Moreover, we at NextView Ventures certainly ourselves don’t make any decisions on who our portfolio companies use… each and every one them evaluates their options individually.'

Early Stage 246

Early Stage Boston Portfolio Silicon Valley 246

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

This may vary from fund to fund, but in general here is the top level criteria VCs would use to check initial fit: Stage – is the startup raising a round which is within the range of the fund (pre seed, seed, series A, early stage, growth, etc.). Stake – can the fund secure it’s minimum stake in the business?

Technical Review 166

Technical Review Early Stage Cofounder Portfolio 166

View from Seed

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

You have an edge in the highly competitive world of early stage investing that comes from some combination of your experience, industry knowledge, and personal network. NextView is a thematic, seed-stage VC firm focused on the Everyday Economy with $500M+ of capital under management. You act as an “ invited guest.”.

Technical Review 156

Technical Review North America Seed Stage Bandwidth 156

Hunter Walker

MAY 13, 2023

Especially in the early days of mobile/iOS engineering, if you hired strong technical talent into your early stage company, you basically created an acquisition outcome floor. If over the course of the next year you see any Homebrew portfolio company try this out, I’ll let you know! Very different.

Early Stage 117

Early Stage Cap Table Acquisition Sales 117

techcrunch.com

AUGUST 12, 2012

Zachary Bogue And Matt Ocko Launch Data Collective, An Early Stage Fund For Big Data Startups. Data Collective has already made 46 investments from its first fund, which it calls “comparable with other seed and early stage funds” (Ocko and Bogue wouldn’t reveal fund size.). Headphones. CrunchBase.

Early Stage 70

Early Stage San Francisco Los Angeles Southern California 70

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

These usually play a role in the very early stage of your business, primarily pre-revenue. The seed stage is focused on building the core team, product optimization, exploring avenues for monetization. ? Early-stage. An early-stage investor usually looks at a return of 10 to 15 times.

Startup 150

Startup Entrepreneur Elevator Pitch Seed Stage 150

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Essentially, show that you can build a great portfolio and deploy all capital pre series A.” Kudos to all the emerging managers and early stage founders, who are out there and continue to grind against the odds. Luck favours the bold! The post How’s Venture Capital Changing in 2023 appeared first on VC Cafe.

Venture Capital 215

Venture Capital Technical Review LP Institutional Investors 215

View from Seed

APRIL 27, 2020

We can stay busy by expending time and effort supporting the existing portfolio, which is the right thing to do and a good use of time. Like most VC’s, we’ve been engrossed in helping our portfolio company founders navigate these challenging times while thinking through how we will approach this market going forward. Wait and see.

Cofounder 194

Cofounder Software Review Portfolio Technical Review 194

Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2014

The Innovation Portfolio. Companies manage these three types of innovation with an innovation portfolio – they build innovation internally, they buy it or they partner with resources outside their company. Ventures that are further along and now executing their business model are no longer startups, they are now early-stage companies.

Acquisition 332

Acquisition Intellectual Property Silicon Valley Startup 332

View from Seed

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Although Ginny is new to the team, she has many connections to the NextView family, as she started her career at our portfolio company Shareaholic , and worked closely with both Jay Acunzo (our first head of platform) and Joe Chernov (the VP of Marketing at our portfolio company Insight Squared ).

Seed Stage 120

Seed Stage Boston Early Stage Portfolio 120

View from Seed

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Although Ginny is new to the team, she has many connections to the NextView family, as she started her career at our portfolio company Shareaholic , and worked closely with both Jay Acunzo (our first head of platform) and Joe Chernov (the VP of Marketing at our portfolio company Insight Squared ).

Seed Stage 120

Seed Stage Boston Early Stage Portfolio 120

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

And with so many new funds in the market and looking to put capital to work it’s no surprise that there was an even bigger boom in the numbers of deals being funded in the early-stage markets. I launched my first startup in 1999 so I know the economics of launching from first-hand experience.

Venture Capital 328

Venture Capital Technical Review Seed Stage IPO 328

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Every potential early-stage Venture Capitalist should take a year and do it before he or she makes partner. Rolodex/deal flow (deal sourcing/ability to make connections for the portfolio). Early-stage Venture Capital firms grow their partnerships in different ways, some hire: partners from other firms. Here’s why.

Venture Capital 332

Venture Capital Early Stage Technical Review Startup 332

David Teten

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Before making the decision to join ff Venture Capital , I did some research on early-stage tech investing as an asset class and how it’s evolving. Although any given early-stage company is quite risky, when aggregated across a large portfolio, returns are very attractive. They’re also inflation-hedged.

Early Stage 148

Early Stage Private Equity Portfolio Aggregator 148

Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Highlighted Homebrew Portfolio Jobs. Notes and More. to Fair Fight supporting voter rights. Things I’m Enjoying. Salonpas patches for back pain because I’m old, Andytown coffee and this GQ article about a band of watch thieves. Orum is a NYC-based financial technology company that makes money move fast.

Early Stage 146

Early Stage Seed Stage Startup Software 146

Austin Startup

MARCH 8, 2021

And as of last month female-led companies make up 45% of Sputnik ATX’s portfolio. Here’s how 5 Sputnik-backed, woman led early stage startups began and how they’re growing today. My Next Chapter: Moving on from Black Women Talk Tech : how Lauren Washington started Fundr.AI

Early Stage 63

Early Stage Cofounder Washington Startup 63

Hunter Walker

JANUARY 3, 2021

Or you could, of course, use this OKR template from Homebrew portfolio company Coda. Highlighted Homebrew Portfolio Jobs. In Q4 teams also set metagoals for the next year. Now we have software startups who have basically built their business around OKR-style planning! Photo by Jeffrey F Lin on Unsplash.

Early Stage 145

Early Stage Management Startup Portfolio 145

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Examples of some leaders in this space include Ron Conway in Silicon Valley and Jeff Bezos , CEO of Amazon, who each may have over 500 startups in their portfolio. VCs are committed to servicing existing portfolios. This can cause early investor dilution, lower ultimate returns or leave the startup stranded.

Angel Investor 342

Angel Investor Venture Capital Silicon Valley Portfolio 342

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2013

Every early-stage startup should explore this new funding alternative. New “up-and-comer” VCs focus on early-stage companies. VCs are finding that they don’t need the “large” funds of $100M to $500M to support a portfolio, if they focus on early-stage startups.

Angel Investor 231

Angel Investor Entrepreneur Early Stage Silicon Valley 231

View from Seed

APRIL 2, 2024

Similarly, I’d argue that the early-stage venture “product” has elevated across the board. VC’s across the board have generally upped their game and are much more involved in the startup ecosystem and with their portfolios. A lot of offerings that were innovative at one time are table stakes today.

Merger 343

Merger Non-Compete Early Stage Venture Capital 343

Haystack

DECEMBER 27, 2018

About a year ago, I tracked down a VC who gave a talk I heard about where he referenced the phrase “Your portfolio is your path,” it stuck out in my mind because amid all the noise, it was simple, brief, and yet still open to interpretation. “Your portfolio is your path.” The portfolio is, indeed, your path.

Portfolio 118

Portfolio Syndicate Syndication Flash 118

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

How do you get your early customers to advocate on your behalf? Most early stage startups don’t have the regulatory domain expertise in-house. Have them tell you how they helped other companies in their portfolio succeed, pitfalls to avoid, and the lobbying resources they can bring to bear.

Washington 271

Washington Government Marketing Silicon Valley 271

View from Seed

DECEMBER 6, 2018

And early stage investing is about finding outliers, which requires some flexibility to stretch beyond your rules to test your beliefs without going too crazy. Early stage investing is much less efficient than you think, so trust yourself! Except… Spotify). There are a few things that don’t change.

Early Stage 120

Early Stage Florida Deal Flow Venture Capital 120

Version One Ventures

MAY 3, 2023

Freshbooks and Zoho are the best-known examples from past decades, but an increasing number of start-ups are joining that effort (among others, our portfolio company Headout). Micro VC’s, dedicated seed funds, domestic funds and a domestic LP ecosystem are all still in the early stages of development.

India 87

India LP Silicon Valley Vertical 87

Genuine VC

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

Chad is the CEO of thoughtbot, a consulting firm that makes web + mobile apps for early-stage startups. I shared a link to Code Climate with a number of CTOs/VPs of Engineering in my network, both inside and outside the NextView portfolio, just asking for their quick opinion.

Software Review 191

Software Review Chad Ruby PHP 191

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 11, 2021

In any case, your startup is now part of some investor’s portfolio, so you need to treat the situation like reporting to a new boss, and not like a new freedom. As an early-stage startup, you may have some hand-picked mentors as an Advisory Board, but now you need a formal Board with approval rights on all your strategic decisions and pivots.

Term Sheet 433

Term Sheet Advisory Board Liquidation Preference Startup 433

Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Our anti-portfolio: the opportunities we missed : Early-stage investing is hard, and the toughest lesson you can learn is looking back at companies you had the chance to invest in, but unfortunately passed on. . Read the post: Resetting venture capital expectations: is 10x the new 3x? And check out other V1 news from 2021: .

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Technical Review Software Review IPO 60

Haystack

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

The first wave of reactions centered around the importance of diversification in a portfolio. There are countless posts on portfolio construction, or how many investments are ideal in a venture portfolio, and so forth. I totally agree diversification is an important concept to help protect LPs and maximize returns for the GP.

Portfolio 83

Portfolio Early Stage Startup Venture Capital 83

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 25, 2017

The most pressing advantage for startups, in this, is an increased number of options when it comes to staying alive in the early days of the company. This can even include angel investing, and platforms like AngelList and Crowdfunder have put new vigor – and hope – into early stage startups.

Venture Capital 184

Venture Capital Technical Review Kenya Startup 184

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 17, 2020

In addition to building transformative companies that we’re lucky to have in the portfolio, Data.World and OJO Labs respectively, they’ve helped with introductions, investment diligence, and broader portfolio support. ai , a Breyer Capital early-stage investment, list on the New York Stock Exchange.

Austin 84

Austin Silicon Valley Technical Review Texas 84

David Teten

MAY 20, 2016

As one of the lead engineers at ff Venture Capital , I spend most of my day building custom software solutions that enhance our firm’s process–tools that range from portfolio investment management to co-investor and cap table tracking and more. We posted on our site a more in-depth overview of ff’s Tech Platform.

Private Equity 113

Private Equity Equity Cap Table Venture Capital 113

This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Having a better overall portfolio of venture capital by adding funds into the mix. Consider the following two portfolios: You have $500,000 that you want to put to work in venture capital over the next three years. That makes you a more valuable investor to founders, if you’ve got these kinds of connections to early stage funds.

Portfolio 134

Portfolio Syndicate Syndication Deal Flow 134

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 Pocket Negotiator is very early-stage attempt to aid in the negotiating process itself. . 8) Accelerate portfolio company value.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60