David Teten

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

It’s very powerful to have a model that you can email to everyone in the firm, because then everyone sees clearly that you’re communicating the exact same message to the whole team (including outside consultants and the advisory board, if any). Like me, he had the pleasure/pain of being trained as an investment banking analyst.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But in business, you want a lot of partners. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies. Before you can actually invest, you have to manage your fund. In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers. Most of us want one spouse and we’re done. 1) Manage the firm .

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 21, 2014

Trying to connect on LinkedIn or cold emailing them won’t do the trick. You’ll be seen by clients as a trusted partner rather than an expense to be managed. There’s the story of an investment banker who arrives at his client’s office in the middle of a large deal. They could fill 24 hours of every day with meetings.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2016

Clips from their interviews are below: Wayne Sutton is a partner and co-founder of BUILDUP VC , a Bay Area non-profit that connects, mentors, and educates underrepresented technology entrepreneurs. — Right out of college, Dave chased a dream of being rich, becoming an investment banker. Wayne : No.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

Inbound calls from partners, people who want to join, atta boys from friends. Just a month ago they were all email you! We just landed the biz dev partner we’ve been working on for 9 months. Google DID NOT just acquire our main biz dev partner. Sit back and watch usage. Get your press coverage. La vita e bella.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

He started by using email (send your eCard to a friend) and there he sees 3-4 clicks back per share action. <Small plug> – I invested in an awesome company called … awe.sm … that is a performance tracking tool that let’s you measure efficacy of channels like this (email, facebook, twitter, linkedin, etc.)

Viral 303

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David Teten

JANUARY 8, 2013

According to Jeff Bussgang, General Partner at Flybridge Capital Partners, about 10-15% of the 1,000 active venture capitalists in the U.S. Fewer private equity funds are using social media for outreach, but 2xPartners , Healthpoint Capital , and MCM Capital Partners are notable exceptions.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

These angels who were all working in their day jobs at various financial institutions, would invite startup electronics companies up to San Francisco to pitch their deals and they would invest an average of $75 -$300K per deal. In a typical venture fund, the partners receive a 2% management fee.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

So I've been able to move to another location with my partner and another city, I should say. But what I was thinking in my mind was SMTP is the protocol that powers email, and some people run their own email servers on their own computer, which is what people with Bitcoin were doing at the time. It was stored in the cloud.

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