A Crowded Space

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Very shortly after I joined, Greg Gretsch (now my partner at Jackson Square Ventures) co-led oDesk’s Series A along with Venky Ganesan (partner at Menlo Ventures and lead investor in Rev.com). Greg Gretsch was and remains on the board and is my partner at Jackson Square Ventures.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Share on Tumblr email share Share on Tumblr email share. Joshua Baer is the co-founder and CEO of Otherinbox , a prolific angel investor and the director of Capital Factory , Austin’s seed-stage incubator. I use a service like Tout to manage my email templates for quickly replies. Look for Your Lead Investor.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2021

Kent Bennett from Bessemer Venture Partners spoke to this initial slow down: “ We couldn’t do anything until we understood the new normal. We looked to who from our respected community could help us meet founders, partnered closely with co-investors we’d worked with before and with credible angels.”.

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VC Adventure

MAY 21, 2014

A few months ago AngelList announced Syndicates - enabling investors on AngelList to create fund-like groups of investors to invest together in AngelList companies (following a single lead investor). Also reply to each request for intro and expect these people to email you back, usually with questions.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 7, 2017

If you take smart money from a good angel or venture organization, the lead investor usually becomes your board member and has a vested interest in your success. Email readers, continue here…] How do you pay a coach?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

The surest sign a fund-raising process has stalled is when you aren’t getting follow-up meetings or hearing from the VC or hearing from friends that they got a phone call or email asking about you. You might start with a partner in the meeting or it might be a principal or associate. It doesn’t have to be a partner?—?every

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David Teten

JANUARY 7, 2019

A retail investor might join an existing syndicate on a crowdfunding site based on a deck and maybe an email. However, usually the biggest challenge for a company is finding a lead investor, and that requires one or typically more meetings. . I earlier wrote a checklist for the information to share with a VC.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2016

Just like professional investors wait for friends and family to go first, friends will wait for you to show “skin in the game.” A startup founder that is not the “lead investor” in time and money should not expect anyone else to jump in front and lead the way. Demonstrate your own financial commitment and progress.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 30, 2018

One reason you might be raising from so many sources is that you haven’t found it easy to find a strong lead investor (for say $20 million) but many sources are willing to write you smaller checks (of say $2–3 million each). Many investors can also be the opposite situation where you’re so successful that everybody wants to invest.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

If I’m not mistaken, I may have been the first person to send out an angel “personal intro&# email on AngelList through their new platform when it launched or at least I was one of the first few. But before I sent it I had made 10 private phone calls, sent emails & built support. It worked like a charm.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 10, 2022

and we also had a great relationship with the partner. I can’t say we have major regrets here though — Susa has been a great partner. The needs of the lead investor for ownership? A round that is most accommodating for the existing investors while allowing you to get new people involved?

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VC Adventure

MAY 21, 2014

A few months ago AngelList announced Syndicates – enabling investors on AngelList to create fund-like groups of investors to invest together in AngelList companies (following a single lead investor). Also reply to each request for intro and expect these people to email you back, usually with questions.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 25, 2017

As my partner and I traveled across the pond to pitch a tech investor in the UK (our 37th pitch), I remember making a million tiny tweaks to the phrasing and focus of our plan. I could tell my partner was getting nervous. My partner fielded a question about our current user-base in our test platform.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 13, 2010

StoredIQ , a leading provider of Intelligent Information Management solutions for eDiscovery, records and compliance management, today announced that it has closed $10 million in new investment financing and expanded its management team in preparation for accelerated growth. CrunchBase Information. S3 Ventures.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

A complete collapse of revenue that simultaneously affects your employees and your customers, your partners, your investors, everyone all at once and all the news is bad. Your customers and your investors like partners? We're going to treat our hosts like partners. We'll treat our hosts like partners.

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Berkonomics

JULY 3, 2010

If you take smart money from a good angel or venture organization, the lead investor usually becomes your board member and has a vested interest in your success. Email readers continue here.] Some charge by the hour, making themsef available much as an attorney, keeping track of hours spent on phone calls and emails with you.

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Rob Go

JANUARY 9, 2012

But one investment this year originated from a cold email regarding a post on one of our partners’ blogs (we invested after getting to know the founders over several months). Stage: We are seed investors, but often, the first institutional seed round happens at different stages in the company’s maturity.

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The Startup Lawyer

JANUARY 6, 2011

Founder and Partner at AOL Ventures , a few weeks ago. People email me sometimes and say, “if we only had AOL’s traffic we would be huge!” I’ll make a point here – we are not opposed to getting emails from people seeking partnership opportunities and recognize that this is a product of where we sit.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 20, 2009

million from Lighthouse Capital Partners , which ultimately became critical to our balance sheet and they turned out to be a great partner as we worked through the equity financing process. Some were also dealing with issues of limited partners struggles with capital calls and asset allocations. Email This BlogThis!

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