BeyondVC

JANUARY 5, 2022

We are truly to our founders, limited partners, co-investors, and friends for another year of growth and learning. With COVID raging at the beginning and end of the year, it is all the more amazing what our portfolio companies have accomplished the last twelve months. 1/ We started @boldstartvc in 2010 w/ $1m.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

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. Early-stage: Cofounder with engineering/ product background from top-tier university or major technology company.

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David Teten

JANUARY 23, 2021

Build the firm as much as possible before you solicit limited partners. . Your materials should ideally meet the expectations of the Institutional Limited Partners Association, even if you’re not targeting institutions. Note that limited partners view formatting as a proxy for professionalism.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 24, 2015

The question some of our limited partners ask us is, “Why?”. Central Canada has many of the assets of other entrepreneurial hubs: a flourishing creative community, an active local VC community , strong engineering talent and quality universities, such as University of Toronto, University of Waterloo and Ryerson University.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

Investors get board seats to assure themselves and their limited partners that they are duly informed about their investment. Yet while we’ve reinvented how startups build their companies , startup investors are still having board meetings like it’s the 19 th century. 1) It’s their fiduciary responsibility.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

Investors get board seats to assure themselves and their limited partners that they are duly informed about their investment. Yet while we’ve reinvented how startups build their companies , startup investors are still having board meetings like it’s the 19 th century. 1) It’s their fiduciary responsibility.

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Ministry of Supply Puts MIT Engineering Cred Into Dress Shirts. of Computer Science and Engineering, Univ. Subscribe for Free. Xconomy San Diego. Our Cities ▾ Boston ›. View More in Boston ›. Sakti3 Founder Sastry to Step Down From U-M. View More in Detroit ›. New York ›. View More in New York › ›. San Diego ›. Ken Nisbet.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

They have hundreds, if not thousands, of engineers, world-class design studios, subject matter experts from supply chain to manufacturing. The alternative model is to set up a dedicated venture fund and even supplement it with outside limited partners. The long-term view cannot be emphasized enough.

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Scott Edward Walker

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Moreover, because most financial buyers are set-up as funds (which have their own limited partner investors) that typically expire in 10 years, the return on their investment must happen relatively quickly. Indeed, I saw all the games they play at a personal level and in connection with financial engineering.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2010

VC’s money comes from mostly institutional investors called LPs (limited partners). They might not replace an engineer or two that quits. There is a primary reason that inside investors give companies convertible debt rather than just giving you the money as equity.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

million of limited partner commitments--a huge and exciting first step. Two Sigma is a technology and finance company in Soho filled with incredibly bright engineers and developers, so I’m really excited about leveraging that partnership in a number of cool ways.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 13, 2011

Investors get board seats to assure themselves and their limited partners that they are duly informed about their investment. Yet while we've reinvented how startups build their companies , startup investors are still having board meetings like it's the 19th century. From a VCs point of view there are two reasons for board meetings.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

A more efficient approach to fundraising than haphazard networking is to mine the data exhaust from the limited partner universe to identify those LPs most likely to find your fund attractive, and focus all your energy on them. Cobalt for General Partners helps GPs to optimize their fundraising strategy.

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finance.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 21, 2012

Almost all of them would be characterized as venture capital, with a few exceptions for funds managed by The Blackstone Group ( BX ), Providence Equity Partners and Spectrum Equity Investors. Through 12/31/11, less than 66% of the fund-of-funds called capital had been returned to limited partners. Engineering jobs.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2009

Video Games At SuperMac , Peter Barrett was the witty and creative 24-year old Australian engineer who had designed several of our most successful products, culminating with the software for the Video Spigot. I remember thinking, “What a disappointment one of the smartest engineers I know and he is going to waste his time making games.”

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

With science and engineering breakthroughs ingrained in the fabric of Houston’s economy, the region has become a thriving hub of digital technology talent. These limited partners add to the available capital in the state and provide funding for capital managers. AT&T Pension Fund and the DIRECTV Pension Plan.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

At Top Tier, we have been continuously refining our database and analytics engine, and we use it and other software mentioned in this article to make better decisions, spot trends, and stay in front of targeted venture capitalists and entrepreneurs. How do funds use tech to monitor and report investments?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

And I also now have to raise money myself, but this time from bigger institutions that our industry calls LPs (limited partners). And the great monetization engines of the Internet were built in LA – Overture (AdWords) & Applied Semantics (AdSense). I now observes the fund raising process as a profession.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

Over-engineering is poison. 4 ] The sharpest criticism of YC came from a founder who said we didntfocus enough on customer acquisition: YC preaches "make something people want" as an engineering task, a never ending stream of feature after feature until enough people are happy and the application takes off.

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David Teten

APRIL 30, 2018

While fundraising of US VCs has dropped slowly as a percentage of global limited partner allocations over the last decade, non-US startups are receiving a more rapidly increasing percentage of that money. Typically engineering, QA, and support are offshore, while CEO, sales, and marketing are in the US. Source: NVCA, Pitchbook.

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David Teten

APRIL 30, 2018

While fundraising of US VCs has dropped slowly as a percentage of global limited partner allocations over the last decade, non-US startups are receiving a more rapidly increasing percentage of that money. Typically engineering, QA, and support are offshore, while CEO, sales, and marketing are in the US. Source: NVCA, Pitchbook.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 26, 2023

It’s a global phenomenon, but to be successful in AI, startup hubs require a density of AI engineers, access to data and compute power and access to capital. We know a lot of founders in this space choose to remain in stealth and expect the actual number of Israeli startups working on generative AI to be much larger and grow quickly.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 3, 2012

million from venture investors to hire super smart engineers to create animated GIFs, is that a problem with investing in innovation? B) That the people who are trying to profit off innovation--the entrepreneurs and VCs--for whom there is no criteria to try your hand at it, are generally sucking at it. I doubt it.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Interestingly enough, Fred Terman, Dean of Stanford Engineering was tied to all three companies. million of it by the time they dissolved their partnership in 1968 – they returned $90 million to their limited partners – a 54% compound growth rate.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 27, 2022

There more than 35,000 engineers working on building it, and a strong level of passion/engagement in the communities being built around this ‘New Internet’ But with that, there are also challenges, which are less discussed. Meta (formerly Facebook) wants to hire 10,000 engineers in Europe to build the Metaverse.

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