David Teten

JANUARY 23, 2021

Build the firm as much as possible before you solicit limited partners. . The next best move is to build your core team, e.g., recruit an Advisory Board, Venture Partners, and EIRs. Yohei Nakajima, Founder of Untapped.vc , said, “Before pitching LPs and building my firm, I talked with over 50 people I knew to get feedback.” .

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VC Cafe

APRIL 26, 2023

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. In just a couple of months the current version includes 68 startups. At Remagine Ventures we started investing in the generative AI space very early back in 2019.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Twenty-five of them have at least one female co-founder. Fifteen had co-founders over 40. Five have LGBTQ+ founders. Three teams have African-American founders. All were backed based on the sole criteria that they had the potential to make my limited partners a lot of money.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

One of the things that founders have the most angst about is whom they should have on their board and at what stage of the business. Why you should set up a board at the seed round of funding I know these days with SAFE documents and rolling convertible notes many founders prefer not to set up a board early on.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Either way, VC funds aren't really built around creating much of an experience for their Limited Partners. That happens most when the LPs represent a diverse group of industries and perspectives who want to be helpful to portfolio companies and founders. For smaller funds, I think this is a real mistake.

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thebarefootvc

JULY 3, 2017

The stories outlined by a number of brave women in the NY Times last week recount investors using their power and position to proposition female founders. Just a week before, Justin Caldbeck, founder of Binary Capital , admitted to sexually harassing a number of women who were seeking investment from his fund.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

and co-founder Dr. Paolo Coppola, and two years later the company was sold to CityMD––the leading urgent care provider in the New York metro area––after its rapid growth saw the company receive a compelling acquisition offer even sooner than anticipated.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 5, 2023

For me, I have at least two years of active board and observer commitments to roll off of and far more time before all the founders I’ve backed hit (or miss, I suppose) their ultimate goal of returning lots of money to their investors. No more founder pitch meetings. It has been a career that fits my personality well.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

From RBI, Flexible VCs borrow the ability to reap meaningful returns without demanding founders build for an exit. Every Flexible VC structure allows founders to access immediate risk capital while preserving exit, growth trajectory, and ownership optionality. . Flexible VC 102: Variations.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2014

Our last fund was $200 million but as you may already know since we raised that fund we added new partners Greg Bettinelli and Kara Nortman and Venture Partner Hamet Watt – all of whom are busy looking at new deals for the firm in addition to Yves Sisteron (the founder), Steven Dietz (also part of founding team) and myself.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Funding challenges and other issues founders face in the early days of starting up were the focus of interviews with the latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on SiriusXM Channel 111 (airing weekly Thursdays at 1 pm Pacific, 4 pm Eastern). Will Zell , co-founder and CEO of Nikola Labs wireless power company.

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VC Adventure

OCTOBER 14, 2020

We’ve kept ourselves intentionally small as a firm so can keep our close connection with our portfolio founders from due diligence, to investment, and throughout the lifecycle of our investments. Community is one of the driving forces at Foundry Group.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 10, 2023

Investor-friendly clauses in agreement There are also clauses in many such investor documents that allow the investor to override the founder and force a sale of the company if a proposed sale is attractive to an investor for liquidity, even if the founder feels that there is much more potential if the business is not sold at the present time.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 4, 2019

The trends described above in VC performance have an upstream effect on Limited Partners which is somewhat counter-intuitive. These growth rounds may be more dilutive than planned, but will still occur without punitive terms and allow founders, teams, and early investors to emerge with very successful outcomes at the very end.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 19, 2023

Jahn Karsybaev and Adil Nurgozhin, the founders of Big Sky Capital , crossed paths while studying at the University of Montana. Focusing on enterprise SaaS companies and immigrant founders, Karsybaev and Nurgozhin created a fund to provide financial support, mentorship, and guidance to startups in their portfolios. healthcare system.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 15, 2024

A billion dollar valuation, the Unicorn status was once the holy grail for many VCs and founders. Discount Unicorns – Tiger Global opened its entire portfolio for individual bids in order to provide liquidity to its limited partners, often selling stakes in unicorns at steep discounts.

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View from Seed

JULY 26, 2019

sometime back in 2010 or early 2011) one of the limited partners we met with asked us what our “favorite future” was for NextView. When meeting with founders we now often ask them what their favorite future is for their startup. Early in NextView’s history, when we were raising our first fund (e.g.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 12, 2014

You charge your limited partners this, but you have to pay it back before you start taking a cut of the profits. Plus, when I look at my risks--is the risk that a legal term will shoot me in the foot or that these two founders and a prototype run this business into the ground. It''s more "borrow" pay than "take home" pay.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Tim Friedman, Founder, PE Stack , said, “If I could offer one piece of advice to today’s managers, it would be to take the time to understand the demands of the modern institutional LP. Boardex and Relationship Science make it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. 3) Raise capital.

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David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

Managers of VC funds typically want to grow their business aggressively, just like the founders we back. But, we normally have a clear ceiling on how high we can grow AUM, before hitting practical limits to deploying capital within the traditional VC model. . This evolves the VC from a server to a router.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 12, 2014

People all across the value chain have taken notice including Limited Partners who are the people who invest in VC funds in the first place. Have you noticed the increase of founders selling their personal stock in what is known as a “secondary?” Why prorata rights are now sought out by LPs.

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Eric Friedman

JUNE 16, 2016

They are incredible founders, with amazing backgrounds, working on great ideas. Expa is a startup studio that works with founders to develop and launch new products. This experience has been integrated into a platform to help founders increase their startup’s chance of success.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 5, 2016

I've heard a lot of VCs tell founders they need co-founders--and that they wouldn't look at a business at a very early stage without a co-founder. A lot of accelerators treat solo founders the same way--making it an implied requirement to participate. The same holds true for VC funds.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2021

including Charles Butt , founder of H-E-B; Dean Drako , founder of Barracuda Networks and Eagle Eye Networks; and Tim Draper , of Draper Associates. Capital Factory has partnered with AngelList Rolling Funds to better meet the needs of today’s investors.

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VC Cafe

MAY 18, 2023

Honor Thy Founder and Their Vision : Respect the founder’s vision and passion. Be decisive, move quickly, and don’t leave founders hanging. Thou Shalt Love Thy Limited Partners as Thyself : Treat your LPs with respect and transparency. They are the ones in the trenches every day. Thou shalt be patient.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance. For background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. Decathlon Capital.

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Jason Ball

APRIL 8, 2014

Last week I was asked what I look for in Founders/CEOs by some LPs (limited partners, the people that actually give VCs the money they invest). Many founder/CEOs I’ve worked with have been the first to cut their paycheck to zero, to invest their last dollar and even end up in divorce. Starting a company is hard.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

A more efficient approach 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. Relationship Science makes it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. 2) Raise capital.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Your role as a founder who brings on board members should be to understand the importance of the team dynamic and try to foster better human relationships so that in the future when you need people to work together for a common purpose a trust and rapport has been formed. The founders of a company are fighting.

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ithacaVC

DECEMBER 22, 2012

I recently engaged in a conversation (over a few days) about the need for a seed stage company to have a board member other than the founder. For clarity, a company with one founder can have a one member board (assuming a corporation). The decision to have an investor on the board is really one for the founder.

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Agile VC

JULY 26, 2019

sometime back in 2010 or early 2011) one of the limited partners we met with asked us what our “favorite future” was for NextView. When meeting with founders we now often ask them what their favorite future is for their startup. Early in NextView’s history, when we were raising our first fund (e.g.

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David Teten

AUGUST 1, 2017

For ideas on what to ask, see The Master List: Questions to Ask Potential Co-Founders and 8 Issues You Need to Discuss with Your Startup Co-Founder. Brad’s colleague Linkel Eakman, a prominent limited partner, published his guide: A Human User Interface….with CULTURAL FIT.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

Dan is the co-founder of Standard Treasury, a Y Combinator backed company. He is also co-founder and Managing Partner of Deciens Capital, an early stage investment fund. How do you get to that point if you have that kind of a view of the world, of founders, and of this space? On Sushi and VC. But, it makes no sense to me.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 9, 2020

by Ryan McInnis, CEO and founder of PicnicTax. For new startups, organizing as a partnership can be a great way for multiple founders to be involved from the beginning. In a partnership, the partners share ownership of and responsibility for the financial well-being of the enterprise. Schedule K-1 for Each Founder.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 5, 2022

We are truly to our founders, limited partners, co-investors, and friends for another year of growth and learning. boldstart kicked off 2021 by announcing the closing of $230M of funds, $155M fund V and $75M opportunities ii, to continue supporting developer first & SaaS founders from Day 1 to scale( ).

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 28, 2016

I'm a founder. Founders know that space needs to be something more when they interact with clients and customers, when they onboard people, and when they focus on culture through offsites and events. Sure, I'm an investor, too, but I started Brooklyn Bridge Ventures , the firm I invest out of.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2016

Many first-time founders seek advice when thinking about what ideas would be great for a startup company and receive the wrong advice that you need to focus on a billion-dollar idea. I advise founders to focus on what I call “basecamp,” which is the first level of success or validation at a startup. So what should you do?

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