SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

But founders need to know how to ask for their advice and when to ignore it. Startup Insights From Paul English, Co-Founder of Kayak - OnStartups , May 10, 2010 I’m just wrapping up several weeks of attending conferences across both coasts. Why Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers. was having coffee with a friend who teaches at the U.C.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

As the former CEO of a professional expert network , I’m a firm believer in the value of speedy access to relevant experts. I was excited to see that GLG (formerly Gerson Lehrman Group), the industry leader, is now offering a professional network service geared to the needs of the startup community: GLG Share.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

As more investors have more touch points with a “Softbank round” in their portfolio, a picture emerges — rounds here often take a long time to close. cities flocking to these machines, downloading apps for each network, and paying just a few bucks to get from Point A to B. 1/ Social Network Interference.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

Tal Raviv is the co-founder of Ecquire. Whether that means chasing down a technical co-founder, learning to code, or even building that “Lean MVP” – the conventional wisdom is that without tech abilities you’re nothing more than a dude (or dudette) with a Powerpoint. This post was originally published on OnStartups.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

Tim Sweeney, the founder and CEO of Epic is a long term visionary of our online future and the Metaverse. Tim Sweeney, Epic Games’ founder and CEO. Yuga Labs Pitch Deck: BAYC founders raised $450M from Andreesen Horowitz from Pitch Decks. Here we go! Epic Games. Dapper Labs.

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VC Cafe

MAY 29, 2022

Sequoia’s “Adapting to Endure” Sequoia presented this deck to a group of portfolio founders and it quickly spread online to founders worldwide. Investing at this stage is primarily focused on founders, market tailwinds, and underlying product/strategy (in that order).

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 23, 2012

(We’ve looked) at how social media sites can be used as powerful networking tools for new college graduates, sharing our best picks for tips, tools, and more for Facebook , Twitter , and now, LinkedIn. That’s a mistake: LinkedIn is the online destination for professional networking, and you’ve got to be on it to get connected.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

Previously she was Co-Founder and CEO of SNAZZ, a cloud-based event management platform. Her work included heading Nokia’s location-based services business and app portfolio for emerging markets, which she built from a back-of-a-napkin idea to a 100-person organization with over 10 million users. Mari Holds a B.A.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 9, 2014

Founders with Kids – crowdspring.co/1rW91oS. Surprising Trends in Startup Founder Equity Stakes | by Tomasz Tunguz – crowdspring.co/1njnhbl. Surprising Trends in Startup Founder Equity Stakes | by Tomasz Tunguz – crowdspring.co/1njnhbl. Founders with Kids – crowdspring.co/1rW91oS. 1fr1U85.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 1, 2011

Over the weekend there has been some controversy surrounding AngelList , the network that connects startup entrepreneurs and investors. Before AngelList, investment dealflow was private and networks revolved around a few connected angels and VC?s. To my surprise, VC? Bryce Roberts , a partner at O?Reilly spray-and-pray?

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

I’ve primarily seen quantitative analytic techniques used in origination , filtering , and in portfolio company recruiting , but technology can be used throughout the nine steps of the private company investing process: The 9 Steps of the Private Company Investing Process. 9% (1 / 12). Source: Knowledge.VC , based on scraping firm websites

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

Friday, March 9 Attracting VC Funding Outside Silicon Valley Panel with HomeAway founder Brian Sharples & Capital Factory Director Gordon Daugherty We do a lot of things differently in Texas, including fundraising. If you live in Texas, find out how you can tap into the network. Time: 2:00PM?—?3:00PM 3:00PM Location: Hilton?—?Salon

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Austin Startup

JULY 29, 2018

They rationalize it with portfolio theory but almost everyone I know does it because they really enjoy it. For many, it’s not part of a formal allocation or portfolio where there is some amount of money set aside that must be invested by a certain time. Angel Networks are more like VC’s than Angel Investors. Do your homework.

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Mucker Lab

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Following the inevitable ups and downs of the VC investment cycle, and what founders can do when it all turns cold. Out of hundreds of social networks launched, only one changed the world. The “venture recession” of 2016 is in full swing. Normal distributions do not exist; standard deviations are meaningless.

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Babbling VC

MAY 19, 2012

Without sounding all grim, I want to just reiterate what I told a ton of my portfolio companies back in 2000. They were not the first social network. They did not have a senior founder team of experienced players. There was a ton of founder fallout (see the movie). Keep at what you are doing regardless.

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Genuine VC

JULY 19, 2010

Initial investment in a company is among the first non-founder capital raised. Portfolio construction favors early-round capital allocation vs. company life-cycle allocation. The capital deployment velocity is notably higher than a traditional 1-2 investment per partner per year.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

All of this is according to Paul Graham, co-founder of the early-stage investment fund Ycombinator. The result is that many venture capital firms are now making smaller angel investments in an attempt to get close with startup founders that are likely to raise bigger funding rounds later on. Angel rounds also tend to close quicker.

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Fred describes the general 100/10/1 rule as applied to social platforms, where 1% of users will create content, 10% will engage with it, and 100% will consume it once they are logged in. For example, if we were to take a social network like Facebook or Twitter, we might end up with something that looks like the diagram below (n.b.

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Haystack

JULY 4, 2019

Would I hope all founders updated their investors, even if briefly? If a founder I’ve backed simply sends 5-7 bullet points per month with some key stats, metrics, and requests for specific connections and help, then over time I follow their “story” and it becomes a part of my daily vocabulary. Yes, of course.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

But most importantly I lectured founders that you can’t avoid the admin of setting up your ESOP. In the era of social networking if you can’t figure out how to get intro’d to me you probably aren’t cut out to be an entrepreneur. But if you do this early (pre VC) then the price points are pretty low.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

All of this is according to Paul Graham, co-founder of the early-stage investment fund Ycombinator. The result is that many venture capital firms are now making smaller angel investments in an attempt to get close with startup founders that are likely to raise bigger funding rounds later on. 38 New Social Media Resources You May.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 7, 2017

Initially, you get funded by entrepreneur founders who want to develop a product, service, or solution which they think the market needs and demands. Angel Networks. Angel investors provide everything that startups need — from funding, mentorship, professional advice, and access to investors in their network. Crowdfunding Sites.

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Private Equity Startup Incubator Social Network 159

Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

Recently one of the startups in our portfolio, eRelevance, failed, as the Austin American-Statesman documented. As I wrote about in my post on Seven critical lessons learned in angel investing , this is painful and you must have a diversified portfolio to practice angel investing and actually make money. But I digress?—?this

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Both of us were very highly respected, we were both managers, we both had really large networks of people that we knew. … . Anyone can just edit?”

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 9, 2013

WineFamily also has a social network component called Grapevine that allows wine merchants to create their own social communities, allowing consumers to communicate directly with wine makers and distributors. But easy online access to a large portfolio of wines will likely be the key draw for consumers in Asia.

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VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2021

The advancements in infrastructure, including the launch of 5G networks , new Nvidia chips with nearly 100% increase in GPU power, Lidar sensors embedded in consumer smartphones, to cloud gaming becoming widely available with offerings from Google, Amazon, Microsoft, etc. Alban Denoyel , Sketchfab’s co-founder and CEO.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 28, 2012

This is a guest post by Christian Gheorghe, founder and CEO of Tidemark. The people of IT—CIOs, network engineers, system administrators, IT developers and their brethren—get captured and held hostage by the technological dictators. Keep hand-rolled, brittle server, storage and network infrastructures working reliably.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Techstars, the worldwide network that helps entrepreneurs succeed, announced the 10 startups selected for the 2020 class of Techstars Austin. Techstars provides their accelerator portfolio companies with access to financial, human and intellectual capital to fuel the success of their business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2014

This doesn’t work well with “nice to have” offerings, like social networks, but does work for new drugs and medical devices that solve critical health problems. Here your objective is to make money with the portfolio, with high markup and low markup items, depending on competition, lock-in, value delivered, and loyal customers.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

But there are many zombie VC’s with no more investments left in their portfolios so it’s hard to know which trend has more impact. Sentiment is strong in personal portfolios and up commensurately with VC’s expectations that their last fund will now be worth something (and along with that increase the partners’ personal wealth).

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

Meanwhile while social networking was white hot 3 years ago it is now persona non grata unless your user numbers are insane. I’m thankful to the associates at Upfront Ventures for helping me to evaluate our new opportunities and for helping me be prepared for issues with our portfolio companies.

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View from Seed

MAY 12, 2015

Are you a founder of an ecommerce startup? Some partners at VC firms are just more accessible than others, taking more meetings with entrepreneurs both inside and outside their immediate networks. When founders in our portfolio at NextView go out to raise a Series A, these are some of the things we talk about.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But, most of use raise capital and source deals the same way people looked for dates 20 years ago: by networking at conferences (or bars). . 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2013

This doesn’t work well with “nice to have” offerings, like social networks, but does work for new drugs and medical devices that solve critical health problems. Here your objective is to make money with the portfolio, with high markup and low markup items, depending on competition, lock-in, value delivered, and loyal customers.

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VC Adventure

OCTOBER 23, 2014

We feel we’ve found that in Ello – a social networking business that’s part Twitter, Tumblr, and Facebook, but at the same time all its own. I know plenty about selling advertising on the internet – we have many portfolio companies that help publishers do this (or that are publishers themselves and who make money selling ads).

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Before AngelList, investment dealflow was private and networks revolved around a few connected angels and VC?s. Since the angel network was created, transparent angel investing has exploded and entrepreneurs from any background can get funded. Most indices are cap-weighted - more in line with a concentrated portfolio (i.e.

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Scalable Startup

APRIL 1, 2013

>> The 15 Minute Website and Personal Website “Portfolios” – soon anyone will be able to build multiple personal sites with full e-commerce, payment systems, community, social networking, SEO, and big data analytics with no coding and very easy manipulation.

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