Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 21, 2014

My other partner, Steven Dietz, was on the board of my second company. Stuart Lander has joined Upfront Ventures to help us run operations. Stuart was a co-founder at my first startup company and ended up running global operations. Mafias matter a lot to me, as well. In a way my firm at Upfront is mafia.

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CTO Hire Cofounder San Francisco Silicon Valley 320

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2019

New entrepreneurs who want to survive, and optimize the growth of their startups, need to think globally, and act locally, from day one. This approach, popularly known as “ glocalization ,” means you have to design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market in which you operate.

Global 235

Global North America Intellectual Property Marketing 235

David Teten

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Blue Future Partners, a venture capital fund of funds, recently interviewed me on ESG in venture capital. In its first full year of operation, VCAP attracted 159 applicants. – StratiFi is the first low-cost, intuitive, and scalable portfolio hedging SaaS platform for investors. How have you handled them? Who hasn’t?

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 28, 2022

Global Advantages of Outsourcing. It helps you pick the right partners and service portfolio for your business. When you collaborate with an outsourcing partner to handle your IT functions, you must invest in excellent back-and-forth communications with them. Establish clear objectives and budgets.

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Partner Reputation Portfolio 120

The Startup Magazine

MARCH 1, 2021

As entrepreneurs with a passion for helping others, they’ve built a company that is vastly accelerating the ability to deliver healthcare to the most needy global communities. Her work has been commended in leading industry publications and gives her unique strategic insights into the global healthcare ecosystem.

Technical Review 110

Technical Review Founder Saudi Arabia Cofounder 110

ReadWriteStart

MAY 7, 2021

One major reason is that unless you don’t put effort into hiring the right talent, the operational functions suffer. Not to mention, today’s workforce is already gearing up to operate 100% remotely and still perform their best. Hiring Global Talent. Eventually, that impacts the organization’s performance.

Hiring 159

Hiring Technical Review Software Review Startup 159

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But in business, you want a lot of partners. However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. 1) Manage the firm .

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Transformify

JUNE 20, 2020

Some clients may be operating in one country only (e.g. Germany) while others are likely to span operations across regions (e.g. DACH) or operate globally. Hence, a merchant that operates in the EU and China for example will be looking for a fintech vendor that can provide services across these territories.

Germany 99

Germany eCommerce Global Operations 99

Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

This is a post I’ve wanted to write for a long time, but I needed the time to digest all the other great posts on the topics by other investors, and to analyze specific portfolio data from Haystack over the last five years. Global and Local. Well, that time has finally come.

San Francisco 116

San Francisco Silicon Valley Seattle Venture Capital 116

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. And the JAIC can’t run them because we’re not an operational software organization.

Artificial Inteligence 388

Artificial Inteligence Fractional CTO Technology CTO 388

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 11, 2016

We help founders through difficult moments, we help coach, we act as sparring partners, we help them resolve conflicts when they’re fighting with co-founders and we help them deal with adversity as well as successes. The role of VC is sparring partner. That’s why I often say The role of VC is “chief psychologist.” Nothing fancier.

Venture Capital 150

Venture Capital Fractional CTO Cofounder Early Stage 150

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 14, 2022

Bob is the Founder and Chairman of the Board of Acceleration Partners, a global partner marketing agency. In this episode, I talk with the Founder and Chairman of Acceleration Partners, Bob Glazer, about why diversifying your marketing strategy with other channels — like partnerships — is the way of the future.

Marketing 89

Marketing Affiliate Channel Software Review 89

Steve Blank

JUNE 27, 2017

As more and more companies face disruption from globalization, new technology, and startups that have more capital than the incumbents, the continuing cry from Wall Street investors is, “Why can’t companies be as innovative as startups?”. This article originally appeared in the Harvard Business Review.

Startup 275

Startup New York City Valuation Distribution 275

David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. With a portfolio that includes food, tech, and services, the fund is industry-agnostic and focused on the overlooked and underrepresented with high-margin business models. Of Indie.VC’s portfolio, 60% of investments are not in NY, CA, or MA.

Equity 78

Equity Revenue Cofounder Colorado 78

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

New entrepreneurs who want to survive, and optimize the growth of their startups, need to think globally, and act locally, from day one. This approach, popularly known as “ glocalization ,” means you have to design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market in which you operate.

Global 136

Global North America Intellectual Property Offshore 136

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

Understanding where your VC partner sits in their respective fund and where their fund is in the cycle of its investment lifecycle will help you understand your VCs behavior. VCs crave the ability to help portfolio companies. By spending more time educating your board on your business you get more valuable advice from them.

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Advisory Board CTO Hire Fractional CTO Los Angeles 365

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

New entrepreneurs who want to survive, and optimize the growth of their startups, need to think globally, and act locally, from day one. This approach, popularly known as “glocalization,” means you have to design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market in which you operate.

Global 244

Global North America Intellectual Property Entrepreneur 244

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 29, 2017

These designs have become integral in many industries, and this industry has shifted globally to areas such as China and India. Strong marketing and sales skills are also necessary to operate a successful PCB design service. Medical devices , smartphones, calculators and weapons systems all contain PCBs. What are the Challenges?

Design 100

Design Software Review India China 100

David Cohen

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The separately funded partner accelerator programs which operate in more than 30 locations worldwide are unchanged. So in 2024 we will still run more than 50 cohorts in 30+ locations globally and into the foreseeable future.

Denver 163

Denver Seattle Colorado Programming 163

Eric Friedman

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

My partner ( Steve Schlafman ) and I recently launched Tapestry , an exercise for founders to invest in their relationships, and it was met with an incredible reaction. No code and a global workforce make it possible. Its an easy reference to “tap” into the work later for partners and teams. Contact + Operations.

Software Review 103

Software Review Cost Cofounder New Zealand 103

The Startup Magazine

JUNE 15, 2018

In an effort to support startups looking for capital and mentorship, The Startup Magazine is supporting International Airlines Group (IAG) in its launch of its third Hangar 51 global innovation programme in collaboration with British Airways, Avios and IAG Cargo. Access to world class subject matter experts across all IAG operating companies.

Technical Review 60

Technical Review Due Diligence Startup Analytics 60

The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Mitul’s passion to excel and customer focus have been built into the core values and mission of Citius Partners. They provide a hands-on transformation and revenue growth partner for B2B technology companies. Mitul also has a tremendous knowledge of sales systems, having built and led global GTM teams of 70+ people in Sales (inc.

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Founder B2B Private Equity India 128

VC Cafe

JUNE 30, 2022

Jonathan Lai, General Partner, A16Z Gaming fund. shout out to our portfolio company Echo3D who’s working on this) Improved collaboration tools By default, both the Unity and Unreal level editors only support a single designer editing a level at a time. Let’s define the building blocks of the Metaverse.

Cloud 200

Cloud Venture Capital Cofounder Non-Compete 200

David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2013

Partners for a New Beginning (PNB), a public-private partnership housed at the Aspen Institute, is organizing a Venture Capital, Private Equity and Angel Investor Delegation from the Maghreb. In addition, as part of the program, I’ll be making my first public presentation of our research study on VC portfolio operations value creation.

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Tunisia Libya Algeria Mauritania 114

Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

Bessemer Venture Partners Expands BVP VII Fund. New Capital Earmarked for Global High-Growth Investments LARCHMONT, N.Y., 26 Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP), the oldest venture capital practice in the United States, today announced the closing of a $350 million supplement to its current fund family, BVP VII, which closed in June 2007.

Software Review 48

Software Review Partner United States Venture Capital 48

Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

Technology is, like water, flowing and seeping into nearly every sector and eventually into most of the global economy. 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. 4/ Global Trade Wars Are For Real.

Technical Review 165

Technical Review Venture Capital Russia China 165

David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

(written by Philipp von dem Knesebeck , Managing Partner, Blue Future Partners (bluefp.com, @bluefutureteam ), and David Teten ). Based on this paper, Blue Future Partners and PEVCTech recently completed a large-scale survey to find out which tools are most commonly used by venture capital firms.

Early Stage 60

Early Stage Technical Review Software Review Venture Capital 60

ReadWriteStart

JULY 19, 2023

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. They wrote small checks, mainly for enterprise SaaS companies, to build their portfolio.

Kazakhstan 92

Kazakhstan Montana Venture Capital Miami 92

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

Venture Capitalists typically have partners’ meetings on Mondays. So the industry formed around a day of the week when all partners could avoid having company board meetings or traveling. I thought about things I never had to as an entrepreneur: check size, ownership percentage, deal stage, portfolio construction and risk.

Stock 305

Stock Technical Review Marketing Greece 305

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

She had so much insight to share that we broke the interview into two parts, 1) Corporate Venture Capital and more broadly, 2) How the Fortune 500 Can Buy, Invest and Partner with the Innovation Economy (coming soon). . I recently had a chance to interview Mari Joller , an expert on corporate innovation, on this topic.

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Balance Sheet Technical Review Portfolio 60

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 20, 2011

New entrepreneurs who want to survive, and optimize the growth of their startups, need to think globally, and act locally, from day one. This approach, popularly known as “glocalization,” means you have to design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market in which you operate.

Global 258

Global North America Intellectual Property Offshore 258

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

PEVCTech is partnering with Blue Future Partners to run the first large-scale survey of VCs’ technology stack. Johann Kratzer of Blue Future Partners , a fund of funds, observed, “The majority of the hundreds of funds we’ve diligenced rely predominantly on their relationships to source deals. Greylock Partners.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

In fact, it was only 7 years ago that Apple shipped its first iPhone and Google introduced its Android operating system. Your time at ESADE has trained you to become a global business leader. Third, smart companies manage an innovation portfolio where they can pursue potential disruption in a variety of ways. Apple owned 0%.

Private Equity 325

Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property 325

Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 6, 2020

As the Greylock team has learned after decades of partnering with early-stage founders, the best approach is establishing a core set of fundamental questions that can be tailored to each individual company, rather than looking at a rigid set of metrics. Sarah Guo: “I think the future of work is remote, flexible, global, and digital-first.

Technical Review 69

Technical Review Seed Stage Software Review Early Stage 69

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2010

GRP Partners is looking to hire two analysts (maybe even three) to join our practice in Los Angeles. And none of our partners actually worked for any of these firms. I’m already 2 weeks late in writing this blog post as my partners keep reminding me. Responding to portfolio company requests. Are we elitist?

Los Angeles 290

Los Angeles Technical Review Due Diligence Venture Capital 290

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 18, 2015

New entrepreneurs who want to survive, and optimize the growth of their startups, need to think globally, and act locally, from day one. This approach, popularly known as glocalization , means you have to design and deliver global solutions that have total relevance to every local market in which you operate.

Global 120

Global North America Intellectual Property Offshore 120

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 19, 2016

Talent development can even strengthen a company’s investment portfolio. Always sync up your training and hiring decisions with your business model: Do you want to be the next Nordstrom of customer service, the next Microsoft of tech products, or a model of operational efficiency like FedEx ? Follow gothamCulture on Twitter.

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Startup Burn Rate Cofounder Salary 100