David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

As I’ve worked to build out HOF Capital ’s portfolio acceleration platform , the #1 question I think about is: how do we scalably support our companies? Many VCs offer (or strive to offer) a bundle of levers and support structures to help their portfolio companies. We have lower AUM, therefore lower management fees.

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David Teten

MARCH 28, 2012

Best Practices in Venture Capital Portfolio Company Value Creation. In addition, in light of increasing competition in the startup funding space, a methodology for helping portfolio companies consistently is a strong competitive advantage. All of the firms above have online networks for their portfolio executives.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

The new paradigm, driven by disruptive technologies, cloud-served supercomputing, and the new generation of young adults with global empathy, is partnering and giving something now for a competitive advantage in the future. Find partners who can do what you cannot do alone. This is the new world of do-it-yourself (DIY) prototyping.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 2, 2018

The insights learned from developing ATX Giving and receiving feedback from their nonprofit customers and partners, helped the HelloFund founders create something very special for individuals and organizations around the country; a more user-friendly, customizable platform at a lower cost than their competitors.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Blue Future Partners, a venture capital fund of funds, recently interviewed me on ESG in venture capital. – StratiFi is the first low-cost, intuitive, and scalable portfolio hedging SaaS platform for investors. Are you aware of the information that the media should know? Starship was launched by the co-founders of Skype.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 8, 2014

Most firms have “associates” and “partners” and some have an additional role called a “principal.” Usually there roles are a combination of: Deal sourcing for partners. Deal support / analysis / quant / legal for deals a partner is seriously considering. Portfolio community building.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

This power is wielded through a combination of a country’s diplomacy, information, its military capabilities, economic strength, finance, intelligence, and law enforcement. Space Force continues to develop, what changes in strategy and/or addition to its portfolio of responsibilities would you recommend? As the U.S. interests in space?

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 11, 2019

Online learning sources that provide technical education taught by industry experts in very specific areas have gained popularity as a proven career path to high paying positions in business, web development and design and information technology. Are Nanodegrees Recognized? Let’s clarify what we mean by recognized. Probably not.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 13, 2021

First, the winners in most portfolios don’t often have a true recap round. What will be interesting to see if whether seed funds that have raised their “opportunity funds” will use these dollars to defend their existing portfolio if the market turns really sour. There are a few reasons. I think this is a real issue.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2018

VC Partnerships Start by understanding how many partners are at the firm you are approaching. It’s pretty easy since nearly every VC lists its partners on the website. Some firms are trickier since they artificially call everybody “partner” but they’re not all “investment partners.” How many partners are there?

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 2, 2017

These are actual results a startup Ringadoc got from their partner program. Chris Samila , Partnerships Manager at Optimizely shares: “We saw building and supporting a partner ecosystem as a massive opportunity. So we started building out the partner program.”. B2B tech partners are now targeting business leaders instead of IT.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 26, 2018

Taylor is committed to the industrial cleaning chemicals side of his business but has diversified his product portfolio to generate shorter-term revenues for Green Endeavor through smart LED lighting for manufacturing facilities. When approaching a potential partner, look for ways that will create additional value for both sides.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2021

The information in this post was provided and fact checked by AWS managers Moran Nir and Jonno Southam. AI startups in the Alexa Fund portfolio. The AWS APN Global Startup Program – for startup AWS Partner Network (APN) select and advanced technology partners looking to grow their products on AWS.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 2, 2017

These are actual results a startup Ringadoc got from their partner program. Chris Samila , Partnerships Manager at Optimizely shares: “We saw building and supporting a partner ecosystem as a massive opportunity. So we started building out the partner program.”. B2B tech partners are now targeting business leaders instead of IT.

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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 .

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VC Cafe

JULY 21, 2020

I believe I am qualified to talk about this as I spent ~6 years at Google in strategic partnerships (commerce), as head of Campus London (Google’s first physical startup hub), Head of Google for Entrepreneurs Europe (now called Google for Startups) and eventually general partner for Google Ventures. M&A – Acquisitions.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2013

I am super excited to announce that today is a day of lots of new things for my partners & me: A new fund, a new office and a new brand. Perhaps the biggest piece of new news is that after 17 years of operations we’ve changed our name from GRP Partners to Upfront Ventures. Our portfolio companies value us as sparring partners.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 13, 2023

1 Media , a German broadcaster (and one of our investors at Remagine Ventures) is using Hour One , (also a Remagine Ventures portfolio company), to create short news stories from text. Combining these four elements and using generative AI technology is also what another portfolio company of ours does. For example, ProSiebenSat.1

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

It is with great pleasure that I can finally announce that we have added Greg Bettinelli as a partner at GRP Partners. He shared tons of information about how how they were using marketing to quantitatively make marketing decisions at HauteLook and acquire customers for prices that were far cheaper than similar companies.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 12, 2022

As investors in gaming, entertainment tech and consumer, this is a topic my partner Kevin Baxpehler and I have been actively researching and investing in at Remagine Ventures for the past few years. . What is the metaverse? The term Metaverse was first coined by author Neil Stephenson in the novel ‘Snow Crush’ published in 1992.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

What challenges did you face as an early entrepreneur yourself, and how have they informed your approach as an investor? Beyond providing capital, private credit firms often engage in strategic partnerships with their portfolio companies. ARIF BHALWANI: I was forced to be a self-starter from a very young age.

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Stay tuned for more information on these companies shortly. We’re excited to see what applications get built on top of these platforms, as well as how our portfolio companies embrace this powerful technology to make their internal operations more efficient and optimize user experiences.

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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. If you have investors or board members that have wide relationships you can get significantly more value out of them by keeping them informed.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2022

The pressure to protect portfolio startups seen as potential fund returners will be profound. VC Dry Powder (Source: The Information ). portfolio values on paper that will likely be marked down and not be returned. Beyond that fortunate group, the funding situation will be less secure.

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David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

My Partners at HOF Capital are younger than I am, which means that we have a half-century horizon for the franchise we are building. First Round Capital’s forum for portfolio executives is a powerful example of a scaleable resource. – Hire more non-Partner staff. So we think about scaling a lot.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

I am thrilled to announce that we have added Hamet Watt as a Partner at Upfront Ventures. But as sweet as that success has been (we invested pre-revenue in a small team) today my even more important news was the further expansion of our partner ranks. We have been on a drive to add more operational partners. What does that mean?

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 6, 2014

We’re really happy to welcome Stylect to our portfolio. Each swipe generates a bit of information about the user which is used to power and refine the recommendation algorithm. The deal closed a couple of weeks back and was announced on Techcrunch last week: “Swiping is the new liking” now applies to shoe shopping.

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View from Seed

APRIL 2, 2020

That being said, it’s important to note that like us, most VCs are working very closely with their portfolio companies right now. It just arms the investor to be more prepared and more informed about what you’re doing and who you are. Don’t forget that the investor on the other side of the Zoom is a human being too.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 3, 2014

The new paradigm, driven by disruptive technologies, cloud-served supercomputing, and the new generation of young adults with global empathy, is partnering and giving something now for a competitive advantage in the future. Find partners who can do what you cannot do alone. This is the new world of prototyping.

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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.

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View from Seed

MARCH 11, 2020

Due diligence may seem like a drag, but partnering with an investor is a serious commitment, and you want to make sure that whoever you work with has built real conviction about you and your company. This includes things like: Making intros to portfolio companies that are potential customers. This is probably fodder for another post.

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David Teten

JANUARY 23, 2021

I’ve been fortunate to be a Partner at two different VC firms over the past 9 years, and we’ve grown AUM 10X both times. 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. Lastly, gather feedback.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2018

I literally have a Google Sheet for nearly every portfolio company who is in the process of raising a round. You will find what information you want to track but a starting recommendation that the columns would be a version of: Firm Investor (person) Location Who knows them? Partner on the way out. Super busy partner.

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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.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

.” The reason is that at a VC you have a group of partners who often have different focus areas of excellence, each pursues deals in their respective field, each makes investments and sits on boards and each spends their most difficult hours tackling problems at portfolio companies vs. solving the challenges at the VC itself.

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Genuine VC

JULY 9, 2013

Recently, we surveyed our Boston-based NextView portfolio Founder/CEOs asking them about which service provider firms they’ve been using. Plus, my partners and I saw entrepreneurs repeatedly starting from square-one each time, which just didn’t seem efficient if we could help in some small way.

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K9 Ventures

MARCH 14, 2014

Every so often, I’ll meet with a founding team and they will tell me that they met with a “Partner” at a VC firm. If I wasn’t riffing off of an inside joke that’s funny to me, I’d boringly call this post “Understanding the use of the Partner title in the VC industry.”

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