Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Most entrepreneurs have found by now one or more of the many popular crowdfunding sites , and have the name and contact information for at least one of the big venture capital firms. Groups of angels may syndicate multiple individual amounts, but if your total request exceeds $1 million, you need to focus on the venture capital alternatives.

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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. – Build out low-cost force multipliers such as scouts , Advisors, Entrepreneurs in Residence, Venture Partners, and so on. So we think about scaling a lot.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 13, 2021

In turn, some funds have a more friendly posture towards us and try to structure deals that incentive syndicate investors in a way that doesn’t massively disadvantage the seed investors. We help surface seed companies to them and typically don’t compete against them for new rounds or for follow-on dollars.

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Agile VC

DECEMBER 13, 2011

My partners and I would be thrilled to support this founder in general, but we don’t have enough conviction about the market opportunity he and his co-founders are pursuing to proceed with an investment. .” My partners and I at NextView know we’ll be wrong a decent chunk of the time, especially as seed stage investors.

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David Teten

JULY 12, 2017

First, a formal definition: According to Capital Dynamics , “Co-investments are direct investments in a company made alongside and on the same terms as a lead [General Partner]. We see our potential coinvestors in four primary buckets: 1) HOF Capital ’s own limited partners. 2) Investors with very specific value-add. Economic benefit.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 7, 2015

All of my partners at Upfront do. But we’ve gotten the point where ENIFA and they will invest with no information based solely on the name of who else has invested. Information Leaks are a Real Problem. Having too many investors can lead to information leaks. Information leaks. But let me tell you for free.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2021

The Information and VentureBeat have more on this. In a world without cookies, we’ll see smart alternatives to targeting that avoid cookies altogether: contextual targeting, time-based targeting, and using syndicated and custom audiences, according to the 2021 media trends and predictions by Kantar. credit App Annie. social media.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Just as with any company, the most important issue is the team; see “ How to Negotiate a Partner Role at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Firm “ . For example, we created a pipeline management tool that automatically adds deals along with relevant information (such as attachments received) to our funnel.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Just as with any company, the most important issue is the team; see “ How to Negotiate a Partner Role at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Firm “ . For example, we created a pipeline management tool that automatically adds deals along with relevant information (such as attachments received) to our funnel.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2021

Most entrepreneurs have found by now one or more of the many popular crowdfunding sites , and have the name and contact information for at least one of the big venture capital firms. Groups of angels may syndicate multiple individual amounts, but if your total request exceeds $1 million, you need to focus on the venture capital alternatives.

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David Teten

JANUARY 11, 2020

They’re taking a $1m check from me, or giving $5m to me as a limited partner. Other coinvestors: Limited partners, other VCs who are coinvestors, private equity funds which are potential growth-stage investors, etc. I haven’t taken the time to update my investment information here, so it’s not very accurate. Crunchbase.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Earlier this year, my partners and I at NextView invested in Boston-based Marlo to help address this work meeting suckiness. The various scenario permutations go on and on, but the consistent theme runs throughout that people don’t like to be stuck in meetings. Meetings take people away from doing real work.

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Brandanew

APRIL 22, 2016

As a Content Marketer, your content piece can be syndicated across all these top publisher sites, for a very nominal Cost-per-Click thereby increasing the reach of your post. It has signed some big names like Forbes, Newsweek, and Heavy.com onto its roster of publisher partners where content can be recommended. Content.ad. StackAdapt.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

The venture capital industry is continuing its evolution from an upside-down pyramid (typically 3-10 Partners, plus some administrative support) to a traditional hierarchical pyramid. Summit Partners and TA Associates have leveraged their origination programs to move into later stage buyouts.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But in business, you want a lot of partners. In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers. See Bessemer Venture Partners’ A comprehensive guide to security for startups. Cobalt for General Partners helps GPs to optimize their fundraising strategy. 1) Manage the firm

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Steve Blank

JUNE 6, 2016

He is also a Consulting Professor at Stanford in the Electrical Engineering Department and Editor-in-Chief of the AIAA Journal of Aerospace Information Systems. Evangelos Simoudis’ is the founder and managing director of Synapse Partners. His investing career started 15 years ago at Apax Partners and continued with Trident Capital.

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Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2012

FB generates a meaningful amount of consumer usage by way of third-party apps (which drives Facebook ad revenue obviously) and the platform gives FB a lot of information about what sites their users frequent, what games they play, what content they consume and share. My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 5 days ago Search.

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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.

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Growthink Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Get Satisfaction Inc. ( [link] ) raised $6 million led by Azure Capital Partners. million led by Greycroft Partners and BV Capital. It enables merchants to sell their products anywhere by syndicating goods to multiple marketplaces. Rypple ( [link] ) raised $7 million in a financing round led by Bridgescale Partners.

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Transformify

DECEMBER 7, 2019

On top of that, Transformify gathered information about what is important going forward. Storing applicant information fee (per record or as a monthly/annual) subscription package). Are the job listings syndicated with external job boards? What are the Vendor Selection Criteria? Job posting fee (per job posting or per package).

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 15, 2022

4:32] Is that was that the initial vision was to just make it easier to get those shows syndicated? [5:48] Is that, was that the initial vision was to just make it easier to get those shows syndicated. [2:54] What does the podcast media company look like today, and what was your idea for starting it? [4:32] It's been huge so far.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2015

DataSift was never built on a single platform and never desired or expected to be Twitter’s re-syndication provider as its sole business. Never mind that Twitter in writing specifically asked us to build this re-syndication product with them and that every step of the way encouraged us to build out the service. billion people.

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Haystack

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

The last decade has seen both the explosion of new information and huge changes in how information moves around the world. Social media is one of the biggest examples of this, inverting and transforming how information flows.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

September 1, 2011 09:04:39 Reply 0 Flag this comment jamespmedd Follow Interesting information but an awful looking infographic! September 1, 2011 11:00:15 Reply 0 Flag this comment SceneTap App Follow Interesting information, especially on the startup regions. Have an account? It would be nice to see some sort of a color code, though.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

I told my friend that I felt that in 2014 too many new VCs feel the pressure to chase deals, to be a part of syndicates with other brand names and to pounce on top of every startup whose numbers are trending up quickly. At our partner meetings the number one thing I look for in our decisions is the conviction level of the sponsoring partner.

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mashable.com

JUNE 30, 2012

Business Tools: Salesforce.com opened their core services to partners via API, enabling them to innovate and extend Salesforce services. With eBay APIs, developers can display eBay listings, get bidder information for sold items, get the current list of eBay categories, leave feedback about users, and submit new items for sale.

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mashable.com

JULY 10, 2012

Informative article. I work for McGladrey and there’s a white paper on E commerce on the website ( [link] ), with information on US online retail, defining its scope within the retail industry. Top From Our Partners. Mashable is a leading source for news, information and resources for the Connected Generation.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Perhaps you implement a ritual of telling your child one reason you’re proud of them over breakfast or your partner three things you love about them before you go to bed. Your employer cannot ethically or even legally ask for more information. A ritual also doesn’t need to be something you do; it can be something you say.

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

How They Do It: Aggregate data from travel data warehouses like ITA as well as indexing travel providers websites, provide this information to consumers in a highly customizable search engine. Led by Oak Investment Partners with participation by General Catalyst, Sequoia, & Accel and others. What They Do: Travel search engine.

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

He is a serial entrepreneur, internationally syndicated columnist, angel investor, public speaker and author of the best-selling book Never Get a “Real&# Job: How To Dump Your Boss, Build a Business and Not Go Broke. Check out Mashable Explore , a new way to discover information on your favorite Mashable topics. Have an account?

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ConversionXL

APRIL 7, 2020

Once objectives are identified and prioritized, your podcasting plan should outline strategies and tactics, which include format, frequency, duration, host/s, point of view, guests, research, syndication, and marketing. podcast directories) pick up and syndicate your podcasts for free via RSS feeds. Partner with others.

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Genuine VC

JULY 26, 2010

Micro VCs are notorious for building large and friendly syndicates. While traditional VCs sometimes have a love/hate relationship with their syndicate partners (often depending on how well their mutual portfolio companies are performing), it seems as though in the Micro VC arena all of the players speak and act like best friends.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 5, 2012

My brother later informed me that it was to log of a name but now I cant see anything else. Top From Our Partners. Mashable is a leading source for news, information and resources for the Connected Generation. Global Syndication Partners. October 3, 2012 20:30:29. corbinspleasure. October 4, 2012 04:53:23.

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 27, 2011

Note: All information contained in this post is based on my best understanding and perception of what transpired. I have confirmed with the founders that none of the information contained herein is deemed confidential and is therefore fair game for me to share in this post. In April 2008, I was introduced to Ugmode, Inc.

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David Teten

JANUARY 7, 2019

A retail investor might join an existing syndicate on a crowdfunding site based on a deck and maybe an email. At the majority of VCs (including ours), you don’t just have to persuade one Partner. Providing answers in writing makes it easier for the lead Partner to share your view, and persuade her colleagues to back the investment.

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Agile VC

DECEMBER 19, 2013

As a VC investing not only personal capital, but on behalf of limited partners, one can’t take this strategy. The primary motivation can inform the optimal strategy to some extent. This can include learning more about technologies, markets, and people that may be impactful to the angel’s other endeavors.

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www.allthingsdistributed.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Technology Visionary andOperations Manager – This pattern is usually found in dot.com and othertechnology-oriented companies where information technology is key ingredient inimplementing business strategy. Seattle, WA, 98104 Syndication Subscribe to this weblogs atom feed or rss feed Search Powered by Movable Type 4.01.

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