Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 12, 2014

They often create the biggest tensions between investors who are investing at different stages in the business. These tensions seep out in some angels or seed funds publicly or semi-privately deriding later-stage VCs for their “bad” behavior. I have seen bad behavior from later-stage VCs, believe me.

Technical Review 336

Technical Review Later Stage Early Stage LP 336

The Next Web

AUGUST 26, 2013

Today, in steps 10-12 I want to discuss with you raising your first round of money, hiring to develop and maintain your company culture, as well as defining your role in the management of your startup. Prepare to become a manager. The road from being a founder, to becoming a CEO or a manager is a very long and bumpy one.

Management 120

Management Cofounder Startup Bootstrapping 120

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2022

Don’t hesitate to micro-manage initially in a crisis. Micro-management at a later stage only increases stress and slows progress. Micro-management at a later stage only increases stress and slows progress. Map out some dedicated time for every serious issue. Get advice before jumping to conclusions.

Leadership 345

Leadership Advisory Board Developer Silicon Valley 345

View from Seed

MARCH 4, 2020

When you look at the websites of the seed VC’s on the 2019 list, you notice that some are starting to steer away from positioning themselves as Seed funds as they accumulate more capital and are starting to enter companies at later stages. It will be interesting to see if this trend continues. Slowly Improving Demographic Diversity.

Venture Capital 313

Venture Capital China Technical Review Africa 313

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

He wrote a post this long weekend on how he manages the board of DataSift. In this period (less than 2 years) he has brought on incredibly talented senior execs is sales, marketing, product management, client services, finance, vp engineering and more. Rob Bailey is the CEO of DataSift. You should read it. Email updates frequently.

Advisory Board 365

Advisory Board CTO Hire Fractional CTO Los Angeles 365

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2014

Marketing plans that worked during the early life cycle of your business might have to change during later stages based on a number of variables, such as the economy, your competition, and new products or services. Perform a thorough review of your company’s supply chain management (SCM) system. Take a free quiz here.

CPA 160

CPA Technical Review Later Stage Equity 160

Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2014

Most large companies manage three types of innovation: process innovation (making existing products incrementally better), continuous innovation (building on the strength of the company’s current business model but creating new elements) and disruptive innovation (creating products or services that did not exist before.).

Acquisition 332

Acquisition Intellectual Property Silicon Valley Startup 332

YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2019

Now that all of this is set, who is going to manage the scrum team? But since there are no turning back scenes with waterfall, it is fair to always stick on to scrum, which is a kind of agile project management methodology. Easy to manage with delays since the leftovers of your previous sprint could be added to the upcoming one.

SCRUM 113

SCRUM Software Review Hiring Agile 113

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Keep the advisory board to a manageable size. If you have more, they better be major investors or partners who will likely be part of your formal Board of Directors at a later stage. A long list of friends or associates is usually considered a negative. Advisors in name-only will hurt you.

Advisory Board 308

Advisory Board Angel Investor Startup Later Stage 308

Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 11, 2023

This means the company is predominantly owned by the management/team and TPG. It might ‘exit’ again at a later point (anything from a sale to an IPO), but it’s no long dependent on VC funding. It’s a different way of thinking and managing the business, but one that I believe helps any leader run a better business.

Private Equity 78

Private Equity Equity DC Leveraged Buyout 78

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Even for later-stage companies with predictable financials, the lack of liquidity, audited financials, and standardized metrics creates real challenges to scaling quantitative investing. A major angel group used Influitive , an advocate management tool, to track, activate and motivate their members. 4) Manage deal flow.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

You don’t have to be a heavily funded later stage startup to get access to “big data,” customer analytics, and metrics dashboards. Set milestones and manage to those targets. Measuring progress with big data and analytics.

Intellectual Property 120

Intellectual Property Startup Angel Groups Social Media 120

View from Seed

JUNE 7, 2016

She wanted to receive feedback early and get into the practice in anticipation of later rounds and later-stage problems and opportunities. For professional development as well as exposure for your management team, founders often bring in VPs (or SVPs, or other C-levels, etc.) You can download the 2.0

Seed Stage 120

Seed Stage Founder Seed Capital Institutional Investors 120

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2016

With valuations rising fastest in late-stage venture and the competition that is well-known from corporate VCs, mutual funds, hedge funds (and even LPs), it is unsurprising that LPs are most concerned about late-stage VC. 68% of LPs surveyed expressed caution that the late-stage part of the market is over-valued.

Venture Capital 150

Venture Capital LP Silicon Valley Marketing 150

Berkonomics

AUGUST 24, 2023

These VC partners have relationships with later stage investors further up the food chain, with service providers, with potential “C” level senior managers, and with other CEO’s with great timely advice or partnering opportunities.

Covenant 118

Covenant Angel Investor Valuation Later Stage 118

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

by Marek Danyluk, managing partner at Space Executive. Venture capital fundraising can be divided into three stages: seed, early stage, and later stage. According to the same report by KPMG, the median deal size is the largest for later-stage funding, at $26 million.

Venture Capital 196

Venture Capital Asia Artificial Inteligence Later Stage 196

Feld Thoughts

MARCH 24, 2017

Foundry Group is best known for our investments in startups, but our vehicle currently investing in other venture funds, Foundry Group Next, is off to what we believe to be a great start and I wanted to share an update about it by talking about our new investment in a fund managed by Founder Collective. It starts with the people.

Founder 75

Founder LP Technical Review Seed Stage 75

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

Keep the advisory board to a manageable size. If you have more, they better be major investors or partners who will likely be part of your formal Board of Directors at a later stage. A long list of friends or associates is usually considered a negative. Advisors in name-only will hurt you.

Advisory Board 310

Advisory Board Angel Investor Later Stage Stock 310

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

For those that did tap VCs, 90% were either Seed or Series A stage companies. Fewer established Series B+ startups shuttered operations, though the 34 later stage shutdowns exceeded last year’s 25. bad management, lack of product market fit, costly mistakes that accelerated the said running out of money).

Valuation 104

Valuation Startup Angel Investor Dilution 104

David Teten

DECEMBER 15, 2018

You can also list yourself on one of the various companies working to make the M&A process more transparent and less haphazard for later-stage companies, including Axial , BankerBay , Intralinks Deal Nexus , and MergerMarket. . Outplace your team.

Startup 60

Startup Later Stage Technical Review Software Review 60

Steve Blank

MARCH 17, 2020

They have fewer cash reserves and less margin of error for managing sudden downturns. Data from the last large crash in 2008 had seed rounds recovering early, but later stage funding cratered and took years to recover. If they pull back, there will be a liquidity crunch for later stage startups (Series B, C…).

Burn Rate 436

Burn Rate Startup Valuation Sales Cycle 436

View from Seed

MAY 18, 2016

At the seed stage, we typically have three-person boards with two founders and one VC — though as companies grow at later stages, five-person boards and ultimately six- or seven-person boards become more common. See #3 and #4 below for how to manage this.). Beware Board Observers. Set Expectations for Time/Tenure.

Seed Stage 216

Seed Stage Cofounder Later Stage Government 216

View from Seed

JANUARY 5, 2016

To people and culture management in general? A middle manager layer after that? It’s not just that you have a 53-person roster (though that’s likely), it’s that a startup CEO also has to start thinking like an NFL general manager in many ways. What are our respective approaches to interviewing?

Founder 120

Founder Cofounder Startup Early Stage 120

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 6, 2014

Seek “disconfirming evidence” The strange thing about most reference calls is that by the time the hiring manager is calling she is often already pre-disposed to hiring the candidate. One obvious example is that HR can make a few calls that the hiring manager doesn’t make.

Technical Review 302

Technical Review Hiring Later Stage Employee 302

thebarefootvc

JANUARY 27, 2014

I think that later stage valuations are frothy (for reasons I explain below) while earlier stage valuations are starting to stabilize from previous highs (with the exception of the superstar serial entrepreneur) - turns out scaling in a sea of competition (both startup and entrenched) is not so easy.

Technical Review 63

Technical Review Valuation Venture Capital Investment Bankers 63

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

It in not uncommon to see a VC talk about “total assets under management&# as in “We have $1.5 billion under management.&# I don’t really understand why VCs do this since it’s mostly a meaningless number. What is total assets under management? -

Venture Capital 269

Venture Capital Balance Sheet Early Stage Software Review 269

David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

A friend of mine interviewed for a job with massively successful hedge fund manager Steven A. – Thoughtful fund management. When I talk with non-founding insiders at many alternative investment firms, I regularly hear complaints about the quality of firm management. The result is a poorly managed organization.

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Private Equity Silicon Valley Differentiation 60

David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

A friend of mine interviewed for a job with massively successful hedge fund manager Steven A. – Thoughtful fund management. When I talk with non-founding insiders at many alternative investment firms, I regularly hear complaints about the quality of firm management. The result is a poorly managed organization.

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Private Equity Silicon Valley Differentiation 60

Gust

JANUARY 4, 2012

Later stage companies have some additional concerns: What favorable impact could IP have for PR, marketing and investor relations purposes, or as an attraction to potential acquirors? Nevertheless, experience has shown this to be primarily a later-stage company problem.

Intellectual Property 143

Intellectual Property IP Startup United States 143

SVPG

JANUARY 11, 2016

Lots of people have written about the challenges of managing growth. The scenario is that you are probably a later stage startup or growth stage company. Especially about the importance of working hard to maintain staff quality as you scale the organization.

Later Stage 60

Later Stage Hiring Naming Software Developers 60

David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

We have lower AUM, therefore lower management fees. Most importantly, we have regular meetings with later-stage VCs and enterprise clients both in the US and internationally to discuss our companies which fit their investment mandates. N etwork – We organize events regularly to build out our community.

Portfolio 60

Portfolio Technical Review Private Equity Database 60

Reid Hoffman

MARCH 9, 2021

Another of Bezos’ trademark strengths is his willingness to embrace management innovation. For example, one of the management innovations that distinguishes Amazon from all the other major tech companies is its writing culture. He is willing to do things differently if he believes that doing so can give Amazon an advantage.

Leadership 42

Leadership Technical Review Cofounder Later Stage 42

Hunter Walker

JULY 11, 2022

Marketing manager tells startup that instead of discussing fulltime gig, she wants to pick a specific project she can work on for them over next few weeks and if it goes well, start the broader conversation about a job. Product manager knows founders of a later-stage startup pretty well.

Later Stage 83

Later Stage Marketing Early Stage Hiring 83

David Teten

MAY 9, 2012

The National Association of Investment Companies (NAIC) is a 501(c)(6) trade association representing women and diverse alternative asset managers whose investment strategies focus on mid-market opportunities. domestic market.

Venture Capital 154

Venture Capital Programming Accredited Investor New York 154

David Teten

JUNE 22, 2012

The national outreach for women and minority entrepreneurs and the selection process was co-managed by the National Association of Investment Companies, the trade association representing private equity firms focused on the middle market. We think the potential of the companies we’ve met through this initiative is exceptional.”.

Programming 128

Programming Accredited Investor Naming New York 128

This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

From what I've seen, smart instutions are extremely interested in backing top new managers that show progress. They're just not very good at raising venture capital--which, in the later stage, has more to do with your own ability to run a sales process.

Venture Capital 114

Venture Capital Marketing Term Sheet Software Review 114

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 20, 2014

USV has done a magnificent job of investing in later stage rounds of their existing portfolio companies as well as later stage rounds of companies that fit tightly within their investment thesis. We decided to drop the second half of that strategy as we didn’t want to spend time being late stage investors.

Early Stage 147

Early Stage Later Stage Syndicate Syndication 147