Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2014

For all the things he’s likely known for, he probably hasn’t yet built a strong relationship as an early stage venture investor (he invests often in later-stage deals where he is very respected). VCs will spend over a year networking just to position around one founder or one deal, and if they lose it, it’s gone.”

Silicon Valley 333

Silicon Valley Early Stage Later Stage Technical Review 333

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2023

Accelerators generally accept startups at a slightly later stage, and attempt to compress the timeline to commercialization into a few months, instead of a year or more. Peer-to-peer networking with other startups and founders in the same stage. Mentoring and technical assistance from volunteer or paid experts.

Incubator 231

Incubator Silicon Valley North America Small Business Administration 231

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 18, 2012

Montgomery also uses the examples and experiences of Cobalt Networks , 3Dfx Interactive and NetMind Technologies to support many of the points he makes to provide additional context.

Technical Review 174

Technical Review Later Stage Incubator Business Model 174

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2020

Most new teams are geographically dispersed these days anyway, so paying rent for an office should be differed to later stages when revenue is plentiful. Use your networking to get advice, but all jobs can be do-it-yourself. With the advent of the Internet, the size and address of your office is irrelevant.

Hockey Stick 423

Hockey Stick Bootstrapping Sweat Equity Intellectual Property 423

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Accelerators generally accept startups at a slightly later stage, and attempt to compress the timeline to commercialization into a few months, instead of a year or more. Peer-to-peer networking with other startups and founders in the same stage. Mentoring and technical assistance from volunteer or paid experts.

Incubator 398

Incubator Silicon Valley North America Startup 398

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

Networking no longer is primarily a face-to-face serial activity. You don’t have to be a heavily funded later stage startup to get access to “big data,” customer analytics, and metrics dashboards. Early customer feedback will position your solution, and help you make pivots before critical time and money are lost.

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Intellectual Property Startup Angel Groups Social Media 120

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2021

Mentoring supplements but doesn’t replace the need to continue education through industry conferences and networking. This can be particularly satisfying as you enter the later stages of your career, where your passion and energy for tackling the daily problems is more limited by health and family.

Later Stage 397

Later Stage India Partner Global 397

This is going to be BIG.

MAY 5, 2023

I understand that now, being an investor in companies that have over 100 employees, closing in on $100mm run rates, where it’s been a long time since I was a Board Observer and most of their interaction is with the bigger, later stage investors that came after me.

Later Stage 218

Later Stage Venture Capital Term Sheet Limited Partner 218

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.

New York 114

New York Technical Review Networking Advisory Board 114

David Teten

MAY 9, 2012

VCAP©, the first program of its kind, bridges the gap between venture capitalists and angel investor networks and women and diverse entrepreneurs, many of whom have not traditionally had access to these sources of capital. HBSAANY’s investment in VCAP© was inspired in part by the Harvard Business School U.S. competitiveness.

Venture Capital 154

Venture Capital Programming Accredited Investor New York 154

The Equity Kicker

OCTOBER 14, 2014

He was on the money when he said that for early stage investments having a great team is most important but for later stage investments the market matters more. Marc Andreessen wrote about this once.

Early Stage 123

Early Stage Institutional Investors Venture Capital Startup 123

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. The historic capital-raising process is driven by face-to-face networking and salesmanship. 2) Raise capital.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

When you are raising a large, later-stage round given by this time you’ve likely got a fairly large business to run. I would gladly work with you on a $50 million late-stage, complex financing. I value your insights into industries and your unrivaled networks. International money.

Deal Flow 347

Deal Flow Early Stage Investment Bankers Technical Review 347

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

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. The constant innovation thus drives development in technology throughout the region.

Venture Capital 196

Venture Capital Asia Artificial Inteligence Later Stage 196

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

When you are raising a large, later-stage round given by this time you’ve likely got a fairly large business to run. I would gladly work with you on a $50 million late-stage, complex financing. I value your insights into industries and your unrivaled networks. International money.

Early Stage 361

Early Stage Deal Flow Investment Bankers Technical Review 361

Austin Startup

JULY 29, 2018

It doesn’t make any sense to pitch a later stage, “growth” investor with your seed stage idea just like it doesn’t make much sense to pitch a new tech startup to an investor who only does oil & gas. Angel Networks are more like VC’s than Angel Investors. Ask if they know anyone else that you should meet.

Angel Investor 59

Angel Investor Technical Review Los Angeles Seed Stage 59

David Teten

JUNE 22, 2012

VCAP© is a collaborative venture that provides women and diverse entrepreneurs nationwide with access to venture capital through accredited investors within the HBSAANY network. VCAP©, the first program of its kind, bridges the gap between venture capitalists and angel investor networks and women and diverse entrepreneurs.

Programming 128

Programming Accredited Investor Naming New York 128

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 22, 2020

This creates a network of resources that offer value to users. Good content offers the ability to generate leads, warm them, and transit them into the later stages of the sales journey. Having keywords in content is a sign of good quality. The goal of websites is to generate sales and grow their businesses.

Affiliate 230

Affiliate Startup Later Stage Search 230

Austin Startup

JUNE 30, 2017

For some, it’s about preparing for a successful career, including building a network that you can leverage for your career. Pragmatically, accelerators offer entrepreneurs a curated bundle of resources (a network of entrepreneurs and advisors, faster access to investors, education, some initial money, etc.) Those are the pragmatists.

Curation 48

Curation Startup Cofounder Equity 48

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

David Teten

JUNE 22, 2012

VCAP© is a collaborative venture that provides women and diverse entrepreneurs nationwide with access to venture capital through accredited investors within the HBSAANY network. VCAP©, the first program of its kind, bridges the gap between venture capitalists and angel investor networks and women and diverse entrepreneurs.

Programming 114

Programming Accredited Investor Naming New York 114

Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

With the sting of losses so fresh, much of the angel activity dried up in the early 2000s, but it restarted with the launch of Central Texas Angel Network in 2006 and Capital Factory opening its doors in 2009. Entrepreneurs with early stage companies typically look for local funding before going out of region to pursue other funding sources.

Venture Capital 54

Venture Capital Austin Texas Private Equity 54

Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 27, 2023

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Cofounder 56

Cofounder Artificial Inteligence New Zealand Analytics 56

David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

– Network. Social media tools like Linkedin and FullContact increases the value of network currency (reputation and access), because people with currency can spend their currency getting to a wider array of influencers. Our industry is highly noisy, and VCs use their networks to filter for signal amidst the noise.

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Private Equity Silicon Valley Differentiation 60

David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

– Network. Social media tools like Linkedin and FullContact increases the value of network currency (reputation and access), because people with currency can spend their currency getting to a wider array of influencers. Our industry is highly noisy, and VCs use their networks to filter for signal amidst the noise.

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Private Equity Silicon Valley Differentiation 60

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

Accelerators generally accept startups at a slightly later stage, and attempt to compress the timeline to commercialization into a few months, instead of a year or more. Peer-to-peer networking with other startups and founders in the same stage. Mentoring and technical assistance from volunteer or paid experts.

Incubator 218

Incubator Silicon Valley North America Small Business Administration 218

This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

How else can you explain this headline matching a story about a professional social network still trying to explore revenues raising $17mm on an $80mm valuation? 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

Austin Startup

MAY 11, 2017

Our unique approach to investing, coupled with a pioneering spirit, provides the vision to guide early stage growth companies beyond today and toward future success. The companies are actively vetted, coached and advised by our network. At Golden Seeds, investors review hundreds of investment opportunities each year.

Private Equity 48

Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Seed Stage 48

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

” If the “nut” is too high I usually veer them towards later-stage opportunities (post B or C round) where the comp is higher, the exit is more likely / nearer, the upside is still nice but obviously not the same as if you joined early). Being a CEO begets the network to be a CEO.

Technical Review 150

Technical Review Liquidation Preference Silicon Valley IP 150

Reid Hoffman

MARCH 9, 2021

I helped establish the network. I established some of the baseline for the network as a platform. I think part of the reason why Satya Nadella has been an amazing later stage co-founder/CEO at Microsoft is because he represented a different functional driver (product rather than sales) that was needed.

Leadership 42

Leadership Technical Review Cofounder Later Stage 42

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

In an early stage deal that fund might reserve 2x their initial investment or if it’s a larger round or later stage they might reserve 1x. I’m happy to say that in 2006-2008 we has some good exits including BillMeLater, DealerTrack, UGO Networks and PrePay Technologies to name a few.

Venture Capital 269

Venture Capital Balance Sheet Early Stage Software Review 269

Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

There’s no use banging your head against a VC’s door with a social network venture if they only invest in biotech companies. As noted above, most investors find most of their best investments through recommendations from people in their network, and that network now includes…you!

Angel Groups 159

Angel Groups Elevator Pitch Software Review Deal Flow 159

David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

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. Effectively, we are a market maker between our portfolio companies and the late-stage VCs and large enterprises which are our co-investors.

Portfolio 60

Portfolio Technical Review Private Equity Database 60

View from Seed

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Typically, one that is orthogonal to the Founders’ network that wouldn’t have surfaced otherwise. While later-stage startups that may attract unwanted competitive attention by showing that their model is working with later rounds of financing, I believe that at the seed stage few really care that you raised $1.5M.

Seed Stage 201

Seed Stage Stealth Seed Capital Later Stage 201

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

If I was to guess, the demographics of people pitching me are reflective of two things—what my own network looks like and what my portfolio looks like. First is network bias. I suspect there are a lot of later stage companies run by female founders not wanting to just keep raising round after round for as much money as possible.

Venture Capital 162

Venture Capital Cofounder Deal Flow Later Stage 162

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

Accelerators generally accept startups at a slightly later stage, and attempt to compress the timeline to commercialization into a few months, instead of a year or more. Peer-to-peer networking with other startups and founders in the same stage. Mentoring and technical assistance from volunteer or paid experts.

Incubator 247

Incubator Silicon Valley Startup Small Business Administration 247

Up and Running

AUGUST 17, 2015

The fundraising process may start with friends and family, but may quickly shift to a bank loan, individual angel investors, or at a later stage, venture capital or private equity. Additionally, many of our angel investor introductions have come through the Wharton alumni network.

Entrepreneur 60

Entrepreneur Cofounder Angel Investor eCommerce 60