Lead Investor Marketing Reputation Syndication 
David Teten
JULY 12, 2017
These firms can typically target a large pool of individual value-added investors, surfaceable by industry, region, title, and expertise to support the company. Although EquityZen is primarily an online marketplace for secondary shares in private companies, they also offer syndicated primary investments. Market Insight.
David Teten
SEPTEMBER 6, 2015
Her work included heading Nokia’s location-based services business and app portfolio for emerging markets, which she built from a back-of-a-napkin idea to a 100-person organization with over 10 million users. It comes as no surprise as technology today enables companies to prove product-market fit much earlier in their lifecycles.
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Rob Go
JULY 17, 2014
It shows that things are working and there is product/market fit, but there is a long way to go towards building an enduring company of great consequence. For a seed stage venture capital firm, product/market fit comes down to two questions. 2) Is your reputation in the market such that great people will want to work with you?
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 3, 2010
I believe these VC funds have suffered some amount of reputation fall out. Second, more damning is the “signaling problem.&# This means that if a VC invests in your seed round and does not participate in a future round the next round investor will think to himself, “well, if Big VC Co. Great reputation.
View from Seed
MAY 29, 2019
Historically, seed rounds were syndicated among several different firms. Today, we are seeing less syndication of seed rounds and sharper elbows among many of the funds in the market. Instead of broadly syndicated rounds, we are seeing much more competition for fewer slots. These two forces go hand in hand.
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