The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Hauser Private Equity partnered with the Denver-based private equity firm Revelstoke Capital Partners to make a growth investment in DataLink Fund Solutions, a leading provider of integrated population health management applications.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

That great productivity drain that we somehow all buy into. So I ask you – if you’re being reactive to somebody else’s emails are you really being as productive in your company as you could be? I spent a late morning meeting with a product exec at one portfolio company. ” Brilliant! “But WAIT !!!

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Your product and company vision needs to match your appetite for funding. He stressed that your product and company vision needs to match your appetite for funding: One thing that we learned very early on was, have a plan for fund-raising. … For example, our product has more than 300 discrete components … just for the vent

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David Teten

APRIL 13, 2021

In general, outsourced salespeople are much better at selling commodities than unique products. That’s one of the reasons I don’t believe that start-ups can outsource sales until they clearly have product-market fit, and even then I typically view it as a core competency that they must build in-house.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The Limited Partners (LPs) who back funds don’t expect their dollars to be passive. The start is about inspiration, vision, product, early execution whereas the scale is about team management, process and consistency. Some founders are just better at the start then the scale. D-Rounds and on … Oh, jeez.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Automation allows you to spend less time on tedious tasks and will help boost productivity, especially within a small marketing team. Boardex and Relationship Science make it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. Cobalt for General Partners helps GPs to optimize their fundraising strategy.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

Her responsibilities included: strategic counseling, business modeling and deal negotiation for the various for medical startups in the portfolio and is a limited partner at NGT3 Medical Accelerator in Israel. Tell us about your products and services. Tell us your story. How did you come up with your business name?

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

A more efficient approach is to mine the data exhaust from the Limited Partner universe to identify those LPs most likely to find your fund attractive, and focus all your energy on them. Relationship Science makes it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. 2) Raise capital.

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VC Cafe

MAY 18, 2023

Look beyond the spreadsheet and into the team, the product, and the market. Thou Shalt Love Thy Limited Partners as Thyself : Treat your LPs with respect and transparency. They are more than just a source of capital; they are your partners in this journey. They are the ones in the trenches every day.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

So to be clear I think in the overwhelming majority of cases these are diligence calls to feel out the opportunity in which price discussions exchange hands more as a by-product of the call than the intention of the call. When I was fund raising for my second company we had agreed a company-wide deal with Salesforce.com to use our product.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 30, 2016

I wanted to encourage more of our Limited Partner (LPs, or the people who invest in VC funds) to attend our annual meeting in person. The ones that have tangible products like Osmo, Teforia, Parachute, Navdy, Ring, Seedling and others actually bring products to experience which in many ways is better even than being on stage.

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David Teten

AUGUST 15, 2013

Most VCs (including ff Venture Capital ) collect money from independent limited partners in order to form their fund. However, you have to be very careful about such investors restricting your ability to exit to a competitor, as well as the potential that they may create something competitive with your product.

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David Teten

AUGUST 1, 2017

Brad’s colleague Linkel Eakman, a prominent limited partner, published his guide: A Human User Interface….with When you last made a major decision about hiring, firing, new product approvals, investing, etc., with lots of quirks ; Jeff Epstein, CEO of Ambassador, posted his. who was in the room where it happens ?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

I saw it myself in 1999-2002 when it was hard to charge for my product because all of my competitors raised large rounds of capital and were giving away their products free fueled by large VC rounds. Irrational prices and over investment in your competitors hurts your ability to build healthy businesses.

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Venture Capital Balance Sheet Early Stage Software Review 269

Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2009

Video Games At SuperMac , Peter Barrett was the witty and creative 24-year old Australian engineer who had designed several of our most successful products, culminating with the software for the Video Spigot. How could it go wrong? Little did I know. Now he wanted to go off start his own company. Not all VCs are equal.

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Silicon Valley Technical Review RSS Software Review 120

YoungUpstarts

MAY 17, 2020

First, there are three major types of businesses: Service Business: A service business is a type of business that doesn’t provide a tangible product (products that cannot be touched or not physical). This type of corporation offers skills, time, expertise, advice, and other similar products.

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Babbling VC

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

There are the odd cases here and there.see the Amazon Fire phone (product) or "Dieselgate" at the German auto manufacturers (scandal). Hence when a project, a product or subsidiary starts performing terribly or it's clear that it is going down, things go quiet. The same goes for the LP's (limited partners) that invest in venture funds.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 5, 2022

We are truly to our founders, limited partners, co-investors, and friends for another year of growth and learning. We are to have partnered since day one as FortressIQ created the market for process discovery and automation and scaled to dozens of enterprise customers. 1/ We started @boldstartvc in 2010 w/ $1m.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

And I also now have to raise money myself, but this time from bigger institutions that our industry calls LPs (limited partners). As with any sales campaign you need to: Qualify your buyers early so you focus your scarce resources on people likely to buy your product. Partners make investment decisions. Meet in person.

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Pascal's View

MARCH 8, 2010

It’s that time of the year again– time to send out audited financial statements and K-1’s to your limited partners– which means it’s also a great time to address some of the common questions that investors raise about VC partnership governance and disclosure issues. entitled to receive from a VC fund?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Yes, VC / Startup Funding is up Massively If you look at how much VC firms have raised from Limited Partners (LPs) over the past 2 decades you’ll see that we’ve returned to a level that we haven’t seen since 1999. If you want the whole deck you can find it on SlideShare but I’ve written up a short summary with commentary below.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

The VC industry grew dramatically as a result of the Internet bubble - Before the Internet bubble the people who invested in VC funds (called LPs or Limited Partners) put about $50 billion into the industry and by 2001 this had grown precipitously to around $250 billion. Here’s my take: 1.

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K9 Ventures

JULY 19, 2012

Several of the portfolio companies have gone on to do their Series A (HighlightCam, Zimride, Occipital), Series B (CrowdFlower, DNAnexus) and Series C (Twilio, Lytro) rounds led by top tier venture firms, and the seed-stage companies all continue to track well on building product, team, and/or, revenue (imagine that!).

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Technology Seed Stage San Francisco Limited Partner 132

K9 Ventures

JULY 19, 2012

Several of the portfolio companies have gone on to do their Series A (HighlightCam, Zimride, Occipital), Series B (CrowdFlower, DNAnexus) and Series C (Twilio, Lytro) rounds led by top tier venture firms, and the seed-stage companies all continue to track well on building product, team, and/or, revenue (imagine that!).

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Technology Seed Stage San Francisco Limited Partner 132

David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

In addition, I’ve noted a few multi-product lending firms, e.g., Kapitus and United Capital Source , which provide RBI as one of many structural options to companies seeking capital. . We have a special program if you are pre-seed and need product development. I’ve listed below all of the major RBI venture capitalists I’ve identified.

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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 ). VCs are at the forefront of technological disruption, funding many of the latest cutting edge productivity tools. But what tools are they using themselves to automate their own processes?

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Early Stage Technical Review Software Review Venture Capital 60

David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

Similar to the explosion of seed funds in the past decade, we (and some limited partners too ) believe these Flexible VCs are on the forefront of what will become a major segment of the venture ecosystem. Early-stage: Cofounder with engineering/ product background from top-tier university or major technology company.

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Cofounder Technical Review Equity Dividend 78

Steve Blank

JULY 9, 2013

I had a group of ex-students out to the ranch who were puzzling over a dilemma – they’ve been working hard on their startup, were close at finding product/market fit and had been approached by Oren, a potential angel investor. And they have a fiduciary responsibility to their own limited partners.)

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2013

Creating awareness for your brand and products is one of the lifebloods of technology startups yet in a world where so many companies are being created it becomes difficult to rise above the noise. Ever notice how some companies tend to be in the press all the time and your big new product launch struggled for inches? I am a VC.

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Mucker Lab

MARCH 8, 2016

Just as entrepreneurs should aspire to raise capital from value-added, “smart money” investors, we, too, have focused on partnering with committed, long-term, institutional limited partners (LPs). We’ve written code, launched products, acquired users, managed P&Ls, and lost sleep over making payroll.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

Reinventing the board meeting may offer venture-backed startups a more efficient, productive way to direct and measure their search for a profitable business model. Investors get board seats to assure themselves and their limited partners that they are duly informed about their investment. Why Have a Board Meeting?

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Silicon Valley Business Model Venture Capital Balance Sheet 290

Board Effect

MAY 10, 2019

If this stage of the business is successful, business owners may seek Series B or Series C funding, which means the business is highly successful and ready to expand, develop new products, or acquire other businesses. The partners have a short time frame of seven to 10 years to make investments and generate the largest return possible.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 27, 2022

For the market to develop, new talent must come in to the space, and developers, designers, product managers etc, who are looking to enter this space must go through the ‘rabbit hole’ and face the steep learning curve. Personally, I disagree with Jack on this one, but his point was made. ? link] — jack??

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

Reinventing the board meeting may offer venture-backed startups a more efficient, productive way to direct and measure their search for a profitable business model. Investors get board seats to assure themselves and their limited partners that they are duly informed about their investment. Why Have a Board Meeting?

Silicon Valley 258

Silicon Valley Business Model Venture Capital Balance Sheet 258

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 15, 2010

– I spoke about GRP’s recent exit of Ulta in which we returned $320 million to our limited partners. I spoke about the need of the CEO, CTO and head of Products to be in the same location. Yes, that was the value that we actually returned as opposed to the value of Ulta. Great exit. -

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Hippoland

MAY 15, 2016

It would’ve been something like: Angels: Uses his/her own money to do investments Writes small checks Mostly sole decision maker VCs: Uses 3rd party money to do investments (from limited partners) Writes large checks Multiple decision makers and a concrete process But today, some of these things have changed. Like I mean a LOT.

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Rob Go

JULY 17, 2014

As former operators and product-oriented entrepreneurs, Dave, Lee, and I tend to think of our firm as a startup company and our approach to investing as our product. 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.

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