ReadWriteStart

JULY 19, 2023

In the fast-paced world of technology and venture capital, a new player has emerged, poised to significantly impact the startup ecosystem. Jahn Karsybaev and Adil Nurgozhin founded Big Sky Capital to support and invest in promising enterprise SaaS startups.

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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. Importantly, what does this all mean for startups?

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2021

For the past decade, Capital Factory has been building a pipeline of tech startups and investment rights and now we’re opening up to everyone through AngelList. The Capital Factory Texas Fund is backed by many of the most successful CEOs and technology investors in Texas and across the U.S.,

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2017

Every year Upfront Ventures surveys Limited Partners (LPs) who are the main source of capital that invests in VC funds and thus the main source of capital that goes to startups to get an early-warning sense of the year ahead, leaving aside any Black Swans. link] So here are some details (please thank & follow!

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. He previously founded N&N Investments LLC, a real estate investment holding company; and is a program leader and fellow of the Startup Leadership Program. .

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

Limited Partners or LPs (the people who invest into VC funds) have taken notice as 2014 is by all accounts the busiest year for LPs since the Great Recession began. The “big boom” in startup financing started around March 2009?—?more From a technology perspective our journey is nowhere near over. more than 5 years ago?—?and

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

VCs tout themselves as frontier technology investors, but most are using the same infrastructure tools they have used for the past 20+ years: Excel and recent college grads searching Google. According to Knowledge.VC , under 5% of US VCs have a full-time team member focused on technology. . But we’re doing it slowly.

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thebarefootvc

JULY 3, 2017

Over the past month, Silicon Valley has been at the forefront of many conversations outside of the technology world. Unfortunately not for groundbreaking technology, but for rampant sexual harassment and predatory behavior. They decide which VCs receive capital to invest in entrepreneurs.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 18, 2017

By Tushar Jain Traditional venture capital firms typically invest in the equity of young, fast-growing, technology startups. Limited partners, who commit capital to venture funds, have to commit for 7–13 years. Historically, investing in technology trends meant investing in illiquid assets.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2016

At the Upfront Summit in early February, we had a chance to have many off-the-record conversations with Limited Partners (LPs) who fund Venture Capital (VC) funds about their views of the market. That’s money that fuels our startup ecosystems. We’ve also become very adept at partnering with seed funds.

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K9 Ventures

JULY 19, 2012

– A $40M technology-focused micro-VC fund. which was a $6.25M fund designed to be deployed over 3-4 years, making initial investments between $100K – $250K in concept and seed stage technology companies located in the San Francisco Bay Area. I am pleased to announce the formation of K9 Ventures II, L.P.

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K9 Ventures

JULY 19, 2012

– A $40M technology-focused micro-VC fund. which was a $6.25M fund designed to be deployed over 3-4 years, making initial investments between $100K – $250K in concept and seed stage technology companies located in the San Francisco Bay Area. I am pleased to announce the formation of K9 Ventures II, L.P.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Texas is the most promising technology market in the United States. Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio form a massive startup Megalopolis that is attracting top talent, impact-focused investors, and the most innovative companies in the world. Startups and investors should treat Texas like one big city. Joe Lonsdale.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 14, 2014

And high profile exits on deals like Nest , WhatsApp , and Occulus - where fund investors saw returns in excess of 20x their original investments - have caught the public''s fancy as to the power of startup and emerging company investing. So it should come as no surprise that a lot of folks want in on the action. So what to do?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 30, 2016

I have been evangelizing to founders for years to be more thoughtful about how startups update investors and run board meetings so I would be pretty hypocritical if I wasn’t willing to try and be more effective myself. So we planned a Technology Summit. So I decided to change up our format a bit. I had a few objectives in mind.

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David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

I’m very interested in additional ways to use technology to extend each of these! We have built relationships with a set of service providers specializing in startups, and have pre-negotiated discounted rates with them. We think coaching is a key lever for doing this, with our own team or through outside partners.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2009

As Peter began to speak extemporaneously our mouths slowly fell open as he described the video game market, its size, its demographics, the state of the technology, and the state of games. He took us through a day (and a night) of a hardcore gamer and told us about the new class of CD-ROM based game machines about to hit the market.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

More and more startups are pursuing Revenue-Based VCs , but “RBI” doesn’t fit everyone. 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. Technology-centric businesses.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

Want to start a startup? October 2009 (This essay is derived from a talk at the 2009 Startup School.) I wasnt sure what to talk about at Startup School, so I decidedto ask the founders of the startups wed funded. Im in the unusual position of being able to test the essays I writeabout startups.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

That was an important part of our “social proof&# that we had built interesting technology. Corporations need startups. Tags: Startup Advice. When I was fund raising for my second company we had agreed a company-wide deal with Salesforce.com to use our product. I asked every VC not to call Salesforce. Angels need VCs.

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David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

Some of the VC fund’s own limited partners will typically invest in a SPV, plus the platform’s members can contribute additional capital. . I’ve listed a few more below which require meaningful startup and ongoing costs. For more, see the Startup Studio Playbook. All of the strategies above have very modest fixed cost.

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David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

a “Bitcoin Fund”, a “Social Media Fund”, a “Nanotech Fund”), you’re going to raise capital from Limited Partners who are very focused on Theme X. – Technology stack. I have published a series of research papers on how VCs are using technology to improve returns. – Network. – Quantitative investing.

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David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

a “Bitcoin Fund”, a “Social Media Fund”, a “Nanotech Fund”), you’re going to raise capital from Limited Partners who are very focused on Theme X. – Technology stack. I have published a series of research papers on how VCs are using technology to improve returns. – Network. – Quantitative investing.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 12, 2014

Prorata rights are one of the most important rights of a private market technology investors and yet are seldom fully understood. People all across the value chain have taken notice including Limited Partners who are the people who invest in VC funds in the first place. Fundraising / Negotiations Startup Lessons VC Industry'

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Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2010

VC’s invested their limited partners’ “risk capital” in a portfolio of startups in exchange for illiquid stock. Most of the startups they invested in either died by running out of money before they found a scalable business model or ended up in the “land of the living dead” by never growing (failing to Pivot.).

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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. Examples: free support for your startup from the Fortune 500 ; free money for your impact startup.

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David Teten

AUGUST 1, 2017

For ideas on what to ask, see The Master List: Questions to Ask Potential Co-Founders and 8 Issues You Need to Discuss with Your Startup Co-Founder. Brad’s colleague Linkel Eakman, a prominent limited partner, published his guide: A Human User Interface….with CULTURAL FIT. Companies that provide abortion services.

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Board Effect

MAY 10, 2019

Most people pursue funding for startups by looking for resources that are closest to them. Those who still need additional funds may turn next to angel investors , high-net-worth individuals who are willing to provide funding for small startups and entrepreneurs. The reality is that most startups fail.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

And they should be; the feeding frenzy in the innovation economy is in some cases because startups are eating the lunch of more established companies. Access to the corporate investor’s ecosystem can open up great opportunities from technology validation to customer and partner development.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2010

Often when startups who have raised venture capital need another round of financing they will turn to their existing investors to give them money before raising from outsiders. VC’s money comes from mostly institutional investors called LPs (limited partners). They might not replace an engineer or two that quits.

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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. Think about Luma Partners. They are an investment bank that targets the technology & media sectors. It’s brilliant.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

From who we hire to the way we go to market, from how we engage with our limited partners to how we engage with founders, it’s all about being very focused on quality and consistency so as to affect strategies to generate meaningful carry for ourselves and our limited partners. On Dan’s Former Startup.

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David Teten

APRIL 30, 2018

Why are more US VCs investing in international startups? While fundraising of US VCs has dropped slowly as a percentage of global limited partner allocations over the last decade, non-US startups are receiving a more rapidly increasing percentage of that money. Source: NVCA, Pitchbook.

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David Teten

APRIL 30, 2018

Why are more US VCs investing in international startups? While fundraising of US VCs has dropped slowly as a percentage of global limited partner allocations over the last decade, non-US startups are receiving a more rapidly increasing percentage of that money. Source: NVCA, Pitchbook.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 5, 2012

That's actually how the startup investing world used to work. Open Angel Forum created a costless way for the best startups to get in front of the best capital. I would argue that returns might go up if VC fundraising was a lot more meritocratic and if the big Limited Partners got to see everyone who was fundraising at the same time.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Hubris , bad CEO decisions (mine) and a fundamental lack of understanding that we were in a “hits-based” entertainment business not in a Silicon Valley technology company were slowly killing us. Their fiduciary responsibility was to manage a portfolio of investments for their limited partners. I liked my two investors.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

What will matter are: whether the people who invest in VC funds (LPs or Limited Partners) increase their activity and the performance of that actual fund. 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.

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