Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2010

I’m very pleased today to announce that I invested, on behalf of GRP Partners, in Burstly alongside Rincon Venture Partners , an early stage VC in Southern California whith whom we love to work (and were our co-investors on RingRevenue ). He knows the ad management and ad network businesses.

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Mobile Management Southern California Application Development 282

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

She had so much insight to share that we broke the interview into two parts, 1) Corporate Venture Capital and more broadly, 2) How the Fortune 500 Can Buy, Invest and Partner with the Innovation Economy (coming soon). . Previously she was Co-Founder and CEO of SNAZZ, a cloud-based event management platform.

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Venture Capital Balance Sheet Technical Review Portfolio 60

Austin Startup

OCTOBER 8, 2017

Personnel management has its own timeline. There’s likely to come a time when you need to hire an industry veteran, or the best rainmaker in the field, or a hands-on and wizened operations person to make sure you are meeting customer expectations. This essay is not about personal time management.

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Technical Review Strategic Investors Hiring Software Review 48

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 14, 2009

As an entrepreneur you don’t want 5 investors on your board because then board decisions will be more representative of investor concerns than management concerns. The third scenario I’ve seen is with “strategic&# investors. I’ll cover strategic investors in a different post.

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Advisory Board Strategic Investors Venture Capital Later Stage 215

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 24, 2016

A find many board meetings highly unproductive in that they are often just a date in the calendar where management is set to update its investors and other board members of its performance over the past time period. Make sure you ask if there are any strategic concerns or topics they want to discuss at the board meeting.

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Metrics Strategic Investors Later Stage Management 196

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Israeli startup Siklu Wireless Communications has raised a series B round of $19 million led by new investors Amiti Ventures , Qualcomm Ventures and joined by all existing investors: DFJ- Tamir Fishman Ventures , Evergreen Venture Partners and Argonaut Private Equity. We’re looking forward to working with Siklu.”.

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Bandwidth Private Equity Architecture 90

Hunter Walker

APRIL 4, 2014

strategic investors (including corporates). traditional institutional LPs such as fund of funds, endowments, foundations, sovereign wealth funds ( our investors ). The result has been many new managers, many new funds. It’s being a partner of conviction to an entrepreneur and working with them for several years.

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