Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 25, 2020

The fund is managed by university students participating in HBCUvc’s Fellowship programs. Primary learnings for the fellows include: Originating investment opportunities Conducting due diligence Syndicating transactions Executing transactions Supporting founders and portfolio companies.

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View from Seed

APRIL 14, 2020

I think you’ll also see more intentional syndication of seed and series A rounds with like-minded co-investors teaming up together and splitting rounds more intentionally. In a FOMO world, seed and series A investors are more likely to extend beyond the bounds of their stated strategy to get access to companies.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 20, 2021

When a large company starts to provide profiles on people who manage the organization, it can begin to look self-promotional. Working with article distribution services online might be a good idea in this case, especially if email magazine editors aren’t opposed to using XML syndication technologies.

Technical Review 139

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David Teten

JULY 12, 2017

They don’t automatically invest just because we invested; they usually move more slowly than the company’s management team wants. . Although EquityZen is primarily an online marketplace for secondary shares in private companies, they also offer syndicated primary investments. Market Insight. Alpha pursues a similar model.

Syndicate 60

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Elizabeth also writes technical articles and is a regular contributor to The Price of Business Nationally Syndicated by USA Business Radio, with current articles on the USA Daily Times and The Daily Blaze. . At home, she grows a lot of plants, and has a poorly behaved but very cute rescue dog. Cross That Off The List Right Now!

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. This engineering manager is a smart guy, and very experienced.

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David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

Managers of VC funds typically want to grow their business aggressively, just like the founders we back. This is a model used in at least one case by China’s third-largest private equity firm, China Science & Merchants Investment Management Group ($12 billion+ AUM), which funded in 2015 CSC Upshot, a $400m seed fund through AngelList.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2024

You can also consider doing syndication, much like how real estate syndicators make money where they pool their resources in order to allow investors to access larger and more profitable deals than they could alone. Entrepreneurs too can emerge victorious in their quest for investment, emerging wiser and stronger on the other side.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 25, 2015

Take a look at the founding syndicates of each: Masstor Sytems (5/1979). Quantum Corporation (6/1980). What is striking about these syndicates is that nobody had any meaningful capital, which forced syndication and cooperation. JMB Realty: Real Estate Management company. CIVC. $ 250,000. CIVC. $ 200,000.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2022

A marketing playbook is a reference guide that outlines how a business will manage its marketing on a particular channel or campaign. The do’s and don’ts of each platform, including details of the channel manager and project manager. Your products or services, pricing, and details of owners and managers. Usage policies.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2014

In a way it seems the model has been bring in professional management to help a company through a growth spurt while technical founders focus on becoming an industry leader in terms of innovation and then when the less experienced technical founder is ready they step back in the role.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Platform that provides radio music programming via crowd sourced contributions from social community; programming is syndicated nationally. Tested platform on San Francisco’s Live 105; then scaled out for national syndication with positive audience uplift. Provides an enterprise collaboration and storage platform. File sharing?

Partner 240

Partner New York City Cofounder Syndicate 240

David Teten

JANUARY 11, 2020

Mailchimp.com **, to manage my mailing lists, which people join by registering on Teten.com or PEVCTech.com. Google My Business , which helps me manage my Google presence. . I’m not active on Facebook at all, but I do have a business page I manage passively. Jourdan Urbach, Managing Partner of Brandt & Co.

Social Media 60

Social Media Technical Review Media Private Equity 60

Hearpreneur

MAY 18, 2022

While working in a big world-known company, our early process around translation management in software localization consisted of Google Sheets usage. It was confusing to track the updates in Google Sheets, so one of our top managers dedicated 1 day per week to manage translations for software localization.

Technical Review 141

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Early Growth Financial Services

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

Gene Marks Gene is the leading expert on small businesses, with an active readership across multiple syndication platforms. Gene’s blog on the New York Times is a great digest of the most significant political, economic, financial, and technological trends that affect business management.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 22, 2015

The Minimalist Guide To Managing Your Brand Reputation Online written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. How to manage third-party reviews (off-site). 34 Online Reputation Management Tools Andy Beal, co-author of Radically Transparent, stopped by the Duct.

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

In this article, you’ll learn about how a demand generation manager benefits an organization and which qualities they need to fuel your sales pipeline. What is a demand generation manager and why do they matter? The role of a demand generation manager (DGM) is to manage the team and the campaigns that create awareness and interest.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 13, 2014

Pros: Industry-insider who serves as a validator for the rest of the investment syndicate, extremely helpful advice and network connections. Having someone who the founder or founding team has worked with before can be a good validator to other syndicate investors and future investors that they all work well together.

Angel Investor 334

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

As two fund managers employing Flexible VC, we think it is a healthy addition to the ecosystem and will yield more predictable and stable healthy returns for investors. Too often, investment structures force the management team to make decisions between misaligned growth and investment (return) objectives. Early liquidity.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

” I spend more time helping manage Upfront Ventures so that we as a firm are better prepared as a team to succeed vs. just any individual. Not less work but fewer “things.” ” I have been spending a lot more time with existing portfolio companies as they all are trying to “ level up.”

Software Review 150

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 15, 2022

4:32] Is that was that the initial vision was to just make it easier to get those shows syndicated? [5:48] Is that, was that the initial vision was to just make it easier to get those shows syndicated. Even the blogging software is really referred to as just content management, mm-hmm software systems.

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Gust

JANUARY 15, 2014

Boy, do I wish there was a magical Gmail extension to let me manage my startup deals! Gust (the company I founded) is the online platform used by over 45,000 accredited angel investors and VCs, from over 1,000 angel groups and venture funds, in 74 countries, to manage their startup deals.

Angel Investor 119

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Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

While ownership and control of the management company matters , these stakes are rarely monetizable at least in the VC business (unlike the buyout world where huge firms like Blackstone, KKR, and Apollo have IPO’d to the great financial benefit of the founders). To a lesser extent the desire for greater industry prestige is a factor.

Silicon Valley 240

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. 1) Manage the firm . This is harder than it sounds.

Technical Review 78

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 21, 2014

And finally, in Darwinian fashion, competition for market share amongst the venture capitalists as a result of increased numbers of angel investment syndicates will clear the decks of the low-value add venture capital dollars. Or at least learn to manage those fears. Now, how do we become successful founders? Don’t fear Goliath.

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Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Also portfolio management strategy has shifted a bit in recent years, and many large investors now evaluate at all risky assets together (US tech IPOs, Brazilian bonds, Chinese private equity, etc) rather than making discrete allocations to each bucket. What’s Your Favorite Future?

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Brandanew

APRIL 22, 2016

As a Content Marketer, your content piece can be syndicated across all these top publisher sites, for a very nominal Cost-per-Click thereby increasing the reach of your post. They offer both a Managed Services solution, where you can work with a dedicated Account Manager and Sales Rep, along with a Self-Service Platform solution.

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Genuine VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

PROS: Industry-insider who serves as a validator for the rest of the investment syndicate, extremely helpful advice and network connections. Having someone who the entrepreneur(ial team) has worked with before can be a good validator to other syndicate investors and future investors that they all work well together.

Angel Investor 257

Angel Investor Syndicate Syndication Early Stage 257

Steve Blank

JUNE 6, 2016

Evangelos Simoudis’ is the founder and managing director of Synapse Partners. And he offered the following insight into the VC- founder relationship: Evangelos : As you understand product-market fit, this is where finessing and reworking of the management team, is very important. If you can’t hear the clip, click here. Evangelos : Yes.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Fractional CTO Analytics 120

VC Adventure

JANUARY 22, 2014

We structure our investment in companies via an LLC that has all the individual FG Angels syndicate members in it. This simplifies life for the company as they only end up with 1 investor – the FG Angels syndicate LCC – rather than a bunch of individual investors. AngelList handles the syndicate signature.

Syndicate 111

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 1, 2020

Elizabeth also writes technical articles and is a regular contributor to The Price of Business Nationally Syndicated by USA Business Radio, with current articles on the USA Daily Times and The Daily Blaze. . At home, she grows a lot of plants, and has a poorly behaved but very cute rescue dog.

Connecticut 246

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Next Annette McClellan presented DaisyClip , a non-surgical contraception device for women that she is in the process of syndicating a $1.8 Alicia wants to help align the tasks and staffing, goal setting and objective management of these companies and charge $15,000 to $20,000 per company. million financing round for.

India 116

India Green Silicon Valley Massachusetts 116

David Teten

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Asset management also shows the traditional earmarks of an industry ripe for disruption — most obviously, unhappy customers and extremely profitable incumbents. Despite this, it’s hard to think of good examples of disruption to asset management in the classic, Clay Christensen sense.

Management 114

Management Pre-Money Valuation Venture Capital New Hampshire 114

David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Many private equity funds we interviewed for the Journal of Private Equity study view a CEO over age 60, or a family-run company that hires an outside manager, as a tell that the firm may welcome an outside investor.

Private Equity 114

Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Equity 114

Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 17, 2021

As stated in Entrepreneurship that entrepreneurs must actively manage the relationship between risk and reward in their businesses. Today she is the ex-host of one of the most successful syndicated television shows in history (The Oprah Winfrey Show), a producer and actress in her own television specials, a philanthropist, and an author.

Entrepreneur 95

Entrepreneur Kentucky Syndicate Syndication 95

Gust

JANUARY 15, 2014

Boy, do I wish there was a magical Gmail extension to let me manage my startup deals! Gust (the company I founded) is the online platform used by over 45,000 accredited angel investors and VCs, from over 1,000 angel groups and venture funds, in 74 countries, to manage their startup deals.

Angel Investor 70

Angel Investor Belarus Portugal Accredited Investor 70

SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

When I first decided to start The Silicon Valley Product Group, I had just left eBay and had some very strong opinions about what makes great product teams, and great product cultures, and while there were more than a few important thinkers and leaders on these topics, one area that I felt was under-represented was the role of product management.

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