Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

I was having dinner with a friend last night and we were chatting about venture capital and a bit about what I’ve learned. I don’t need to name companies for you to come up with your own examples. I guess if you’re in high-volume, low-differentiation mode perhaps this is efficient for you. I don’t.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

Most entrepreneurs have found by now one or more of the many popular crowdfunding sites , and have the name and contact information for at least one of the big venture capital firms. Their realm fits between crowdfunding and venture capital sources. Look to grants and strategic partners for seed funding.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

These names aren’t the end of the story?—?they I expect to see more announcements of big name people and companies moving to Texas every month in 2021. These are all potential customers and strategic partners for startups. Joe Lonsdale. Drew Houston. Jim Breyer. Charles Schwab. Hewlett Packard. Who’s next?

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VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2017

their brands are less developed, so most people would struggle to name a show. It is often available for subscription, so that new episodes are automatically downloaded via web syndication to the user’s own local computer, mobile application, or portable media player. Carlos Eduardo Espinal, a friend, and partner at Seedcamp.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 5, 2010

ClickFox , the Israeli-American startup developing optimization software for customer service centers, announced it has raised $18 million in financing from a syndicate led by Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners (AIP). Israel’s Jerusalem Venture Partners sold part of its stake in Qlik Technologies Inc.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . But, most of use raise capital and source deals the same way people looked for dates 20 years ago: by networking at conferences (or bars). . But in business, you want a lot of partners.

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Professor VC

JULY 25, 2013

Mike Markkula presenting Steve Jobs with first investment in Apple I recently watched an excellent documentary on PBS, Something Ventured: Risk, Reward, and the Original Venture Capitalists. I''m all for transparency, but won''t be naming names in this post as I don''t want to put some entrepreneurs in a difficult position.

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Rob Go

JULY 17, 2014

For a seed stage venture capital firm, product/market fit comes down to two questions. On #2, we have been fortunate to collaborate with a wide group of exceptional entrepreneurs, coinvestors, and limited partners. 1) How is the portfolio performing? Some of these questions led us to raise a larger fund for NextView II.

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Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

I happen to be fascinated by the history of the VC industry, and one of the things we discussed at a recent offsite are the common threads behind the rise and fall of great venture capital firms. Some disgruntled younger partners left to go start a new firm in 1965 called Greylock.

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VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2017

their brands are less developed, so most people would struggle to name a show. It is often available for subscription, so that new episodes are automatically downloaded via web syndication to the user’s own local computer, mobile application, or portable media player. you need an app that streams podcasts (Apple has one by default).

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

Instead of arguing why Dallas might be better than Houston we should be talking about how we can work together to get our share of venture capital dollars more in line with our population size and startup activity by unlocking additional capital sources that have been previously inaccessible to tech. Department of Defense.

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mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

“Most of that money [from venture capitalists and angels] is used to build a product,&# explains Haig Kayserian, the CEO of Kayweb Angels. Kayweb is named for its majority owner, the design and development firm Kayserian founded in Australia seven years ago. Have an account? “It’s not been a difficult sell.&#

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Gust

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Furthermore, angel groups frequently syndicate (co-invest) with neighboring angel organizations in an effort to help fill round of investment for local companies and assist members in diversifying their portfolios with investments in nearby regions. Marketing/Sales/Partners. Sales channels, sales and marketing partners.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

It's a story that just hit a milestone--a $4mm round of venture funding that I'm ecstatic to say Brooklyn Bridge Ventures just led. When the Mets got to the World Series, they release a kettle corn flavored ice cream with blue and orange M&Ms and a contest on social media around naming the ice cream. That's Ample Hills.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 7, 2010

The report’s country profile assessment also noted that Israel’s favorable financial environment, the category in which it was placed 14th, and the availability of venture capital, the pillar in which it came in 10th place, also contributed to making the country an innovation powerhouse. Diversified U.S.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

Some angel investors join together in syndicates. You can find groups near you through the Angel Capital Association. [ A big-name VC firm will not screwyou too outrageously, because other founders would avoid them ifword got out. Thats where the name"incubator" comes from. In Boston thebiggest is the CommonAngels.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

I would propose that we call these types of investors “syndicate investors”—super useful folks who join with others to help rounds get raised on various crowd investing platforms. A similar problem happens at venture firms—where no longer are you seeing clear cut terms like analyst, associate, and general partner.

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