Agile VC

OCTOBER 27, 2011

3) UI/UX Matters in B2B - For decades, B2B application developers could skimp on innovating in the presentation layer. I hate indulging in wanton portfolio self-promotion, but my partners & I are incredibly excited about these companies and will undoubtedly continue to make more investments in this vein. Previous Entries.

Software 100

Software B2B Silicon Valley Acquisition 100

VC Adventure

MAY 21, 2014

A few months ago AngelList announced Syndicates - enabling investors on AngelList to create fund-like groups of investors to invest together in AngelList companies (following a single lead investor). It’s a great idea and at Foundry we quickly decided it would be an interesting experiment to form our own syndicate.

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Syndicate Syndication Technical Review Due Diligence 93

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

I have seen this criticism at various places where this recap is syndicated on a weekly basis, as well as in certain random forums on the internet. First up today was Yogesh Sharma presenting Rangrut.com , a business that connects employers with learning institutions and on-campus students to fill job openings. Rangrut.com.

Silicon Valley 114

Silicon Valley Technical Review Startup Early Stage 114

This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 25, 2010

They also couldn’t have asked for a better syndicate of investors. I was actually at the Hackathon, too… but had missed Steve’s presentation. We met the next day, along with his partner, Jared Hecht. I knew Jared from his time at Tumblr.

Part-Time VPE 109

Part-Time VPE New York City SMS Syndicate 109

Gust

JULY 12, 2012

It was organized by Diane Roberts of Xcell Partners and held at the StartupBaseCamp accelerator in Dublin. On May 2nd and 3rd, I led workshops for about thirty Estonian investors on syndication, due diligence, valuation and the post-investment relationship with entrepreneurs.

Community 121

Community Estonia Ireland Finland 121

This is going to be BIG.

MAY 5, 2023

I’ll also continue to work within the NYC tech community—now thriving at a level I could hardly have imagined when I first got the pitch deck for USV’s first fund as a Limited Partner at the GM pension fund. To think, I almost didn’t take that 2004 meeting because it was a NYC-based fund. This is how Fred Wilson described me back in 2010.

Later Stage 218

Later Stage Venture Capital Term Sheet Limited Partner 218

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

I told my friend that I felt that in 2014 too many new VCs feel the pressure to chase deals, to be a part of syndicates with other brand names and to pounce on top of every startup whose numbers are trending up quickly. You need to be very present in these periods of time. They worry too much about missing out on a deal.

Cofounder 374

Cofounder Syndicate Syndication Early Stage 374

VC Adventure

MAY 21, 2014

A few months ago AngelList announced Syndicates – enabling investors on AngelList to create fund-like groups of investors to invest together in AngelList companies (following a single lead investor). It’s a great idea and at Foundry we quickly decided it would be an interesting experiment to form our own syndicate.

Syndicate 48

Syndicate Syndication Technical Review Due Diligence 48

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

PEVCTech is partnering with Blue Future Partners to run the first large-scale survey of VCs’ technology stack. Johann Kratzer of Blue Future Partners , a fund of funds, observed, “The majority of the hundreds of funds we’ve diligenced rely predominantly on their relationships to source deals. Greylock Partners.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

Genuine VC

JULY 26, 2010

Micro VCs are notorious for building large and friendly syndicates. While traditional VCs sometimes have a love/hate relationship with their syndicate partners (often depending on how well their mutual portfolio companies are performing), it seems as though in the Micro VC arena all of the players speak and act like best friends.

Syndicate 128

Syndicate Syndication Due Diligence Seed Stage 128

www.allthingsdistributed.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Main July 11, 2007 The Different CTO Roles I was putting together a short panel presentation on the roleof a Chief Technology Officer in corporate innovation and I once again realized that there is quite a bit of confusion around the role of the CTO. My job at Microsoft is to worry about technology in thefuture.

CTO 40

CTO CTO Hire Syndicate Syndication 40

Haystack

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Slowly I have learned – the association investors have with certain founders, syndicate partners, and downstream VC firms matters; the people one chooses to work with as investor matters a great deal; and while the decisions may happen quickly, they stick around for a long time.

Portfolio 118

Portfolio Syndicate Syndication Flash 118

Hunter Walker

APRIL 4, 2014

Part of our presentation will be portfolio financials, which, because we’re relatively new, aren’t exceptionally volatile (LP speak: most of our investments are still carried at original value since no additional fundraising has occurred). high net worth individuals. family offices. strategic investors (including corporates).

San Francisco 100

San Francisco Private Equity LP Syndicate 100

Gust

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Sessions are all about how to improve angel investing and manage angel groups, as well as connecting with other industry players and getting technical presentations. Further down the scale are the regional events that the organizations put on, which usually combine regional investment syndication with classes and tutorials.

Angel Investor 125

Angel Investor Global Angel Groups Europe 125

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

2) You’re Entitled to Say No – Some entrepreneurs I’ve discussed this topic with feel compelled to speak with VCs, whether partners or junior staff, that reach out to them. This is sometimes a good path to getting the attention of partners in the firm if you don’t have other avenues. What’s Your Favorite Future?

Early Stage 100

Early Stage Syndicate Syndication Silicon Valley 100

Brandanew

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

For instance, Whitepapers or presentations. As B2B partners tend to be detail oriented high quality content is a great way to engage with them. This post seemed to be hitting the pain points well, and was syndicated by the folks at Business2Community as well. A ton of helpful advice, that you need to check here.

Marketing 100

Marketing B2B Social Media Michigan 100

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. Another area where I''m not sure I stand is with some of the more formal referral and syndication programs that are emerging now.

Term Sheet 46

Term Sheet Silicon Valley Syndicate Syndication 46

blogs.hbr.org

OCTOBER 24, 2012

In thirty days, I went from no relationships at Yahoo to three warm introductions to power players who could make my desired content syndication partnership happen. Build your network that way, and when you present your acquaintances with a problem they realize they can solve for you — theyll be right there with an offer to help.

Networking 109

Networking New York City Syndicate Syndication 109

Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

At present, streaming will be the format of choice for back catalog films (e.g. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC Syndicate 10 July 2012, 5:13 pm What A VC Orders for Breakfast Says 27 June 2012, 10:16 am To Leave or Not to Leave as Your Startup Grows 12 June 2012, 12:21 pm. My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 5 days ago Search.

Silicon Valley 100

Silicon Valley Private Equity Seed Stage Syndicate 100

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But in business, you want a lot of partners. In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers. See Bessemer Venture Partners’ A comprehensive guide to security for startups. I use Google Drive to host my conference presentations , which are all embedded at teten.com.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Hearpreneur

JUNE 12, 2019

He went into detail about how he was presented with projects in progress with a stoplight coding (red, yellow, green) to indicate their status. When all of the projects were presented as “green”, he abruptly stopped the meeting, and stated that if everything was on track, the company couldn’t have lost $12B that year.

Entrepreneur 86

Entrepreneur Cofounder Los Angeles Leadership 86

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 14, 2010

Gideon, my business partner, rarely reads my blog anymore. In an ideal world I’d have a team of outsourcers pounce on every blog post I write and ensure it’s made into all media formats and syndicated as far as we can take it. As a result, I’m always on the hunt for the audio version of products. His justification?

Audio 73

Audio Distribution Syndicate Syndication 73

This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 21, 2010

Interestingly enough, I thought more people started taking part in the conversation who weren’t on Hot Potato because they now knew their thoughts were being syndicated to an app where more people were talking about the event. It wasn’t clear, however, that this kind of deal savvy was present on the founding team.

Product 68

Product Hockey Stick Entrepreneur Syndicate 68

David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

The venture capital industry is continuing its evolution from an upside-down pyramid (typically 3-10 Partners, plus some administrative support) to a traditional hierarchical pyramid. Summit Partners and TA Associates have leveraged their origination programs to move into later stage buyouts.

Private Equity 114

Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Equity 114

Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

A partner from the law firm (sponsor, covers the drinks and food) tosses out some softball questions to the panelists, the audience chimes in with Q&A and finally, culminates with the meet and greet where the panelists are flooded with business cards and pitches on the next great thing, which is often very similar to the last great thing.

Pre-Money Valuation 28

Pre-Money Valuation Angel Investor Angel Groups Valuation 28

mashable.com

JULY 10, 2012

The Evolution of Ecommerce Series is presented by Litle & Co. , Series presented by Litle and Co. The Evolution of Ecommerce Series is presented by Litle & Co. , Top From Our Partners. Global Syndication Partners. Cookie Monster Stars in Sesame Street ‘Call Me Maybe’ Parody. Like Tweet.

eCommerce 101

eCommerce Software Review Technical Review Social Media 101

Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

In part 2 , I went through 6 more strategies including forums, guest blogging, email newsletters, CSS galleries, partners and app comparison sites. I was recently in an event in Bangkok where Dan Andrews presented to the whole room a sales pitch for Rob’s product HitTail. App listing sites.

Social Media 59

Social Media Viral Startup Audio 59

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

The unique thing about these efforts is not only that they will be for YouTube primarily (though you can syndicate them all over the place), the differentiator will be that you'll create them with your specific YouTube audience in mind. YouTube Short-Form Audience Specific Content. Small, initial efforts are ok. Closing Thoughts.

Analytics 149

Analytics Marketing Audience Channel 149

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Since these early individuals will be critical to the success of your business, being present and managing them firsthand will effectively establish a precedent, not to mention, align them with the overall culture and vision of your company. Also consider an area for its potential business partners (software integrators, resellers, etc.)

France 77

France Marketing Social Media Startup 77

mashable.com

DECEMBER 29, 2011

LevelUp uses payment as a checkin, presenting merchants the opportunity to reward loyal customers. Top From Our Partners. Global Syndication Partners. Other startups innovated on the implicit checkin. The Rise and Fall of Independent Group Messaging Apps. The Android-Powered Smart Watch Marries Luxury and Tech.

New York City 83

New York City New York Startup Social Media 83

Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 14, 2017

And at the same time once I realized that I had already written or presented on so many of these ideas, I ended up going to my recordings, going through past articles, sent old speeches off to get transcribed and started going through to see what content I already had that was valuable. Jill: It was a bit intimidating.

Audience 32

Audience Video Sales Campaign 32

Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

In part 2 , I went through 6 more strategies including forums, guest blogging, email newsletters, CSS galleries, partners and app comparison sites. I was recently in an event in Bangkok where Dan Andrews presented to the whole room a sales pitch for Rob’s product HitTail. App listing sites.

Social Media 27

Social Media Viral Startup Audio 27

mashable.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Mashable | The Social Media Guide Viral Topics Twitter YouTube Facebook iPhone Google Video About Mashable Company About Us Advertise Submit News Contact Us Announcements Resources Guidebooks Lists How To Trending Twitter List Directory Mashable Awards Subscriptions Partners W3 EDGE Rackspace Concentric Sky Dynect DNS Intridea Welcome to Mashable!

Developer 93

Developer HTML API Ruby 93

mashable.com

JANUARY 13, 2012

If A and C have no variable other than the being presented to different user sets, they should quickly see the same results. Top From Our Partners. Global Syndication Partners. This script tag will cause the Brightcove Players defined above it to be created as soon as the line is read by the browser. Jobs by Simply Hired.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Social Media Social Network RSS 78

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Attenti’s two principal investors, Francisco Partners and the Israeli branch of the U.S. Attenti was initially founded as a software venture in 1990 by three ex-air force pilots, but after three years the partners decided that a change of business model was in order, and moved to hardware. Diversified U.S. in August 2010.

United Kingdom 96

United Kingdom Austria Global 96

Agile VC

JUNE 12, 2012

2) Yes the merchant must follow settlement rules and is exposed to varying levels of risk depending on the nature of the transaction (card present / not, etc). . (3) They are fully fungible for hard currency through Safaricom’s network of retail partners for either the sender or recipient of an M-Pesa mobile payment.

Mobile 250

Mobile Disintermediation SMS Government 250

www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

Some angel investors join together in syndicates. Iknow of one startup that got from an angel investor what amountedto a five hundred pound handshake: after deciding to invest, theangel presented them with a 70-page agreement. Not all the people who work at VC firms are partners. In Boston thebiggest is the CommonAngels.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Startup Software Review Angel Investor 76