TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

David Teten is founder of Versatile VC and writes periodically at teten.com and @dteten. Akshat Dixit is a senior at North Carolina State University, an intern at Versatile VC , and a past intern with the HBS Alumni Angels Association and the Innovation Quarter in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Scouts help promote diversity in VC.

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MARCH 6, 2010

One of the questions I’m most often asked is, “what’s it like being a VC?&# I’ve been a VC for nearly 3 years now. Since I answer this all the time anyway I thought it might make an interesting blog post. But let’s face it, as a VC you spend time with whichever companies you want.

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JUNE 16, 2014

How long does it take from first meeting a VC to getting cash in the bank? Here were the results: I would guess that getting a third of my deals from events is probably disproportionately high compared to other seed investors on the east coast--and that my VC intro percentage is probably somewhat low. That''s an interesting question.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The best advice she ever gave me, though, was to join the EO to build my leadership skills and my support network. I’ve learnt how to slice the equity pie for VC investors, and gained so much insight about the still male-dominated tech world from this successful tech business veteran. and more articles from the EO blog.

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MAY 19, 2017

Historically VC has been an apprenticeship business. VC ASSOCIATIONS. New York Private Equity Network. VEECEE – European VCs. NextGen Partners – for pre-Partner VCs. Revenue Based Financing Network Group. VCs who care. ACCELERATORS FOR EMERGING VCs. Draper Venture Network.

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OCTOBER 29, 2010

I’m often asked by people, “how do I get into VC?&# Well, I know 3-4 VC jobs that are publicly available. Every time I do recruiting I get somebody who says, “I’m willing to take a step back in my career to work in VC.&# This isn’t likely to appeal to us. Tags: VC Industry. Yesterday.

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APRIL 18, 2010

I’ve been using Chartbeat for over a month now to track performance of my blog and I find myself looking at Google Analytics much less these days. The next users after that is reading a blog post that I wrote nearly 9 months ago. I tend to agree with them but I think that numbers are important in VC meetings.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I was reading Chris Dixon’s blog tonight. I came across this blog post about getting a computer science degree as the best degree for getting into venture capital or working at a VC-backed start up. I just completed an exercise where I went out to hire a new associate for my VC firm, GRP Partners.

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OCTOBER 1, 2009

In the first post in this three part series I described why I believe the VC market froze between September 2008 – April 2009. I’m not a doomsday guy, but just believe that we won’t see a V shaped recovery, which could make VC funding more difficult for tech start-ups (don’t shoot the messenger!).

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OCTOBER 17, 2009

This posting was inspired by an email from Rajat Suri who wrote me an email in response to Chris Dixon’s blog post (link below) from August, which recently re-ran on Business Insider and has generated much Twitter chatter. A few years ago it became fashionable for large VC’s to do seed funding. I was an early cynic.

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JUNE 28, 2010

One of things I’ve loved the most about doing now 11 weeks of This Week in VC is a chance to have an hour-long recorded conversation with investors. And in my interviews with many VCs I feel that people can watch these and get to know the VC’s as human beings a bit better. So how did Mike get into VC?

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 1, 2024

Should I, as the author of over 9,000 blog posts that have been used to train these large language models, be entitled to some of the revenue they will make? The energy transition is being powered by innovation in energy generation (renewables, nuclear, etc), energy storage (batteries, storage networks, etc), and smarter energy distribution.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

To see the video of This Week in VC click on this link. We spent the first 45 minutes or so talking about industry trends (in this order): The history and background of True Ventures, one of my favorite early-stage VC’s (and the one with whom Om is a venture partner). Real-time search engine. Read more: PaidContent.

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Startup Grind

AUGUST 13, 2018

She previously founded Dress for Success, a network that empowers women to thrive both professionally and personally, and Crisis Textline, a non-profit that provides crisis intervention support via text. Favorite business book, blog, podcast? Who is one of your founders you think we should watch?

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

It’s hard enough to raise capital from VC, private equity fund, and family offices. The vastly larger universe of B2B companies, many of which have teams focused on pushing VC and private equity funds to evangelize their product to their portfolio. See my list of due diligence questions for VC and private equity funds. .

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MAY 4, 2013

As a VC you want to feel like you have “proprietary sources” of deal flow. I eventually stumbled on to the best source of high-quality deal flow imaginable – blogging. ” I love businesses that don’t lend themselves well to VC Panels at conferences or Demo Days. I attended events. I hustled.

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APRIL 6, 2015

He found me through my blog and I didn''t think he was real. Hunter Walk can''t be any blog commenters real name, can it? I wasn''t sure whether his answers would wind up here or vice versa, but when I thought about it, it turned out I was pretty adamant that my blog is for my voice. I''ve known Hunter Walk for almost a decade.

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APRIL 3, 2012

Instead of just e-mailing people and dealing with them directly, as we do in person, we're a blog post away from a flamewar. Of course, you don't always need that experience from a VC. We hear things that weren't actually said and argue points that weren't made. We box shadows--especially on the internet.

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JANUARY 19, 2021

His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. raised money from VCs and 7.7% More and more startups are pursuing Revenue-Based VCs , but “RBI” doesn’t fit everyone. A new category of VCs have emerged offering a hybrid between VC and RBI, which we call “Flexible VC”. .

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JANUARY 19, 2021

His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Successful investor relations depend on cultivating a network that supports you during good times and bad. Never underestimate the power of community Investor relations are undergoing a shift from a VC-centric model to community-driven funding. and more articles from the EO blog. Even if an investor passes, stay in touch.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

But most venture-backed startups are “still overwhelmingly white, male, Ivy-League-educated and based in Silicon Valley,” according to a study conducted by RateMyInvestor and Diversity VC. Or will we have to repeat the same conversations about representation failings within VC funds?

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MAY 20, 2021

Back in the early 2000s, it was exciting to blog and use social networks to create our own media and move away from the traditional media outlets. That was the pull that got me into blogging and got me investing in Twitter. So a few months ago, I mirrored this blog on Mirror, a decentralized blogging platform.

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APRIL 29, 2011

No matter how much I or any of the team here at First Round made themselves accessable through Office Hours, LinkedIn, Twitter, speaking, blogging, etc., Then I realized that it's probably not obvious what the dynamics are around how VCs tend to get introduced to companies and what works best for people, so I figured I'd blog about it.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JULY 23, 2020

Gumball is a subsidiary of the Headgum podcast network. Headgum is a network of owned and operated comedy podcasts as well as third party podcasts that join the Headgum network for distribution and monetization (via Gumball). We made an investment in Headgum recently and blogged about it on the USV blog this morning.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

OCTOBER 27, 2021

It became clear early in the 2000s that the big opportunity in the web would be to build large networks of engaged users. And the way many/most of those networks were built was by delivering single user utility day-one and then building out network effects around that utility. I could go on and on but you get the idea.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 3, 2021

With 568 MyEO interest and industry groups in the EO network database, there is truly something for everyone. While seeking funding and information on how the venture capitalism (VC) world works, I stumbled upon the MyEO Angels group, 400 members strong, founded by Daniel Dubois of EO Toronto. and more articles from the EO blog. .

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DECEMBER 12, 2017

VCs are at the forefront of technological disruption, funding many of the latest cutting edge productivity tools. The VC landscape has gotten much more competitive and crowded over the past several years, and if investors are not using software tools?—?they But what tools are they using themselves to automate their own processes?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

It’s always fun chatting with Jason because he’s knowledgeable about the market, quick on topics and pushes me to talk more about VC / entrepreneur issues. The following was available: “I kept hearing about startups that raised VC funding, but which hadn’t filed Form Ds (nor issued a press release).

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MARCH 6, 2016

In 2008 I started VC blogging. I had blogged when I was an entrepreneur. My friends said, “I don’t need another network. That’s what happens when you join a network and have kids. Here’s the thing: If you never try new product and new networks you’ll never learn anything. Right now it’s my favorite network.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The company offers “B2 Cloud Storage,” a tool that includes API access for developers looking to back up information, mesh with third-party content delivery networks (CDNs), and the like. .” Or, as I like to think of it, a large bucket of online storage capacity. Its second product is called “Computer Backup.”

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JUNE 12, 2019

The three areas that seem most obvious to me for decentralized infrastructure are compute (code execution), storage (storing files, etc), and bandwidth (network infrastructure). And today, we are excited to announce that USV has made an investment in a decentralized network infrastructure project called Helium.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 18, 2015

On the one hand innovation is clearly at an all time high unleashed by smart phones, fast telecom networks, social networks that spread commerce and the fact that we are all one click away from buying things on Amazon, Apple, Google or PayPal. I spoke last week at the annual Cendana VC/LP conference.

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JUNE 12, 2013

And it applies to business relationships & networking as much as it does to remuneration in the workplace. But less as a complaint and more as advice to younger networkers, the more you invest in relationships the more you will get when you need. It’s why I wrote the blog post on 50 Coffee Meetings. Lots of asking.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

David Teten is founder of Versatile VC and writes periodically at teten.com and @dteten. Flexible VC: A new model for startups targeting profitability. Jamie Finney is a founding partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund , where he blogs about his work on VC and small communities. More posts by this contributor.

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MARCH 23, 2015

My goal in the interview overall was to capture more of the personal side of Fred since so much of his investment thesis and portfolio work already comes out in his blog. We talk a lot about his schooling, his early jobs as a developer and then as a VC and we talk about his decision to spend winters in Los Angeles.

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APRIL 1, 2021

I’ve recently advised a number of emerging private equity and VC funds who are wrestling with the question: What are the highest impact steps they can take to support their portfolio companies? . VC Platform community has grown approximately 120% in the last 3 years. Alpaca VC shares their Master Agency List. AskAnything.VC

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