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TechCrunch
MARCH 29, 2022
He is now co-founder and chairman of 22 Ventures. Startup accelerators are increasingly putting the brakes on demo days. The often flashy events reserved for founders to connect with investors have long been part of the likes of Y Combinator’s program, seen as the “graduation” of startups’ journey.
David Teten VC
JULY 27, 2021
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Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 14, 2018
If you haven’t yet heard about Female Founder Office Hours it is an initiative you should be aware of whether you’re male, female or any other gender identify. For the LA event, for example, they will not only have a selection of great LA VCs but also 10+ senior VC women from the SF Bay Area will be coming down for it.
David Teten VC
JUNE 14, 2021
Hey, founders between gigs: What now? If you want outside capital, VCs will chase after you to invest. . Unfortunately, most founders are not in that position: 9 out of 10 startups fail. As someone with “founder” on your resume, you have an extra challenge in getting a traditional salaried job. So what should you do?
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 14, 2014
There were a lot of requests for us to turn our mentorship program into a physical accelerator with a fund, office space and full-time staff. Throughout all of these years I was a full-time VC so Launchpad really came out of evenings and weekends for me. Demo’d to death. We’ve all been demo-day’d to death.
TechCrunch
MARCH 4, 2021
Roger Roman (co-founder). “We’ve encountered the problems that many Black founders face, such as scarce fundraising sources. For Roger, whose upbringing was on the westside of Chicago, he doubles as an active angel investor and a VC scout. Image Cedits: AfriBlocks.
David Teten VC
DECEMBER 2, 2019
Now the bad news: some venture capitallists have a bias against startups with an explicit positive social impact, on the grounds that they have a smaller addressable market, and that the founders are not sufficiently focused on creating shareholder wealth. J.M.Kaplan Innovation Prize. “The Bloomberg New Economy Forum Solutions.
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