David Teten VC

JUNE 14, 2021

If you exited your last company for airplane money and are now independently wealthy, congratulations! If you want outside capital, VCs will chase after you to invest. . As someone with “founder” on your resume, you have an extra challenge in getting a traditional salaried job. Some ideas to improve your search process: .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

TechCrunch Early Stage is the place to be for the founder who is just getting started. We’re bringing together experts from the Northeast and Silicon Valley to chat through myriad startup core competencies — from fundraising to operations to marketing — and outline step-by-step guides on how you can set up and grow your business.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Created by DocSend By Russ Heddleston , Co-Founder and CEO of DocSend As a founder, you have many “firsts” to look forward to on your journey to entrepreneurial success?—?from from finding the right partner to opening your first office space (be it a garage, WeWork or a less traditional virtual space ) to securing your first paying customer.

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Jason Malki

AUGUST 3, 2023

Currently, he is a venture specialist for emerging technologies at Schaeffler and manages start-up ecosystems for partnering and investments. Since 2018, he is investing with an emerging tech VC focused on web3 and managing early-stage deal flow. As technology evolves, so does your vision. Not sure if I mentioned AI.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Your mission? This daylong event gives aspiring and early startup founders — from the idea stage to Series A — the confidence, skills, information, connections and community they need to take next steps and grow their business. But how can founders look that far ahead, in a turbulent market, and predict their future business model?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2013

I’m very excited to be finally be able to announce that this week we’ve added Sam Rosen to our ranks at GRP Partners in the role of entrepreneurs-in-residence – EIR. It’s the first EIR that we’ve had in the years that I’ve been with the firm and I hope will be the start of our investment in this program.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

Starting a new business as a student is daunting. How can you get free money and other support for your business idea? . We have collected a wide range of freebies, contests, accelerators, online communities, and VCs designed for student tech founders. 1) Your school. 1) Your school. Right here.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Mountain View, California-based Neo.Tax wants to apply machine learning to business taxes, upgrading them “from an ancient pain into a modern advantage.” ” Or in other words, it wants to make it easier for small businesses and startups to turn taxes from a liability into an asset. .

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2022

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. Instead of taking screen grabs, Ivan writes, ShareGPT creates a link to your ChatGPT conversations that you can grab instead. Startups and VC. PDT, subscribe here. Hello, Happy Thursday. So less chatter, more banter.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2022

One of those VCs was Niko Bonatsos , a managing partner at General Catalyst (GC), a 22-year-old firm that began as an early-stage venture outfit in Boston and that now manages many tens of billions of dollars across as a registered investment advisor. I think the thing that stayed the same is maybe the VC vest.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 30, 2015

One of the first things I did when I joined the venture asset class as a lowly institutional LP analyst in 2001 was to build the VC fund cashflow model. It's not perfect. Venture capital is all about finding the extraordinary. The average VC-backed exit is somewhere around $250mm. Don't you double down on your winners?

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 8, 2011

The other day, I got interviewed for Business Insider. He was a product guy for a start-up and his big claim to fame was organizing a bunch of local high-tech events. How about as a VC? Fred has basically always been a VC, Mike was a reporter, and Jim worked in product marketing and management consulting.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

And given the current emphasis on achieving cost efficiency to extend runways in the broader startup ecosystem, it appears investors are open to insurtech startups that can build a sustainable business model, regardless of it including embedded insurance. We spoke with: Florian Graillot , founding partner, Astorya.vc

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StartupNation

MAY 26, 2021

Here’s how to provide any investor with information that shows the value of his or her commitment to your company through quality reporting: Start with consistency. Your organization’s vision and mission don’t change; it doesn’t matter how many times you pivot in your particular market. Make it fun.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 8, 2023

Everyone starts their fundraising the same way: 1) Open a shared Google Sheet. 2) List all the VCs you've ever heard of. 4) Find out very quickly this isn't very effective. First off, most people in the world can't name any VCs. Does this VC that you know do this kind of deal? Do they do deals at your stage? 
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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2021

Rui Ma is a partner with 500Startups based in Beijing. Clothing, electronics, toys, automobiles, musical instruments, furniture — you name it and you’ll find a manufacturer in China who can turn your intangible concept into mass-manufacturable reality in mere days. Finding a bigger wave to ride. Contributor.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series, “ Pitching a VC.&# Getting a meeting with a prominent angel or VC is difficult enough. Some advice on how to do that was covered in this link – Getting Access to a VC. If you haven’t read how to build VC relationships and demonstrate traction make sure to read it.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

“In early 2022, we moved to Los Angeles and started partnering with brick and mortar locations, creating a marketplace between hyperlocal venues and members looking to discover their city and meet new people through unique social experiences.” After answering additional questions about your personality (e.g.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The country’s startup-friendly regulatory environment, a beautiful medieval town center, over 20 business hubs and accelerators and strong rankings in intellectual property production are most obvious at a high level. Lukas Inokaitis , business development, NFQ Technologies. Gytenis Galkis , partner, 70V. Rokas Tamoši?nas

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Y Combinator

MARCH 30, 2021

We’ve been talking about the unique challenges facing women founders for years, but the pandemic was particularly hard for women looking to start their own companies. Last year, during Y Combinator’s Future Founders Conference , a16z’s Sonal Chokshi led a conversation on “Leveling the Playing Field” with Anu Hariharan, YC Continuity Partner.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

But VC is like congress. And yours as well. The quickest I could find was from PitchBook. As you can see from the chart their data suggests there are about $25 billion of VC distributions per year in the US. Their data looks at tech VCs. If you double your number that would mean 60% of industry returns.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series called “ Start-up Lessons.&#. 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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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Can you tell us a bit about your recent background and current companies? Andrew Drach: I have been doing consulting in engineering and software on and off pretty much ever since I started coding. Monika was a perfect co-founder with complementary experience and skill set. How is your team structured?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 28, 2010

A friend calls me up from “you name it&# city: Boston, New York, Chicago, San Francisco and says, “I’m thinking about moving to Los Angeles (or SF, NY, etc) and I’d love to start interviewing. Let’s start with the obvious. So it takes “spade work&# to find the right job. Lots of reasons.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Local Capital – I do believe that you’ll struggle to get a community started without some local capital. Elect 1-2 representatives and even invite a local VC to invest personally and sit on the investment committee or be an advisor. And with thousands if your backyard, why would you go to far flung places to find deals?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I am very grateful to my friend Zoli Erdos for finding this retro posting for me at web.archive.org. I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. I had really positive experiences such as working with Greg Gretsch at Sigma Partners where he championed us to a partners’ meeting where we sort of got crucified.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

A combination of university talent pipelines, top-rated quality of life, growing startup ecosystem, and growing VC funding has Tree Town topping lists as one of the best places to start a tech company or find a top tech job. AdAdapted creates technology that helps you add advertised products to your grocery list with one click.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

The investors: Boaz Dinte , managing general partner, Qumra Capital. Rafi Carmeli , partner, Viola Growth. Yonatan Mandelbaum , principal, TLV Partners. Natalie Refuah , partner, Viola Growth. Daniel Cohen , partner, Viola Ventures. Ben Wiener , partner, Jumpspeed Ventures. Boaz Dinte, Qumra Capital.

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FundersClub

JUNE 12, 2017

They seek a VC model where dogma is less of a drag on the enterprise, and investment discovery can come from a wide network of smaller investors—mini LPs, in a way. Berhens Wu is the CEO and co-founder of Shippo , which offers an API to connect eCommerce businesses and marketplaces to a network of different shipping providers.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Peter Gajdoš is a partner at Fifth Wall , where he co-leads the Climate Technology Investment team. When I started getting involved in clean tech 1.0 If you don’t reduce carbon in your portfolio and in your business, you will become a dinosaur. Peter Gajdoš. Contributor. Share on Twitter. The financial imperative.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 9, 2021

TechCrunch reporter Natasha Mascarenhas interviewed Kleiner Perkins partner Bucky Moore to get sector-agnostic advice for founders who are ready to raise a Series A. Part 3: Where StockX fits in the business of sneakers. Part 1: How StockX became the stock market of hype. Part 4: The consequences of scaling up sneaker culture.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

In my previous post, The VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) I wrote about the reasons why the VC market came to a screeching halt in September 2008 and remained largely shut until at least April 2009. There are now signs the VC market has gathered pace meaning it’s a great time to be fund raising.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

” We talked about my influences as a younger person and what got me started in technology and entrepreneurship. It was a more intimate version than you might find in one of my speeches and I enjoyed that. My father was a doctor, a pediatrician with zero interest or knowledge in business at all. MARK] I started comp sci.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 25, 2022

Here’s the advice I wish someone told me when I started. To better understand this societal revolution, start with this video about blockchain technology and then read the whitepapers for Bitcoin , Ethereum , and Terra. on “ The Best Business Show.” But it wasn’t always this way. Source: CoinGecko.com.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

The episode isn’t yet live but it should be in the morning (probably when you’re reading this) – you can find it here. The reason I have so many typos is that I value cranking out more content rather than perfect posts. This is interesting because just 2 years ago many of these businesses were shut down by the SEC.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

His pitch made perfect sense: create a biodegradable alternative to expanded polystyrene (EPS) foam using a material provided in abundance by nature. “If you threw this stuff in your garden, it would be gone in less than a month.” People are literally paying someone else to take this stuff.

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