David Teten VC

JANUARY 12, 2022

For example, activist hedge funds, and most private equity and VC funds. A private equity/VC investor can proactively recruit new team members, win clients, or if necessary change management. . Hedge funds on average have underperformed on a net of fees basis in both US equities and bonds since 2000. The HFRI Index returned 18.3%

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

They have totally changed the way you run a VC firm, investing heavily in systems & events for their founders that are pushing the boundaries of the way our industry works. It is clear that he is simply passionate about being a VC and participating in this industry. Howard is successful enough that he doesn't need to work.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JULY 23, 2020

Ad-buying opportunities within podcasts have historically been manual and limited, not unlike the process of purchasing web ads pre-2000. As podcasts continue to gain market share, Gumball’s self-serve ad marketplace has the opportunity to be as transformative to the podcast industry as Google Adwords was for web ads. .

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 26, 2020

It’s a thought provoking question and a good opportunity to ask for feedback on how we can imrove. 2018 and 2019 exceeded the heady days of 2000 in terms of dollars deployed. Second, as competition has intensified, VC funds have invested in platforms (we call it founder experience at Redpoint). I’d love to hear them.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

I’d like to explain as best I can my opinion on what is going on because most of what I hear from entrepreneurs is not only wrong but is reminiscent of what I heard in 1997-2000. What is the True Sentiment of VCs? Brad was openly writing about this and it felt like he was giving the VC playbook away for free!

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Gust

OCTOBER 17, 2012

In addition, angels were up against a selection problem: All the best entrepreneurs and opportunities would naturally gravitate to the best venture capital funds, leaving only the “scraps” for angel investors. It is not highly concentrated geographically, or in the bubble of 1998-2000, or in any industry. So which is it? and the U.K.,

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Onevest

MARCH 19, 2015

It significantly broadens investment opportunities and a startup’s potential to raise capital through only a few legislative provisions. Even the more realistic projection, $300 billion , is 10 times the current VC investment market. So why the hold up? will increase from 3.5 million to 233.7 million newcomers that may participate.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Twitter Space: A Gen Z VC speaks up. According to Andrew Chan, a senior associate at Builders VC, GenZ investors “are still a bunch of kids, myself included.” ” According to Andrew Chan, a senior associate at Builders VC, GenZ investors "are still a bunch of kids, myself included." — Clever Canadian.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

However, it appears that even though VCs are proceeding more cautiously than before and taking their time with due diligence, they are still investing. CB Insights recently found that two of the largest global VC firms, Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz, actually backed more fintech companies in 2022 than any other category.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

Early-stage African VC firm Microtraction reports portfolio boom despite the weight of COVID-19. This service will see Plentywaka partner with some major bus travel companies, which collectively have more than 2000 buses and ply over 100 routes in the country. FarmCrowdy raises $1M round to bring Nigerian farmers online and to market.

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OurCrowd

MAY 11, 2020

Historically, venture investing right after major market downturns – such as after the Internet bubble burst in 2000-2002, and after the financial crisis of 2007-2009 — has proved lucrative because you’re buying at a discount. Read my and others’ thoughts on “Recession, Reinvention and Opportunity” in this Israel21c piece.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 19, 2015

This trend opposes the broader VC market’s investment patterns. The important story in Enterprise YC companies is the prominence of vertical SaaS - e.g., construction, real estate and legal software - all industries who have yet to modernize and so present terrific opportunities to build big businesses.

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

From an investor’s perspective, 2022 witnessed a sudden market reversal from an extreme equity seller’s market to an equity buyer’s market, causing dislocations throughout angel, VC, and startup ecosystems. It is unclear if VCs will agree to these terms, but LPs believe they now have more leverage. Smaller VC fundraises?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

This great Internet that has offered so much economic opportunity has also centralized wealth creation into the hands of relatively few people on a scale and in a timeframe never seen before. Trust Between 1998–2000 the world became enamored with the “new economy” and Internet companies that were going public on NASDAQ in the United States.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

In short, the opportunity for privacy tech, both B2B and consumer-facing, is growing. Legal clashes between surveillance laws and data protection rights are also causing growing B2B headaches, especially for U.S.-based based cloud services. While growth in cryptocurrencies is driving demand for secure infrastructure to support crypto trading.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 27, 2014

Scott and I agree on nearly everything: The VC structure is changing and there appears to be a bifurcation into small & large VCs with an impact on “traditionally sized” VCs. The only point we didn’t seem totally aligned on was what we happening to the “middle of the VC market.”

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Or one opportunity, to seize everything you ever wanted. Raise a big VC round – yeah! VCs even offered me to cash out seven figures personally not to sell. But I had been down this road in 2000 and I saw how punishing markets could be when you didn’t sell and had an offer. Look, if you had, one shot.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2017

link] There’s no doubt in my mind that “LA is having a moment” and both VCs and LPs realize it. LPs (the people who invest in VC firms) have clearly voted in favor of LA with the creation of 15+ new early-stage venture firms and the continued growth is size and team of the great larger firms that are well established.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

It is highly dependent upon many factors: experience of the team, type of opportunity (a big biotech or semi-conductor A round is likely to look different from an Internet A round), geography, etc. I’m a VC so I have an obvious bias. It was early 2000. I saw this kind of pricing when I first entered the VC market in 2007.

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Tomasz Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

Everybody wants an allocation, an opportunity to invest in the very best companies. Third, this confluence of factors creates an opportunity for vertical integration in venture, where VCs provide capital at every stage in the company’s lifecycle: from seed to A, B through to pre-IPO rounds.

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Jason Malki

JULY 13, 2023

Nick created Blockperfect to serve entrepreneurs who didn’t fit the typical VC model; there, he provides Venture Catalyst, a program designed to ease the friction of taking an idea from contemplation to a well-managed cash-flowing business. That means more opportunities for more people.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

He pointed to data from Pitchbook showing an uptick in down rounds in Q3 this year, with almost 19% of all European VC funding now fitting this criteria. But once it was over, I had the opportunity to start afresh. Following the speech, I asked Zennström if he thought it self-serving for a VC to be putting a glossy view of downrounds.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 4, 2014

Consequently, there are many huge opportunities for entrepreneurs to seize. Second, the capital startups require to pursue those opportunities is plentiful. 2014 will be the third largest year in VC fundraising since 2000. First, technology is changing nearly every part of the economy. But that isn’t happening.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 7, 2019

In VC, this means you source companies by talking with other VCs and tracking the investment patterns and new Linkedin connections of other VCs. You could argue that when they were [raising] oversubscribed [VC rounds], Facebook, Google, Amazon, etc., But VC is historically and consistently cyclical.

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abovethecrowd.com

AUGUST 23, 2020

So the “real” oversupply is likely much, much higher than 30X – simply because most investors are not even given the opportunity to show their interest [fatal flaw #2 above]. (One huge side note here — most investors are blocked from even putting in an order, including the majority of all retail investors.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

And this growth parallels the overall startup Series A size which has reached similar highs to rounds in 2000. At this point, investors are betting on the team’s unique backgrounds, approach to the market or some other characteristic of the opportunity. 2014 and 2015 were two of the largest VC investment years in the last 20.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Is 2012 going to be 2000 all over again? There are a ton of companies being funded at $500+ million valuations--seriously limiting exit opportunities. When the bubble burst in 2000, many of us felt it in our pockets. I met with a major institutional limited partner the other day--the kind of money that funds VC's.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. And of course I’ve sat on the other side of the table: As a VC. This is not just the perspective of a VC although I can’t say I have zero VC bias. Neither can any VC. Executive Summary.

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 5, 2019

The only model of institutional seed funding was the “business incubator” model, where VC firms would fund well-connected founders they knew and incubate them in their office. This was the key insight that led to the creation of YC, and also to the hundreds of institutional seed funds that sprung up to take advantage of the new opportunity.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

But if you’re on the precipice of a big market opportunity then having more capital & resources can be critical. It’s hard for many VCs to get excited about funding a company who is going to compete with somebody who just raised $10 million from an A-list VC (although this can go the other way, also).

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 10, 2021

If you can raise $250k, through at least 1000 donations of no more than $250 each, with a cap of $2000, you can qualify for an 8:1 match of taxpayer dollars. You see, New Yorkers try to keep money out of politics in our election by using a matching program. Basically, if you can create a groundswell of support, you’re in the game.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MARCH 9, 2020

” There was the Internet stock meltdown in 2000 when the internet sector went down something like 80% over that bear market. I’ve seen this movie before. I had just started working in the venture capital business in 1987 when the stock market crashed 23% on “black monday.”

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