TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Linda Greub Contributor Share on Twitter Linda Greub is the co-founder and managing partner of Avestria Ventures. But when you’re running a VC firm, especially as an emerging manager, how do you know which investors and limited partners (LPs) to target? But that image is only one part of venture capital.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2021

For VC-backed companies, there are effectively three outcomes: standalone company (often via an IPO), merger or acquisition, or bankruptcy. NVCA-Pitchbook data on acquisitions and IPOs back up the sentiment of founders when it comes to likely exit opportunities. Acquisitions are an important element of the startup ecosystem.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 30, 2018

According to the NVCA 2017 Yearbook , in 2004, 77% of global VC fundraising went to US VCs, and 85% of global VC dollars went to US startups. This implies that the US is still the center of the VC industry, even while there is more opportunity for US VCs to invest abroad. . Determined Founders.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

David Teten is founder of Versatile VC and writes periodically at teten.com and @dteten. 15 steps to fundraising a new VC or private equity fund. Katherine Boe Heuck is a MBA candidate at MIT Sloan (class of 2022), a past intern at Versatile VC and a current intern at Metaprop NYC. David Teten. Contributor. Contributor.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

As many of you know I run a weekly webcast called This Week in VC that’s getting between 25-35,000 weekly views across ThisWeekIn.com, YouTube & mostly iTunes. Why did you raise VC from Polaris & how have they been to work with? Working with a family member (Evan, the co-founder is his brother)?

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 30, 2023

In addition to his rich experiences working in the venture capital (VC) and private equity (PE) sectors, Joseph has also sharpened his investment acumen through his multiple years in the audit and stock-broking industry before deciding to finally launch his cross-border investment firm, Kairous Capital , in 2015.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Rather than reinvent the wheel, I would point readers to Martin Kleppmann’s useful blog post with graphs illustrating the effects of a valuation cap on entrepreneurs, seed investors and later-round (typically VC) investors. Valuation caps can come into play in settings other than seed-stage convertible note financing rounds.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series “ Start Up Advice &# but I’d really like to call this post, “VC Advice.&#. On a panel that I sat on with Ron in LA in 2008 he stated that there were no circumstances in which the founder should take money off of the table. VC’s who don’t get this are naive.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

That is why I invited the Founder & CEO, Jonah Peretti , to come talk at the 2017 Upfront Summit and make the case himself. Around 2001 Jonah was studying at MIT Media Lab and began running experiments in viral stories in an era before smart phones (2007) and before social networks took off (2004–2007) and before YouTube (2005).

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 15, 2012

Parker made a huge dent in the web as co-founder of Napster, then built Plaxo up to 20 million users. He spotted Facebook in 2004 and Spotify in 2009. What I do care about is that a person who is long on vision and has a knack for being around big companies early on is now living in New York City.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Justyn Howard, founder of Sprout Social has a blog post that he’s written about his experiences of migrating from scrappy tools to more efficient ones (i.e. Our first big institutional round of VC was $16.5 I learned everything I know about startups in these lean years: 2001-2004.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 6, 2023

Serial entrepreneur and seasoned investor Vinod Khosla has some strong, contrarian advice for the venture capital industry: don’t sit on your founders’ boards. I’m not a big fan of governance; I think if you engage as a team member with a founder, you have much more influence than if you’re sitting on a board and voting,” he said.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. Deal evaluations the Foundry way, which continues into a great discussion about VC decision-making processes. “So and one of the founders of Oblong, John Underkoffler, was an MIT Medialab PHd., RSS was something that had appeared.” “….I Distribution.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

During the show, he noted that Sequoia tells “founders that the IPO is a milestone” — not the finish line — for a company. The comment gets at the crux of what Sequoia would like to do with its new model: hold investments longer, requiring the VC to be able to hold stocks over a long time horizon. ServiceNow is up 60x.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

in 2004 before falling sharply due to the economic recession of 2007-2009. Sequoia Capital led the round and was joined by Jay-Z’s Roc Nation venture investment arm Arrive, Will Smith’s Dreamers VC and existing investor Signia Venture Partners. homeownership rates in 2020 were about 65.8% according to Statista. The rate reached 63.7%

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Berkonomics

JULY 10, 2014

Why fight about valuation, or disappoint the founder at the outset? The first is of a 2004 startup that I cofounded and led the investment group for several early rounds, then VC rounds. The second story involves a founder who is using outsourced development, support, outsourced customer relations and more.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

The firm, which, according to Ayeni, spun out from a conversation between himself and Helios Investment Partners’ founders, has backed one startup already: Egyptian payments company Paymob. “I’ll call it a mid-cap VC fund. Ayeni and the Helios Investment Partners team declined to comment on the VC firm’s overall fund size.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2021

Boston-based G20 Ventures led the round, which included participation from Greycroft, Pillar VC, 2LVC, and Gaingels. . Knox co-founder and CEO David Friedman is no stranger to startups. He founded Boston Logic – an integrated marketing platform and online marketing services for real estate offices and agents – in 2004.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 28, 2021

Why fight about valuation, or disappoint the founder at the outset? The first is of a 2004 startup that I cofounded and led the investment group for several early rounds, then VC rounds. Email readers, continue here…] The second story involves the same founder. Lessons founders learned. More of my stories.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

He started Thrillist with Adam Rich in 2004, which later became Group Nine Media in 2016. TechCrunch: Ben, how does it feel to come back to VC full-time? Lerer: It’s nice of you to say “back to VC full-time.” VC still requires in-person connection, argues Madrona’s Matt McIlwain.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 14, 2023

We were founded in 2004 by David Rose, Founder & Executive Chairman, Gust. Versatile VC uses FlowInc , in which I’m an investor.) These may indicate room for Versatile VC to build or invest in a startup addressing that need. We are one of the world’s largest and most active single-chapter angel groups.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 5, 2023

For me, I have at least two years of active board and observer commitments to roll off of and far more time before all the founders I’ve backed hit (or miss, I suppose) their ultimate goal of returning lots of money to their investors. No more founder pitch meetings. It has been a career that fits my personality well.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

The importance of the conference is that it assembles most of the top privately held early-to-mid-stage technology companies in the country (and some globally) as well as most VC’s, growth equity funds and corporate development departments from large industry players looking at technology acquisitions. total funding $1.7 My-Wardrobe.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

Startups and VC Plexamp, the music player from Plex, now works with ChatGPT for playlist creation , reports Sarah. Among other things, I asked it to create a list of top 10 essential heavy metal songs, great music to work to, and most nostalgic songs from 2004. Okay, enough musically inspired goofiness. You can sign up here.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 30, 2020

I saw this tweet coming out of the Upfront Summit yesterday (where I will be today): Josh Kopelman of First Round Capital: we can look at every company we’ve ever funded, and learned that the time from first email/contact to term sheet has shrunk from 90 days in 2004 to just 9 today. — Dan Primack (@danprimack) January 29, 2020.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

I sat next to Irwin Jacobs (founder of Qualcomm) on a bus ride. We then had a piece in Time Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Europe, we ran front cover of Tornado Insider (the top VC magazine in Europe at the time). 2001-2004 were very humbling but we built a real company. If you need VC, no better time than the present.

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