Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Paul Kedrosky made the case for “naive optimism&# being an important part of startup success. This is where VC comes in and why it’s needed in the industry no matter how much populist sentiment exists agains the industry. got picked up early without raising a lot of VC. Not everybody agreed. It’s hard to say.

angel investing 152

angel investing investing investment VC 152

David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

See How to negotiate a partner role at a VC or private equity firm.) At Versatile VC , we’ve used all these models. Thank you to my co-author for this essay, Paulina Symala, a Consultant at Oliver Wyman and a past intern of Versatile VC. connects startups to experts in building new businesses. Expert Networks.

consulting 128

consulting venture capital board capital 128

David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

Does the traditional VC financing model make sense for all companies? VC Josh Kopelman makes the analogy of jet fuel vs. motorcycle fuel. VCs sell jet fuel which works well for jets; motorcycles are more common but need a different type of fuel. . 2018 also had the fewest number of angel-led financing rounds since before 2010.

investing 99

investing investment founder VC 99

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 14, 2010

It’s meant to be a bit provocative but the reality is that I give this advice to entrepreneurs all the the time and I usually leave the “e&# off of the end. I normally offer this advice in the capacity of really wanting to help entrepreneurs so please bear with me. It is 2010. Not so VC.

venture capital 289

venture capital capital ventures advice 289

TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

Startups in the space include Taxfix , a Berlin-based mobile tax filing app; Column Tax , which provides advance access to tax refunds; and the deduction-calculating TaxDown. It doesn’t hurt that funding for fintech startups was on the rise prior to the current economic headwinds. Financing climbed to $131.5

incumbents 87

incumbents financing finance advice 87

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Yet the truth is that I see angels with great deal flow & great instincts whom I believe will only perform well in times that favor angel investors (like 2010) where there are early exits. Tags: Startup Advice Tech Market Analysis VC Industry. I don’t believe these times will last.

angel investing 288

angel investing investing investment advice 288

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

I wonder what this company would look like in 2010 as an independent? But to understand how super-angels and not just VCs get in on this act check out Aydin Senkut’s record. I guess what I’m saying is that startup investing (whatever the stage) is not a stock picking job. I agreed to help.

angel investing 280

angel investing investing investment VC 280

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2011

Are we headed for a long era of innovation in which startups are the new norm? In a way, startups have become kind of like the video game industry. And so it occurs to me that many startups in the consumer world are now truly hits driven like video games or movies. It seems almost incomprehensible that only 2.5 Non valuable.

transportation 309

transportation VC networking energy 309

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 24, 2015

If market slumps persist the woes will extend into LPs who will take a wait-and-see approach to investing in VC funds making 2016 an unpleasant year to be raising. The impact hits VCs in an immediate way that most entrepreneurs don’t realize. Watch the market closely. So I’ll come full circle. I wrote this in one sitting.

financing 344

financing finance ventures real estate 344

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

This is an updated post from my ongoing series on Startup Advice that I learned from founding two companies. . On Losing in VC. I decided to put both of those issues to bed in 2010. I know I won’t win every deal I want to in VC. We assumed they would take our advice and upgrade. I HATE LOSING.

consulting 328

consulting advice collaboration VC 328

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 20, 2018

Maybe this is reverse “hanging around the rim” where if you keep you VC process going long enough you’ll eventually get to “yes?” I once had a potential LP back in 2010 (when fund-raising as a VC was harder for me) tell me that he thought he was a better fit to look at our next fund rather than this one. Wait, there’s more!

peer-to-peer 189

peer-to-peer entrepreneurs VC investing 189

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

This is an updated post from my ongoing series on Startup Advice that I learned from founding two companies. . On Losing in VC. I decided to put both of those issues to bed in 2010. I know I won’t win every deal I want to in VC. We assumed they would take our advice and upgrade. I HATE LOSING.

consulting 333

consulting advice collaboration VC 333

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

I’ve added it to my list of 2010 lessons learned as a VC and I’m a bit pissed off with myself for not fighting harder – especially because I was convinced I would make a better investor than the “brand name&# they had selected who was thousands of miles away. Tags: Startup Advice.

consulting 309

consulting advice VC support 309

Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

. + This post unpacks offers an insiders’ view of some of the key strategic decisions that led to Techstars’ decline. ————– Techstars is – or was – one of the world’s best startup accelerator programs. Not coincidentally, they also serve as training grounds for some of the world’s most successful startup founders.

startup ecosystem 195

startup ecosystem accelerator communities support 195

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

You then get a big VC to invest at a high price and you realize that means your angels are going to be unhappy with how much they own of your company after the financing relative to what they THOUGHT they would own. In frothy markets (like we’re seeing in August 2010) this happens more frequently.

financing 319

financing finance entrepreneurs advice 319

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2010

Recently I’ve been debating with a number of young startup companies that are raising money in the next few months, “what is the right about of capital to raise at a startup?&#. It also takes options off the table if you eventually find out that this isn’t a VC backable business. There are trade offs.

startup 319

startup advice venture capital VC 319

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 28, 2012

Fred Wilson wrote two posts in 2010 that were very influential with the startup community. I know that they really impacted an entire cohort of startups because every company that was coming to pitch me businesses was (is) saying, “I’m a ‘mobile first’ company.” Mobile First, Web Second (continued).

real estate 334

real estate strategy development enablement 334

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

It’s nearly impossible to get a services company financed by VCs. They wanted advice. I gave them advice I don’t think they were expecting from a VC, “Don’t raise venture capital for this business. Why Shouldn’t Most Services Businesses Raise VC? You’re a small fish.

VC 332

VC advice financing finance 332

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. Nevertheless, if you share too much in your funding process or meet too many VCs expect a certain amount of your ideas to spread around the startup community.

VC 285

VC financing finance advice 285

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

This is part of my series on Startup Advice. But many of these aren’t integrated with the way that their customers want to communicate with them in 2010. Hiring a Sales Person – So you’re running your own startup and you need to be able to hire a sales leader and ultimately more junior sales people.

advice 314

advice pitching VC support 314

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2018

This post has some basic advice on how to plan your raise before you hit the road. Many points will seem obvious but since I observe many fund-raising processes as a VC I can tell you that most people get even the basics wrong. I know this is CRM 101 but I assure you most startups (and VCs) don’t do this or don’t do it well.

board 215

board VC entrepreneurs education 215

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.&#. We exchanged ideas when I was an entrepreneur along side him in NorCal in 05-07 and my point-of-view on founder / VC relationships hasn’t shifted even 1% since I went to the dark side.

founder 329

founder VC advice pitching 329

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

I recently read a blog post by Beezer Clarkson, Managing Director of Sapphire Ventures about why entrepreneurs should care about from whom their VC funds raise their capital. There are a lot of things I think entrepreneurs should care about when raising from a VC: How big or small their fund is? I could go on for a long time.

entrepreneurs 237

entrepreneurs VC mentorship strategy 237

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

TechCrunch Europe ran an article in November of last year that European startups need to work as hard as those in Silicon Valley and I echoed the sentiment in my post about the need for entrepreneurs to be maniacal about their businesses if one wants to work in the hyper competitive tech world. But now I’m nearly 42. You can do it.

entrepreneurs 308

entrepreneurs advice real estate venture capital 308

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

“We did hear that and I think it’s very poor advice,” he says. “The invoicing company” “When they started, they didn’t position themselves so much as a startup or as a tech company,” recalls Skype founder Niklas Zennström, whose venture capital firm Atomico would eventually become a Klarna investor in 2012.

investing 143

investing investment mix-use media 143

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 14, 2015

As I’ve said before, “ You’d Have to be a Really Big Baby to Complain About Being a VC.” I called in the Y0 Yo Life of an Entrepreneur but it really applies to me as a VC as well. I wrote this in January 2010. As you can see Tuvia asked me this June 25th. Back to family. How do I balance this?

VC 347

VC entrepreneurs creativity advice 347

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

“We did hear that and I think it’s very poor advice,” he says. “The invoicing company” “When they started, they didn’t position themselves so much as a startup or as a tech company,” recalls Skype founder Niklas Zennström, whose venture capital firm Atomico would eventually become a Klarna investor in 2012.

investing 82

investing investment mix-use media 82

Unvalidated Learnings

OCTOBER 5, 2016

And what you can learn from it Can you imagine Nike was a startup once? In similar fashion to many Silicon Valley startups, the founders simply scratched their own itch: they loved track running and single-mindedly dedicated their life to designing the best shoes to do so. Product first Product always came first at Nike.

startup 40

startup entrepreneurship culture communities 40

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Most of the Internet startup consulting firms went bankrupt. And coming to the end of 2010 I feel a sense of reminiscence of some of the trends from a decade ago. I was reminded of all this this when I read a blog post by one of my favorite thinkers on the VC market, Bryce Roberts, who talked about “ unfundable companies.&#.

consulting 302

consulting leadership entrepreneurs advice 302

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

One year ago I predicted that in 2010/11 the economy, far from being on the path of permanent recovery was on a temporary resurgence and there was a strong possibility of a “double dip” recession. My advice to entrepreneurs was and is “ when the hors d’oeuvres tray is being passed take two ” (e.g.

entrepreneurs 298

entrepreneurs real estate VC advice 298

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

Come 2009 we felt really bullish about the future for startups because the froth was gone and so, too, were wantrapreneurs. But I guess you could say the same about VC. Stock market declines would bring back dog days of VC. VC Ice Age Part 2 – Why the Market Started Moving Again? He pinged me for advice.

VC 305

VC disruption entrepreneurs venture capital 305

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 6, 2012

It all started in 2010 with Klout. From this debate about Klout John and I have had a series of in person meetings and debates about our industry (both VC & tech) and what is changing. Including ff Venture Capital’s unique approach to finding deals and the services they provide to their startups. SHOW NOTES.

venture capital 303

venture capital VC ventures capital 303

TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

That said, Norway’s VC community has been somewhat dormant for a while. Local investors tend to invest 50% to 90% of their fund into local startups, “but we do look at deal flow in all Nordic countries,” said one. Are there startups that you wish you would see in the industry but don’t? and Nomono. E-commerce.

opportunity 115

opportunity mix-use advice investing 115

David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Here’s what I said: In your career in tech and VC, how has your focus on ESG responsibility changed over time? When we launched in 2010, I saw a white space: a burgeoning NY tech ecosystem, but only one angel group regularly writing checks. How do you leverage your VC expertise in politics? Are you politically active?

venture capital 52

venture capital VC capital ventures 52

David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Here’s what I said: In your career in tech and VC, how has your focus on ESG responsibility changed over time? When we launched in 2010, I saw a white space: a burgeoning NY tech ecosystem, but only one angel group regularly writing checks. How do you leverage your VC expertise in politics? Are you politically active?

venture capital 40

venture capital VC capital ventures 40