TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Without further ado, here are the five judges who will pick the 2021 Startup Battlefield winner: Kirsten Green is the founder and managing partner of Forerunner Ventures, a San Francisco-based VC firm she formed in 2010.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

It seems that every internet company and their dog have at least one venture capital (VC) arm under their wing, with the likes of Google Ventures (now GV), Microsoft Ventures (now M12), Salesforce Ventures , Twilio Ventures , and Zoom Ventures all serving their corporate namesakes potential cash cows via hundreds of equity investments.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Now that he’s become a VC he’s promising me he’ll provide way more public information and discourse so please welcome him by following him on Twitter and better yet welcoming him with a Tweet of your own linking to his Twitter handle or this post. And he followed through. So he had had a taste of it.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 13, 2021

Greycroft in 2010 also had an experienced team, but didn’t either. Thus, many LPs have outsourced their investment management processes to professional investment consultants (ICs). Emerging managers are not a commodity, especially in VC. Fundraising hacks for VC and private equity funds.

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Founders Coop

MAY 18, 2020

As operators, we were lucky to raise from some pretty amazing VC role models, people like Brad Feld at Foundry Group, Ethan Kurzweil at Bessemer Venture Partners, and Karan Mehandru at Trinity Ventures. But along the way we experienced many of the behaviors Fred’s post talks about, so we know how awful the experience of raising VC can be.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

We worked together at Andersen Consulting between 1996-99 when the markets were booming. By 1999 we had grown into the largest independent consulting firm in the world. Andersen Consulting always gains market share in down markets. I left Andersen Consulting in 1999 at the height of the market.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 13, 2012

I first met Wiley Cerilli on April 23, 2010. A VC once said about him that "I'm not sure about the company, but I sure do want him reading bedtime stories to my kids."). SP had built a minimum viable product with a 30 hour a week tech consultant and sold the hell out of it. Wiley was soft spoken and extremely professional.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

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. There are other great VC’s in SoCal and there is always the allure of the NorCal guys flying down and talking about how they invested in Google, Facebook, Yahoo! Were their consultants?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

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. There are other great VC’s in SoCal and there is always the allure of the NorCal guys flying down and talking about how they invested in Google, Facebook, Yahoo! Were their consultants?

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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?” When I was young in my career I did some consulting for the European arm of Lucent. I had learned that this is a standard line every LP uses to have an “easy no” for VCs. I’d give it a bigger shot.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

An external consultant helping the Thames Water procurement team overturned the decision to use my company and got them to select a small software company. Funny thing – that consultant just happened to own the small software company that Thames Water selected. I won, that is, until I lost.

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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. . We wrote the first version of this research with Brent Beardsley , formerly a Partner with Boston Consulting Group. Contributors.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 13, 2021

Greycroft in 2010 also had an experienced team, but didn’t either. Thus, many LPs have outsourced their investment management processes to professional investment consultants (ICs). Emerging managers are not a commodity, especially in VC. Fundraising hacks for VC and private equity funds.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

A great recent example of this was a successful group of entrepreneurs who had created a company that will do $10-12 million in revenue at their system integration business (read: services business) in 2011 after having done $5 million or so in 2010 and $2-3 million in 2009. Why Shouldn’t Most Services Businesses Raise VC?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 25, 2022

you don’t want to be the guy who sold 10,000 bitcoin to purchase two pizzas in 2010. Kevin Rose ( @kevinrose ): partner at VC firm True Ventures , host of the Modern Finance and Proof podcasts. This is not tax advice and you may want to consult with professionals like CryptoTrader.Tax. Trust me?—?you

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

TTV Capital led Welcome Tech’s latest capital infusion, which brings the company’s total raised to date to $70 million since its 2010 inception. For example, subscribers have access to consultations with Spanish-speaking doctors “whenever they need it,” discounts of 10%-85% on medication and 10%-50% on dental services.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Even without an official European presence, Sequoia has quietly operated in the region for more than a decade, first investing in Klarna in 2010. Yet, it is only now that the VC firm is putting people on the ground here in Europe, starting with an office in London that has a remit to invest across the continent.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 1, 2010

6PM: Job Hunting for Software Product Managers in 2010. We are pleased to have a member of our group and former product manager turned VC, Charlie O'Donnell speak to us about the challenges of job-hunting in the current market. RSVP: [link]. 7PM NY Tech Meetup: FinTech and more! Back to demos. RSVP: [link]. Wednesday, March 3rd.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

That said, Norway’s VC community has been somewhat dormant for a while. billion in 2010, Video Valley (the area of Lysaker right outside of Oslo) has churned out a lot of successful companies within the space. This is super hard to pinpoint and it is really challenging to label an industry as overlooked. Maybe, maybe not.

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