David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

We have collected a wide range of freebies, contests, accelerators, online communities, and VCs designed for student tech founders. I have been researching this both to support Versatile VC ’s portfolio companies and also as part of research for my new book, To University and Beyond: Launch Your Career in High Gear. 1) Your school.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

In the VC insider baseball world a discussion has gone on about “VC platforms” over the past 5 or so years. While firms define platforms differently, let’s just say they are the services that a VC offers outside of investment capital and partner time on boards or providing intros.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

March 3 is your opportunity to hear from and engage with the people who, through entrepreneurship, venture capital, labor organizing and advocacy, are both using and challenging tech to disrupt the status quo for the betterment of all. Tune in a get ready to take notes — the advice you hear could help you improve your pitch deck.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

That’s why Entocycle is raising another $5 million in a Series A funding round led by Climentum Capital , a European climate-focused VC firm. Lowercarbon Capital and ACE & Company are participating in the round as well. This new French VC firm is partnering with current and former athletes to invest in tech companies.

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Founder Bounty

MARCH 4, 2023

Ali Abdaal is best known for his YouTube channel, where he creates content related to productivity, study techniques, career advice, and personal development. Ali Abdaal is a British physician, YouTuber, online educator, and entrepreneur. He was born on June 6, 1991, in England.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

The idea is simple enough: several female VC partners at top funds will hold 1-hour meetings with 40 promising female entrepreneurs looking to get advice on their business and pitch in a friendly, non-judgmental, safe environment. 8% of VC partnerships, for example). Now 33% of Supreme Court Justices are women (vs.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

The Family Fund & Founder Community , which goes by F3C, announced $25 million in new capital commitments and its focus on becoming the largest community of founders that co-invest in the late-seed and Series A stages of consumer brands.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2014

We’ve been dying to tell you all for a while that we had raised a new venture capital fund and of course given SEC filing requirements the story was somewhat already scooped by the always-in-the-know Dan Primack a few weeks ago. If you want to understand how the VC industry is changing there is a great primer in the link.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

I had witnessed a number of early-stage tech startups in LA raise seed capital from the Bay Area and relocate. There were a lot of requests for us to turn our mentorship program into a physical accelerator with a fund, office space and full-time staff. And Jim & I went on to raise several more venture capital funds in our day jobs.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Year-in, year-out, the gender gap in venture capital investment continues to be a problem women founders face. There has been little movement in the amount of VC dollars going to women-founded companies since 2012. VC funds must look at ways they can bring in more women decision-makers, all the way up to the top.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2023

Goodbye, chief inspiration officer Also on Equity this week, the crew spoke about how venture capitalists are going to pay more attention to how portfolio founders are spending capital — especially around hiring trends. My big question is if VCs are taking the same advice that they’re dishing. At least most of you do!

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 31, 2024

Venture capitalists (VC) typically seek businesses experiencing rapid growth and that meet their specific investment profile. Building a rapport may lead to mentorship, strategic guidance, or an advisory role. Determining Funding Requirements Entrepreneurs must define their financial needs and how capital will be deployed.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Recently I wrote a post arguing to make the definition of a Startup more inclusive than that to which Silicon Valley, fueled by Venture Capital return profiles, would sometimes like to attach to the word. Most of what I think about startup communities came from mentorship by Brad Feld through hours of private discussion and debate.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

When you first start your company and raise initial venture capital your board probably consists of 1-3 founders and 1-2 VCs. Most experienced VCs won’t push you to give up founder control at this stage of the business nor should they. Mentorship. In the Early Days. Reviewing financial & operational performance.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 4, 2024

The head VC guy seems a little bit… weird. No amount of capital will turn a bad idea into a good idea. Early-stage VCs and investors have one objective, finding hero startups in the sea of zero ones, the ones that will eventually turn into a zero-dollar valuation sooner or later. Template for cold emailing a VC.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2021

Accomplice led the round , with participation from Kensington Capital Partners, Inovia and Garage Capital. . “I was an EIR [at Inovia Capital] and I just saw all these amazing founders that were coming in with world-changing ideas. In addition, as Gunn noted, “hiring at early-stage startups sucks.”

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

From the beginning, we were deeply committed to Techstars’ “give first” ethos and mentorship-driven approach to startup investing. What did we owe our sponsors, and did that put us in conflict with our commitments to give founders the best possible advice, and to never waste their time?

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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? Beezer did.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

This conversation seems to come up very frequently these days both with portfolio companies and with entrepreneurs just looking for mentorship. For many businesses you should keep your costs low & your capital raises low until you discover whether you are really on to a big idea where there is market demand.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2021

On a recent episode of Extra Crunch Live , Bain Capital Ventures’ Matt Harris said that if you had asked him a year ago what would happen to venture capital during a pandemic lockdown, he would have replied “it would have fallen off a cliff.” How Founders Can Think Like a VC (Lisa Wu, Norwest Venture Partners) .

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

This is important because when you have too many VCs on a board you only bring one kind of thinking to the board. Independents are critical to avoiding “VC group think.” Local means more hands-on mentorship. By the way, for many founders they don’t think about the fact that all VCs have skin in the game. Diplomatic?—?A

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Startup Catalyst

AUGUST 15, 2018

He is a leading capital markets lawyer and has extensive transactional experience in public and private capital raisings, mergers and acquisitions, and restructures. Take a view based on that as to whether you give some mentorship or whether you offer more substantial support. Meet Reece Walker. Reece Walker. The bigger story.

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Y Combinator

MAY 22, 2019

44:35 – Best advice for aspiring Indian founders. 90% of total commerce happens in these small mom and pop stores, and for every small shop that you see there are 99 other people who always wanted to start a store but just never could get capital. Most people do not have access to capital. India is not such a rich country.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 14, 2021

If you want outside capital, VCs will chase after you to invest. . At my prior firm, ff Venture Capital, we invested in a company co-founded by Nate Jenkins , who had a successful exit, but not quite enough to buy a private plane. Angel Investing, Venture Capital, and Mentoring. Talk with VCs in your space.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Michigan is now the state with the highest growth in VC investment. InvestNext is a Detroit fintech startup that has created a platform to streamline how real estate investment firms raise and manage capital. They were founded in 2020 and have solid VC backing, recently raising $2 million, raising their total funding to $4.4

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