David Teten VC

DECEMBER 3, 2019

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies. 1) Manage the firm .

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 4, 2019

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies. 1) Manage the firm .

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

The funding was anchored by a major commitment from Two Sigma Ventures, the private venture investment affiliate of Two Sigma Investments. The company makes direct and indirect investments across a broad spectrum of asset classes. VCs pitch for money, too. It's the black box of the startup world.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

But those more aligned with the private sphere, such as venture capitalists and private equity investors, perhaps aren’t quite as well-served when it comes to funnelling into the data they need to carry out their due diligence ahead of making a big investment, or tracking and managing their portfolio through to an exit.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

AUGUST 14, 2020

What advice the initiators have for other ecosystems looking to hire a professional ecosystem builder. In doing this work, there has been a significant amount of investment of both funds and time in moving entrepreneurship activities forward. Advice for replication in other ecosystems. Patience is key.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Here’s another edition of “Dear Sophie,” the advice column that answers immigration-related questions about working at technology companies. Any advice or insights on how to present a strong case for an O-1A or EB-1A? Some investments through competitions can qualify as awards, and some investments might not.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series “ Pitching a VC “ There’s a great meme developing this morning on the need to simplify funding terms and documents. I tried to argue my views on vesting to a company I tried to invest in 2 years ago. Tags: Pitching VCs Start-up Advice.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

When we actually originally made our investment in Figma, Peter, my partner, wrote in our thesis, “We are moving into the decade of design where design, not just code, is at the center of product development and successful organizations. I could have GPT-4 create a business plan and come pitch to you. We’re not there yet.

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2021

Whether you’re building a company or thinking about investing, it’s important to understand your strategic advantage. The Exchange has been riffling through the document since it came out, and we’ve picked up on a few things to explore. For one, you have to stop thinking that what you are up to is interesting. Launching a rolling fund.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

I have spent most of the last two years investing at Series B and helping portfolio companies prepare for this first “growth-y” round. This is one of the lessons I wish I understood when raising a Series B, so I hope you find this advice helpful when you navigate your larger raises.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

My advice would be actually, start something and then keep drafting it. Tomasz Tunguz: That’s a living document. Claire Hughes Johnson : It’s a living document. So the first is, as a leader, your biggest investment is people and particularly in a hyper growth company. Mine, I edit constantly. How do you keep?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

“Decreased consumer confidence, inflated brand value, and a freeze in investment capital are creating a perfect storm,” says David Wright, co-founder and CEO of Pattern, an e-commerce accelerator. Pitch Deck Teardown: Five Flute’s $1.2M Five Flute’s founders shared their slightly redacted pitch deck with us.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Think again, especially if you’re looking for investment. Unfortunately, the venture capital scene is embarrassingly backward in terms of diversity, and women and ethnic minorities are shockingly underrepresented among investment decision-makers. Legal templates and investment documents? Are you an expert in your field?

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 6, 2020

Over the last 15 years, YC has invested in and worked with more than 2,000 companies, and we’ve seen and learned from their successes and failures. The library consolidates the knowledge and advice we’ve previously published and provides a central location for new content.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Many of us invest much of our identity in what we do for a living, which means layoffs can transform social and emotional lives overnight. Mentors are immensely helpful, but they’re not a requirement: We run articles regularly that explain how to create pitch decks and reach out to investors. “IP is important to us.

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

Invested Interests. Investment and startups problem : we all want disruptive and game-changing businesses. All of which brings me back to the question in the title: who makes the money on investing in future convenience? . Invested Interests. Power Pitches. Invested Interests. Subscribe by email.

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Gust

DECEMBER 1, 2011

When meeting with early stage entrepreneurs for the first time, after reviewing a demo or hearing their pitch, I often ask them to articulate what they’re most focused on building. Serial entrepreneurs or those with close ties to the investment community would usually go straight to the big firm. What is a startup really?

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

Cleo Capital invests $500,000 to $1 million into early-stage startups, with portfolio companies that include mmhmm, Cameo and StyleSeat, among others. Next, a few favorite excerpts from the chat, starting with Kunst’s notes on how to make a killer pitch deck. Where to pitch Cleo Capital. Y Combinator’s documents hub.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

That’s what we’re investing in. In an article written by Gai Sher and Ariela Benchlouch from the Innovation and Technology practice group at Greenspoon Marder LLP, the authors recap a recent guidance document released by the U.S. Copyright Office’s document and examine multiple legal developments in the space.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. It included some well known firms that made me come for a team pitch and then only gave me literally 15 minutes when we’d scheduled an hour. My blog was wiped out. I wasn’t feeling it.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 11, 2020

Following Fred Wilson’s advice, I want to build my own platform. PEVCTech.com , a community for investors and technologists responsible for investing in private companies, primarily at private equity and venture capital funds. I haven’t taken the time to update my investment information here, so my profile is not very accurate.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

If it’s a biz deal you might care about IP protection, revenue share, investment commitments to joint marketing – whatever. You know that every turn of the legal documents can add weeks. They’re not bothered when the lawyers didn’t get the documents out when they promised. Push hard to document turns. Grind on that.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

million in early stage funding to date — with investment coming from European VC firm Earlybird; Dominik Schiener ( Iota co-founder); and the Swedish authentication and payment services company, Thales AB. The pitch to business/public sector customers is speedier corporate/internal search without compromising commercial data privacy.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series Startup Advice. M y company had raised a seed round of capital in late 1999 even before either of us were full time in the company (ominous side note: on the way to pitch our seed investor, Delta Partners, a man walking right in front of me died of a massive heart attack making me late to the meeting.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 4, 2024

Giving the same pitch, sending the same email, and answering the same questions over and over again. Let’s get one thing very clear, not every startup has to raise investment nor it’s the job of a startup to raise money. You should only consider raising investment when your house is in order. Refresh again. Still nothing.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

On March 26, SoFi announced that “it will be offering its members (at least those with $3K in their account) the ability to invest in IPOs for companies going public, an investment opportunity that has traditionally been reserved for large institutional investors or ultra-high-net-worth individuals.” see below).

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peer-to-peer VC advice capital 82

Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

A MOC document can help you prioritize what jobs you need an executive to do so you can hire against those needs. The mission is the elevator pitch. And one of my biggest advice to those folks is, look, presumably, we all have the technical and functional skill set for this job. Key takeaways Write a MOC.

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energy entrepreneurs leadership advice 89

Gust

AUGUST 19, 2012

Even if you have an hour booked, the advice is the same. The approach I recommend is to build the investor presentation first, by iterating on the bullets with your team, and then fleshing out the points into a full-blown text-based business plan document. Give the “elevator pitch” for your startup. Exit strategy.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2010

I’m writing this post as part of my series with Advice on Raising Venture Capital but will file it under Sales Tips as well since it applies equally to both scenarios. My partner, Brian McLoughlin , attends almost all Financial Services conference, makes a number of investments in the space and has relationships across the sector.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 25, 2022

The goals of such a meeting are the following: Give others enough information to form an adequate enough and objective picture of the business in order to check your blind spots and offer advice or other kinds of assitance (like intros to folks who have been there before or have the right skills to pitch in).

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2012

And after you feel they’re bought in intellectually and emotionally you can ask them to make a small investment. The second way is to pitch them like normal but offer them a discount. The pitch is really simple: “We’re going to be raising $750,000 – $1 million. This can be time consuming.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Additionally, we standardized the “allowance rates&# for services such as document storage, maximum numbers of users and we created more standardized packages of features that constituted an “up-sell&# to a our premium offerings. RFP Generators – Another obvious investment area. Tags: Startup Advice.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

Additional value outside of legal documents – Most lawyers who work with early stage startups secretly want to be entrepreneurs but they earn too much money to quit – the golden handcuffs I’ve found that the best of them think like entrepreneurs, though, and hang out at startup events. Our lives are intertwined.

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startup advice entrepreneurs VC 318

Gust

MAY 25, 2014

A key success element is to start by avoiding the known list of interviewing and hiring mistakes that have been documented many times by human resources professionals. After my sales pitch, he was so excited I knew he could do the job.” Invested Interests entrepreneur hiring startup'

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2011

You thought it was going to be as easy as just having term sheet transferred to a longer form document. But every freakin’ week there are delays in getting the lawyers to “turn around&# the documents. I have investment money at stake so I’m a principal in the negotiation, too. Their lawyers blame yours.

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real estate VC pitching entrepreneurs 319

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 20, 2018

This is true of any buying process where a customer has to make a large investment decision on your software or when an investor must decide whether to give you $5 million. Do they have authority to invest? you’ve at least gotten informed about the LA market for when you do ever want to invest? Do they have influence?

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NZ Entrepreneur

AUGUST 4, 2021

For investors, capital raises provide an opportunity to invest in a company’s ambitions. However, as with all investments, there’s a risk to reward trade-off. In the early days, investors invest in you more than your business, so relationship-building should take precedence. Time to get pitching.

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