Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

How Web3 startups should deploy their limited marketing resources Photo: Burst Almost $2 trillion of market value has disappeared from the crypto industry in 2022, taking with it much of the buzz around Web3. With the crypto winter in full swing for several months now, marketers?—?and and their budgets?—?have have felt the freeze.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2023

This will include everything from funding rounds to trends to an analysis of a particular space to hot takes on a particular company or phenomenon. Later that day, it also came to light that Stripe had reportedly approached investors about raising more capital — at least $2 billion — at a valuation of $55 billion to $60 billion.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

Through this process he raised $2 million. When I described to people why I initially invested my calls went something like this, “He’s taken kicks to the face for nearly 2 years and is still standing. Because my wife is a superstar she published them all on a blog here along with much other wonderful type-A mom advice.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

If you are looking for external funding from VCs or Angels, you must ensure that your potential revenue in 7–10 years is above $100m or — even better — $200m. Step 2: Identifying Underserved Needs When it comes to addressing customer needs, it’s easy to get caught up in the excitement of finding solutions. Credits: Growth Unltd.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing? We list here all of the active Flexible VCs we have identified, broken into these categories: revenue-based; compensation-based; and blended return streams. Revenue-Based Flexible VCs.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 26, 2021

Malaria kills a child every 2 minutes. Ripple products are currently available in over 20,000 retail stores across the US, where the company has captured ultra-high value customers and driven category expansion of plant-based milk products. ThetaRay AML technology to be offered on Google Cloud. OurCrowd’s ZZapp Malaria wins $5M XPRIZE.

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OurCrowd

JULY 1, 2022

The company’s net revenue grew in 2021 despite supply-chain disruptions during the Covid-19 pandemic, with sales growing several times faster than the industry average across all categories. OurCrowd has secured an up to $5M allocation in the company’s new funding round, an up to $25M SAFE, at a 20% discount. L earn More. Learn More.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing? We list here all of the active Flexible VCs we have identified, broken into these categories: revenue-based; compensation-based; and blended return streams. Revenue-Based Flexible VCs.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

If I have an event in the evening or am traveling for work then I can easily get through 2 days without sending any non-essential email. You’re writing a freaking blog post! I try to bucket my tasks into major categories and spend some time doing each of them. Fund raising. I often don’t see email in the day.

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OurCrowd

JULY 11, 2021

To secure your participation in this fast-growing company, please click below to sign documents and fund your investment before July 16th, 2021. Osteoporotic fractures affect nearly 50% of men and 25% of women during their lifetimes, resulting in 2 million broken bones annually and an estimated $52B cost to the US healthcare system.

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OurCrowd

JULY 7, 2022

Ondas, which acquired American Robotics in August 2021, says the proposed acquisition, if completed, would give the combined companies a better global foothold in a rapidly expanding category. Join this $4M round now funding on the OurCrowd platform. . It is currently funding on the OurCrowd website. Learn More. Learn More.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

We’re staring to get the hang of how to divide the show up into talking about deals but also talking about issues for entrepreneurs during funding. Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. I first discovered it from Dharmesh Shah’s blog OnStartups.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 27, 2021

In Southeast Asia, startups in this space that have raised funding over the past few months include Ajaib , Bibit and Stashaway —and that’s just a (very) partial list. Now Infina , which calls itself the “Robinhood of Vietnam,” is announcing an oversubscribed $2 million seed round. The app’s interface and content is geared toward them.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2021

Jamie Finney is a founding partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund , where he blogs about his work on VC and small communities. Where else can fast-growing companies get funding? A new category of investors has emerged offering a hybrid between VC and revenue-based investment (RBI), which we call “flexible VC.”

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Startup Grind

AUGUST 13, 2018

Q&A: What is your / your fund's mission? Floodgate exists to invest in prime movers - entrepreneurs who build movements that become category defining companies - before the rest of the world believes in them. Favorite business book, blog, podcast? It deserves your focus, experimentation and attention to detail 2.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 14, 2021

could it be a blog post, or a tweet? and why it’s better than just publishing the news on your blog?—?is Here are a few company milestones that can make great press release fodder: Funding rounds: Your funding doesn’t have to be as big as the example I discussed above, but it should look impressive for wherever you are in your journey.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

BUT I’m also a believer that most founders shouldn’t waste time with extensive investor conversations unless they’re getting ready to raise capital within the next 3-6 months -or- you believe an investor can help you in some specific way separate from/ahead of a funding.] 2-5X multiples on investment) quite meaningless.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 3, 2022

This will include everything from funding rounds to trends to an analysis of a particular space to hot takes on a particular company or phenomenon. Last October, TripActions raised $275 million in a Series F “growth” funding round at a $7.25 The firm, valued last year at about $2 billion, has raised over $500 million in equity.”

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 19, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. Where else can fast-growing companies get funding? A new category of VCs have emerged offering a hybrid between VC and RBI, which we call “Flexible VC”. . His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. Of the Inc.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 19, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing? Where else can fast-growing companies get funding? A new category of VCs have emerged offering a hybrid between VC and RBI, which we call “Flexible VC”. . Of the Inc.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 11, 2020

Other coinvestors: Limited partners, other VCs who are coinvestors, private equity funds which are potential growth-stage investors, etc. The first three tools are only relevant if you’re going to generate significant content yourself: Teten.com , my blog and content marketing strategy. I host on Hostforweb **. Linkedin.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 12, 2017

VCs are at the forefront of technological disruption, funding many of the latest cutting edge productivity tools. Lisa Edgar, Managing Director at fund of funds Top Tier Capital Partners , observed: “It’s not surprising that venture capitalists are using software to help manage their business.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 11, 2020

The first three tools are only relevant if you’re going to generate significant content yourself: Teten.com , my blog and content marketing strategy. I typically publish essays in an established media venue, and then cross-post it on my blog. The mailings are just roundups of recent blog posts, so don’t require extra work.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2015

” This clip is just 2 minutes: I agree. My goal in the interview overall was to capture more of the personal side of Fred since so much of his investment thesis and portfolio work already comes out in his blog. Blogging is like Venus Fly Paper. I have been blogging for years – even before BothSidesofTheTable.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 22, 2018

While being female and being black are clearly not the same thing, they do fall into the category of "not white men", which the fundraising environment favors--but perhaps not in the way people assume. 2) Yet, the vast majority of investors would back anyone they thought could make them and their investors money. Ducks head.]

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

It’s why the first company I ever invested in as a VC – Invoca – just announced a $20 million funding by Accel Partners. In a way it feels intuitive to us – the readers of this blog – because we’re the tech crowd. I suppose I could have skipped the whole rest of the blog post and just posted that.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

And so my question to you is what, whether you did it or you just considered it, what's a sort of outlandish use of funds that you've either considered or done? And I published this on my own startups blog. It was self-funded, bootstrapped. This is how startup entrepreneurship works up here if you're self-funded.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2015

At the time almost nobody had heard of the following funds: FirstRound Capital, TrueVentures, Floodgate and SoftTech. By fund II (2007) he was able to raise $15 million (if you watch the video you’ll hear an interesting story of how he did this) and he had a proper fund. I think they were all brand new or just forming.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

I couldn't figure out why she wasn't raising $2 million. That does not mean, however, that anyone else outside that category is unable to raise. This blog post is not about debating if "enough" diverse founders get funding--whatever that might mean. These aren't gamechanging leaps of value creation. That is a fact.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

There’s too much PR and too many tech blogs and too many newsletters and aggregators and Twitter summarizers to even try to catch everything that’s going on and equally there’s so much noise that it becomes harder to be heard. Have a shorter to-do list with more things that are in the “done” category.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 6, 2018

Fund raising. But it’s critical for your business, for you as a leader and people who excel at fund raising have an extreme advantage over those who do not. As a VC I also have to fund raise every three years and these posts 100% apply to VCs raising money, too. It definitely has a “d” in it, as in it’s really not fun, raising.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

We also discussed how to deal with pricing in angel rounds and a strategy I advocated in my “social proof&# blog post , which is to price your initial angel round really low and get in the best possible angels as a way to get momentum in the company. This question runs from about minute 2 – minute 8. This is minutes 8-11.

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Gust

OCTOBER 2, 2014

According to the SEC we’re not allowed to market the fact that we’re fund raising, so I won’t. But for some strange reason they make you file your progress on fund raising, which is the widely picked up by the press. So it is now publicly known that we have closed $150 million in our 4th fund. Would they blame me?

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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? I’m still not sure. Beezer did.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

I recently read a post over on VentureHacks titled, “ Top Ten Reasons Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers &# written by Scott Walker (who blogs on legal issues for entrepreneurs ). So eventually you have your company funded but only 2 of the 5 people who started the company are still around.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

I eventually stumbled on to the best source of high-quality deal flow imaginable – blogging. And for the record, GRP has funded YC alum. I get to watch 2-5% of my investment immediately squandered on a banking fee for the introduction. I asked for intro’s from entrepreneur friends. I attended events. I hustled.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

I eventually stumbled on to the best source of high-quality deal flow imaginable – blogging. And for the record, GRP has funded YC alum. I get to watch 2-5% of my investment immediately squandered on a banking fee for the introduction. I asked for intro’s from entrepreneur friends. I attended events. I hustled.

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