David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

One of the first decisions we had to make in setting up our new VC fund, Versatile Venture Capital , was our CRM and marketing technology infrastructure. . Linkedin : Versatile Venture Capital / David Teten personal. Tim Friedman, Founder, PEStack , and a Venture Partner with Versatile Venture Capital , said, . “We

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David Teten VC

APRIL 1, 2021

Almost every private equity and venture capital investor now advertises that they have a platform to support their portfolio companies. Maria Palmer of RRE summarizes : “You can’t pick a platform strategy that’s unique, but you can pick a platform strategy that your firm can uniquely execute. ” . Fundraising. Recruiting.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 16, 2024

Unlike other business owner communities, people aren’t joining to pitch you on their company’s products or services, so you can build real relationships and help one another. and more articles from the EO blog. The post EO Accelerator Graduates Share Successful Growth Tactics and Why They Joined EO first appeared on The EO Blog.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2011

If you want a very quick primer on all the stuff nobody ever tells you about raising venture capital check out this video where Mark Jeffrey & I break it down on This Week in VC. All of this is covered in more detail on the TWiVC video above (and much of it is covered in text on this blog on the “ Raising VC &# tab).

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series, “ Pitching a VC.&# Getting a meeting with a prominent angel or VC is difficult enough. Plus, now they need to Tweet, use Facebook, attend conferences and keep a blog! I am really surprised how many entrepreneurs pitch me and then I never hear from them again. Let’s be honest.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 3, 2021

Monthly sessions share best practices, resources and cover everything from marketing, presentations, ghostwriting, publishing tips, pitching–any and everything related to promoting authors and speakers. and more articles from the EO blog. . The post The 5 MyEO groups that have changed my life appeared first on THE BLOG.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 3, 2019

We do the work of sorting through the pitch decks of everyone and their mother, finding the diamonds in the rough, helping them turn an idea into something that looks like a company—and we do it for a fraction of the management fees of our later stage counterparts. Also, we all need to play to our strengths.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 1, 2021

Almost every private equity and venture capital investor now advertises that they have a platform to support their portfolio companies. Maria Palmer of RRE summarizes : “You can’t pick a platform strategy that’s unique, but you can pick a platform strategy that your firm can uniquely execute. ” . Fundraising. Recruiting.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 5, 2011

I'm a strong believer in having a board, even at a seed stage, to report to and set strategy with. VC Blogger Fanboy This geek reads all the blogs religiously and is a lean startup ninja. Advisors, investors and board members come in all shapes and sizes. By the way, do you know who (surprisingly) *doesn't* fit into this catagory?

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JANUARY 30, 2024

During Demo Day, attendees heard pitch presentations from five founders who participated in the initial Bridge2 cohort. Before this program, I had the desire to pursue venture capital funding but lacked the clarity on what steps to take. “The The Bridge2 Program has been fundamental to the next phase of my business.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Source: DocSend’s VC Fundraising Report If expanding your network and practicing your pitch are important to you, you may benefit from pitching a larger pool of investors. We’d love to hear from you either in the comments below or as a guest contributor on our blog at DocSend.com.

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David Teten VC

MAY 16, 2017

Historically, the process of winning capital from limited partners has been opaque. I particularly like OpenLP.com , Origins , and the Raise blog , all of which include content from multiple LPs. . my presentation on raising capital for tech companies . Plexo Capital: The Economic Impact of Coronavirus: What GPs Need to Know.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2021

AngelList talent sees about 35,000 companies a quarter get active interest, but only half of those companies are investable early-stage businesses (the rest being Series B+ companies, consulting companies, venture capital firms, etc). Our approach? This is our data set, let’s see if we can put money into them,” he said.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Few startups launch with a coherent content strategy. Blogs are a great example: Because they’re a cheap way to drive SEO, companies crank them out, then use KPIs like time on site, pages per session and social media likes to demonstrate how successful they’ve been. Banish vanity metrics from your startup’s pitch deck.

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Gust

JANUARY 4, 2012

I’d suggest you start with Fred Wilson’s Financing Options: Convertible Debt , one of his MBA Mondays series on his AVC blog. Which leads me to another recommendation: all five of Anton Johnson’s “knowledge is power” five-part series on convertible note financing terms, on this blog. That’s a good summary.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . Cobalt for General Partners helps GPs to optimize their fundraising strategy. Evestment is a platform for capital-raisers; Evestment TopQ automates private markets performance calculation.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . Cobalt for General Partners helps GPs to optimize their fundraising strategy. Evestment is a platform for capital-raisers; Evestment TopQ automates private markets performance calculation.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

He had pitched me in the past and I told him that for a variety of reasons his company was too early stage for me but that I would happily keep track of their progress. Please don’t take my post as meaning you shouldn’t have PR as an important part of your company’s strategy. And only go back if you’re asked to.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 5, 2022

But I can share with you a blog post that Affirm’s Levchin published on June 3 regarding his view at least on why his company is positioned to not only survive but also thrive in a downturn. What’s the best way to pitch you? Fundings and M&A. Seen on TechCrunch.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. V: Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? Please contact us if you are deploying capital using this strategy. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 25, 2011

The issue was that for the last two weeks in August, there were no VCs around to pitch, no distribution partners to meet with for biz dev deals, and seemingly no one else around actually working for me, the non-technical co-founder to push ahead toward milestones. Have each member of the team queue up a bunch of blog posts.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 11, 2020

In the venture capital/private equity business, investors are B2B microinfluencers. 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 a major media venue, and then cross-post it on my blog.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JULY 1, 2021

To put your business on a path that increases the chances of survival and future growth start with 1) figuring out who your aspirational customer is and 2) designing your go-to-market strategy around her needs. Blogs/media outlets? How do they consume information? especially if your tech component is weak.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

If you're hiring for marketing, it's going to be someone who will actually test all the AdWords campaigns, run the Twitter account, write the blog posts, pitch media outlets, etc. Then, match that person up with a one day or so a week senior person who gets paid mostly in equity.

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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. After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. My blog was wiped out.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. V: Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? Please contact us if you are deploying capital using this strategy. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 11, 2020

In the venture capital/private equity business, investors are B2B microinfluencers. The first three tools are only relevant if you’re going to generate significant content yourself: Teten.com , my blog and content marketing strategy. The mailings are just roundups of recent blog posts, so don’t require extra work.

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Founder Bounty

AUGUST 20, 2022

Whether you are looking to go and raise a pre-seed fund from venture capital people, or you are looking to bootstrap a company here is a guide on starting a business plan from scratch. The same rules apply to any business you are trying to start whether its a youtube channel, a blog, a restaurant, or a technology company.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

APRIL 23, 2024

Srijita Ghosh Represented East Central University in 2017 Love’s Entrepreneur’s Cup 2 nd place in Small Business category and Pitch Competition winner Currently Venture Advisor at i2E Please provide a few details on your winning Entrepreneur’s Cup business idea.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2011

I recently filmed a show for This Week in Venture Capital in which I talked about how to prepare for a VC meeting: whom you’ll meet, who should attend from your side, what materials you should bring and how you should run the meeting. I wrote the summary notes in this blog post. That notes only told part of the story.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

And then I got into strategy consulting, and I wanted to go into strategy consulting, and they said, “Yeah, but you’re a tech guy. We don’t take tech guys in the strategy consulting group.” Probably the internet helped because they needed internet skills in their strategy group.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

“I don’t know the exact math, but I hear it again and again: the top 2% of firms generate 98% of the returns in venture capital.” I’ll admit that I do know one VC firm who’s strategy is not to call their entrepreneurs and not to be involved in operations. I pitch a lot of LPs. The second is not.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 5, 2022

The cohort has had access to ample capital in recent quarters, giving them a bubble of venture capital that somewhat protects them from rapid changes in the greater economy. As always, you can support me by sharing this newsletter, following me on Twitter or subscribing to my personal blog. Deal of the week.

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2022

As always, you can support me by forwarding this newsletter to a friend or following me on Twitter or my blog. Some bigger companies are instituting hiring freezes, such as Twitter and Meta, or announcing a shift in strategy, such as Uber. Pitch Deck Teardown: BoxedUp’s $2.3M seed round pitch deck. Seen on TechCrunch+.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Loon CEO Alastair Westgarth noted in a blog post that the project simply wasn’t able to achieve profitability. In a thread announcing the shutdown, Houseparty CEO and co-founder Sima Sistani hinted it was simply a strategy shift. Investors included Accel, Venrock, Shasta Ventures and Wellcome Trust, according to Crunchbase.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2023

It used to be that having a corporate blog and some paid content was the gist of your marketing department’s content efforts, and that was enough. But as larger companies like Salesforce and HubSpot have launched their own full-blown media arms, it may be time to rethink your content strategy. million seed investment, Ron reports. .'”

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OurCrowd

MAY 20, 2022

We will be working over the next 6-12 months on starting to implement our strategy to build some traction in the US with OEM partners over there.” OurCrowd, Regal Four (a Beren family venture entity), F2 Venture Capital, NGN Partners and Future Energy Ventures participated in this new round. Learn More. Learn More.

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