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FEBRUARY 13, 2011

The venture capital industry is so heavily skewed to Northern California, which the remains spilled over Boston, New York & Southern California. So it was wonderful to hear from a leading venture capital firm based in Washington DC. There are of course other outposts like Austin and Seattle. Revolution, what is it?

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NOVEMBER 11, 2013

We don’t lay claim to being the only VC to change or think about the future or to having the only or best strategy. Be open & transparent (mimicking the greater social order changes that have come with blogs & social media). We felt nothing embodied these attributes more than the name Upfront Ventures.

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JUNE 8, 2014

Changes in the Software World & in Venture Capital. But notably you had the following changes: Horizontally scalable computing & storage systems, which meant you required less capital up front for hardware. I’ve blogged about this before and provide a lot more details in these posts: 1. Venture Capital.

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JULY 25, 2010

I recently read a book I’d highly recommend to every reader of this blog called “ Yes, 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to be Persuasive &# by Robert B. Rincon is part of the new breed of Seed Stage VCs and with the leadership of Jim Andelman has charted out the most authentic early-stage investment strategy in Southern California.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2012

She hasn’t raised any venture capital. So Tracy began keeping a blog about … (what else?) She became an authority on the topic and her blog helped her to both elevate her status in her industry as well as to bring great link juice to her website and improve her SEO.

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MARCH 24, 2014

As a result I didn’t write my first venture capital check until March 2009 – exactly 5 years ago. I divided success into the phases of venture capital and 18 months into writing my first check here was my view (details on each in the link above). Sourcing high-quality leads : 9/10. The monkey on my back.

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David Teten VC

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

However, forming your new fund also typically requires making important decisions about firm strategy, culture, how you make decisions, budget, data ownership, and other issues. Brian Cohen, Chairman, Six Point Ventures, observed, Multiple partners with different primary skill sets are mandatory. How about on politics?

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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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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I was reading Chris Dixon’s blog tonight. I came across this blog post about getting a computer science degree as the best degree for getting into venture capital or working at a VC-backed start up. The same is true for strategy consulting and often it is helpful for senior levels within large corporations.

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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. ” .

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Hunter Walk

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Homebrew: Looking back at our “ Welcome Kate ” blog post three years ago, what were you thinking at the time. Homebrew: Venture capital is no longer as opaque as it was 10 years ago, but a lot of what gets shared is pro-VC content marketing more than the real day-to-day reality.

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OCTOBER 29, 2010

I’m already 2 weeks late in writing this blog post as my partners keep reminding me. Background: GRP Partners is a Los Angeles based Venture Capital firm with additional operations in London and Paris. I will not consider applicants without a cover letter. Plus, show my you can write! What is the timeframe? Yesterday.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

At our mid-year offsite our partnership at Upfront Ventures was discussing what the future of venture capital and the startup ecosystem looked like. No blog post about how Tiger is crushing everybody because it’s deploying all its capital in 1-year while “suckers” are investing over 3-years can change this reality.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2022

The tech industry loves generalizations — and don’t worry, I enjoy my fair share too — but as the downturn continues to play out, it’s increasingly important to think about the structural changes that may be forming in the venture capital landscape. Instead, venture firms cut costs in quieter ways.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice.

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JUNE 18, 2010

What a pleasure that I got to spend an hour talking with both Om Malik (whom I’ve always respected his views) and Paul Jozefak , a venture capital partner at Neuhaus Partners in Germany (and formerly the head of Europe for SAP Ventures). The strategy of GigaOm and where they differentiate in the market.

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APRIL 20, 2011

If you read this blog often you'll know that I'm a huge fan of First Round Capital. One example is that they introduced a program where their founders can pool together shares from their company and exchange them for a small portfolio of other First Round Capital companies. Investing Strategy.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 16, 2014

The way I choose conferences and events, and my strategy once I''m there, is based more around who I''m going to back two years from now than it is who is raising now. You might be surprised that I don''t get more inbound deals given all the work that I put into my blog, Twitter, and newsletter. Venture Capital & Technology'

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JANUARY 18, 2011

I always try hard to make this blog a place where you can learn lessons rather than an advertisement for portfolio companies. I first met the founder of Pose, Dustin Rosen , when he was a junior person with an LA-based venture capital firm called The Mail Room Fund. We started uploading images of ourselves to our blogs.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 16, 2024

Everything we learned in the EO Accelerator curriculum about People, Cash, Strategy, and Execution helped us in so many ways to take on one challenge after another—from hiring our first full-time employees to cash flow to planning a leadership team. and more articles from 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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MARCH 21, 2013

I recently wrote a blog post in which I pointed out that many investors & advisors discourage enterprise startups from having a professional services (PS) business and I think this is a big mistake. Everything needs to be part of a holistic company strategy. This article originally appeared on TechCrunch.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

No matter what stage your business is at, it’s never too soon to have a scaling-up strategy in place. It can always be amended as you go, but being mindful of where your business can use an efficiency boost will always be a winning strategy. Maybe guest blogging isn’t panning out the way you thought it would.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 11, 2011

Back in 2005, when I was with Union Square Ventures, we changed our brochureware homepage into a blog. A few other VCs had been blogging before, but no one had gone as far as to make the whole front facing effort of their firm into something so interactive. It changed the way we worked with entrepreneurs.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Investor relations: For startups seeking venture capital, solid financial forecasting provides a realistic picture of critical metrics, such as annual recurring revenue, customer acquisition costs, and customer annual recurring revenue. Have best-case and worst-case scenarios, and adjust your strategies accordingly.

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DECEMBER 6, 2013

He had been working as a strategy consultant post b-school at Monitor and worked closely with a good family friend of mine who recommended I meet him. He wanted to work in venture capital and I was new to the industry and in no position to hire anybody. The photo in this blog (like many of mine) came from 500px.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2011

He grew up in Connecticut attended Yale undergrad and worked for IBM after graduation doing M&A, strategy and venture capital. Initial traffic was driven by word-of-mouth, specifically blogs and a bit of luck. What is your mobile strategy? Background: Seth grew Meebo from 0 to 170 million uniques in five years.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

I'm so excited to hear that Indeed.com, a company that Union Square Ventures invested in while I worked there, just exited for a reported billion dollars. Back in 2005, I was a lowly analyst at Union Square Ventures with a million product ideas that I'd blog about all the time. Congrats guys.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

When I first read Paul Graham’s blog post on “High Resolution&# Financing I read it as a treatise arguing that convertible notes are better than equity. Two strategies I talked about in the post for getting your “anchor tenants&# are 1) taking them on as advisors first and 2) giving early people cheaper pricing.

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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. ” .

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MAY 15, 2010

Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. I asked some of the participating VCs, and they told me their attorneys had figured out a way to keep their stealth-mode companies stealthy.Yes, this strategy is not for every company.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

" #startups @fredwilson blog fodder [link] — Claudia Lamb (@cloudylamb) November 23, 2020. There is more truth to that article than anyone in the venture capital industry wants to admit. "Building a solid business, but the V.C.s Here’s what I think.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 24, 2011

When you're doing RSVPs, use a tool like Eventbrite that allows you to collect more information from each attendee--like what languages they develop in, how many years experience they have, current company, LinkedIn, blog, Twitter, etc. The whole company should get involved in reblogging and retweeting the company blog's links.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2021

How to execute an amplified marketing strategy. Every blog post, Tweet and Instagram Story is an opportunity to explain to customers (and your board) how the company creates value or is a step ahead of the competition. How to execute an amplified marketing strategy. Senior Editor, TechCrunch+. yourprotagonist.

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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. I spent a bunch of time thinking about this position — especially since Beezer is an investor in Upfront Ventures.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Union Square Ventures (USV) has been one of the most successful venture capital firms of the past 10–15 years and continues to be a leader in our industry. Lindel is no stranger to thorny venture capital issues — he was arguably amongst the most successful LPs of his generation.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

Plus, now they need to Tweet, use Facebook, attend conferences and keep a blog! Or a major shift in strategy. Multiple endorsements / touch points – The same strategy that works to get intro’s to people works to get momentum from people. They have probably seen 4-5 new companies this week minimum. What, what?

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