Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2013

Perhaps the biggest piece of new news is that after 17 years of operations we’ve changed our name from GRP Partners to Upfront Ventures. Well, the venture capital industry has changed a lot in the past 20 years … and we have too. What’s up with that? Our portfolio companies value us as sparring partners.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 11, 2012

Jersey Shore Ventures anyone?). I can't put up my track record on my blog, which I'd happily do--whether I have any exits (even though it is theoretically public what I've worked on and who might have sold to a company that rhymes with hype) and how the other companies are doing. tanning salon/seed fund combo. scratches bald head].

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

By definition, you read blogs. If you care about accessing customers, reaching an audience, communicating your vision, influencing people in your industry, marketing your services or just plain engaging in a dialog with others in your industry a blog is a great way to achieve this. People often ask me why I started blogging.

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David Teten VC

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Tim Friedman, CEO, PEStack , and a Venture Partner with Versatile VC , suggests, “E.g., I list the online communities for VCs in general at Reading list for working in private equity/venture capital. This was cross-posted on Integrity Research’s blog. How VCs source winning companies.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 28, 2021

org (also for non-Partners in VC), Venture University , Rebel One Ventures , Sutton Capital , VC Career Accelerator. Others’ resources: John Gannon’s Blog. I recommend look at my exhaustive list for emerging VCs and private equity investors of Associations, Accelerators, Incubators, and Platforms. Breakinto.VC.

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Both Sides of the Table

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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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

I''ve closed three investments in the first Brooklyn Bridge Ventures fund that haven''t quite been made public yet, bringing the total to 13 companies. And please, please, please don''t pitch VCs who blog to write about your company as if we were tech journalists. Venture Capital & Technology'

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Frankly, I think venture capital is that way, too. How does the world in Los Angeles intersect differently with venture capital? The number of times I’ve had people come to me and say they want to blog more. And I don’t want to be complacent. How does this changing world affect me? go on, click it ).

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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. I have developed a founder curriculum on my blog. Relationships with Venture Partners, Entrepreneurs in Residence , and other non-salaried personnel who can help your companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2013

” But I pointed out a professor at HBS ( Tom Eisenmann ) who teaches a course where blogs are a part of the classroom reading material. Venture Capital. He talked about a unique model where you don’t have to become liquid in venture capital and can target singles & doubles. I don’t believe it.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 3, 2011

On my blog I’ve been hesitant to take the topic head on. But last week I noticed a blog post by a woman, Tara Tiger Brown, that asked the question, “ Why Aren’t More Women Commenting on VC Blog Posts? In it she observes that only 3% of the comments on this blog are from women.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Nearly four months ago we rebranded at Upfront Ventures. 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. Hamet is a 3x entrepreneur and also former EIR with True Ventures.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 11, 2014

I started reading a great blog called Business Pundit in 2004. We used to chat a fair amount via our respective blogs about management and entrepreneurship. Fundraising for the Series A looked like it was going to be difficult--and that''s when Rich Levendov from Avalon Ventures stepped in. Venture Capital & Technology'

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 1, 2024

Should I, as the author of over 9,000 blog posts that have been used to train these large language models, be entitled to some of the revenue they will make? So if we have healthier capital markets and more innovation than ever, what is up with the venture capital ecosystem? Let’s start with litigation.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 8, 2024

Women still only get about 2% of venture capital investment money, and we want to see that change,” said Cindy Boyd, EO Houston. “By Raising funds through a Special Purpose Vehicle and giving other women a chance to be on your cap table is one way to activate community and help other women see the power of their capital,” Syama said.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

In his blog he says, “I responded that I thought it was stupid. Think about venture capital. But if you were going to start a venture capital fund today, you’d want to stand out. IA Ventures – Roger Ehrenberg was doing angel investing before he became a VC. My views are pretty well known.

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UBI Global

JUNE 5, 2019

How Innovation Will Survive and Thrive Last week’s GCV Symposium was a fantastic event that brought the venture capital ecosystem together. Founder and CEO James Mawson and his team created an exciting event full of impactful collaborations, new technology, and insights on uncovering startups.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Chris Devore & Andy Sack have created Founder’s Coop with the goal of funding, incubating & launching more early-stage ventures in Seattle. When you think about the success that is Silicon Valley, the unfair advantage is not just the huge amounts of available venture capital. Venture Capital.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

But most venture-backed startups are “still overwhelmingly white, male, Ivy-League-educated and based in Silicon Valley,” according to a study conducted by RateMyInvestor and Diversity VC. Venture funding does remain elusive , but here are some tricks for startup founders to hack the system. Funding for Black entrepreneurs in the U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2010

I had written a blog post on exactly this – how to not suck at group presentations – and what he said reminded me a lot of this post. Tags: Startup Advice This Week in Venture Capital. ’ If you’re a young & up and coming rapper and you don’t know what tunecore is – you should know it.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 16, 2024

I was able to grow our monthly revenue by more than 30X in under two years without venture capital or angel investors.” – Michael Tindall “In 2017, two freelancer friends and I founded BigOrange, a firm supporting flexible work for women balancing motherhood, marathons, or other pursuits. and more articles from the EO blog.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

This is part of a series on building your career in venture capital: Reading list for working in private equity/venture capital , including all of the major online communities, programs, and educational options for people studying VC. How to get a job in venture capital. How to find a job as a VC scout.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 6, 2013

He wanted to work in venture capital and I was new to the industry and in no position to hire anybody. He turned to Mike Jones at Science who was newly set up as an accelerator of sorts or a venture studio. The photo in this blog (like many of mine) came from 500px. I’ll leave the year out. He has paid me in spades.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

HW: Frank is venture backed. Probably a correlation here with why there was more venture funding for golf tech than women’s fertility until very recently…. Look, socialists hate venture capital, and venture capitalists hate unions. How many times did you get called a socialist? LLH: It’s been interesting.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2014

It’s not hard to find people willing to write the narrative that “venture capital is not an asset class” or “venture capital has performed terribly.” Having worked through the data with Glenn I am even more optimistic about venture capital than I was even a year ago.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

The tech community has been having a long-overdue conversation about mental health and work/life balance and it’s something I’ve been talking up as far back as 2006 , 2009 , and 2014 on my blog and in public. It makes me want to quit venture capital entirely. I continue to emphasize that as an investor today.

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JUNE 26, 2012

In venture capital, you say "no" a lot. Unfortunately, there's a lot of the "velvet rope" mentality going on in venture. I'm concerned that some of the newer folks in venture capital haven't been kicked in the stomach enough. People thought I was crazier for having the chat widget on my blog. Simple as that.

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TechCrunch

JULY 2, 2022

Tech innovation is a cycle, especially in the main character-driven world of early-stage venture capital and copycat nature of startups. The latest proof? Y Combinator this week announced Launch YC , a platform where people can sort accelerator startups by industry, batch and launch date to discover new products.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 8, 2023

As an example, only 3 percent of venture capital funding went to all-female-founded startups in 2022. and more articles from the EO blog. The post 5 EO Australia Women Share How To Make Entrepreneurship More Inclusive first appeared on The EO Blog.

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Hunter Walk

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Originally backed by venture capital, in 2021 Daniel worked with TPG , a large private equity firm, to make them the majority investor. There’s a ton of writing out there about getting *on* the venture curve, but not a lot about getting *off,* so Daniel’s advice below is especially important.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

As a little tradition on this blog, I’ve singled out companies starting in 2013 with Stripe ; there was Snap back in 2014; Slack in 2015; took a break in 2016, as I wasn’t inspired to select one then; and last year, 2017, was Coinbase. Here is the Google Doc where we tracked these.]

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JANUARY 30, 2024

Before this program, I had the desire to pursue venture capital funding but lacked the clarity on what steps to take. The learning sessions were game changers that provided me with all the necessary details on how to approach and attract venture capitalists.

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Revolution

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Last year, the White House published a blog post attributing half of the price increases at the grocery store to beef, pork, and poultry. based venture capital fund. Over time, this can be a favorable differentiator relative to the meatpacking industry which has historically struggled with complex and broken supply chains.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Thanks to David Bogoslaw for covering our new partnership in today’s Venture Capital Journal. I’m pleased to announce a strategic partnership between Coolwater Capital and Versatile VC. As part of the partnership, I am joining Coolwater as a part-time Venture Partner. Accelerate Coolwater community funds.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

We already have a senior team of venture partners who help us in origination and diligence. We envision we can have an unlimited number of scouts, but only a small number of Venture Partners. We found these by looking through firms’ websites, social media, blog posts, etc. Scouts help promote diversity in VC.

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TechCrunch

MAY 7, 2022

This week, a spate of tech companies – largely those valued above $1 billion from their venture capital investors – announced reductions in their workforce. In the rest of the newsletter, we’re talking about spicy venture firm pivots, fintech drama and a duo of inclusive play in exclusive worlds.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Initially, they’ll be unmanned, according to a blog post published by Fifty Years. Varda is the sort of big swing ambition venture capital was invented for.” The company may not be working on 3D printing, but its manufacturing facilities won’t look like anything on Earth.

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