Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

The biggest difference I cite is that Venture Capital often feels like an “individual sport” while startups are a “team sport.” ” We won’t be the right cultural fit for every entrepreneur but if we’re truly WYSIWYG then it helps entrepreneurs decide if we’re aligned.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

Bobby Franklin is the president and CEO of the National Venture Capital Association and previously served as an executive vice president for the CTIA – The Wireless Association. A new foreign investment bill will impact venture capital and the US startup ecosystem. More posts by this contributor.

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Red Rocket

MAY 11, 2021

I recently stumbled on this great article below from my good colleague, David Gardner (pictured), the founder and General Partner at Co-Founders Capital , one of the most active early-stage venture capital firms in the Southeast, based in the Raleigh-Durham area. Constructive and actionable feedback can be hard to come by.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Two of the main reasons this deck “sings” is the line it draws to the Justworks culture and that the deck isn’t “artificially simple.” ” In 2015, Justworks closed its $13 million Series B, led by Bain Capital Ventures. Harris took a seat on the board. He’s a systems thinker.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

But through media depictions of male leadership, stories and culture, we have, for the most part, been socialized to more easily trust a white male persona, so when it comes to early-stage investing, this concept of trust is quite insidious. of venture capital is invested into them. ” No one did in either case.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? The Kauffman Foundation analyzed their own investments in venture capital (100 funds) over a 20-year period and found, “Only twenty of the hundred venture funds generated returns that beat a public market equivalent by more than 3% annually….Sixty-two

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TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2021

We dug into the how and why of its new investment and riffed on what going remote-first has done for the company, as well as its ability to attract culture-aligned and more diverse talent. How should they think about competition, strategic investment versus top-tier VC firms and how to build their board?

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