This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 8, 2011

How about as a VC? Fred has basically always been a VC, Mike was a reporter, and Jim worked in product marketing and management consulting. Surely--but then I realize how difficult it is to be an early stage VC in NYC. Really never managed anything of significant or built anything major.". what has this guy done?

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

The easiest way to work with and for VC funds is to become a part-time scout, getting paid for sourcing investments. How to win consulting, board, operating, and investment roles with private equity and venture capital funds (video). How to find a job as a VC scout. VC recruiters list and compensation data.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2010

So it was my great pleasure to host Chamillionaire on This Week in VC this week talking marketing, entrepreneurship, old media and, of course, music. I often tell teams that you need to create product deadlines that are semi-public (or maybe board commitments) that help you focus on shipping product.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

David Teten is founder of Versatile VC and writes periodically at teten.com and @dteten. Akshat Dixit is a senior at North Carolina State University, an intern at Versatile VC , and a past intern with the HBS Alumni Angels Association and the Innovation Quarter in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Scouts help promote diversity in VC.

VC

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

You’re not lecturing to a college class, you’re not at a cocktail party and you’re not chatting with a small group in a board meeting. OK, hold back on your consulting humor. I spotted my fellow VC Leo Spiegel (from Mission Ventures) who had spoken previously to the same group and asked about his experiences.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

As an early-stage VC I love this phase. This financial leader could well have come through the finance org at another startup or at a larger company but they often also can come from strategy consulting (Bain, BCG or McKinsey) or through investment banking (Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, etc.). Startups are like families.

innovation

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

It’s always fun chatting with Jason because he’s knowledgeable about the market, quick on topics and pushes me to talk more about VC / entrepreneur issues. The following was available: “I kept hearing about startups that raised VC funding, but which hadn’t filed Form Ds (nor issued a press release). Rumored to be appox.

VC

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Most of them are completely mundane such as choosing which: bank, office space, 1-year lease vs. 2-year lease, logo, URL, pricing structure or which VC. I used to sit on the board of a company (for which I DID NOT invest) with a very smart and very likable CEO. I was the only unimpressed board member. Making Things Happen.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 5, 2014

.” I said I learned this 15 years ago because that is when I stopped being a consultant. I enjoyed the first half of my time at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) because I was a computer programmer and had to build stuff that actually worked. Consultants spend all of their time pretending to know these answers.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2009

They hired a consultant to help them with the review. It just so happened that the consultant they hired to chose a software vendor worked for a company that had owned one of our competitors. Were their consultants? I know I won’t win every deal I want to in VC. We fought hard to stay in the game.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

MAY 21, 2021

more than traditional VC), 34% led by Black and Latinx founders in our US investments (over 10x more than traditional VC), and 86% outside of Boston, New York, and San Francisco (as opposed to the 50% of global VC going to MA, CA, NY). Develop program-specific advisory boards from under-represented backgrounds.

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

What do early-stage founders need to know to capture VC interest, and dollars, in a challenging market? As a consultant at Bain and Company, Case worked with clients in technology, private equity and education. She is currently a board director for Workwhile and a board observer for Outschool. .

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Software consultant Andrew Drach’s two companies Callentis and Solwey demonstrate his entrepreneurial skills, but his clients also value his educational background, as we learned through TechCrunch’s survey to identify the best software consultants for startups. Why did you choose the boutique consultancy model?

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David Teten VC

APRIL 1, 2021

I’ve recently advised a number of emerging private equity and VC funds who are wrestling with the question: What are the highest impact steps they can take to support their portfolio companies? . VC Platform community has grown approximately 120% in the last 3 years. Alpaca VC shares their Master Agency List.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

Prabhat Gusain is currently the chief of staff at Caffeinated Capital and was previously an intern with Versatile VC. David Teten is founder of Versatile VC and writes periodically at teten.com and @dteten. How to win consulting, board and deal roles with PE and VC funds. Next are VC firms looking for founders.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 6, 2021

Ken Norton, who recently left his job as director of product at Figma to consult rising PMs, thinks it’s easier to start with defining what they aren’t: the CEO of the product. Square buys majority of Tidal, adds Jay-Z to its board in bid to shake up the artist economy. 11 words and phrases to cut from your VC pitch deck.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2022

MaC Venture Capital led the round while VC firms Luminate, Unicorn Group, Future Africa, and several angel investors participated. TC Insights , a data analytics consulting service, works on research, data and industry strategy on different projects. BCM was founded by Seyi Taylor and Bankole Oluwafemi in 2013. market of the mid-2010s.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Without further ado, here are the five judges who will pick the 2021 Startup Battlefield winner: Kirsten Green is the founder and managing partner of Forerunner Ventures, a San Francisco-based VC firm she formed in 2010. She is also on the board of Nordstrom and previously served on the boards of Dollar Shave Club and Bonobos.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Paulo is the co-founder of Vale do Dendê (Dende Valley) and AFAR Ventures , a global diversity and inclusion creative and consulting agency that identifies opportunities for multinational brands, corporations and investors in emerging markets. Paulo Rogério Nunes. Contributor. Tara Sabre Collier. Contributor.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2021

million in pre-seed funding led by European VC firm Target Global. where the SAT is the standardized test for college admissions, the Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board (JAMB) and West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) are the equivalents for university admissions in Nigeria. Like in the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

But according to data from PitchBook, less than 2% of VC funding went to all-women-founded teams in 2021. It’s identical to what’s happening in Africa: Less than 1% of all VC dollars went toward startups with one or more women founders last year, according to The Big Deal , which details investments in Africa.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

The judges for this pitch-off will be Yoon Choi (Muirwoods Ventures), Mar Hershenson (Pear VC) and Gabriel Scheer (Elemental Excelerator) on day one; and Sven Strohband (Khosla Ventures), Victoria Beasley (Prelude Ventures) and John Du (GM Ventures) on day two. ” Mar Hershenson — Pear VC. ” Day 2 . He holds a B.A.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 1, 2021

I’ve recently advised a number of emerging private equity and VC funds who are wrestling with the question: What are the highest impact steps they can take to support their portfolio companies? . VC Platform community has grown approximately 120% in the last 3 years. Alpaca VC shares their Master Agency List.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

VC firm General Catalyst, a new investor in the business, along with existing backer Kinnevik. I’m honored to be joining as an investor and the Board of Directors at TravelPerk and to help the company reach a global leadership position.”. The final tranche of the D round was led by U.S. Last fall TravelPerk acquired a U.K.-based

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The funding, a Series A, is being by Threshold Ventures (the VC formerly known as Draper Fisher Jurvetson, rebranded in 2019 after none of the namesakes remained at the firm), with an interesting cast of others also participating. Stein and Jesse Robbins, a partner at Heavybit, are both joining Sanity’s board of directors with this round.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

It seems that every internet company and their dog have at least one venture capital (VC) arm under their wing, with the likes of Google Ventures (now GV), Microsoft Ventures (now M12), Salesforce Ventures , Twilio Ventures , and Zoom Ventures all serving their corporate namesakes potential cash cows via hundreds of equity investments.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 9, 2023

Quiet Capital is the lead investor with participation from: YCombinator Picus Capital Hack VC Liquid2 Ventures Mantis VC Jonathan Swanson, founder of Thumbtack and an investment consultant for Greystone Consulting Mike Krieger, co-founder, Instagram Max Mullen, co-founder, Instacart Guillermo Rauch, CEO and founder of Vercel Gokul Rajaram, member of (..)

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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OurCrowd

MARCH 3, 2020

Incubators… Former General Motors VP joins C2A Security Board. Senior Associate Consultant for Influitive (Canada). Healthcare… This Israeli tech Insightec helped ‘grandpa’ stop spilling his drink and FDA clears Israeli-developed robotic standing wheelchair UPnRIDE for US distribution. News from the industry .

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 25, 2022

we are on a mission to help entrepreneurs succeed, whether you’re a side business indie hacker, a bootstrapped local shop owner, a freelancer to agency founder, or hypergrowth VC-backed startup. Unsuspecting newbies stumble upon “gold” information and get persuaded to jump on board a bandwagon headed nowhere.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 8, 2018

Give one percent equity to each outside board member vesting over four years of service. Many early stage CEOs and board members have asked for some guidance regarding pay and time commitments for board members. Here is my best advice, based upon many boards and many years.

board

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 21, 2014

It’s when the noise stops and you can actually get customer attention, press articles and VC meetings. Every consultant was pitching a process for reinventing your organization through BI. Make sure your board challenges you enough about long-term vision & innovation. It’s when the game slows.

incubation

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

It represents the great majority of entrepreneurship and eschews the fairytale rags-to-VC-riches stories we so often read about in the press. She not only became an expert in SEO, she began consulting in SEO to continue to make ends meet and she became a speaker on the topic. That may soon change. How’s that for an ex painter?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

You know, the weird thing, Derek, and I should probably let you speak some time, but I was deeply technical when I went into Andersen consulting, and I got paid much less than engineers who graduated, because I had a degree in economics. We don’t take tech guys in the strategy consulting group.” Which is just amazing.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2021

David Teten is founder of Versatile VC and writes periodically at teten.com and @dteten. How to win consulting, board and deal roles with PE and VC funds. 5 innovative fundraising methods for emerging VCs and PEs. Consulting. David Teten. Contributor. Share on Twitter. More posts by this contributor.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 30, 2023

In addition to his rich experiences working in the venture capital (VC) and private equity (PE) sectors, Joseph has also sharpened his investment acumen through his multiple years in the audit and stock-broking industry before deciding to finally launch his cross-border investment firm, Kairous Capital , in 2015.

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