This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 11, 2014

I''m super proud of Rob, Ben and the whole Backupify team--and this is particularly special for me because Backupify was the first investment I ever made as a VC, and the first board I ever sat on. We stayed in touch and I got to know a bunch of the Louisville startup and creative crew, like Todd Earwood, Matt Winn, and Ashley Cecil.

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AUGUST 9, 2011

So the industry formed around a day of the week when all partners could avoid having company board meetings or traveling. But I guess you could say the same about VC. Stock market declines would bring back dog days of VC. VC Ice Age Part 2 – Why the Market Started Moving Again? Why is that? Yesterday was a Monday.

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MAY 7, 2013

And this month we announced that Maker Studios, where I am an investor and board member, crossed 3 billion views. He joined when Maker was a small, chaotic organization and helped bridge our talented creative team with the outside world of investor, brands, partners & press. This has been a very welcome addition.

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APRIL 25, 2013

bang on the windows of a board meeting recently and stick his tongue out at all of us. She talks about creative design of websites and physical products – in our case – stickers. Soleil at Chief Creative Officer. Unsurprisingly for Kara is was the VC connections. Aka Punky Brewster. We’re in LA.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2023

Chroma , a startup working to build a new type of audiovisual entertainment specifically for mobile devices, is now adding a Twitter co-founder to its board. Pihlström had previously worked as a creative director, design advisor, designer, and prototyper at Pinterest, Beats Music, and VSCO. million in seed funding (5.1 Chroma did.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

The VC partner, somebody I greatly respect said, “Yeah, we like Gil and what they’re doing. And this Silicon Valley bias isn’t limited to any single meeting – it has been a recurring theme in my time as a VC. That’s convenience when your VC is hoping to write the next $20 million check.

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OCTOBER 26, 2020

She worked for 5 years as a VC at Battery Ventures and co-headed M&A at IAC working with Barry Diller. As an industry we’re not always as good as we could be about our own “creative destruction” to create the tomorrow of venture capital. He said to me (only 9 years ago), “I hope you’re not just hiring her because she’s a woman.” (I

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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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MAY 5, 2011

I need to take some VC meetings. But it did take Brad as a public spokesman, consummate networker and successful VC to help create legitimacy to let David’s ideas flourish. The people with the time, energy & creativity to build organizations like TechStars need to bring their ideas to fruition. Me: “Bullshit.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

. “On paper, I came into the hospitality space as an underdog: no industry connections, no VC funding, no experience, and no Wharton MBA. And finally, we’ll begin purchasing our most profitable properties, giving us total creative control and even better margins.”

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

As an early-stage VC I love this phase. After numerous discussions we held the line and all agreed as a board that profitability was much more important than chasing new markets and that perfecting our systems and methods was critical before we expanded and just increase the scope of our problems to solve. Startups are like families.

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JUNE 8, 2014

Here Cincinnati was really creative to its approach to attracting more venture capital to the region – including this author. Fly out to CA, NY, BOS and tell investors that you’ll willing to do the majority of board meetings there. You only want them to commit to attending 1-2 board meetings a year in your home town.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Creativity is at the heart of everything they do. That story actually begins about eleven or twelve years ago, with a little bit of VC mentoring. I'll be heavily involved as a board member, helping them see through the opening of a local production facility, new stores, and most importantly the buildout of their management team.

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AUGUST 18, 2010

As the CEO you have a team that is counting on you and a board that is measuring your performance. We rise to the occasion as it stirs our creative juices. There is something about the adrenaline rush of being under time pressure that excites us and teases out our creativity. It’s hard to hide. So I always performed.

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MARCH 27, 2011

But should you actually write one if you’re a startup, an industry figure (lawyer, banker) or VC? Within 2 years I was getting 400,000 views / month and had been voted the 2nd most respected VC in the country by an independent survey of entrepreneurs, The Funded and sentiment analysis. They’re mine because I’m a VC.

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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. I always tell people that if you’re not creative in how you tell stories the simplest way to do so is by telling “a day in the life&# of your potential user.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Board meetings at @amplehills are dangerous. Tech VC is a pretty mature marketplace--the players are known, the process is established, and so while relationship building might take time, usually you can estimate how long a deal will take with some accuracy (besides, of course, that it takes longer than the founder wants).

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Red Rocket

MAY 22, 2024

Once VC’s put their heads in the sand, it is pretty much across the board, with a few exceptions if you happen to be in a hot market like artificial intelligence, fin tech, retail tech and sustainability. Time to pull up your bootstraps and get creative in your potential funding paths.

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MAY 22, 2019

Upfront immediately wrote a check to back this vision and we later teamed up with their former colleague from Twitter turned VC, Rishi Garg of Mayfield and we’ve stayed quiet on what we were up to. This is certainly true in how startups raise money from VCs. It is true in how founders share progress and issues with boards.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 14, 2015

It’s a creative expression. As I’ve said before, “ You’d Have to be a Really Big Baby to Complain About Being a VC.” Every one of the companies in which I’m on the board will tell you that when they need me they get me – even when I’m on vacation. Back to family. As best as I can.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Leah Edwards is a passionate fan and connector in technology and impact, a lecturer at UC Berkeley and Stanford and a partner at Pegasus Tech Ventures , a Silicon Valley-based VC firm. As a partner at Pegasus Tech Ventures , I’m aware that the VC industry boasts about finding teams with outlying and industry-changing ideas.

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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

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

“You have to wonder if every VC worth a damn in the future will have their own raft of SPAC offerings,” says Alex. From dorm rooms to board rooms: How universities are promoting entrepreneurship. ” From dorm rooms to board rooms: How universities are promoting entrepreneurship. I, II and III. Fifteen U.S.-based

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

Does the traditional VC financing model make sense for all companies? VC Josh Kopelman makes the analogy of jet fuel vs. motorcycle fuel. VCs sell jet fuel which works well for jets; motorcycles are more common but need a different type of fuel. . Absolutely not. So what is Revenue Based Investing?

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

With so many entrepreneurs and startup ventures seeking investment opportunities, it’s crucial that venture capitalists (VCs) create a list of criteria they want their potential investments to meet. As such, VCs have to consider a number of factors when choosing which companies or entrepreneurs in whom to invest.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Some of my greatest assets were qualities like willpower, curiosity, creativity and impatience. My curiosity and creativity made it hard to predict my behavior. That was about a half year after we raised the first million in VC. In the first COO search, we also allowed board members to interview the final candidate.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

To participate in the Coalition Venture Studio, startups must be majority Black-owned or have a Black CEO, CTO or board chair. . “From that perspective, I got this firsthand view of the power of R/GA Ventures,” Ross told me. “It’s going not going to be cohorts or batches of companies,” he explained.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Braid, a group-financing platform, is trying to make transactions work for various entities, from shared households to side hustles to creative projects. Image Credits: Paper Boat Creative (opens in a new window) / Getty Images. 3 adtech and martech VCs see major opportunities in privacy and compliance. Public markets fly high.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

The company announced a $6 million seed round today led by Foundation Capital with help from Quarry VC, Partech Partners, IGSB, Bow Capital and SVB. “I spend my life in the board meetings. “People have found diversity usually [results in a company that is] more productive, more creative and works faster,” Lee said.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 7, 2017

If you take smart money from a good angel or venture organization, the lead investor usually becomes your board member and has a vested interest in your success. There must be many more creative ways to pay a coach, especially for early stage businesses. Email readers, continue here…] How do you pay a coach?

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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. Cabal Creative , for instance, is an in-house content studio that has produced content for global brands such as Google, Uber and Coca-Cola. BCM was founded by Seyi Taylor and Bankole Oluwafemi in 2013.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Renegade Partners led the round, which included new investors Heritage Group, Cendana Capital and Sean Rose, and participation from existing investors including Lachy Groom, Tiger Global, Freestyle Ventures, Slack Fund, Root VC, Moxxie, Haystack Ventures, Todd & Rahul’s Angel Fund, David Eckstein and Aston Motes.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

Tencent, which made its first African edtech bet in Nigeria’s uLesson last December, co-led this Series A round with Italy-based VC Alchimia. Super Sema is the story of a 10-year-old African girl — a superhero — with the powers of creativity, determination and team skills. The Oscar-winning actress is also a shareholder in the company.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Furthermore, women founders receive less than 3% of all VC dollars. Data show that men were four times as likely as women to access equity financing from angel investors or VCs (14.4% Data from Women in VC show that only 5.6% VC firms are women-led and only 4.9% of VC partners in the U.S. against 3.6%).

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FundersClub

JUNE 15, 2017

Jerrod Engelberg of FundersClub hosted a Q&A on FC Live with Brayton Williams of Boost VC , and the full video can now be watched here: Q&A with Brayton Williams of Boost VC — FundersClub Live Series. What does an ideal board look like? FundersClub Portfolio News. Million Amid Expansion Push.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2023

But before that, there was shared optimism that African startups would raise more VC funding last year than in 2021 when the continent, for the first time, passed the $4-5 billion threshold. Africa predicted to experience sustained funding slowdown in 2023 Most tech observers share Cuvelier’s thoughts on VC activity in Africa.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2021

Differential VC led the round joined by Village Global VC, Good Friends VC, Beni VC and Keshif Ventures. David Magerman from Differential will join the startup’s Board. While they were at it, the founders decided to change the company name to Human.ai , which they believe better reflects their mission.

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