TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

Gregg Adkin is vice president and managing director at Dell Technologies Capital , the global venture capital investment arm of Dell Technologies. What’s the board’s role in an early-stage startup? Startup founders frequently ask me about the role of a board of directors.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 16, 2014

That does not mean telling them how to run the company, but to help them create a management discipline--a framework for thinking about problems and solutions. I am there, along with other investors and board members to audit their thinking--to make sure they were considerate about the plans *they* came up with, not me.

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Andreessen Horowitz

JANUARY 23, 2024

Today the firm is over 500+ with 6 office locations, its operating value-add has raised the bar for all venture capitalists, and the firm continues to grow in vision and impact. He modeled how to work with integrity, competitiveness, curiosity and humility and I could not have picked a better venture investor to learn from.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 13, 2021

Singh Cassidy, founder of premium talent marketplace theBoardlist, will discuss making the leap into entrepreneurship after leaving Google, her time as CEO-in-Residence at venture capital firm Accel Partners and the framework she’s developed for taking career risks. 3 lies VCs tell ourselves about startup valuations.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Venture capital continues to flow into Latin America at a staggering rate. Venture firms in those countries are also raising funds; for example, this month, Colombia-based Marathon Ventures announced its first fund of $26 million. Why Latin American venture capital is breaking records this year.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2018

If you’ve read any of my ongoing series on fund raising from venture capitalist (episode 1?— ?controlling controlling your psychology ) you no doubt have heard me say that raising capital is a sales & marketing process. These can be called: Operating Partners, Venture Partners, Board Partners or similar.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

A recent ZDNet piece reaffirms that the AI edge chip market is booming, fueled by “staggering” venture capital financing in the hundreds of millions of dollars. It brings Sima.ia’s total capital raised to $150 million. After emerging from stealth in 2019, Sima.ai

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NOVEMBER 30, 2011

I've had the privilege of working not only for investors like Josh Kopelman and Fred Wilson, but for an institutional LP that had been invested in venture capital since 1980. Through other people, I've learned a ton about investing, being a better board member, building a portfolio and building a firm. 2) Trial by fire.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

“As the venture landscape becomes more a meritocratic environment where resumes and institutional affiliations matter less, these strategies can make the difference between a successful fundraise and a fruitless meeting,” says Agya Ventures co-founder Kunal Lunawat. How to establish a health tech startup advisory board.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2023

Most importantly, the compensation of a startup CEO should be a holistic conversation between the board (often your lead investor acting in their capacity as a board director) and the CEO. There are more venture funds than ever and increasingly more specialized funds. Building a company is a full-time (and then some) pursuit.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Here’s just one example from Y Combinator’s Summer 2013 Demo Day: Positioning itself as the “FedEx of today,” it hopes to provide a logistics framework that goes beyond food and can be used for any type of on-demand order. Andreata Muforo, partner, TLcom Capital (a generalist fund backing uLesson).

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Even then, Bain Capital Venture’s Matt Harris felt confident in betting on the startup. He’ll create a framework that not only answers your specific question, but can prove to be a model that will answer future questions of the same type. Harris took a seat on the board. He’s a systems thinker.”

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David Teten VC

APRIL 30, 2021

In venture, I haven’t seen many fund platforms.” A number of firms provide infrastructure for emerging VCs, e.g., Capria , Draper Venture Network , Oper8r , and Recast Capital , and may provide capital or assistance in raising capital. Certain family offices also make these investments on an ad-hoc basis.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 3, 2009

This is part of my ongoing Raising Venture Capital (VC) series. So I thought I’d try to lay out a framework for how you should think about it as many you will inevitably be faced with this experience. But the venture guys don’t make the calls on what the product / business guys do. it sure is tempting.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2021

Sukhinder Singh Cassidy founded theBoardlist , a premium talent marketplace that helps diverse leaders get discovered for board and executive opportunities. A technology executive and entrepreneur, board member and investor, she has 25 years of experience founding and helping to scale companies, including Google, Amazon and Yodlee.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 13, 2021

After all the effort into the user interface, we really need to weigh the price point, especially as we promised the board to launch next month! As a VC and Board member, I am usually involved in this topic thanks to my experience as an entrepreneur and business operator. Let’s see what the board says!”

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. I believe that Revenue-Based Investing (“RBI”) VCs are on the forefront of what will become a major segment of the venture ecosystem. More Start-Ups Have an Unfamiliar Message for Venture Capitalists: Get Lost.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The answer is Scale, a five-principle Lean framework that helps any company accelerate its ability to grow. Ishan Sachdev, whose venture capital firm exclusively leads seed rounds, will discuss how founders can find the right lead investor for an early funding round — and why investor/founder fit matters.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

They take on board seats and don’t have the bandwidth when you meet with them. Shaun Maguire: If someone is going to join the board of your company, it’s a long-term partnership. Of the 15 boards I’ve been on, I’ve only invested in one founder, where I met them within the month of the investment process. They feel too busy.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Finding the right balance between keeping costs in check and not underinvesting can mean doing things more slowly than your board would like. Our team at Heartcore Capital use the following framework and learnings to guide internationalization strategies for our portfolio companies.

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TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2022

In a TC+ post, Martinez explains how to identify the right kind of growth hire, which traits to look for, and how to set clear expectations and milestones once they’re on board. ” When and how to hire your startup’s first growth marketer. ” To boost early-stage growth, adopt a jobs-to-be-done approach to marketing.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 30, 2021

In venture, I haven’t seen many fund platforms.” A number of firms provide infrastructure for emerging VCs, e.g., Capria , Draper Venture Network , Oper8r , and Recast Capital , and may provide capital or assistance in raising capital. Certain family offices also make these investments on an ad-hoc basis.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Caryn Marooney is general partner at Coatue Management and sits on the boards of Zendesk and Elastic. Bottom-up SaaS: A framework for mapping pricing to customer value. More posts by this contributor. Should your SaaS startup embrace a bottom-up GTM strategy?

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 16, 2012

People who just weren't inspiring at all and couldn't get me on board for any kind of ride. Stories create a construct-a framework to make sure we've accounted for all the parts. The movie centers around a lawsuit. Not exactly Braveheart. That being said, I've clearly been on the wrong side of anti-hero pitches.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 9, 2013

And it was convenient for me because we also held our annual London board meeting of DataSift , who helps companies processes and analyze large volumes of social plus enterprise data in realtime. Venture capital will be easy and then hard. The 20-minute video of my presentation is here if you’re interested.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 12, 2017

I hesitate to compare and contrast bootstrapped and venture backed businesses, because I’m a venture capitalist and it’s very easy to dismiss any analysis as biased in favor of venture investment. There are tradeoffs to raising capital. You will likely grant a board seat to an investor.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2021

” Here’s who he interviewed: Clelia Warburg Peters, venture partner, Bain Capital Ventures. Christopher Yip, partner and managing director, RET Ventures. There’s a lot going on: The venture capital market is redlining its engines while public markets remain sympathetic to growing, unprofitable companies.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 19, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. Similar to the explosion of seed funds in the past decade, we (and some limited partners too ) believe these Flexible VCs are on the forefront of what will become a major segment of the venture ecosystem. FLEXIBLE VC VS. OTHER VENTURE CAPITAL MODELS.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2011

I recently filmed a show for This Week in Venture Capital in which I talked about how to prepare for a VC meeting: whom you’ll meet, who should attend from your side, what materials you should bring and how you should run the meeting. Use it as a framework for a dialog not a script. That notes only told part of the story.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

The Atlanta-based company raised its $5 million Series A led by Fintech Ventures shortly after new crowdfunding rules under the JOBS Act took effect, allowing small businesses to fundraise up to $75 million from non-accredited investors without needing to register the offering.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

million inhabitants practice Islam, fintech companies that focus on Islamic finance include crowdfunding platform Ethis Ventures and investment platform Wahed , which is the only shariah-compliant robo-advisory platform in the country. Meanwhile in Malaysia, where 61.3% out of its 33.6 The MUI has published at least two fatwas on fintech.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 19, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. V: Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? We detail below the major categories of VC: VENTURE CAPITAL TYPOLOGY. Andressen Horowitz,ff Venture Capital,HOF Capital, Sequoia .

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 1, 2019

“The board has met and we’d like to extend you an offer to join the company. So I recommend use the framework of an investor: Venture capital investing checklist. Due Diligence as a Board Member. Look Before You Leap: The Importance Of Conducting In-Depth Due Diligence Before Accepting A Board Seat.

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Angel Capital Association

OCTOBER 30, 2023

As an angel investor, you might sit on the board of one or more companies. It aims to cover companies that do not fall under an existing regulatory reporting framework with the government. xi) Venture capital fund adviser. FinCEN Identifier. The BOI information you provide is the same for each company. Exemptions.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . See Bessemer Venture Partners’ A comprehensive guide to security for startups. On Deck focuses on connecting talent in transition with opportunities in the venture universe. 2) Market

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StartupNation

JANUARY 30, 2021

Jump in without consulting the data, and you risk boarding a sinking ship. One of the best frameworks for analyzing your competition is Porter’s Five Forces. Equity funding is one option, but the truth is that less than one in 100 startups receives venture capital. Meet your competition.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Parikh acknowledges there are platforms already addressing these internal tooling challenges, like Retool and Superblocks — both of which recently secured tens of millions in venture capital backing. Airplane today launched Airplane Views, a framework for creating internal tooling visual interfaces.

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