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JUNE 5, 2025

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Leapfunder

JUNE 5, 2025

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

Successfully running a company requires clear communication across the board: with employees, customers, investors, and any other stakeholders. on an ironing board, not a body. Who's telling the board that a customer ironed their shirt while wearing it? Let's take Apple as an example.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 8, 2014

Associates often shadow partners at board meetings so that they can help follow up with the company on important initiatives between board meetings. Most associates need some entrepreneurial experience before actually making investments. Helping be the VC “presence” at key events. Alumni activities. And so forth.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

I started in 2007 with a thesis that my primary investment decision would be about the team (70%) and only afterward about the market opportunity (30%). But they are also a tax on your time with portfolio companies, looking for new investments, running your shop and honestly they are a tax on your family life.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 16, 2016

Computer Vison Startup Nanit If you follow me on Snapchat ( msuster ) you might already know that I’ve been looking at and investing in a number of companies in the computer vision space. My thesis is that it will become a major I/O computing metaphor or as this field is sometimes referred to HCI ( human-computer interaction ).

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Investors let him control the board as long as he continued to make them paper rich, and then actually rich--so they couldn’t technically force him out. When it happens at companies run by women, the media, disgruntled employees, and their investor board members, burn them at the stake. Two reasons: One, they had no other real choice.

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OnStartups

MARCH 24, 2021

An Odd Start To My Angel Investing. So I thought of an idea: Why not invest in startups? Angel investing is like having a niece or nephew. Both were actual companies (not academic exercises), and I decided to make an angel investment in both of them -- mostly because I really respected the two guys: Brian Shin and Mark Roberge.

angel investing

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

Last year I lost a deal in a company that I wanted to invest in and that I thought I should have won. By Monday morning after their board meeting in NorCal I didn’t get a return phone call. The one you were counting on. I’m talking Tom Watson at the British Open or Andy Roddick at Wimbledon. On Losing in VC.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

Last year I lost a deal in a company that I wanted to invest in and that I thought I should have won. By Monday morning after their board meeting in NorCal I didn’t get a return phone call. The one you were counting on. I’m talking Tom Watson at the British Open or Andy Roddick at Wimbledon. On Losing in VC.

consulting

This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 19, 2010

Despite the fact that I'm a blackbelt in Tae Kwan Do (haven't practiced in a few years though), what I'm referring to has nothing to do with kicks or punches. The potential downside is that, as a Principal, you're not really as front and center as you'd like to be on decision making and board participation. All of the above?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2020

In marketing materials founders often refer to their customer base as a “community”, but there’s a huge gap between having customers and creating a community. they could invest in entrepreneurial communities and the best founders would then bring in new founders. It’s no wonder they’ve both performed so well. And it would be?

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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). Syllabus for how to launch, manage, and invest a VC fund. But how do you do that? .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

What are the ‘jobs to be done’ of an investment manager? The macro trends forcing change on the investment management industry. The easiest way to work with and for VC funds is to become a scout, getting compensated for sourcing investments. We may as well get compensated for referring them to others.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Testdrive and check references with the team. So focusing energy and some investment will create a big funnel and ultimately pay off. We used the following methods to generate applications: We spread the job description on all the relevant job boards as well as social networks like LinkedIn and XING.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2023

Marjorie Radlo-Zandi Contributor Share on Twitter Marjorie Radlo-Zandi is an entrepreneur, board member, mentor to startups and angel investor who shows early-stage businesses how to build and successfully scale their businesses. So since they have less money overall, their motivation to invest in risky assets takes a hit.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? Well, we learn to invest exclusively in men, preferably white or Asian. . So, why invest in anyone who’s not a white or Asian male? . We reviewed CB Insights’ global list of “40 of the Best VC Bets of all Time.”

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Feedough

APRIL 9, 2021

It is gaining momentum each day as more companies are investing in this sector. Out-of-home advertising (OOH), also known as outdoor advertising, refers to advertising that reaches consumers outside their homes. These generally consist of large print ads displayed on high elevated boards. Major Types Of Out Of Home Advertising.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The investor joined Tackle’s board when his firm led the startup’s Series B round, and sees it as a category leader. At the time, Casado referred to Tackle having more than 200 customers. million Series A round in 2020, with partner Michael Droesch joining the startup’s board at that time.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2022

million in funding, led Praxis Capital Partners and Korea Investment Partners. The company refers to NINA as a “prosumer” system, which likely applies to what’s supposed to be a relatively push-button approach to grabbing potentially complicated shots. Doosan Robotics this week announced $33.7

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Intel (which first invested in 2020 ) is a strategic backer in this case, meaning a financial investor and significant customer. Other partners and customers include TSMC, Wistron, Samsung Electronics and Western Digital.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2021

Nuro’s delivery autonomous vehicles (AVs) don’t have a human driver on board. R2X is now referred to as R2). “We need the confidence of a clear regulatory framework to invest the hundreds of millions or billions of dollars necessary to manufacture vehicles at scale. “And that’s understandable.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

Parallel Systems also intends to use the new investment — which was led by Anthos Capital and includes investments from Congruent Ventures, Riot Ventures, Embark Ventures and others — to hire about 60 engineers, most of whom will deal with software, says Soule. In the U.S.,

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Unsurprisingly, we’ve also seen that after a reader refers a friend, their engagement with the newsletter strengths and their lifetime with us is on average much longer than that of a reader who never refers. When a friend goes out of their way to recommend you check out a new product, you’re likely to give it an honest try.

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Startup Catalyst

AUGUST 15, 2018

They’re also really exciting to work with because maybe they’re getting into their first big commercial contracts, they’ve maybe got their first few employees on board, and they’re starting to get a bit more serious. Make an “investment” decision. you sort of have to make your own investment decision. Get on a board.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2022

It promises to give credit to any one of them who refers a successful deal to the venture firm in the form of some carried interest in the firm’s own profits. It’s an interesting twist for the firm, founded last year by Brazilian-born Pedro Sorrentino and Pedro Dias and that is investing in startups in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

The simple existence of a board member with invested capital at stake means that some of the more existential risks of the earliest stage have been mitigated. It stands to reason, then, that dollar amounts invested may not be the best barometer of the ecosystem’s health.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The “triple” in its name is a reference to TripleBlind or a receiving data user variously being “blind to data, blind to processing, and blind to the result.”). Halamka and Shail Jain, Global Managing Director, Data & AI from Accenture, are both joining as board observers with this round. million seed round.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2021

“Two years ago, the killer app was Wi-Fi, managing the pods,” he said, referring to the system of mesh routers that are used to improve the speed and quality of a Wi-Fi network in homes. Insight was the sole backer in its last round, investing $270 million at a $1.35 billion valuation in the startup.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2023

We invest in startups leveraging the immense breadth of AI to solve critical business problems. 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.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 12, 2021

Last week, Natasha Mascarenhas interviewed experts who had some strategic advice for finding the right time to bring a product manager on board. As Roblox began to trade Wednesday, the company’s shares shot above its reference price of $45 per share. Image Credits: Steve Jennings / Getty Images.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

If the experience is as good as they hope to make it, this is an investment many a player will not hesitate (much, anyway) to make. “They see the digital crossover is going to happen — people are playing online board games now. Tabletop is now a more than $20 billion industry. This has been updated.).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

Cowbell Cyber, a full-stack insurance company that provides cyber insurance to SMEs, has closed a Series B of $100 million, which it will be using to continue investing in its data science and “risk engineering”, as well as underwriting tech, claims management, its reinsurance business Cowbell Re, and expanding its go-to-market channels.

collaboration

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 30, 2014

It’s true the some VCs have started writing so many checks that they resemble stock pickers but the majority of us still have less than 10 board seats at any time and tend to go pretty deep so the result is that we care deeply about where we commit our time. Meredith came to see me along with the CTO Marc Berte. It was impressive.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? Well, we learn to invest exclusively in men, preferably white or Asian. . So, why invest in anyone who’s not a white or Asian male? . We reviewed CB Insights’ global list of “40 of the Best VC Bets of all Time.”

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

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? III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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StartupNation

JANUARY 27, 2022

Since relocating to America, I have independently invested in several other business ventures outside of my full-time job. Let customers see you as a person, not just a business owner, and they’re much more likely to buy or refer others to you. Living in Denver, there’s no shortage of community events.

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