Hunter Walk

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

This one is “what advice do you have for someone who is a new VC analyst or wants to join a firm at that level?” ” If you’re joining a venture capital firm as a junior professional I’d recommend against being a generalist, or trying to get good at everything.

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Leapfunder

JUNE 5, 2025

VCs in our network: Get started Sign up as investor Sign up as startup Sign up as VC Invest in startups Early Bird Holedo The Netherlands Every industry has a talent pool. This spells out our use of functional, analytical and tracking cookies. Return p.a. But job boards, LinkedIn, and social media own the gate. You pay to search.

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Leapfunder

JUNE 5, 2025

VCs in our network: Get started Sign up as investor Sign up as startup Sign up as VC Invest in startups Early Bird Holedo The Netherlands Every industry has a talent pool. This spells out our use of functional, analytical and tracking cookies. Return p.a. But job boards, LinkedIn, and social media own the gate. You pay to search.

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Leapfunder

JUNE 5, 2025

VCs in our network: Get started Sign up as investor Sign up as startup Sign up as VC Invest in startups Early Bird Holedo The Netherlands Every industry has a talent pool. This spells out our use of functional, analytical and tracking cookies. Return p.a. But job boards, LinkedIn, and social media own the gate. You pay to search.

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Leapfunder

JUNE 5, 2025

VCs in our network: Get started Sign up as investor Sign up as startup Sign up as VC Invest in startups Early Bird Holedo The Netherlands Every industry has a talent pool. This spells out our use of functional, analytical and tracking cookies. Return p.a. But job boards, LinkedIn, and social media own the gate. You pay to search.

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Leapfunder

JUNE 5, 2025

VCs in our network: Get started Sign up as investor Sign up as startup Sign up as VC Invest in startups Early Bird Holedo The Netherlands Every industry has a talent pool. This spells out our use of functional, analytical and tracking cookies. Return p.a. But job boards, LinkedIn, and social media own the gate. You pay to search.

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Leapfunder

JUNE 5, 2025

VCs in our network: Get started Sign up as investor Sign up as startup Sign up as VC Invest in startups Early Bird Holedo The Netherlands Every industry has a talent pool. This spells out our use of functional, analytical and tracking cookies. Return p.a. But job boards, LinkedIn, and social media own the gate. You pay to search.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 26, 2012

I always get asked how to get into VC and so I think a lot about what it takes to do the job well. In venture capital, you say "no" a lot. Practicing the word no as many times as a VC does means you have to fight not to have your mind close on you. For some, VC is about the picking rather than the fostering and growing.

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Dream It

MARCH 6, 2020

Casey Berman was President of Operations for one of the Washington DC area’s largest privately held real estate development and management companies. Key Questions To Answer When Pitching Real Estate Tech VCs Is there demand for the product? Camber Creek uses a deliberate, formal process to vet startups, which they call the “beta lab.”

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

Picking a VC is hard. So I thought I’d write about out with what I would look for in a VC knowing what I know now and why. Most VCs are book smart. VCs should be more of a coach than proscriptively telling you what to do. You want a VC who will spar with you but then STFU and let you get on with things.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2013

But while universities are developing online content they are not fundamentally disrupting leaning because the method of delivery is not a new business model. He spoke about ROCE (return on capital employed). Venture Capital. We spoke about the disruption of VC through crowd funding. I don’t believe it.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 14, 2013

What was harder to figure out how to do--and something no one ever really thinks about on the economic development side, is community. There was no strategic goal to build venture backed startup companies, but yet at least three companies in her community got VC investment last year. That puts me in a unique position to be a connector.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 14, 2014

Most companies don''t ever raise venture capital and they do just fine. That''s a much better picture of female entrepreneurship than the 2-4% of venture capital dollars going to women. The main driver of the skew towards men getting venture capital, statistically, is that far more men are pitching. later in their careers.

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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. How to get a job in venture capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2013

If you’ve been following the press about VC funds you’ll know this is no small feat. And we chose to locate ourselves 3 blocks East of The Third Street Promenade where much new development is taking place. Well, the venture capital industry has changed a lot in the past 20 years … and we have too.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Recently I wrote a post arguing to make the definition of a Startup more inclusive than that to which Silicon Valley, fueled by Venture Capital return profiles, would sometimes like to attach to the word. But I would point out that these days there are really talented tech developers & teams everywhere. Here are mine: 1.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

So instead of going out and raising venture capital, we decided that we were going to bootstrap because we could convince some landlords to list their homes on this platform that we had built and derisk some of their problems.”. million seed funding led by Los Angeles–based early-stage VC firm MaC Venture Capital.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 1, 2024

As we enter 2024, the capital markets have found their footing and are moving higher. That is good news for the innovation economy because healthy capital markets are a necessary support system. However, optimistic capital markets are necessary but not sufficient for a healthy innovation economy.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

Would you like to work with private equity and venture capital funds? There are relatively few jobs directly inside private equity and venture capital funds, and those jobs are highly competitive. See How to negotiate a partner role at a VC or private equity firm.) At Versatile VC , we’ve used all these models.

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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

Our findings confirmed a significant shift away from the traditional tech hubs of the Bay Area, New York City, and Boston, with the proportion of seed- and early-stage VC dollars funneling into the Bay Area falling below 30% for the first time in more than a decade. marking its highest level since 2017.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 22, 2023

We particularly have developed many Fundraising hacks for VC and private equity funds , including our master databases of LPs interested in emerging VC managers. Join our AngelList Syndicate here. – We’ve published extensive research on how to build an investment management firm. See examples on our Tech Stacks page.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 6, 2022

Venture capital or VC. They also provide a method of helping new companies find investors before they’re ready for traditional venture capital investment. How Angel and Venture Capital Funding Shape the Future of Innovation. Venture capital is always an option. Angel investment. Decentralized crowdfunding.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Venture Capital is a tricky industry. Many questioned whether it could survive under the fail whale, inevitable competition from Facebook, founder fighting, fights with 3rd-party developers let alone become a revolutionary business that could make money. Far from it. Lots of it. It was an early and smart bet.

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Jason Malki

MARCH 9, 2023

I had the pleasure of interviewing Karen Sheffield, the Founder & Managing Partner of Pachamama Ventures, a venture capital firm investing in US early-stage climate tech companies. Then, I stumbled upon PE/VC after chatting with a good college buddy of mine. Capital is not the only way you can add value to a portfolio company.

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Revolution

DECEMBER 20, 2023

For years, tech companies, talent, and venture capital were concentrated on the coasts — a precedent the pandemic tipped, if not flipped. Last week, Brookings and Revolution teamed up for an event exploring macro trends shaping labor and housing markets at this moment of rapid growth, historic investment, and significant uncertainty.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JULY 19, 2021

Over the last 18 months, the early-stage financing market has seen dramatic changes characterized by these three things: A shift from in-person fundraising to virtual fundraising A reduction in financing process timelines from months to weeks A continued increase in the amount of capital available for early stage companies.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 25, 2023

Register Venture capital firm Goodwater has concluded its latest funding round, raising $1 billion in capital commitments for its fifth early-stage and third opportunity-style funds. Most of the capital, 60%, will be allocated to early- and seed-stage startups. With this successful raise, the firm now manages $3.3

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Jeshua’s audacious adventure unfolded during the pandemic, where he traveled to over 55 countries, joining Accelerating Asia and Decacorn Capital to dive deeper into the world of disruptive technology-led innovations. His focus on higher growth rates in developing markets aligns with the belief in the power of compounding interest.

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Revolution

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In 2017, we partnered with iconic leaders in American business to turn the thesis we developed on the road — that great companies can start and scale anywhere when given a chance — into an investment vehicle. Specifically: Founder : The team possesses the necessary skills, temperament, and experience to execute the startup’s vision.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

We have collected a wide range of freebies, contests, accelerators, online communities, and VCs designed for student tech founders. I have been researching this both to support Versatile VC ’s portfolio companies and also as part of research for my new book, To University and Beyond: Launch Your Career in High Gear. 1) Your school.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. Both are massively funding other LA tech companies through what Fred Wilson once defined as “recycled capital.”

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Register Gyeonggi-do Business and Science Accelerator (CEO Kang Sung-cheon) is holding an online event to match global venture capital firms with innovative startup companies in Pangyo. In addition, GBSA plans to help Korean startups enter the global market by collaborating with global VC firms.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

We led a $4 million investment along with Thrive Capital, GLG and Sound Ventures. 70% Team, 30% Market I also talk often about how much the team plays a critical role in my decision backing an A-round company because so much changes as a company develops. Fundamentally the system feels broken.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 13, 2023

Being a VC means not only honing your skills as a judge of character, assessor of business models, and calculator of risk, but it’s also a lot of difficult interpersonal communications, narrative creation, and long-term goal setting and positioning. When I joined First Round Capital, I started off with a bang.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2021

New Zealand, a country of just under 5 million people, has historically flown under the radar of venture capitalism. That’s changed so much the last couple of years partly because the government’s been putting more initiatives into attracting international capital. In 2020, VC investments totaled NZD $127.2

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Collectively , they have raised over $100 million in venture capital. Last year, fintech startups accounted for 25% of the VC funding which flowed into Africa, while startups from the Big Four received more than half of the continent’s total funding. Google sets up $50M fund to invest in African startups.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

based and Africa-focused mobile payments company through Zagadat Capital. When I started emPawa Africa, I wanted to experiment with the VC model by investing in many artists,” said the artist who recently completed a program at Harvard Business School. . Eazi — after building his presence overseas and connections in the U.S.,

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