Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2018

If you’re an entrepreneur who would like to see this clause in more startups please ask your VC to include it in future term sheets and link to it from their home page. “We We strive to invest in companies that are consciously working to create a diverse leadership team?—?one

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Register Established in 2016 and headquartered in New York, SoGal Ventures is a venture capital firm dedicated to early-stage investments in diverse founding teams, operating in both the United States and Asia. She created the SoGal community in LA, one of the largest global networks for women entrepreneurs and investors.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

Bobby Franklin is the president and CEO of the National Venture Capital Association and previously served as an executive vice president for the CTIA – The Wireless Association. A new foreign investment bill will impact venture capital and the US startup ecosystem. More posts by this contributor.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Year-in, year-out, the gender gap in venture capital investment continues to be a problem women founders face. There has been little movement in the amount of VC dollars going to women-founded companies since 2012. VC funds must look at ways they can bring in more women decision-makers, all the way up to the top.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 6, 2024

The Cultural Leadership Fund (CLF) team is often asked by portfolio founders how exactly cultural leaders can be a game-changing asset for their companies. For Founders Make It Make Sense Venture capital is where innovation meets investment. Or, an entertainer may have built a community on Instagram but not be active on X.

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StartupNation

MAY 15, 2021

On this special edition of StartupNation Radio, Jeff shares a conversation with Ara Topouzian, e xecutive director of the Michigan Venture Capital Association and RJ King, editor of DBusiness magazine , on the status of venture capital in Michigan today. Do you have a great entrepreneurial success story to share?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

“Fundraising has changed significantly and founders at all stages are now taking many first meetings on Zoom,” said Russ Wilcox, a partner at Pillar VC. ‘Serendipity’ accurately describes a lot of what’s going on in Boston’s tight-knit tech community. . Register for the free virtual event here.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 18, 2021

(co-written with Stephane Nasser , co-founder of OpenVC , an open-source initiative to collect and analyze all VC theses.). VCs love to talk investment theses: on Twitter, Medium, Clubhouse, at conferences. 36 theses pulled directly from US VC websites by David Teten and Sam Sabin , co-founder, Hireblue. . Technical founders .

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Revolution

JULY 13, 2023

But the leadership at Scopely executed each transaction and integration — from FoxNext Games to DIGIT Game Studios to PierPlay to GSN Games  — with abundant planning, negotiation, and care. An Acquirer of Choice : Big acquisitions are always challenging, especially for culture-heavy startups.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

Photo by Scott Clark for Upfront Ventures (no, Evan is not standing on a box) Last year marked the 25th anniversary for Upfront Ventures and what a year it was. 2021 saw phenomenal returns for our industry and it topped off more than a decade of unprecedented VC growth. How do we plan to do it?

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David Teten VC

MARCH 18, 2021

(co-written with Stephane Nasser , co-founder of OpenVC , an open-source initiative to collect and analyze all VC theses.). VCs love to talk investment theses: on Twitter, Medium, Clubhouse, at conferences. 36 theses pulled directly from US VC websites by David Teten and Sam Sabin , co-founder, Hireblue. . Technical founders .

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

I’m often asked about the differences between being at a VC and being an entrepreneur and whether I prefer one or the other. The biggest difference I cite is that Venture Capital often feels like an “individual sport” while startups are a “team sport.” It was more hedge fund than venture capital.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Bobby Franklin is the president and CEO of the National Venture Capital Association. Taking stock of the VC industry’s progress on diversity, equity and inclusion. At the beginning, young businesses use capital from friends, family or even outside investors to help them get started. Bobby Franklin. Contributor.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

and I thought if we brought the community together for common purpose we could create more of a sense of community to help new entrepreneurs get funded, assemble teams, raise profiles and help with biz dev, product, etc. Throughout all of these years I was a full-time VC so Launchpad really came out of evenings and weekends for me.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2022

That’s why we’re thrilled to welcome three experts in the process to TC Sessions: Robotics on July 21: Pieter Abbeel, co-founder and chief scientist at Covariant; Joyce Sidopoulos, co-founder and VP of programs and community at MassRobotics; and Milo Werner, general partner at The Engine. Simply register here for free.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 24, 2021

This week, Bill Taranto, president of Merck’s Global Health Innovation Fund, wrote a TechCrunch+ article that explored six digital health trends his corporate VC fund is tracking as we enter 2022. billion in VC, “dwarfing the previous record of $14.6 Capital is a commodity. Between Q1 and Q3 2021, healthcare startups landed $21.3

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Leaders across the board openly advocate for female-founded businesses receiving more venture capital and entrepreneurship support, but few are taking decisive actions to close this glaring gender gap. Women are consistently losing out when it comes to accelerator backing and VC support. How do we fix funding?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

But despite my privilege, I’m also confident that my Black heritage made it more difficult for me to raise venture capital. Today — and the data proves this — if you are a white male, you have an unfair advantage when looking to raise venture capital. And really, this was where my race became an obstacle.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Unfortunately, the venture capital scene is embarrassingly backward in terms of diversity, and women and ethnic minorities are shockingly underrepresented among investment decision-makers. Perhaps unsurprisingly, for every £1 of VC investment in the UK, 89p goes to all-male founding teams. No pressure. they’ll all know better.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

Morgan, Insight Partners, Anthemis Group, Espresso Capital and Verdis Investment Management. I felt Sheryl’s impact and leadership philosophy and advocacy for female leaders from my earliest days at Facebook.”. Just how much has late-stage venture capital slowed? Sheryl Sandberg will step down as Meta COO. “We

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Founders Coop

OCTOBER 22, 2018

We’ve written a lot about how our investing work at Founders’ Co-op connects to the broader global market for innovation finance (see The Venture Capital Stack or Regional Seed Investing ), but we’ve never said much about where our own fund’s capital comes from. A leadership role in the global economy.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

After the success of startups like Airbnb and smart-home players like Google, Amazon and Samsung, investors are “searching for good ideas and quality execution,” according to Jake Fingert and Lionel Foster of VC firm Camber Creek. How would she break the news to her leadership team and employees? Investors flowed $1.2

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Smart Hustle Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Failures of VC funding. Venture capital funding is all the rage for just about every startup. However, Sridhar sees a growing trend that VCs are getting tired of funding startups and in fact startups are seeing VC funding as an expensive option. Building communities. Education should NOT be a costly input.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

I am thrilled to announce that we have added Hamet Watt as a Partner at Upfront Ventures. He had made some structural mistakes in NextMedium that meant the Cap Table and leadership team was a bit wacky. Hamet started his career in Venture Capital working for the first post-apartheid VC fund in South Africa.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

ICYMI: We’re holding another community event on Oct 11! Learn more from the hypergrowth playbook here: What You Learn from Hypergrowth: 3 Years at Hopin What you can learn from a seasoned venture capitalist A lot of wrinkles and grey hairs ago, Ernst Rustenhoven joined Slingshot Ventures. Hear tips and stories about Medium.

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StartupNation

MARCH 23, 2021

.” That was Lori Coulter, CEO and co-founder of Summersalt, speaking at the State of the Midwest Startup Community 2020. Since 2012, there’s been little increase in venture capital going to women-founded businesses. In the third quarter of 2020, venture capital funding for female founders dropped to a three-year low.

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StartupNation

MARCH 2, 2021

But I think the average business, when you look at Main Street businesses, even biotech, for example, other technology businesses, seasoned entrepreneurs tend to do better because they build a base of knowledge over time that’s critical for some of these businesses, but they also build leadership skills. They build leadership skills.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

The startup is set to operate over 3,000 apartment units Neumann has purchased in Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Atlanta and Nashville as part of its vision to bring community-oriented features to the rental market, the Times added. WeWork’s attempt at an IPO under Neumann (remember community-adjusted EBITDA ?)

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FundersClub

JUNE 22, 2017

" Medha Agarwal of Redpoint Ventures looks at the changes in e-commerce, diving into how Amazon is now the largest e-commerce apparel retailer for millennials in " PSA: Amazon leads in apparel e-commerce among millennials. " Founder and Operator Thoughts. " Jean Hsu of Medium , Nikhil Pandit of Clever Inc.

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 26, 2022

From Box to Glossier, and Comms to Venture Capital, Ashley Mayer Is Carving a Pretty Unique Path. And then take your experience and turn it into a piece of thought leadership career advice to share with people reading this. When I learned they were hiring a community manager, I threw everything I had at the interview process.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Nearly every major Silicon Valley venture-capital firm has now invested in a B Corp ; maybe you will be one of them! Fortunately, there are a wide range of organizations that specifically want to support you, not just the VC community. Columbia Business School Tamer Fund for Social Ventures. Congratulations!

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Haystack

JUNE 5, 2018

Not yet profitable but invaluable to developers worldwide, the decade-old company bootstrapped, differentiated from formidable competitors GitLab and Atlassian’s BitBucket, weathered leadership upheavals, and eventually ingested lots of venture capital which helped them weather the challenges they faced.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

But should you actually write one if you’re a startup, an industry figure (lawyer, banker) or VC? I was meeting regularly with entrepreneurs and offering (for better or for worse) advice on how to run a startup and how to raise venture capital from my experience in doing so at two companies. thought leadership.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2022

Unfortunately, when it comes to VC checklists, years of industry experience at unsexy companies don’t tick a box in the same way as having had a C-level role at a former startup. Granted, they are more successful at raising capital, but that’s more of a self-fulfilling prophecy than anything else.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

A healthy leadership is a healthy company. Some coaches specialize in leadership coaching, female founders or health specifically, while others cover various personal and professional skills. Many VCs, like top CEOs, have coaches. Return on coaching (ROC). Lead by example.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

So you’re interested in raising capital from a Revenue-Based Investor VC. Which VCs are comfortable using this approach? This structure offers some of the benefits of traditional equity VC, without some of the negatives of equity VC. Should You Raise Equity Venture Capital or Revenue-Based Investing VC?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2022

Those hints included the revelation that the startup had generated just $600,000 in revenue for all of 2021 despite raising $120 million in venture capital earlier in the year (in a round led by Stripe) and rumors that the company was having trouble raising more funds, and as a result, might be seeking a buyer.

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