Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

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. They achieved all of this before they raised even a penny of venture capital. Blog to your community. Blog on that topic.

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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. So, I figured, why not ask the community? Would you stay on the venture capital side? So what, then, NYC innovation community? Not at all.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

I recently sat down with Troy Carter to talk about what he does and why he believes it is applicable to venture capital. Influencers are inundated with requests for their time and have to develop filters of whom they trust and therefore who can refer them deals. And he said it so elequently.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

But when he announced his new project, Hampton , an invite-only club for chief executive officers, the references started rolling. Around 15% of members as of right now identify themselves as women, which is higher than some other community programs, but still shows a gap in diversity. Only 8% of applicants are accepted.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 3, 2009

This is part of my ongoing Raising Venture Capital (VC) series. When people refer to a strategic investor they are usually talking about an investor that comes from the industry you serve as opposed to an independent venture capital investor. The reality is that their core business is not venture capital.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2020

The tech community has been having a long-overdue conversation about mental health and work/life balance and it’s something I’ve been talking up as far back as 2006 , 2009 , and 2014 on my blog and in public. It makes me want to quit venture capital entirely. It’s an embarrassment to the ecosystem.

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Revolution

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Founder-market-geography fit refers to the optimal alignment of three critical dimensions: the founding team’s competencies, the market demand for the startup’s solution, and the geographic location where the startup is based. Let’s get into it. What is Founder-Market-Geography Fit? Founder-market-geography fit is one of those factors.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

This is part of a series on building your career in venture capital: Reading list for working in private equity/venture capital , including all of the major online communities, programs, and educational options for people studying VC. How to get a job in venture capital.

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JANUARY 19, 2010

Whitney McNamara referred to as the “post that launched 1000 VCs”, but it was really meant to open up a dialogue between an innovative little company hyperfocused on an important piece of data—when people show up to venues—and a bigger company dependent on relationships with venues. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology.

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MAY 27, 2010

Kinda seems like that sometimes, right—that the venture capital community seems to chase after the bright shiny object of the moment in droves and then just as quickly moves on to the next new new thing. Back when I was at Union Square Ventures, Fred started to get really excited about podcasting.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Here are a few key things I’ve learned: While VCs work with entrepreneurs, they often need reminders to be entrepreneurial themselves—to strive to take on new projects that create community (and exclusive deal flow), teach them something new, or help them stand out. In fact, why wasn’t he just putting a term sheet on the table now?

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 19, 2022

million that it could use to build a decentralized hiring community for web3 talent. Talents earn Outdefine’s crypto token for referring some friends, finding work, and contributing to the community. Talents earn Outdefine’s crypto token for referring friends, finding work, and contributing to the community.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 27, 2010

Kinda seems like that sometimes, right—that the venture capital community seems to chase after the bright shiny object of the moment in droves and then just as quickly moves on to the next new new thing. Back when I was at Union Square Ventures, Fred started to get really excited about podcasting. Geolocation is so 2009.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

I asked some investor friends to share, as the title suggests, one thing they wished people better understood about venture capital. Here’s Part II: While the venture and tech community is incredibly collaborative, VC is an inherently lonely role. Reporting out in batches of five.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2022

Whatever you do, don’t refer to LG’s incubator program LG Nova as a corporate venture capital (CVC) outfit. “CVC, as you know, is a venture capital play. Below is my interview with Sokwoo Rhee, LG’s corporate SVP and head of the North America Innovation Center — LG Nova among friends.

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Revolution

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Align and engage with existing, highly engaged communities. Etsy aligned itself with the craft community; Nike focused on premiere athletes; Airbnb engaged travelers. Creating a brand that resonates with these close-knit communities is difficult, but rewarding, resulting in greater customer engagement and organic distribution channels.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

So a sincere hope of mine in building Frank isn’t that we’re right, it’s that we can be part of growing an ecosystem or community of folks building tools specifically for worker power (LaborTech). HW: Frank is venture backed. then a passing reference to Jimmy Hoffa. A lot of confused, raised brows, “Wait, aren’t unions bad?”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Versatile VC runs a no-cost community for founders in transition, “ Founders’ Next Move.” We may as well get compensated for referring them to others. There are a number of VC funds that share the carry earned in their co-investment to the referring party. To help our founders in transition. How to find a scout job.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

million seed funding round led by Initialized Capital, with investments from GSR, NEA and Canaan. PIN wants to replicate the Stanford 2020 story for other community-based ventures. A newly funded startup all about helping people break into the venture capital investment world and land coveted cap table spots feels very 2020.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

In particular, StartHER aims to tackle the difficulties specific groups have in raising their first capital — something typically referred to as the “friends and family round.” “It’s no secret that the venture capital industry is dominated by those with privilege and lucrative connections.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Ryan Falvey is co-founder and managing partner at Financial Venture Studio , an early-stage fintech venture capital firm. Theo Katsoulis is an associate at Financial Venture Studio. More posts by this contributor. Fintech’s $138 billion opportunity. Theo Katsoulis. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

Jamie Finney is a founding partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund , where he blogs about his work on VC and small communities. Previously, we introduced the concept of flexible VC : structures that allow founders to access immediate risk capital while preserving exit and ownership optionality. Jamie Finney. Contributor.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Backed by international LPs, Southeast Asia-focused venture firms like Alpha JWC , AC Ventures and Jungle Ventures raised their largest funds yet. Indonesian venture capital firm Alpha JWC closes $433M third fund. In that sense, they can also be described as being at least partially logistics startups.

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Gust

DECEMBER 27, 2011

The investment community in any geographic area is not that large, and most investors have relationships or knowledge of most of the others. Ask the investor for “references,” meaning contacts at companies where previous investments were made. Maybe more importantly, you need to confirm that the investor “chemistry” matches yours.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 30, 2023

Like Twitter, Spill will have a live news feed where users can post “spills,” a reference to the phrase “spill the tea.” On traditional social media platforms, Black people have carved out their own communities, like Black Twitter. Rather, it’s just another technological tool that will exist under the hood.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 21, 2022

Based in Vietnam, Anfin wants to turn more people into stock investors with features like fractional trading and in-app communities. Participants in the round also included Rebel VC, Kharis Capital, Newman Capital, First Check Ventures, Micro Ventures, Springcamp and AngelHub.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

Over the years, the angel network has based its infrastructure on syndicates — investment vehicles that allow investors, referred to as backers, to co-invest with prominent investors — known as leaders. Syndicate leads are often experienced angel investors or successful startup founders.

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

For those who may be unfamiliar, the term “startup studio” can be used interchangeably with “venture studios,” “venture builders,” or “company builders.” For today, we’ll refer to them simply as “studios.” This unprecedented growth provides a wealth of new opportunity for the investment community.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2022

To that end, he just announced the launch of a new venture called Tea that he co-founded alongside three fellow engineers, which he says will help reward open source programmers for their contributions to web3 projects. In a nod to Homebrew, Tea referred to itself as “brew2 for web3” in its announcement. .

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 21, 2021

They are found across all industries and are useful for entrepreneurs who are beyond the seed stages of financing but are not yet ready to seek out venture capital. You can take advantage of investor databases such as AngelList, Angel Capital Association or Angels Den to get started. Peer-to-peer lenders. Look at your networks.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2022

In modeling, “physically-based rendering” refers to a technique that aims to render images in a way that mimics the flow of light in the real world. “Tree bark with moss”) and optionally provide a reference image to get generated textures for crafting 3D models. With Poly, designers can describe a texture (e.g.

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Gust

DECEMBER 22, 2011

This is often referred to in the creative community as a “ work-for-hire agreement.”. Get a contract , if only a simple one-pager, stating that everything the contractor produces on the company’s dime is the property of the startup.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2021

. “Dance Church offers joyful and inclusive movement classes that are one part performance, one part fitness and one part dance party,” explains Dance Church community member Clara Siegel, who joined the company as its CEO at the start of the year. Kate [Wallich] is this incredible entrepreneur.”

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abovethecrowd.com

MAY 28, 2014

In early April, Neel Mehta of Google first publicly reported the web vulnerability that we now refer to as the Heartbleed bug. Enter HackerOne, a shared community marketplace that brings together the Internet’s leading web sites, with a community of the Internet’s leading researchers.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

In a town hall with some members of their community, Launch House addressed the harassment and assault allegations surfaced by a Vox Investigation earlier this week. After publication of the story, a Launch House spokeswoman said that it is “inaccurate to say that only some community members were invited.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

There’s also been an increase in syndicates and investment groups consisting of Africans at home and in the diaspora, as well as an increase in the number of founders of later-stage companies who are now investing in other founders,” said Kola Aina, general partner at Ventures Platform. For global venture capital, 2021 was an outlier.

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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. Congratulations! Aspen Tech Policy Hub. Mulago Foundation Rainer Arnhold Fellowship.

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