Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

I took the opportunity this past week to publish summary notes of some of the VCs and entrepreneurs I had interviewed on This Week in VC. One of my goals in doing the show was not only to educate entrepreneurs but also to put a human face on many of the VCs in our industry as VCs can be hard to get to know.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Historically, many Black students (more so Black male students), are influenced by sports as a vehicle to higher education and not necessarily the institutions recognized for technological prowess. Despite having great grades and graduating with honors, I was completely unaware of how valuable an Ivy League education could be.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

TechCrunch Early Stage is the ultimate educational resource for a founder who is just getting started. GV’s Terri Burns, former operator (Twitter and Venmo) turned VC, will lay out the fundamentals of finding product market fit, including processes, feedback loops, and adaptability. We’ve got a session for it.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 17, 2011

By the end of my sophomore year I had taken on the role of education for our new freshman pledges and by the first quarter of my junior year I led the pledge class entirely. I talked specifically about it in the context of raising VC / establishing credibility over on the Sales School blog where there’s a video & a transcript.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Jan Lynn-Matern, Emerge Education. In a guest post for Extra Crunch, seed-stage VC Ann Miura-Ko shared some of what she’s learned about “the magic of product-market fit,” which she termed “ the defining quality of an early-stage startup.” Education = knowledge transfer + social + signaling.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 12, 2023

As one VC put it: “It’s bad.” Seed-stage fintech deals saw record investment as valuations of late-stage VC-backed companies saw significant downward pressure, attracting a record $4.5 Meanwhile, according to PitchBook , enterprise fintech startups are capturing more of the broader fintech VC pool.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2022

million for its second fund aimed at injecting capital into founders that don’t come from the educational pedigree or location that we typically see with entrepreneurs. It makes angel, pre-seed and seed investments into B2B SaaS startups in sectors like finance, healthcare, cybersecurity, supply chain, construction and real estate.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

Develop a buyer’s guide to educate your startup’s sales team and customers. Develop a buyer’s guide to educate your startup’s sales team and customers. When to walk away from a VC who wants to invest in your startup. When to walk away from a VC who wants to invest in your startup. Deep Science: Robots, meet world.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 25, 2013

Constructions such as inflatable plastic lounges (photos here and here ), giant see-saws, and art projects involving flame throwers provided entertainment for the 800 to 1500 partygoers that showed up each weekend night. Three companies from the Studiomates community-- Sherpaa , Tinybop , and Editorially --received VC dollars in 2012.

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Ian Hathaway

MARCH 31, 2020

As venture capitalist and economic historian Bill Janeway remarked : “… the federal government funded construction of a platform on which entrepreneurs and venture capitalists could dance.” No one tells this story better than Harvard Business School professor Tom Nicholas in his recent book VC: An American History.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Fortunately, there are a wide range of organizations that specifically want to support you, not just the VC community. Recurse Center. “The Recurse Center is a self-directed, community-driven educational retreat for people who want to get better at programming.”. Skoll Foundation.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

(co-written with Katherine Boe Heuck , a MBA candidate at MIT Sloan (class of 2022); past intern at Versatile VC ; and a current intern at Metaprop NYC.). We reviewed CB Insights’ global list of “40 of the Best VC Bets of all Time.” For funds with an overall return of 3-5x, which is what VC funds aim for, the overall return was 4.6x

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Fortunately, there are a wide range of organizations that specifically want to support you, not just the VC community. ” Recurse Center. “The Recurse Center is a self-directed, community-driven educational retreat for people who want to get better at programming.”. Skoll Foundation.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

(co-written with Katherine Boe Heuck , a MBA candidate at MIT Sloan (class of 2022); past intern at Versatile VC ; and a current intern at Metaprop NYC.). We reviewed CB Insights’ global list of “40 of the Best VC Bets of all Time.” Why are all of the VC home runs from white men, or Asian men in Asia, plus a few Asian men in the U.S.?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

But according to data from PitchBook, less than 2% of VC funding went to all-women-founded teams in 2021. It’s identical to what’s happening in Africa: Less than 1% of all VC dollars went toward startups with one or more women founders last year, according to The Big Deal , which details investments in Africa.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

David Teten is founder of Versatile VC and writes periodically at teten.com and @dteten. 15 steps to fundraising a new VC or private equity fund. Katherine Boe Heuck is a MBA candidate at MIT Sloan (class of 2022), a past intern at Versatile VC and a current intern at Metaprop NYC. David Teten. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

BII has adopted a strategy to make calculated, not sporadic, investments across key sectors: infrastructure, financial services, manufacturing, food and agriculture, health, education, and real estate and construction. Progress so far: banks, VC firms and startups. They include mature, powerhouse, stable and fragile markets.

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2021

Emeritus, which is part of the Eruditus group, announced this week that it plans to acquire iD Tech, a STEM education service for children. 5 innovative fundraising methods for emerging VCs and PEs. 5 innovative fundraising methods for emerging VCs and PEs. Mapping out one edtech company’s $200M bet on lifelong learning.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

I spent my days meeting companies, figuring out what areas of the market interested me and trying to get a sense for how VCs thought about fair valuations. I thought about things I never had to as an entrepreneur: check size, ownership percentage, deal stage, portfolio construction and risk. But I guess you could say the same about VC.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 1, 2021

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