This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 16, 2012

They're often doing a startup because that's what it seems smart people do these days--like the same way the best people piled into investment banking or consulting years ago. There's nothing personal about this particular area for them and it's unclear what motivates them to keep going--other than the prospect of having a VC validate them.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

He is an ex-PwC senior consultant in financial due diligence and the creator of The Financial Due Diligence Framework online course. The first scenario will be when you decide to raise a Series A and subsequent VC rounds, followed by when you do a strategic acquisition, and lastly, when you sell your company.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Those earlier investors just re-upped, by the way, and were joined by new backers Pillar VC, Brevan Howard, GoldenTree, and Atreides.). ” As a result, he says, “everything that Republic does, everything we touch, we treat them as securities by and large and fit them under the existing framework of U.S securities law.”

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 28, 2010

Anyway, I spent the first part of my career consulting for large companies. Accenture always had a chip on it’s shoulder in strategy consulting – especially compared with McKinsey, BCG and Bain. McKinsey had their “ 7S framework &# and BCG had the “ BCG Matrix &# with cash cows, dogs, stars and question marks.

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David Teten VC

MAY 16, 2017

Matthew Craig-Greene of consultancy MJ Hudson points out, “Most public plans publish meeting minutes, and these can be a very interesting place to find information on manager selection. Limited partner due diligence on VC and private equity funds. I’ve collected several lists of limited partners focused on VC.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

In this article aimed at early-stage founders, Kolluri shares a detailed framework with timelines that can help determine whether it’s time to look for a buyer or keep reaching for the stars. A 60-minute briefing with a consultant who told me I’d be fine if I stuck to the script. “How can you choose?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The funding, a Series A, is being by Threshold Ventures (the VC formerly known as Draper Fisher Jurvetson, rebranded in 2019 after none of the namesakes remained at the firm), with an interesting cast of others also participating. million to fuel its growth.

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2022

We start with a historical run of stories beginning last December, threading through the start of the year until we reach the latest data from the VC ecosystem. Here’s how far VCs have lowered revenue expectations for seed through Series B (January 2022). The following digest of TechCrunch coverage looks to answer that question.

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 1, 2013

Business : In some form, I walk through the Business Model Generation framework: value proposition, key activities, key partners, major assets, channels of distribution, customer segments, cost structure and revenue streams. How do they interact with each other? Are they passionate? How qualified are they?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Spacemaker’s VC backers include European firms Atomico and Northzone, which co-led the company’s $25 million Series A round in 2019. And I think what we experienced in Norway four years ago was that a lot of the really good people went into either oil and gas or, you know, consulting. Autodesk, the U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

*. What is the role of a VC for entrepreneurs? I suppose it can be different for every founder and for different VCs but I’d like to offer you some context on what I think it is and it isn’t. Consultants should provide you data & frameworks – not decisions. ” I responded. So you become jaded.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2012

And no wonder, lately he and his partners are on a tear, investing out of their $200+ million VC fund. He talked in the video about how he finds it helpful in companies to think about practical theory and frameworks for thinking about company strategy. 10:15 Do you the LPs are more open-minded to single VC funds today?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 12, 2010

There’s a famous line about consultants that clients love to repeat, “consultants take your watch and then tell you the time.&#. I used to work for Andersen Consulting (for > 8 years) – mostly building computer systems for large companies in the fixed telecoms, mobile and Internet sectors.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2021

The team first funded their operations with some consulting projects, including with Google Earth , but now it has raised a seed round to further expand the team and its ambitions. Auren Hoffman wrote the first personal check into the company, and the first institutional VC was IA Ventures. a year later using Deck.gl as a base.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 23, 2013

It took quite a while to devise this framework and to revise it until it became useful, practical and insightful. I spoke with friends who were consultants and who analyze companies for a living. Each of these frameworks evaluates a different aspect of the business. The Grand Unifying Framework - Matrixing Value Chains and P5F.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. 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? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. 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? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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The Entrepreneurs Library

JUNE 22, 2015

I write books, I teach in the school of business at Duke University, and I do a lot of speaking and marketing strategy consulting as well. As a VC, Tony was really interested in the question, “what makes entrepreneurs successful?” I live in New York City and I spend my time doing a mixture of things these days.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation — much like the Mozilla Corporation (the org responsible for developing Firefox) and Mozilla Ventures (the Mozilla Foundation’s VC fund). If history is any indication, voluntary frameworks and one-off tools won’t move the needle much, if at all. “Mozilla.ai

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 2, 2021

And second, I wanted to inform the strategy of my new firm, Versatile VC , from the most educated point of view. . Reilly: In your research, you use the Clay Christensen framework of “jobs to be done”. Teten: In the Before Time, I was at a dinner for Partners at many of the major New York VC funds. Can you explain that?

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