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. This is a big news day at Upfront Ventures. Hamet came up with this idea after 3 years consulting for Nielsen Media helping them to figure out the value of branded integration and trying to define ways to measure efficacy of the unit.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2022

Over the past few years, corporate venture capital investors have solidified their stature as a reliable source of VC funding. became the latest company to launch a venture arm this week. became the latest company to launch a venture arm this week. Ulta is just the latest corporate venture fund to launch this year.

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2021

The world of venture capital investing is a relatively small one, and relationship-based to boot. The company, founded by Samir Kaji and Hana Yang in February 2021, is developing an approach to venture capital fund investing that provides a way for investors of any size to participate. Enter Allocate.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

Paulina Symala is a consultant at Oliver Wyman and a past intern of Versatile VC. 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. Venture capital.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

One of the first decisions we had to make in setting up our new VC fund, Versatile Venture Capital , was our CRM and marketing technology infrastructure. . Linkedin : Versatile Venture Capital / David Teten personal. Tim Friedman, Founder, PEStack , and a Venture Partner with Versatile Venture Capital , said, . “We

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David Teten VC

APRIL 1, 2021

Almost every private equity and venture capital investor now advertises that they have a platform to support their portfolio companies. This typically includes: Relationships with relevant service providers in your vertical, often with pre-negotiated discounts: coaches, lawyers, accountants, common software vendors, consultants.

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Dream It

JULY 31, 2019

4- Any startup can raise venture capital I've also seen a misconception on business types, versus their ability to raise venture capital. The company then evolved into Saborstudio, a digital marketing consulting agency. Our ability to raise further rounds of funding is affected for these same reasons.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2012

We also spent a fair bit of time talking about the changing nature of venture capital and in particular the hand-on practitioner role of early-stage VC led by accelerators such as YC, 500Startups, Betaworks and the like. Nate, tell us a bit about Rustic Canyon Venture Partners. I agree with him. My guest today is Nate Redmond.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Outsourcing engineering has become more common in recent years, so we’re starting a new initiative to profile the software consultants who startups love to work with the most. Consultant: Appetiser Apps. Consultant: Aloa. ” Consultant: Ajmera InfoTech. Consultant: Cultum. Consultant: ManagedKube.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Here’s how I learned my lesson: I started my life as a consultant. Fortunately I was mostly a technology consultant, which meant that I coded computers, designed databases and planned system integration projects. But for my sins I got an MBA and did “strategy&# consulting. Nobody was surprised.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

It seems that every internet company and their dog have at least one venture capital (VC) arm under their wing, with the likes of Google Ventures (now GV), Microsoft Ventures (now M12), Salesforce Ventures , Twilio Ventures , and Zoom Ventures all serving their corporate namesakes potential cash cows via hundreds of equity investments.

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Dream It

JANUARY 13, 2021

The venture capital screening call is an important step to get right in due diligence. If the meeting outcome is a maybe , they need to consult the rest of their team before they do anything else. By Elliot Levy , Healthtech Associate at Dreamit Ventures Book Office Hours with me.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 17, 2014

Hiring a consultant who always intends to be a consultant isn''t a failure. Venture Capital & Technology' Sometimes you meet an amazing person who has no intention of ever being fulltime on anything. You don''t want to tell investors you''re trying to get this person and then have to tell them you failed.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

Design and marketing consultancy R/GA is expanding its Venture Studios program with the launch of a new Coalition Venture Studio focused specifically on supporting Black-led and Black-owned startups. “From that perspective, I got this firsthand view of the power of R/GA Ventures,” Ross told me.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 15, 2014

I started my career at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) so I went to Chicago many times a year for nearly 9 years. They started their company in LA but a couple of years after raising capital from Khosla Ventures in the Bay Area they ended up relocating there. ” But I think this misses the point.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Operating experience has become a buzzword over the last few years as venture capitalists pump up their resumes in a quest to set themselves apart from other sources of startup capital. In theory, this makes total sense because both consultants and venture capitalists have the same goal at the end of the day: helping companies grow.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The venture capital industry is built on signals. The startup, launching publicly today, is building a rating system for the venture capital industry. Revere declined to share any customer names but said that one of its first customers was a sizable investment consultant. But who rates the ratings?

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Ironically enough, the second nudge she gave my career also had to do with AOL--ten years later when in 2009, she introduced me to Jon Brod who was forming AOL Ventures. I got to interview there and had a great conversation with Jon that inspired a post on the kind of venture firm NYC needed. Don't get me wrong.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

She hasn’t raised any venture capital. She not only became an expert in SEO, she began consulting in SEO to continue to make ends meet and she became a speaker on the topic. She did her first tech startup after the age of 30. And she didn’t start her company in Northern California. How’s that for an ex painter?

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TechCrunch

JULY 6, 2022

Raising venture capital is rarely an easy lift for startups, but 2022 is turning out to be a more challenging year than we’ve seen for some time. As venture capital continues its slowdown after an aggressive 2020 and record-breaking 2021 , it’s clear that early-stage founders looking for their first dollars will require a new approach.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2021

Accenture Ventures leader Kathryn Ross has advice for black founders that could be initially deemed counter-intuitive. Kathryn is well-placed to shares insights about black founders and how they are faring in the world of venture capital and entrepreneurship. Kathryn says we are in unprecedented times. That is unprecedented.”.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 5, 2011

He was interested in venture capital and was a year away from graduation. I realized that a position at Union Square Ventures was going to be open in a year and that he had a terrific chance of getting it. Welcome to being a paid consultant for something you didn't even know how to do a year ago.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 21, 2020

.” These are typically the ability to attend board meetings, the ability to have access to financial reports on a regular basis, and the ability to advise and consult with the management of the company. The existence of these letters has everything to do with where the venture capital firms get their funds from.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Hemisphere Ventures, a U.S.-based based venture capital and consulting firm, has opened its first Southeast Asia office in Singapore. The firm is known for early-stage investments in frontier technologies such as […]

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Some other entrepreneurs who went down the MBA, consulting or banking routes without working at a startup are certainly book smart but haven’t always refined the street-smart skills needed to be an effective entrepreneur. Tags: Startup Advice This Week in Venture Capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

It’s like trusting your 28-year-old fresh-from-MBA-school McKinsey consultant to make executive business decisions about your 128 year-old-business that they know nothing about just because they are wicked smart, have a blackbelt in Excel & Powerpoint and do better graphs than you. ” Such simple yet poignant advice.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 26, 2022

We had no venture capital and weren’t part of a global agency network. I was living in entrepreneurial adventure mode: I was doing freelance consulting and advisory to a business here, investing in a web3 gaming startup there. I could have numerous ventures, projects and experiences happening simultaneously, too.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 6, 2013

He had been working as a strategy consultant post b-school at Monitor and worked closely with a good family friend of mine who recommended I meet him. He wanted to work in venture capital and I was new to the industry and in no position to hire anybody. We met six years ago. We had a shared history.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

Contrary to popular opinion I actually believe crowd-funding is best used after seed capital or venture capital. Put it this way – Upfront Ventures spend on PR per year = $0. It super charges a business that is closer to product delivery. The reality is you must be great at HR, PR, finance AND product.

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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. They hired a consultant in the LGBT community who had relationships with all of the most popular gay clubs (who you know) and they built from there.

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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. How to find a job as a VC scout.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

A lot of people go out and start their first business and try to make it a venture-backed startup. It could be something as simple as a consulting or a services business, or a digital product like a course, newsletter, or subscription podcast. Path 1: Venture-backed startup 90% chance of $0. Forget venture capital.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Booz Allen Hamilton, the Virginia-based, defense-focused IT consulting firm, today announced the launch of a corporate venture capital arm, Booz Allen Ventures, that will initially put $100 million toward “strategic” defensive and offensive technologies. In the U.S.,

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 6, 2020

If your US-based business is adversely affected by Covid-19 such that you would need to lay off employees imminently and having access to capital would enable you to keep more employees on the payroll then you might be eligible. The NVCA (National Venture Capital Association) Guidelines are below. This is another misconception.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 2, 2010

You can also spend time with a newer startup helping them navigate the world of product management, venture capital or team building. It’s how Cory Van Wolvelaere changed my life: In 1993, after working at Andersen Consulting for 2.5 At Andersen Consulting I had built computer networks and programmed in COBOL.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

million seed round led by Precursor Ventures. A 2019 study by Morning Consult found that more than 85% of those between the ages of 13 and 38 want to be social media influencers at some point. Digital marketplace Clutch announced today the closing of a $1.2 The app comes at a good time. I was able to then pitch Charles and Precursor.”.

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Dream It

APRIL 7, 2020

Independent of the SBA, last week we announced SVB Debt Relief, a venture debt principal deferral program. If you have a venture lender that’s not your deposit bank, some founders have seen success going through non-bank SBA-lenders. You have the choice if you have a venture lender that’s not your deposit bank.

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