This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

I built a 3,000 person tech networking organization in NYC back in 2006 and was one of the first 100 members of the NY Tech Meetup back in 2005 so I’ve participated in a lot of these conversations. You also need to establish a culture of sharing and collegiality. You need both. They’re less impactful on a year to year basis.

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David Teten VC

MAY 19, 2017

Historically VC has been an apprenticeship business. VC ASSOCIATIONS. New York Private Equity Network. VEECEE – European VCs. NextGen Partners – for pre-Partner VCs. Revenue Based Financing Network Group. VCs who care. ACCELERATORS FOR EMERGING VCs. Draper Venture Network.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

One of the great joys of doing the web series This Week in VC every week is that I get to spend time with great people debating the issues of our day including how our industry is evolving as well as insights into how companies got started, got their initial traction and dealt with adversities. Oh, yeah. We then spoke about startups.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Don’t get me wrong, I do think an important sign from startups is their ability to keep a startup culture going for as long as possible and one sign of this in the early days is scrappiness. Our first big institutional round of VC was $16.5 It was probably true, but I created the wrong mindset – the wrong culture.

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Haystack

JUNE 1, 2018

Talk to any Bay Area VC in the last 24 hours, and the talk of the town among investors is universal : “ What do you think of the SV Angel news? A well-networked LP recently remarked to me they’ve estimated over 150+ of the 500+ known seed funds are currently “in market” right now.

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Revolution

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

At Rise of the Rest, we’ve spent years traversing the country, spotlighting emerging startup hubs, and building a network of entrepreneurial champions and ecosystem builders beyond Silicon Valley, New York City, and Boston. Rail Network : Atlanta offers access to both Norfolk Southern and CSX Transportation.

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Haystack

JULY 3, 2019

The gist of that post is – making investments is relatively easy, but learning to manage a VC fund is very complex and hard to learn. 3/ Had A Clear Plan To Scale The Fund – Now, it helps that one of the fund’s co-founders is the son of a person who started another major VC firm.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Building an investor network from scratch sounds daunting. We recently sat down with three VCs who have also been founders to talk about different ways founders can approach this problem, how to land that first term sheet and what that term sheet should contain. How do you start a network from zero?

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 3, 2021

As investor Monique Woodard stated during a BLCK VC webinar, “You have to fix the systemic issues in your funds that keep Black founders out and keep you from delivering better returns.” Venture capital is driven by relationships and many investments are sourced via personal referrals, usually through one’s direct networks.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

But most venture-backed startups are “still overwhelmingly white, male, Ivy-League-educated and based in Silicon Valley,” according to a study conducted by RateMyInvestor and Diversity VC. Or will we have to repeat the same conversations about representation failings within VC funds? Make serious headway with accelerators.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 30, 2021

I co-wrote this essay with Prabhat Gusain , currently the Chief of Staff at Caffeinated Capital; formerly an intern with Versatile VC ; and a 2021 MBA from UVA Darden. In many ecosystems outside of the major tech hubs, founders face cultural, legal, reputational and other hurdles to building a successful tech company.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

Let’s assume that the company raised it at a normal VC valuation, which means it gave up 33% of the company and thus $5 million / 33% = $15 million post-money valuation. Over time I realized that this created a rotten culture. . I will do a simple calculation for them that goes like this. OK, you would own 0.25% of the stock.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

And more recently he has turned that into a fund called CrossCulture VC such that many in Silicon Valley and beyond now know Troy as well. The need to have well-defined networks of people you trust for introductions (he talks about Shervin Pishevar, who is also a friend of mine). We covered the Gaga breakout story but also.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2022

For example, I was mistaken for an intern in multiple meetings and generally not taken too seriously at networking or industry events. Referrals and testimonials went a long way in establishing credibility with people outside my growing network, but that network is what kept me going. I was inspired by the people in my life.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

How to find a job as a scout for a VC firm. Many are former founders, but even so: becoming a VC isn’t easy without the right connections and experience. Without a successful exit or a Stanford network, one way to break in is by working as a scout who sources deals. How to find a job as a scout for a VC firm.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

The beauty of having Stanford students within this network was that our Stanford students pulled the other students into the networks that the Stanford students are so fortunate to have. I guess our network of friends and family and founders is technically our scouts. Does that concern you? We do not have a Scout program.

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TechCrunch

MAY 1, 2021

64% of VC firms still don’t have a single female partner. Black + Latinx female founders receive only 0.64% of VC funding, a slight uptick from the year prior. 85% of venture funding goes to all-male teams. To quote Winnie CEO and co-founder Sara Mauskopf, “Internet is the new Miami.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

In 2016, we set out to develop a rigorous methodology for tracking progress on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in venture capital, and to measure and benchmark those data through our biennial VC Human Capital Survey. Once talent has come on board, inclusive culture and retention become key metrics of DEI progress.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 24, 2022

startups received VC funding of around $75 billion in Q1 and about $50 billion so far in Q2, despite investors pulling back and valuations decreasing as the markets trend downward. “We’re in a culture of innovation and doing things in ways that nobody has done before,” Jarvis told TechCrunch. ” U.S.

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 23, 2023

Specifically I’ve had the chance to spend meaningful time over the years with Michael Mignano as he went from startup CEO to Executive/Angel Investor and now VC Partner at Lightspeed. Our conversations are always enjoyable, spanning tech, parenting and culture, so I decided to ask him Five Questions here.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 2, 2010

As a VC I’m acutely that a “yes&# decision to support an entrepreneur can do just that, yet I only write 2-4 of them per year and maybe another 3-4 as an angel. At Andersen Consulting I had built computer networks and programmed in COBOL. years where I developed skills building distributed systems over networks.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

Prabhat Gusain is currently the chief of staff at Caffeinated Capital and was previously an intern with Versatile VC. David Teten is founder of Versatile VC and writes periodically at teten.com and @dteten. How to win consulting, board and deal roles with PE and VC funds. Next are VC firms looking for founders.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2021

With the fundraising world becoming more democratic and accessible, we should help people find the right path to setting up a venture capital firm and also make sure the right people are entering the VC sphere. So if you want to lead your own VC fund in 2021, here are the main questions aspiring investors need to ask themselves.

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Revolution

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

According to PitchBook , VC investments were down 30% in Q2 2022 compared with 2021, and IPOs hit a 50-year low. When deal-making slows, VC dollars typically favor the perceived market leader, starving other venture-backed businesses in the same space of capital. The last category is most actionable.

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

As Managing Directors of Techstars Seattle, we raised a series of funds from mostly local LPs, including participation from some of our best-known local VC firms, as well as many of the mentors who worked with the founders during and after each program.

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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

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Beauty and wellness is seen as a women’s segment, but what is happening with the cultural transformation being applied to every industry, this segment is ripe for that.”. I figured out LPs have set a criteria, and I didn’t fit into that: I don’t come from an investment banking background and don’t look like a typical VC.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JUNE 28, 2020

” In the McKinsey report, companies in the top quartile for ethnic/cultural diversity on executive teams were 33% more likely to have industry-leading profitability. A big part of the reason is that just 3% of the partners and 4% of employees in the VC workforce are Black according to the most recent NVCA-Deloitte study on diversity.

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Founders Coop

MAY 18, 2020

As operators, we were lucky to raise from some pretty amazing VC role models, people like Brad Feld at Foundry Group, Ethan Kurzweil at Bessemer Venture Partners, and Karan Mehandru at Trinity Ventures. But along the way we experienced many of the behaviors Fred’s post talks about, so we know how awful the experience of raising VC can be.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Leah Edwards is a passionate fan and connector in technology and impact, a lecturer at UC Berkeley and Stanford and a partner at Pegasus Tech Ventures , a Silicon Valley-based VC firm. As a partner at Pegasus Tech Ventures , I’m aware that the VC industry boasts about finding teams with outlying and industry-changing ideas.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 8, 2021

Having moved far beyond shooters and sims, platforms like Twitch, Discord and Fortnite are “where culture is created,” said Daniel Li of Madrona. For founders who aren’t interested in angel investment or seeking validation from a VC, revenue-based investing is growing in popularity. Jacob Mullins, Shasta Ventures.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

He is also the founder and managing partner of HartBeat Ventures, an early-stage VC firm with a focus on lifestyle, media and technology. Forbes reports that while companies with white founders receive 77% of VC dollars, less than 10% go to women founders and less than 1% to Black founders. Venture funding inequity remains a big issue.

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Haystack

JANUARY 14, 2019

During this time, when we didn’t really understand the stakes of what technology would hold for us all, it was relatively easy to know the investments made by the top VC funds — they’d either announce them on TechCrunch , or the early reporters at TechCrunch would somehow find out which deals were hotly contested and doing well.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The cash will be used to build out the platform designed to give startups access to more than 500 VCs, accelerators and angel networks. And the VC application incorporates the kind of functionality seen in Affinity, Airtable, Efront and DocSend. and multiple family offices. But AngeList doesn’t provide data or metrics.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

British VC firm Molten Ventures led the operation, with participation from new investor Citi Ventures. For instance, demand in Europe is also driven by a wider cultural context; while in the U.S., based investor that can help with network and relationships there,” Hann said. it also results from a desire to innovate.

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Haystack

AUGUST 18, 2019

Despite that lack of experience, I am fortunate in that I have direct access to many of the greatest VC leaders and franchises for mentorship and guidance. They’ve all accepted that this is a new world of capital abundance and that the pistons driving the global economy are technology and network effects. Granted, 6.5

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Some investors, like Ashton Kutcher , have prioritized the VC pursuits. It’s been a little over a year since Ryan Reynolds bought a majority stake in Mint Mobile, a deal that has already had a dramatic impact on the the MVNO (mobile virtual network operator). But not all celebrity investments are created equally.

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