TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

At TechCrunch, we cover a lot of startup financings, but we rarely get the opportunity to cover exits. The good news is that the wealth is being spread around at least a couple of VC firms, although there are definitely a handful of partners who are looking at a very, very nice check in the mail compared to others.

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JULY 16, 2010

Lots of discussion these days about the changes in the VC industry. The VC industry grew dramatically as a result of the Internet bubble - Before the Internet bubble the people who invested in VC funds (called LPs or Limited Partners) put about $50 billion into the industry and by 2001 this had grown precipitously to around $250 billion.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

One of the most common questions that entrepreneurs who meet me for the first time like to ask is, “Do you miss being an entrepreneur? I’m enjoying being a VC. I thought I’d talk a bit about the differences I’ve experienced between being an entrepreneur & a VC – you know, from “both sides of the table.&#.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2022

In an interview with TechCrunch, Hambrecht spoke about Haus’s transition from buzzy VC-backed startup to a business currently up for sale, as-is or in parts. Because the company was unable to fundraise from traditional VC, it took on debt financing and began looking for private equity and strategic partners.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

I thought I’d try to look at it from a different lens, that of the entrepreneur. Asked to respond to the topic, “What collusion happens with AngelList, if any&# I wrote the following: “Um, let’s not be naive here and not think that a “form of collusion&# doesn’t happen on virtually any financing round.

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Gust

DECEMBER 13, 2011

I’ve recently taken a look at seed stage funding by venture capitalists (VCs) and angel investors over the past five years. For VCs, I chose to look at all seed stage VC deals (from MoneyTree©) as well as those in five of the most active regions in the country. All Seed-VC. VCs in NYC invested, on average, only $2.4

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

.” From the hyperbolic Jason Calacanis weighing in that “The petty VC’s did everything to deride [Naval, the co-founder of AngelList]” as though the industry was collectively s g its pants that AngelList was going to put us out of business. This is the same way VC firms, by the way. So there you have it.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 29, 2011

I had an interesting conversation with an entrepreneur last week about how he decided which VCs he was going to pitch. At the same time, I had lunch with someone yesterday who regularly ran into early stage entrepreneurs who was surprised to hear that I didn't mind if they made intros to me. The Cold Intro.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

” This is a frequent theme of mine when asked to speak to audience about the VC industry. And this is fueled by the VC culture in Silicon Valley. I was recently talking to a VC about a business I was looking at and I was asking whether he found the business interesting, too. It is VC math, like it or not.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Fewer and fewer tech entrepreneurs who obviously believe in science are going to want to be in a place where you have to debate with sitting governors, let alone your neighbors, the obvious value of a mask during a pandemic, or how female reproductive organs work. Lastly, your city needs to be livable—and that definition is changing.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2014

We are often asked how companies get funded, why VCs make the decisions we make and what we’re looking for in entrepreneurs. I think this is a Seriously great example of how this process works for at least one VC – Upfront Ventures. So this was definitely an introduction I was going to take. Domain Knowledge.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

It partners with entrepreneurs in funding their growth stories through innovative market access and public venture capital strategies. I was mainly educated in accounting and finance. Rather than tapping traditional VC funding, emerging venture stage companies went public at early stage (e.g.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

One of the most common questions that entrepreneurs who meet me for the first time like to ask is, “Do you miss being an entrepreneur? I’m enjoying being a VC. I thought I’d talk a bit about the differences I’ve experienced between being an entrepreneur & a VC – you know, from “both sides of the table.&#.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

And that was evident on today’s Angel vs. VC panel. The VC industry is segmenting – I have spoken about this many times before. The VC industry has different segments in it that have different fund sizes, different investment amounts and different risk / return expectations. Answer: Not much. It’s a shame.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

(See How to negotiate a partner role at a VC or private equity firm.) You can work as a consultant, an interim executive, a board member, a deal executive partnering to buy a company, an executive in residence, or as an entrepreneur in residence. . At Versatile VC , we’ve used all these models. Expert Networks.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

However, it appears that even though VCs are proceeding more cautiously than before and taking their time with due diligence, they are still investing. CB Insights recently found that two of the largest global VC firms, Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz, actually backed more fintech companies in 2022 than any other category.

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David Teten VC

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

We’re fortunate to interview William Stringer, Founder of Chisos Capital , a structured finance company. Chisos is a structured finance company that provides startup and brand capital to entrepreneurs, athletes and creatives. Q: What is CISA and how does it compare to other alternative VC models?

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MAY 23, 2021

Alkami Technology’s initial public offering (IPO) raised $180 million, selling six million shares of common stock, with a surging market capitalization that exceeded $3 billion — more than triple the definition of a “unicorn” deal. The firm provides cloud-based digital banking solutions for banks and credit unions.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

This was an audience of mostly first-time entrepreneurs. I spoke about how Amazon Web Services deserves far more credit for the last 5 years of innovation than it gets credit for and how I believe they spawned the micro-VC category. I said that I felt that Micro-VCs were the most important change in our industry. I believe that.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 21, 2014

An impressive number of new VCs have been created – most of them with new seed funds. We’ve had an explosion of alternate sources of financing from crowd-sourcing, angels, accelerators, incubators, corporates, corporate incubators. Poorly implemented this category was the definition of shelfware.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Prior to becoming CFO of Instacart, Sanghvi served as the company’s vice president of finance and strategy. And while Sanghvi says he would definitely rather see a business be smaller “than have COVID happen to the world,” it was a time where he learned a lot in helping grow the company. Both joined Instacart in 2015. billion. “He

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Feedough

MARCH 22, 2021

They are responsible to: Develop the offering with independent R&D, Introduce the offering to the market, Advertise, market and build clientele, Manage the entire supply chain from sourcing to final delivery to the user, and Handle finances of the business. Solopreneur vs Entrepreneur. Advantages Of Solopreneurship.

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Dream It

APRIL 12, 2020

During our recent Dreamit Kickoff week, Bullpen Capital Founder and General Partner Paul Martino ( @ahpah ) spoke with our Spring 2020 cohort about the state of the VC ecosystem in the current economic crisis. It will definitely happen for some venture funds, but the question is how widespread it will be,” states Martino.

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Berkonomics

MAY 15, 2014

These usually involve a handful of angel investors, and a few entrepreneurs, who all want to build the very best term sheet for their exciting nascent enterprise. Just a few of these terms include vesting, corporate structure, governance principles, financing strategy, valuation and exit strategy. Raising money'

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TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2021

Public and influential entrepreneurs from Chamath Palihapitiya to Richard Branson have made sure that SPACs — which many have called a fad — are here to stay. Iyinoluwa Aboyeji , founder and general partner at Future Africa, an early-stage VC firm, told TechCrunch that SPAC targets are most often billion-dollar companies.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

The country is quickly catching up to China on the tech investment front, with VC investments reaching a record of $15 billion in 2020, according to TechNation. attracting a bevy of tech entrepreneurs. Very strong in deep tech with an invested local community of entrepreneurs, incubators and investors. What does it lack?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

That level of interest can’t have vanished entirely, but there will definitely be winners and losers. VC return expectations might deliver valuations that a founder perceives as too low. Selling a business can be a great outcome for both entrepreneurs and investors. As such, entrepreneurs need to raise capital accordingly.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

To begin with, it is important to understand some basic facts about the world of entrepreneurial finance: There are many more entrepreneurs than there are investors, with the result that only one company out of every 400 that seeks venture funding actually receives it. One of the primary ones is the referral source.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 19, 2013

By definition you will either get a crappy SI promising you they will move mountains or a great SI that gives you their C-player team. So I’m not endorsing your building your entire company around professional services ( although I think that’s a fine strategy for many non VC-backed companies ) but rather not to avoid it.

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Gust

DECEMBER 1, 2011

New Company Formation – According to the Kauffman Foundation, entrepreneurs start about 700,000 companies per year in the US. We have no measure of the changes in available capital resources from entrepreneurs and their friends and family, but we have no reason to believe they have changed radically over the past few years.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 22, 2014

What I find a bit frustrating is how easily some people get onto panels and are put up in front of an impressionable crowd of new entrepreneurs as "experts". You''ll get an entrepreneur who has raised one and only one round of financing in his or her entire life--all from relatively unsophisticated individuals, giving fundraising advice.

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JUNE 5, 2011

I have conversations with entrepreneurs and other VCs on a daily basis about fund raising, the prices of deals, how much companies should raise, etc. These are not scientific, just anecdotal and just trying to provide some transparency for entrepreneurs on what I’ve seen the market. And of course there are always outliers.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

My primary role was “chief psychologist&# and as I’ve learned over the past few years the same has been true as a VC. Almost by definition to be a great leader you need to be an effective psychologist. Some entrepreneurs make the mistake of never devolving power. Both are basically people businesses.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 16, 2023

I posed a question to twenty-one other founders, across many different industries from media to finance, from SaaS to urban farming. 2) I wish I had better understood the VC model and incentive structure when fundraising. Think of your brain as a hard drive. Don’t ruminate on what someone said too much.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

My mom was an entrepreneur – she was kind of my inspiration for entrepreneurship. I got a job at a bank, and I worked in their corporate finance group. And no one could see me as anything but a startup guy, so I started a second company and called myself a serial entrepreneur. My mom grew up in the States.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2021

“There’s not enough technical expertise in VC firms to choose winners intelligently, rather than ending up with the next Theranos or clean tech bubble,” he said. He was a serial entrepreneur before starting the fund, having founded Tachyus, OpenGov and nonprofit California Common Sense.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 6, 2016

This posts analyses US headquartered information technology companies which VC-led investment rounds, except for the $793M Series C in Magic Leap , which I excluded as an outlier. VCs invested about $2B in January and February 2016. Was VC activity in February an aberration or representative of a deeper change in sentiment?

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