This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 14, 2014

It also doesn''t take into consideration many important factors: One, venture backed companies are a tiny hiccup in the grand scheme of entrepreneurship. That''s a much better picture of female entrepreneurship than the 2-4% of venture capital dollars going to women. That, statistically, is true.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

It represents the great majority of entrepreneurship and eschews the fairytale rags-to-VC-riches stories we so often read about in the press. I blog on entrepreneurship & VC precisely because entrepreneurs and other VCs are my customers. Just not the kind you would initially read about on TechCrunch.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 6, 2013

It’s a great one about entrepreneurship, friendship and the collaborative economy that is helping families in need across the world. Monitor had a little internal VC group so he got some experience there. More like a temporary VC just to get some experience and of course we’d pay him. That’s a fact.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 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. Stéphane Nasser is co-founder of OpenVC , an open-source initiative to collect and analyze all VC theses. VC websites by David Teten and Sam Sabin , co-founder of Hireblue.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

As a nation we know the benefits of encouraging entrepreneurship across backgrounds: Entrepreneurs create jobs, spark innovation and allow us to maintain our position as the most competitive nation on the planet. In the traditional Silicon Valley way, I would take one introduction and turn it into another. Image Credits: Supplied.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

Over the past decade, venture capital has become synonymous with entrepreneurship. But what if you don’t have unicorn dreams – or you don’t want to pursue VC money? It requires patience and focus, but the freedom to create a meaningful product, on your terms, is worth more than even the biggest VC check. Keep your day job.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

OCTOBER 25, 2021

When you look at the recent Q3 numbers on seed and early-stage VC fundraising, you might think we are in the late stages of a VC bubble: The words I would use to describe the current environment in early-stage VC are “fast and furious.”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Sopoong , a social impact-focused VC, intends to support environmentally minded tech founders in South Korea and Southeast Asia, while building a bridge between Korean conglomerates and startups in the sector. On top of the accelerator, the firm also launched a six-month fellowship program to foster climate tech entrepreneurship.

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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.” The post How to Fix a Racially Biased Venture Capital Model and Commit to Diversity in Entrepreneurship appeared first on StartupNation.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2021

David Teten is founder of Versatile VC and writes periodically at teten.com and @dteten. Jamie Finney is a founding partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund , where he blogs about his work on VC and small communities. From traditional equity VC, flexible VC borrows the option to pursue and reap the rewards of an outsized exit.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

I’ve learnt how to slice the equity pie for VC investors, and gained so much insight about the still male-dominated tech world from this successful tech business veteran. Let’s keep our focus on the end goal, which is to get 50–50 equality in entrepreneurship and pave the way for our children and future generations of leaders.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 17, 2012

But honestly there are times when being a VC can feel like that, too. If you’re new to entrepreneurship let me be the first to tell you that this myopic view will get you exactly nowhere. And that’s why it’s super important to reference check your VC as I wrote in the linked post. Not possible.

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The Seraf Compass

MAY 4, 2022

He is also a professor of finance and entrepreneurship at INSPER in São Paulo, and member of the Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Seed Capital Committee of the Brazilian Association for PE & VC. Daniel Ibri is the Co-Founder and General Partner at Mindset Ventures, which invests in early-stage startups from Israel and USA.

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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

Our findings confirmed a significant shift away from the traditional tech hubs of the Bay Area, New York City, and Boston, with the proportion of seed- and early-stage VC dollars funneling into the Bay Area falling below 30% for the first time in more than a decade. Storytelling is our biggest export.”

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

I remember about fifteen years ago, a well-known VC said to me “you need to sell a company within a few years of the founder leaving. ” I told that VC that my experience has been different on that measure and that I did not agree. Companies can’t sustain their innovation after a founder leaves.”

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StartupNation

JANUARY 6, 2022

Venture capital or VC. The popularity of business incubators has grown in recent years because more people are interested in supporting entrepreneurship. The post From VC to DeFi: 6 Realistic Ways to Fund Your Startup in 2022 appeared first on StartupNation. Angel investment. Decentralized crowdfunding. New fintech loans.

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Founder Bounty

JANUARY 12, 2023

Entrepreneurship is about feeling people before you get into bed with them. Very few solo entrepreneurs raise capital alone and YC ( of the best early stage VC;s for pre seed investments) out there hardly takes solo entprenreurs for a reason. Top VC's recommend 50, 50 between you are your co founder if there are 2 of you.

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Revolution

OCTOBER 25, 2023

We’ve read plenty of articles on the movement of tech talent and the surge of American entrepreneurship , but seeing that momentum in person is a different kind of invigorating. Here’s a snapshot of the stops and connections we made in Q3. Where we went: Houston, TX? Where we went: Bozeman, MT?

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2022

The storied venture firm is known to react to macroeconomic events with grand memos aimed at portfolio companies and sometimes the entrepreneurship scene at large. Sequoia takes things seriously. Most recently, Sequoia created a 52-slide deck, first reported by The Information , titled “Adapting to Endure.”

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

APRIL 21, 2021

A well-known entrepreneur turned VC, who will go unnamed because I am not sure he would want me to share this conversation publicly, once told me “if you remove a founder, you must sell the company within a couple of years or it will start to decline in value.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2021

“Investors see a lot of pitches,” VC and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman noted. “In We used what we know about language and healthy communication from the millions of documents we’ve processed at Writer to come up with 11 words and phrases to remove from your VC pitch deck: Negative associations.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Charlie Graham-Brown is the partner and Chief Investments Officer of Seedstars , a Swiss-based group with a mission to impact people’s lives in emerging markets through technology and entrepreneurship. Global VCs have invested $268.7 Global VCs have invested $268.7 “Smart money” and the VC platform.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MARCH 28, 2022

So I saw this tweet by Semil Shah yesterday: A friend who works in an industry far from tech startups & VC asked what would be the single article I’d share to read on each topic. It is about how a VC can compete and win a deal that many others want. That is a failure of the system. But this post is not about that.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 11, 2014

I''m super proud of Rob, Ben and the whole Backupify team--and this is particularly special for me because Backupify was the first investment I ever made as a VC, and the first board I ever sat on. We used to chat a fair amount via our respective blogs about management and entrepreneurship.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

The idea is simple enough: several female VC partners at top funds will hold 1-hour meetings with 40 promising female entrepreneurs looking to get advice on their business and pitch in a friendly, non-judgmental, safe environment. 8% of VC partnerships, for example). With 8% of partners at VC firms being female?—?we

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

I saw Dan Primack assert that the venture capitalist’s customer is their limited partners in this tweet about the Citizen app, the recap, and their VCs: Regular reminder that, ultimately, VC funds works for their limited partners, not for their portfolio companies. link] I encourage everyone to read that post. USV TEAM POSTS:

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 13, 2023

How can venture capitalists promote human sustainability in entrepreneurship? We know startups are bad for mental health. Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook »

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Andrew Chan is a senior associate at Builders VC , investing in early-stage companies that are transforming pen and paper industries. Gen Z VCs have raised funds, garnered social media followings and profited from the Gen Z mentality. Andrew Chan. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Objectively speaking, and much to my chagrin, I’m a Gen Z.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2021

As a VC, one of the key things I’m looking for in any new investor is “product-founder fit” e.g. does this founder have an insight or advantage that makes them uniquely suited to successfully build this product and business? Why Did I Invest in Trust?

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

We have collected a wide range of freebies, contests, accelerators, online communities, and VCs designed for student tech founders. I have been researching this both to support Versatile VC ’s portfolio companies and also as part of research for my new book, To University and Beyond: Launch Your Career in High Gear. 1) Your school.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2020

However, the research shows a possible interesting trend away from the VC-backed startups of the last 10 years. Admittedly, “ GitHub stars” are not a totally perfect metric to measure the product-market fit of open-source companies. China is building a GitHub alternative called Gitee.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JUNE 25, 2020

The board diversity problem is a symptom of a much broader problem around lack of diversity in founders that get funded and lack of diversity in VC firms. Most startup boards are made up of a few founders and a few VCs. While that is better than nothing, it is not good enough. No wonder you have no diversity on the board.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

VC investment, according to “Beyond Silicon Valley,” a new report co-produced by venture firm Revolution and PitchBook. VC dollars have gone to Bay Area startups. But that was a long time ago. In recent years, Bay Area startups have accounted for a smaller percentage of U.S. So far in 2021, only about 27% of U.S.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JULY 27, 2020

This suggests to me that we will see tech entrepreneurship and innovation move even more broadly around the US and around the world this decade and The Startup Community Way can be a playbook for how to make that happen. The timing of this book is excellent.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 25, 2013

That's why I thought it fitting to feature some of the key buildings where people are innovating in Brooklyn, or where they soon will be, and helping ensure Brooklyn's future as the preeminent destination for creative entrepreneurship. 33 Flatbush. Picture: Benjamin Norman for The New York Times. via Brownstoner.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

Lorena Suarez, one of the managing partners of Argentina-based Alaya Capital , a 10-year-old early-stage VC firm, invests in impact-driven startups from Spanish-speaking Latin America. Rebecca Szkutak covered Conscience VC , interviewing Ariana Thacker about her firm that invested in consumer companies with a science edge.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2022

Women in VC have caught the entrepreneurial bug. Over the past year, numerous notable women investors have left their roles at established firms to launch funds of their own.

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