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. She found non-traditional financing. Without this money she wouldn’t have been able to finance operations. She hasn’t raised any venture capital. More on that later.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Choices and constraints: How DTC companies decide which strategy to follow. ” Choices and constraints: How DTC companies decide which strategy to follow. .” ” Choices and constraints: How DTC companies decide which strategy to follow. “And right now, it doesn’t feel really sound out there.”.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

Founded in 2014, Blossom Finance was first intended for Muslim entrepreneurs in the United States. But founder Matthew Joseph Martin soon realized that the startup, backed by investors like Boost VC and Tim Draper, was serving a relatively niche market in the States. Indonesia emerged as the best choice. out of its 33.6

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The round was led by Zayn Capital; London-based investment firm, MSA Novo; global fund manager and Graph Ventures; an early-stage VC from Silicon Valley. The seed round is the largest seed financing round in the South Asian market leapfrogging Tag, a banking and financial services platform that raised $12 million last year. “We

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Pre-seed round funding is under scrutiny: Is VC pandemic posturing here to stay? From your first meeting with a VC to money in the bank, a seed round takes on average 18.5 Having very clear data on where VCs focus their time on pitch decks or in meetings will guide you to deliver a finely tuned pitch to the right investor.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

So it’s really hard to draw too many conclusions about whether the investment really makes sense because often you learn stuff in the fund raising about the future strategy of the company that might make you much more excited than somebody on the outside might be. Peer-to-peer lending is back! Others I have not.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2022

Companies that have high recurring revenue and visibility into future performance — such as SaaS startups — in particular can benefit from debt financings, Alex points out. . Once Founderpath has visibility into a startup’s finances, the company can receive an offer “in under 2 to 3 minutes,” Latka says. Enter Founderpath.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

Jay Kapoor is a general partner at VSC Ventures, where he invests in seed and early-stage companies, helping them break out with value-add support on PR, content, and media strategy. VC has changed a lot since I was pounding the pavement on Sand Hill Road as a young entrepreneur in the late ’90s.

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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. He was at a low point: overwhelmed, sleep deprived, stressed… I listened, nodded, and said, “I remember those days.” And I do remember them. It took years before my startup Anchor began to gain real traction.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JULY 17, 2019

The number one challenge women face is a significant disadvantage in securing access to venture capital funding compared to their male peers. Ask for More - Gloria Kolb, CEO and co-founder of Elidah and mentor at UConn's Technology Incubation Program shared with Business News Daily that women need to change their pitching strategies.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

See How to negotiate a partner role at a VC or private equity firm.) At Versatile VC , we’ve used all these models. However, historically most private equity professionals were former investment bankers and other finance professionals. Would you like to work with private equity and venture capital funds? Expert Networks.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

Aimed at managers, this post offers several testable strategies that will help you boost productivity and say goodbye to poorly run, lazily planned meetings. Aimed at managers, this post offers several testable strategies that will help you boost productivity and say goodbye to poorly run, lazily planned meetings. Walter Thompson.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2013

I know because I marked the occasion with a blog post on how to have a great VC meeting. My internal compass has always steered me strongly toward the belief that founders who can scale with their startup companies are better to back that founders who eventually need to hire a CEO. It’s your baby. You took the biggest leap of faith.

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Both Sides of the Table

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. He says it basically comes down to three key functions: Sets the overall vision and strategy of the company and communicates it to all stakeholders. Both are basically people businesses. Selling the company.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

We also reached out to Dale Chang, operating partner at Scale Venture Partners, which aggregates data of its own via its Scale Studio ; and to Matt Cohen from Canadian VC firm Ripple Ventures. With capital in abundance, SaaS startups don’t seem to be too worried about how much runway they have remaining. ” OpenView Partners.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

And of course I’ve sat on the other side of the table: As a VC. This is not just the perspective of a VC although I can’t say I have zero VC bias. This is not just the perspective of a VC although I can’t say I have zero VC bias. I never suggest that entrepreneurs just randomly pitch VCs.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2021

Beier Cai, co-founder & CTO, Greg Gunn, co-founder & CEO, Tiffany Jung, VP, Strategy & Ops Image Credits: Commit. Accomplice led the round , with participation from Kensington Capital Partners, Inovia and Garage Capital. . They raised money, but their biggest challenge was getting an engineer to join them,” Gunn explained.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

2021 saw phenomenal returns for our industry and it topped off more than a decade of unprecedented VC growth. Photo by Scott Clark for Upfront Ventures (no, Evan is not standing on a box) Last year marked the 25th anniversary for Upfront Ventures and what a year it was.

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Y Combinator

JULY 15, 2019

We recommend getting to know partners at VC firms on your list at least 6 to 9 months before your fundraise. It’s something that provokes anxiety, because this is the first time the founder/CEO is subject to external supervision, and the board has powers that include the firing of the CEO and the senior management. option grants).

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 4, 2019

I use another live Google doc to maintain my database of companies I’m marketing to other VCs. Haystack VC runs almost entirely on Notion. (To see the video above, please click the image, and then click on the Play button.). When I was single, I registered for (a lot of) dating websites. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I use another live Google doc to maintain my database of companies I’m marketing to other VCs. (To see the video above, please click the image, and then click on the Play button.). Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . 1) Manage the firm .

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2022

Barely a day goes by without news of layoffs emerging from the tech world — from cybersecurity to gaming , no industry is impervious. On top of that, there is no geographical factor at play, with companies spanning North America , Europe , Asia , Africa and beyond all impacted. capital in recent months. capital in recent months.

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TechCrunch

MAY 7, 2021

Part 2: Product-led growth strategy “ The product-led growth behind edtech’s most downloaded app ” (3,000 words/12 minutes) — analyzes the tactics and tradeoffs that an edtech company has to evaluate as it grows from thousands to 500 million registered learners. Want this kind of coverage on a different company or sector. Thanks for reading!

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

The easiest way to work with and for VC funds is to become a part-time scout, getting paid for sourcing investments. How to find a job as a VC scout. VC recruiters list and compensation data. How to negotiate a partner role at a VC or private equity firm. Syllabus for how to launch, manage, and invest a VC fund.

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

Will the next company to raise $100M in financing just poach from decent seed-stage companies and pay triple the amount to lock up talent? Well, that time has finally come. As a warning, this post will have more subheading than usual, and it will be packed with lots of links — please click through and read them. Here goes….

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Most of this discussion is about ‘playing offense’ — working towards being a good steward of LP capital and the risk/reward associated with VC. Primary Thoughts About Secondary Transactions. As my man Kenny Rogers sang …. These are all rare, but real, and fortunately not anything we’ve dealt with in our firm.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Source: DocSend At DocSend , we spend a lot of time analyzing the data behind what it takes for startup founders to market their ideas, land meetings with VCs, and in turn source and close deals?—?from from pre-seed to Series A. or really, jump on the Zoom meeting. But does it make sense to cast a wide net and contact as many LPs as possible?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 30, 2016

We did what many VC funds did – we presented our annual results, we stood up and talked about our portfolio companies, we invited a few to also present and then we had dinner & drinks at some posh restaurant. So I decided to change up our format a bit. Here’s a short sample of what we now do. I had a few objectives in mind.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

I asked him if he’d be willing to allow me to interview him for This Week in VC and we filmed it in the offices of Stack Overflow – his new company. This ended up developing into Visual Basic for Applications , the strategy for programmability in Microsoft Office. But I loved reading them and so did my team.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

Interestingly, many years later, Square would use other innovative “cash giveaway” strategies to steal market share from Paypal (in addition to copying the give $5, get $5 model ). “As they say in poker, ‘If you’ve been in the game 30 minutes and you don’t know who the patsy is, you’re the patsy.‘” Warren Buffet, 1997. Billions of dollars.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

The reality is that cryptocurrencies can be both and can be liberating and corrupting at the same time. So I’m going to try and do a single sitting riff of how I’ve viewed the topic as I’ve watched the cheerleaders & naysayers from the sidelines. It’s pretty tough to have a view on cryptocurrency if you don’t have a history of currency.

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