TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Former Lightspeed partner Amy Wu made waves this year when she left the VC firm to lead startup investments out of a new $2 billion fund at Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto powerhouse FTX. TechCrunch Crypto Pitch-Off. But which crypto companies, protocols and projects will be compliant within the current regulatory framework?

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Tomasz Tunguz

APRIL 1, 2013

Business : In some form, I walk through the Business Model Generation framework: value proposition, key activities, key partners, major assets, channels of distribution, customer segments, cost structure and revenue streams. Pitch-it-myself test : I stop a few partners in the office and give them the pitch to test their reactions.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

I think it’s the best framework for executive hiring that I’ve seen. The mission is the elevator pitch. ” And so that framework helps think that through before you start talking to folks, which I think is very smart. Many founders I’ve worked with are like, “well, that’s why you’re here.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 3, 2009

This is part of my ongoing Raising Venture Capital (VC) series. So I thought I’d try to lay out a framework for how you should think about it as many you will inevitably be faced with this experience. OK, I know this is true with VC also, but to a lesser extent. The topic of &# strategic&# investors came up.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 30, 2021

These “VCs for investment management companies” are also known as GP Stake investors or fund platforms. According to DocSend , “About half the VC firms in our survey had an anchor LP for their fund, and the average percentage that an anchor LP took in a first-time fund was 25%. Fundraising hacks for VC and private equity funds.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 16, 2021

If you have a great idea within the open-core framework, expect your risks to be much lower than with a traditional business structure. Founder and investor Melissa Bradley outlines how to nail your virtual pitch meeting. At TechCrunch Early Stage, she led a session on how to nail your virtual pitch meeting.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The team behind the app, which is comprised of 30% PhDs, has been working on the core privacy vs convenience problem for some six years (though the company was only founded in 2017); initially as an academic research project — going on to offer an open source framework for masked federated learning, called XayNet.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

When this first ran on TechCrunch I got the greatest comment in the world that I had to repeat here, “VC’s are like martinis: the first is good, the second one great, and the third is a headache.&# I understand the appeal of having many VC firms on your cap table. I love that. And it’s kind of true.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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Angel Capital Association

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

What often makes the framework challenging for companies seeking to fundraise is that each of the exemptions has its unique combination of conditions. Although the exemptions remain complex, the changes provide incremental improvement to the existing framework. Almost all of the new rules should become effective early next year.

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Ian Hathaway

MARCH 31, 2020

No one tells this story better than Harvard Business School professor Tom Nicholas in his recent book VC: An American History. Draper’s firm, Draper & Johnson Investment Company, was co-founded with Franklin “Pitch” Johnson, who went on to found many high-tech companies over an illustrious career. government policy.

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