Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

Picking a VC is hard. So I thought I’d write about out with what I would look for in a VC knowing what I know now and why. Most VCs are book smart. VCs should be more of a coach than proscriptively telling you what to do. You want a VC who will spar with you but then STFU and let you get on with things.

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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. I’ve heard it called “moral leadership.”

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

In the VC insider baseball world a discussion has gone on about “VC platforms” over the past 5 or so years. While firms define platforms differently, let’s just say they are the services that a VC offers outside of investment capital and partner time on boards or providing intros.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Whether you’re in the idea stage or building on the friends-and-family plan or preparing to pitch investors, it’s imperative to understand the shifting VC funding landscape as you plan for future growth. Her global background includes entrepreneurial ventures, corporate executive leadership and management consulting.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 6, 2021

ThoughtSpot CEO Sudheesh Nair shared some of his thoughts about building a sturdy leadership team and drafted a thorough checklist for entrepreneurs who are putting a crew together. 5 factors founders must consider before choosing their VC. 5 factors founders must consider before choosing their VC. His initial advice?

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JUNE 20, 2019

Early promotion into adulthood is often painful and equally often a sign of an early promotion into leadership. Take any random group of entrepreneurs, for example, and do a quick unscientific survey by asking them to raise their hands if they grew up in an environment where at least one parent had disappeared or left or was never present.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Mar Hershenson , co-founder and managing partner at Pear VC. Mar Hershenson co-founded and serves as managing partner at Pear VC, a seed-stage investment firm in Palo Alto backing companies like Guardant Health, DoorDash, Gusto, Aurora Solar and Branch. She is also a founding member of All Raise and the Equity Summit.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Our hope for the coalition is that it inspires those in positions of leadership to find their voice right now. More than 70 VC firms join VCs for Repro coalition to support reproductive rights by Dominic-Madori Davis originally published on TechCrunch. And then to follow that with action.”. Already, the reversal of Roe v.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Luis Daniel Arbulú, partner at Salkantay, told TechCrunch via email that the fund is “the country’s largest VC fund” as per PitchBook and Crunchbase data. Kapor Capital, under new leadership, closes its largest fund to date. VC fundraising gets weird as autumn nears. And Eyal Ofer’s O.G.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

You just have to outrun the slowest camper—and in the world of online thought leadership, there are a lot of slow campers. One of my VC coaching clients is looking for a position with a new firm. I’ve never quite related to that way of thinking—mostly because I don’t actually find most online content to be that good.

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StartupNation

JULY 28, 2021

It would be reasonable to assume that VC funding would drop in 2020, especially during the uncertainty of the pandemic. Only about 12% of decision makers at VC firms are women, and of all the partners at these firms, only 2.4% Alternatives to VC funding for female founders. at its all-time high. . However, U.S.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 1, 2023

Because most startups avoided raising in 2022, there will be a glut of startup companies in the market for capital this year and while there is plenty of venture capital sitting on the sidelines waiting to be deployed, VCs will be much more selective, instead of funding everything that moves as we’ve done over the last few years.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

APRIL 15, 2021

Watching Thibs at work is a lesson in leadership. Leadership matters. He sets the tone, expectations are high, players that don’t put in the effort don’t play, no matter who they are. Everyone knows what is expected of them. I have seen this in companies too.

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David Teten VC

MAY 19, 2017

Historically VC has been an apprenticeship business. VC ASSOCIATIONS. No-cost accelerators: Afore Capital Angel to Fund Manager (AFM), Founder Institute VC Lab , Recast Capital Enablement Program – Accelerators with tuition: Oper8r , OnConduit ‘s Emerging Fund Managers Initiative. Reboot VC Bootcamp.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

I’m over-paying for every check I write into the VC ecosystem and valuations are being pushed up to absurd levels and many of these valuations and companies won’t hold in the long term. However, to be a great VC you have to hold two conflicting ideas in your head at the same time. Where are Things Headed for VC in 2031?

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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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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2020

leadership, mentorship, competitiveness, communications, relationship-building?—?and She worked for 5 years as a VC at Battery Ventures and co-headed M&A at IAC working with Barry Diller. Leadership is about recognizing your next generation of talent and helping lift them up. She had all of the skills and traits we sought?—?leadership,

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

I have had the great pleasure of working with Matt Blumberg and the senior leadership team of USV’s former portfolio company Return Path (which was sold in 2019) for much of the last twenty years.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MAY 11, 2020

” He gets pretty emotional and says “Winning has a price and leadership has a price. It also captures the burden of leadership and what is required to get everyone to commit to each other and be the best that they can be. Leadership is not being liked. Leadership is being respected and followed.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

I have a full life of friends and family, a portfolio of investments that I’m working with, an investor coaching business , a thought leadership course , I play softball, ice hockey, compete in triathlons and run a non-profit kayaking program that I started. Do you aspire to be a partner in VC or to break in? Are you fundraising?

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Y Combinator

MARCH 15, 2024

After 8 years as the Managing Director/CEO of the YC accelerator, I’ve decided now is the right time to hand over my leadership responsibilities.  Effective As a result, in January I approached Garry Tan about transitioning out of my leadership role.  After

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

There has been little movement in the amount of VC dollars going to women-founded companies since 2012. Though by no means does this mean that women aren’t doing incredible work in the field and it’s only right that women founders receive their fair share of VC investment. Venture capital is far from a level playing field.

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Revolution

JULY 13, 2023

But the leadership at Scopely executed each transaction and integration — from FoxNext Games to DIGIT Game Studios to PierPlay to GSN Games  — with abundant planning, negotiation, and care. An Acquirer of Choice : Big acquisitions are always challenging, especially for culture-heavy startups.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 9, 2022

I’ve been asked by portfolio companies and plenty of others about how they should be changing their strategy given the stock market pullback and what they’ve been hearing on “VC twitter”. VCs need to invest to make their returns—and eventually, they’ll want to raise the next fund to layer more fees upon more fees. VCs gonna VC.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 16, 2021

Use these resources to understand how your company will look when you pitch a VC or angel. It’s no surprise that salespeople and CEOs have different conversations with customers, but recognizing this played a key role for one EO member: “In hindsight, it was a bad idea that our sales conversations weren’t handled by senior leadership.

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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). Now 33% of Supreme Court Justices are women (vs.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 4, 2021

After all, companies have hired team members remotely, raised equity or VC funding via video calls only , and even participated in mergers and acquisitions without ever meeting in person. Overall, such pandemic-related shifts have opened the door for many new possibilities when it comes to finding the right working model.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 24, 2021

This week, Bill Taranto, president of Merck’s Global Health Innovation Fund, wrote a TechCrunch+ article that explored six digital health trends his corporate VC fund is tracking as we enter 2022. billion in VC, “dwarfing the previous record of $14.6 Between Q1 and Q3 2021, healthcare startups landed $21.3 Capital is a commodity.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Partnering with Elizabeth at Stanford, they addressed the stark gender imbalance and inequity in the VC industry. We both started investing right after and decided to partner to build something that breaks the status quo of the VC industry.” “These diverse local ecosystems teach us so much.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Silicon-Valley based VC firm 500 Global and German’s economic development agency Gesellschaft fu?r The VC firm, previously an accelerator dubbed 500 startups, rebranded to 500 Global a year ago. Global VC Flourish launches Madica, an Africa-focused program to back pre-seed-stage startups.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

With so many entrepreneurs and startup ventures seeking investment opportunities, it’s crucial that venture capitalists (VCs) create a list of criteria they want their potential investments to meet. As such, VCs have to consider a number of factors when choosing which companies or entrepreneurs in whom to invest.

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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. Thank you to my co-author for this essay, Paulina Symala, a Consultant at Oliver Wyman and a past intern of Versatile VC. Would you like to work with private equity and venture capital funds? Expert Networks.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 6, 2024

The Cultural Leadership Fund (CLF) team is often asked by portfolio founders how exactly cultural leaders can be a game-changing asset for their companies. As Kevin Hart said at the Cultural Leadership Summit , “no question gets answered that doesn’t get asked.”

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 4, 2022

I’m the on-paper poster child for “who can get VC dollars”. Will the money have been worth it if you find yourself out on the street, fired from your own company, just a few years later—replaced by some guy that was in the same fraternity as your lead VC? I’d argue that the answer is no, but that’s easy for me to say, right?

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

I believe that the next generation of top companies are far more likely to be founded by people not on VC radars today. You passed on investing in my company but you still made an investment in my leadership and I'm deeply appreciative.”

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

OCTOBER 26, 2020

You must act and replace the failed CEO with whomever is the best option in that moment and work with the new CEO to address the challenges facing the company, many a result of the failed CEO’s poor leadership. I am not a fan of removing the CEO until and unless it is abundantly clear that it must be done. You must remove a failing CEO.

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Revolution

MARCH 8, 2023

Why is it needed?’” “I wish more people asked about the role models that have influenced my leadership style and approach.” What role models or mentors have influenced your leadership style and approach?” “I The Questions Haley Wishes She Were Asked Less: “‘Why do only 2% of VC dollars go to women?’ How does it work?

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