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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NOVEMBER 15, 2020

In late 2018, the company raised $75 million Series C from Sequoia, arguably the top VC firm in the world. After being largely ignored by Valley investors (the biggest checks in her seed, Series A, and Series B came from men on the East Coast), she finally found support from the VC elite. VC David Sacks tweeted “??

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JULY 27, 2017

Make references to founders you've backed available upon request. Does the VC need to call a special partner meeting because you already have three term sheets or is this the beginning? I know you want to move fast, but don't make a VC prioritize your timing when I'm literally the first meeting.

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JUNE 21, 2014

When you’re hiring most reference checkers focus on the person’s former bosses. Just literally this week I had breakfast with a guy giving a reference who said, “He’s brilliant. In fact, just a short Google search reveals that I’ve referred to him frequently through the years. But he knows it.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 6, 2022

There are fantastic rewards to be had for those who know how to exploit the new opportunities for business funding that arise in times like these. Venture capital or VC. New fintech companies like Biz2Credit and Fundbox provide small businesses and startups with excellent new opportunities. The status quo is being challenged.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

David Teten is founder of Versatile VC and writes periodically at teten.com and @dteten. Akshat Dixit is a senior at North Carolina State University, an intern at Versatile VC , and a past intern with the HBS Alumni Angels Association and the Innovation Quarter in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Scouts help promote diversity in VC.

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DECEMBER 17, 2012

But honestly there are times when being a VC can feel like that, too. And at moments of crisis or moments of great opportunity it can often be a small group of people surrounding you who help move you carefully across a winding pass and on to greatness. When everything went up-and-to-the-right of course they loved their VCs.

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OCTOBER 26, 2020

She worked for 5 years as a VC at Battery Ventures and co-headed M&A at IAC working with Barry Diller. In any job you either find leadership opportunities for your best people BEFORE they ask or other people start asking them to become leaders somewhere else. I promise you, he really said this out loud.) So why now?

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MARCH 25, 2013

Back in 2006, when I started working on putting together some community groups for entrepreneurs and tech people, I looked for a better name to reference this collection of people. Three companies from the Studiomates community-- Sherpaa , Tinybop , and Editorially --received VC dollars in 2012. 33 Flatbush. via Brownstoner.

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JUNE 5, 2016

Non VC Growth Rounds. The other major trend of 2012–2015 was the entrance of “non VCs” into late-stages of venture capital , which mostly consisted of hedge funds, mutual funds, corporate investors, sovereign wealth funds and even LPs doing direct deals. The fact that I still see it referred to in pitch decks is farcical.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

African startups, for example, were long ignored by the global VC scene, with totals for the continent’s upstart technology companies representing a fraction of a fraction of the funds made available to other regions’ next-generation companies. .”

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FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Equally, I encouraged entrepreneurs to spend time getting to know their future VCs early because getting a feel for your chemistry is far more important than how the VC is ranked in some survey. Equally, I encouraged entrepreneurs to thoroughly reference check their VCs – you’ll learn much more from this than anything else.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Here are a few key things I’ve learned: While VCs work with entrepreneurs, they often need reminders to be entrepreneurial themselves—to strive to take on new projects that create community (and exclusive deal flow), teach them something new, or help them stand out. In fact, why wasn’t he just putting a term sheet on the table now?

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MAY 23, 2010

VC’s money comes from mostly institutional investors called LPs (limited partners). They trust the judgment of the VCs to source, finance, help manage and then create some sort of exit for the investments that they make. They also trust VC’s to determine the right price to pay for the company securities that they buy.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

(co-written with Katherine Boe Heuck , a MBA candidate at MIT Sloan (class of 2022); past intern at Versatile VC ; and a current intern at Metaprop NYC.). We reviewed CB Insights’ global list of “40 of the Best VC Bets of all Time.” For funds with an overall return of 3-5x, which is what VC funds aim for, the overall return was 4.6x

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FEBRUARY 21, 2010

I sometimes refer to this field as “intent-based advertising&# because the reason it has been so successful is that the person who typed in the search term has expressed an “intent&# to find information on that category. They are detail oriented, cost focused, quality obsessed and chasing a big market opportunity.

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TechCrunch

MAY 29, 2022

A data infrastructure investment she worked on at Canvas revealed to her the opportunity in the web3 space for companies to “share data immutably at scale,” motivating her pivot to crypto, she said. Before joining Lux this February, Isford was an investor at Canvas Ventures focused on enterprise software and fintech.

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Revolution

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

It was an opportunity to generate significant returns, momentum for rising startup markets, and innovation that would strengthen America’s dynamism and competitiveness. Louis AgriBusiness Club : The organization offers networking opportunities that bring together various stakeholders in the AgTech sector. Let’s get into it.

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David Teten VC

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

It’s hard enough to raise capital from VC, private equity fund, and family offices. The vastly larger universe of B2B companies, many of which have teams focused on pushing VC and private equity funds to evangelize their product to their portfolio. See my list of due diligence questions for VC and private equity funds. .

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FEBRUARY 26, 2016

And more recently he has turned that into a fund called CrossCulture VC such that many in Silicon Valley and beyond now know Troy as well. Influencers are inundated with requests for their time and have to develop filters of whom they trust and therefore who can refer them deals. He said that. Or even three weeks ago.”

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MARCH 30, 2016

We knew better than to start funding raising in August, when larger VC firms have a harder time assembling full decision teams – so in August we would plan and September we would commence. Many VC firms expressed interest, nearly every one took a meeting and several called Mark and the team back for meetings.

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Startup Catalyst

MARCH 27, 2018

They collaborate and refer to those that play their specific role. People here are incredibly willing to help, to introduce and refer. Doing startups, Angel and VC investing is mainstream. References by startups to Australian customers and competitors don’t resonate with US investors and corporates unless they know them.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

The team will be great and reference well. And hair can get in the way of an otherwise financeable opportunity. In a perfect world, everything about a potential investment will be confidence inducing. The market will be huge. The technology will be well developed. The price and terms will be attractive. But the world is not perfect.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2022

“The Central Bank has been doing a tremendous job and Pix is one of the most relevant structural changes,” Brazilian VC Bruno Yoshimura told TechCrunch when we wrote about Latin America’s fintech boom. But now, VCs and founders are actually praising the Central Bank for its initiatives and the opportunities it has created.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 1, 2022

Perfect pitch, a singer’s ability to produce any given musical note without a reference tone, is a rare phenomenon — only 1-5 people out of every 10,000 have it. While your odds of creating a perfect pitch deck that captures coveted VC interest aren’t quite that dire, they’re not exactly in your favor, either.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

A typical VC might see 500 opportunities cross his or her desk every year; for larger, more prominent ones it could be 2,000. VCs therefore use whatever heuristics they can in order to triage the deal flow. That means they spend a lot less time actively seeking out new deals than they do responding to inbound deal flow.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

It’s an opportune moment to launch a new company, but rising interest rates, inflation and any other number of unknown factors could make investors more judicious when it comes to placing bets. How to find a job as a scout for a VC firm. How to find a job as a scout for a VC firm. @yourprotagonist.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

In particular, StartHER aims to tackle the difficulties specific groups have in raising their first capital — something typically referred to as the “friends and family round.” It’s our opportunity to finally level the playing field. Despite gains, gender diversity in VC funding struggled in 2020.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

Over the years, the angel network has based its infrastructure on syndicates — investment vehicles that allow investors, referred to as backers, to co-invest with prominent investors — known as leaders. Investzilla is focused on unlocking that opportunity for them.”

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

If you can be part of that new trend at the very beginning, it gives you a big opportunity,” he said. The round was led by TheVentureCity, with participation from SOSV, Riot Games, Conscience VC, Corner3 VC and others. ” 8 investors discuss social gaming’s biggest opportunities.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

This is the realm of venture capital professional investors, with funding amounts of $1-10 million, often referred to as the “A-round,” or first institutional funding. This is the final stage of investment in venture opportunities, and is the point where investors expect to see the return and gain from the original investment.

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Gust

JULY 23, 2014

So even if my own mother asked me to meet with you, and you were pitching me a biotech opportunity for a $10 million investment at a $90 million valuation, I might take the meeting, but it wouldn’t be particularly useful for either of us. This might work because I often feel guilty if I don’t respond to a legitimate referral.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 5, 2021

(co-written with Katherine Boe Heuck , a MBA candidate at MIT Sloan (class of 2022); past intern at Versatile VC ; and a current intern at Metaprop NYC.). We reviewed CB Insights’ global list of “40 of the Best VC Bets of all Time.” Why are all of the VC home runs from white men, or Asian men in Asia, plus a few Asian men in the U.S.?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2021

This helps prevent “greenwashing,” a term that refers to making something seem more environmentally-friendly or sustainable than it really is. European VC funds are building community around ESG initiatives.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 19, 2018

That was about a half year after we raised the first million in VC. Testdrive and check references with the team. Testdrive and check references with the team. Giving the team the opportunity to weigh in and even veto showed that the organization takes employees’ input seriously. As early as possible.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 25, 2023

Register Venture capital firm Goodwater has concluded its latest funding round, raising $1 billion in capital commitments for its fifth early-stage and third opportunity-style funds. There is no cut-off period, and Goodwater refers to this process as “open enrollment.” With this successful raise, the firm now manages $3.3

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Today it’s announcing a $12 million seed raise, led by Outsiders Fund and featuring additional investments from Bain Capital Ventures, 8VC and Liquid2 VC. In addition to funding, the service is also using the opportunity to launch in beta. Of course, engineers will always have control over what they share and publish.

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