TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

What sets Staax apart, though, is that it allows for peer-to-peer payments in stock. For better or for worse, Robinhood helped inspire a new generation of investors to enter the stock market. Oftentimes, the barriers to investing are logistical, she explained. Image Credit: Haje Kamps / TechCrunch.

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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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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 29, 2012

With a little patience, forethought, and strategy, you can avoid angel burnout. Being a good angel or VC has a lot to do with pattern matching. A mutual fund manager won't give you their portfolio strategy but most seed funds love having a network of angels to syndicate deals with. 3) Start with funds. 4) Journal your progress.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 7, 2014

Contrast that with a VC conversation I had. In case you don’t know – as VCs we have have 2 sets of customers: LPs (limited partners) who invest money in our funds and entrepreneurs (who we in turn give money to and help support them in building businesses we hope will be valuable). If they want to invest that’s great.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Every year I try to answer the question of “what has changed in the Venture Capital industry” and this year my colleague Chang Xu and I took a deep dive through the data and called many of our peers for confirmation. If you want the whole deck you can find it on SlideShare but I’ve written up a short summary with commentary below.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2016

Dan asked Fred about “generational change” at USV and in the VC industry more broadly. And thankfully I had the support of my peers. It’s 25 minutes and it’s both a pleasure to watch and is super insightful. But there was another element that was very subtle and nicely handled that I’d like to expand upon.

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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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Hunter Walk

APRIL 21, 2025

But I’ve also seen a few change quite dramatically based upon the progressing ‘game on the field’ and my own VC experiences. One example is whether it’s assumed that seed VCs maximize outcomes by religiously holding their shares until the company itself exits. I mean, we’re investors, not traders, right?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2014

After my first Tweet with the Notorious mothafucka quote , I thought about my role as a VC and I Tweeted the following. We all intuitively know how important human connections are in business but for many people it’s like exercise or eating well – one of those things you keep meaning to get around to. Whom to Meet?

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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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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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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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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. The good news is the industry is working to improve itself. Intentionality associated with improved diversity.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Actually, I think the best analogy for a social media strategy looks something more like this: If you’ve never seen The Price is Right’s Plinko game, it’s highly entertaining. A lot of people ask me what I think of posting to Twitter these days… (I’ll start calling it X as soon as I learn to stop saying Battery Tunnel and Triborough Bridge).

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

This is important because when you have too many VCs on a board you only bring one kind of thinking to the board. Independents are critical to avoiding “VC group think.” Industry Expertise You don’t need a peer from another startup as your independent?—?you you can build that with your personal peer network.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Freeman, a queer, non-binary person of color, told TechCrunch they didn’t see any wellness products that spoke to them or their peers, but rather to the majority of cisgender people. “As Freeman’s strategy is to gather ideas from For Them’s community and produce what they need. I wanted to dig in and see how to change the narrative.”.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

His passion for filmmaking led to the creation of J Rental Centre, a peer-to-peer rental platform born out of a desire to maximize the utility of accumulated camera equipment. Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

Goodwater Capital, Dubai Future District Fund, Rebel Fund, Trampoline Venture Partners, Zemu VC, a number of prominent European family offices, and strategic angel investors participated in the latest round. The new funding follows the $1 million pre-seed backing it secured in February this year. Image Credits : Zywa.

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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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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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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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David Teten VC

MAY 19, 2021

Rob Leclerc, Founding Partner, AgFunder , said, “We think of ourselves as a media company with VC as a business model. One of the best business models ever is creating a marketplace between investors and investment opportunities. However, the challenge with this two-sided market is: how do you get the investors to show up?

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

AI Generated Image The beautiful truth about the game of VC is that it consistently rewards difference. Because, in turn, these GPs will back more founders who are different, which will lead to more outlier returns, which ultimately leads to more products and services that change the world. [ Andre Charoo , Maple VC ] [hunter: 100% agree.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 20, 2018

Maybe this is reverse “hanging around the rim” where if you keep you VC process going long enough you’ll eventually get to “yes?” I believe people generally hate making decisions and especially so when they involve commitments and risks. When somebody has to tell you no, the potential investor must: Feel discomfort of letting you down.

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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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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. “We While just beginning to emerge, Pakistani fintechs have the advantage of learning from peers and placing better informed strategic bets. Image Credits: NayaPay.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2023

According to Oleksandr Yaroshenko, head of investments and strategy at edtech startup Headway, engagement rates for existing customers are “the best predictors for resubscription.” A robotic taxi drove me home a few nights ago, and it was just fine. Is robotics mainstream now? How do I make sense of the Visa Bulletin?

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 12, 2017

VCs are at the forefront of technological disruption, funding many of the latest cutting edge productivity tools. The VC landscape has gotten much more competitive and crowded over the past several years, and if investors are not using software tools?—?they But what tools are they using themselves to automate their own processes?

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2023

Navin Chaddha , the storied investor running Mayfield Fund , doesn’t want to be running a billion-dollar fund like many of his peers. We want to be who we are: just copying somebody else is strategy for disaster, strategy for failure.” “We Everyone wants to be Sequoia or a16z,” he said, in an interview with TechCrunch. “We

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

They have executed against a strategy while many of their supposed peers have done very irrational deals, impaired shareholder value, etc. Cannabis has always been essential to some. We saw early signs of that in our cannabis investor survey back in May of 2020. It’s going to be fun!” It’s going to be fun!

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Haystack

JANUARY 12, 2020

Over the past decade, many newer LPs (those who back VC funds) have entered the market, and as those LPs get more comfortable with their GPs, they may also want to put more money to work with them, especially when they get a taste of early stage returns. 2/ Financial Consideration s – When investment firms grow, so do fees.

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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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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2022

I’m a VC now, but my five CIO stints over the past two decades have taught me plenty about the before and after of the enterprise sales process. From there, you’ll have better insight into whether the product you’ve built fits into the overarching strategy the CIO has put into place. Yousuf Khan is a partner at Ridge Ventures.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Here’s Part V: VC is a profession! Here’s Part V: VC is a profession! I asked some investor friends to share, as the title suggests, one thing they wished people better understood about venture capital. Reporting out in batches of five. Patience, optimism, and a little bit of blind faith are required to be good at the craft.

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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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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 16, 2023

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. There were sleepless nights and drastic pivots, crashed servers and bad bugs. Their answers are below. Don’t beat yourself up about them.

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