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MAY 23, 2012

This article originally ran on PEHub. I can’t help feel a bit of rear-view mirror analysis in all of “VC model is broken” bears in our industry. What the explosion in startups really means for our industry is a much bigger pipeline of potential deals if we VC’s can be patient. The Funding Problem. The Exit Problem.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

This is the third article in a series on what it takes to be a great angel investor (and why this should matter to entrepreneurs). This is where VC comes in and why it’s needed in the industry no matter how much populist sentiment exists against the VC industry. got picked up early without raising a lot of VC.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2011

All it says is that the VC has the right (but not obligation) to invest his/her proportional ownership in the next round of financing. So at the time that the initial VC funds you they’ll be thinking about protecting this right as depicted in the graphic below. Why would this happen?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

As a VC you want to feel like you have “proprietary sources” of deal flow. There is one source I never liked and no early-stage VC should – investment bankers. Before I tell you my reasons for never doing a deal that a banker intro’d I have to preface by where I think bankers are enormously helpful on VC deals.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 21, 2014

An impressive number of new VCs have been created – most of them with new seed funds. We’ve had an explosion of alternate sources of financing from crowd-sourcing, angels, accelerators, incubators, corporates, corporate incubators. And importantly we’ve had revenue. It’s when the game slows.

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StartupNation

AUGUST 8, 2021

But financing isn’t always easy — especially if you’re the proud founder of a brand new business. You still have plenty of creative financing options to fund your business. You’ll need to think outside the box, but you’re bound to come across your “aha” financing moment in this article.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

I’m enjoying being a VC. I thought I’d talk a bit about the differences I’ve experienced between being an entrepreneur & a VC – you know, from “both sides of the table.&#. Another good article. VC meetings going well. 2 million in VC. And I had all the VCs play head games with me.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

The single best (and most important) article I’ve read on the topic was published today by Joseph Floyd asking whether Black Friday was a DiSaaSter or a Reversion to the Mean. You should read the article but I’ll provide the money shot. The terrible consequence is that some great companies struggle to get financed.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

I pointed to several Economist articles I had read that mapped historical prices of real estate for 400 years and how on average property values grow at no more 1.5% That would mean that the increased number of new business startups will lead to a “funding gap&# of deals that can’t get financed. I avoided much of this.

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MARCH 19, 2013

This article initially appeared on TechCrunch. The era of VCs investing in successful consumer Internet startups such as eBay led to a belief system that seemed to permeate many enterprise software startups that hiring sales or implementation people was a bad thing. That it is non-dilutive financing? I believe it’s flawed.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

VCs strangely never seem to weigh in on other VC funds. As an entrepreneur I never really knew what to make of VC return data. What about those RETURNS the WSJ article spoke of? But more importantly, VC returns are notoriously hard to measure at one point in time. Let me offer you an insider’s take.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 12, 2014

In the old days there weren’t many fights about whether angels would take their prorata rights in financing rounds. Plus, many VC rounds traditionally didn’t guarantee angels prorata rights unless they were “major investors” which often means they wrote large checks in the angel round. Thus begins the dance.

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AUGUST 1, 2010

There has been much discussion about VCs doing seed funding in the past year. I’ve written about it myself (Is VC Seed Funding Dead?) and (Is There Really a Signaling Problem with VC Seed Funding?). There is a structural reason that VCs are investing at early stages, 2. Short summary of my posts: 1.

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OCTOBER 26, 2014

In that article I talked about how PR drives: recruiting, employee retention, biz dev deals, funding and even M&A and that often “attribution” to your PR activities is unknown. The reality is you must be great at HR, PR, finance AND product. ” Many CEOs act like VPs of product or CFOs.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. Use alternative financing to fuel VC-level growth without diluting ownership. Investors are hungry for startups to throw their money at, but VC funding isn’t always the right option at all times or for every startup.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 16, 2021

Jan contributed this article with help from Rhonda Suttle, EO Atlanta executive director, and Thamara Ataide, EO Atlanta marketing manager. Use these resources to understand how your company will look when you pitch a VC or angel. The Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) exists to help entrepreneurs achieve their full potential.

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MARCH 6, 2011

I was saying that I was happy it was all out in the open because I felt at least everybody could now understand the issues & opportunities from the perspectives of angels, entrepreneurs and VCs. Let’s be clear: AngelList doesn’t scare a single VC I know. I’ve known Dave for years, long before he or I were VCs.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

This article initially appeared on TechCrunch - with a minor update highlighted in red below. Was Paul Graham right in his “high resolution” financing post? They’ll get priced soon enough by a VC.” We’re back to discussing convertible debt again. Some thoughts on raising angel money.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

article in a series on what it takes to be a great angel investor (and why this should matter to entrepreneurs). After that it’s domain experience, access to VCs and deep pockets. We talked about her desire to sell the company for personal reasons rather than raise a large round of VC. I agreed to help.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

This article originally appeared on TechCrunch. I acknowledged this in the article. I said both in the article but felt compelled to provide a statement up front for the skimmers. That’s the deal you get when you’re raising in a good market for startup financing. I’m a VC so I have an obvious bias.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 26, 2020

Nathan Heller published an article called Is Venture Capital Worth the Risk? Second, as competition has intensified, VC funds have invested in platforms (we call it founder experience at Redpoint). Also, more venture firms and startups are choosing debt as a non-dilutive financing alternative. in the New Yorker.

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APRIL 21, 2010

In addition to the P2P deals covered below, on the show we also talked about some of my favorite financing startups ( Wonga in the UK run by Errol Damelin , who is a superstar) and Affordit.com run by serial (and I mean serial!) Tags: This Week in Venture Capital VC Industry. Do you know more about any of these deals?

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 21, 2019

Most founders who are raising capital look first to traditional equity VCs. Revenue-Based Investing (“RBI”) is a new form of VC financing, distinct from the preferred equity structure most VCs use. Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

Does the traditional VC financing model make sense for all companies? VC Josh Kopelman makes the analogy of jet fuel vs. motorcycle fuel. VCs sell jet fuel which works well for jets; motorcycles are more common but need a different type of fuel. . Absolutely not. So what is Revenue Based Investing?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

This is the third article in a series on what it takes to be a great angel investor (and why this should matter to entrepreneurs). This is where VC comes in and why it’s needed in the industry no matter how much populist sentiment exists agains the industry. got picked up early without raising a lot of VC.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 19, 2017

As a VC, burn rate is one of the most discussed topics I have with teams who are pitching me for raising capital and it is one of the most common discussions points I have with founders in companies that I’ve backed. If you burn $200k / month you’ll be out of cash in a year. years of cash runway, which is too much for a startup.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 20, 2021

Also notably, Amber’s Series B financing was bankrolled by a list of high-profile financial and VC firms, including China Renaissance, which led the round, and Tiger Brokers, Tiger Global Management, Arena Holdings, Tru Arrow Partners, Sky9 Capital, DCM Ventures and Gobi Partners.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 18, 2009

Journalists have just written an article that wasn’t favorable. You’ve got to be able to come out of unsuccessful VC meetings, pull your socks up, and go into the next pitch. As a VC if I can tell that you’ve survived tough times and you don’t appear beaten down that’s a huge plus.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

This is the fourth article in a series on what it takes to be a great angel investor (and why this should matter to entrepreneurs). The first three skills I espoused were: access to the highest-quality deal-flow, domain knowledge of the topic area in which you’re investing and access to VCs to help fund the next stages of development.

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MAY 19, 2013

I know because I marked the occasion with a blog post on how to have a great VC meeting. The decisions were endless, the choices not obvious and the VC involved a pain in the ass. There is no better article on the topic than Reid Hoffman’s post about giving up the role of CEO at LinkedIn. I saw it first hand.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

Masa Finance , a hybrid credit protocol and decentralized credit bureau founded by Pngme CEO Brendan Playford in late 2020, has raised $3.5 Decentralized finance’s premise transcends this segment of banked people. Masa Finance is the result of these collective ventures. million in pre-seed funding.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2022

Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. 500 Global’s Christine Tsai shares her 2022 VC predictions. 500 Global’s Christine Tsai shares her 2022 VC predictions. Will quantum computing remain the domain of the specialist VC? Will quantum computing remain the domain of the specialist VC?

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Red Rocket

MAY 22, 2024

CB Insights, a leading research organization that tracks venture capital financings, recently released its report on t he state of the venture capital market in 2023. Gone are the days of “unicorn” creation (companies worth more than $1 billion), mega-sized financings, and excessive valuations.

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MAY 17, 2017

The deal fell through at the last minute and ADT chose not to continue financing the company, which was forced to shut down. And while that sounds like a marketing ploy — as my friend I can tell you he says it privately when he’s at my house and when you’d imagine a VC would be telling him to raise prices.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. Some might think “Silicon Valley’s share of US VC funding falls to lowest level in more than a decade” is a scary headline, but from my perspective as a resident, it’s great news. seed- and early-stage venture dollars. This momentum we’re seeing now?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

SPACs are the construct VCs need to fund clean tech. A recent article on Bloomberg asserts that venture capital activity is on the verge of collapse, but I don’t believe this is the case. and globally, VC activity in 2022 is well on track to exceed a long-term trend that started in 2006 for total amount invested. In the U.S.

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