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FEBRUARY 21, 2019

While most of the money that goes into VC funds comes from institutions that are highly experienced in the asset class, some family offices and high net worth individuals also invest in VC. They’re trying to get exposure and diversification at the same time, while potentially seeing co-investment deal flow.

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MAY 4, 2013

As a VC you want to feel like you have “proprietary sources” of deal flow. I attended events. ” I love businesses that don’t lend themselves well to VC Panels at conferences or Demo Days. I value your insights into industries and your unrivaled networks. I spent time on college campuses.

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MARCH 24, 2014

Every single topic about running a company has been written about ad nauseum, there are incubators, accelorators, mentoring programs, events, talks, etc. Not every potentially good VC previously worked for Fred Wilson and Josh Kopelman. Their guidance and network can also make these companies better. But what about investors?

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DECEMBER 3, 2020

The partner at the fund, the VC, gets to do the fun part—the meeting with founders, vetting deals, negotiating, helping, etc. This is above and beyond whatever events and educational opportunities the fund provides for its community, which could also be very useful. Fund investing, like adulting, is boring. So what’s the point?

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APRIL 29, 2011

Then I realized that it's probably not obvious what the dynamics are around how VCs tend to get introduced to companies and what works best for people, so I figured I'd blog about it. A lot of VCs ask to be introduced through someone. Talking to a VC is never a one shot deal. The Cold Intro. Multiple Touchpoints.

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JANUARY 8, 2014

What is a principal at a VC firm and how does it work at Upfront Ventures? ” Associates have different functions at different VCs. VC firm admin. VC firm policy or fund analysis. Helping be the VC “presence” at key events. inside insight into VC decision-making. Industry reviews.

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AUGUST 16, 2020

One of the core beliefs that I had when I started Brooklyn Bridge Ventures was that most of the next 50-100 important companies to be built in New York City were going to be started by people not on most VC’s radars today. The Circulate series acknowledges that access to ideas, resources and networks is structurally unequal.

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DECEMBER 28, 2013

The biggest question I think VC''s face right now is whether or not, in the future, the best founders will look and act like the best founders of the past. My own track record as a VC across First Round Capital and Brooklyn Bridge Ventures actually starts in January of 2010, *after* the Airbnb class of Winter 2009.

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Hunter Walk

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

Ok, back to the VC content marketing. As a result I’ve seen hundreds of VC decks, all certain they will be among the top performers. People who can invest with the firms money at arms length, bounties for sourcing a startup, small investments in other VCs that are upstream from your firm. This post is about ‘seeing.’

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MAY 23, 2012

I can’t help feel a bit of rear-view mirror analysis in all of “VC model is broken” bears in our industry. The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. In 1998 there were around 850 VC funds and by 2000 there were 2,300.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Register Gyeonggi-do Business and Science Accelerator (CEO Kang Sung-cheon) is holding an online event to match global venture capital firms with innovative startup companies in Pangyo. This event will also help startup companies enter the global market, gain marketing information, and network with other companies.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

It got me thinking about the advice that I often give to new VCs. For years I saw myself as the new guy in VC but then you wake up one day and realize that 50% of your peers have been doing it for less time than you and time has moved on. You want to build your network with other VCs so you go to demo days, SxSW and so forth.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

I built a 3,000 person tech networking organization in NYC back in 2006 and was one of the first 100 members of the NY Tech Meetup back in 2005 so I’ve participated in a lot of these conversations. That latter part is where I often find that events focused on diversity go wrong. They’re less impactful on a year to year basis.

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OCTOBER 7, 2015

VCs have an inflated sense of the value of their own time. Warm intro or not, no VC has the magical stream of only quality deal flow with nothing stupid added. Diversify Your Life What do you have in your life that mixes up your network? Obviously, if everyone in your network looks like you, that's going to be who you fund.

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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. Opening up our circle to create and scale genuine engagement for people outside of typical venture networks is how we do business—and we’re getting exceptional deal flow because of that.

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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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MAY 5, 2011

I need to take some VC meetings. But it did take Brad as a public spokesman, consummate networker and successful VC to help create legitimacy to let David’s ideas flourish. They can then direct staff, allocate budgets, talk to the press, connect you with politicians and attend events. Him: “I know, I know.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Sales and marketing skills and a huge network of customers, capital, and talent are huge value adds--but I know very few students honing that. If that isn't a requirement of a class, they're simply not going to do it--but they need to in order to build the network that will drive their success. Kick the students out.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Most of them are completely mundane such as choosing which: bank, office space, 1-year lease vs. 2-year lease, logo, URL, pricing structure or which VC. There’s a guy in Los Angeles that I met at several tech networking events. The technology team disagrees on direction and wants resolutions. Making Things Happen.

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AUGUST 9, 2011

It was many events that led to the crash but perhaps this was the pin that pricked the market. But I guess you could say the same about VC. Stock market declines would bring back dog days of VC. VC Ice Age Part 2 – Why the Market Started Moving Again? VC Ice Age Part 3 – What The Future Holds.

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MARCH 6, 2016

In 2008 I started VC blogging. I went to an industry event where people actually called me self-centered for writing publicly. My friends said, “I don’t need another network. That’s what happens when you join a network and have kids. Right now it’s my favorite network. I had blogged when I was an entrepreneur.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2012

It represents the great majority of entrepreneurship and eschews the fairytale rags-to-VC-riches stories we so often read about in the press. Weddings are a bit like college degrees – they often set you back financially for many years after the event. Just not the kind you would initially read about on TechCrunch.

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Revolution

DECEMBER 20, 2023

While VC dollars still overwhelmingly funnel into places like Silicon Valley, Brookings research shows tech jobs are finally spreading out — movement spurred by the availability of hybrid and remote work, private investment, and federal initiatives. Think: New York and Miami, LA and Nashville, and San Francisco and Austin.

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OCTOBER 31, 2011

The sign up page for the event is here & there is limited availability. It’s at the Zanuck Theater (Fox Studios) and will be a great event to learn about the direction of the Twitter platform and how people are using it. Oh, and if you’re in Chicago or Seattle you have your home town events, too.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2021

For example, one of my business’ backers has a deep tech “pod” that generates events and content we are always welcomed to be a part of. Another one of our investors gives us full commercial support through its network of mentors that are there to support the business, not the VC. That is where they add value.

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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.&#. VC meetings going well. 2 million in VC. I swore never to do that as a VC. What do VC’s Experience?

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Now that he’s become a VC he’s promising me he’ll provide way more public information and discourse so please welcome him by following him on Twitter and better yet welcoming him with a Tweet of your own linking to his Twitter handle or this post. I only wanted one thing in the deal – Hamet. I stayed close.

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JANUARY 8, 2014

They want someone who can be a friend to startups--someone with a great network, knows everyone, knows product, technical evangelist. someone who can win over the VCs, the CTOs, create content, etc. a content producer, a technical person who knows your product and loves it, an events manager, etc. all at once.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2012

My friend and fellow SoCal venture capitalist Peter Lee wrote a post about the different roles within a VC and spent much time on the role of an associate. These are the permanent members of a VC. The process for raising money from a VC is a sales process and as such much of what is taught in enterprise sales can be applied.

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OCTOBER 22, 2010

I’ve known Chamillionaire for a couple of years and I’ve never been at a tech event where he HASN’T upstaged everybody with his marketing insights. So it was my great pleasure to host Chamillionaire on This Week in VC this week talking marketing, entrepreneurship, old media and, of course, music.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

Microtraction does not specify the size of its fund, but what is more clear is that it has attracted a great deal of attention and has built a strong network in part because of who backs it. . 2019 saw the local VC firm invest in six companies. The rest were unannounced.

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APRIL 25, 2013

Getting involved with political events and fund raisers. And still able to make it out to LA networking events. Unsurprisingly for Kara is was the VC connections. Somehow she was always on a flight up to Seattle or San Francisco. Always meeting her product ship dates.

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MAY 4, 2013

As a VC you want to feel like you have “proprietary sources” of deal flow. I attended events. There is one source I never liked and no early-stage VC should – investment bankers. ” I love businesses that don’t lend themselves well to VC Panels at conferences or Demo Days. I hustled.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2023

Enter LGBT+ VC, a nonprofit organization that aims to support LGBTQ+ founders and investors allied with the cause. That resulted in the duo tapping into their networks and assessing the relationship the LGBTQ+ community currently has with the tech ecosystem. Tiana and I came together, and we thought, ‘where can we make a difference?’”

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JUNE 8, 2014

To interconnect these computers we needed IP-based telecommunications equipment build by the likes of Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks. And when you think about the three C’s you begin to realize that the first two of these activities are ones where the economic powerhouse networks are driven in cities outside of Silicon Valley.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

We have collected a wide range of freebies, contests, accelerators, online communities, and VCs designed for student tech founders. I have been researching this both to support Versatile VC ’s portfolio companies and also as part of research for my new book, To University and Beyond: Launch Your Career in High Gear. 1) Your school.

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MARCH 14, 2024

It’s easy for a VC to just stick within your own networks and filter bubbles—and hard to scale being “open” without opening the floodgates. Thanks to our sponsors, Withum and J&O Law , we’ll be doing this event quarterly. Interested VCs can sign up here and companies can start signing up on Monday.

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