Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

As many of you know I run a weekly webcast called This Week in VC that’s getting between 25-35,000 weekly views across ThisWeekIn.com, YouTube & mostly iTunes. Your goal is to increase the top end of the funnel (more people using the free product) and increase the rate of conversion to paid. Why do a freemium model?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 14, 2013

I am a VC. But through expressing points-of-view I can raise above the consciousness of my customers (entrepreneurs and limited partners who invest in VC funds) in ways that I couldn’t without breaking through the noise of the hundreds of others of VCs who also have money. Let me be sure to use me some Luma Partners.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

There are an estimated 100,000 Italians already living in London, attracting the likes of Riccardo Zacconi, co-founder of King.com (maker of Candy Crush) and Simon Beckerman of social shopping app Depop. The good news: VC funding in Italy has grown. It has an estimated 67 VC funds, with 18 of them started since 2015.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

VC has been invested over the past decade according to race, gender and educational background makes for grim reading — with all-ethnic teams and female entrepreneurs receiving just a fraction of available funding versus all-white teams and male founders. female entrepreneurs face in accessing VC funding versus male counterparts.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

The challenges are more business challenges and design challenges--so schools need to rethink how they interact with innovation communities if it's not going to only be through commercialization: Recognize that creating a founder should be a secondary goal. Give them that and they'll decide on their own to be a founder.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2017

I’ve never met a founder who wasn’t acutely aware of his or her ticking time bomb and the sense that failure and humiliation is a real possibility. Very, very few founders have an easy time despite what you read in the press. Strangely, most founders I know don’t have this conversation with the inside investors early.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

This was the first episode where Jason wasn’t on the show, which gave me the chance to have another VC on the show to discuss deals. Rustic Canyon is an LA-based, but geography-agnostic VC that is currently investing from a $200 million fund. VC Financings: 1. Add this new model to the mix. 13mm in Series B.

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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

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

I didn’t want to write it because I have mixed feelings about AngelList. Still, as a VC I value proprietary dealflow & long term relationships. I know it was over heated when a deal where I wrote one of the first checks on (as an angel, not VC) went out on AngelList. My personal use. My view for VCs.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Founders start out with an idea and not much more. Zietview does aerial inspections of buildings, renewable energy infrastructure, and telecommunications systems using advanced AI/ML software. Over time, the company has adopted many techniques to acquire the imagery that they use to do the AI/ML inspections.

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Dream It

APRIL 7, 2020

Please note, this page does not cover the basics of the CARES Act and we encourage founders to read What Startups Need to Know About PPP and The CARES Act for broader context. Kathryn (attorney from PilieroMazza) : Most banks are opening applications today, though a few rolled out last Friday with mixed success.

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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. The benefits of founder x cultural leader partnerships work both ways. For Founders Make It Make Sense Venture capital is where innovation meets investment.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 20, 2019

A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors are emerging who are using creative investing structures with some of the upside of traditional VC, but some of the downside protection of debt. In addition, their portfolios look far more diverse than VC industry norms. Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 28, 2010

OK, this will be a test of whether using real curse words in your title or post gets all of your stuff blocked by spam filters or from appearing on HackerNews or the like. I mean Porter’s Five forces is a useful framework but it’s basically microeconomics with a pretty wrapper. I might be wrong. Get lots of data points.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

When the economy is volatile, appetite for risk decreases, which impacts venture totals in general and certain founders in particular. Female founders, already seen as inherently riskier than male founders, are often overlooked, ignored, and stored away until the next global social movement awakens everyone’s intention for good.

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David Teten VC

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

We’re fortunate to interview William Stringer, Founder of Chisos Capital , a structured finance company. Q: Please give us an overview of Chisos. Q: What is CISA and how does it compare to other alternative VC models? A CISA allows a founder to utilize their future earnings as a type of collateral to receive funding today.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

In 2021, one-third of all unicorns created were fintech companies: investor FOMO, increased use of digital payments, BNPL, and other financial services created a gravitational field that attracted more than one out of every five dollars VCs invested last year. Tyler Griffin, co-founder and managing partner, Financial Venture Studio.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

Some people are more excited by emerging areas like artificial intelligence, which has been a focus of the country’s military for years, and like cybersecurity is now producing many fresh teams of founders. What are companies you are excited about (your portfolio or not), which founders? What’s your latest, most exciting investment?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Over the past 4 years LA’s tech fundings have growing at a 30% compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) which is > 4 times the US average VC CAGR (7%). If you throw in Oculus into the mix along with TrueCar, Rubicon, Burstly, Beats and others LA Tech has seen more than $8 billion in exits in 2014 alone. Use any you want.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 4, 2021

By Julia Langkraehr, a member of EO London and founder of Bold Clarity. Employees and employers both seem to have mixed opinions on the matter. 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.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 31, 2020

But, speaking as someone who’s worked at several startups, Extra Crunch stories contain actionable information you can use to build a company and/or look smart in meetings — and that’s worth something. Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. The VCs who founders love the most.

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Gust

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Keep in mind that any cash you put in will remain in the company as Founders’ Equity, and will only come back to you on a successful exit in which your investors make money. [3a. With #1 – #3 under your belt, you should start preparing the components you will use to support your pitch to outside investors.

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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. But what tools are they using themselves to automate their own processes? The VC landscape has gotten much more competitive and crowded over the past several years, and if investors are not using software tools?—?they

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2023

Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription “Starting a tech company today costs 99% less than it did 18 years ago when Y Combinator was started,” says Brett Calhoun, managing director and general partner at Redbud VC.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 1, 2015

It’s relatively easier to answer that question when you’re a founder & CEO and have total control over hiring & firing. And for my sins I was then handed a mixed team that was both clients and Andersen employees. *. What does it mean to be a leader? ” I could see she was right.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

While hydrogen itself is generally considered a clean and extremely useful basic element, its production is married to numerous dirty industrial processes. Oil refineries and plastic production, for instance, may give off various hydrocarbons and other mixed gases and chemicals, and to separate them requires further processing and emissions.

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 28, 2020

These are the most common topics founders have asked us about. In a typical spin-out situation, there are several people who worked on the research, including a mix of students, post docs and faculty. A lot of scientific founders have misconceptions about how to structure their founding team. Misconception 1.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2022

The side-effect of adding a slice of robotics to the mix is that homes that used to take nine months to build can now be instantiated into existence in a month or so. Seed investors Alpaca VC, Dolby Family Ventures, Timber Grove Ventures and Gaingels all invested above their pro-rata and are joined by Signia Venture Partners.

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Jason Malki

JULY 12, 2024

I had the pleasure of interviewing Rachel and Jordan, who are currently Venture Partners for GoAhead Ventures and Scouts for various VC funds. Most notably, they were the Co-Founders of Qutie LGBTQ+ Social App. Jordan has an extensive background with 15 years of experience in wellness, personal training, and mixed martial arts.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

based tech founders are welcomed with open arms. Elastic, the provider of subscription-based data search software used by Dell, Netflix, The New York Times and others, was another gangbuster IPO in 2018. For this survey, we interviewed the following Amsterdam-focused investors: • Janneke Niessen, partner, CapitalT VC.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Applications in the metaverse often feel like more of a marketing gimmick than something that a critical mass of consumers would use, let alone pay for. To meet these expectations, both technology that is easy to use and accurate as well as high-quality software and content are needed. Image Credits: Varjo.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2010

I use Wordpress and am very happy. In this genre there is also Typepad although I find less people using it these days. They’re more light weight, easier to use and more social. Then you need to decide whether to use the “hosted&# version or the “installed&# version. Now I’m a VC.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 13, 2021

Can Bitcoin find its practical use case as a currency in Latin America? Under normal circumstances, one might expect the founders of Radian6 and Q1 labs to disappear into the suburbs of Cambridge or Marin Country, but that never happened. More posts by this contributor.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2021

He is a co-founder and CTO of CoCoPIE LLC. The VC world is attracted to the low-investment/high-returns model deep tech tends to offer, but it can also be impatient with the time it takes to get there. That can be interest payments if you’ve taken a loan or equity if you’ve received VC funds. Share on Twitter. Build credibility.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 17, 2023

Startups and VC Back in January, a $810 million deal fell apart to buy Angry Birds makers Rovio, but the company suggested they were still in talks with other potential interested parties. million in a seed investment round led by La Famiglia VC, Mike writes. Founders should communicate to investors what a round of funding unlocks.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Investors in the round include Caruso Ventures, Vision VC Fund, e& capital, investment pillar of e& (formerly known as Etisalat Group), DFDF (Dubai Future District Fund), WIN (Webit Investment Network), SRMG, Elbert Capital, and Yasta Partners, Faith Capital, Panthera Capital. Seven existing investors participated as well.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

The fintech which provides credit lines for businesses has raised $17 million, funding that it will be using to bolster its offerings and expand geographically. The seed round was a mix of $7 million equity and $10 million debt. That threw me into solving those problems with Float.”.

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