Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 2, 2010

You can also spend time with a newer startup helping them navigate the world of product management, venture capital or team building. Many of us have the ability to change the trajectory of other people’s lives. Sometimes we don’t even realize it. It’s the story of persistence in entrepreneurs.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Adobe, Sony Innovation Fund by IGV, Hearst Ventures and individuals from Stone Point Capital also participated in the financing, which brings San Diego-based Truepic’s total raised since its 2015 inception to $36 million. We believe that detection of fake images and videos will not be viable or scalable.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

One thing that recruited me was this brilliance that we can kill two birds with one stone,” she said, referring to Duolingo’s original translation-service business model we talked about in part one of this EC-1. “One She said to me, ‘Look, it worked for you to continue getting bigger and bigger checks from venture capital,’” von Ahn said.

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Gust

DECEMBER 27, 2011

Contact peers you have met through networking, both ones who have used this investor, and ones who haven’t. Ask the investor for “references,” meaning contacts at companies where previous investments were made. Taking on an investor is like getting married – the relationship has to work at all levels. Talk to other investors.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

We may as well get compensated for referring them to others. There are a number of VC funds that share the carry earned in their co-investment to the referring party. We’re launching our own scout program and want to benchmark compensation and structure against our peers. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Akshat Dixit. Contributor.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

In late 2020, a group of Stanford students banded together to create Stanford 2020, a venture fund solely to invest in their fellow classmates’ ventures. Now, two years later, the leader of that club, Steph Mui, is trying to replicate that playbook in the form of a venture-backed startup, and solo entrepreneurship.

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TechCrunch

JULY 23, 2021

While most of the company’s peers focus on product companies, Al-Ansari saw how underserved the service side was: their needs are different, and unlike retail, aren’t looking to sell online. Refer a friend, get a reward. Paystone provides the marketing through content, help with reviews and with loyalty and rewards programs.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

Its “Web3 Investment Clubs” product, which TechCrunch covered in January , lets users spin up an investment group with their peers by pooling their capital together and voting on how to allocate the funds. Web3 startup Syndicate ‘s goal is to demystify the DAO (decentralized autonomous organization).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2021

Some well-known VC firms have spent the last few months crunching data while working to chart, graph, and map the world of venture investing. Last week The Exchange dug into data from Battery Ventures , which worked to explain some of the gains software companies have made in recent years in terms of their valuation multiples.

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David Teten VC

APRIL 13, 2021

Empirically, few small emerging investment managers hire placement agents, particularly in venture capital. They had 154 visits, 97 due diligence requests, 33 second visits, and 12 reference requests, to ultimately produce 9 institutional investors. million venture fund. But can you? Signaling. .

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JUNE 25, 2019

Compared to peer states, Oklahoma has top-tier resources to validate concepts and provide funding and resources for proof-of-concept stage opportunities. However, when it comes to the first and third steps of the commercialization process — innovation and scaling, Oklahoma falls well below our peers. It’s a straightforward proposition.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Walton helped it raise its first millions in venture capital, making her one of the few dozen Black female founders to do so. Walton helped it raise its first millions in venture capital, making her one of the few dozen Black female founders to do so. Even if it was just for a few months.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Snippets of advice, tactics, and tools I used to raise an oversubscribed round during an economic downturn Image: Author I’m writing this blog post on the heels of closing our oversubscribed round during what’s been described as the worst time in history to raise capital. Taking on venture capital is not for everyone.

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FundersClub

JUNE 12, 2017

Venture capital investing offers different challenges than those associated with tech entrepreneurship, but Alex Mittal, co-founder and CEO of FundersClub, approached the sphere of venture capital the same way he did as a tech founder previously: is there a better way to do this?

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David Teten VC

APRIL 13, 2021

Empirically, few small emerging investment managers hire placement agents, particularly in venture capital. They had 154 visits, 97 due diligence requests, 33 second visits, and 12 reference requests, to ultimately produce 9 institutional investors. But can you? In the the end, they reached their hard stop of $130m. Signaling.

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Angel Capital Association

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

It’s a leap from the early days of Web 1.0’s s read only web with static pages (print media, educational sites, online directories, or archives) and the user-generated content of Web 2.0 Wikipedia, Twitter, YouTube), to a decentralized digital economy where vast majority of the power is redistributed to the individual internet users. applications.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

So despite total funding for women-founded companies reaching $834 million in 2021, per Partech Africa — a VC firm and data tracker of African investments — and the number of women in venture capital increasing, t heir representation remains minute against a faster-growing percentage of startups run by men.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2022

While it’s not mandatory for companies to receive 409A appraisals, the IRS has made them all but compulsory for private, venture-backed companies, Kevin Swan, co-head of global private markets within Morgan Stanley’s workplace solutions division, told TechCrunch. And how seriously should we be taking them?

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

“Banking reform is the key to unlocking access to the capital markets,” said Emily Paxhia, managing director at Poseidon. “Offering mainstream banking services to cannabis operators would break the market open and could change custody rules that prevent institutional capital from participating.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Today is amongst the proudest days I’ve had at Upfront Ventures — getting the chance to announce that Kevin Zhang has been promoted to Partner. years at Upfront has been both a pleasure and also has taught me a lot about venture capital. Watching him develop over the past 4.5 Kevin joined Upfront in 2012 as an Associate.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

The crypto in cryptocurrency is of course referring to cryptography on the ability to encrypt your transactions so they can’t be modified after they have been written to the blockchain. The reality is that cryptocurrencies can be both and can be liberating and corrupting at the same time.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Notably, Metromile saw its valuation decline over 85% and was subsequently acquired by peer Lemonade , and it hasn’t been alone in losing a lot of value and being eyed by peers and incumbents. To take the pulse of all things insurtech, we spoke with: Martha Notaras , general partner, Brewer Lane Ventures.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

Meetings should have a clear purpose, but instead, they’ve become a way to measure status and reinforce what is colloquially referred to as CYA culture. It’s hard to pin down where Shein is from,” answered Richard Xu from Grand View Capital, a Chinese venture capital firm. Walter Thompson. yourprotagonist.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

“As they say in poker, ‘If you’ve been in the game 30 minutes and you don’t know who the patsy is, you’re the patsy.‘” Warren Buffet, 1997. Marketing 101: Customers love free stuff. As a result, it is a common marketing practice to offer things “for free” in order to impact customer behavior or encourage customer loyalty. Billions of dollars.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 8, 2022

Dr. Joel Palathinkal, CEO of Sutton Capital , observes that high-quality founding teams and GPs are often difficult to access for single family offices who are not directly plugged into the right ecosystems. An ever-growing number of family offices want to invest into private tech companies. But how should they go about it?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

It’s referred to as “The Struggle,” and there are endless reasons why founders face The Struggle : Limited control, 100% responsible  — Founders want control. But it’s pretty damn hard not to compare when the realities of personal finance punches you in the face every day, and you see your former & current peers crushing it.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

There is all sorts of advice on the Internet about how to raise capital. I’ve raised money as a “hot company” and I’ve raised capital when no one would return my phone calls. Raising money is hard. And when you’re relatively new to the process it’s easy to be confused by the process. Meet in person.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

Its philosophy was simple: reward customers with free storage space for referring other customers. Of course, you should still run your own experiments, but it’s just more capital-efficient to emulate than to trial-and-error from scratch. In 2008, it was an absolute revelation. A golden ticket. It’s a standard growth marketing trick.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

We’re fortunate to interview Susan Akbarpour, Managing Partner, Candou Ventures. Candou Ventures is an early stage fund in Silicon Valley with $150m AUM focusing on deep tech, AI and enterprise software. David Teten: Who are Candou’s peers/competitors, and how do you differ? Susan is the founder of multiple SaaS platforms.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 17, 2021

There were conferences and meetups—and some big venture capital dollars followed into platform companies. There were conferences and meetups—and some big venture capital dollars followed into platform companies. Having been a blogger for almost 17 years now, I couldn’t agree more—and it doesn’t stop with podcasts. (

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Venture Capital Is a Team Sport: Navigating the Partner Track with a Collaborative Mindset I was talking to one of my VC coaching clients a recently promoted young principal at a firm that's likely to raise a much bigger fund next time around. It doesnt have to be that way. I suggested they learn Judo. Judo means gentle way.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 30, 2016

We did what many VC funds did – we presented our annual results, we stood up and talked about our portfolio companies, we invited a few to also present and then we had dinner & drinks at some posh restaurant. So I decided to change up our format a bit. So I decided to change up our format a bit. I had a few objectives in mind.

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