Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

I’ve heard a lot of people question whether there is too much money in venture capital chasing too few great deals. Others believe that new business models are emerging that could replace venture capital all together. We’re in a new tech bubble!” some have pronounced. More on that later.

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APRIL 6, 2020

But I have been in close contact with the NVCA, many of the major law firms and many of the major VC firms. But I have been in close contact with the NVCA, many of the major law firms and many of the major VC firms. We have been advising a lot of entrepreneurs so I thought I’d “open source” some of the advice I have been sharing.

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AUGUST 8, 2011

How about as a VC? If* you believe that a good venture capitalist should have launched their own company and exited, then I simply don't have that track record. *If* If* you believe that a good venture capitalist should have launched their own company and exited, then I simply don't have that track record. And you know what?

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FEBRUARY 20, 2012

She hasn’t raised any venture capital. It represents the great majority of entrepreneurship and eschews the fairytale rags-to-VC-riches stories we so often read about in the press. Tracy built her company, Recycled Media , out of necessity. She drove her company to profitability before paying herself a modest salary.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

” There are a lot of data points that one can observer to get a sense of the venture capital markets – both LP fundings into venture and VC financings of startups. They point to some widely known facts: financings & valuations are up massively over the past 7 years and non-VC money has entered the system.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 25, 2009

This is part of my blog series “ Pitching a VC.&#. I’ve sat through a lot of VC pitches and having been CEO of an enterprise software firm for many years I’ve also sat through many customer meetings with sales teams. The following are some tips for the debate style VC meeting. Tips in a debate led VC Meeting.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Our guest this week on #TWiVC was Dana Settle , partner at Greycroft Partners , a venture capital firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. Greycroft is an early-stage VC. Closing a VC fund in 2009/10 is a major achievement in and of itself. To be fair to Ben Horowitz – I think he thinks this as well.

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JUNE 22, 2020

A VC’s default is “no”, so without enough information to be convincing, it’s going to wind up being a pass. To a VC, $50,000 a pre-sale isn’t really that much. One of the most difficult conversations I have with founders is when they haven’t quite given me enough of a story for me to make a proper evaluation.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

If you track the venture capital industry it would be hard to miss the conversation going on this week over AngelList “Syndicates.” My favorite new VC blogger, Hunter Walk, weighed in with some thoughtful comments about how Syndicates might actually pit, “ angel vs. angel.” Bowery Capital).

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Online lending, specifically peer to peer, is one of those markets. Funds are even being raised to take advantage of these opportunities--but it isn''t exactly easy for an institutional player to go lending out $25 at a time on a peer to peer platform. This is essentially the bet that Box has made relative to Dropbox.

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MARCH 2, 2015

Their reaction to what I do day in and day out is very telling about how a lot of people, including VCs themselves, think of the job. I say that, but I''m not entirely sure all my peers understand that. The founders I backed aren''t VCs (well, except Dave ) so I don''t know if that is such a great signal.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 11, 2010

The other day, I unlocked the "I'm no racist" badge in the VC game. I'll bet not too many other VCs in my peer group could name five… Go me! All I had to do was to name 5 black tech startup entrepreneurs in New York City when asked by a reporter to do so. Kidding aside, I did feel a totally misplaced sense of pride.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2010

Social Proof in Action … Yesterday I wrote about the benefits of using social proof and authority in raising venture capital. We like to use new product and gain benefits before our peers. If you didn’t read that yet it might be worth having a quick skim as a primer. It influenced a generation of tech marketers.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2010

Greycroft is Alan’s venture capital firm that recently raised its second fund ($130 million) with offices in both New York and LA. I’ve been to similar events with First Round Capital and True Ventures. And awesome to get to spend time with Ian Sigalow “comparing notes” (VC speak ).

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DECEMBER 14, 2014

I had witnessed a number of early-stage tech startups in LA raise seed capital from the Bay Area and relocate. Throughout all of these years I was a full-time VC so Launchpad really came out of evenings and weekends for me. Adam had a full time startup and then was doing consulting (he later raised a VC fund).

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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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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Delve into his story as it unfolds with lessons from filmmaking, startup ventures, and the fascinating world of technology innovations and investing. 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.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

Would you like to work with private equity and venture capital funds? There are relatively few jobs directly inside private equity and venture capital funds, and those jobs are highly competitive. See How to negotiate a partner role at a VC or private equity firm.) At Versatile VC , we’ve used all these models.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

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. 2021 saw phenomenal returns for our industry and it topped off more than a decade of unprecedented VC growth.

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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. of all venture capital in the US went to companies founded solely by women. There are venture capital firms out there that are dedicated to closing the gender funding gap.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

But VC is like congress. “This essay is dedicated to the great VC’s on my board who I am lucky to work with: Sameer Gandhi from Accel, Jeremy Liew from Lightspeed, and Kirsten Green from Forerunner. As you can see from the chart their data suggests there are about $25 billion of VC distributions per year in the US.

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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 win consulting, board, operating, and investment roles with private equity and venture capital funds (video). How to find a job as a VC scout. How to get a job in venture capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

The idea is simple enough: several female VC partners at top funds will hold 1-hour meetings with 40 promising female entrepreneurs looking to get advice on their business and pitch in a friendly, non-judgmental, safe environment. 8% of VC partnerships, for example). My partner Kara wrote a great post on the topic that you should read.

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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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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 31, 2023

Register Indonesian digital bank Superbank , supported by Grab, Singtel, and Emtek Group, is collaborating with Singapore’s Genesis Alternative Ventures to offer a financing package of $40 million for startups in Indonesia. Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet?

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2021

People have been discussing the importance of expanding opportunities for women in venture capital and startup entrepreneurship for decades. The prospect of more women writing checks was viewed as a positive for female founders, a cohort that has struggled to attract more than a fraction of the funds that their male peers manage.

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Both Sides of the Table

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. But it’s not cutting VCs out. It is additive.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

David Teten is founder of Versatile VC and writes periodically at teten.com and @dteten. Akshat Dixit is a senior at North Carolina State University, an intern at Versatile VC , and a past intern with the HBS Alumni Angels Association and the Innovation Quarter in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Scouts help promote diversity in VC.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

I asked some investor friends to share, as the title suggests, one thing they wished people better understood about venture capital. AI Generated Image The beautiful truth about the game of VC is that it consistently rewards difference. There are many ways to play the game in VC. Some will succeed in this transition.

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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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Founders Coop

JANUARY 11, 2023

Our firm’s original premise was – and remains – dead simple: Seattle is a global gravity well for engineering talent, thanks to the sustained excellence and corresponding human capital needs of Amazon and Microsoft. By contrast, venture capital is a craft that defies both speed and scale. The implications of this are many.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

Bobby Franklin is the president and CEO of the National Venture Capital Association and previously served as an executive vice president for the CTIA – The Wireless Association. A new foreign investment bill will impact venture capital and the US startup ecosystem. More posts by this contributor.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2021

The fourth quarter of 2020 was as busy as you imagined, with super late-stage startups reaching new valuation thresholds at a record pace, and total venture capital funding in the United States recording its second-best result of all time. Read it every morning on Extra Crunch , or get The Exchange newsletter every Saturday.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2023

It comes up a lot with my coaching clients who aspire to be top VCs and are trying to figure out how to self-assess and goal set. Venture capital is basically the complete opposite. I find level setting to be one of the most difficult things to do around any task or skill. Just how good is good? How do you measure it?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

Less than 2% of venture capital funding went to all-female founding teams in 2021, marking a five-year low, new data from Pitchbook shows. So how is it that despite the recent boom in startup funding, the venture capital industry is actually becoming an even tougher place for women to raise money?

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

I asked some investor friends to share, as the title suggests, one thing they wished people better understood about venture capital. Here’s Part V: VC is a profession! Here’s Part V: VC is a profession! Reporting out in batches of five. As to the “it takes a long time” advice.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

The questions that a VC mulls before writing a check are precisely the questions you should be asking yourself. But this isn’t likely to be a VC-backable business (which to be clear is totally ok). Many startup businesses – tech or otherwise – fail. ” when often that’s a stupid comment. Market Size.

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