David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

One of the first decisions we had to make in setting up our new VC fund, Versatile Venture Capital , was our CRM and marketing technology infrastructure. . Linkedin : Versatile Venture Capital / David Teten personal. It’s also helpful for identifying people with whom we can do reference checking.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The American venture capital world has staged an impressive comeback from the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Those tailwinds helped the venture capital world get back into its own game in a big way, leading to Q3 being an outsized quarter for domestic venture capital activity. Venture debt in 2020.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

I was having dinner with a friend last night and we were chatting about venture capital and a bit about what I’ve learned. You can’t reference check your way into a “yes.” Upfront Ventures' I don’t need to name companies for you to come up with your own examples. The non-conformist oath.

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Dream It

MARCH 6, 2020

Jeff Berman is General Partner at Camber Creek , one of the first venture funds dedicated to real estate technology and the built world. The team owns, operates and manages over 150 million square feet of real estate, making Camber Creek one of the biggest value-add venture partners for real estate tech startups.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

I made some reference calls. Another reference I called who is ex eBay and now a prominent VC said to me, “If I were organizing a marketing panel on online marketing and I wanted to pick the top 5 marketers to be on the panel Greg would be on my list.” So we talked about his joining. They were effusive. What does that mean?

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JANUARY 25, 2014

Tom Perkins is one of the founding members of the venerable venture capitalist firm Kleiner Perkins. So perhaps his king reference was fitting. The venture capital firm that bears his name. In tech circles one refers to the firm as either Kleiner Perkins, KP or Kleiner. Kleiner Perkins.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 30, 2013

The reference to Andy Dunn and me is responding to this post I wrote (in response to Andy’s earlier post). The first time I met Andy Dunn he was working for the venture capital firm Maveron. Raising Venture Capital Tech Market Analysis' But this one is for Dorrian. And his Tesla Statue project.

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JULY 14, 2013

We used Dumbo as a reference and talked about how the critical mass of Two Trees buildings created a neighborhood with multiple destinations. There was no strategic goal to build venture backed startup companies, but yet at least three companies in her community got VC investment last year. Venture Capital & Technology'

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MARCH 25, 2013

Back in 2006, when I started working on putting together some community groups for entrepreneurs and tech people, I looked for a better name to reference this collection of people. Anyone who was doing something new and cutting edge should feel connected to each other--whether or not they are building a venture backed startup.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

And so is venture capital. If I were looking at which VCs to choose I would reference strongly for which ones are supportive in good times and bad. The best way – of course – is to reference check. Here’s how you reference check a VC (link to post with longer version). Commitment.

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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. Ryan Hoover , Weekend Fund ] [hunter: The gravitational pull of venture is to grow each fund larger than the last. Here are the first batch of responses (with some of my reactions).

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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. I mentioned at the start that Kevin has taught me something about Venture Capital.

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OCTOBER 7, 2013

Because I''m in my market and in the flow of top teams and networked with the right folks, I''m never more than a character reference away through someone I trust and know well to just about all of the people I''ve backed. Venture Capital & Technology' The people I''ve backed don''t really come out of nowhere.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 17, 2012

VENTURE CAPITAL. And finally that brings me to obvious topic of venture capital. And that’s why it’s super important to reference check your VC as I wrote in the linked post. After I posted I saw the following Tweet. I loved the quote so had to include it, “All medal winners have coaches.

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Revolution

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Founder-market-geography fit refers to the optimal alignment of three critical dimensions: the founding team’s competencies, the market demand for the startup’s solution, and the geographic location where the startup is based. Let’s get into it. What is Founder-Market-Geography Fit? Founder-market-geography fit is one of those factors.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

This is part of a series on building your career in venture capital: Reading list for working in private equity/venture capital , including all of the major online communities, programs, and educational options for people studying VC. How to get a job in venture capital. How to find a job as a VC scout.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 12, 2016

When I did my customer reference calls with some of the largest corporate buyers in the country who have adopted Tact I heard the same narrative repeatedly “We use CRM tools but our mobile workforce always struggled with adoption. And of course we welcome Microsoft Ventures. making the experience “as easy as buying a book on Amazon.”

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Having the opportunity to learn from the founders you back is by far one of the most rewarding parts of being a venture capital investor. AppHarvest raised its first round of institutional capital from our Rise of the Rest Seed Fund and others in January 2018. But in reality –and without jest?—?the and should?—?be

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

MARCH 28, 2022

So I am reposting it below: The venture capital business is highly competitive. Instead of references, I like to give a list of every entrepreneur I’ve ever worked with and an email address. I often read things I wrote a decade or more ago and cringe at how out of date they have become. Not this one.

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MAY 19, 2020

with $15 million to Prove It The venture capital world has started firing up a few cylinders again and looking for businesses that it believes will help us all succeed in ways that resonate with new ways of working as we begin to return to work. Bevy is Emerging as a Leader in Software for Building Virtual Communities?—?with

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

I recently sat down with Troy Carter to talk about what he does and why he believes it is applicable to venture capital. Influencers are inundated with requests for their time and have to develop filters of whom they trust and therefore who can refer them deals.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 10, 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 II: While the venture and tech community is incredibly collaborative, VC is an inherently lonely role. Reporting out in batches of five.

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MAY 24, 2018

If you’ve read any of my ongoing series on fund raising from venture capitalist (episode 1?— ?controlling controlling your psychology ) you no doubt have heard me say that raising capital is a sales & marketing process. These can be called: Operating Partners, Venture Partners, Board Partners or similar.

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JUNE 19, 2017

Usually when an investor is asking you your burn rate he or she is referring to net burn — what cash are you consuming. The main reason to know your burn is to arrive at a quick calculation of how many months cash you have before you run out of cash. Growth vs. Profits Yesterday I wrote about the trade-off between growth and profits.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Register Startup founders need to be authentic and prepared when they get the chance to meet prospective investors, according to Rex Fong, founding partner at investment and advisory group Capitale Ventures. Fong’s Capitale Ventures is an investment and advisory group with expertise in complex, cross-border transactions.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2022

Cloud companies generally rely on efficiency metrics like CAC payback and LTV-to-CAC, but “they feel more like financial metrics than operational ones, and it is difficult for employees to execute against these concepts,” according to Neeraj Agrawal, Brandon Gleklen and Jack Mattei of Battery Ventures.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Imagine the “typical&# deal – somebody comes into a VC’s office, they’ve never met, they’re highly referred by a friend and they’re pitching a product demo and a PPT. Tags: Raising Venture Capital Startup Advice. Some have “rules&# – everybody breaks them for the right deal.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

I asked some investor friends to share, as the title suggests, one thing they wished people better understood about venture capital. When people want to better understand it to raise capital from folks who can help, they are best served accepting the annoying bespoke/boutique nature of it and handling it accordingly.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 21, 2013

And chances are you’re in big need of a killer customer reference. It also is a great way to finance your business without facing dilution before you actually raise venture capital and when the valuation you might get from angels is less than you’d want.

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Hunter Walk

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Incentives and the Cobra Effect [Andrew ‘Boz’ Bozworth/Facebook] – So I don’t know if the story Boz references here is fully accurate or has taken on some metaphorical expansion, but it’s worth sharing. And how mismatched (or unspoken) ones in venture capital can cause stress.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 7, 2014

Who else is going to tell a VC if he got a bad reference from an entrepreneur or fellow VC? But if you want to build a fast-growing, tech-enabled startup it’s hard to imagine doing so without venture capital and lambasting VCs publicly probably isn’t the most thoughtful strategy.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Sapphire Ventures will inject $2 billion of newly raised capital into growth-stage enterprise companies from two new funds, Sapphire Ventures Fund VI and Sapphire Ventures Opportunity Fund III. billion in capital in the last 12 months, which includes a separate $1.7 Nino Marakovic, CEO of Sapphire Ventures.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

I’d often refer to this as figuring out what the “eleven out of ten” was for any given situation. It wasn’t until recently that I realized the reference was lost on most of my younger clients. In fact, why wasn’t he just putting a term sheet on the table now? Make it easy for them to say yes.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2021

He leads the group’s venture capital fund, Seedstars International, which invests in seed-stage startups across emerging markets. Charlie Graham-Brown is the partner and Chief Investments Officer of Seedstars , a Swiss-based group with a mission to impact people’s lives in emerging markets through technology and entrepreneurship.

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2022

Evan Kipperman is a partner in the emerging companies and venture capital practice at Wiggin and Dana. Paul Hughes is a partner in the emerging companies and venture capital practice at Wiggin and Dana. Len Gray is a partner in the emerging companies and venture capital practice at Wiggin and Dana.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Index Ventures, a London- and San Francisco-headquartered venture capital firm that primarily invests in Europe and the U.S., Well-regarded by founders and co-investors, his transition to a full-time role in venture capital feels like quite a natural one. Another bucket is venture capitalists.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The sheer volume of capital flowing into LatAm fintech startups may appear overheated, but several reasons explain why the flood makes sense. But there are several factors in play that make the booming venture capital totals these companies are raising more reasonable than they might initially appear. Image Credits: CB Insights.

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