Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2014

The partner most obsessed with the startup lifestyle tests the water by going to work in an early-stage startup, similar to one they might hope to start someday. Most Angel groups and VCs advertise the startups they have recently funded, with pointers to startup websites, sometimes including open positions.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Venture principals (VPs, junior partners or other similar titles) were former venture associates who had worked their way up the chain. And partners were former junior partners who had been promoted up as well. Most cities now have various local tech meetups, pitch competitions, angel groups, etc. Participate.

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David Teten

JUNE 10, 2020

SOP’s founder is David Teten , previously a Partner with HOF Capital and ff Venture Capital and a serial fintech entrepreneur with 2 exits. David is also Founder of HBS Alumni Angels of NY , the largest angel group on the East Coast. For more on the firm’s core theses, see investment theses. .

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Most of these scenarios involve attracting outside investors, strategic partners, or key team members: You are the team and you don’t need outside funding. Most VCs and Angel investors don’t read unsolicited proposals, unless they have met you first, or have a glowing recommendation from another investor or acquaintance.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

Investors and partners now look only for a framework of your business essentials, within the context of your opportunity, solution, and financials. Before you bring on partners, develop intellectual property, raise capital, or generate revenues, you need to establish an official business entity.

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Business Plan Blog

JANUARY 2, 2014

How Crowdfunding is Affecting Angel Group Investment. government’s long standing restrictions on fundraising has given life to a new type of financing called crowdfunding that allows Angel and other early stage investors to quickly assemble a group of investors over the internet. An easing on some of the U.S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 19, 2020

They have too many highly paid partners, fat fees, an aging corporate infrastructure and difficulty raising money from institutions. Super angels are individuals or small teams using their own money. As lifecycle investment partners, they have become weighted down with portfolios still recovering from the economic downturn.

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Gust

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Working within a network of angel investors also expands the pool of expert resources and helps divide the work of screening companies and investment due diligence. Earlier this month, I reported on the most current survey of angel groups: 2011 Valuation Survey of North American Angel Groups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2015

The partner most obsessed with the startup lifestyle tests the water by going to work in an early-stage startup, similar to one they might hope to start someday. Most Angel groups and VCs advertise the startups they have recently funded, with pointers to startup websites, sometimes including open positions.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But in business, you want a lot of partners. In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers. See Bessemer Venture Partners’ A comprehensive guide to security for startups. Cobalt for General Partners helps GPs to optimize their fundraising strategy. 1) Manage the firm

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. The founders, LPs, and venture partners have a long history in local startup ecosystems in the Southeast including LaunchTN , The Company Lab , CoStarters , and several other regional funds and resources. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

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Tim Keane

DECEMBER 14, 2009

  He is a partner in a pretty much exclusively software seed stage fund, Y Combinator that you can read more about.    Some angel groups charge you money to pitch your idea to them.    Individual angels can get sucked into situations that a group's experience might have avoided. 

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Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

Collectively they have $850M in capital in their most recent funds: [link] Both Silverton Partners and LiveOak Venture Partners have filed regulatory documents associated with new fundraising efforts in 2017 so we should all look forward to announcements from them on successfully raising new funds.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

PEVCTech is partnering with Blue Future Partners to run the first large-scale survey of VCs’ technology stack. Johann Kratzer of Blue Future Partners , a fund of funds, observed, “The majority of the hundreds of funds we’ve diligenced rely predominantly on their relationships to source deals. Greylock Partners.

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Up and Running

JULY 2, 2014

Picking the right attorney in your startup is as important as picking the right business partner. My business partner and I made many mistakes in our first tech startup, and so many of them were the result of choosing a lawyer who was a terrible fit. My business partner and I were elated. We set off to raise our money.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 26, 2015

(And although this is written for angel investors, I think entrepreneurs can only benefit by increasing their knowledge around these investors and hope you’ll continue reading if that’s you. And if you just want to learn about different types of angels and what motivates each, my partner David has written about that before here.).

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View from Seed

AUGUST 26, 2015

(And although this is written for angel investors, I think entrepreneurs can only benefit by increasing their knowledge around these investors and hope you’ll continue reading if that’s you. And if you just want to learn about different types of angels and what motivates each, my partner David has written about that before here.).

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 19, 2019

Christy Cardenas , Managing Partner at Ecliptic Capital , warns that it can ultimately ruin your business, so you must be diligent with your investor choices. However, Sara Brand , Founding General Partner at True Wealth VC , said there’s never been a better time for women to raise money.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

If you are going to do the tour up and down Sandhill Road to try and raise your 1st round of financing you need a pitch deck because the vast majority of those meetings you are going to be sitting around a table and you will be presenting to one or more partners and that is going to be your first engagement.”. Some Angel groups endorse it.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

(written by Philipp von dem Knesebeck , Managing Partner, Blue Future Partners (bluefp.com, @bluefutureteam ), and David Teten ). Based on this paper, Blue Future Partners and PEVCTech recently completed a large-scale survey to find out which tools are most commonly used by venture capital firms.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

We have four non-US portfolio companies , many of which have or will soon have employees in the US. - Creating angel groups with other alumni organizations, using Harvard Business School Angels as a model , e.g., alumni of major NY schools (Columbia, NYU) and institutions (McKinsey, Goldman Sachs).

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2014

They have too many highly paid partners, fat fees, an aging corporate infrastructure and difficulty raising money from institutions. Super Angels are individuals or small teams using their own money. As lifecycle investment partners, they have become weighted down with portfolios still recovering from the economic downturn.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Rick Holdren and Rohit Saxena then discussed Medi-Code , an integration solution for small hospitals (up to 150 beds) and small physician practice groups ($5 million to $20 million annual revenue) to connect with Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) as a requirement of the healthcare regulatory changes coming in 2012. If possible, of course.

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David Teten

MAY 3, 2019

Partner with students to execute research on topics of mutual interest. I view Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of Greater New York , now the largest angel group on the East Coast by headcount, as a template for what other schools and organizations can build. Partner on promoting entrepreneurship.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

My suggestion is to get some of the angel groups – notorious for slow decision-making and hat passing – and pool their money into a small fund structure of say $5-10 million. Actually, there is tons of wealth in San Diego but it isn’t organized well to support them. The key is to be able to keep the best ones local.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2019

To discuss this seismic shift, Rodolfo Gonzalez, partner at Foundation Capital and one of the only major Silicon Valley investors from Mexico, will be joined by the CEOs of Rappi, Bitso, and Runa HR?—?three If you’re newer to angel investing, angel groups are a great avenue to build your understanding and confidence as an investor.

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Gust

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Leaders and active members of all the major North American angel groups attend this three day conference, along with a large delegation of international business angels. NACO National Angel Summit. This is the big one, which rotates among different cities in the US each year. NVCA Annual Meeting.

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Gust

MARCH 1, 2014

That’s because it was designed to be completely customizable for each angel group or venture fund using the platform. Group administrators have the ability to turn ratings on or off, show or hide them, establish the scale for them, and decide on how many criteria a profile is rated.

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Gust

JUNE 25, 2014

Both platforms allow investors (and others) to search for companies by criteria such as name, keyword and location.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 19, 2017

The Central Texas Angel Network is one of the most active angel groups in North America. Here is a partial list of the Capital Factory Partners who are backing this investment. More and more investors from the east, west and middle coasts have their eyes on Austin and are making investments here.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 2, 2022

Looking for an entrance into a VC, an angel group, a bank, a CxO for a sales opportunity, or any other entity? So, after all, do consider the gate keeper as a potential partner whose “commission” on the sale is social and political approval from above. What’s a gatekeeper? But what power.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Angel groups started dropping their application fees or making them minimal. Open Angel Forum created a costless way for the best startups to get in front of the best capital. I would also argue that when it's easier to hear about all the potential opportunities, you make better decisions about who to back.

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David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

My former Partner John Frankel of ff Venture Capital observes that 20 years ago, the defining movie of the generation was “Wall Street”. This is a topic we care a lot about, given HOF Capital’s long-term strategy for partnering with universities and my forthcoming book on “ hacking the university ”. “CEO is the new Analyst.”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2012

Particularly if you are desperate, keep in mind the person who finds a good-looking partner to take home from the bar at closing time, but then wakes up in the morning wondering “What did I just do?” Due diligence on an investor is where you validate the track record, operating style, and motivation of your new potential partner.

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Gust

JULY 12, 2012

On Wednesday, April 18th, I gave a keynote speech on US Startup Valuation Trends for the 1st Irish Angel Meetup. Two hundred angels, entrepreneurs and members of the startup community attended this inaugural event. It was organized by Diane Roberts of Xcell Partners and held at the StartupBaseCamp accelerator in Dublin.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Smaller funds are always looking for limited partners and co-investors in their deals—so starting an angel group or just being willing to make such introductions in your network goes a long way. You could run the same kind of group suggested above on a regular basis as a way to network with investors.

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David Teten

MARCH 8, 2013

Introductions: Dan Rosen (Partner, Commerce Ventures; Learning Officer- HBS Alumni Angels). Speaker: David Teten (Partner, ff Venture Capital, and Chair, HBS Alumni Angels NY). How to make the most out of angel group participation. Latest trends in angel investing and where the industry is headed.

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