Cofounder Partner Strategic Investors 
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 30, 2010
I’m very pleased today to announce that I invested, on behalf of GRP Partners, in Burstly alongside Rincon Venture Partners , an early stage VC in Southern California whith whom we love to work (and were our co-investors on RingRevenue ). He knows the ad management and ad network businesses.
View from Seed
JANUARY 11, 2017
A startup can benefit in various ways from having a strategic investor involved in their company, but there are plenty of drawbacks too, both commonly known and more subtle. On the flip side, simply taking strategic investor capital because it’s there or it’s easier or cheaper than other capital rarely works out well for startups.
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David Teten
SEPTEMBER 6, 2015
She had so much insight to share that we broke the interview into two parts, 1) Corporate Venture Capital and more broadly, 2) How the Fortune 500 Can Buy, Invest and Partner with the Innovation Economy (coming soon). . Previously she was Co-Founder and CEO of SNAZZ, a cloud-based event management platform.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 30, 2018
I know that some founders feel uncomfortable with this as though they might somehow be sharing something so confidential that it ultimately hurts you. So a VC doesn’t want to price a deal in which the founder feels aggrieved from day one but takes your money anyway because he or she doesn’t have a choice. After all?—?we
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 18, 2010
What a pleasure that I got to spend an hour talking with both Om Malik (whom I’ve always respected his views) and Paul Jozefak , a venture capital partner at Neuhaus Partners in Germany (and formerly the head of Europe for SAP Ventures). Are “strategic investors&# (e.g. Total raised: $5.0mm.
This is going to be BIG.
DECEMBER 21, 2017
Tech VC is a pretty mature marketplace--the players are known, the process is established, and so while relationship building might take time, usually you can estimate how long a deal will take with some accuracy (besides, of course, that it takes longer than the founder wants). You just don't know. 3) Find a flexible lead.
Hunter Walker
JUNE 7, 2016
These people are true founders and entrepreneurs just like any venture backed company. Bettina Stern: My business partner Suzanne Simon and I have been cooking together for many years. UberEats – we recently partnered with this behemoth to get our food to more customers. How did it all begin?
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