The Startup Magazine

MARCH 1, 2021

As part of The Startup Magazine Founder Interview Series , we interviewed Maha and David Harper, wife and husband co-founders of Atlas Group London, a construction-tech startup that has digitized the building of healthcare facilities. ICAS® can then be scaled up across the customer’s portfolio bringing enterprise-wide benefits.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Paul Graham’s recent essay, Founder Mode , describes the mindset that founders need to adopt to navigate the early stages of building a startup, and how they’re different than ‘manager mode’ which is traditional management/corporate best practices.

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Management Technical Review Venture Capital Generative AI 103

David Teten

AUGUST 20, 2019

Many are reporting that they’re seeing a more diverse pool of applicants than traditional equity VCs… even though virtually none have a particular focus on women or underrepresented founders. In addition, their portfolios look far more diverse than VC industry norms. Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

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Revenue Cofounder Founder Venture Capital 60

Eric Friedman

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

My partner ( Steve Schlafman ) and I recently launched Tapestry , an exercise for founders to invest in their relationships, and it was met with an incredible reaction. I had done a lot of this work in the past with founding teams and co-founders and never had a great catch all way of explaining it. to launch Tapestry.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Firstly, let me introduce myself — Libby James, Co-founder of Merchant Advice Service , we specialize in helping business owners when they have been terminated or declined card processing both of which can be common when starting up a company. When looking for alternative card processing it’s worthwhile using an unbiased Broker.

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Ben's Blog

JANUARY 31, 2012

That excitement took a sharp downhill turn when one of the top partners said to me, in front of my co-founders, “When are you going to get a real CEO?”. As we set out to design a venture capital firm that would enable founders to run their own companies, we began by asking: In what ways are professional CEOs superior to founder CEOs?

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Carmen Medina , co-author of the book Rebels at Work , spent 32 years at CIA. It basically means like a senior statesman in country … without portfolio.

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Wiki Entrepreneur Cofounder Government 120

David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

Many VCs focus on specific verticals, usually based on the sector in which a VC initially made her reputation. Social media tools like Linkedin and FullContact increases the value of network currency (reputation and access), because people with currency can spend their currency getting to a wider array of influencers. – Network.

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Venture Capital Private Equity Silicon Valley Differentiation 60

David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

Many VCs focus on specific verticals, usually based on the sector in which a VC initially made her reputation. Social media tools like Linkedin and FullContact increases the value of network currency (reputation and access), because people with currency can spend their currency getting to a wider array of influencers. – Network.

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Venture Capital Private Equity Silicon Valley Differentiation 60

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

Previously she was Co-Founder and CEO of SNAZZ, a cloud-based event management platform. Her work included heading Nokia’s location-based services business and app portfolio for emerging markets, which she built from a back-of-a-napkin idea to a 100-person organization with over 10 million users.

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Venture Capital Balance Sheet Technical Review Portfolio 60

Lightspeed Venture Partners

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

One of my favorite things about the tech industry is that reputations and relationships matter. One of my bosses at CitySearch was John Pleasants , who was later CEO of Playdom , one of our portfolio companies, and sold it to Disney. These are some “smart and scrappy founders” he told me, keep an eye on them.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

One of my favorite things about the tech industry is that reputations and relationships matter. One of my bosses at CitySearch was John Pleasants , who was later CEO of Playdom , one of our portfolio companies, and sold it to Disney. These are some “smart and scrappy founders” he told me, keep an eye on them.

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Technical Cofounder Los Angeles Social Network Cofounder 60

David Teten

JANUARY 23, 2021

Yohei Nakajima, Founder of Untapped.vc , said, “Before pitching LPs and building my firm, I talked with over 50 people I knew to get feedback.” . Also note, many institutional investors don’t really allocate to VC asset classes directly due to the size of their portfolios. Lastly, gather feedback. We are using Digify to manage this.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Software Review 78

The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

David Arnoux is Head of Growth and co-founder of Twoodo. In the end, getting on the big publications of the world really is the best for a return on your writing time since they are reputable, have a huge following and have plenty sub-categories of topics to fit into. Six months ago, we went from five daily sign-ups to 25.

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Genuine VC

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Like a lot of students, I went into business school a decade ago with a set plan to start a company coming straight after graduation in co-founding an internet startup (… again ). Go outside the business school to meet co-founders. Recruit” your co-founders there; it’s more difficult, but that’s the point.

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Cofounder Portfolio Venture Capital Reputation 256

reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

It doesn’t matter whether an entrepreneur is in our portfolio, whether we’re considering an investment, or whether we’re casually meeting for the first time. Creating the right incentives and reputation system would lead to a directory people would be a part of. It has reputation. Our answer: a network. eBay has a network.

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Entrepreneur Viral Revenue Networking 111

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

But they are also a tax on your time with portfolio companies, looking for new investments, running your shop and honestly they are a tax on your family life. Co-founder discontent. What would this founder do if he got an offer to be acquihired quickly by Facebook? Co-investors are critical. Motives matter.

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Cofounder Syndicate Syndication Early Stage 374

View from Seed

MAY 29, 2019

These funds would regularly share deal flow with one another and could share the work in supporting founders and helping to push the company forward. This post will try to describe why this is happening and what repercussions are for founders and investors. Is This is Good or Bad for Founders?

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Syndicate Syndication Cofounder Cap Table 267

Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

Friday, March 9 Attracting VC Funding Outside Silicon Valley Panel with HomeAway founder Brian Sharples & Capital Factory Director Gordon Daugherty We do a lot of things differently in Texas, including fundraising. Gayle King is co-host of CBS This Morning. as in pro wrestling?—?you’re you’re going to take some hits.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Creating and showing constant momentum through personal portfolio projects and volunteering is a powerful means of landing a new job as a product manager, especially if one has never officially held the professional title “Product Manager.” Creativity is also a must for product managers.

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Up and Running

JUNE 4, 2018

Given that these kinds of freelance careers depend on having a solid reputation and portfolio of work, it’s wise to start building those things as quickly as possible. Mark Zuckerberg was a well-connected individual and actually received funding from PayPal’s co-founder very early in Facebook’s existence.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 3, 2014

by Jay Eum, co-founder and Managing Director of TransLink Capital. 4: Reputation matters. Most Asian executives operate on a social system that is highly focused on reputation. In Asia, first impressions are vital and remember that your reputation precedes you. 5: Get help.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2010

I believe these VC funds have suffered some amount of reputation fall out. Second, more damning is the “signaling problem.&# This means that if a VC invests in your seed round and does not participate in a future round the next round investor will think to himself, “well, if Big VC Co. Great reputation.

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Venture Capital Term Sheet Early Stage Silicon Valley 265

This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The partner at the fund, the VC, gets to do the fun part—the meeting with founders, vetting deals, negotiating, helping, etc. Having a better overall portfolio of venture capital by adding funds into the mix. That’s the first thing anyone trying to raise a fund needs to understand, as well as anyone thinking about investing in one.

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Portfolio Syndicate Syndication Deal Flow 103

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

I was hanging out the other day with my buddy Jody Sherman, founder & CEO of EcoMom. I think how hard it is for me to be hands-on with a handful of portfolio companies. He was talking profusely about their portfolio company email lists and the knowledge that is shared. Through this process he raised $2 million.

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Valuation Deal Flow Lead Investor Cofounder 292

Hearpreneur

JULY 20, 2018

Thanks to Jonas Sickler, Reputation Management ! #4- LOL Within weeks, as we worked on restoring the building, we learned our error, as well as the illustrious history of our historic Coal Heritage Trail building- among other things, that it was built by Empire Coal & Coke Co. 4- Created a new word. Photo Credit: Max Spielberg.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

Use that intelligence to inform product portfolio and investment choices.”. I built my first startup in Argentina during the economic crisis-turned-revolution in 2001,” writes Frederic Kerrest , “and my co-founder and I started Okta in the depths of the U.S. Here are some things you can do. Learn from forced efficiency. “I

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

Each VC has their own take on which services to provide and mostly they’re free but some smaller VCs charge portfolio companies for use of these services but usually at a cheap cost. All are great firms with great reputations and phenomenal returns. It is clear to me that both approaches work.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 4, 2014

On Monday we had a Foundry Group portfolio company sales summit. We are fortunate in that we’ve got a bunch of amazing sales execs in our portfolio, including several CEOs like Howard Diamond of MobileDay and Matthew Bellows of Yesware who have long histories selling and building sales organizations.

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Software Portfolio Sales Cofounder 140

View from Seed

MARCH 12, 2015

In a typical first meeting between a VC and team of co-founders, the investor typically ends up asking more questions than the founders. Most venture firms list their portfolio on their website ( here’s ours ) and sometimes talk about their typical investment model ( ditto ). Consult the Interwebs.

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Rob Go

JANUARY 10, 2017

BTW, once you are an investor, it will serve you well to continue to cement your reputation as one of the up-and-comers that is an established expert in this emerging space. A number of funds that invest in growth-stage companies have established sourcing teams that essentially cold-call founders and track them over a long period of time.

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Technical Review Due Diligence Deal Flow Early Stage 28

Austin Startup

AUGUST 22, 2018

Co-owner and founder Michael Heyne said that people didn’t understand the original name, a reference to doner kebabs (which isn’t even available on the menu anymore). But to do it he had to go back to making passion projects (read: free self-generated work) to build a more diverse portfolio. In-House Int’l 5.

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Design New York City Cofounder Bankruptcy 48

Hunter Walker

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Fund people/ideas ahead of consensus — that is, find founders and markets that aren’t currently being chased by the mainstream and get to conviction ahead of the pack. Lead/Co-Lead Checks of $750k+ for 8+% ownership. There’s a lot of nuance still in the interplay between check size, ownership and portfolio management.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 6, 2014

I wrote last year about their unconventional format that allows venture capitalists to pitch themselves to growth-stage startup founders in under 5 minutes. Arjen Strijker, co-founder and CEO of Capital On Stage, has had more than 200 top-tier venture capitalists on stage at his conferences (view all 5 minute VC pitch videos here ).

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 10, 2022

I love working with great people and as a venture capitalist, am fortunate the number of founders I’m impressed by far exceeds our investment capacity. Here’s an example of a founder that I’ve known for a while who recently raised a seed round with different firms than ours. fundraise came about & why it didn’t include me (yet).

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Cofounder Founder Acquisition Startup 118

Agile VC

JULY 15, 2015

The majority of the companies in NextView’s portfolio are fundamentally software-based, rather than being hardware related. But we will undoubtedly continue to add more hardware related businesses to our portfolio. I promised to return to how hardware fits into the long arc of the internet.

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Agile VC

JULY 15, 2015

The majority of the companies in NextView’s portfolio are fundamentally software-based, rather than being hardware related. But we will undoubtedly continue to add more hardware related businesses to our portfolio. I promised to return to how hardware fits into the long arc of the internet.

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