David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. GCVF specializes in providing critical support to founders based in small communities, while connecting them to an unfair network well-beyond their small-town headquarters. . (co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 15, 2020

by Dr. Jim White , founder and president of JL White International and bestselling author of “ Opportunity Investing: How To Revitalize Urban And Rural Communities With Opportunity Funds “ COVID-19 has disrupted the business world, and the “normal” of a few months ago may never return. and Growers Ice Company, Inc.,

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BeyondVC

JUNE 29, 2005

Every year the Dow Jones Private Equity Analyst puts together a show where fund managers can listen to what the LP community is interested in and where they plan on allocating their dollars. In the early morning, a show of hands revealed about a 20% LP audience and 80% fund manager group.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. Lower level of community familiarity. Zack Mueller, Attorney, Ireland Stapleton Pryor & Pascoe, PC , points that almost “no one, from LPs to entrepreneurs to attorneys, has much experience with these instruments. Of the Inc.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 27, 2014

Last week we held our first annual LP meeting, when venture funds get their investors together with updates on operations and results. Community : Building out Homebrew WW HQ in SF which at any time houses a couple of portfolio companies and founders pre-funding. We make available coworking space for free.

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Board Effect

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Their stories of innovation and dedication remind us of the impact thoughtful leadership can have on our organizations and communities. These trailblazers have set new standards in governance and leadership, inspiring all of us to strive for excellence.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

As a globally focused LP in early stage VC funds, we at Blue Future Partners have observed a growing trend of firms investing substantially in software tools, whether developing proprietary solutions or adopting off the shelf tools. However, 87% of our respondents don’t actively participate in any such community.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

My colleagues Sebastian Soler , Steven Greenberg and I recently launched a new online community, PEVCTech.com , exclusively for PE/VC investors; engineers who work at PE/VC funds; and other technologists who specialize in working on this problem. to motivate their angel community to support their startups. are using AngelMob.co

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BeyondVC

JUNE 29, 2005

Every year the Dow Jones Private Equity Analyst puts together a show where fund managers can listen to what the LP community is interested in and where they plan on allocating their dollars. In the early morning, a show of hands revealed about a 20% LP audience and 80% fund manager group.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Operations. We call these investors “LPs” for limited partners. I had lunch with an LP. I like to meet people like this because in an hour I get catch up on everything going on in the startup community. I try to bucket my tasks into major categories and spend some time doing each of them. My core duty.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2016

I asked for the responsibility of setting out the firm’s future strategy and our daily operating tasks. I laid out the following goals: Hire investment partners with operating experience combined with investment experience and deeply committed to LA Tech, but with strong relationships in SF, NYC and beyond.

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Hunter Walker

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

I talk to a lot of great women (particularly deeply seasoned operators) who disqualify themselves from pursuing venture because they think they don’t have the finance background for it. Ashley Mayer / Coalition Operators ] [Hunter: I sometimes ask founders to think of their cap table early on as a recipe where investors are ingredients.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 9, 2012

Since the DMCA, we’ve basically operated in an environment of “ask forgiveness rather than permission” when it comes to copyright and IP online. It’s an embarrassment, frankly, to our tech community. “Stopping Piracy” and “Protecting IP” sound like good ideas in theory.

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

I attended the annual LP meeting for a venture capital firm this week and got into a discussion about the above question. I've learned more in the three months working with a real-life entrepreneur on a new venture than in all 5 years of Community College and my BA. ProfessorVC. The last blogger in Silicon Valley.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 7, 2015

Last week Homebrew held its second annual LP meeting, coinciding with our second anniversary as a fund. Bringing New LPs Up to Speed: Since we raised our second fund earlier this year, you can think of this as our first board meeting with our new investors.

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Eric Friedman

DECEMBER 30, 2020

10/ Community is a moat. Yes, but it turns out physical spaces lost out this year and virtual spaces and communities won the day (year?). 5/ The rise of operator angels + micro VCs explodes in 2021. No, but close. 9/ MR (mixed reality) finds a killer use case. In fact, my prediction on Magic Leap was dead wrong. Final score =.5.

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 31, 2024

generalist focus, operator background). The first is the fund that you would ideally raise if LP capital was not a constraining factor. Given this, LPs today are focused on the depth of the investing experience of a new GP and any emerging manager should address this heads-on in their deck and LP communications.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Rather than see LP interactions as a chore or a burden, new fund managers should see this as an opportunity to extend the community around their fund. That happens most when the LPs represent a diverse group of industries and perspectives who want to be helpful to portfolio companies and founders.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

While not obvious on the surface, there has been a fundamental sea-change in the investment community that has made the incremental Unicorn investment a substantially more dangerous and complicated practice. Twelve to eighteen months later, you hit the road and do it again — super simple. This is uncharted territory.

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 8, 2019

The output takes the form of events where portfolio execs can meet each other, online communities where they can share knowledge and blog posts and talks from experts to disseminate best practice. This trend accelerated through the emergence of VC and operator blogging in the early 2000s. . It’s hard and requires a different mindset.

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Up and Running

MAY 26, 2015

It was a great way to get the community to work together, and of course weed out a little of the inevitable clutter. The options for registering your business name include: Registering your business structure, and simply operating under that name. While an operating agreement isn’t required in all states, it’s always a good idea.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Cindy Revol, Joe Beard and Anurag Jain from Perot Jain, LP We received a warm welcome from Trey Bowles when we first came to Dallas and there have been many others who have opened their arms to us since. We are glad that Capital Factory is in Dallas and thrilled to see that they are also community builders who grow through collaboration.”

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David Teten

JULY 12, 2017

GPs strategically invite trusted [Limited Partners and others] to co-invest, often based on the LP’s ability to add value or when the amount of capital required to complete an attractive transaction is larger than they are able to invest alone.”. 2) Investors with very specific value-add.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

So I would start by sharing with the fund an institutional LP due diligence checklist , and ask them to share their data room with you. Bloomberg Beta open-sources their entire operating manual on Github, where their website lives. These are many of the steps I went through when I joined HOF Capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

Open cloud led by Amazon with their AWS services drove total operating costs down by 90%. The LP Community Hasn’t Yet Caught Up. As I’ve started to get to know the other side of the VC industry lately (the people who invest in VC funds or “LPs&# ) one thing has occurred to me. I think some will do this.

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David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

I’ve listed them below in *very* roughly descending order of efficiency, measured by increased dollars one can put to work, divided by the operational dollars required to implement each strategy. . – Encourage founders to turn to other founders and their broader community as resources, not just the VC’s own staff.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

Last Friday, June 21st I sent the following message out to our community of users, colleagues, friends and supporters. With the help of advisors Ada Ryland and Wayne Lopez, we set up data-driven operation to get clarity on what and why we measured?—?and This home-grown community is extra-ordinary. and the outcomes. “If

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Having run our own companies, we try to pass on as much of our operations knowledge as possible. As competitive as venture capital often seems, we are incredibly humbled by the amount of support and love we have gotten over the years from our community. And last but not least, we thank our investors, the LPs.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

Especially when the brand normally operate in an invisible category like washing powder. Popup-e-nomics – As retail continues to struggle as a permanent fixture, smart and nimble operators are leveraging events, seasonality and instant geo-located retail parties as we move into the popup-e-nomics era.

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Seeing Both Sides

MARCH 14, 2016

But for most undergraduates and graduate students, they have no idea how to get plugged in to the startup community. If you have your own idea and no one can talk you out of it, that's awesome.

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Seeing Both Sides

MARCH 14, 2016

But for most undergraduates and graduate students, they have no idea how to get plugged in to the startup community. If you have your own idea and no one can talk you out of it, that's awesome.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

A few weeks ago, Coinbase , which facilitates buying, storing and purchasing cryptocurrency and also operates a cryptocurrency exchange, went public. Coinbase was founded in 2012 and operates a cryptocurrency exchange. Can institutions be totally distributed or should they be rooted and loyal to a certain community or geography?

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Hunter Walker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

So a sincere hope of mine in building Frank isn’t that we’re right, it’s that we can be part of growing an ecosystem or community of folks building tools specifically for worker power (LaborTech). HW: Frank is venture backed. I’m going to assume that your funding conversations here were a bit different than your last startup.

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David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

Avataar Ventures invests exclusively in companies which fit these criteria: “$15 Million + in Annual Recurring Revenues; Strong Tech-Led B2B & SaaS Companies; Core Operations in India/ South East Asia; Open to Active Partnering.” As such, there are 3 stakeholders when building a thesis: the investing Partners, the LPs and the founders. .

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

In its first full year of operation, VCAP attracted 159 applicants. – SignUp.com is an organizing platform to quickly mobilize and coordinate people in their community, school, religious organization, or other social networks. This helps to replace the jobs lost as so many restaurants are going out of business due to COVID-19.

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