Genuine VC

AUGUST 14, 2012

For entrepreneurs, seeking seed capital means meeting with numerous VC firms and sometimes dozens of angels… fun? Introductions to customers, long-term advisors, business development partners can result from the fundraising process, as those early conversations turn into real relationships. Those three letters.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Yes, VC / Startup Funding is up Massively If you look at how much VC firms have raised from Limited Partners (LPs) over the past 2 decades you’ll see that we’ve returned to a level that we haven’t seen since 1999. If you want the whole deck you can find it on SlideShare but I’ve written up a short summary with commentary below.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

It was a great conversation and I thought it would be a good idea to do some visible networking with Aaron to get to know him better. While in law school, my partner, Leigh, and I had a concept for a law firm that did more than just “law.” A few years ago “venture capital” was a revenue model.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Today, NextView Ventures is excited to release a pillar project in our Growth Guides series: pitch deck templates for raising seed capital. For context, last year, based on questions from our existing portfolio, we launched two board deck templates for seed-stage startups. Usually, a more human interaction works better.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

” Yet in my little corner of Wonksville, Founder Institute CEO Adeo Ressi and Yoichiro “Yokum” Taku , a partner at my “alma mater” law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati , created quite a stir this past week by announcing a new set of template deal documents dubbed “ Convertible Equity.”

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

What is the best advice you can give for finding a business partner? Don’t quickly choose any business partner. The key is to ask the right people what they think – not your friends, parents or partner. At the end of the conversation, ask them if they’d be willing to make an introduction. Do something together.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 2, 2016

Amy and I watched The Big Short on Tuesday with my partner Jason and his wife Jenn. ” I remember reading The Big Short in 2010 when it came out. ” When I go back a decade, we were just making the decision not to raise another Mobius Venture Capital fund. My partners and I hadn’t yet created Foundry Group.

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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2015

My guests on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Errol Arkilic , former program director for the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (NSF I-Corps), now founder of M34 Capital. Venk Shukla , president TiE Silicon Valley and general partner, Monta Vista Capital.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 12, 2018

The Women in Tech Summit, produced by Capital Factory in partnership with DivInc and Women@Austin , included programming that ranged from an empowering Google workshop, to a pitch competition for the chance to win a $100,000 Investment.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 28, 2019

I put that in quotations, because, as I’ll expound, there is a start-up industrial complex that is designed to fleece novice founders from their seed capital with predatory fees, terms, etc. Good accelerators don’t see you as a customer, you’re a partner that they want to help. OK, enough with disclosures. A good policy.

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Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 6, 2019

This is just one of the many insights that Wences and I covered during the conversations we’ve had down here. You can listen to our discussion on Greylock Partners’ Greymatter podcast, and I encourage you to subscribe for these and other insights on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, and wherever you listen to podcasts.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

Ultimately, the company partnered with the City of Los Angeles , and as Eren recalls, "seven days after the original handshake and launch into a scheduling website, we helped launch Dodger Stadium, which was the single largest mass vaccination site in the country." Here's my conversation with Eren Bali.

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