David Teten

MAY 9, 2012

I am very happy to announce today a new program I’ve been working on designed to support women and diverse entrepreneurs, particularly those in the technology sector. VCAP© Addresses the Gap between Venture Capital and Funding for Women and Diverse Entrepreneurs. competitiveness. for non-diverse firms.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

AngelList 101 : As you know, AngelList is a platform where angels can invest in semi-screened tech deals. It should help some entrepreneurs to better access early-stage capital and should allow some angel investors better access to deal flow. So What’s the Big Deal? Both are right. founder fighting.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 7, 2013

Sure, there will always some seed funding (10% of overall deal flow), but you can bet that this money goes to entrepreneurs who have been there before and won. So what can entrepreneurs do to get to the head of the venture capital investment queue and position their startup for a winning IPO?

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A Crowded Space

JUNE 18, 2013

. —— This deal came through a back channel diligence call. I believe that these calls have two very significant benefits that make them good sources of deal flow. 1) Pretense - in normal meetings with VCs and entrepreneurs, someone is always selling. Selling puts people on the defensive.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

I recently read a post over on VentureHacks titled, “ Top Ten Reasons Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers &# written by Scott Walker (who blogs on legal issues for entrepreneurs ). I find that one of my best sources of deal flow is from lawyers. This is a must read for all entrepreneurs. the link is here.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

One of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make is misunderstanding the role of venture capital investors. There’s lots of lore, emotion, and misconceptions of what VC’s do or don’t do for entrepreneurs. What this meant for entrepreneurs and VC’s was simple– the gold rush to liquidity was on. What Do VC’s Do?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

Yet nearly any entrepreneur who has an idea that other people aren’t doing will tell you that it’s hard to get investors excited. Investors are conformists by nature. I believe that huge financial, productivity and technical gains come from new innovation rather than derivative thinking. This requires novel thinking.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

To begin with, it is important to understand some basic facts about the world of entrepreneurial finance: There are many more entrepreneurs than there are investors, with the result that only one company out of every 400 that seeks venture funding actually receives it. One of the primary ones is the referral source.

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Gust

OCTOBER 29, 2014

This exposure helps in recruiting entrepreneurs for their rapidly growing Global Entrepreneur Program , as well their integrated suite of cloud services targeted towards tech and startup community members. Our vision has always been to facilitate the connections between entrepreneurs and early stage investors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

As an entrepreneur, simply enter your location online, and it will list the angel and VC organizations near you. As a member of the selection committee on one of these local organizations, I use Angelsoft on the investor side to review business plans, deal flow, and help orchestrate presenters at monthly meetings of the local organization.

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 18, 2018

US VC deal flow in healthcare hit an all-time high this year as we continue to refine our thesis on the space. If you’re enthusiastic about these themes as an entrepreneur, investor, or operator, please reach out! This helps encourage the mainstream adoption of cryptocurrency ). Bio/healthcare.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

FUND is a national connector of entrepreneurs, VCs, angel investors, and industry experts with a focus on deal flow and making connections. At this year’s FUND Conference in Chicago, Illinois, over 100 startups presented their early-stage companies in front of hundreds of investors and industry leaders.

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Mucker Lab

AUGUST 27, 2014

As an entrepreneur himself, founding and operating printed circuit board factories in Taiwan, my father was debating between two places to immigrate to and build his next new venture: Los Angeles (“The Valley” aka San Fernando Valley) and Santa Clara (“Silicon Valley”).

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

In 2006 when I was a budding entrepreneur building my second startup I ran into a young (ish) enthusiastic founder of an electronic signature company called EchoSign. I reference to the fact that I had walked in entrepreneurs shoes but now found myself on the other side. Lemkin (@jasonlk) January 31, 2015. Some background.

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Gust

DECEMBER 21, 2011

The Valley produces world-class entrepreneurs, angel investors, venture capitalists and successful high-tech companies – all growing and creating jobs on one relatively small peninsula. Many other communities are entrepreneur-friendly and, by any measure, have the tools in place to spawn new high growth companies.

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NZ Entrepreneur

MAY 31, 2021

Building deal flow so that you have access to more opportunities and can select from the best possible options. The post Portfolio Management – Learning from experienced investors appeared first on NZ Entrepreneur Magazine. Negotiating reasonable terms and valuations that look to the long-term.

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Haystack

OCTOBER 2, 2019

It feels like a tsunami of deal flow , and for me, I’ve outlined how I pay attention to inbound flow in terms of what gets priority. And one of the sources of that flow are the new accelerators (I’m lumping incubators, accelerators, etc. ” And, surely, it “can” work.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

I started this series in part to help entrepreneurs but also to help newer investors because I’ve know with so many new companies you have so many new board members and many people are trying to figure out there respective roles.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

2011 is going to be a great year for entrepreneurs – even better than 2010. The survey indicated that the VCs surveyed felt the best prospects were for entrepreneurs in emerging markets like China, Brazil, and India. But this investment will happen globally and the US may see a decline in VC-funded startups in 2011.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Great returns in early stage investing is driven by great deal flow and good picking. We also continue to be guided by the same North Star – which is to offer a great product for our customers, the entrepreneur, so that he or she can achieve the full-potential of their creations. .

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Even though the good comes with the bad (with great power comes great responsibility ), I think it pays to be optimistic about the future and what technology and entrepreneurs will accomplish. I think the best companies enable incredibly positive things in the world.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

I believe the rise in angel investing is here to stay and the professionalization of this class (aka “super angels&# or “micro VC&# ) is a good thing for the VC industry and for entrepreneurs. Access to the best deal flow – I think the most obvious thing you need to be successful is access to the right deals in the first place.

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2009

In exchange, these VCs/companies get early looks at new deal flow and offer aspiring entrepreneurs feedback and advice on their business plan. For those of you who don’t know, business plan competitions are held by universities who get their students to enter and compete to see who has the best business idea.

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Tim Keane

MAY 22, 2006

« Compensation for Entrepreneurs | Main.   Deals that were put together so poorly that the entrepreneur had little room to work.  Good deals do none of these things.  In all of these cases, the investors were individuals working with the entrepreneur directly.    Do the same. 

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 16, 2011

It’s the entrepreneur’s equivalent of “ 10,000 hours.&#. If you wait until you need to fill somebody in a roll you’re losing valuable time as an entrepreneur. Increase your deal flow. It should stick in your head as a metaphor for networking. For getting outside of your comfort zone. Are You a VC?

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2023

This setup is incredibly investor-friendly because investors may pick and choose whatever companies they want to invest in from the deal flow. The average investment horizon for angel funds is between eight and ten years.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

This is the second article in a series on what it takes to be a great angel investor (and why this should matter to entrepreneurs). Part 1 – Access to Great Deal Flow – is here. But the problem is that most deals – even really promising ones – fail. Access to Deal Flow.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

ATI has served the entrepreneur community for over twenty years and focuses on the IT, Wireless, Clean Energy and Bioscience verticals. The Assistant Director will manage the deal flow process and lead our due diligence efforts to admit new members. ATI also works closely with MobileMondayAustin and Semantic Web Austin.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 12, 2013

—— Jason, an entrepreneur I’ve known for over a decade, came out to the ranch today. I realized most entrepreneurs don’t know how to get meetings with people too busy to see you. I’m not an investor, and I’m really not looking for meetings with entrepreneurs for deal flow. Perfect World.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2022

This software platform is used by many local angel organizations for managing deal flow. As an entrepreneur, you simply use their investor search engine to find appropriate investors for your business according to location, industry interest, and other relevant criteria. Angel Capital Association (ACA).

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

This software platform is used by most local Angel organizations for managing deal flow. As an entrepreneur, you simply use their investor search engine to find appropriate investors for your business according to location, industry interest and other relevant criteria. angels entrepreneur funding groups startup'

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Small investment firms often have interns and entrepreneurs in residence passing through, each of which is a security risk. I said we had a lot of deal flow. Pioneer runs an extremely open contest focused on lowering the bar to raising capital for “scientists, artists, entrepreneurs and civic activists.” 2) Market .

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 15, 2014

In addition to bootstrapping his new company forever (since he’s a multi-time successful entrepreneur), Steve could easily raise an angel round any time he wanted to. For the investors, the clear benefits are: 1) Access to deal flow they wouldn’t otherwise get.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

” We explained what we felt the core values of a firm of the future needed to uphold: Provide real operational insights to entrepreneurs (the days of being “money men” are gone). Give direct feedback to entrepreneurs on their businesses or if we’re not investing why it’s not a fit for us.

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thebarefootvc

JULY 3, 2017

One of the reasons I launched FuturePerfect Ventures in 2013 after 20 years in the tech industry was that I strongly believed we needed more women with decision making power on the VC side of the table to find and collaborate with the best entrepreneurs. They decide which VCs receive capital to invest in entrepreneurs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2013

This software platform is used by most local Angel organizations for managing deal flow. As an entrepreneur, you simply use their investor search engine to find appropriate investors for your business according to location, industry interest and other relevant criteria. New England Investment Network.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2012

If the total money you're looking to raise over the life of your company to be cash-flow positive is greater than $3M, or you will likely need money to scale, you need to work the VC territory. Successful serial entrepreneurs usually find it easier to raise money from venture capitalists. Team experience. Founder network.

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