Genuine VC

JULY 26, 2010

Micro VCs are notorious for building large and friendly syndicates. While traditional VCs sometimes have a love/hate relationship with their syndicate partners (often depending on how well their mutual portfolio companies are performing), it seems as though in the Micro VC arena all of the players speak and act like best friends.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 29, 2013

Content Marketing for Brand Engagement and Demand Generation written by Guest Post read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing Thursday is guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest is David Capece – Enjoy! 2) Demand generation. Improve brand perception. Become a thought leader.

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Demand Tampa Marketing B2B 77

This is going to be BIG.

MAY 29, 2012

Then they realize that some of these companies will hit a wall, demand a lot of time, and that it's all fun and games until someone gets an eye poked out--or so the saying goes. You're going to want syndication partners on the deals you find and sounding boards on the thesis behind each of your potential investments.

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Angel Investor Syndicate Syndication Portfolio 123

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2010

They were grateful for the extra money as their launch was overwhelmingly successful and they had to rapidly hire staff to support customer demand. Their entrepreneurs are evangelical about how great it is to be part of True’s portfolio. If you’re doing well you’ll have demand. Same with True Ventures.

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Venture Capital Term Sheet Early Stage Silicon Valley 265

Genuine VC

JULY 1, 2014

But in the particular case of our portfolio company TapCommerce , which yesterday announced its acquisition by Twitter a mere two years after the company’s founding ( more details ), there have been some key lessons which I’ll meaningfully take away from my experience in working with Brian Long , Samir Mirza , and Andrew Jones.

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Founder Syndication Syndicate Mobile 142

Version One Ventures

JULY 6, 2016

Here’s a quick recap of some of this quarter’s news clippings for V1 and our portfolio companies. Portfolio companies in the news. Businesses using Shippo in San Francisco, NYC, and Chicago now can offer local customers on-demand delivery via UberRUSH. Hope you had a great Canada Day and Fourth of July weekend!

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View from Seed

JULY 9, 2015

But you want relevant traffic and an actual purpose for driving those leads — letting them sit around on a list, rarely if ever hearing from you as you build product, is not an effective demand-gen tactic. They create a public record of your company and investor syndicate (in some cases) for sites like Crunchbase.

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Hunter Walker

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

I really liked Jason Lemkin’s “ Do You Have a Weak Investor Syndicate ” blog post from earlier in the summer. If we’ve got an oversupply of demand, is this the round your firm usually starts stepping back from pro rata?”. I’ll give you an example of a conversation I had with a current portfolio company just this week.

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Cap Table Seed Stage Syndication Syndicate 123

Agile VC

JULY 15, 2015

This company will remain in stealth mode for at least a little while and it isn’t my place to divulge their plans, but we’re very excited about the founding team, market opportunity, and syndicate we will be part of. But we will undoubtedly continue to add more hardware related businesses to our portfolio.

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Internet Cofounder Stealth Seed Stage 100

Agile VC

JULY 15, 2015

This company will remain in stealth mode for at least a little while and it isn’t my place to divulge their plans, but we’re very excited about the founding team, market opportunity, and syndicate we will be part of. But we will undoubtedly continue to add more hardware related businesses to our portfolio.

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Internet Cofounder Stealth Seed Stage 100

David Teten

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

At my firm, ff Venture Capital, we’re trying our part to rethink how the industry works, and also actively looking for opportunities to invest in companies creatively disrupting this sector, e.g., our portfolio companies Addepar and Indiegogo.

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Management Pre-Money Valuation Venture Capital New Hampshire 114

OnlyOnce

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

” While the founding team was exploring potential business opportunities that allowed us to make a bigger impact on the world, Silicon Valley Bank and High Alpha Innovation were together envisioning a platform to help VC-backed portfolio companies more effectively navigate the complex world of executive talent needs.

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Professor VC

JULY 25, 2013

Yes, there are a number of cases in the middle where having a senior or participating preference does make a difference in liquidation proceeds, but I argue that it does very little to overall returns in a diversified portfolio. AngelList (which I remain a big fan) also recently launched a syndicate program.

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Term Sheet Silicon Valley Syndicate Syndication 46

Pascal's View

AUGUST 22, 2009

It accurately points out that, when it comes to IPOs, many venture capitalists have mistakenly defaulted to choosing the large investment banks (such as Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Credit Suisse) as lead underwriters for their portfolio companies.

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