Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 21, 2013

So when I meet with GRP portfolio companies that do enterprise sales I try to emphasize the following: 1. Another rule I outline with our portfolio companies who sell enterprise solutions is that I don’t want them to become a distraction for management. [it's all in this article if you want the details].

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2014

On August 26th I had an equally effusive intro from Ynon Kreiz, also a friend, trusted source and also the CEO of portfolio company Maker Studios. By September 26th we had submitted a term sheet which was signed on October 4th and financing was closed in less than 30 days. So this was definitely an introduction I was going to take.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Rolodex/deal flow (deal sourcing/ability to make connections for the portfolio). Then take a year as a product manager in a startup in the firm’s portfolio. Market/technology acuity (patterns of success, domain expertise). Board skills (Startup coaching, mentoring, strategy, operational/growth). Fund raising skills.

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Venture Capital Early Stage Technical Review Startup 334

Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Empowered introduced “Financing Accelerator”, an online platform designed to simplify clean energy financing for contractors and revolutionize the way financing is seamlessly integrated into the clean energy sales process. Filebase introduced custom domain support for dedicated IPFS gateways.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 18, 2024

Benefits of Peer-to-Peer Lending Diversification : Peer-to-peer lending allows investors to diversify their portfolio beyond traditional stocks and bonds. Social Impact: Peer-to-peer lending allows individuals to support small businesses and individuals who may not have access to traditional financing options.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Yes, it’s true that FOMO (fear of missing out) is driving some irrational behavior and valuations amongst uber competitive deals and well-financed VCs. Try charging customers for your product when you have 12 competitors giving the product away free finances by $20 million of VC. The Exit Problem.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 12, 2014

It’s why I often advise angel investors to be careful about assuming that being an angel investor is a profitable exercise unless you have the ability to have a wide-enough portfolio to have a few companies doing extraordinarily well plus deep enough pockets to follow your winners. Thus begins the dance.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 4, 2019

One or two of the best companies may continue to appreciate, but most of a VC’s portfolio has probably been realized, written off, or has maxed out its value. The longer the portfolio maintains the same value without distributing back cash, the worse the fund’s ultimate IRR. This would suggest that TVPI would be performing well.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

why the hell has seed financing declined so much in the past 3 years?? You can see this trend in the excellent data from Cendana below where the number of seed extension rounds has gone up dramatically in their portfolio and the time from seed to A has extended. What Does This All Mean for Seed Investing?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

In this period (less than 2 years) he has brought on incredibly talented senior execs is sales, marketing, product management, client services, finance, vp engineering and more. VCs crave the ability to help portfolio companies. Growth like this, this early in a company’s lifecycle rarely happens.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

I would call their portfolio companies and ask how helpful or not they’ve been. I’ve watched VCs help with valuation support (spreadsheets, comps) on next round financing, participate in M&A meetings, interview senior job candidates – even help terminate tricky senior hires. look at their portfolio list.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 14, 2020

The plan can then be used in making future business and investment decisions, investment appraisals and portfolio strategy. The portfolio strategy covers the risk of exposure arising from tenant migration, physical problems and liabilities arising from property leasing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2014

David is also the CEO of Gust , which is an online platform for startup financing used by over 50,000 accredited angel investors, 1000 angel groups and venture capital funds, and 250,000 entrepreneurs. This is called the “portfolio approach,” which counts on hitting only a couple of big winners, while the others return very little.

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Angel Investor Angel Groups Accredited Investor IRR 278

VC Cafe

AUGUST 11, 2022

A couple of weeks ago I was did a fireside chat with Alon Grinshpoon, founder and CEO of Echo3D , a CDN and CMS for 3D content in the cloud and a Remagine Ventures portfolio company, as part of an entrepreneurial finance MBA class in Tel Aviv University. But there’s more to founder-investor fit than criteria filtering for deals.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 31, 2021

Some of the largest markets including construction, health care, finance and agriculture are moving into Gen 1 and 2, with specific toes dipped carefully into 3. Over the past 12–18 months another theme had started to coalesce in the Homebrew portfolio — Future of Work tools that were built with a combination of IQ *and* EQ.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Investment banks simply help governments or businesses to raise capital through equity and debt financing. Can you help someone with their investment portfolio? What is the role of an investment banker? There are a lot of misconceptions regarding investment banking. A career in this route can open many doors, though.

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Our portfolio and investment activity this year reflects the importance of technology and “digitization of everything” spurred on by Covid-19. And existing portfolio companies raised the most money in the history of our fund, with over $300m in follow-on funding rounds. That’s another huge win for technology and science. .

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Technical Review Portfolio Founder Finance 148

Steve Blank

JANUARY 5, 2023

General Bucky Butow – Director of the Space Portfolio. We wanted to give our students hands-on experience on how to deeply understand a problem at the intersection of our country’s diplomacy, information, its military capabilities, economic strength, finance, intelligence, and law enforcement and dual-use technology.

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Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Technology China 376

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2017

LESSON #1: Equip your business with a portfolio map and a 21st century org chart. To do the same, Alex recommends building two things: a business portfolio map that recognizes invention as necessary and an updated organization chart. So that gives us two different management structures for these two different portfolios.”

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Lean Startup CTO Hire Cofounder 245

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

TEC is one of Canada’s largest and most experienced private credit firms, specializing in providing asset-based capital solutions to companies that are underserved or overlooked by traditional sources of financing, primarily banks. The firm has made more than $4.5

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VC Adventure

JUNE 14, 2022

Indeed, many firms even institutionalize the practice of providing help to portfolio companies through extensive platforms that may include PR, talent, marketing, technical, and other help (sometimes offered for free, sometimes offered ads a pay-for-service, but often at below-market rates for those services).

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 9, 2021

” So for the deal, investors on both sides converted to common, we split the combined company 55/45, Matt became CEO, and Greg led a new Series A financing into the combined company. .” I answered, “Deal.” Twenty years later, we sold the business, a $100 million, profitable company, to Validity. Matt was still CEO.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

APRIL 16, 2024

Managed portfolio solutions come in the form of a secure online platform that offers powerful tools to help financial advisors managed client portfolios. Cloud-based managed portfolios offer cutting-edge solutions to financial professionals, making their job much easier.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 26, 2022

In addition, it provides support services like integrated banking, finance, embedded logistics, and vetted suppliers. Additionally, it provides trade financing, intelligence, analytics, and ERP integration. One can create RFQs, respond to customers for offers, develop their product portfolio, and network with each other.

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Germany San Jose Technical Review India 175

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Unlike many other aspects of personal finance, student loan is incredibly complex. The post Meet Summer: Our Portfolio Company Changing The Student Loan Landscape appeared first on NextView Ventures.

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Portfolio Cofounder Government Finance 295

The Startup Magazine

JULY 1, 2022

How can you use finance charts to research when investing? By conducting due diligence on potential investments, investors can avoid costly mistakes and optimize their portfolio’s risk/return profile. Keep reading to discover why research is important for a strong investment strategy. public companies.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

But online, advanced software quickly handles complicated finances, like investments or self-employment income. They listen and learn about your personal finance, income taxes, and more. If your money matters are more complex, remote services still save a lot of time. Then, they use what they know to help you best.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2019

A report that can be filtered and aggregated by data points like team, portfolio, or customer, also acts as a KPI that allows teams to identify which projects need attention, which are profiting, and which are facing losses.

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Artificial Inteligence Software Review Management Software Development 168

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 16, 2017

David is one of the most active angel investors in New York, and also the CEO of Gust , which is an online platform for startup financing used by 500,000 entrepreneurs over the years, and funding over 1800 startups in just the last 12 months. Rose, according to his latest book, “ Angel Investing.” What ends up, usually went down first.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 7, 2024

Utilize a mix of traditional and digital marketing techniques, such as: Website and SEO : Create a professional website showcasing your services, portfolio, and customer testimonials. Manage Your Finances Wisely Effective financial management is crucial for the sustainability of your business.

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Software Review United States Social Media Advertising 158

Version One Ventures

MARCH 3, 2021

Over the past eight months, many companies in the Version One portfolio have released funding announcements including Uniswap , Jam , SilviaTerra , Patch , Premadonna , Cap Hill Brands , Opyn and Cape Privacy. Too often, we see the opportunity to capture this mindshare lost because the focus is too much on the financing itself.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

Personal Finance Cross-account visibility and management – Today’s AI products can analyze and move money between accounts – as agents improve, they will make trades across accounts. Bitcoin Allocation – Growing the role of bitcoin in investment portfolios.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

By investing in more established companies, venture capitalists can stabilize their portfolios, ensuring a smoother ride toward profitability. Balancing the Portfolio: The Dual Strategy in Action How do venture capitalists navigate this complex landscape? However, managing such a portfolio is no small feat.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

If you are facing any problem you can always check out this: Business Loan vs. Equity Financing. Investors usually carry a portfolio of startups. So, it is natural for them to fund companies that are complementary to the startups already in their portfolio. So do your research into the investor’s portfolio before pitching.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 21, 2020

It will require greater transparency and record-keeping, but in addition to giving consumers greater protection, Reg BI can also protect finance professionals. But it diversifies a sales portfolio, and it’s more appealing to the consumer. The trend is gathering speed, especially for consumers.

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View from Seed

JULY 15, 2020

One topic of conversation among VC’s over the last few months is how their portfolios are faring during the Covid pandemic. So I thought I’d share my observations, informed by what’s going on in our portfolio and from what I can gather from others in the ecosystem. Reshuffling the deck.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Importantly, we recently announced a $30 million financing that gives us the resources we need to build a global enterprise software company. For some of my more skeptical portfolio companies I simply asked them to run a trial of inbound sales calls and they were shocked.

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