Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2018

It never hurts to start networking personally with all levels of investors early, but sending out teasers and business plans to every name you can find on the Internet is a waste of your time and theirs. Investors call this the seed stage , where money is required to build a market and a real product.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Carolyn Rodz (03:04): So I started out actually my career as an investment banker and jumped into entrepreneurship quite blindly. All of our monetization comes from our, the business partners, a corporate and enterprise partners that we work with. We also leverage ecosystem partners. What's your history like?

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But in business, you want a lot of partners. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies. Before you can actually invest, you have to manage your fund. In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers. Most of us want one spouse and we’re done. 1) Manage the firm .

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 4, 2014

It never hurts to start networking personally with all levels of investors early, but sending out teasers and business plans to every name you can find on the Internet is a waste of your time and theirs. Investors call this the seed stage , where money is required to build a market and a real product.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

Here is the email he received (reprinted without names with his permission). I’m an investor at [Big Name, Large Fund VC] and recently came across [Your Company]. It's big, well known & we've invested in all of these really cool companies]. Looking forward to speaking, Name [redacted]. What fits your schedule?

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

6 – Investment Banker. I founded SilkRoll in 2015, I spent 10 years developing my style and taste in fashion while working around the world as an investment banker. You’re abandoned by partners you once relied upon. I even have 100,000 FB followers and over 200,000 active traders and subscribers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2016

It never hurts to start networking personally with all levels of investors early, but sending out teasers and business plans to every name you can find on the Internet is a waste of your time and theirs. Investors call this the seed stage , where money is required to build a market and a real product.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 31, 2017

by Mark Hasebroock, Founder and Managing Partner, Dundee Venture Capital. Omaha is rising in prominence among entrepreneurs and investors, making a name for itself in a more broad and diverse range of industries than in previous years. Admittedly, many Omaha investors are still wary of early stage investments. But not for long.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2010

To be sure, a number of well-known tech titans started more-or-less this way: Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Hewlett-Packard, to name a few. He has a diverse background as a Tier I management consultant, investment banker, technologist, and Silicon Valley entrepreneur. So why is this important? is inching higher.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

Inbound calls from partners, people who want to join, atta boys from friends. We just landed the biz dev partner we’ve been working on for 9 months. Google DID NOT just acquire our main biz dev partner. Every one of these events (with names changed) has happened to companies I’ve worked at or closely with.

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

With entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, attorneys, and investment bankers from over 18 countries represented - from places as far afield as Switzerland, Singapore, and Spain (and Santa Monica and Silicon Valley!) - it was a truly international gathering. How concentrated is this phenomenon?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Gregg founded the company with an equal partner – his brother Evan. Gregg is an ex Investment Banker and Wharton MBA. Working with a family member (Evan, the co-founder is his brother)? It works well because they always had well defined roles. It was a marriage that worked well from day 1. And there is so much more.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 28, 2010

A friend calls me up from “you name it&# city: Boston, New York, Chicago, San Francisco and says, “I’m thinking about moving to Los Angeles (or SF, NY, etc) and I’d love to start interviewing. Get your partner bedded down and comfortable with the place without the stress of your new work hours. Choose life.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2012

Partnering with the United Nations’ School Feeding initiative, the company blends business and activism by selling merchandise and donating the profits to Latin American, Asian, and African children in need. Sheila Johnson at Prendismo Collection , Dec. Chuck Feeney at RTE Radio 1 , Jan. Blake Mycoskie at TreeHugger , Sept.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Frank : Somewhat serendipitously through a contact I made through IBM, I learned about this opportunity in NYU… to create a new venture fund to essentially do very similar work to what I’ve been doing inside Lucent and the venture partners … to work with researchers and invest capital to create new startups…. I was 22, 23 at that time.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

Inbound calls from partners, people who want to join, atta boys from friends. We just landed the biz dev partner we’ve been working on for 9 months. Google DID NOT just acquire our main biz dev partner. Every one of these events (with names changed) has happened to companies I’ve worked at or closely with.

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Rob Go

JULY 11, 2011

There was a strong influence in my household to rack up fancy degrees, get nice jobs at brand name firms, and rise the ranks in an environment of “safety” I certainly haven’t had the most non-traditional career (unfortunately!) But as we’ve seen in the last few years, that is simply not true.

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The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 24, 2016

The cue for this post was Harry Stebbing’s 20MinuteVC interview with David Pakman , the partner at Venrock who led the Series A and Series B rounds at Dollar Shave Club and recently had his faith justified with a $1bn exit to Unilever. We are happy investing in sectors where we see opportunity, even if others don’t.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 31, 2020

Whether it’s Yotta encouraging emergency savings accounts, Dave.com providing overdraft protection, or Stash enabling broad participation in public market investing, I believe that the private sector could be an inflection point for the country’s financial health – and that fintechs will lead the way.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

Editor’s Note: This testimony was delivered by a16z managing partner Scott Kupor to the U.S. By way of background, I am the Managing Partner for Andreessen Horowitz, a $16.5 billion multi-stage venture capital firm focused on IT-related investments… I also serve on various investment committees, including for the St.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

Brian Armstrong : My name is Brian Armstrong. So I've been able to move to another location with my partner and another city, I should say. It's kind of like whoever discovered penicillin, you don't need to know their name. You can't even know everyone's name. Here's my conversation with Brian Armstrong.

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