David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

She had so much insight to share that we broke the interview into two parts, 1) Corporate Venture Capital and more broadly, 2) How the Fortune 500 Can Buy, Invest and Partner with the Innovation Economy (coming soon). . Some corporate funds now lead rounds. Teten: What makes for a good vs. bad corporate venture investor?

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 29, 2017

Homebrew’s focus is ~8 or so seed commitments per year, and we’re putting dollars, sweat and reputation behind those companies ongoing. In reflecting, perhaps this isn’t just the “one question” investors should ask founders, but one founders want to offer up.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 10, 2022

and we also had a great relationship with the partner. I can’t say we have major regrets here though — Susa has been a great partner. The needs of the lead investor for ownership? A round that is most accommodating for the existing investors while allowing you to get new people involved?

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Rob Go

JULY 17, 2014

2) Is your reputation in the market such that great people will want to work with you? On #2, we have been fortunate to collaborate with a wide group of exceptional entrepreneurs, coinvestors, and limited partners. We want to be able to comfortably lead these rounds and speak for 1/3 – 1/2 of the capital or more.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 25, 2017

As my partner and I traveled across the pond to pitch a tech investor in the UK (our 37th pitch), I remember making a million tiny tweaks to the phrasing and focus of our plan. I could tell my partner was getting nervous. My partner fielded a question about our current user-base in our test platform.

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David Teten

JULY 12, 2017

First, a formal definition: According to Capital Dynamics , “Co-investments are direct investments in a company made alongside and on the same terms as a lead [General Partner]. We see our potential coinvestors in four primary buckets: 1) HOF Capital ’s own limited partners. 2) Investors with very specific value-add.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

× At Greylock , my partners and I are driven by one guiding mission: always help entrepreneurs. Investors see a lot of pitches. In a single year, the classic general partner in a venture firm is exposed to around 5,000 pitches; decides to look more closely at 600 to 800 of them; and ends up doing between 0 and 2 deals.

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Rob Go

AUGUST 9, 2016

Think of it this way, an investor may invest in 1-3 deals a year, and build a portfolio of 7-12 active companies that they are point on at any given time. Entrepreneurs are typically only choosing one lead investor and board member per round. But often, it is not. Here are a couple suggestions on this.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2010

First, if the VC does 15-20 of these under one partner then it is certain he can’t spend any time with these investments. I believe these VC funds have suffered some amount of reputation fall out. They don’t mind being the lead investor on deals that they seeded. Great reputation. Seeds deals.

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Babbling VC

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Co-Investors. Technically, co-investors would fall under the "People" heading above but here I'm focussing more on the funds themselves and not specific partners or people at that fund. . We picked the investor who was far better known in the market and supposedly had reach into the US. The other didn't and died! .

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

A complete collapse of revenue that simultaneously affects your employees and your customers, your partners, your investors, everyone all at once and all the news is bad. Your customers and your investors like partners? A lot of people are literally doing if for their brand reputation but they didn't.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 26, 2021

This is one of the reasons why the best practice for a startup is to raise investment rounds from different lead investors rather than simply doing internal rounds, even if an internal round requires less work. In both cases, the correct goal is to partner with the CEO to help the company achieve its goals.

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Venture Chronicles

JULY 16, 2010

This is definitely on the upswing and reflects the issues that funds are having with their limited partner investors. Regulatory paperwork is prepared and the investment is prepared for presentation to the limited partners for funding. The second scenario is the pulled term sheet. It’s the nuclear scenario.

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