Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

If you are going to do the tour up and down Sandhill Road to try and raise your 1st round of financing you need a pitch deck because the vast majority of those meetings you are going to be sitting around a table and you will be presenting to one or more partners and that is going to be your first engagement.”. Is that when it became big?

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 18, 2014

We remain geographically agnostic: a 50-50 split between Canada and the US with the highest concentration in Toronto (6), SF/Bay Area (5) and Seattle (4). Lastly, most of what we do is not possible without the support of our LPs, our colleagues, our partners, our portfolio companies, our family and friends, and our followers.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

After years of trying to persuade Kara Nortman to become a partner at Upfront Ventures I can officially announce now that she’s joined us effective immediately. It is rare to find somebody who matches exactly what I’m looking for in a partner so when you find it you act: Academic rigor (Princeton undergrad, Stanford MBA).

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

This week’s guest was David Travers from Rustic Canyon Partners. What I found strange about this funded was the fact that it was led by Summit Partners. Investors: Summit Partners (lead), Jeff Clavier, Aydin Senkut, Gary Vaynerchuk. Seattle-based company specializing in mobile analytics. 4mm in Series A.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 25, 2012

He highlights the litany of woes including excessive demand brought about by a PR move, litigation, partner defections and component supply issues finally led to the company’s very public shutdown, destroying Latman’s – who then was known as Rick Latman – life in the process.

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 4, 2021

Pienza , a Seattle based B2B startup studio led by Bizible founder Aaron Bird, raised $5.1M. . Lolli continues to add great partners like eBay ; you can now earn BTC while you shop on eBay’s marketplace. . Jam raised a $3.5M seed to Figma-tize product collaboration. You can read our announcement here. .

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 4, 2010

For example, the company in the TechStars Seattle program that I’m currently mentoring is absolutely killing it, but it’s far outside any of our themes. Paul, Adam, and Ian quickly started talking about teaming up and used the last four weeks of the program to “pretend&# they were partners.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

It did not have the same success as Google’s acquisition and MySpace sold Photobucket 2 years later to a relatively unknown Seattle-based startup called Ontela for a reportedly $60 million. Ask Microsoft, Autodesk or Salesforce.com – the evidence was there from Seattle to Sand Hill Road. in terms of time spent on the sites.

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Version One Ventures

JUNE 16, 2020

The Seattle-based company provides an online marketplace for business-to-government commerce – it connects local and national suppliers with government procurement officers. . We are excited to be partnering with Ben Vaught and his whole team on the journey forward. . P.S. They’re hiring ! .

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

I am thrilled to announce that we have added Hamet Watt as a Partner at Upfront Ventures. But as sweet as that success has been (we invested pre-revenue in a small team) today my even more important news was the further expansion of our partner ranks. We have been on a drive to add more operational partners. What does that mean?

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 2, 2014

When people ask me how they can become a VC, I point them to my partner Seth Levine’s excellent blog posts How to become a venture capitalist and How to get a job in venture capital (revisited). Charley was a partner at a firm called VIMAC and was looking at some Internet stuff.

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

Fred and his partners Albert, John, Andy, before Brad, now Rebecca have operated headquartered out of New York City, and have invested successfully near home (Esty, MongoDB, Kickstarter), in the Bay Area (Twitter, Coinbase) and in Europe (SoundCloud). people looking to move to Austin). People are voting with their feet.).

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 14, 2022

Bob is the Founder and Chairman of the Board of Acceleration Partners, a global partner marketing agency. In this episode, I talk with the Founder and Chairman of Acceleration Partners, Bob Glazer, about why diversifying your marketing strategy with other channels — like partnerships — is the way of the future.

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Gust

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Boston, New York City, Seattle and Southern California spawn many exciting startups…but do not exceed the Valley in any measure of entrepreneurial achievement. You are much more flexible than VCs or strategic partners – they prefer not to travel, a they have lots of local opportunities to invest their money.

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 18, 2018

While we have expanded our partnership to two GP and have a bigger fund, our fundamentals stay the same: we invest at seed / pre-seed, in companies that leverage network effects, and across North America (hubs are SF, Toronto/KW, NYC, Seattle). and love marketplaces , social platforms , and Smart SaaS.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2011

Even experienced entrepreneurs need a partner to strengthen their position. The question is how to find that elusive perfect-fit partner. First, I will admit there is no magic formula here, just like in real life when trying to find a relationship partner. Join online “dating” sites for business partners. Take your time.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 22, 2019

According to Toni Schneider, a Partner at True Ventures, and a Team-Lead at Automattic, boundaryless teams confer a real advantage; “You can hire great people wherever you find them: Once your company is untethered from one physical location, your pool of available job applicants becomes the entire world.

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 7, 2020

Lolli continued to add new partners from Expedia to Nike. Earn bitcoin while you shop at partnering brands/e-retailers, and follow Lolli’s blog for up-to-date additions. Booster Fuels expanded its app-enabled, on-demand fueling services to fleets in Seattle , its first market in the Northwest.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

by Whitney Keyes , author of “ Propel: Five Ways to Amp Up Your Marketing and Accelerate Business “ In the United States, one thing the city of Seattle, WA, is best known for is its coffee, but there’s an innovative partnership happening around another source of caffeine and that’s the cocoa bean. What to look for in a partner.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 24, 2015

However, the author advises that a more generous commission scheme for affiliates may work better in attracting higher quality partners. #3 Partnerships such as affiliate programmes may also work. 3 The Long Haul. We are also told to “work on our business” instead of just in our business (hat tip to The E-Myth Revisited ).

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techcrunch.com

APRIL 26, 2013

AngelList also partnered with SecondMarket to create an investment vehicle for these investments. Seattle Meetup. Seattle, WA. European M-Payments Startup SumUp Partners With Revel Systems, An iPad POS Provider, For Its Push Into Europe. Life360, A Family Networking App With More. Upcoming Events. Disrupt NY 2013.

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www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

Share this: We’ve seen a flurry of activity in recent weeks among Seattle area venture capital firms, led by Madrona Venture Group which raised $300 million last month and Divergent Ventures which pulled in $6.9 million of what partners hope will be a much larger fund. Location: Seattle. Location: Seattle.

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The Startup Lawyer

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Dynamo Labs was the first recipient of fbFund, a grant fund operated by the Founders Fund, Accel Partners, and Facebook. Gabriella is co-founder and managing partner of Tech Wildcatters, a Dallas-based seed accelerator. Previously, she was with HP Growth Partners, an early stage venture fund in Dallas.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

I have a vivid memory of bombing a pitch that I was delivering to a group of angel investors in Seattle. The best practice here is to pretend you’re an investor and have your business partner pitch to you. If you don’t have a business partner, deliver your pitch to a mentor or advisor and ask them to be brutally honest.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Even experienced entrepreneurs need a partner to back up each other and improve fundability. The question is how to find that elusive perfect-fit partner. First, I will admit there is no magic formula here, just like in real life when trying to find a relationship partner. Join online “dating” sites for business partners.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2013

I had them at my partners’ meeting the next Monday. Somehow she was always on a flight up to Seattle or San Francisco. As are her partners. It’s not much different than having Dave Morin, Dick Costolo or Sheryl Sandberg sitting next to you at lunch. Turns out Punky was a childhood hero for Tasha. That’s cute.

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 17, 2015

While our highest concentration of companies is now in the SF/Bay Area (7), we remain geographically agnostic and are excited about the growing ecosystems outside the Valley, particularly Toronto/KW (6), Seattle (5), and NYC (2). Thank you all for a great year!

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2017

A huge thank you to all of the Limited Partners who have entrusted us with your capital, time and reputations. Upfront’s Base As you probably know we are based in Santa Monica and as my partner Greg Bettinelli coined, we’re #LongLA. We’ll invest in about 15 new companies every year or just over 2 per partner.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 27, 2022

He created a scalable model that grew from a small team in a Seattle garage to one of the world’s largest employers. Yeah, it that he built in the garage of a rented home in Seattle. So on day one, Day one is not a thing, although if you go to Seattle, it's a building, it's called the Day One building on the Amazon campus.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

… “ Group Health Cooperative , a nonprofit health care system in Seattle with 10,000 employees, has also thrown out its budgeting process. Disclosure: Graphite Financial is a spinoff of ff Venture Capital , where I was formerly a Partner. ThedaCare also introduced a daily financial management tool for department managers.

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fi.co

DECEMBER 4, 2012

-->. About | Mentors | Companies | Curriculum | FAQ | Partners | Apply Now. With our team of dedicated experts, we will partner with you on a one-to-one basis to ensure you receive the highest quality solutions for your business. -->. -->. -->. -->. Globalizing Silicon Valley - See the Worldwide Schedule - Lead a Local Chapter. -->.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Rover.com (*) in Seattle, which was founded by Greg Gottesman and Aaron Easterly in 2011, is the leading player in this market. Swing is now at over 1,200 school partners and has filled over 115,000 teacher absence days. Instawork (*) is an on-demand staffing app for gig workers (professionals) and hospitality businesses (partners).

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

We try to recruit investment partners who bring startup operating experience. And brining in new general partners – like Greg Bettinelli and Kara Nortman – has certainly helped refine the vision of the firm by challenging some of our accepted wisdom. That’s healthy. So he picked up Murray.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 29, 2017

We led the financing, and I joined the board to work more closely with Greg Gottesman, Geoff Entress, Mike Galgon, and Ben Gilbert to build a long-lasting and enduring startup studio in Seattle. Julie previously was a partner at Madrona Venture Group and is deeply involved in the Seattle startup community.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 1, 2015

PSL, based in Seattle, is a not a VC firm, accelerator, or incubator, but instead is a startup studio, which is a company that creates companies. PSL was announced today and GeekWire’s conference and there’s an extremely comprehensive post explaining how it works at Top Seattle investors raise $12.5M

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www.allthingsdistributed.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

External Facing Technologist –We see this model often in companies where technology is used to provideproducts and services to customers and partners; the CTO is the intermediarybetween clients and internal development and the main influencer in thedevelopment of the product portfolio.

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OnlyOnce

AUGUST 19, 2015

We are going to place Returnees in five locations – Broomfield, Colorado, New York City, Austin, Indianapolis, and London – and we recruited five like-minded partner companies to join the program as well.

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