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20 VC 095: How VCs Find Startups and How To Add Value Once Invested with David Teten @ ff Venture Capital
The Twenty Minute VC (20VC) interviews the world's greatest venture capitalists with prior guests including Sequoia's Doug Leone and Benchmark's Bill Gurley. Once per week, 20VC Host, Harry Stebbings is also joined by one of the great founders of our time with prior founder episodes from Spotify's Daniel Ek, Linkedin's Reid Hoffman, and Snowflake's Frank Slootman.
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Show Notes
David Teten is a Partner at ff Venture Capital and is also Founder and Chairman of Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of Greater New York, the largest angel group in New York. David is currently co-leading the first study on “how to disrupt the investing industry.” He led the first-ever study of best practices of venture capital and private equity funds in originating new deals (#1 all time most-read study in the Journal of Private Equity) and the first-ever study of VCs in creating portfolio company value. He has published in Harvard Business Review, Institutional Investor, and other leading publications. David's blog is one of the most extensive and actionable blogs there is, seriously you have to check it out and it can be found at teten.com.
I would like to thank Mattermark for providing all the data and analysis for this interview and you can check them out here!
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In Today's Episode You Will Learn:
1.) How did David make the move into the world of vc and technology?
2.) What is David's approach to deal sourcing? What strategies would he recommend to other VCs to find the best startups and entrepreneurs?
3.) What does David think are the most effective ways that VC and PE funds are helping to increase portfolio company value?
4.) How should an entrepreneur evaluate how value-added a VC can be? Are there any signs that one VC has more value add than another?
5.) Is VC moving to the operational model in terms of headcount, with the moves of firms like a16z who provide extensive services as additional value add?
5.) Why did David and ff invest in Indiegogo? Is it not an alternative finance method that is competing with VC? Has David notice a loss in deal flow to AngelList?
Items Mentioned In Today's Episode:
David's Fave Book: Edward Tufte: Graphical Communication of Quantitative Data
David's Fave Blog: PandoDaily
David's Most Recent Investment: Skycatch
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