Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Passive venture capital investing is a relatively new idea. As later stage investors permeate venture capital, they are amassing index funds of startups. If the public equities market is any indication, passive investing is here to stay. Classically, venture capital has been an active asset class.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Many start-ups think they need to net venture capital to jumpstart their growth. But UserZoom’s roots in Europe drove them to be more creative – everything from FFFs (friends, family, and fools), to bank loans, to government grants. UserZoom moved to Silicon Valley not to find funding but to be closer to their market.

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Kellblog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

I think DAOs are an interesting concept (great primer here ), but the blockchain linkage seems contrived [13] — I could make a Dunbar-number-sized group with organic governance rules and run it via in-person meetings, Zoom, Slack, or of course, Discord. Flood of venture capital (VC). Venture capital continues to flow.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

For Collibra, a cross-organizational data governance platform, the company went from slow growth to hypergrowth. Felix will share insights on how he founded Collibra in Belgium, successfully relocated the company headquarters to New York City, and raised $233 million total in venture capital to become a unicorn company.

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SaaStr

JULY 24, 2020

And given the number of investors and the amount of capital that’s in the market, remember that it only takes one yes, that’s all you’re trying to get to, and that one yes will automatically create scarcity for you and get others to say yes, so put your best foot forward and try to get to that one yes.

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SaaStr

MARCH 8, 2019

We were both in business school, and my aha was I was spending some time at a local venture capital firm helping with them just thinking about how do we grow these companies, saying, “What’s the plan? No one trusts the government. Marketers and sellers. There were two ahas that led to HubSpot, actually.

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OPEXEngine

JUNE 16, 2020

However, as soon as a founder/CEO raises venture capital (VC) they have decided to take investing partners along on the journey. However, VC investors are material shareholders, typically negotiate the contractual right to sit on the board of directors, and have certain governance and fiduciary duties as a part of sitting on the board.

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