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20 VC 028: Co-Founding TechCrunch and The Benefits of Not Raising Venture Funding with Keith Teare

20 VC 028: Co-Founding TechCrunch and The Benefits of Not Raising Venture Funding with Keith Teare

FromThe Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch


20 VC 028: Co-Founding TechCrunch and The Benefits of Not Raising Venture Funding with Keith Teare

FromThe Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

ratings:
Length:
29 minutes
Released:
Apr 16, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Keith Teare is the Founder of Palo Alto incubator, Archimedes Labs whose incubated startups include the likes of M.Dot (acquired by GoDaddy), TechCrunch (acquired by AOL) and Ivan Kalanick's Red Swoosh. Keith is also the Co-Founder of TechCrunch alongside Michael Arrington. Prior to TechCrunch Keith founded RealNames Corporation raising more than £130m of venture funding before filing for an IPO with an implied valuation of £1.5bn. 
Items Mentioned in Today's Show:

Michael Arrington
The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
Chat Center: Universal Chat for Everyone on the Planet
DownTown App: Your Personal Waiter
Weendy: Sunshine App

What you will learn in todays show:

How did Keith get into the tech world at a time when technology was not mainstream?
A venture of Keith's, Cyberia was heavily used by women. Does Keith believe that there have been improvements in balancing the gender gap?
What Keith believes can be done to reduce the gender inequality that persists throughout the tech sector?
How did Keith's Co-Founding of TechCrunch with Michael Arrington come about?
Why did Keith try and persuade Michael not to create TechCrunch?
What are the benefits of bootstrapping your startup and not raising venture funding?
Why Keith was never able to raise venture funding in the UK?
How is the valley different from creating a company in the UK?
Keith's beliefs on the barbell venture capital ecosystem that persists in the US?

We then finish today's episode with a quick fire round where we hear the best advice Keith has ever been given, the highlight of his career so far and the 3 companies that he is most excited about and why?
Released:
Apr 16, 2015
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

The Twenty Minute VC takes you inside the world of Venture Capital, Startup Funding and The Pitch. Join our host, Harry Stebbings and discover how you can attain funding for your business by listening to what the most prominent investors are directly looking for in startups, providing easily actionable tips and tricks that can be put in place to increase your chances of getting funded. Although, you may not want to raise funding for a startup. The Twenty Minute VC also provides an instructional guide as to what it takes to get employed in the Venture Capital industry, with VCs giving specific advice on how to get noticed from the crowd and increasing your chances of employment. If that wasn't enough our amazing Venture Capitalists also provide their analysis of the current technology market, providing advice and suggestions on the latest investing trends and predictions. Join us so you can see how you can get BIG, powerful improvements, fast. Would you like to see more of The Twenty Minute VC, head on over to www.thetwentyminutevc.com for more information on the podcast, show notes, resources and a more detailed analysis of the technology and Venture Capital industry.