Led formation & growth @ MapQuest, Jabber, Local Matters, Closely. Exited EverCommerce, 4 yrs of PE scale-up SaaS. Now CEO of Vconic, the team behind IETF vCon

Denver, CO
Joined May 2008
Join for free: a virtual conf with 1000+ LPs, Family Offices, Funds of Funds, & GPs of VC, PE, RE, & Hedge Funds – Nov 26 on Zoom. $100M+ & $1B+ Single FOs, LPs, FoFs & other investment firms have confirmed their participation. Like & reply "+" to get the invite in DM (we're at 1200+ regs now). Our previous event attracted attendees with a combined AUM of $1.6 trillion, including: 270 Single Family Offices, 90 Multi Family Offices, 180 Funds of Funds, 300 LPs, 570 angels, & hundreds of GPs. For the first time, we're adding a virtual Private Networking Lounge with LPs, FoFs & FOs in addition to speakers' Zoom panels & presentations (US, EU, & UAE): 1) $1B+ Family Office panel: In what and how are we investing? RE, PE, VC & other alternatives – Shubhra Jain @ Tarsadia SFO ($2B); Neetu Puranikmath @ Cooper Family Office. 2) 2x+ DPI Club: How to return your LPs more than expected? – Justin Stebbins @ Northgate Capital ($5B); Douglas Mellinger @ Clarion Capital Partners ($1.8B) 3) Family Office Trends 2025 – Uli Maybach @ Maybach Foundation; Christian D Evans @ Pax Fortis Multi-Family Office. Moderated by Valerie Bertele @ Yellow Rocks. 4) 1st-generation UHNWI strategies: 1. Launch a SFO, or 2. Join a Multi-Family Office, or 3. Other ways to preserve & grow capital? – Shane Neman @ SFO / Neman Ventures; Lisa Morris @ AKS Single Family Office. 5) How to Grow AUM of a Fund in 2025: Best Fundraising Practices for PE, VC, RE, & Hedge Funds – David Butler @ Argosy Real Estate Partners ($3.6B); Jaclyn Baumgarten @ IDC Ventures ($650M AUM, IDC Network $2.5B); Ed H. @ Arena LP ($3.4B). 6) Why FoFs exist, and why LPs accept double-layer fees? – Chuck Tedeschi @ Top Tier Capital Partners ($8B); Scott Sherman @ Mesa Lane Capital Partners. 7) How to harness AI for sourcing, evaluation, and reporting? – Logan Allin @ Fin Capital. 8) How Governments Can Attract Capital, Innovations & Talent by Focusing on Venture Studios? – Preslav Panayotov @ VentureWaves Innovation Network 9) State of Venture Q3 2024 – Benjamin Lawrence @ CB Insights. 10) $2T growing Private Credit Market & what it means for Private Credit Secondaries – Brett Hickey @ StarMountain Capital ($4B+). 11) Collaboration between Family Offices, Venture Studios, VC Funds, & Corporations – Ahmed Nasser Al Nowais @ Annex Investments; Daniela Plattner @ Palm Venture Studios; Marc Wesselink @ venturerock. 12) What do our private banking clients want to invest in? Our portfolio construction – Orley J. Pacheco @ Wells Fargo ($2T) @margauxmaccoll @ @TechCrunch, @SaacksAttack @ @BusinessInsider, Abby Schultz @ @barronsonline, @theMetz will moderate some of the panels More speakers/moderators on the website.
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I'm hiring a CEO for a new B2C mobile startup focused on the loneliness space. Great opportunity to work with us + existing investors in our studio. Location: Anywhere Must have previous B2C startup experience. Link in the next tweet...
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I'll be @ #startupfest in Montreal July 11-12. Reach out if you'd like to reconnect! Just ending my 4-yr adventures in PE/pubco scaled SaaS and Payments growth @EverCommerce. New adventures on the horizon.
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Great thread deconstructing the state of venture LPs. #notpretty
We talk to a fair number of LPs. If we connect the dots, it seems there is a huge explosion coming. Here's how it might unfold:
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At the @avs and @DallasStars game when @Cmakar8 breaks the all-fucking-time NHL record for defensemen with 200 pts in less than 200 games. Crowd and announcer attention to the ice girls wins. #notahockeytown
I align with the genuine concerns over Musk's ego agenda for Twitter, but I can't disagree with the cringe factor of this business employing 7,500. A clean sweep and fresh POV is desperately needed. Musk will definitely put the bully in the pulpit. Watching from the sidelines...
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Interesting thread with data insights into how TikTok compares to Google search results by query type. This would make for a great tracking study @Neeva - use cases seem to be evolving rapidly...
1/ @Google SVP of Knowledge & Information acknowledges many #GenZ are going to @TikTok for search. 👀 We made it concrete by collecting data with @HelloSurgeAI to determine: 🅰️ How does TikTok compare against Google? 🅱️ When are TikTok results useful? Here’s what we found... 🔍
Founders often don't get to deliver the most important pitch for their startup: the 2-3 line summary that a VC uses to socialize the opportunity with their partners. Here's how to help them craft one that will resonate: /1
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Relentless execution required no matter the brilliance of the product vision!
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It is nearly impossible to convince a VC of a thesis they don’t already believe, so the key in fundraising is to ‘discover’ the right partners, not try to educate and convince…
🤯 I still don’t know what I just saw…
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Amen. The pursuit of venture capital should center on accelerating genuine value creation and always in alignment with stakeholder goals. Keep a clear-eyed view of your journey and intended destination.
Reminder: Raising venture capital increases the theoretical value of a startup and the paper wealth of its founders. It also reduces the number of potential buyers for the startup and increases the risk that no buyer can be found, limiting the real wealth of its founders.
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Sober POV - good descriptive of the impact of a venture valuation reset. Feels familiar and weirdly comforting with the return to realism.
What happens to Seed Investing in Next 18 Months…
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The team @craft_ventures created a very informative and useful talk track on dealing with the downturn. Quality watch (yeah it's a tad dry, but this isn't a tiktok topic, dig in and listen/learn, founders!) youtube.com/watch?v=vBkzm4a7…
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Well, Twitter does feel like an awkward early teenager. #MyTwitterAnniversary
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A good reminder of the need to always be planning/adapting/optimizing.
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Toronto, the Quietly Booming Tech Town nyti.ms/3JtnurU : when North America's 4th largest city is viewed as a town. The perceptions of Canada are so cute sometimes...