David Teten (Founding Partner @ Versatile VC)

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This week we had on David Teten (@dteten) of Versatile VC.

Versatile is a different type of VC that focuses on capital-efficient startups.  Of the Inc. 5000 companies, only 6.5% raised money from VCs and 7.7% raised from angels. Versatile is VC for the other 93%. 

David Teten is the founding partner of the fund. On top of running the day-to-day operations at Versatile, he has built a media network covering many aspects of venture capital. Check out his blog (https://teten.com/) and his resources on the tech stack of VC, https://pevctech.com/ .

In this talk, we discuss:

• How members of our community can work with Versatile VC

• Opportunities within the VC tech stack

• How VCs can mitigate career risk for themselves and for people working for their companies

• Diversity and VC

• Parkour!

Check out the full episode below:

➡️ Lessons from this episode can be found here ⬅️

👀 Not Boring leveraged its reach to raise a fund

🧵 Principles to becoming a better storyteller

✍️ 17 tips to become a great copywriter

📝 Get better at using language to change thinking

🤓 Tricks to master how to better read people

📈 The hierarchy of growth marketer skills

For our full list of curated investor and operator roles, check out the Confluence.VC Job Board below:

• On Deck is looking for a remote Program Director of Venture Capital

• Dialetic is looking for a Head of People & Culture in Switzerland

• 137 Ventures is looking for an analyst in SF

• Pallet is looking for a Swiss Army Knife in NYC

• Boldstart Ventures is looking for an associate in NYC

• B Capital Group is looking for a healthcare associate in SF

• Ensemble VC is looking for an associate in Austin

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