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Tandem Entrepreneurs

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Tandem is made up of a few entrepreneurs who have founded companies and taken them to liquidity. They now invest their time and money in others’ early stage software and Internet startups through Tandem.

The Tandem team does not consider itself a VC firm. They refer to three primary types of capital that are required to make a startup successful – Financial Capital (money), Human Capital (sweat) and Social Capital (friends). Tandem explains that VCs bring mainly financial capital, some social capital and limited sweat, while Tandem brings value in the reverse order – sweat, friends and money (much more like entrepreneurs).

Tandem supports businesses that can be built with relatively few resources (5 people or less) and reach market traction in relatively little time.

Milestones

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  Tandem Entrepreneurs invested in Juice In The City. (6/2/11)
  Posted 6/2/11 at 8:30pm via techcrunch.com
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  Tandem Entrepreneurs invested in PlayHaven. (7/19/10)
  Posted 7/21/10 at 5:19pm via venturebeat.com
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  Tandem Entrepreneurs invested in Localyte.com. (1/1/07)
  Posted 5/11/10 at 8:05am via cnn.com
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  Tandem Entrepreneurs invested in Zecter. (12/14/09)
  Posted 12/14/09 at 2:11pm via techcrunch.com
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  Tandem Entrepreneurs invested in FlightCaster. (11/23/09)
  Posted 11/23/09 at 6:25pm via techcrunch.com
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  Tandem Entrepreneurs invested in PlayHaven. (1/1/09)
  Posted 10/28/09 at 7:54pm
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  Tandem Entrepreneurs invested in Zecter. (11/1/07)
  Posted 1/16/09 at 10:06am
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  Tandem Entrepreneurs — Tandem Launches Mobile Incubator; Will Invest $200K In Each Startup (7/12/11)
  Posted 7/12/11 at 8:21am via techcrunch.com

Investments

Videos

Sources

1. Tandem Entrepreneurs Sets $40M Target For Second Fund (fis.dowjones.com) [edit]
2. Tandem Launches Mobile Incubator; Will Invest $200K In Each Startup (techcrunch.com) [edit]
3. Juice In The City Reels In $6 Million To Help Moms Take On Groupon (techcrunch.com) [edit]
4. PlayHaven gets $1M to help developers promote mobile games (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
5. ZumoDrive Lands $1.5 Million For Cloud Storage And Syncing Application (techcrunch.com) [edit]
6. FlightCaster Takes Off With $1.3 Million In Funding And A New API (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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9. The New VC Model: Small Is Beautiful (techland.blogs.fortune.cnn.com) [edit]