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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers. (To see the video above, please click the image, and then click on the Play button.).

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Asset Management Is A Bizarre Industry Ripe For Disruption

David Teten

The average equity fund investor earned a market return of only 4.25%. And what happens if you don’t get into the one VC that gets into Cornerstone On Demand (ffVC company, now the 10th largest SaaS company in the world)? I don’t think that a Net Present Value calculation is appropriate for every company.

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ProfessorVC: Angie's List or AngelList?

Professor VC

Whether you buy this or not for public equities, the market for early stage private companies has always been wildly inefficient. While the supply-demand equation will never be completely fixed, the information and accessibility to angel investors is only getting better. And the 1 in 50 is a team that has already made that VC money.

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How to Fund a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

A lawyer I asked about it said: When the company goes public, the SEC will carefully study all prior issuances of stock by the company and demand that it take immediate action to cure any past violations of securities laws. Some angel investors join together in syndicates. Those remedial actions can delay, stall or even kill the IPO.