David Teten

JUNE 1, 2011

I enjoyed participating in last week’s Capital Roundtable Private Equity Masterclass on “ Best Practices for Sourcing Quality Deal Flow & Developing New Business ” (May 26 th , 2011). Glickman, Resilience Capital Partners LLC Luke Johnson, Platinum Equity LLC Robert B. View more presentations. Wells, PE-Nexus LLC.

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Private Equity Deal Flow Equity Developer 122

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2011

They’ve stopped hiring the best talent, and startups are not looking so risky compared to large companies. There’s a safety net in almost every part of one’s public and private life – health insurance, free college tuition, unions, collective bargaining, fixed work hours, etc. Nanny-Culture, Lack of Risk Taking, Not Sharing.

Finland 324

Finland Naming Russia Government 324

YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2019

Business Ownership Strengthens Your Employee Net Worth. Once the business has reached a certain consistent income you can decide whether to leap into the business full-time or hire others to manage the business.

Small Business Administration 140

Small Business Administration SBA Portfolio Small Business 140

Up and Running

JULY 22, 2014

It’s a table that lists all of your revenue streams and all of your expenses—typically for a three-month period—and lists at the very bottom the total amount of net profit or loss. equity (for most small businesses, this is just the owner’s equity, but it could include investors’ shares, retained earnings, stock proceeds, etc.).

Balance Sheet 148

Balance Sheet Forecast Equity .Net 148

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2013

Bootstrapping avoids all the cost, pain, and distractions of finding angels or VCs, and allows you to keep control and all your hard-earned equity for yourself. Take little to no net profit. Every outside hire increases your cost and risk. Hire experts, not help. If you do, there probably won''t ever be a long run!

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Equity Bootstrapping Startup Merger 241

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

People are even talking about “decacorns" -- investable companies with net worth now exceeding $10 billion -- like Dropbox and Pinterest. Sweat equity. Equity crowdfunding. They may decide to acquire the startup in order to hire the team for another project in their portfolio. Could your startup be the next one?

Software Review 120

Software Review Sweat Equity Accredited Investor Angel Investor 120

Mike Michalowicz

OCTOBER 14, 2012

You want to know my net worth. One of the most popular searches about me is “ mike michalowicz net worth.” For the longest time I did the same net worth searches on authors, entrepreneurs, celebrities, neighbors and friends. Then one day (February 14, 2008 in fact) I discovered how to find the net worth of anybody and everybody.

.Net 167

.Net Securities and Exchange Commission California Angel Investor 167

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

It seems that most of you entrepreneurs I meet in my role as business advisor are convinced that starting a new business requires equity investors, exponential growth, and a plan to go public via IPO. Personal income is related to operations versus equity. With major investors, your equity and return is diluted and delayed.

Small Business 311

Small Business Small Business Administration SBA Equity 311

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

If you’re able to hire a bookkeeper or accountant, they can help make it easier by handling your important documents for you. If the result is a positive number, it means your business is operating at a net profit. If it’s negative, you’re operating at a net loss. What The Balance Sheet Is.

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Balance Sheet .Net Equity Revenue 200

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Metrics like Return on Net Assets, Return on Capital and Internal Rate of Return are the guiding stars of the board and CEO. Today billions of dollars that companies could have invested in innovation are sitting in the hands of private equity funds. Companies horde cash and squeeze the most revenue and margin from the money they use.

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Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property 325

David Teten

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

They provide retail clients with sophisticated risk management tools that previously only ultra high net worth investors could access. . In an article you wrote for Techcrunch in 2019 about Revenue Based Investing you mentioned that “ traditional equity VC is biased structurally against some women and underrepresented founders”.

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Venture Capital Partner Technical Review Cofounder 60

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

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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Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

This structure offers some of the benefits of traditional equity VC, without some of the negatives of equity VC. I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. We don’t have any equity or control over the business….”. “As The average cash balance is $191,164.

Revenue 60

Revenue Technical Review Software Review Equity 60

Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Hiring an expert or a coach to walk you through this stage can help you minimize the chances of failure although identifying the problem first can be a great way to create a long-lasting strategy. Unfortunately, he was fired and all of that potential equity disappeared. Thanks to Paige Arnof-Fenn, Mavens & Moguls ! #2-

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Entrepreneur China Incubator Philippines 107

Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

If they don’t have the right skills or resources, they’ll pick them up along the way by hiring someone, partnering with someone, or just learning it themselves. As opposed to taking a potentially smart risk on equity). The risk-averse argument is that a strong network is a safety net. In other words, execution.

Silicon Valley 69

Silicon Valley Venture Capital Balance Sheet Cofounder 69

Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

If they don’t have the right skills or resources, they’ll pick them up along the way by hiring someone, partnering with someone, or just learning it themselves. As opposed to taking a potentially smart risk on equity). The risk-averse argument is that a strong network is a safety net. In other words, execution.

Silicon Valley 69

Silicon Valley Venture Capital Balance Sheet Cofounder 69

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

LP’s who invest in funds are typically university endowments, public & private pension funds, insurance companies, large corporations and very high net worth individuals called “family offices.&# To give you an indication of how bad, for example, university endowments are suffering check out this chart. VC will shrink.

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LP Technical Review Early Stage Silicon Valley 311

Up and Running

JULY 14, 2015

The net effect of raising too little funding is that the company runs out of money and all growth comes to a grinding halt. Now, if you only needed $2 million of new funding, the investor would receive 50 percent equity. You hire more staff than you need, become inefficient with operations, or move to bigger offices.

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Technical Review Valuation Due Diligence Finder 60

YoungUpstarts

MAY 8, 2014

Along with several partners, I’ve built two thriving companies: Direct Mail Express (which now employs over 400 people) and Response Mail Express (which was eventually sold to an equity fund, Huron Capital Partners). Refusing to hire people who are smarter than you. And yes, giving up your hard-earned money is the ultimate risk.

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Technical Review Entrepreneur Florida Cofounder 254

David Teten

MARCH 24, 2014

Teten : No one ever got fired for hiring Och-Ziff, or any other of the massive hedge funds. For family offices / high net worth investors: the fact that some funds succeed with high returns motivates those with gambler mentalities to chase hot managers or to think that they can use their luck / smarts / intelligence to find the best managers.

Software Review 114

Software Review Due Diligence Venture Capital Portfolio 114

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

They netted more on that deal than Fordham has in it's whole endowment (but still, go Rams!). You just don't wind up with $25 million to name a dorm unless you've gotten equity upside in something. Most small companies will never be big enough to show up at your job fair--and their hiring is mostly opportunistic anyway.

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Incubator .Net Cofounder Software Developers 118

Eric Friedman

JANUARY 23, 2022

What equity you give early stage advisors matters. The net/net is that early advisors who can 10X your business should formally be involved, usually with equity and sometimes with investment. Having advisors invest in your company and vesting into early stage equity is a powerful combination. Fundraising.

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Early Stage Equity .Net Vesting 78

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Bootstrapping avoids all the cost, pain, and distractions of finding angels or VCs, and allows you to keep control and all your hard-earned equity for yourself. Take little to no net profit. Every outside hire increases your cost and risk. Hire experts, not help. If you do, there probably won''t ever be a long run!

Bootstrapping 278

Bootstrapping Startup Merger Salary 278

Up and Running

MAY 15, 2018

Funding is crucial for improving technology, hiring the right people, and launching a comprehensive marketing strategy to get a foothold in the market. Calculate how much money you will need to for the necessary production, training, hiring, marketing, and automation to create a viable financial model. There is no single approach here.

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SBA Angel Investor Technical Review Startup 84

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Series B is about proving your net revenue model (can you be profitable?). Pre-Seed Round Paperwork: Smart investors will typically give you minimal paperwork – either a convertible note or a SAFE (Simple Agreement for Future Equity) or a KISS (Keep It Simple Securities). This pre-seed stage typically takes 6-12 months.

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Cofounder Seed Stage Valuation Metrics 429

keen.io

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

For example: Don’t accept equity compensation (stock shares) without knowing the percentage of the company you’ll own. From there, I began googling things like “first employee startup equity” and “startup offer negotiation.” These were the best resources I found: Equity for Early Employees in Early Stage Startups.

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Salary Equity Startup San Francisco 50

Up and Running

AUGUST 29, 2014

Part of a venture feasibility study is to look at what financial resources are already available in personal bank accounts, equity in a home, life insurance, family and friends or from selling assets. Do I need to hire a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) for my small business? Often this is not true.

Small Business 87

Small Business CPA Government North America 87

Tim Keane

MARCH 9, 2011

This seems like an easy topic – debt where there is appropriate cash flow, equity when there isn’t.    And, while debt is less costly than equity, it can bankrupt a company more quickly than more expensive equity might. Example one: Sustainable net operating income with some growth in a stable market. 

Finance 83

Finance Bootstrapping Startup Equity 83

Steve Blank

MARCH 17, 2020

Subtract your monthly gross burn rate from your monthly revenue to get your net burn rate. If it’s just three-months, (looking more unlikely by the day) then an immediate freeze on variable spending (hires, marketing, travel, etc.) If you’re an early stage company, that number may be zero. and Europe into a long recession? is in order.

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Burn Rate Startup Valuation Sales Cycle 436

This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Associate position at a top tier VC fund or lead dog for a random pool of high net worth money that no one's ever heard of? Because of that, you're simply not going to get a major chunk of equity, nor are you going to get hired there without a ton of relevant experience. They have lots of revenues, high growth, funding, etc.

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Non-Compete Design Hiring Incubator 115

venturehacks.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

The Equity Equation. As this nuclear winter of venture hacks continues, I thought you might enjoy our thoughts on Paul Graham’s The Equity Equation. ” Read the rest of The Equity Equation first; it is great. You have to pay market rates regardless of the equity equation. If no, she is a no hire.

Equity 40

Equity Cap Table Valuation RSS 40

This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Hire someone cheap who can hustle. If you're hiring for marketing, it's going to be someone who will actually test all the AdWords campaigns, run the Twitter account, write the blog posts, pitch media outlets, etc. Then, match that person up with a one day or so a week senior person who gets paid mostly in equity.

.Net 113

.Net Equity Startup Cofounder 113

Gust

OCTOBER 26, 2014

Bootstrapping avoids all the cost, pain, and distractions of finding angels or VCs, and allows you to keep control and all your hard-earned equity for yourself. Take little to no net profit. Every outside hire increases your cost and risk. Hire experts, not help. If you do, there probably won’t ever be a long run!

Bootstrapping 176

Bootstrapping Startup Merger Salary 176

www.payne.org

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Startup Equity For Employees. 7 Salary vs Equity. The re-heating of the venture funded tech market has pushed a heat up of the hiring market, and Im getting more calls from friends asking for help understanding startup stock (equity) offers. Salary vs Equity. From Payne.org Wiki. 3 Dilution. 4 Vesting. References.

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Equity Employee Vesting Preferred Stock 56

Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

From who we hire to the way we go to market, from how we engage with our limited partners to how we engage with founders, it’s all about being very focused on quality and consistency so as to affect strategies to generate meaningful carry for ourselves and our limited partners. Most venture funds return at best 1x net over 10 years.

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Silicon Valley Venture Capital Cofounder Africa 88

www.aaronkharris.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Before we went off and spent money to either hire a developer or pay a shop to build something, I wanted to make sure that we would have a market that wanted what we were doing and would pay for it once we actually delivered. We were well aware that it would be a mix of cash and equity, and that there was no golden number for either.

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CTO Hire New York City .Net Cofounder 40

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2018

Or if you’re a VC raising from LPs you have to list all of your deals, your investment value, your carrying value, your multiples, your IRRs, TVPIs, DPIs, etc along with net cashflows plus your previous LPAs. I hired a sales coach named Kai Krickle who helped me figure out how to close more deals.

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Cap Table Due Diligence Forecast Churn Rate 336