VC Cafe

MARCH 8, 2010

Only three Israeli venture capital funds completed their fund raising efforts in 2009: Sequoia Capital Israel , announced final closing of Sequoia IV, a $200 million vintage 2009 fund. as its main investor). In 2010, the capital available for investment in first round and follow on rounds now stands on $1.2

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IRR Venture Capital Institutional Investors 74

This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 5, 2012

He shepards you through a sales process and the family nets about $390 million after taxes. They didn't care about you when you needed commercial credit, but now--now they want to manage your money. The problem is that there are fantastic opportunities out there with completely trustworthy managers.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 3, 2023

Money from these sources is relatively easy to come by, and most often comes with no strings as to oversight by a formal board composed of these investors and management. Several are well-known and professional investors pay special attention to their graduates. Professional angels: This is the arena where I work and play.

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Private Equity Valuation Cap Table Accredited Investor 118

David Teten

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Since I became an institutional investor, my #1 learning is: this is a highly unusual and somewhat baffling industry. Asset management also shows the traditional earmarks of an industry ripe for disruption — most obviously, unhappy customers and extremely profitable incumbents.

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Management Pre-Money Valuation Venture Capital New Hampshire 114

VC Cafe

JUNE 19, 2020

“Because COVID is shaking our habits and beliefs it opens the door to discussion to whether we should change our whole system,” says veteran investor Sir Ronald Cohen, chairman of the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment and the man known as “the father of British venture capital” .

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Most folks reading this will know that many startups were built in part with the help of venture capital. A smaller portion of the total capital in the VC ecosystem comes from high net worth individuals. The third reason is less in the hands of these institutional investors, and that’s governance.

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LP Private Equity Institutional Investors Venture Capital 335

Austin Startup

APRIL 1, 2017

They are supposed to serve as an objective voice on what’s best for the Company overall; balancing the incentives of common stockholders (management/founders) and preferred stockholders (investors) that can often pull in different directions. But institutional investors have a job to do, and it’s not to be your BFF.

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Term Sheet Institutional Investors Technical Review Lead Investor 48

abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

Would that help retention and NPS (Net Promote Score)? On the demand side, the IPO process is limited to a handful of institutional investors and also ignores the vast majority of retail investors. Many, many more investors are locked-out of the process than are invited to participate. Would they be loyal?

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IPO Customer Matching Silicon Valley 82

Berkonomics

JUNE 8, 2017

composed of these investors and management. However, most often, these funds are solicited by a well-meaning entrepreneur from investors who are not qualified as accredited investors under the law (currently requiring a proved income of $200,000 a year or $1 million in net worth for an individual investor).

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Private Equity Valuation Cap Table Accredited Investor 106

Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 12, 2009

If a C corp generates net operating losses rather than net income, these are carried forward to offset future corporate taxable income. Most venture and institutional investors favor C corps because they may have separate classes of stock, allowing for the creation of various levels of preferences, protections, and share valuations.

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David Teten

AUGUST 21, 2019

Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? Like traditional lenders, RBI investors usually don’t take board seats. Companies Lighter Capital has funded on average have negative 14% net margins.” Requires regular monthly payments and careful cash management.

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Revenue Liquidation Preference Equity Cofounder 60

K9 Ventures

MAY 14, 2011

Angels : Angels are individual investors, who are investing their own capital and doing so on a part-time basis. This in theory is very similar to the behavior of institutional investors, however, there is one big difference. Most angels will usually invest under $50K per investment. However, there is a difference.

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Preferred Stock Seed Stage Incubator Early Stage 125

David Teten

JULY 12, 2017

When I meet with other VCs, family offices, and other institutional investors, the most common question I get is: “What are the highest-potential companies in your portfolio which are raising now?” They don’t automatically invest just because we invested; they usually move more slowly than the company’s management team wants. .

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Syndicate Syndication Institutional Investors LP 60

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2012

This from Kate Mitchell, the former chair of the National Venture Capital Association, and current Managing Director of Scale Venture Partners. During a 25-year span of time until 2005, their final report noted, nearly all net job growth in the U.S. That is a short-lived strategy, and a wrong-headed strategy."

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IPO SEC Silicon Valley Startup 118

Austin Startup

JUNE 4, 2017

Recently I was fortunate enough to have raised a seed funding round from a fantastic group of investors for my pre-product, pre-revenue B2B SaaS startup here in Austin, Texas. million round in SaaS management tool Meta SaaS Raising the round was a full-time job for four months. Mark Cuban leads $1.5 Here is my cold prospecting funnel.

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Austin Institutional Investors Angel Groups Deal Flow 54

Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Two, I’m a small business owner or manager. Two, I’m a small business owner or manager. If you’re looking for five million dollars, you should be thinking institutional capital. What is the hardest part of managing your finances? What’s the hardest part of managing your finances?

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Small Business Finance Forecast Metrics 95

Rob Go

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

The venture capital market continues to be in transition, and a lot of changes have occurred in the early stages of the market. Frist, many of the funds were extremely prolific in their early years, and didn’t have a well established model for managing their time and capacity. See that original post here.

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Seed Stage Pre-Money Valuation Dilution Early Stage 55