David Teten

JUNE 14, 2011

I am delighted to announce that I’m joining ff Venture Capital as a Partner. In addition, Michael Yavonditte , CEO of Hashable , is joining as a Venture Partner. Since 1999, ff has made over 100 investments in over 35 companies , and from the beginning has been highly focused on generating industry leading returns.

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David Teten

MARCH 2, 2013

An article on the New Enterprise Associates blog by Partner Tom Grossi , however, makes an interesting point: most of the megafunds were raised since 1999, a period in which the entire industry did poorly. Firstly, “fund size” can be misleading as some firms prefer to raise a large aggregate amount split between several concurrent funds.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

Many have noted that the aggregate shareholder value created by all of the Unicorns will vastly overshadow the losses from the inevitable failed unicorns. About this same point in time, the journalists that focus specifically on the venture capital industry noted something quite profound. 2015 was the exact opposite.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

Also, take a look at this critically important data point , also aggregated by Professor Jay Ritter. It is important to note that using the one-day gains of “hot IPOs” to either attract new customers or wildly please the ones you already have is not a new concept. This data set looks at 8,610 IPOS over 39 years from 1980-2019.

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