The Startup Lawyer

OCTOBER 9, 2010

But this morning I read a Dallas Business Journal article that I found amusing: A new accelerator is planning to invest $200,000 and provide up to 45,000 square feet of office space to about 10 mobile app startups in exchange for 15-20% equity in each startup. (a) a) That’s $20,000 per startup for a 15%-20% equity stake.

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David Teten

APRIL 16, 2012

Make no mistake, this will be your company: you will take complete control and will get an unusually high equity stake. Since 1999, our partners have made over 150 investments in over 55 companies. However, if you have the financial flexibility to work for a below-market amount, we can be much more generous in equity.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

When I make a list of non-family members and non-partners who I would want to be stranded on a desert island with, Jerry is at the top of the list. NetGenesis got some of eShares equity, eShare got the net.Thread product, and I joined the eShare board. Jerry became partners with Fred Wilson and they started Flatiron Partners.

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Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 5, 2010

Mannie and I share a strong interest in research in the field of venture capital and private equity. My contributions to this undergraduate textbook, Venture Capital: Theory & Practice , are the result of two important collaborations. In recent years, many universities have followed, teaching venture capital as an elective course.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 11, 2010

The CIC, founded in 1999, is located adjacent to MIT and has more than 100,000 sq ft of space for nearby startups that qualify to be housed there. These are not to be confused with incubators like YCombinator or IdeaLab which look to invest in your company and take equity positions. Now I gotta go and build it just to prove him wrong.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

David Teten, Partner, ff Venture Capital ; Chairman, HBS Alumni Angels of Greater New York. Balloch’s 20+ year career prior to becoming an angel investor was in financial services both in the private equity world- fundraising and investor relations, and in investment banking. Moderator: Katina Stefanova, Bridgewater Associates.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

Three years after that, I was fortunate enough to find a firm, Land Carroll & Blair, with a same client-oriented mentality and partnered with them. I was intrigued when digital photography started taking off, but I didn’t buy my first digital camera until 1999, when my daughter was born. Thanks to Nancy D.

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Entrepreneur LLC Cofounder Green 91

David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Christopher Fralic, Managing Partner, First Round Capital. Christopher Fralic is a Managing Partner at First Round Capital’s New York office, and has focused on a number of the firm’s investments in Advertising Technology, Social Media, Ecommerce, Gaming, Mobile and more. Dave Tisch, Founder & Managing Director, TechStars NYC.

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Austin Startup

JULY 23, 2010

Having been founded in 1999, Zilliant is hard to categorize as a startup anymore. The company announced that is just completed $13M in financing from existing investors SMH Private Equity Group, ABS Ventures, Austin Ventures, and Trellis Partners. Most people don’t really think of pricing as an elastic thing.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2015

My partner Ross Kimbarovsky and I wanted to help people from around the world access creative talent and help creative from around the world find new talent. In January of 1999, I co-founded a marketing agency with a former boss. When a close friend decided to put up the money and partner on the deal, A & M Publishing was born.

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 1, 2015

When I joined the VC industry in 1999 there was too much money in the market, and then over the course of 2000 that flipped to too little money a position from which we are only just recovering now. Whilst the odd deal is getting done that looks a little bubbly there isn’t much of that at idea and seed stage here.

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David Teten

MARCH 2, 2013

See the Techcrunch posts by my Partner John Frankel and Professor Robert Wiltbank , my recent post on the quality of angel returns data , as well as reports from the Silicon Valley Bank and Kauffman Foundation. Partners at smaller funds, by contrast, have to hustle before they can cover their mortgage.

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The Equity Kicker

APRIL 13, 2017

In 1999 when I started in venture capital there were no blogs and very few business books that were useful for entrepreneurs. Here at Forward Partners we have worked hard to contribute to this development by publishing The Path Forward – a playbook and set of practical guides for founders in their first year or two.

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Lean Startup Silicon Valley Venture Capital 90

Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

Set up in 1999, Innofund offers grants ($150 – $250K), loan interest subsidies and equity investment. The ultimate goal of Innofund is to get the startups far enough along in technology and market validation so other sources of financial capital (banks, VC’s, corporate partners) will invest. Seed Funding (Innofund).

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

It might appear that origination is becoming much easier because of new tools like AngelList and the SEC moving toward adoption of rules that will allow equity based crowdfunding. We published the full report in the Journal of Private Equity ; it’s now the #2-most viewed article in the Journal’s history.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Equity 114

Pascal's View

AUGUST 21, 2011

Capital Markets Advisory Partners cleaves the demand for pre-public VC-backed equities into two worlds: “Demand Pull (Buzz) and Supply Push (No Buzz) companies. For me Bubble will always be inexorably linked to what went down in 1999 and 2000 in the internet sector. It is intentional. I do not think we are in a Bubble per se.”.

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Valuation Social Media Media IPO 50

Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

Set up in 1999, Innofund offers grants ($150 – $250K), loan interest subsidies and equity investment. The ultimate goal of Innofund is to get the startups far enough along in technology and market validation so other sources of financial capital (banks, VC’s, corporate partners) will invest. Seed Funding (Innofund).

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Programming Technical Review SBIR China 170

Altgate

MAY 1, 2009

I’m a visual person so here’s how I see it: Entrepreneurs start companies and the founders (“F&# in my chart) invest capital which they grow with sweat equity and then limited partners (“LPs&# ) invest capital via VCs which in turn grows the pie to the eventual “exit&# (which comes in the form of M&A or IPOs).

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Sweat Equity Private Equity IPO Venture Capital 28

David Teten

JANUARY 8, 2013

According to Jeff Bussgang, General Partner at Flybridge Capital Partners, about 10-15% of the 1,000 active venture capitalists in the U.S. Fewer private equity funds are using social media for outreach, but 2xPartners , Healthpoint Capital , and MCM Capital Partners are notable exceptions.

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Private Equity Social Media Equity Media 114

Seeing Both Sides

MAY 26, 2009

Amid the hoopla a few weeks ago at the annual NVCA meeting, where the focus was rightly on improving liquidity, it was barely noticed that a new chairman was elected – Polaris co-founder and managing general partner Terry McGuire, one of the leading life sciences investors in the industry.  3)      Life sciences.

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Private Equity Boston Massachusetts IPO 20

VC Cafe

JANUARY 10, 2011

V iola Private Equity , an Israeli PE fund with $164 million under management for technology buyouts, has announced a $7 million investment in Zend , the leading provider of open-source and commercial solutions based on PHP web applications. According to Linkedin , Zend has a headcount of 130.

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Private Equity Equity PHP 87

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

All Unicorn participants — founders, company employees, venture investors and their limited partners (LPs) — are seeing their fortunes put at risk from the very nature of the Unicorn phenomenon itself. In 1999, record valuations coexisted with record IPOs and shareholder liquidity. LIMITED PARTNERS (LPS). ” Go public.

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OnlyOnce

DECEMBER 5, 2014

First we announced a $35mm financing led by Vista Equity Partners, an exceptional private equity firm that I’d never heard of before the middle of the fundraising process a few months ago. This was a big week for Return Path. Lots of aspects of our jobs will. But that’s a good thing.

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Private Equity Syndicate Syndication Equity 125

Professor VC

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Musk was the early winner taking the CEO role (for a brief period) in the merged company and the largest equity stake as well. I was a Limited Partner in Angel Investors II (Ron Conway's angel fund) that was an investor in Confinity. Both companies offered home security and automation services through partners.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 15, 2011

PRIVATE EQUITY FIRM SUMMIT PARTNERS BUYS ISRAEL’S ANSWERS.COM. AFCV Holdings , a unit of private equity firm Summit Partners, bought Answers Corporation’s community-generated Q&A site Answers.com for $127 million in cash. The web answers search engine, one of the world’s leading Q&A sites with 5.5

Private Equity 90

Private Equity China North America 90

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

Venture Capitalists typically have partners’ meetings on Mondays. So the industry formed around a day of the week when all partners could avoid having company board meetings or traveling. I introduced my partners, we spent weeks with the team and felt good rapport. This article was originally published on TechCrunch.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

Editor’s Note: This testimony was delivered by a16z managing partner Scott Kupor to the U.S. By way of background, I am the Managing Partner for Andreessen Horowitz, a $16.5 In fact, if you exclude the Dot Com Bubble of 1999-2000, they have been steady for nearly thirty years. 1999-2000 51.6% 1999-2000 37.5%

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