David Teten

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

This is particularly true in New York, where their traditional financial services industry client base has sustained significant damage since the 2008 financial crisis. Our founders realized that investors needed to learn interactively, on-demand, on very specific topics, and in an atmosphere of trust. It started in healthcare.

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 7, 2013

These firms have had a significant impact on growth over the last 20 years through the bubbles and crashes they create – e.g. the Long-Term Capital Management crash of 1998, the Dot-Com crash of 2000, and the housing meltdown of 2008.

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Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

The first challenge for any marketplace is to solve the initial chicken and egg problem of supply and demand. Film was Indiegogo’s first campaign category when the platform launched in 2008. First, they removed the deadline requirement in campaigns and created an on-demand product. It was a small change with a big impact.

San Francisco 60

San Francisco Vertical Equity Cofounder 60

Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 14, 2010

After the recent announcement of the Series Seed Financing documents by Marc Andreesen, Brad Feld points out that there are now four sets of “open source&# equity seed financing documents: TechStars Model Seed Funding Documents (by Cooley). Y Combinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents (by WSGR). under $500K).

Finance 70

Finance Software Review Term Sheet Liquidation Preference 70

Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Thanks to Charles Reiling, Coastal Equities, Inc. ! #2- Previously I worked for the Department of Defense and struggled to balance my professional demands and personal priorities. Global Financial Crisis in 2008). 2- People and skills. Photo Credit: Chad Pavel. And have met some incredible people along the way.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MAY 5, 2020

Occurrences such as the global financial crisis of 2008 and COVID-19 outbreak both fall into this category. There is a much greater demand from buyers in industries that are growing such as Ecommerce, business services and consulting than there are in industries that are declining or moving overseas such as manufacturing and lodging.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Design and maintain a roadmap of projects to meet demanding business objectives, taking advantage of trends and new technology where appropriate. Contribute to development of primary business plan, with input on focus, costing and approach (platform, build vs. buy, resourcing, hosting strategy, time & cost).

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 22, 2009

If you assume a 20% cost of capital (typical for equity, debt is generally cheaper), then getting an upfront payment for one additional year on a $10k MRR contract saves you $24k. I'm very happy to have "bumped" into it now as we are in the process of rolling out our on demand SaaS for making, sharing and using vector maps.

Software Review 91

Software Review Clawback Sales Salary 91

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

This time by the efforts of Adeo Ressi to introduce a new kind of structure called “ convertible equity.” My initial reaction to Adeo when we spoke was that while it may have solved some issues (debt versus equity) it didn’t solve the ones that I’ve been warning entrepreneurs about most loudly.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Consequently, US regulators have discouraged the selling of equity (shares) through crowd funding websites, so online companies, such as Kickstarter.com , offer the opportunity to donate funds to interesting US startup ventures in exchange for the right to become early product users or simply listed on the new ventures’ websites.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

The idea at the center of his real estate revolution is “shared equity,” a concept he devised after years of research and international travel. The abstract version of markets, the one in which they flawlessly create supply to match demand and precisely set prices, is not reflective of the way markets often work in the real economy.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 7, 2011

Businesses large and small will continue to struggle as long as demand is soft and business budgets are constrained. Many businesses will escape a shock of the the kind they experienced with the collapse of Lehman Brothers in the fall of 2008. Cost of capital may increase. Uncertainty may abate.

Small Business 86

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www.instigatorblog.com

MARCH 2, 2010

Whether the Advisory Board is something your investors (or Board of Directors) demand or not, you should set one up anyway. This is typically done with a small piece of equity. lol [link] Ben Yoskovitz @Zack: You don’t necessarily have to pay your Advisory Board with money – generally you compensate with equity.

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Agile VC

JULY 24, 2013

see Note 1 below re: subprime crisis of 2008-9]. Or to focus solely on getting the lowest valuation as an investor, which by definition will price you out of the most desirable companies which typically have substantial demand for their equity. So why doesn’t the same model work in VC?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

That was written in September 2008. The Laws of Supply & Demand. The most basic chart of microeconomics is a supply & demand curve. Demand represents a buyer and supply a seller. In the case of startups the “buyer” is the VC looking to part cash for “purchasing” equity in your startup.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

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. ► 2008. (14). ► May. (1). ► March. (1).

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Mo was graduated from Wharton, worked in investment banking, spent 6 years at IAC (including in an operational role for Connected Ventures which includes College Humor, Busted T’s and Vimeo) before joining Spark Capital in 2008. Founded in 2008 by Mehdi Maghsoodnia. Total raised: $129.0mm. InviteMedia (acquired by Google).

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ConversionXL

JULY 21, 2020

For a splash page used during Barack Obama’s first presidential campaign in 2008, staff tested all possible combinations of four buttons and six different media (three images and three videos). Building materials dealers and developers couldn’t meet the demand for new homes.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

He was raising money initially in the worst market in a decade (we met in 2008), he’s in his mid-40′s, is doing a mom’s site (he has no kids) and he has a JewFro. It could be a bubble or better balance of supply and demand. We talk about all of this in the video. We then started talking about Dave McClure.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Don’t exacerbate the issue by needing to figure out how to deal with a large equity deadweight on your hands (investors won’t like that the #2 stakeholder is absent, even estranged, from your company). So, the best way of dealing with this issue is to take a long, long vesting period for all major sweat equity founders.

Software Review 79

Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

Altgate

MARCH 16, 2009

 However, apparently it is not unusual for investors to demand side letters that confer much of the rights customary in a typical US preferred security, effectively creating a "synthetic preferred stock." "  I wonder if these have been tested in any courts…anyone had personal insight into that?

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Altgate

APRIL 22, 2009

"  The beauty of having the option to select from "standard" options is that WSGR has included some market data , e.g. what percent of term sheets in up rounds in 2008 included this term.   There are three categories (startup, equity financing and bridge loans) so we can expect more to come.

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Term Sheet Intellectual Property Venture Capital Hawaii 52

David Teten

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Amelia Investments – “Amelia Investments is a private equity fund creating economic opportunities throughout the Middle East region. Phoenix will act as a platform to channel Gulf investment into OurCrowd’s 220 portfolio companies, building on the pent-up demand in the UAE for opportunities in the thriving Israeli start-up scene.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 28, 2021

And now, renowned equity analyst Ja Rule has weighed in: What’s amazing is that Robinhood’s actions have even got Ted Cruz agreeing with AOC: I mean… What is going on?!? Should we have asked whether securitization should be allowed before 2008? Oh, wait… it just did. and then it came back… and then it blew up again….

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