David Teten
MARCH 5, 2021
Research from BCG, Harvard Business Review, First Round Capital, the Kauffman Foundation, and Illuminate Ventures shows that investors in diverse teams get better returns: Paul Graham , cofounder of Y Combinator (2015): “Many suspect that venture capital firms are biased against female founders.
Austin Startup
AUGUST 10, 2017
Although we were studying finance, we were always more interested in tech. Before graduating, I decided to forgo the finance path and instead dove into engineering and later sales and product management roles at VersaSuite (health IT) in Austin. But we never lost the finance bug. We were infatuated with tech. Factom, Inc.
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David Teten
AUGUST 20, 2019
Revenue-Based Investing (“RBI”) is a new form of VC financing, distinct from the preferred equity structure most VCs use. By contrast, according to PitchBook Data, since the beginning of 2016, companies with women founders have received only 4.4% of venture capital deals.
Up and Running
SEPTEMBER 5, 2017
“In a lot of the industries in which I ended up launching companies, there was a pre-existing profile of what a successful entrepreneur should look like—typically a young, white male with a technical, finance, or political background,” says Aguirre de Carcer. In 2016, women were the recipients of 4.94 billion dollars.
David Teten
JANUARY 28, 2019
Everyone wanted to work in finance. I’ve listed the most common levers that universities use below, with some live examples from Yale: Strong technical departments : Computer Science , Math , Physics. “CEO is the new Analyst.”. But now, the defining movie of today’s twentysomethings is “The Social Network”. I wrote a blog post on this.
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