A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 4, 2018

This week we closed $250M in financing from Silver Lake , the premier technology private equity firm. We just announced a few more things. Late last year we passed $100M in annual recurring revenue. Every day, 5% of the entire online world visits a customer running on the WP Engine Digital Experience Platform.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 16, 2016

Founders can now access the largest pool of risk capital that ever existed –in the form of Private Equity (Angel Investors, family offices , Venture Capitalists (VC’s) and Hedge Funds.). At its core Venture Capital is nothing more than a small portion of the Private Equity financial asset class.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2023

A few, like Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), despite recent failures, actually do provide management services to startups, invest in startups, or provide early-stage venture capital, but that is not called an investment service and is part of a function called Emerging Technologies, or sometimes Private Equity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2020

A few, like Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), actually do provide management services to startups, invest in startups, or provide early-stage venture capital, but that is not called an investment service and is part of a function called Emerging Technologies, or sometimes Private Equity.

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Silicon Valley Private Equity Initial Public Offering Term Sheet 362

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

Under this category, you have the angel investors who would invest their own money and Venture Capital or VC firms, who manage funds aimed towards specific startup sectors and stages. For mature businesses, there are Private Equity or PE firms. ? Debt investors. Stages of Funding. Always avoid going the market share route.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

The eight teams spoke to over 945 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, program managers, warfighters, legal, security, customers, etc. Recognizing the ability of these teams to produce real results, 38 members of the venture and private equity community dialed in to these presentations.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 6, 2013

by JP James, Managing Director of Libreum Capital Management. Being wholly owned has the same effect, but it does obviously require a merger or an acquisition to occur. Thinking Aloud deal making deals JP James Libreum Capital Management startup' Many Berkshire Hathaway companies utilize this position as an advantage.

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David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

Large private equity funds like KKR can afford to pursue a consulting model ( Capstone ), typically with associated fees, but that doesn’t normally make economic sense for a VC. We have lower AUM, therefore lower management fees. This requires pulling in data from multiple datasets, e.g.,: marketing (e.g.,

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies. 1) Manage the firm . Before you can actually invest, you have to manage your fund. This is harder than it sounds.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

I hope that you can join us Monday night, April 4, midtown NYC, at a panel on “Innovation in Private Company Liquidity-Online Merger Markets, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO” The program is sponsored by the HBS Club of New York and the HBS Angels of NY.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 24, 2020

by Paul Sparrow , Area Managing Partner & CMO with Chief Outsiders. Using both internally-gathered data and market-driven insights business executives can formulate the smartest plan for their company – one that, depending upon the industry, might prompt a double-down on a particular management strategy instead of pulling back.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Investors know that the fun of a startup turns into managing production processes, sales processes, and personnel in a few years. Find a private equity firm or friendly individual. The buyer has the challenge of scaling the business, and managing all the operational growth requirements.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

We note that if one were to count up the total number of Austin-based fund managers who are women, minorities, or identify as LGBTQ you could count them on less than two hands. at Oklahoma State University and his MBA at Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Corsa Ventures fits this criteria.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Leadership & Managing | Tuesdays. LEADERSHIP & MANAGING. Managing Creativity. Leadership and Managing >. Will Work for Equity. Dave Graham Business Venture Capital Private Equity GlobalLogic Inc. Quality Manager Job Description. Quality Manager Job Description. Technology | Thursdays.

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SiliconHills

MAY 22, 2016

Genstar Capital, a private equity firm, last week announced its acquisition of Austin-based Accruent, which makes real estate, facilities and asset management software. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Rob Go

DECEMBER 14, 2016

The acquisition probably means more to you than it does to the other party, so you will be negotiating from a place of relative weakness. Most companies aren’t that acquisitive, and a company’s reputation as a buyer is nowhere near as important to a normal company as it is to a venture investor.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 25, 2020

Investors know that the fun of a startup turns into managing production processes, sales processes, and personnel in a few years. Find a private equity firm or friendly individual. The buyer has the challenge of scaling the business, and managing all the operational growth requirements.

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Exit Strategy Startup Private Equity Equity 376

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

A few, like Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), actually do provide management services to startups, invest in startups, or provide early-stage venture capital, but that is not called an investment service and is part of a function called Emerging Technologies, or sometimes Private Equity.

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IPO Silicon Valley Private Equity Initial Public Offering 205

Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Magnitude Software, a leading provider of Enterprise Information Management (EIM) software, today announced it has secured up to $100 million in capital investment led by Audax Group, a leading middle market private equity firm, and a significant personal investment by Chris Ney, the company’s chairman and chief executive officer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2015

As a public company executive, your management style, and even your personal life, is subject to extensive scrutiny by stock analysts and stockholders. Private companies typically have an internal board of friendly owners, unlikely to be pressured by the media to consider an unfriendly tender offer from another major player in the market.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

Since 2017 we’ve managed $3 million in revenue-based financing, which helps cash-strapped technology companies grow. Pied Piper Inc needs funding to accelerate customer acquisition for its SaaS solution. Our approach allows us to invest without taking equity, without taking board seats, and without requiring personal guarantees.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 19, 2018

As a successful young entrepreneur (he’s only 30! ), Harrison Rogers is Founder and CEO of HJR Global, a private equity company that has increased at least 200% every year for the past 4 years. Our investments or acquisitions won’t be limited by industry or geographically, so “Global” felt adequate.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2015

In reality, many businesses are a perfect fit for ESOPs, but the business owners will never know because they think selling to a private equity or other third-party buyer are their only legitimate alternatives: Discussed below are some of the most common myths associated with ESOPs (sometimes referred to as “ESOP Fables”): 1.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

I suggest read Ready to Join a New Management Team? Once you have established that you’ve identified the right cofounder(s), the biggest pain point is typically and unsurprisingly the equity split. How to Split Equity Among Company Founders. A Founders’ Agreement: The Best Way to Avoid and Manage Co-Founder Conflict.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2011

A few, like Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), actually do provide management services to startups, invest in startups, or provide early-stage venture capital, but that is not called an investment service and is part of a function called Emerging Technologies, or sometimes Private Equity.

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Silicon Valley Private Equity Initial Public Offering Startup 211

Up and Running

AUGUST 17, 2015

Between my experiences as a management consultant, as well as my product and marketing roles at multiple tech companies, I felt that I had enough operational experience to make that leap sooner than later. When it came time for me to decide on whether or not to attend business school, I knew I wanted to eventually start my own company.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

I also had my hand in sales and marketing for BTB over my summers, but after college, I went off to work as an analyst in real estate asset management and acquisitions for the private equity firm Onyx Equities.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 11, 2010

Monday night, I’ll again be the co-host of Entrepreneurs Unplugged where we will be interviewing Tyler Tysdal, the Managing Director of Mantucket Capital. Brown & Sons, focused on corporate finance and mergers & acquisitions. We’ll start at 6pm at the CU Boulder ATLAS center. He began his career in investment banking with Alex.

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www.thedailymuse.com

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Steve Kaplan, attorney at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP , practices in the areas of venture capital and private equity, mergers and acquisitions, and other commercial transactions. 3 Signs Your Employees Think You Suck as a Manager. " 5 Must-Dos Before Founding a Start-Up Latest Comments.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

There are many reasons for that, such as private equity and crossover investors investing earlier, or the fact that LPs in VC funds are affected by public market swings and could, theoretically, hit some VC firms to feel the pinch. Much of this can trickle down into the startup ecosystem.

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Growthink Blog

JUNE 18, 2014

Almost every day comes barely able to believe valuations on technology company financings, acquisitions, and public offerings. But with the addition of another 217,000 jobs in May , Unemployment now stands at a very manageable 6.3% , and there are now more people with jobs in the United States than ever before.

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Accredited Investor Private Equity United States Valuation 78

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2010

A few, like Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), actually do provide management services to startups, invest in startups, or provide early-stage venture capital, but that is not called an investment service and is part of a function called Emerging Technologies, or sometimes Private Equity.

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Silicon Valley Private Equity Startup Initial Public Offering 120

Growthink Blog

MARCH 1, 2017

Rising public markets, with big companies flush with fresh equity and thus able to more assertively pursue growth-by-acquisition strategies, creates a virtuous trickle-down effect on valuations and business sale probabilities for even the smallest of firms.

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Marketing Private Equity Acquisition Equity 48

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

To facilitate the acquisition the company has partnered with Great Hill Partners, a Boston-based private equity firm, who have invested to take a controlling interest in the combined company. The combined company will continue to be operated and managed by the All Web Leads executive team.

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Private Equity Lead Generation Acquisition Boston 63

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Investors know that the fun of a startup turns into managing production processes, sales processes, and personnel in a few years. Find a private equity firm or friendly individual. The buyer has the challenge of scaling the business, and managing all the operational growth requirements.

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Exit Strategy Entrepreneur IPO Startup 289

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

After graduating college, I spent several years on Wall Street, first at a large investment bank working on M&A for large corporate clients, then as a private equity professional helping invest hundreds of millions of dollars in private companies. Customer acquisition will be harder than expected.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2013

I like the work just published by Bob Rice in “ The Alternative Answer ,” which does a great job of summarizing the investment universe, starting with the “conventional” stocks, bonds, and real estate, but moving on through more esoteric alternatives, including hedge funds, private equity, real assets, managed futures, and finally venture funding.

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