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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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

Reasons for funding. ? Scale up your operations. One of the most prominent reasons for funding is to scale up your operations, for expansion and achieve economies of scale. Now you may want to scale up your operations or expand your presence. The third reason is to fund your short term operational expenses or working capital.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 8, 2022

Think of the Deputy Secretary of Defense as the Chief Operating Officer of a company – but in this case the company has 3 million employees (~1.4 Until we have new vendors on the Major Defense Acquisition Program list , all we have in the DoD is innovation theater – not innovation. Acquire at Speed.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Eighteen months ago, San Diego-based MergerLabs was born out of CAPTARGET, a leader in private equity deal origination, owned and operated by Gabe Galvez. Galvez, a major player in private equity and investment banking, saw the need for marketing services geared toward these sectors.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

Public investors, cross-over investors, and even traditional private equity firms have taken notice, further blurring the lines of what constitutes true venture capital. Governments blocking acquisitions, the curtailment of company expansion, more scrutiny on overseas operations of U.S. 3/ Crypto Hibernation.

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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. A more sophisticated way to do this: calculate your internal ratios , e.g., your Customer Acquisition Cost and Lifetime Value.

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 12, 2021

We’re excited to announce our investment in Cap Hill Brands , a Seattle startup with the mission to build a next-generation CPG company by acquiring and operating digitally-native consumer brands. The company is led by two of the best e-commerce operators and entrepreneurs we know, Kevin Saliba and Jason LeeKeenan.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

The average monthly operating expenses is $70,335. 30% have been operated by females, 70% have been operated by males. 40% have been operated by “visible minorities”, 60% have been operated by “non-visible minorities”. Pied Piper Inc needs funding to accelerate customer acquisition for its SaaS solution.

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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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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. . I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Even still, in the context of all three points, I recommend that you evaluate the most common exit alternatives and considerations, and integrate the right one into your startup strategy and plan: M&A - merger or acquisition by another company. Find a private equity firm or friendly individual.

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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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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2017

That summer a private equity fund acquired the assets of the company. And once I took customer acquisition costs into account, this segment was unprofitable and negative-LTV. In 2015, 9-figure apparel retailer Karmaloop.com filed for bankruptcy. The company had been bleeding cash, losing six figures per month.

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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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Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

These connections are likely best when firms are networked with other sources of capital vertically (angel groups, venture debt, private equity and investment bank relationships) and horizontally (in-market and out-of-market venture capital firms). He is a partner at Capital Factory and a board member of the Austin Technology Council.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 25, 2020

Even still, in the context of all three points, I recommend that you evaluate the most common exit alternatives and considerations, and integrate the right one into your startup strategy and plan: M&A - merger or acquisition by another company. Find a private equity firm or friendly individual.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2015

When including lawyers and a chief compliance officer, many experts argue that the costs can quadruple those of a private company. All strategy and operational moves become public. Every public company has to answer to thousands of public stockholders now, rather than just a few private investors.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Office and Operations. Will Work for Equity. Dave Graham Business Venture Capital Private Equity GlobalLogic Inc. In the past few years, hundreds of small companies have been snatched up by private equity firms willing to agree to ever-rising valuations. Naming a Business. How to Incorporate. Franchises.

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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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www.thedailymuse.com

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

If someone doesn’t understand the world in which you are operating, it’s harder for him to adequately represent you. 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.

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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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Growthink Blog

JUNE 25, 2014

By almost any objective standard, paying into the billions of dollars for businesses with little revenues and/or significant operating losses - as is the case with all the companies mentioned above - is absurd. Let''s take the bubble question first. And their options for doing so are far more limited than one might think.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Even still, in the context of all three points, I recommend that you evaluate the most common exit alternatives and considerations, and integrate the right one into your startup strategy and plan: M&A - merger or acquisition by another company. Find a private equity firm or friendly individual.

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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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David Teten

MARCH 3, 2015

And I definitely am one of those people who regularly advises our portfolio companies at ffVC to think creatively about how to experiment on their operating assumptions. For example, “ What CRM tools are used by venture capital and private equity funds? ”. The challenge is: what experiments can you run to test your hypotheses?

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 10, 2017

To start with the amount of risk capital — including angel, institutional VC, and other private equity — deployed towards startups was actually greater in Dallas than Austin , as of Q1 2017, with $6.97 For example, there is Hotels.com , sold to Expedia in a deal presaging the acquisition path similarly taken by Austin’s Homeaway.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2016

Even still, in the context of all three points, I recommend that you evaluate the most common exit alternatives and considerations, and integrate the right one into your startup strategy and plan: M&A - merger or acquisition by another company. Find a private equity firm or friendly individual.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Panel 2 – How Social Investing is Disrupting Investments in Hedge Funds, Private Equity Funds, and Other Alternatives. The second panel will focus on collaborative investing in non-public alternative investments (private equity, venture capital, receivables, etc.). . and Economics, both from Cornell University.

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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. That’s something they appreciate having.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 29, 2017

10- Address financial and operating metrics. By screening hundreds of SMB acquisition opportunities as managing partner at my private equity firm, I saw first-hand that the vast majority of small business owners run their firms without the benefit of good financial or operating metrics.

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BeyondVC

JUNE 29, 2005

Every year the Dow Jones Private Equity Analyst puts together a show where fund managers can listen to what the LP community is interested in and where they plan on allocating their dollars. In these conference you typically have a similar ratio, 20% VCs or those with the money and 80% entrepreneurs or those seeking funds.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 14, 2018

While I wasn’t selected by one of the five TV sharks, I was able to create a partnership with a private equity group that saw my segment. Outside of the operating room, I attempt to balance work, life, and being a mother to two toddlers. BareEASE was also featured on SHARK TANK (Season 5). Photo Credit: Chip Miceli.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 15, 2024

M&A/ Exits – This situation is compounded by a narrowing window for mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and initial public offerings (IPOs). Startups that survived 2023 had to make significant adjustments: reduce their burn, improve their margins and unit economics and learn to operate in a capital constraint environment.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 3, 2023

Private equity firm Alta Semper Capital has provided a financing injection of twenty million dollars to the e-health business MyDawa, which is based in Kenya. Because of this significant investment, Alta Semper Capital is launching its operations in the digital healthcare market in Africa for the very first time.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 25, 2012

Some of those were clearly the result of acquisitions--whether the founders lost their hunger or whether the acquiring company smothered the baby is up for debate, but Digg, Dailybooth and Turntable stayed on their own. These are the grey haired white dudes that show up as Operating Partners on Private Equity fund pitch books.

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Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2022

The Pentagon’s relationship with startups and commercial companies, already an arms-length one, is hindered by a profound lack of understanding about how the commercial innovation ecosystem works and its failure of imagination about what venture and private equity funded innovation could offer. ” Acquire at Speed.

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