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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund and mutual fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. High-frequency trading, algorithmic by its nature, is estimated to account for at least 50% of US equity markets trading volume. . But we’re doing it slowly.

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Convertible Debt – Conversion In A Sale Of The Company

Feld Thoughts

In today’s installment of our convertible debt series, we cover a specific case where the company is acquired before the debt converts into equity. Usually we see 2-3x, but in later stage companies, this multiple can be even higher. There are a few different scenarios. The lender gets its money back plus interest.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers. (To see the video above, please click the image, and then click on the Play button.).

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The Pre-Seed FAQ

K9 Ventures

Typically, Pre-Seed rounds are less than $1M in aggregate capital raised. It’s a legitimate stage of financing in the venture eco-system as of this writing (October 2017). That post was written with later stage companies in mind, but I’m now starting to see the same issues crop up in companies at earlier stages as well.

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On the Road to Recap:

abovethecrowd.com

Many have noted that the aggregate shareholder value created by all of the Unicorns will vastly overshadow the losses from the inevitable failed unicorns. Some later-stage investors may be tempted to become Sharks themselves and start including structured terms into their own term sheets. ” Go public.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. Tony P great, though meebo’s place as a “successful&# start up is still open to debate – from consumer IM aggregator to white label IM, still not making big $$.

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Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy? Think Again.

techcrunch.com

Researchers polled experts in lending, mezzanine capital, private equity, venture capital and private businesses themselves. First it makes it prohibitively risky to develop software intellectual property as a means to build equity — because your competitor could just give it away! A lot of the stats weren’t surprising.