David Teten

JUNE 22, 2012

By excising just the tumor and leaving the rest of the organ, surgeons can help patients reduce the risk of early mortality, reduce patient complications, reduce costs of healthcare, and reduce the backlogged demand for kidney donations. Torsh, Inc.’s HBSAANY now invests during a gait of tighten to $2 million in 7-10 companies per year.

Programming 114

Programming Accredited Investor Naming New York 114

David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2013

Aspen is looking for institutional investor and entrepreneur speakers willing to share their investing insights and personal experiences. If you would like to be a speaker or simply attend any of the programs below, at no cost, contact Katherine St. More details. Onge, Katherine.St.Onge(@)aspeninst.org.

Tunisia 114

Tunisia Libya Algeria Mauritania 114

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2014

Unless you are bootstrapping everything, you need to have a clear plan on what networking and documents are required to get to friends and family, Angel investors, and institutional investors. Leverage information technology. Here is another often overlooked area of process that kills many startups, both in cost and time.

Startup 268

Startup Institutional Investors Angel Investor Bootstrapping 268

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

I’ve also presented at a range of industry conferences on how institutional investors can use professional networks for research , origination , market research , and value creation. Can you give a brief overview: when you were founded, investors, current status? In that way, we see the value from both sides.

New York 114

New York Technical Review Networking Advisory Board 114

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. . When I met my now-wife, I realized that any technology that can find me a spouse is a killer app. I previously posted a detailed presentation with sales technology tools useful for B2B sales.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2013

It won’t work, it costs time and money, and hurts your credibility when you need them later. The alternative is to work with an innovation institute to evaluate your technology, or hire a consultant. They are not trying to make money, but simply to recoup their costs over time. Early or embryonic stage.

Incubator 256

Incubator Entrepreneur Exit Strategy Institutional Investors 256

Austin Startup

JUNE 14, 2017

Even with modern technology that enables casting a wider net for your market reach, most professionals rely significantly on a local client base. Houston has among the world’s top energy lawyers, but slim pickings for technology/vc lawyers. And in both cases, that works very well, because there isn’t a cost to ‘going local.’

Silicon Valley 48

Silicon Valley Houston San Antonio Austin 48

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

It won’t work, it costs time and money, and hurts your credibility when you need them later. The alternative is to work with an innovation institute to evaluate your technology, or hire a consultant. They are not trying to make money, but simply to recoup their costs over time. Early or embryonic stage.

Incubator 120

Incubator Startup Exit Strategy Institutional Investors 120

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2013

Unless you are bootstrapping everything, you need to have a clear plan on what networking and documents are required to get to friends and family, Angel investors, and institutional investors. Leverage information technology. Here is another often overlooked area of process that kills many startups, both in cost and time.

Institutional Investors 230

Institutional Investors Angel Investor Bootstrapping Database 230

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2012

It won’t work, it costs time and money, and hurts your credibility for when you need them later. The alternative is to work with an innovation institute to evaluate your technology, or hire a consultant. They are not trying to make money, but simply to recoup their costs over time. Early or embryonic stage.

Incubator 237

Incubator Startup Exit Strategy Institutional Investors 237

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

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. VCs tout themselves as frontier technology investors, but most are using the same infrastructure tools they have used for the past 20+ years: Excel and recent college grads searching Google.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Unless you are bootstrapping everything, you need to have a clear plan on what networking and documents are required to get to friends and family, angel investors, and institutional investors. Leverage information technology. Here is another often overlooked area of process that kills many startups, both in cost and time.

Startup 255

Startup Institutional Investors Angel Investor Bootstrapping 255

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Robo-advisors is an exciting new frontier for startups that want to use technology to provide financial advisory services to investors. Medium-risk loans have medium returns, and low-risk loans sport low returns for investors. Consider Low-cost online brokerages.

Investment Bankers 113

Investment Bankers Marketing Startup Institutional Investors 113

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 13, 2011

It won’t work, it costs time and money, and hurts your credibility for when you need them later. The alternative is to work with an innovation institute to evaluate your technology, or hire a consultant. They are not trying to make money, but simply to recoup their costs over time. Early or embryonic stage.

Incubator 230

Incubator Startup Exit Strategy Institutional Investors 230

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2010

Unless you are bootstrapping everything, you need to have a clear plan on what networking and documents are required to get to friends and family, angel investors, and institutional investors. Leverage information technology. Here is another often overlooked area of process that kills many startups, both in cost and time.

Startup 239

Startup Institutional Investors Angel Investor Bootstrapping 239

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2015

Along with Greycroft, I was the first institutional investor in Maker Studios (sold to Disney for nearly $1 billion) and am still the largest investor in Mitu Network , the largest online video producer of Latino content. You must invest in technology. 18-25 for many online media or $40+ for TV). But think of this.

SEM 150

SEM Los Angeles Silicon Valley Acquisition 150

Pascal's View

AUGUST 12, 2009

economy: “… Sarbanes-Oxley compliance costs, Eliot-Spitzer’s stock analyst settlement and the economic downturn have created an historic drought in venture-backed companies going public. . Investors take risk in order to reap rewards. Share and Enjoy:

IPO 28

IPO Silicon Valley Merger Sweat Equity 28

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The buyers (or lessees) in these transactions are pension funds, insurance companies, or private equity representing other institutions. Investors seek returns of ~10-15% that are predictable, secure, uncorrelated to other asset classes, and inflation adjusted. Capital Solutions. Public Good Concerns.

Private Equity 164

Private Equity New York City Chicago Investment Bankers 164

David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

17, on “How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology”. He was an Institutional Investor ranked analyst for several years. Ahlberg earned his doctorate from Chalmers University of Technology and has worked as a visiting researcher at the University of Maryland.

Technical Review 128

Technical Review Technology North Carolina Switzerland 128

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Today’s technology will become cheaper. Tomorrow’s technology will be more accessible to more people. It’s Amazon selling books online just when everyone wanted to buy stuff online but before everyone believed shipping costs weren’t overwhelming. For the institutional investor, it’s a set of bets.

Institutional Investors 240

Institutional Investors India China Viral 240

David Teten

AUGUST 21, 2019

Lower processing cost. BJ Lackland wrote, “It’s customary for the company to pay the investor’s legal fees. Much lower cost of capital, if company is highly successful. The cost of VC funding to a unicorn CEO can easily be the equivalent of paying well over 100% annual interest. Works for non-tech companies.

Revenue 60

Revenue Liquidation Preference Equity Cofounder 60

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. They need a combination of capital and experience to separate from the rest of the pack – the low cost of starting a business means it is even more vital to become the market leader more quickly.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

There’s no doubt (at least anecdotally) that the pace of VC investments in early-stage technology companies has picked up in the past few months. I can tell you first hand than bankers are out making road shows to gin up interest in VCs and institutional investors. There is a lot of pent-up demand.

IPO 255

IPO Investment Bankers Venture Capital Marketing 255

Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 12, 2009

Almost all technology startup companies that I work with are C corps. I generally avoid LLCs as most technology startup companies need to grant options to employees and consultants, and there is no easy “off the rack&# method to do this. citizen/resident stockholders. Fundraising.

LLC 61

LLC Stock Options Preferred Stock Stock 61

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2010

There is a primary reason that inside investors give companies convertible debt rather than just giving you the money as equity. VC’s money comes from mostly institutional investors called LPs (limited partners). They might decide to delay new product features or upgrading technology infrastructure.

Startup 290

Startup Burn Rate Warrant Bankruptcy 290

K9 Ventures

MARCH 23, 2011

The fact of the matter however is that The Golden Rule (He who has the gold, makes the rules) applies, and often when the company is raising follow-on-financing, the institutional investors will force the company to renegotiate the notes, often with adverse affects to the note holders — sometimes changing the cap or changing the discount.

Pre-Money Valuation 132

Pre-Money Valuation Valuation Equity Liquidation Preference 132

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 3, 2018

Activist investors single out underperforming companies, then force changes, which may include giving the activist a seat on the board, replacing company leaders, divesting a division, or simply cutting costs. Flannery, will reduce cost and spin off or sell off non-core parts of the company. Activist Investor Target: ADP.

Agile 113

Agile Malaysia Private Equity Non-Compete 113

David Teten

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

I have ranked this list in ascending order of cost (defined as combined time and money). - Educating the VC/angel community on the city/state resources available to them to build companies. Following is a list of some of the policy initiatives I’ve working on, to various extents. I wrote a blog post on this. Details to come.

Government 146

Government Technical Review New York Offshore 146

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 24, 2012

Dan: Well, you and I also just mentioned that we’re on the bleeding edge of technology. It’s quite simple, which is when you had systems where you had limitations on distribution or transportation of products, it enabled you to operate with a certain cost structure. Jason: I use them.

Silicon Valley 204

Silicon Valley Software Review Internet Technical Review 204

View from Seed

OCTOBER 29, 2014

This typically has a dual purpose: generate a return on the company’s cash while also gaining insight into new startups and technologies that may be of strategic interest to the corporation. Some institutional investors simply aren’t big enough to have in-house employees to vet and manage a portfolio of VC funds.

LP 335

LP Private Equity Institutional Investors Venture Capital 335

Agile VC

OCTOBER 29, 2014

This typically has a dual purpose: generate a return on the company’s cash while also gaining insight into new startups and technologies that may be of strategic interest to the corporation. Some institutional investors simply aren’t big enough to have in-house employees to vet and manage a portfolio of VC funds.

Venture Capital 279

Venture Capital LP Private Equity Institutional Investors 279

David Teten

JANUARY 8, 2013

PEHub just posted this guest article: Can professional investors use social media? Historically, institutional investors kept their investing strategy and their activities very discreet. A family-run company that hires an outside CEO is flashing a signal that the firm may welcome an outside investor.

Private Equity 114

Private Equity Social Media Equity Media 114

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Stanford and MIT were building on the technology breakthroughs of World War II and graduating a generation of engineers into a consumer and cold war economy that seemed limitless. These technology startups had no risk capital – just customers/purchase orders from government/military/intelligence agencies.

Silicon Valley 164

Silicon Valley Securities and Exchange Commission Venture Capital RSS 164

Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

The combination of access to a robust private market coupled with the easing of the on-ramp created by the JOBS Act has enabled companies such as Moderna to be able to invest in life-changing technologies as we’ve seen with the recent COVID vaccines. First, as the below chart shows, IPO pops are not a new phenomenon.

SEC 36

SEC Accredited Investor IPO Technical Review 36

VC Cafe

MARCH 20, 2011

Japan’s Softbank and current investors General Catalyst, Spark Capital, and Union Square Ventures also participated. TaKaDu , winner of the Technology Pioneer Award by the World Economic Forum annual meeting is helping London keep its water clean. The company has raised $26.5 million to date, including the current round.

Venture Capital 87

Venture Capital Startup Denmark 87

Steve Blank

AUGUST 19, 2013

Yet during those same 60 years, rather than decreasing, the cost of getting a new drug approved by the FDA has increased 80 fold. Yep, it cost 80 times more to get a successful drug developed and approved today than it did 60 years ago. Pharma companies are staggering under the costs. And medical device innovation in the U.S.

Venture Capital 302

Venture Capital Startup Lean Philadelphia 302

Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

The DIY mentality can really bog you down and become a burden eventually, plus it can really cost you more time and money in the grand scheme of things. I just wanted to break down those two pieces real quick the time side and the cost side. Then the second one here which I eluded to is really all about cost. Four, technology.

Small Business 95

Small Business Finance Forecast Metrics 95