Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 27, 2017

I still get a lot of questions on these mysterious and often invisible investors, so here is another attempt to bring them out of the ether. By definition, an angel investor is not an “institutional investor.” Mine national databases.

Advisory Board 120

Advisory Board Angel Investor Database Institutional Investors 120

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

I still get a lot of questions on these mysterious and often invisible investors, so here is another attempt to bring them out of the ether. By definition, an angel investor is not an “institutional investor.” Mine national databases.

Angel Investor 245

Angel Investor Advisory Board Database Institutional Investors 245

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. How do you access the Internet, what servers do you need, applications required, databases designed, and backups scheduled?

Startup 268

Startup Institutional Investors Angel Investor Bootstrapping 268

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 23, 2011

I still get a lot of questions on these mysterious and often invisible investors, so here is another attempt to bring them out of the ether. By definition, an angel investor is not an “institutional investor.” Mine national databases.

Angel Investor 242

Angel Investor Advisory Board Startup Database 242

Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

Because Gust is the word’s most comprehensive database of high-growth startup companies (in terms of size, larger than Crunchbase and AngelList combined), it is increasingly used as a source for third party listings and directories.

Angel Groups 159

Angel Groups Elevator Pitch Software Review Deal Flow 159

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 27, 2010

I still get a lot of questions on these mysterious and often invisible investors, so here is another attempt to bring them out of the ether. By definition, an angel investor is not an “institutional investor.” Mine national databases.

Angel Investor 227

Angel Investor Advisory Board Database Institutional Investors 227

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. How do you access the Internet, what servers do you need, applications required, databases designed, and backups scheduled?

Institutional Investors 230

Institutional Investors Angel Investor Bootstrapping Database 230

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. How do you access the Internet, what servers do you need, applications required, databases designed, and backups scheduled?

Startup 255

Startup Institutional Investors Angel Investor Bootstrapping 255

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. How do you access the Internet, what servers do you need, applications required, databases designed, and backups scheduled?

Startup 239

Startup Institutional Investors Angel Investor Bootstrapping 239

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

However, about 5% of the VCs in our database, mostly younger ones, are trying to build a competitive advantage by crawling large amounts of publicly available data and building analytical functions to flag companies with accelerating traction to them.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

David Teten

JANUARY 23, 2021

Set up the basic marketing toolkit: deck, website, accurate online databases, and social media accounts. . Your materials should ideally meet the expectations of the Institutional Limited Partners Association, even if you’re not targeting institutions. Institutional investors in funds are typically conservative.

Private Equity 78

Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Software Review 78

David Teten

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Most Active Individual Fintech Angels on AngelList (across their database). 14 Industry Trends the Top FinTech Execs are Watching (Institutional Investor). Goldman Sachs Principal Strategic Investments. Point72 Asset Management. Santander InnoVentures. Transamerica Ventures. Worldquant Ventures. The FinTech Opportunity.

New York 60

New York Community DC Boston 60

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 30, 2018

These are straightforward questions, the answers will have no bearing on your ultimate success and if you want to know the truth most VCs have access to databases like Pitchbook that have all of this information anyways. Knowing that other institutional investors (including your insiders) are paying the same price as them in this round helps.

Valuation 324

Valuation Post-Money Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Cofounder 324

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Austin Ventures was the lead institutional investor, accompanied by a group of smaller individual investors. A 2009 report from the SANS Institute Report called web application attacks from open source breaches one of the top cyber security risks for companies. Gazzang, Inc.,

SQL 59

SQL PHP Database Open Source 59

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I use another live Google doc to maintain my database of companies I’m marketing to other VCs. That Google document provides cut and pasteable text I can share with other investors, based on their stage, focus, and appetite. . I’ve used Asana extensively to manage activities firm-wide. Deer Isle Group has built the D.I.G.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Austin Startup

JULY 24, 2017

I have never been in the position where I needed to ask anyone — friends, family, angels, institutional investors — for the capital to execute on an idea, and to develop a business around said idea. Full credit to them for, you know, spending the time to collect information on several thousand investors.

Austin 54

Austin Institutional Investors Angel Investor Database 54

VC Cafe

AUGUST 11, 2014

GLG continued to build it’s expert consulting network in the years to follow to become one of the top primary research tools for institutional investors because they have helped their customers to make things simple quickly. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.

Curation 167

Curation Vertical San Francisco Angel Investor 167

Steve Blank

AUGUST 19, 2013

It has gotten so bad that pension funds and other institutional investors in venture capital funds have told these funds to stay away from Life Science – or at the least, early stage Life Science. And while the vast majority of Life Science exits remain below $125M, other sectors have seen exit valuations soar. WTF is going on?

Venture Capital 301

Venture Capital Startup Lean Philadelphia 301

VC Cafe

JUNE 19, 2020

There’s an increasing interest from institutional investors in particular, but also high-net-worth individuals, private banks and a variety of other players who are thinking to make more impact investments than we’ve seen in the past couple of years.”. Cecile Blilious and Leehe Skuler. GITA identifies four points of activities: 1.

Venture Capital 174

Venture Capital Global South Africa 174