YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 27, 2018
It’s simple; know how to spot potential and use your area of expertise to identify whether or not this startup’s product or service will become a lucrative asset to its audience. Here’s how to spot potential in a growing company when looking to invest: Assess the company’s product or service.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 23, 2010
Typical questions: What do you think of management? So to be clear I think in the overwhelming majority of cases these are diligence calls to feel out the opportunity in which price discussions exchange hands more as a by-product of the call than the intention of the call. That is why I tell people not to shop deals too widely.
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Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 13, 2014
Operating experience (Helped run parts of CitySearch & UrbanSpoon, tons of product management experience, Board of Hatch Labs which helped spawn Tinder). In Kara’s case I got to see her work on deal structuring first hand having worked closely with her on her board at P.S. XO.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 14, 2018
Marks, founder and managing partner of High Rock Partners and author of “ Middle Market M & A: Handbook for Investment Banking and Business Consulting “ Conventional wisdom says that a company grows by reaching new customers, increasing its workforce, expanding marketing or launching new products or services.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 9, 2019
The CIM is a document that outlines the company being sold, its history, products and services, customers, financial performance, management team, and growth strategies. These ten will be given an opportunity to meet with some subset of your management team to receive a presentation about the company in person.
Hunter Walker
MAY 18, 2015
These managers sit in our Privates bucket and are therefore expected to beat the public markets by at least 4.5%. Removing a fund from the portfolio can be for a variety of reasons – strategy shift, team dynamic, assets under management, performance, etc. We probably meet with twenty venture managers a year.
David Teten
OCTOBER 1, 2015
I’ve talked with a number of software development shops who are eager to get into the business of cofounding companies, i.e., getting product revenue and equity instead of just consulting revenue. If we believe in founders enough, we should believe in their potential more than what they could be paying us to build the product.
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