A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

It’s among the most-asked questions on startup forums, and an issue we’re dealing with right now at WPEngine as we bring on new employees: How do you decide how much equity (shares) to give a new employee or partner? Now consider this scenario: That same new hire quit her old job but demands the same $10,000/mo from you.

Equity 276

Equity Salary Hiring Institutional Investors 276

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2012

Support organizations at this stage are usually professional financial advisors, or investment banks , which have nurtured relationships with institutional investors. This normally means more then 30 employees, and more then $1 million in revenue. Growth and exit stage.

Incubator 237

Incubator Startup Exit Strategy Institutional Investors 237

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 13, 2011

Support organizations at this stage are usually professional financial advisors, or investment banks , which have nurtured relationships with institutional investors. This normally means more then 30 employees, and more then $1 million in revenue. Growth and exit stage.

Incubator 230

Incubator Startup Exit Strategy Institutional Investors 230

Board Effect

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Organizations demonstrate their commitment to ESG for nonprofits, in part, by how they manage relationships with employees, vendors, and others. It’s common for investors to make large financial commitments for a few years with the hope of helping nonprofits be successful over the long term. Donors demanded it.

South Africa 76

South Africa Government Africa Institutional Investors 76

Ben's Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Have bankers simply become even more evil in 2020, deliberately diverting more money from a company’s coffers to line the pockets of the buy-side institutional investors who subscribe to IPO shares? The laws of supply and demand, and marginal pricing, withstand the test of time. The tl;dr: It’s Economics 101.

IPO 36

IPO Securities and Exchange Commission Demand SEC 36

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Satisfying LP demands and streamlining the valuation process are primary drivers in those clients’ adoption of Ipreo’s portfolio monitoring and valuation solutions, iLEVEL, iVAL, and Qval. . Kushim , Totem , and VisibleVC focus on serving this need among VCs.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

abovethecrowd.com

AUGUST 23, 2020

The traditional way of going public is systematically broken and is robbing Silicon Valley founders, employees, and investors of billions of dollars each year. Most of these companies are about 20% employee owned, so that is $3B right out of employees pockets. Door #1: The Structurally Broken IPO Process.

IPO 118

IPO Silicon Valley Warrant Matching 118

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Other investors are using Trello , Basecamp , and Monday for making sure that everyone at the firm knows one anothers’ long-term OKRs and short-term projects. Point Nine Capital uses 15Five for continuous employee feedback. 3) Raise capital. Deer Isle Group has built the D.I.G. 4) Originate investments.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 3, 2018

Procter & Gamble, the biggest company ever targeted this way, made headlines in 2017 when Nelson Peltz of Trian Partners demanded, and ultimately won, a seat on its board. One thing’s for sure: No company is immune to activist investors. Activist Investor Target: CSX Railroad. Activist Investor Target: Honeywell.

Agile 113

Agile Malaysia Private Equity Non-Compete 113

View from Seed

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Defined-benefit (DB) pension funds are the entities which pay a fixed pension amount to retired employees of a particular organization. There remain many corporate pension funds still investing in VC, though a lot of DB pension funds in the private sector are no longer enrolling new employees. The first is a staff constraint.

LP 335

LP Private Equity Institutional Investors Venture Capital 335

Agile VC

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Defined-benefit (DB) pension funds are the entities which pay a fixed pension amount to retired employees of a particular organization. There remain many corporate pension funds still investing in VC, though a lot of DB pension funds in the private sector are no longer enrolling new employees. The first is a staff constraint.

Venture Capital 279

Venture Capital LP Private Equity Institutional Investors 279

VC Cafe

AUGUST 11, 2014

Clarity.fm , similar to Google Helpouts , offers an on-demand expert network for startups. Whale Path provides on-demand, fully customized market research and competitive analysis by letting the user define their research needs and outsourcing the research bit to a pool of qualified researchers. 8)Clarity. 11) Whale Path -.

Curation 167

Curation Vertical San Francisco Angel Investor 167

abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

On March 26, SoFi announced that “it will be offering its members (at least those with $3K in their account) the ability to invest in IPOs for companies going public, an investment opportunity that has traditionally been reserved for large institutional investors or ultra-high-net-worth individuals.” I kid you not —100% true.

IPO 82

IPO Customer Matching Silicon Valley 82