Demand Forecast Institutional Investors Valuation 
Ben's Blog
MAY 24, 2021
Second, by better matching supply and demand, direct listings have generally mitigated the magnitude of IPO Pops, thus engendering better overall price discovery. Most IPOs have lockups that prevent additional secondary shares coming into the market, sometimes for as long as 6-months. Time Period IPO Pop* 1980-1989 6.1% 1990-1998 13.3%
David Teten
SEPTEMBER 23, 2017
Close to 80% responded that manual processes, such as tracking down support, preparing reports and pulling data from different sources, are the biggest pain points they face in the valuation process. Stereotypically, venture capitalists are viewed as less numerically focused than private equity investors.
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David Teten
NOVEMBER 15, 2013
Since I became an institutional investor, my #1 learning is: this is a highly unusual and somewhat baffling industry. Each new investor tends to raise valuations and lower returns for all the other competitive investors. However, the asset management industry collectively plays a near-zero-sum game.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 1, 2009
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. The growth and $1 billion valuation of Twitter and its impact on business – The Big Thaw discussion would obviously not be complete without discussing Twitter.
abovethecrowd.com
MAY 20, 2013
As Benchmark is a large institutional investor in Grubhub, we were actively involved in the merger process, and we are quite excited about the potential of the two companies coming together. Most models are also based on forward forecasts, which offers another avenue for inflation. I call this the “dueling blowfish” problem.
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