David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

In venture capital in particular, early-stage companies are often operating in frontier industries, where the rules are unpredictable and conventional analytic frameworks may be misleading. The Pocket Negotiator is very early-stage attempt to aid in the negotiating process itself. . Accompany focuses on this use case.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 9, 2018

Tie payments to your product or service revenue. With “cash flow” obligations, investors receive a percentage of your operating cash flow (if any) until they have been repaid in full, or have achieved a specified percentage return on their investment. Try to avoid obligations with fixed repayment schedules.

Cram Down 148

Cram Down Angel Investor Equity Dividend 148

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Tie payments to your product or service revenue. With “cash flow” obligations, investors receive a percentage of your operating cash flow (if any) until they have been repaid in full, or have achieved a specified percentage return on their investment. Try to avoid obligations with fixed repayment schedules.

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Founder Cram Down Angel Investor Equity 254

Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

Small” IPOs — companies with less than $50m in annual revenue at the time of IPO – have declined from more than 50% of all IPOs in the 1980-2000 timeframe to about 25% of IPOs from 2001-2016; Companies are staying private much longer — the median time to IPO from founding hovered around 6.5

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SEC Accredited Investor IPO Technical Review 36

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

I’ve written on the expert network industry a fair amount in the past: see How to Earn More Consulting Revenue from Expert Networks and How Executives Can Work with Private Equity and Venture Capital Portfolio Companies.

New York 114

New York Technical Review Networking Advisory Board 114

Berkonomics

AUGUST 3, 2023

Accelerators: This relatively recent combination of coach and limited investor is available to some early-stage businesses, usually in major cities, and requires that the entrepreneurs spend from weeks to months being coached by the accelerator team. Often private equity investors will want control of the business as well.

Private Equity 118

Private Equity Valuation Cap Table Accredited Investor 118

Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2011

Today, the signs of the new bubble are the Linked-In initial public offering (IPO), Facebook’s stratospheric valuation and the rapid rise of early-stage startup valuation. Long before others, they saw that these applications could have hundreds of millions of users with “off the chart&# revenue and profits.

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Silicon Valley Stealth Valuation Mississippi 328

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Tie payments to your product or service revenue. With “cash flow” obligations, investors receive a percentage of your operating cash flow (if any) until they have been repaid in full, or have achieved a specified percentage return on their investment. Try to avoid obligations with fixed repayment schedules.

Cram Down 120

Cram Down Angel Investor Equity Dividend 120

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

This is the key, because Q — what an institutional investor would accept — is a well-understood system. So what kind of return does an angel investor need to make on their $84,000? So if that’s the same as P, we’re done.

Equity 276

Equity Salary Hiring Institutional Investors 276

David Teten

APRIL 7, 2017

This is the debut of an annual series of summits focused on sovereign wealth funds, institutional investors, family offices, venture capitalists, and entrepreneurs interested in technology-driven entrepreneurship and with ties to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. The summit is hosted by: – ABANA – the preeminent U.S.

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New York Africa Cofounder Egypt 60

Growthink Blog

MAY 10, 2012

When seeking equity investments, the source of capital is, for the most part, tied to the stage of capital being raised. You see, equity capital is raised in stages or rounds. The five main stages include the following: 1. Early Stage Investment (Series A & B) 4. Pre-Seed Funding 2. Seed Funding 3.

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Equity Mezzanine Later Stage Venture Capital 88

VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2010

The acquisition is a bitter-sweet end to the story of Veoh, which has raised $70 million since getting funded in 2005 from institutional investors (Goldman Sachs, Intel Capital, Shelter Capital and Spark Capital among others) and big media companies such as ABC, CBS and Warner Brothers.

Bankruptcy 74

Bankruptcy Early Stage Merger Institutional Investors 74

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

In an over-funding environment companies are encouraged to eschew revenues in a land grab to acquire eyeballs, clicks, page views or whatever other vanity metrics give VCs the false comfort that they’re sitting on a gold mine. IPO markets had burned an entire cycle of retail stock investors and many institutional investors to boot.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

Berkonomics

JUNE 8, 2017

Accelerators: This relatively recent combination of coach and limited investor is available to some early stage businesses, usually in major cities, and requires that the entrepreneurs spend from weeks to months being coached by the accelerator team. Often private equity investors will want control of the business as well.

Private Equity 106

Private Equity Valuation Cap Table Accredited Investor 106

Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 21, 2014

17 core investments have been made, I’d say our investment model was, and continues to be, consistent with the type of firm we want to build but if you’re not constantly evaluating how to get better and serve entrepreneurs, you won’t last very long in the early stage venture business.

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Cofounder Seed Stage Syndicate Syndication 102

Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Two, revenue. Many business owners today really think of financials as being about the past, how much revenue have we had, how much cost did we have. Inaudible 00:27:51] leading indicator to help you know where your revenue will be over the coming weeks and months but you can actually apply the same concept on the cost side as well.

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Small Business Finance Forecast Metrics 95

Rob Go

JANUARY 7, 2013

Amidst the mass of new initiatives, new firms, new strategies, etc that constantly pop up in the early stage investing landscape, it’s helpful to have a clear articulation of what VC’s are focused on and how they see the world. Introduced by a co-investor: 5. Stage: Pre Product: 12. This isn’t a quota.

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Portfolio Seed Stage Cofounder B2B 49

Rob Go

JULY 9, 2012

It seems like almost all institutional investors have an ownership target, and many stick to that number pretty religiously. I always encourage even early stage companies to make basic plans, have milestones, have product release targets and revenue or customer usage or engagement targets.

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LP Institutional Investors Early Stage Venture Capital 53

Pascal's View

MARCH 9, 2010

Susan Mangiero , CEO of Investment Governance’s Fiduciary X , asked me the following: Question: At a time when transparency is so important to institutional investors, how can fiduciaries reconcile that there is limited information available with a private company? Share and Enjoy:

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Government Private Equity Institutional Investors Venture Capital 31

Gust

MAY 24, 2012

The “con” side should be readily apparent: Entrenching management inherently disempowers individual and even large institutional investors, whose capital the company is entrusted with investing to earn a return.

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IPO Equity Common Stock Stock 159