The Equity Kicker

OCTOBER 14, 2014

He was on the money when he said that for early stage investments having a great team is most important but for later stage investments the market matters more. Early stage investors like Forward Partners look for a minimum of a great entrepreneur and a great idea. Venture Capital'

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Early Stage Institutional Investors Venture Capital Startup 123

David Teten

JUNE 22, 2012

HBS Angels of NY and the NAIC have named the finalist women and minority entrepreneurs of the Venture Capital Access Program; check out the press release below. Select Finalists for Venture Capital Access Program. HBSAANY members embody try capitalists, particular accredited investors, and other institutional investors.

Programming 128

Programming Accredited Investor Naming New York 128

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 12, 2014

These tensions seep out in some angels or seed funds publicly or semi-privately deriding later-stage VCs for their “bad” behavior. I have seen bad behavior from later-stage VCs, believe me. But I have seen equally bad behavior from super early stage investors. Why investors care about prorata rights.

Technical Review 336

Technical Review Later Stage Early Stage LP 336

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it. Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. Morning in VC.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

David Teten

JUNE 22, 2012

HBS Angels of NY and the NAIC have named the finalist women and minority entrepreneurs of the Venture Capital Access Program; check out the press release below. Select Finalists for Venture Capital Access Program. HBSAANY members embody try capitalists, particular accredited investors, and other institutional investors.

Programming 114

Programming Accredited Investor Naming New York 114

The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

The final piece of my four-part guide to expanding a business into Asia is tailored more towards local startups and a big issue that affects many of them: raising funding from investors. Asia has far fewer VC firms and institutional investors, each of which invests a far smaller amount of capital.

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Asia Silicon Valley India Term Sheet 132

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

It occurred to me that although we mentioned our new thematic approach when we raised our last fund in 2017, we haven’t really shared a broader manifesto about how we are approaching the early stage market. It’s been an interesting several years in the early stage venture eco-system, and the sands have shifted considerably.

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North America Seed Stage Early Stage Lead Investor 36

Berkonomics

AUGUST 3, 2023

This class of investor, once quite disorganized, has become much like the venture capital community, creating a process including due diligence (careful examination of a business before investment), terms of investment that match those of venture capitalists, and a process that sometimes takes months from introduction to investment.

Private Equity 118

Private Equity Valuation Cap Table Accredited Investor 118

David Teten

JULY 3, 2013

I hope you can join me for this program, cosponsored by Empire Angels ; HBS Alumni Angels of Greater New York ; and the The Young Venture Capital Society. what you need to know as an early stage investor: best practices in origination, evaluation, structuring and adding value. So You Want to Be an Angel?

Angel Investor 114

Angel Investor New York Accredited Investor New York City 114

David Teten

JULY 3, 2013

what you need to know as an early stage investor: best practices in origination, evaluation, structuring and adding value. Co-Sponsored by Empire Angels, HBS Alumni Angels of Greater New York, and Young Venture Capital Society. I hope you can join me for this: So You Want to Be an Angel?

Angel Investor 114

Angel Investor New York Accredited Investor New York City 114

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

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. Filed under: Venture Capital. This tech bubble is unfolding just like all the other bubbles before it.

Silicon Valley 327

Silicon Valley Stealth Valuation Mississippi 327

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

There’s no doubt (at least anecdotally) that the pace of VC investments in early-stage technology companies has picked up in the past few months. I hear from several sources that Sequoia is very active in the market aggressively chasing several deals and even driving up prices on some early-stage deals.

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IPO Investment Bankers Venture Capital Marketing 255

David Teten

AUGUST 21, 2019

Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? Like traditional lenders, RBI investors usually don’t take board seats. 2) To sell their businesses when they want – early, mid term, or never.” . Works for early-stage companies.

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Revenue Liquidation Preference Equity Cofounder 60

K9 Ventures

MAY 14, 2011

In my view the terminology being used for early stage investors by the press and the media is not as clear as it should be. I’ve talked about this on several occasions when I’ve been at conference and on panels, but I figured it would make sense to do a post explaining my taxonomy of the early-stage investing world.

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Preferred Stock Seed Stage Incubator Early Stage 125

Haystack

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Those of us in the early-stage tech ecosystem by now well know that saying “there are a LOT of seed and new startups” is a gross understatement. all together) combined with the culture of “demo days,” in-person gatherings where angels and professional investors collide with entrepreneurs.

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Deal Flow Cap Table Early Stage Institutional Investors 106

Austin Startup

JANUARY 2, 2021

He was the first institutional investor in Facebook and also an early-stage investor in groundbreaking companies like Etsy, Spotify, C3.AI, Breyer Capital’s Chinese partner IDG Capital, where Jim is Co-Chairman, led some of the first investments in Chinese companies Tencent, Baidu, and Xiaomi.

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Silicon Valley Austin Texas Raleigh 100

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.

Equity 88

Equity Mezzanine Later Stage Venture Capital 88

David Teten

APRIL 7, 2017

This is a generalizable principle: you get higher returns where other investors are not. Because of that insight, we co-founded the Venture Capital Access Program , focused on helping women and minority entrepreneurs raise capital from HBS Alumni Angels. The summit is hosted by: – ABANA – the preeminent U.S.

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New York Africa Cofounder Egypt 60

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2010

Often when startups who have raised venture capital need another round of financing they will turn to their existing investors to give them money before raising from outsiders. There is a primary reason that inside investors give companies convertible debt rather than just giving you the money as equity.

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Startup Burn Rate Warrant Bankruptcy 290

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . Excel and Google simply aren’t going to cut it if you expect to build a high quality institutional investor base.”. Deer Isle Group has built the D.I.G. 4) Originate investments.

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Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Berkonomics

JUNE 8, 2017

This class of investor, once quite disorganized, has become much like the venture capital community, creating a process including due diligence (careful examination of a business before investment), terms of investment that match those of venture capitalists, and a process that often takes.

Private Equity 106

Private Equity Valuation Cap Table Accredited Investor 106

Hunter Walker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Starting a venture capital blog post with 1970s country music lyrics is pretty uncommon, but so is writing about when and why an investor might choose to sell equity before the company exits. Below I’ll share some of the principles we use at Homebrew , knowing that there’s not really a single ‘right’ answer for a fund manager.

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Venture Capital Cap Table LP Equity 122

Genuine VC

MARCH 25, 2010

I had coffee with an entrepreneur friend the other day who is in the early stages of putting a company together, and he recounted how his informal conversations with a venture capitalist had quickly escalated into a full partner pitch in just a few weeks. Obtain important value-creation milestones from an investor point of view.

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Early Stage Venture Capital Term Sheet Conversion 123

Genuine VC

MARCH 25, 2010

I had coffee with an entrepreneur friend the other day who is in the early stages of putting a company together, and he recounted how his informal conversations with a venture capitalist had quickly escalated into a full partner pitch in just a few weeks. Obtain important value-creation milestones from an investor point of view.

Early Stage 121

Early Stage Venture Capital Term Sheet Conversion 121

David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

With a unique vision for starting and successfully managing innovative companies, he is the Managing Partner of Social Leverage, a holding company that invests in early stage web businesses. He was an Institutional Investor ranked analyst for several years. Mr. Lindzon continues to manage a hedge fund he started in 1998.

Technical Review 128

Technical Review Technology North Carolina Switzerland 128

David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Prior to joining ff Venture Capital , I published the first-ever study of how private equity and venture capital funds originate new investments, with my coauthor Chris Farmer , CEO of SignalFire and an experienced VC. Annual Deal Pipeline for Selected VCs and Angel Investor Groups. Acquirer/ Investor.

Private Equity 114

Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Equity 114

Rob Go

JULY 9, 2012

Ownership is a relatively puzzling concept in venture capital. It seems like almost all institutional investors have an ownership target, and many stick to that number pretty religiously. But why and where does that come from? With no rules, you essentially have no strategy. It’s just like running a business.

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LP Institutional Investors Early Stage Venture Capital 53

David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2013

The results don’t generalize to all angels, but they strongly suggest that more professional, institutional investors should do even better than individual amateur angels. Even if the methodology is full of holes, it is still useful for generating theories on angel-stage opportunities.

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IRR Angel Investor Angel Groups Cofounder 114

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. Here’s a good example from Volition Capital. This isn’t a quota.

Portfolio 49

Portfolio Seed Stage Cofounder B2B 49

Gust

MAY 24, 2012

By contrast, venture capital and angel investments normally take the form of Preferred Stock with rights and preferences set forth in the company’s Certificate of Incorporation and other governance documents. Options and warrants, when issued, are also typically exercisable for shares of Common Stock.

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IPO Equity Common Stock Stock 159

David Teten

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

This is effectively a sequel to my study of best practices in deal origination , published last year in the Journal of Private Equity , Harvard Business Review , Institutional Investor , and Business Insider. What other policy initiatives should the venture community be working on? Image by Getty Images via @daylife).

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Government Technical Review New York Offshore 146

VC Cafe

JUNE 9, 2010

T he birth of the Israeli venture capital industry was supported by government programs like Yozma. In broad strokes, the high-tech support plan consists of the following pieces: Renewing the flow of capital to the high-tech industry - primarily by encouraging Israeli institutional investors to invest in Israeli venture capital funds.

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Technical Review Government Technology 88

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

This change means that virtually any individual, not just the wealthy, will have opportunities to make equity investments in early stage companies. That suggests, potentially, more early stage capital for entrepreneurs. As a VC and angel investor, I believe deeply in entrepreneurs.

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Equity United Kingdom Cap Table Oklahoma 100

David Teten

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Since I became an institutional investor, my #1 learning is: this is a highly unusual and somewhat baffling industry. Disruptable Pattern #5: Institutional investors are eager to cut larger checks rather than smaller ones. I think there are many more opportunities to disrupt the space. Photo credit: JD Hancock.

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Management Pre-Money Valuation Venture Capital New Hampshire 114

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. Most of my career has been on the other side of the table: listening to and evaluating pitches, not delivering them.

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Austin Institutional Investors Angel Investor Database 54

Pascal's View

MARCH 9, 2010

This is the second in our series of ten frequently asked questions from investors in venture capital partnerships. To get to the core of your question, providing passive institutional investors with more financial information about illiquid securities isn’t going to make them more liquid.

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Government Private Equity Institutional Investors Venture Capital 31