David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2013

Partners for a New Beginning (PNB), a public-private partnership housed at the Aspen Institute, is organizing a Venture Capital, Private Equity and Angel Investor Delegation from the Maghreb. David Teten, HBS 98, Partner, ff Venture Capital, will discuss his research study on VC portfolio operations, recently featured in Forbes ).

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David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

A typical VC thesis: “we invest in tech startups in Europe at an early stage” However, our experience shows that in many cases: . “Europe” means a handful of countries, for instance, France, UK, and Germany. These results are consistent for both US-based and Europe-based VC firms.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 14, 2020

To take one example, equity markets look ‘priced to perfection’, after a miraculous rebound from significant sell-offs in March and April after the initial economic shock of Covid-19. If a business is in the fortunate position to invest, owners will often look to upgrading equipment, or invest in the property the business operates from.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 29, 2020

Meanwhile in Europe. Many of these businesses operate in the digital realm and have seen limited impact on revenues – some have even seen their revenues explode VC Backed Startups and PPP: Do You Really Need It? Source: NVCA , “Startup Ecosystem Faces Capital Crunch over Coming Months” USA – SBA Loans and PPP.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 4, 2016

Families as a social system operate under a different set of constraints and expectations than a business, balancing issues of respect, appreciation, obligation and loyalty in very different ways than a standard employment relationship. Challenging Orthodoxies.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Beginning of 2009, Mitul designed and sold a solution that enables mobile operators across the globe to seamlessly exchange SMS, while taking care of billing, settlement, and routing. Inside Sales), Channel, Pre-Sales, SDRs, Marketing, Customer Success, and Professional Services. During that time, he had key successes.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

He has grown our US operations from 1 employee (him) to a global organization of 75 employees that will finish the year with 8-digit revenues (90+% recurring) and more than 350% year-over-year growth. You may have an opinion on your market-entry strategy for Europe. What Rob wrote in his post is right. Always seek input.

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Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2022

At the onset of the war in Ukraine, Russia launched a cyber-attack on Viasat’s KA-SAT satellite, which supplies Internet across Europe, including to Ukraine. In the last few years new venture capital and private equity firms have raised money to invest in dual-use startups. government satellite in orbit.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

It then spread across Europe to Australia and Canada. The buyers (or lessees) in these transactions are pension funds, insurance companies, or private equity representing other institutions. Later stage Private Equity buyers rely more on existing hospital management and employees than in other industries.

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The Equity Kicker

DECEMBER 13, 2012

Going back five years mobile was widely regarded as a strong area for Europe due to the strength of Nokia and the Symbian operating system, but since then Apple and Android have taken over. It is particularly encouraging to see the lead in mobile data usage.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 15, 2024

The M&A market has become increasingly selective, with potential buyers wary of high valuations that don’t align with company fundamentals Private equity – In 2023 PE firms were seen deploying their capital in more cautious and strategic ways, reflecting the shift in market dynamics.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 26, 2013

It’s part three of a series, cross-posted from his own blog , in which he draws on his experience to offer advice for aspiring entrepreneurs in Europe and beyond. I’ve seen a few businesses where the first investors took huge pieces of equity for very little money. 15-20% equity for first investors. 10-20% for employees.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

London Business School is proud to present the London Business School 2011 Private Equity Conference. This year’s conference will feature keynote speakers Johannes Huth (Managing Director & Head of Europe – Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.) Panels : Value Creation – Driving LP returns through operational excellence.

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Cracking the Code

JULY 5, 2016

If you wonder how to pick your next launch country first, see my earlier post here. ** One of the most important decisions any company of any size will make is how it will successfully launch operations in a new country (the following applies to launching in new cities or states within an existing country).

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

equity debate. Making Money From Social Games - ArcticStartup , August 23, 2010 Games Developer Conference Europe 2010 (GDCE) took place last week in Cologne, Germany. Even so, it’s difficult (and perhaps impossible) to operate a small business or startup and not negotiate agreements with employees, vendors, customers, and others.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 17, 2020

Here are a few thoughts about operating in uncertainty in a pandemic. and Europe into a long recession? Revise your sales revenue goals, product timelines and create a new business model and operating plan – and communicate them clearly to your investors and then to your employees. And what’s in my lifeboat?”.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 20, 2021

He works closely with European banks and institutional investors and is O’Hara’s largest shareholder for private equity investments, principally held in banking, internet and oil and gas companies. Betancourt Lopez began the Hawkers transformation by fixing the operational issues that had caused the company to struggle.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Once the acquisition has been completed, Worklight’s operations will be merged with IBM’s software laboratory in Israel, which is headed by Dr. Daniel Yellin. through its GE Healthymagination Fund, an equity fund of GE Capital and GE Healthcare. ATX BUYS ISRAELI TRANSMISSIONS SOLUTIONS START-UP. ATX Networks Inc.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 27, 2022

Boards vs. DAOs, Equity vs. Tokens. A play to earn crypto gaming studio needs little equity money to build a community off the ground. Once they sell NFTs to their users (think of it as pre-selling the characters in the future game), they can finance much of the operation with crypto and are less dependant on external capital.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Once the acquisition has been completed, Worklight’s operations will be merged with IBM’s software laboratory in Israel, which is headed by Dr. Daniel Yellin. through its GE Healthymagination Fund, an equity fund of GE Capital and GE Healthcare. ATX BUYS ISRAELI TRANSMISSIONS SOLUTIONS START-UP. ATX Networks Inc.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 20, 2021

He works closely with European banks and institutional investors and is O’Hara’s largest shareholder for private equity investments, principally held in banking, internet and oil and gas companies. Betancourt Lopez began the Hawkers transformation by fixing the operational issues that had caused the company to struggle.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

YCombinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents. Founder Equity Issues. Venture Hacks equity section. Legal, Equity, etc. Y Combinator : They provide a series of AA equity financing documents that are written with simpler words so start-up companies will have an easier starting point. Argonaut Private Equity.

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David Teten

JULY 14, 2014

What that means is that a traditional 80% / 20% equity bond portfolio is set to lose a lot more money in a crisis than most investors are comfortable with. An aging population entering retirement in the US and Europe desires predictable income from their nest egg. population, will turn 62 or older by 2020 ( www.census.gov ).

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 12, 2017

This due to equity ownership interest often requiring an exchange for the early stage funding provided by the investor. These individuals don’t even have to be operational, and angel investors have been known to find them being advisors to the business as acceptable. Thorough Approach to Planning, Research, and Analysis.

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 17, 2016

Venture investment has been pretty steady for nine months now in both Europe and the US, albeit with a lot of month to month volatility, but there are fears that the 2015 slowdown could precipitate a full on crash, that public market woes might transfer to the private markets, and now that our exit from Europe will hurt our ecosystem.

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The Equity Kicker

DECEMBER 3, 2014

This is the central conclusion of the Scale Up Report and we see it every day in our own operations and at our partners. The current anti-immigrant and anti-Europe rhetoric is both wrong and damaging. Recruiting great staff is the biggest challenge for many startups. Startup general interest'

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Balloch’s 20+ year career prior to becoming an angel investor was in financial services both in the private equity world- fundraising and investor relations, and in investment banking. Susan Balloch is a Managing Director of Golden Seeds, an angel fund that invests in early stage companies founded or led by women.

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The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 11, 2013

Along with many of you, we at DFJ Esprit are doing all we can to help grow the venture industry and startup ecosystem here in Europe, and having written this post I believe more than ever that we will succeed. But I don’t think it will be easy.

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David Teten

JUNE 12, 2014

In the past four years, I’ve been fortunate to publish two research papers on investing best practices, on origination and portfolio operations , leveraging the insights I’ve gained through my work with HBSAANY. In the first full year of operation, VCAP attracted 159 applicants. 2) Intellectual ambition. 4) Inclusion.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

10:44) The moment the company went below 1x growth for the first time since it was founded as the pandemic hit China and then Europe. (11:50) First the news out of China, then Europe, then here in the U.S. One by one the markets in which you operate shut down. And then we see it hit Europe. You can't really operate.

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The Equity Kicker

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

They’ve started with an MVP focused on the Lake District and will soon expand to the rest of the UK and then Europe. He’s a commercial and operations guy by background and with our assistance in customer development, development, design and marketing he has been able to move extremely rapidly. This is a big opportunity.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Once fully operational, it will be a 140,000-square-foot space meant to serve as a landing pad for international startups looking to expand to the United States. Marjan Blumberg, Managing Director, B.NewYork City, observes, “The number of startups that have set up shop from Europe have increased drastically after the recession.

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 25, 2013

At 31% GAAP operating margins are remain strong (GAAP margins are after share based compensation). News feed ads are working well on desktop and mobile leading to increased ARPU – now $1.60 on average, $4.37 in the US and $1.87 Engagement is increasing with younger cohorts as well as on average.

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abovethecrowd.com

JANUARY 30, 2015

If you previously studied combinatorial optimization in theoretical computer science or operations research you may be familiar with the “traveling salesman problem,” or TSP. Sam Walton and Jeff Bezos both espoused the benefits of rewarding customers with the highest possible value by delivering to them the lowest possible prices.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Tech Gadgets Mobile Enterprise GreenTech CrunchBase TechCrunch TV Disrupt SF More TechCrunch TV Beta Invites Crunchies Elevator Pitches Gillmor Gang Podcasts TechCrunch Europe TechCrunch Trends TechCrunch France TechCrunch Japan Whats Hot: Android Apple Facebook Google Microsoft Twitter Yahoo Zynga Subscribe: Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy?

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The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 19, 2016

All three of these are far from easy, but it is raising capital which is the hardest, particularly here in Europe where the venture industry is only just losing the awful reputation it gained during the 1999-2000 bubble. That said, even once they have money most investors pick bad companies. So everybody has to learn on the job.

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The Equity Kicker

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

Alex’s analysis ports well to the UK and Europe, and the biggest challenge we have from a venture perspective with many ecommerce ideas is potential market size. His conclusions came from analysing seven top ecommerce category killers: Dollar Shave Club, Harry’s, Warby Parker, Frank & Oak, Bonobos, Casper and Helix Sleep.

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