David Teten

JANUARY 11, 2020

They’re taking a $1m check from me, or giving $5m to me as a limited partner. In the venture capital/private equity business, investors are B2B microinfluencers. Other coinvestors: Limited partners, other VCs who are coinvestors, private equity funds which are potential growth-stage investors, etc. I welcome suggestions.

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Social Media Technical Review Media Private Equity 60

Pascal's View

JULY 9, 2017

Unfortunately, what the CEO/founder forgets most often is that the notes have a multiplier effect in the post-money calculation; the more notes and the further the cap is from the new priced equity, the greater the variance between actual and nominal pre- and post-money valuations. It’s going to be great!”.

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Post-Money Valuation Valuation Cap Table Covenant 49

OnlyOnce

DECEMBER 5, 2014

First we announced a $35mm financing led by Vista Equity Partners, an exceptional private equity firm that I’d never heard of before the middle of the fundraising process a few months ago. This was a big week for Return Path.

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OnlyOnce

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

On the heels of the announcement we made last month about our Series B financing , we are now announcing the launch of a new program called Bolster Prime and a new venture capital fund called Bolster Ventures. The one our team was particularly excited about was a concept we were calling at the time “Venture Acceleration Partners.”

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Silicon Valley Venture Capital Cap Table Early Stage 62

Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

These are all potential customers and strategic partners for startups. In order for Frisco to achieve its full vision to be a destination city for VC’s, we have to be part of a larger, statewide network to support our partners and entrepreneur support organizations to help advance our collective and common goals.”

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Growthink Blog

MAY 3, 2010

Series B funding, as you may recall, is the 2nd institutional round of equity funding that a company receives. Typically a Series B financing event will raise $5 to $10 million for the company. million Series B financing round - this is the biggest Series B round I've seen in a long time. Last week Amonix raised a $129.4

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Venture Capital LP Syndicate Syndication 71

Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 2, 2010

But before Foundry Group, my partners and I were involved in many seed investments, both at Mobius Venture Capital. Specifically, our seed investments are not “options on the next round.&# We price our seed rounds as equity investments, always lead or co-lead (as Fred describes in ? Tags: Seed Financing seed VC.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

My partner Rob also wondered if Facebook is the next Yahoo! , I’ll focus for now on the business itself, there’s plenty of other info on the web if you care to understand the equity ownership or financing history of Facebook and frankly this has been fairly well known for awhile. ==. or the next Google.

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Professor VC

JULY 25, 2013

Another closely related area is that of variable pricing on convertible debt or equity deals where different investors have different caps. Another area where I''m not sure I stand is with some of the more formal referral and syndication programs that are emerging now.

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Term Sheet Silicon Valley Syndicate Syndication 46

Professor VC

MARCH 12, 2015

The above was the opening salvo of a controversial tweetstorm yesterday by my former student and 500 Startups founding partner, Dave McClure (full venom below). It was a great product addressing a large market opportunity and was interested in seeing how the AngelList syndicate process worked.

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Syndicate Syndication Silicon Valley Common Stock 28

David Teten

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

The average equity fund investor earned a market return of only 4.25%. In the asset management industry, the norm is that the General Partner puts in 1-2% of the total assets under management. We are extremely fortunate to finance the growth side of the creative destruction we are witnessing all around us.

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Management Pre-Money Valuation Venture Capital New Hampshire 114

Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

A partner from the law firm (sponsor, covers the drinks and food) tosses out some softball questions to the panelists, the audience chimes in with Q&A and finally, culminates with the meet and greet where the panelists are flooded with business cards and pitches on the next great thing, which is often very similar to the last great thing.

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Rob Go

JANUARY 7, 2013

Actually, growth equity firms I find are best at this, because they have very specific financial criteria that they look for, such as ranges for revenue, ebitda, growth, etc. This equates to 3-4 investments that are “led” internally by each partner. Syndicate Composition: NextView + Seed Funds + Angels: 9.

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Portfolio Seed Stage Cofounder B2B 49