Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

I observed that teaching case studies and/or how to write a business plan as a capstone entrepreneurship class didn’t match the hands-on chaos of a startup. Recognizing the ability of these teams to produce real results, 38 members of the venture and private equity community dialed in to these presentations.

Oakland 301

Oakland Asia Lean Video 301

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

Gust

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

If results don’t match what they have been told, all bets are off. All private equity groups go about due diligence in their own way, but there are a few key areas of focus that entrepreneurs should always expect: • Team strength and health.

Technical Review 152

Technical Review Due Diligence Intellectual Property Private Equity 152

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The buyers (or lessees) in these transactions are pension funds, insurance companies, or private equity representing other institutions. Additionally, investment managers are attracted to matching long-dated pension liabilities with the extended duration nature of leased asset.

Private Equity 129

Private Equity New York City Chicago Investment Bankers 129

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2016

The new investors you need at this stage are investment bankers, private equity, or competitors, to buy you out via merger or acquisition (M&A), or to go public with an Initial Public Offering (IPO). “The ride has been fun, but I need my money out to start the next big thing.”

Matching 120

Matching Angel Investor Intellectual Property Investment Bankers 120

David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

V: Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? VI: Revenue-based financing: The next step for private equity and early-stage investment. VIII: The Leading Flexible VCs, With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing.

Equity 78

Equity Revenue Cofounder Colorado 78

David Teten

JUNE 1, 2011

I enjoyed participating in last week’s Capital Roundtable Private Equity Masterclass on “ Best Practices for Sourcing Quality Deal Flow & Developing New Business ” (May 26 th , 2011). Glickman, Resilience Capital Partners LLC Luke Johnson, Platinum Equity LLC Robert B. View more presentations.

Private Equity 122

Private Equity Deal Flow Equity Developer 122

Steve Blank

MARCH 17, 2020

This time around, the health of the venture business may depend on what hedge funds, investment banks, private equity firms, sovereign wealth funds, and large secondary market groups do. (see the figure below showing quarterly VC investments before and after this crash – part of this post from Tomasz Tunguz.).

Burn Rate 436

Burn Rate Startup Valuation Sales Cycle 436

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

The three-day conference will take place with the theme of ‘Asian. Innovation. Renaissance.’, which celebrates the vibrant developments taking place in Asia that have helped Asian corporations take the lead and capitalize successfully in many areas of technology.

Singapore 174

Singapore Intellectual Property Silicon Valley Private Equity 174

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

There is no chance they’re going to invest and it’s not even a close match. Many of the growth equity firms have had outbound dialing programs for years. Growth equity firms typically target profitable businesses that are often not technical in nature. Why do VCs send generic outbound emails like this?

Programming 294

Programming Entrepreneur Private Equity Equity 294

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. months from introduction to investment.

Private Equity 106

Private Equity Valuation Cap Table Accredited Investor 106

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 22, 2017

Once you compile it, pay more attention to building on your strengths and matching those with the market opportunities. She has raised more than $51M in venture capital and private equity, is passionate about building best-in-class teams, and is Franklin Covey-certified in the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.

Private Equity 113

Private Equity Later Stage IPO Early Stage 113

David Teten

JUNE 12, 2012

Since 1970, NAIC Member firms who focus on private equity and venture have invested in and transformed more than 20,000 companies. More precise matching of investors/board members with companies. NAIC ‘s involvement in VCAP© insures that a robust pipeline of diverse entrepreneurs will participate.

Private Equity 133

Private Equity Syndicate Syndication Angel Investor 133

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Over the past 20+ years, as an angel investor, former venture capitalist and private equity investor, and serial entrepreneur, I have seen and written, a wide variety of pitch decks and business plans. Often time Advisors will work in exchange for equity or equity plus a small nominal fee.

Business Plan 124

Business Plan Elevator Pitch Equity Private Equity 124

OnlyOnce

MARCH 7, 2018

He was telling me about his experience working with his company’s new Private Equity owner. In The Value and Limitations of Pattern Matching , I quoted my father-in-law, who noted once that When you hear hoof beats, it’s probably horses. But you never know when it might be a zebra.

Private Equity 73

Private Equity Forecast Matching Salary 73

OnlyOnce

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The key points in the pitch deck we created were: There is a gap in the market of investors adding “management” value to portfolio companies between Accelerators/Incubators/Studios at the low end and Private Equity firms and very large VCs at the high end. What about the middle? then full-time in the middle of 2021.

Silicon Valley 62

Silicon Valley Venture Capital Cap Table Early Stage 62

OnlyOnce

MARCH 7, 2018

He was telling me about his experience working with his company’s new Private Equity owner. In The Value and Limitations of Pattern Matching , I quoted my father-in-law, who noted once that When you hear hoof beats, it’s probably horses. But you never know when it might be a zebra.

Private Equity 48

Private Equity Forecast Matching Salary 48

The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 19, 2015

To have more confidence that their investments match their new found levels of ambition I imagine the YC partners are drawn towards companies that have more validation of their market size. Assessing the potential scale of an opportunity is one of the hardest things to do for startups and the earlier you invest the harder it is.

Later Stage 60

Later Stage Private Equity Venture Capital Valuation 60

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2013

I like the work just published by Bob Rice in “ The Alternative Answer ,” which does a great job of summarizing the investment universe, starting with the “conventional” stocks, bonds, and real estate, but moving on through more esoteric alternatives, including hedge funds, private equity, real assets, managed futures, and finally venture funding.

Cram Down 269

Cram Down Angel Investor Intellectual Property Venture Capital 269

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

To facilitate the acquisition the company has partnered with Great Hill Partners, a Boston-based private equity firm, who have invested to take a controlling interest in the combined company. The combined company will continue to be operated and managed by the All Web Leads executive team. .

Private Equity 63

Private Equity Lead Generation Acquisition Boston 63

Berkonomics

JANUARY 20, 2010

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 months from introduction to investment.

Private Equity 69

Private Equity Valuation Cap Table Accredited Investor 69

Austin Startup

JUNE 9, 2019

These two buses represented billions of dollars in capital that is interested in investing in the Texas region and we matched them up with local investors, entrepreneurs, and community leaders in each city that we visited. our team spent hours and built algorithms to carefully match based on stage and interest.

Texas 48

Texas Houston Dallas Startup 48

This is going to be BIG.

JULY 8, 2013

6) As private equity goes, early stage venture is the most work for the least amount of money. All of the above stuff doesn''t really bother me--which matches my personality. I got mine just a year after starting to lead investments, but even that felt like forever--and that''s not the norm.

Venture Capital 167

Venture Capital Early Stage Portfolio Private Equity 167

This is going to be BIG.

JULY 30, 2015

If you could return investors nearly triple their money and mid 20's returns consistently, compared to the 8% long term return in the public equities market, they'd more than accept that. Comparatively, if you look at long term private equity results, I think most investors are winding up with high teens returns.

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Pre-Money Valuation IRR Valuation 60

David Teten

JUNE 12, 2011

Chairman Alan Todd was formerly Founder and CEO of KnowledgePlanet, the largest cloud-based learning management system, which was acquired by a private equity consortium; and Founder and CEO of KnowledgeSoft, the largest IT training company in the mid-Atlantic region, which was acquired by Technicsource. StyleMusée. and Goldman Sachs.

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Private Equity Fractional CTO Cofounder 84

This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 21, 2011

A check of my Mailchimp stats, not surprisingly, revealed that Gmail represents a third of my subscribers--almost an exact match to the loss of my ridiculously consistant audience. My buddy Dan Primack has a private equity newsletter called the Term Sheet that is now getting caught in Gmail's spam filter as well.

Technical Review 104

Technical Review Clickthrough Private Equity Term Sheet 104

ConversionXL

MAY 14, 2014

He also used real data to back everything up, rather than getting into an opinionated p **g match with anyone who wanted to throw up any barriers. Meanwhile this company gets bought by a private equity group who installs a new CEO. The Story Of How Xiaohan & Avvo Embraced Conversion Rate Optimization. Great success.

Conversion 124

Conversion eCommerce Technical Review Software Review 124

David Teten

JUNE 13, 2012

I spent a lot of time researching search strategies for sales of all kinds when I was writing The Virtual Handshake and worked on my research study on how private equity and VC funds find great companies. By statistical probability, she is as good a match as you’re going to get.”.

Private Equity 138

Private Equity New York Aggregator Matching 138

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

They're really managerial concepts more than finance concepts of matching risk and reward and taking a diversified portfolio of approaches. Before venture, equity financing was seen as a pretty unfriendly business. These corporate raiders, and these leverage buyouts and this private equity hatchet bin.

Technical Review 68

Technical Review Software Review Finance Technology 68

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

Another idea would be to say matching up. the sort of pain solution match-up process can work. After that, I did it for a private equity firm then we became a part of a larger corporation. How do you split equity? During the meeting. You know that I ran WinZip before. I first did it for the founder.

Technical Cofounder 220

Technical Cofounder Cofounder Software Review Management 220

Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2022

With offices in Silicon Valley, Austin, Boston, Chicago and Washington, DC, this is the one DoD organization with the staffing and mandate to match commercial startups or scaleups to pressing national security problems. In the last few years new venture capital and private equity firms have raised money to invest in dual-use startups.

Ukraine 277

Ukraine China Private Equity Russia 277

David Teten

APRIL 29, 2014

They often tend to stay in the same pool they’ve always looked at and can easily match. I published in 2010 a research study on best practices in how private equity and VC funds source investments. For example, ff Venture Capital looks at 2,000 companies a year and invests in only 10-20 new ones (between 0.5

Venture Capital 114

Venture Capital Los Angeles Cofounder Technical Review 114

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 21, 2018

Cultural equity is a common casualty of a short-term approach breaking the social contract with long-standing employees. Legacy companies with reliable, strong performance numbers are being faced with extreme consequences when any dip in performance occurs.

Non-Compete 193

Non-Compete Leadership Private Equity Cofounder 193

Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

Their real-world performance generally degrades over time if they are not updated regularly with new training data that matches the changing state of the world. An AI can recognize patterns which don’t match the behaviors expected for a particular system, out of millions of different inputs or transactions.

Artificial Inteligence 417

Artificial Inteligence Software Review Algorithm Technical Review 417

Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 13, 2015

The first half of the title is usually an exact match keyword phrase and the second half is a killer description to get the reader’s attention. Don’t use the same exact match anchor text to link to a page dozens of times. Previously, Gary was an investment banking and private equity analyst.

SEO 28

SEO Clickthrough Affiliate Private Equity 28

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The result was that by default, private equity and venture capital were the de facto decision makers of U.S. as the sole superpower, this “profits first” strategy was “good enough” as there was no other nation that could match our technical superiority. industrial policy. With the demise of the Soviet Union and the U.S.

China 323

China Venture Capital Government Artificial Inteligence 323

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JUNE 20, 2011

Also the product probably won’t match existing company standards, neither in the user interface, the design patterns underneath, the technology it’s based on, etc. On the flip side, entrepreneurs are an unknown quantity which typically doesn’t fit well into corporate culture, so that will inevitably come to a head.

Sales 260

Sales Channel Cofounder Valuation 260