Mucker Lab

AUGUST 27, 2014

After stints as a technology investment banker, a dot-com entrepreneur, and a product manager in Silicon Valley, I moved to Los Angeles in 2006. For the last couple of years, I’ve been investing in startups as a partner at Mucker, while spending a lot of time in the Valley working with potential co-investors and partners.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

I wrote recently about Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? Since then, I’ve talked with a number of other firms, and greatly expanded my database: Who are the major Revenue-Based (RBI) Investing VCs? Braavo specializes in financing app companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

But there are many zombie VC’s with no more investments left in their portfolios so it’s hard to know which trend has more impact. So what is driving the new energy in the remaining venture capital firms when we kept hearing how much the whole industry was “against the ropes?&# … 1.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Kensho can potentially replace all of those market strategists on Wall Street, and it can offer advice and crunch data, which should also make many investment bankers nervous as well. It has raised over $35 million in venture capital funds. In 2010 Credibly was founded. The company was established in 2010.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

I’ve often found it helpful to have on hand a simple model showing the impact of each financing stages on all team members, suitable for sharing with everyone in the company. Like me, he had the pleasure/pain of being trained as an investment banking analyst. I couldn’t find one online, so I built it.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 21, 2014

There were some great responses to my post last week as to the poor returns experienced by venture capital fund investors. Some suggested that the blame for this lied more with the very difficult market and deal conditions of the past decade than with the VC investment model itself. Let’s explain this by example.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

First, the investment banker has to be pleased with all of the prices of stocks and the number of shares that will be offered. It takes lots of preparation. What about the evaluation of the company and how investors perceive the company?

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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. . Fund/SPV management services specifically are provided by Assure Services and Proteus Capital. ff Venture Capital hired two full-time engineers to build out Totem. 10) Report.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 31, 2015

The Most Important Thing Illuminated: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor : Yeah, well, Howard Marks is an investment genius. If you are in any kind of investment business (including Venture Capital) you should read this book right now. I should have read this book when it first came out.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

investment bankers, while the dot com bubble was driven by investment bankers willing and able to convince institutional and retail investors that companies didn''t need to have a business model or even a way to exist without relying on additional investment. bubble IPO unicorn valuation venture capital'

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BeyondVC

OCTOBER 25, 2003

Just one word of caution for us venture capitalists and entrepreneurs-let’s not equate this to a return to the mid-to-late 90s IPO boom. One additional note-many companies from the bubble era were able to go public 1-2 years from their first round of venture capital. Yes, this is old news and much anticipated.

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David Teten

JANUARY 8, 2013

Investors can tap this network for executive talent, followon financings, and eventually an exit. For example, many leading VCs, including First Round Capital and ff Venture Capital , have made their websites hubs for job-seekers, because their portfolio companies by definition are growth firms constantly in need of the best talent.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Frank has spent 20+ years in technology companies and venture capital, working at Lucent , Sun Microsystems , Apple and NeXT. Out of college, he briefly worked as an investment banker in New York, but before long heard the siren song from Silicon Valley. Entrepreneurship at NYU is more than just offering classes.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Arthur Rock, an investment banker at Hayden Stone in New York (who helped broker the financing of Fairchild) moved out to San Francisco in 1961 and partnered with Tommy Davis. A wave of silicon innovation was about to meet a pile of risk capital. More on this in the next post.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

They spend more time on strategy, go-to-market, business development, and financing. According to Ori Israely, investor and former general partner of Giza Venture Capital, “There is more fit between [an] Israeli entrepreneur and [an] Israeli investor in the seed stages. The mentors who serve this role in the U.S.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

billion multi-stage venture capital firm focused on IT-related investments… I also serve on various investment committees, including for the St. Jude Children’s Cancer Hospital and the Stanford Medical Center, and teach entrepreneurship and venture capital at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

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