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Remind Me Why I Love You? (Why “In Person” is Everything)

Both Sides of the Table

You race back to the office to tell everybody how well it went and you wait for the follow-up call to have a partners’ meeting or talk about term sheets or at least dip into due diligence. After my board meeting I had to do an interview with a CFO candidate that one of my portfolio companies asked me to speak with.

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Launching a Portfolio Acceleration Platform at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Fund

David Teten

I’ve recently advised a number of emerging private equity and VC funds who are wrestling with the question: What are the highest impact steps they can take to support their portfolio companies? . Almost every private equity and venture capital investor now advertises that they have a platform to support their portfolio companies.

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Cracking The Code: BlablaCar - Travel Revolution

Cracking the Code

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Philippe Botteri Accel Partners London, UK My Bio. Cracking The Code on Facebook. Portfolio. (3). software. (10). Bessemer Venture Partners Expands BVP VII Fund.

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Who are the Major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

David Teten

Since 2017 we’ve managed $3 million in revenue-based financing, which helps cash-strapped technology companies grow. In 2019 we partnered with several revenue-based lending providers, effectively creating a marketplace. “. We’re also regularly following-on for existing portfolio companies.”. Bigfoot Capital. ARR of $500K+.

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Cracking The Code: SaaS Multiples: Recovery or Bubble?

Cracking the Code

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. and (2) their leadership position in multi-billion dollar markets will likely make them dominant players in the software landscape, even though they are still small today (SuccessFactors $2.5B

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Cracking The Code: Bessemer Venture Partners Expands BVP VII.

Cracking the Code

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Bessemer Venture Partners Expands BVP VII Fund. 2009 Bessemer Venture Partners. Labels: Portfolio , Venture Capital. Philippe Botteri Accel Partners London, UK My Bio.

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How to Scale a Venture Capital (or Private Equity) Fund

David Teten

My Partners at HOF Capital are younger than I am, which means that we have a half-century horizon for the franchise we are building. – Templatize the entrepreneurial process , by providing checklists, standardized agreements and other reusable code. So we think about scaling a lot. This evolves the VC from a server to a router.