YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 25, 2015

Larger institutional investors often prefer the predictability of a corporate structure and the protections of those pesky operation formalities. You should research the investors you may want to work with in the future to see if they have a preference. M&R is a national law firm with offices in California and New York.

LLC 100

LLC Technical Review Software Review Limited Liability Company 100

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Most of these rhyme with what we’ve said in the past, but some have also evolved to fit the changing landscape and our own convictions about what really matters for founders and their investors at the seed stage. Lead investors are few. Instead, it’s more of a Manifesto about the core beliefs that shape our strategy.

North America 36

North America Seed Stage Early Stage Lead Investor 36

Rob Go

OCTOBER 14, 2012

I’m thrilled by the companies we are investors in, as well as the founders that lead them. It’s commonly said that the biggest risk facing a new VC firm is disharmony among the partners. This is of particular risk if the founders of the firm never really worked together before, as was the case for us at NextView.

New Hampshire 50

New Hampshire Croatia Omaha Institutional Investors 50

David Teten

APRIL 7, 2017

In my research on how private equity and VC funds source investments , one of our conclusions was that VCs get better returns when they invest outside of the traditional geographic hotspots of New York, Boston, and the Bay Area. This is a generalizable principle: you get higher returns where other investors are not.

New York 60

New York Africa Cofounder Egypt 60

David Teten

APRIL 22, 2013

I met Adam Ghetti , Founder/CTO, at the first Flashpoint Demo Day in New York in early 2012 at Union Square Ventures. ff VC became the only and first institutional investor and I joined the company’s board in May. This showed an unusual level of humility and introspection for a founder.

Venture Capital 114

Venture Capital Security Operations Atlanta 114

David Teten

JULY 12, 2017

When I meet with other VCs, family offices, and other institutional investors, the most common question I get is: “What are the highest-potential companies in your portfolio which are raising now?” They are comfortable with others taking the lead. .

Syndicate 60

Syndicate Syndication Institutional Investors LP 60

David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

This is another joint event between HBS Angels of NY and the HBS Club of New York. Howard Lindzon is Co-Founder and CEO of StockTwits, a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information. He was an Institutional Investor ranked analyst for several years.

Technical Review 128

Technical Review Technology North Carolina Switzerland 128

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Adam Ghetti, founder of our portfolio company Social Fortress and an expert in security, publicly presented Social Fortress for the first time at this week’s TechCrunch Disrupt Conference.

Institutional Investors 60

Institutional Investors New York Security Portfolio 60

Rob Go

JANUARY 7, 2013

As a founder, it feels like a long time, but it’s really a blip on the radar in the scheme of things. But we behave pretty much exactly the same way in those companies as we do when we are the lead and only institutional investor. Geography: 20 / 25 investments are based in the Boston and New York areas.

Portfolio 49

Portfolio Seed Stage B2B Cofounder 49

David Teten

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

This is effectively a sequel to my study of best practices in deal origination , published last year in the Journal of Private Equity , Harvard Business Review , Institutional Investor , and Business Insider. New York has an extremely active Meetup culture; almost every night there are 3-10 tech-focused events.

Government 146

Government Technical Review New York Offshore 146

David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Prior to joining ff Venture Capital , I published the first-ever study of how private equity and venture capital funds originate new investments, with my coauthor Chris Farmer , CEO of SignalFire and an experienced VC. We drew on our work with leading institutional investors and in-depth interviews with over 150 funds.

Private Equity 114

Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Equity 114

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

Jussi Laakkonen , CEO & founder of Applifie, summarized it well: We recently raised our seed round at Applifier and it was led by a silicon valley seed fund MHS Capital, whose general partner is Mark Sugarman. It doesn’t come naturally to many European founders. They take international Founders. And then read it again.

Silicon Valley 104

Silicon Valley Startup Seed Stage Delaware 104

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2012

Also speaking during the same session was Seth Goldman, the founder of Honest Tea. "He But the relaxation itself comes with limits, Mitchell tells us - limits that maintain the spirit in which the reporting rules were created, and which many investors actually insisted should remain.

IPO 118

IPO SEC Silicon Valley Startup 118

Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

My founders and I started the company about three years ago. The way that I leverage that is when I’m faced with a decision before I go to make the decision and let’s say my executive team and I or my co-founder and I or just myself I get an idea and I think what if we were to do X, Y and Z. It’s weird.

Small Business 95

Small Business Finance Forecast Metrics 95