Rob Go

OCTOBER 14, 2012

One of the earliest things we did at NextView when my partners and I started working together was go away as a team to the New Hampshire mountains. I’m thrilled by the companies we are investors in, as well as the founders that lead them. Geography: 18 of the 23 are in Boston or New York.

New Hampshire 50

New Hampshire Croatia Omaha Portfolio 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

Ted Schlein, general partner at KPCB , and Tom Noonan, partner at TechOperators , will join the board of directors. I met Adam Ghetti , Founder/CTO, at the first Flashpoint Demo Day in New York in early 2012 at Union Square Ventures. This showed an unusual level of humility and introspection for a founder.

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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?” We see our potential coinvestors in four primary buckets: 1) HOF Capital ’s own limited partners. Economic benefit.

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

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. This equates to 3-4 investments that are “led” internally by each partner.

Portfolio 49

Portfolio Seed Stage Cofounder B2B 49

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.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Equity 114

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

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.

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Silicon Valley Startup Seed Stage Delaware 104

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2012

This from Kate Mitchell, the former chair of the National Venture Capital Association, and current Managing Director of Scale Venture Partners. Also speaking during the same session was Seth Goldman, the founder of Honest Tea. "He That is a short-lived strategy, and a wrong-headed strategy."

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IPO SEC Silicon Valley Startup 118