David Teten

AUGUST 21, 2019

Most founders who are raising capital look first to traditional equity VCs. Or should they look to one of the new wave of Revenue-Based Investors? For more background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. Like traditional lenders, RBI investors usually don’t take board seats.

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Revenue Liquidation Preference Equity Cofounder 60

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. Sentiment is strong in personal portfolios and up commensurately with VC’s expectations that their last fund will now be worth something (and along with that increase the partners’ personal wealth).

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IPO Investment Bankers Venture Capital Marketing 255

Hunter Walker

MAY 18, 2015

Anne Dinneen: Nothing has contributed more to the growth of the Irvine endowment over the years than our venture portfolio. For an investor like Irvine, who can embrace the asset class’ illiquidity and long time horizon, venture has produced significant returns with less capital at risk.

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LP Portfolio Early Stage Institutional Investors 48

Hunter Walker

APRIL 27, 2014

Last week we held our first annual LP meeting, when venture funds get their investors together with updates on operations and results. Over the first year we’ve seen a steady increase in number of opportunities (thank you founders and co-investors!). We love our founders. Afternoon Session.

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LP Cofounder Term Sheet Valuation 97

David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

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. Christopher Ahlberg is the CEO and Co-founder of Recorded Future. He joined Goldman Sachs & Co.

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Technical Review Technology North Carolina Switzerland 128

David Teten

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

By contrast, as a venture capitalist, I can report that almost all of our portfolio companies are desperate to hire talented software engineers, and eager to hire in a range of other roles. You can see preliminary results of this value creation study below. - Encouraging non-US companies to set up operations in the US.

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Government Technical Review New York Offshore 146

View from Seed

MAY 29, 2019

These funds would regularly share deal flow with one another and could share the work in supporting founders and helping to push the company forward. This post will try to describe why this is happening and what repercussions are for founders and investors. Is This is Good or Bad for Founders?

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Syndicate Syndication Cofounder Cap Table 267

Hunter Walker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

As more growth and crossover investors came into the startup ecosystem they were often eager to put capital to work and happy to consolidate their positions with common or preferred shares from early employees, founders and previous investors. We’re aligned with the founders and the rest of the cap table until we aren’t.

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Venture Capital Cap Table LP Equity 122

David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

We drew on our work with leading institutional investors and in-depth interviews with over 150 funds. Leading Late-Stage Technology Investors’ Portfolio by Geography, 2001-1Q2010. Historically, institutional investors kept their investing strategy very discreet. Become open and transparent.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Equity 114

View from Seed

OCTOBER 22, 2015

We asked ourselves, “How do we offer something that founders want, and in fact, something that we’d want ourselves if we were raising our first round of seed funding?” That thinking led us to the approach and operating principles we have today. – We are seed investors. That’s what we do and it’s the only thing we do.

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Seed Stage Startup Portfolio Institutional Investors 120

View from Seed

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Some VC firms have eschewed taking direct investments from public pension funds, as state laws now sometimes require these pension funds to publicly disclose information about their investments that VCs consider sensitive, confidential info, like fund-level returns or individual companies in the portfolio. Endowments. new buildings, etc).

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LP Private Equity Institutional Investors Venture Capital 335

Agile VC

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Some VC firms have eschewed taking direct investments from public pension funds, as state laws now sometimes require these pension funds to publicly disclose information about their investments that VCs consider sensitive, confidential info, like fund-level returns or individual companies in the portfolio. Endowments. new buildings, etc).

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Venture Capital LP Private Equity Institutional Investors 279

Austin Startup

JUNE 4, 2017

Enough people have asked me about exactly what process I followed and what the experience was like that I thought it might help other founders if I shared what I learned and exactly how I attacked it here. I used the S3 Ventures operating model to come up with my number. Mark Cuban leads $1.5 Next, I will share facts about our raise.

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Austin Institutional Investors Angel Groups Deal Flow 54

Rob Go

OCTOBER 22, 2015

We asked ourselves, “How do we offer something that founders want, and in fact, something that we’d want ourselves if we were raising our first round of seed funding?” That thinking led us to the approach and operating principles we have today. – We are seed investors. That’s what we do and it’s the only thing we do.

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Seed Stage Portfolio Institutional Investors Later Stage 28

VC Cafe

MARCH 20, 2011

Footbo has been running since 2007 and is led by co-founder and CEO Mani Honigstein – full article on Techcrunch. Moreover, venture capital funds will not be able to finance new companies or, in some cases, support their existing portfolio companies “ - full article. Footbo raises $2.5

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Venture Capital Startup Denmark 87