View from Seed

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. Of the last 15 investments we’ve made, we’ve been the lead or co-lead investor over 80% of the time. .

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 28, 2018

The alternative is to work with an innovation institute to evaluate your technology, or hire a consultant. Once you have some traction, you can approach venture capital organizations , with funding amounts of $1-10 million for the real rollout, often referred to as the “A-round,” or first institutional funding.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Unlike a venture capital firm that states its criteria on its website and has forms, e-mail addresses, etc to encourage outreach, your site does a lot better job of saying "Go away!". The interesting thing is that being connected to wealth isn't necessarily a driver of good venture capital performance--why would it be?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2013

The alternative is to work with an innovation institute to evaluate your technology, or hire a consultant. Once you have some traction, you can approach venture capital organizations , with funding amounts of $1-10 million for the real rollout, often referred to as the “A-round,” or first institutional funding.

Incubator 256

Incubator Entrepreneur Exit Strategy Institutional Investors 256

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

The alternative is to work with an innovation institute to evaluate your technology, or hire a consultant. Once you have some traction, you can approach venture capital organizations , with funding amounts of $1-10 million for the real rollout, often referred to as the “A-round,” or first institutional funding.

Incubator 120

Incubator Startup Exit Strategy Institutional Investors 120

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2012

The alternative is to work with an innovation institute to evaluate your technology, or hire a consultant. Once you have some traction, you can approach venture capital organizations , with funding amounts of $1-10 million for the real rollout, often referred to as the “A-round,” or first institutional funding.

Incubator 237

Incubator Startup Exit Strategy Institutional Investors 237

Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2011

Hiring technology talent in Silicon Valley is getting difficult, and the time it takes to drive across Palo Alto has tripled—all signs of the impending apocalypse. Filed under: Venture Capital. The higher the price, the more investments pour in. Yet none of these companies have earned the valuations that they are receiving.

Silicon Valley 328

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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. Of the last 15 investments we’ve made, we’ve been the lead or co-lead investor over 80% of the time. .

North America 36

North America Seed Stage Early Stage Lead Investor 36

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 13, 2011

The alternative is to work with an innovation institute to evaluate your technology, or hire a consultant. Once you have some traction, you can approach venture capital organizations , with funding amounts of $1-10 million for the real rollout, often referred to as the “A-round,” or first institutional funding.

Incubator 230

Incubator Startup Exit Strategy Institutional Investors 230

David Teten

APRIL 13, 2021

Empirically, few small emerging investment managers hire placement agents, particularly in venture capital. And even the firms that hire a placement agent almost always still have to run their own internal process. . Instead, they hired an outside assistant – not a placement agent – to help in the process. .

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Technical Review Management LP 60

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. . Excel and Google simply aren’t going to cut it if you expect to build a high quality institutional investor base.”. The Ultimate Early-Stage Investor’s Tech Stack.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

To have institutional investors the quality of Knollwood and Top Tier Capital seeking an allocation to seed and NYC enterprise shows the tremendous progress we have all made. Most importantly, we wanted to thank our amazing group of founders that we have had the privilege to partner with over the years.

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Cap Table Cofounder Dividend Institutional Investors 60

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. Annual Deal Pipeline for Selected VCs and Angel Investor Groups. Acquirer/ Investor.

Private Equity 114

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David Teten

MARCH 24, 2014

ff Venture Capital is both an investor and also runs our back office on Addepar.). For Professional Institutional investors: agency risk is a huge problem. Teten : No one ever got fired for hiring Och-Ziff, or any other of the massive hedge funds. It is not investment performance.

Software Review 114

Software Review Due Diligence Venture Capital Portfolio 114

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. I spoke with the Seasteading Institute , who are looking into this idea. - Launching a seastead accelerator offshore from New York.

Government 146

Government Technical Review New York Offshore 146

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 24, 2012

of companies should never raise venture capital. Venture capital, it’s a very particular industry. Venture capitalists are raising money from other investors, institutional investors who expect certain returns from us. Let me say this to you. 99%, maybe 99.8%

Silicon Valley 204

Silicon Valley Software Review Internet Technical Review 204

David Teten

JANUARY 8, 2013

PEHub just posted this guest article: Can professional investors use social media? Historically, institutional investors kept their investing strategy and their activities very discreet. Investors can tap this network for executive talent, followon financings, and eventually an exit. Site traffic increased by 6.5%

Private Equity 114

Private Equity Social Media Equity Media 114

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. Some 92% of job growth comes after a company goes public - which makes sense, because a company acquires public capital in order to hire people.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Yet one of the most remarkable things about the boom in microwave and silicon startups occurring in the 1950’s and 60’s was that it was done without venture capital. ARD was a publicly traded venture capital firm (raising $3.5 There was none. military and intelligence agencies and defense contractors. Whitney Co.

Silicon Valley 163

Silicon Valley Securities and Exchange Commission Venture Capital RSS 163

VC Cafe

AUGUST 11, 2014

GLG continued to build it’s expert consulting network in the years to follow to become one of the top primary research tools for institutional investors because they have helped their customers to make things simple quickly. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.

Curation 167

Curation Vertical San Francisco Angel Investor 167

Austin Startup

APRIL 1, 2017

By simply refusing (often with any number of excuses) to approve a key transaction, a key hire, or a new fundraise, investors can push founders into a corner to get their preferred independent director elected. But institutional investors have a job to do, and it’s not to be your BFF. Yes, this happens.

Term Sheet 48

Term Sheet Institutional Investors Technical Review Lead Investor 48

abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

On March 26, SoFi announced that “it will be offering its members (at least those with $3K in their account) the ability to invest in IPOs for companies going public, an investment opportunity that has traditionally been reserved for large institutional investors or ultra-high-net-worth individuals.” You obviously cannot trust them.”

IPO 82

IPO Customer Matching Silicon Valley 82

Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

By freeing up your time it really helps you focus on more important tasks and this can be things ranging from improving the product quality to hiring a great team to rewarding your people to thinking more holistically about customer experience or understanding your competition. I can hire a development team.

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