Feld Thoughts

JUNE 14, 2019

As an avid writer and reader, I feel that a book is a unique medium that serves a different purpose than the other written media that we consume regularly. Many of the investors interviewed for this book, offer advice and solutions to address this issue. The book is out and available now in hardcover and on the Kindle.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 25, 2015

Investors/buyers may even ask that the company be restructured. 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.

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View from Seed

APRIL 30, 2019

All three have different business models… SaaS, media/ad, and consumer transactional. Fairly frequently public market investors believe that a new consumer company is “the next X”. In just the last month or so we’ve seen Lyft go public ( my analysis of the company’s S-1 here ) and more recently, Zoom and Pinterest.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 20, 2021

It also has a considerable online presence on key social media platforms. He works closely with European banks and institutional investors and is O’Hara’s largest shareholder for private equity investments, principally held in banking, internet and oil and gas companies. million sunglasses units. Hawkers has thrived online.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Like many established finance & media companies, GLG knows that the tech startup sector is a growing part of the economy. I’ve also presented at a range of industry conferences on how institutional investors can use professional networks for research , origination , market research , and value creation.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 5, 2012

VCs opened up through the use of social media, and people like Jason Calacanis, regardless of what you think of his personality, actively campaigned against the toll takers on the road to capital. What would VC fundraising look like if there were family office groups that participated actively on social media? Things changed.

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David Teten

JUNE 1, 2012

I will be speaking at two more conferences in June: the NYC Landmark Venture Forum – Digital Media 2020 on June 13 th and CCG Marcum MicroCap Conference on June 20 th. The Landmark Venture Forum is hosted by Landmark Angels , an angel investor group, and will feature 12 promising emerging companies in the digital media space.

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Agile VC

APRIL 30, 2019

All three have different business models… SaaS, media/ad, and consumer transactional. Fairly frequently public market investors believe that a new consumer company is “the next X”. In just the last month or so we’ve seen Lyft go public ( my analysis of the company’s S-1 here ) and more recently, Zoom and Pinterest.

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Transformify

MARCH 22, 2023

The pricing and movements of cryptocurrencies are influenced by many different variables, but social media has grown to be a significant player in these marketplaces. We will look at how social media affects cryptocurrency pricing and market movements in this post.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2015

Along with Greycroft, I was the first institutional investor in Maker Studios (sold to Disney for nearly $1 billion) and am still the largest investor in Mitu Network , the largest online video producer of Latino content. Content is a “hits driven business” and therefore you can only invest in platforms not media.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

He is currently CEO of Bubbly , a social media startup backed by Sequoia Capital, SingTel Innov8, and JAFCO. The final piece of my four-part guide to expanding a business into Asia is tailored more towards local startups and a big issue that affects many of them: raising funding from investors.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 20, 2021

It also has a considerable online presence on key social media platforms. He works closely with European banks and institutional investors and is O’Hara’s largest shareholder for private equity investments, principally held in banking, internet and oil and gas companies. million sunglasses units. Hawkers has thrived online.

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Viral Private Equity Venezuela Los Angeles 78

David Teten

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

We are seeking Partner-level investment professionals at hedge funds, mutual funds, VCs, sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, family offices, and other institutional investors to interview for this research project. . I’m now launching a research project to better understand the emerging investment opportunities.

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David Teten

JANUARY 23, 2021

Set up the basic marketing toolkit: deck, website, accurate online databases, and social media accounts. . Your materials should ideally meet the expectations of the Institutional Limited Partners Association, even if you’re not targeting institutions. For more on this, see An Investor’s Personal Social Media Tech Stack.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

“Old Media” will be consumed less. For the institutional investor, it’s a set of bets. ” A lot of predictions are easy. In the next 10 years: There will be another “surprising” Black Swan financial market event. Mobile device usage will increase. Attention spans will shrink.

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David Teten

MAY 12, 2011

In leading this research, we are leveraging our experience working with a wide range of top-tier investors and our proprietary dataset of the origination practices of over 150 institutional investors globally with whom we have conducted in-depth interviews. 10/5/10: Institutional Investor , Where Are the Deals? -

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Steve Blank

JUNE 17, 2011

What no one tells the Marks is that as they’re buying, the smart money and institutional investors are quietly pulling out and selling their assets. But they don’t support his justification of the bubble valuations we are seeing for companies filing for IPO’s (Pandora Media just priced its IPO at $2.6

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David Teten

APRIL 7, 2017

This is the debut of an annual series of summits focused on sovereign wealth funds, institutional investors, family offices, venture capitalists, and entrepreneurs interested in technology-driven entrepreneurship and with ties to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. . – Register here: [link]. Photo credit: Wikipedia).

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

We gain insight into the management style of portfolio company management by assessing their social media activities and digital exhaust, e.g., I use Fullcontact as my “chief of staff” to brief me on the interests and backgrounds of the people I meet. 6) Negotiate deal. Accompany focuses on this use case.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

The first panel will focus on public markets and will discuss the use and effectiveness of social media tools and data mining technologies in harnessing the wisdom of crowds to generate investment ideas. Howard Lindzon is Co-Founder and CEO of StockTwits, a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information.

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K9 Ventures

MAY 14, 2011

In my view the terminology being used for early stage investors by the press and the media is not as clear as it should be. This in theory is very similar to the behavior of institutional investors, however, there is one big difference.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2010

The acquisition is a bitter-sweet end to the story of Veoh, which has raised $70 million since getting funded in 2005 from institutional investors (Goldman Sachs, Intel Capital, Shelter Capital and Spark Capital among others) and big media companies such as ABC, CBS and Warner Brothers.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

“We’re using … TinyLetter for our “Content Newsletter” … and Buffer to schedule social media posts. Point Nine Capital uses Mention for media monitoring. I use Hootsuite to coordinate my social media activity, which consists of Teten.com, PEVCTech.com , Linkedin , AngelList , and (passively) Twitter and Facebook.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

I can tell you first hand than bankers are out making road shows to gin up interest in VCs and institutional investors. VC’s are working hand-in-glove with the investment bankers to prepare for IPOs or create auction-style trade sales. There is a lot of pent-up demand. – IPO-able in any normal market.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

IPO markets had burned an entire cycle of retail stock investors and many institutional investors to boot. There is no sector of the economy that isn’t being transformed by the online community that is now voraciously consuming media, applications, communications and buying global products.

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Gust

MAY 24, 2012

This is nothing new; long favored by family-controlled media empires such as Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation , among Internet firms alone, Google took a dual-class approach when going public in 2004. Expert commentators in law and business schools have debated the pros and cons of dual-class voting structures for decades.

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David Teten

JANUARY 8, 2013

PEHub just posted this guest article: Can professional investors use social media? Or, is social media strictly for teenagers and staying in touch with your friends? Historically, institutional investors kept their investing strategy and their activities very discreet.

Private Equity 114

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

We drew on our work with leading institutional investors and in-depth interviews with over 150 funds. Historically, institutional investors kept their investing strategy very discreet. MCM Capital ( case study ) is a rare example of a lower middle-market private equity fund with a proactive social media strategy.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 3, 2018

Consumers now make buying decisions based on peer reviews and social media and have shifted to smaller, newer brands that have a direct digital relationship with their consumers. If what made you successful isn’t working anymore, don’t wait for an activist investor to force the shift to a new way of competing.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 16, 2014

To put this in perspective, despite the media frenzy around when the UK would have its first successful IPO (and let’s be honest, the UK is not short on potential companies that would fit the bill), the only UK startup to IPO in 2013 was tuberculosis diagnostics company Oxford Immunotec for $86 million and that was on NASDAQ.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Plus, if the business doesn’t raise enough the capital in the first round to become self-sustaining, the crowdfunding round’s cap table and/or terms may make the deal unattractive or not doable for follow-on, institutional investors. One way is with early adopters who will champion your startup on social media.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 11, 2014

So he teamed up with a few PhDs and set off to write a book about each major vertical – Healthcare, Technology Media and Telecom, Energy and Industrials, Retail and Consumer Goods, etc. A Mattermarks goal is to track growth signals from all private tech, media and telecom companies. 7) Mattermark. 8)Clarity.

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OnlyOnce

MAY 1, 2013

I first met Jeff back in 2000 when, as CFO of DoubleClick, he and DoubleClick CEO Kevin Ryan agreed to invest in Return Path as our first institutional investor, along with Flatiron Partners. He is joining an all-star cast that includes Greg Sands , Fred Wilson , Brad Feld , Scott Weiss and Scott Petry.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 20, 2011

The new fund will operate under the Ministry of Finance program for encouraging investment in venture capital by giving breaks to institutional investors that invest in funds – a program that is largely criticized by the industry – full article.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 21, 2019

Jeff Fromm: Well I think part of the reason the topic’s gotten so hot is you have the CEO of Unilever spending a fair amount of time in national and international media talking about some of the brands that they have that do it pretty well. Not all their brands do. They have hundreds of brands.

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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.” How much “say” do the issuers have?

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