David Teten
JANUARY 23, 2021
In particular, highlight the metrics by which you measured your past activities: size of exit, number of people you managed, $ budget you were responsible for, etc. Conduct an honest self-evaluation: can you realistically raise money from institutional investors, or should you focus on high net worths/family offices?
David Teten
MAY 20, 2016
As one of the lead engineers at ff Venture Capital , I spend most of my day building custom software solutions that enhance our firm’s process–tools that range from portfolio investment management to co-investor and cap table tracking and more. We posted on our site a more in-depth overview of ff’s Tech Platform.
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David Teten
DECEMBER 3, 2019
However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. Deer Isle Group has built the D.I.G. 4) Originate investments.
David Teten
SEPTEMBER 23, 2017
An investor had few hard metrics other than the actual financials, and little technology to make the process scaleable. Over the past few decades, better metrics became available, and investors could take a more analytical, data-driven approach. 8) Accelerate portfolio company value. 9% (1 / 12). 1) Market fund.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 23, 2012
In an over-funding environment companies are encouraged to eschew revenues in a land grab to acquire eyeballs, clicks, page views or whatever other vanity metrics give VCs the false comfort that they’re sitting on a gold mine. IPO markets had burned an entire cycle of retail stock investors and many institutional investors to boot.
Rob Go
OCTOBER 14, 2012
OUR PORTFOLIO. I’ve done little portfolio overviews from time to time. In over half of our portfolio companies, we have invested pre-product. But we feel pretty good about the progress of the portfolio so far. Here’s a little update. Pace : We have made 23 investments so far. OUR INDUSTRY.
The Next Web
SEPTEMBER 13, 2013
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. Asia has far fewer VC firms and institutional investors, each of which invests a far smaller amount of capital.
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