David Teten

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

airports, less-intrusive airport security); functional legal system (tort reform); logical immigration reform; comprehensible regulation ; and a functional tax system (tax simplification). To Mayor Bloomberg’s credit, he is using his bully pulpit for exactly this purpose, e.g., decrying US immigration policy as ‘ national suicide ’.

Government 146

Government Technical Review New York Offshore 146

View from Seed

APRIL 30, 2019

Fairly frequently public market investors believe that a new consumer company is “the next X”. We first saw this with Twitter in 2013 when they went public and many (both retail & institutional investors) believed that company might be the “next Facebook”. Something similar happened with Snapchat in 2017 with their IPO.

IPO 180

IPO B2B B2C Institutional Investors 180

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Small investment firms often have interns and entrepreneurs in residence passing through, each of which is a security risk. See Bessemer Venture Partners’ A comprehensive guide to security for startups. Excel and Google simply aren’t going to cut it if you expect to build a high quality institutional investor base.”.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

David Teten

FEBRUARY 16, 2013

The Southern States Business Coalition (SSBC) is bringing some of the country’s leading Plan Sponsors, Institutional Investors, and Alternative Investment professionals to Birmingham, AL, March 3-6 for the Southern States Alternative Investment Symposium 2013. Borg, Director, Alabama Securities Commission.

Alabama 114

Alabama Virginia Arizona Arkansas 114

David Teten

JULY 14, 2014

The most pervasive has been the expansion of passively managed portfolios, such as index funds and ETFs, which allow both retail and institutional investors access to a broad spectrum of investment opportunities at a much lower cost. Thus two main and divergent trends are taking place simultaneously.

Management 114

Management Portfolio Institutional Investors Government 114

The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2019

It’s no secret that one of the first things you need to do to get a start-up off the ground is secure financing from investors, a bank, alternative funder, or other business. What is a Funding Gap? It could mean the difference between failure and success.

Institutional Investors 61

Institutional Investors Startup Security Finance 61

View from Seed

MAY 29, 2019

As funds have institutionalized, seed VC’s are increasingly focused on securing a meaningful ownership stake in the companies they invest in. More and more, I hear seed investors claim that they are increasingly religious about hitting their ownership target in the majority of rounds they are a part of.

Syndicate 267

Syndicate Syndication Cofounder Cap Table 267

This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Many years and many socks later, your family's financial future is secure. You know your family will have security for generations to come, and you're more concerned about people doing right by you than beating out the S&P by an extra 50 basis points. You grew up with a guy who went into law and has some Chicago money connections.

LP 97

LP Venture Capital Technical Review Nebraska 97

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 16, 2019

We want to offer seed investors the opportunity to be part of our success before institutional VC’s take all the allocation. We plan to raise a limited amount from SeedInvest first, and then get institutional investors for the rest as we scale revenue.”

Artificial Inteligence 115

Artificial Inteligence Accredited Investor Startup SEC 115

The Next Web

JANUARY 16, 2014

It will be a continued series of wins and IPOs to build confidence that the talent pool is deep here, so we can generate more capital and funds from institutional investors into the ecosystem.”. Having seen the talent Australia has produced so far, I’m inclined to agree with him.

Australia 146

Australia San Francisco IPO Cofounder 146

Agile VC

APRIL 30, 2019

Fairly frequently public market investors believe that a new consumer company is “the next X”. We first saw this with Twitter in 2013 when they went public and many (both retail & institutional investors) believed that company might be the “next Facebook”. Something similar happened with Snapchat in 2017 with their IPO.

IPO 100

IPO B2B B2C Institutional Investors 100

Berkonomics

AUGUST 3, 2023

At the conclusion of the acceleration period, the company participates in a “demo day” in which institutional investors are invited to review the company in a live pitch session. Several are well-known and professional investors pay special attention to their graduates. The post Need money? first appeared on BERKONOMICS.

Private Equity 118

Private Equity Valuation Cap Table Accredited Investor 118

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The buyers (or lessees) in these transactions are pension funds, insurance companies, or private equity representing other institutions. Investors seek returns of ~10-15% that are predictable, secure, uncorrelated to other asset classes, and inflation adjusted. Capital Solutions.

Private Equity 129

Private Equity New York City Chicago Investment Bankers 129

View from Seed

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Many large institutions from the list above invest directly in VC funds, but others from the same categories will invest indirectly through a range of different intermediaries. Some institutional investors simply aren’t big enough to have in-house employees to vet and manage a portfolio of VC funds.

LP 335

LP Private Equity Institutional Investors Venture Capital 335

Pascal's View

AUGUST 12, 2009

The massive institutional investor losses incurred from investments in asset classes unrelated to venture capital due to the global financial crisis have only fanned the wildfire fire burning in the American innovation forest. Investors take risk in order to reap rewards.

IPO 28

IPO Silicon Valley Merger Sweat Equity 28

Up and Running

MARCH 21, 2016

Particularly if you are a first-time entrepreneur, it will be much easier to get investments on good terms (particularly from non-institutional investors) if you have some traction first,” he explains. Investors want proof that your idea is going to work, and nothing proves this better than having real, paying customers.

Cofounder 60

Cofounder Metrics Angel Investor Silicon Valley 60

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.”

IPO 82

IPO Customer Matching Silicon Valley 82

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Venture debt provides a very cost-effective way to receive capital from a big financial institution if you have liquidity or existing financial backing from a well-known investor. A considerable number of banks and financial institutions, all which specialize in this type of financing. The downsides of venture debt?

Covenant 60

Covenant Institutional Investors Balance Sheet Warrant 60

Agile VC

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Many large institutions from the list above invest directly in VC funds, but others from the same categories will invest indirectly through a range of different intermediaries. Some institutional investors simply aren’t big enough to have in-house employees to vet and manage a portfolio of VC funds.

Venture Capital 279

Venture Capital LP Private Equity Institutional Investors 279

Women Entrepreneurs Can

JUNE 11, 2021

Companies sell securities to the general public to earn money, which they require to expand. Stock markets are a common platform where individual and institutional investors come together to buy and sell shares. But it is best to plan as it helps in financial security. Stock is your ownership stake to any company.

Stock 52

Stock Securities and Exchange Commission Portfolio Dividend 52

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

We are heavy users of DocSend , a secure content sharing and tracking platform that can be used to seamlessly share recurring materials with potential LPs. DocuSign is steadily reducing the need for paper signatures, and is a more streamlined method for communicating contract changes in a secure manner.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

Board Effect

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

It’s common for investors to make large financial commitments for a few years with the hope of helping nonprofits be successful over the long term. A board management system like BoardEffect offers the most secure way to work on ESG issues. Next, open up the discussion about ESG with your investors, employees, and members.

South Africa 76

South Africa Government Africa Institutional Investors 76

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 24, 2012

Venture capitalists are raising money from other investors, institutional investors who expect certain returns from us. And to get those returns, we need very big wins. At GRP, the partnership that I work at, we have produced 15 companies that have exited north of a billion dollars.

Silicon Valley 204

Silicon Valley Software Review Internet Technical Review 204

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Adam Ghetti, founder of our portfolio company Social Fortress and an expert in security, publicly presented Social Fortress for the first time at this week’s TechCrunch Disrupt Conference. While we believe our online identities are secure, everyone is hackable—including the CEO of Foxconn and the Iranian military.

Institutional Investors 60

Institutional Investors New York Security Portfolio 60

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 6, 2010

the cloud infrastructure software company, today announced it has secured $3.5 million in Series A funding to develop management solutions that help secure open source software such as Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl (LAMP), and accelerate enterprise adoption of public, private and hybrid cloud environments. Gazzang, Inc.,

SQL 59

SQL PHP Database Open Source 59

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.

Cap Table 60

Cap Table Cofounder Dividend Institutional Investors 60

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

Gust

OCTOBER 26, 2011

On the investor side, representations and warranties in the purchase agreement primarily relate to securities law compliance. In most VC and angel financing transactions, there are three pieces to this puzzle: (1) the Company requires investors to make certain representations in the purchase agreement (e.g.,

Finance 79

Finance Term Sheet Covenant Accredited Investor 79

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 28, 2012

Most employee retirement plans do not offer options to direct invested funds to investment vehicles employing security selection based on environmental, social, and/or governance (ESG) characteristics, and relatively few such choices have been available from the largest investment managers.

Green 154

Green Institutional Investors Employee Hosting 154

Pascal's View

MARCH 9, 2010

Susan Mangiero , CEO of Investment Governance’s Fiduciary X , asked me the following: Question: At a time when transparency is so important to institutional investors, how can fiduciaries reconcile that there is limited information available with a private company?

Government 31

Government Private Equity Institutional Investors Venture Capital 31

Bryce Dot VC

DECEMBER 4, 2012

That post sparked a series of conversations, both online and off, about what makes a pitch great and how to best use the time a founder secures with a potential investor. One point several commenters took issue with was my suggestion that founders ought to have a pitch deck prepared for their first meeting with an investor.

LP 60

LP Advisory Board Institutional Investors Security 60

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2010

VC’s money comes from mostly institutional investors called LPs (limited partners). They also trust VC’s to determine the right price to pay for the company securities that they buy.

Startup 290

Startup Burn Rate Warrant Bankruptcy 290

Ben's Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Have bankers simply become even more evil in 2020, deliberately diverting more money from a company’s coffers to line the pockets of the buy-side institutional investors who subscribe to IPO shares? Thus, they shift more of their allocations to what they perceive as higher yielding assets such as equity securities.

IPO 36

IPO Securities and Exchange Commission Demand SEC 36

Berkonomics

JUNE 8, 2017

At the conclusion of the acceleration period, the company participates in a “demo day” in which institutional investors are invited to review the company in a live pitch session. Several are well-known and professional investors pay special attention to their graduates.

Private Equity 106

Private Equity Valuation Cap Table Accredited Investor 106

Austin Startup

JULY 20, 2010

of a $9M investment round, with none of that money coming from venture or institutional investors. uControl , which launched 5 years ago at DEMO , announced the addition of two new vice presidents and the final $3.9M The company exemplifies what startups and entrepreneurship are really all about.

Institutional Investors 63

Institutional Investors Austin Partner Global 63

ithacaVC

AUGUST 10, 2011

So, let’s assume that we are talking about a startup that is far enough along to get a loan (like for some equipment that can actually be a worthy secured asset). Perhaps the company has a bit of revenue, but certainly it is not profitable.

Founder 69

Founder SBA Silicon Valley Vesting 69

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2012

We had institutional public IPO buyers on the task force, they got two votes. (I There were CEOs and private investors, securities attorneys, the former head of [PriceWaterhouseCooper's] tech practice in Silicon Valley. Then we had some boutique investment banks, and I joke that they got half-a-vote.". "One

IPO 118

IPO SEC Silicon Valley Startup 118