A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

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Institutional Investors India China Viral 240

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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Asia Silicon Valley India Term Sheet 132

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. Do the new wave of social/web/mobile/cloud companies going public have valuations which exceeds their fundamental value by a large margin? Filed under: Venture Capital.

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Investment Bankers Stock Valuation Venture Capital 310

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

And Ron Conway has proclaimed that he wants to do up to 40-50 rapid-fire deals in the next 18 months in what is becoming known as the “real time web” (e.g. So what is driving the new energy in the remaining venture capital firms when we kept hearing how much the whole industry was “against the ropes?&# … 1.

IPO 255

IPO Investment Bankers Venture Capital Marketing 255

Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

In addition, I’m particularly excited that this final close includes an institutional investor, the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) – their announcement can be found here. It is still early times for the web and we’re excited to work with great entrepreneurs looking to change their industry or the world.

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Los Angeles Portland Canada B2C 146

abovethecrowd.com

MAY 20, 2013

As Benchmark is a large institutional investor in Grubhub, we were actively involved in the merger process, and we are quite excited about the potential of the two companies coming together. Finding a way to meld two complex capital structures is non-trivial, and may require compromise from many parties involved.

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Merger Institutional Investors Liquidation Preference Preferred Stock 53

David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

With a unique vision for starting and successfully managing innovative companies, he is the Managing Partner of Social Leverage, a holding company that invests in early stage web businesses. He created Wallstrip, and more than 400 original web video shows, which was purchased by CBS Corp.

Technical Review 128

Technical Review Technology North Carolina Switzerland 128

Genuine VC

MARCH 25, 2010

All of this led me to think about the question – when is a good time for an entrepreneur to talk to a venture capitalist? I completely agree that the best way to test market demand for a business is with customers, and spending too much time with investors early on can be unproductive. Establish a relationship and assess fit.

Early Stage 123

Early Stage Venture Capital Term Sheet Conversion 123

Genuine VC

MARCH 25, 2010

All of this led me to think about the question – when is a good time for an entrepreneur to talk to a venture capitalist? I completely agree that the best way to test market demand for a business is with customers, and spending too much time with investors early on can be unproductive. Establish a relationship and assess fit.

Early Stage 121

Early Stage Venture Capital Term Sheet Conversion 121

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 27, 2012

As with Instagram, Benchmark Capital is the largest institutional investor in Demandforce. This morning, Intuit announced its agreement to acquire one of Benchmark’s portfolio companies, Demandforce, for $424mm.

Institutional Investors 63

Institutional Investors Portfolio Venture Capital Internet 63

The Next Web

JANUARY 16, 2014

Another alumni of the AngelCube accelerator, Coinjar is a consumer facing Bitcoin wallet that went on to raise $500,000 from Blackbird ventures and is rumoured to have grown to a $5m monthly turnover in the past three months alone. With 150,000 users and counting, they might just be on to something.

Australia 146

Australia San Francisco IPO Cofounder 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% Mark: Great, awesome.

Silicon Valley 204

Silicon Valley Software Review Internet Technical Review 204

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Funding for the companies spinning out of Stanford’s engineering department in the 1950’s benefited from the tight integration and web of relationships between Fred Terman, Stanford, the U.S. ARD was a publicly traded venture capital firm (raising $3.5 There was none. military and intelligence agencies and defense contractors.

Silicon Valley 159

Silicon Valley Securities and Exchange Commission Venture Capital RSS 159

Pascal's View

MARCH 9, 2010

This is the second in our series of ten frequently asked questions from investors in venture capital partnerships. To get to the core of your question, providing passive institutional investors with more financial information about illiquid securities isn’t going to make them more liquid.

Government 31

Government Private Equity Institutional Investors Venture Capital 31

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. .

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Curation Vertical San Francisco Angel Investor 167

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

DECEMBER 9, 2014

After college, I was a very early employee at a web company called Tumblr. It’s a web-based time tracking system. Bates: Josh, it reminds me of when I was doing web sites back in the day in 2000 and 1998 and instead of going and being able to buy a shopping cart you had to code the shopping cart from scratch.

Small Business 95

Small Business Finance Forecast Metrics 95