ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

In 2018, venture capital investments in Latin America doubled for the second consecutive year, according to LAVCA’s Annual Review of Tech Investment in Latin America. Colombia received $334M of investment in 2018, a nearly 5x increase in venture capital from the year before. Increased connectivity.

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Colombia America Technical Review Startup 146

Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

6/ Venture Capital In Expansion Phase. Public investors, cross-over investors, and even traditional private equity firms have taken notice, further blurring the lines of what constitutes true venture capital. And, thus began the Scooter Wars, which saw consumers across major U.S.

Technical Review 165

Technical Review Venture Capital Russia China 165

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2023

Different types of investors tend to specialize in capitalizing on businesses at different stages. Venture capital firms look for the most mature companies they can find, Angel investors typically deal a tier lower, while friends and family are most likely to help you get started.

Angel Investor 313

Angel Investor Intellectual Property Investment Bankers Private Equity 313

David Teten

AUGUST 6, 2013

I was visiting as part of Terrapinn Private Equity World, a leading private equity conference for the Latin American technology community. Another portfolio company of ff Venture Capital that targets this market is Voxy , a mobile app that creates an immersive experience in teaching English as a second language.

Miami 114

Miami Private Equity Florida Technical Review 114

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Just look at the disruptive challenges that businesses face today– globalization, China as a manufacturer, China as a consumer, the Internet, and a steady stream of new startups. As the venture capital business has come roaring back in the last 5 years, startups are awash in available capital.

Private Equity 325

Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property 325

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 12, 2010

In the VC & Private Equity world there’s a small number, too, with one of the most respected being PEHub. There is an industry changing shift going on in the internet and mobile-based IT space for sure. Dan believed that consumer internet entrepreneurs have a choice now: traditional VC vs. super seed investors.

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Seed Stage Valuation Private Equity Venture Capital 232

VC Cafe

JULY 4, 2022

What’s happening in the venture capital world? The WSJ confirmed what we already know: Q2 venture capital investments declined both in size and in valuation. Venture Capital Feels the Stock Market’s Pain, Wall Street Journal. Declining investment: U.S. VC funds invested about $47.5 How bad can it get?

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Venture Capital Valuation Private Equity LP 167

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2020

Different types of investors tend to specialize in capitalizing on businesses at different stages. Venture capital firms look for the most mature companies they can find, Angel investors typically deal a tier lower, while friends and family are most likely to help you get started.

Angel Investor 370

Angel Investor Intellectual Property Investment Bankers Private Equity 370

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

Let’s take an example – In the case of an internet or app business, the user traction and market penetration is a must. The third source of funding is from equity investors. For mature businesses, there are Private Equity or PE firms. ? Establish a competitive advantage. Debt investors.

Startup 150

Startup Entrepreneur Elevator Pitch Seed Stage 150

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

The VC industry grew dramatically as a result of the Internet bubble - Before the Internet bubble the people who invested in VC funds (called LPs or Limited Partners) put about $50 billion into the industry and by 2001 this had grown precipitously to around $250 billion. Here’s my take: 1. VC will shrink. Oh yes it will.

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LP Technical Review Early Stage Silicon Valley 311

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. . The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies. In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Internet and Online Business. Will Work for Equity. Dave Graham Business Venture Capital Private Equity GlobalLogic Inc. Venture Capital Firms. Theres a huge opportunity cost in not taking equity," he says. Leadership. Strategy and Planning. Human Resources (HR). Employee Benefits.

Arizona 40

Arizona Equity Iowa Venture Capital 40

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2018

Different types of investors tend to specialize in capitalizing on businesses at different stages. Venture capital firms look for the most mature companies they can find, Angel investors typically deal a tier lower, while friends and family are most likely to help you get started.

Angel Investor 184

Angel Investor Intellectual Property Investment Bankers Private Equity 184

David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

I hope that you can join us Monday night, April 4, midtown NYC, at a panel on “Innovation in Private Company Liquidity-Online Merger Markets, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO” The program is sponsored by the HBS Club of New York and the HBS Angels of NY.

Private Equity 68

Private Equity Merger IPO Equity 68

500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

TL:DR : This post aims to recap significant changes in the venture capital industry over the past ten years, and then make some [biased] predictions as to major forces at play in the next five years. However, all three shifts are related and can be summed up simply as: Geeks are Taking Over Venture Capital.

Silicon Valley 74

Silicon Valley Early Stage Venture Capital Valuation 74

David Teten

JANUARY 2, 2019

A few years ago I published a research paper on how private equity and venture capital firms originate investments. What does that actually mean? Is this the business equivalent of telling a flame, “ It’s not you, it’s me ”? I found that our industry collectively invests in only 1 out of every 87 companies we review.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Due Diligence Venture Capital Equity 60

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 4, 2014

Different types of investors tend to specialize in capitalizing on businesses at different stages. Venture capital firms look for the most mature companies they can find, Angel investors typically deal a tier lower, while friends and family are most likely to help you get started.

Angel Investor 232

Angel Investor Intellectual Property Investment Bankers Private Equity 232

Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

In short, the first wave of internet companies were widely distributed and brought people online (AOL in Virginia, Microsoft in Albuquerque and Seattle, Dell in Austin, etc.) in the last four years we’ve seen a 250% increase in venture capital funding and have doubled the number of startup development organizations in our community.”

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Texas San Antonio Houston Dallas 90

This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Given the time I spent a decade ago doing not only venture capital, but investing in private equity funds that buy retail companies, I find this data collection fascinating. A few years ago, there was a huge consumer fluff up over behavioral tracking on the internet. Venture Capital & Technology'

Leveraged Buyout 137

Leveraged Buyout Venture Capital Private Equity Channel 137

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2016

Different types of investors tend to specialize in capitalizing on businesses at different stages. Venture capital firms look for the most mature companies they can find, Angel investors typically deal a tier lower, while friends and family are most likely to help you get started.

Matching 120

Matching Angel Investor Intellectual Property Investment Bankers 120

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

Funding is different – In Silicon Valley you have mega venture capital funds and many of them. Side note: LA seems to have had some success in mega deals led by private equity firms as evidenced by DemandMedia and Chris DeWolf’s latest company backed by more than $20 million in private equity.

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Silicon Valley Technology Los Angeles Southern California 290

The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Eventually the private equity firms and multinationals take over and it becomes harder for a marginally-funded startup entrepreneur to compete, but for that brief, glorious time, the opportunities seem endless. Those who are lucky enough to strike during that narrow window of time will go on to define the industry they helped create.

Private Equity 99

Private Equity China Equity Bootstrapping 99

Growthink Blog

APRIL 9, 2014

venture capital investing activity, Silicon Valley is the nation’s unrivaled tech early technology investing epicenter. Like in the Valley, Internet and Mobile-related businesses dominate - with close to 80% of all venture activity being concentrated in these areas. With 41% of all U.S. Investing Jay Turo'

Silicon Valley 89

Silicon Valley Los Angeles Private Equity IPO 89

David Teten

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Before making the decision to join ff Venture Capital , I did some research on early-stage tech investing as an asset class and how it’s evolving. What was striking was what an attractive asset class it was. Although any given early-stage company is quite risky, when aggregated across a large portfolio, returns are very attractive.

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Early Stage Private Equity Portfolio Aggregator 148

David Teten

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

David Teten, Partner, ff Venture Capital ; Chairman, HBS Alumni Angels of Greater New York. Balloch’s 20+ year career prior to becoming an angel investor was in financial services both in the private equity world- fundraising and investor relations, and in investment banking.

Private Equity 114

Private Equity North America Cofounder Angel Groups 114

Growthink Blog

MAY 14, 2012

Since the Internet bubble burst in 2001, the number of IPOs hasn’t recovered to even 1980s levels. For perspective, before 2001 over 40% of all venture capital exits were via initial public offerings. Because golly, when it comes to the IPO market and public market returns in general, help is needed in a big way. How bad is it?

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IPO Private Equity Initial Public Offering Balance Sheet 78

Growthink Blog

MARCH 26, 2012

Correspondingly, these Internet-marketed, transacted, and settled offerings will be exempt from the Byzantine state-by-state rules that effectively prevent a regulatory compliant securities offering for anyone with less than a $100,000 legal budget. No, I don't think so.

Private Equity 89

Private Equity Startup IPO Equity 89

Growthink Blog

JANUARY 7, 2015

In so many of the growth industries of the 21st century - Mobile, BioTech, HealthcareIT, Robotics, Social Media, Internet of Things - U.S. In addition to the massive flows of capital and wealth created and distributed by the top tech. private equity firms and $515 billion on the balance sheets of leading tech.

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Balance Sheet Private Equity Venture Capital .Net 48

Growthink Blog

AUGUST 14, 2010

The best articulation of it comes from Basil Peters, a serial technology entrepreneur, co-Founder of Nexus Engineering, former Canada Entrepreneur of the Year, and Managing Partner at 3 venture capital funds – Fundamental Technologies I and II and the BC Advantage Funds. This is a realistically attainable for the individual investor.

Private Equity 67

Private Equity Intellectual Property IPO Venture Capital 67

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. ff Venture Capital. First Round Capital. Acquirer/ Investor.

Private Equity 114

Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Equity 114

David Teten

MARCH 2, 2013

I recently had an extensive debate with Tom about why and whether small funds (like mine, ff Venture Capital ) tend to outperform large funds (like his). I argue that, just as with hedge funds and mutual funds, the larger the venture capital fund, the more difficult it is to generate strong returns.

LP 114

LP Securities and Exchange Commission Silicon Valley Venture Capital 114

David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

He is an active angel with many successful angel investments including: Rent.com, (purchased by Ebay in 2005 for $415 million), Golfnow.com (purchased by Comcast in June 2008), and Lifelock (lead investors include Bessemer Venture Partners and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers). and Tweetdeck (purchased by Twitter in June 2011).

Technical Review 128

Technical Review Technology North Carolina Switzerland 128

Growthink Blog

APRIL 25, 2011

On Friday Silicon Valley Bank released a survey of 375 executives at startup technology companies in the 4 core venture capital investment sectors – Software/Internet, Hardware, Life Science, and Cleantech. Here is what they found: Tech. Are Bullish. To download this complimentary report, please click here.

Silicon Valley 69

Silicon Valley Ratchet Private Equity Startup 69

David Teten

JANUARY 8, 2013

According to Jeff Bussgang, General Partner at Flybridge Capital Partners, about 10-15% of the 1,000 active venture capitalists in the U.S. Fewer private equity funds are using social media for outreach, but 2xPartners , Healthpoint Capital , and MCM Capital Partners are notable exceptions.

Private Equity 114

Private Equity Social Media Equity Media 114

David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Christopher Fralic is a Managing Partner at First Round Capital’s New York office, and has focused on a number of the firm’s investments in Advertising Technology, Social Media, Ecommerce, Gaming, Mobile and more. Mr. Fralic has 25 years of technology industry experience, with significant Internet business development roles since 1996.

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Portfolio New York Social Bookmarking Philadelphia 122

Austin Startup

OCTOBER 10, 2017

To start with the amount of risk capital — including angel, institutional VC, and other private equity — deployed towards startups was actually greater in Dallas than Austin , as of Q1 2017, with $6.97 In the early days of the current internet age, the center of Dallas venture capital was the Galleria area.

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Dallas Austin Texas Cofounder 60

Small Business Force

DECEMBER 15, 2012

For the purposes of our discussion, my definition of outside capital is that from professional investors, beyond friends and family. That means capital from angels, venture capital and private equity firms. Unless your business is capital-intensive (physical plant, equipment, etc.),

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SBA Private Equity Green Venture Capital 36