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.

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Private Equity Merger IPO Equity 68

Rob Go

DECEMBER 14, 2016

The acquisition probably means more to you than it does to the other party, so you will be negotiating from a place of relative weakness. Most companies aren’t that acquisitive, and a company’s reputation as a buyer is nowhere near as important to a normal company as it is to a venture investor.

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Term Sheet Technical Review Due Diligence Private Equity 28

Hearpreneur

JUNE 19, 2018

As a successful young entrepreneur (he’s only 30! ), Harrison Rogers is Founder and CEO of HJR Global, a private equity company that has increased at least 200% every year for the past 4 years. Our investments or acquisitions won’t be limited by industry or geographically, so “Global” felt adequate.

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Private Equity Entrepreneur Global America 70

Up and Running

AUGUST 17, 2015

Between my experiences as a management consultant, as well as my product and marketing roles at multiple tech companies, I felt that I had enough operational experience to make that leap sooner than later. Additionally, I had already studied Economics and Finance during undergrad, making the academic part of an MBA seem a little redundant.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 11, 2010

Monday night, I’ll again be the co-host of Entrepreneurs Unplugged where we will be interviewing Tyler Tysdal, the Managing Director of Mantucket Capital. Tyler’s background follows: Mr. Tysdal founded a private equity firm primarily focused on healthcare, media & entertainment and secondarily on real estate and construction services.

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Private Equity Entrepreneur Merger Cofounder 94

Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

I was a Finance major in college with a concentration in real estate, but even during my studies I constantly experimented with entrepreneurship, at one point helping Between The Bread launch an e-commerce bakery as an offshoot to their core business, which was a pretty novel concept at the time. Tell us about your business background.

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Management Private Equity Social Media Equity 48

Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

There are many reasons for that, such as private equity and crossover investors investing earlier, or the fact that LPs in VC funds are affected by public market swings and could, theoretically, hit some VC firms to feel the pinch. Much of this can trickle down into the startup ecosystem. I am expecting a downturn at some point.

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Growthink Blog

JUNE 18, 2014

Almost every day comes barely able to believe valuations on technology company financings, acquisitions, and public offerings. But with the addition of another 217,000 jobs in May , Unemployment now stands at a very manageable 6.3% , and there are now more people with jobs in the United States than ever before.

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Accredited Investor Private Equity United States Valuation 78

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

After graduating college, I spent several years on Wall Street, first at a large investment bank working on M&A for large corporate clients, then as a private equity professional helping invest hundreds of millions of dollars in private companies. Customer acquisition will be harder than expected.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Acquisition B2B Partner 60

David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Christopher Fralic, Managing Partner, First Round Capital. Dave Tisch, Founder & Managing Director, TechStars NYC. 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.

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Growthink Blog

MARCH 1, 2017

Rising public markets, with big companies flush with fresh equity and thus able to more assertively pursue growth-by-acquisition strategies, creates a virtuous trickle-down effect on valuations and business sale probabilities for even the smallest of firms.

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Marketing Private Equity Acquisition Equity 48

Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

HIT is comprised of BIG sectors: -- Practice Management Systems (PMS) - a $2.9 Strictly First Come, First Serve If you're interested in learning the who, what, and how of private equity activity in a recession-proof sector, then join us this Thursday, February 11th at 1 pm EST/10 am PST for a web conference you don't want to miss.

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Hockey Stick Private Equity Washington Government 72

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. Mr. Lindzon continues to manage a hedge fund he started in 1998. and Tweetdeck (purchased by Twitter in June 2011).

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

And when you look at the tools that we use, I mean we’ve made so many technological advances, but really to manage a meeting there’s not a practical tool available. We use email; we use Word; we use task manager; we use a file sharing tool. They are so happy that they finally have a tool to manage their business.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Blink starts with the anecdote of the Getty Museums $10 million acquisition of a rare Greek statue dating from the 6th century BC. One other chart worth noting is the the expected returns from various private capital providers (Banks, Asset based lenders, Mezzanine, Private Equity and VC). Back to the survey.

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San Jose Angel Investor Venture Capital Mezzanine 33

Women Entrepreneurs Can

MAY 9, 2019

These folks are accessible across any industry and are particularly useful for entrepreneurs who have moved beyond the seed stage of financing, but don’t yet have the significant revenue needed to court venture capital funding. Solid Organizational Processes. You Have Positive Cash Flow.

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Programming Sweat Equity Startup Private Equity 40

VC Cafe

JUNE 4, 2012

This month’s trend continues to be the acquisition of mature Israeli high tech companies by multinationals. Avaya, EMC and VMWare are following the footsteps of Facebook, eBay, Cisco and HP with Israeli acquisitions that become R&D centers. The bank is offering to finance mid-sized and large projects of up to 50 MW.

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San Francisco New Jersey Private Equity 90

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Upon closing the deal, Essilor will fully consolidate Shamir Optical while keeping the Israeli management team of Shamir Optical in place. Dapper currently partners with Sunnyvale, California-based Yahoo and following the acquisition its development center in Ramat Gan will become Yahoo’s development center in Israel.

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Bandwidth Framework Forecast 79

Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Bates: Good morning and welcome to our CEO panel, “How to Fine-Tune Your Small Business Finances From Funding to Growth” which I think is the direction that we would all like to be going. I’m here with some really phenomenal CEOs who are going to talk to us today about small business finances from funding to growth.

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Small Business Finance Forecast Metrics 95

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JUNE 20, 2011

That’s where acquisition comes in — if you can’t make it, buy it! Even if you’ve managed to scrape together ten million dollars of revenue over the past five years, that’s still just a drop in the bucket, irrelevant, not worth their time. Actually, no.

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Sales Channel Cofounder Valuation 260

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

China manages its industrial policy via top-down 5-year plans. They have built a sophisticated public/private financing ecosystem to support these plans. The result was that by default, private equity and venture capital were the de facto decision makers of U.S. National Industrial Policy – U.S. versus China.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Task Management. Project Management Tools. Subscription Payments / Management. Managing APIs. Customer Relationship Management. Contractor Management. Private beta invitations & management: Prefinery. Scanning / Document Management. Project Management tools. Part 4- Closing.

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