David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

At HOF Capital, we support our companies through 7 main levers (i.e., the “TOPSCAN” framework from my research study on value creation by VCs ): T eam-Building – We aggregate openings across our portfolio on our jobs page. – Aggregation, ranking, and discounts from service providers. Ethics Policy, Expenses policy).

Portfolio 60

Portfolio Technical Review Private Equity Database 60

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

VP of Engineering, AppNexus - New York, NY "It's over a billion ad impressions a day, we got a full tank of venture capital, half a pack of cigarettes, the future of ad networks is dark, and we're wearing sunglasses." Tags: First Round Capital Venture Capital & Technology nextNY. " "Hit it."

Part-Time VPE 92

Part-Time VPE CTO Hire Engineer Sales 92

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Google Analytics. Site Pulse – Live Web Traffic Monitor and Analytics. SEO and Analytics Tutorials. Analytics review â?? mixpanel vs kissmetric vs google analytics review. Analytics blog â?? good analytics tutorials.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Internet analytics can be roughly broken down into two simple activities – customer acquisition and customer optimization. The second activity, which I believe should be the obsession of all analytical startups, is customer optimization. This is the piece that the LTV-zealots always miss: the spending will never stop.

Metrics 93

Metrics Conversion Internet Acquisition 93

Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2013

Venture Capital Issues. Early stage Venture Capital for medical device startups has dried up. The amount of capital being invested in new device companies is at an 11 year low. Venture Capital. Because device IPOs are rare, and M&A is much tougher, liquidity for investors is hard to find.

Startup 294

Startup Venture Capital Lean IPO 294

Altgate

APRIL 22, 2009

 Obviously, WSGR has a much larger sample size and the fact that they make it public (in aggregate) is impressive.   In fact, I bet Google Analytics will quickly show Yokum and his colleagues at WSGR that his real userbase for this tool will be other attorneys both at firms and inhouse.  Bookmark the permalink.

Term Sheet 52

Term Sheet Intellectual Property Venture Capital Hawaii 52

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. Although any given early-stage company is quite risky, when aggregated across a large portfolio, returns are very attractive.

Early Stage 148

Early Stage Private Equity Portfolio Aggregator 148

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

billion, and 12 have been acquired for more than $6 billion in aggregate since presenting at the AIR Summit. I will be speaking on “ Quant Investing in Private Markets: How Private Equity and VC Investors are Using Technology and Analytics to Drive Returns ”. . That’s a better track record than many VCs!).

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Cofounder Aggregator Equity 60

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

When the NVCA or PriceWaterhouse surveys come out at the end of year I’m not saying they will necessarily will show aggregate $$$ or deal numbers up. 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?

IPO 255

IPO Investment Bankers Venture Capital Marketing 255

Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Over the next two weeks, I set out to build my own Mattermark / CBInsights by aggregating the APIs of Crunchbase, AngelList, and Twitter, as well as any other relevant datasets I could get access to. If any of you are interested in or are working on founder analytics, I’d love to chat.

Seed Stage 127

Seed Stage Later Stage Algorithm API 127

Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

12 cloud IPOs in the past 2 years: One from Europe SaaS companies are thriving in the public markets, with their aggregated market cap grew 350% since 2011, and 12 cloud companies going public in the past 24 months. These 12 have performed well, with an aggregate $2.6

Europe 83

Europe Cloud API 83

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

I was meeting regularly with entrepreneurs and offering (for better or for worse) advice on how to run a startup and how to raise venture capital from my experience in doing so at two companies. They created a reason for their customers to aggregate on their site on a regular basis. People often ask me why I started blogging.

Startup 373

Startup eCommerce Audience Community 373

thebarefootvc

MARCH 5, 2017

As a VC who has built a fund focused on distributed connectivity and data analytics as a thesis, I am realistic about the current status of investment opportunities in the sector. Some of the smartest fledgling teams have been acquired by Google, Apple, Uber and Facebook over the past few years.

Artificial Inteligence 84

Artificial Inteligence Algorithm Valuation Aggregator 84

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

In my case (LucidEra -- a SaaS analytics provider focusing on sales, marketing, and financial analytics), weve found that success requires not only building some best practices for analytics into our solution, but also coming up with a repeatable and scalable way to show the customer how to use the analytics and how to interpret the results.

Software Review 48

Software Review North America Europe Metrics 48

thebarefootvc

JULY 5, 2017

As a VC who has built a fund focused on distributed connectivity and data analytics as a thesis, I am realistic about the current status of investment opportunities in the sector. Some of the smartest fledgling teams have been acquired by Google, Apple, Uber and Facebook over the past few years.

Artificial Inteligence 40

Artificial Inteligence Algorithm Valuation Aggregator 40

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

Most importantly, it’s now possible to have detailed analytics on exactly what’s happening to messages and ideas as they flow through word-of-mouth channels. We faced this same problem in entrepreneurship and venture capital, but we are getting past it. Scaling up successful tests is easy for the same reason.

San Francisco 113

San Francisco Lean Technical Review Distribution 113