David Teten
SEPTEMBER 23, 2017
Advances in machine learning, specifically natural language processing, have made generating these baseline, aggregate datasets possible, at scale, with high accuracy. It seamlessly creates a deal folder (company name) in our Google Drive, and notifies us that a new deal has entered the pipeline via Slack.
David Teten
DECEMBER 3, 2019
Pro Publica has a Nonprofit Explorer database searchable by principal name on all nonprofit filings, so you can see a person’s nonprofit activities. . 645 Ventures released a cap table simulator to help level the playing field. Pacer is useful to search prior litigation, bankruptcies, etc.
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David Teten
DECEMBER 12, 2017
CB Insights , Preqin and Mattermark were also named as platforms that are regularly updated by GPs. We understand that from a GP perspective, pulling data from different sources, aggregating and standardising them is one of the biggest pain points in their reporting process. How do VCs originate investments?
abovethecrowd.com
APRIL 20, 2016
Many have noted that the aggregate shareholder value created by all of the Unicorns will vastly overshadow the losses from the inevitable failed unicorns. You can no longer simply look at the cap table and estimate your return. They basically cannot afford to expose themselves to any more risk in a particular name.
Startup Lessons Learned
JUNE 9, 2020
And a person I hired named Belinda Johnson, she was my general counsel, then she became my COO, now my board member. The first and one of the hardest decisions I ever made was this thing, it's going to have a very anodyne name, but it's a very serious topic called an extenuating circumstance policy. And Belinda said, "No.
Startup Lessons Learned
MAY 4, 2021
Brian Armstrong : My name is Brian Armstrong. It kind of aggregates technology content, I suppose. It's kind of like whoever discovered penicillin, you don't need to know their name. You can't even know everyone's name. We all can name some companies that probably the crazy founder blew it up a little bit too much.
abovethecrowd.com
JUNE 2, 2021
Also, take a look at this critically important data point , also aggregated by Professor Jay Ritter. These are the parties on the cap table prior to the transaction. He also says they need to be “must own” names. Are Asana, Palantir, ZipRecruiter, and Squarespace “must own” names? Party B: The investment banks.
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