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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

My colleagues Sebastian Soler , Steven Greenberg and I recently launched a new online community, PEVCTech.com , exclusively for PE/VC investors; engineers who work at PE/VC funds; and other technologists who specialize in working on this problem. The Pocket Negotiator is very early-stage attempt to aid in the negotiating process itself. .

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Asset Management Is A Bizarre Industry Ripe For Disruption

David Teten

This may make sense from the individual perspective of a given VC, but collectively it ensures that early-stage companies are overvalued. In aggregate, angels are significant investors. However, I’ve seen many VCs who value companies as an option: the company has a 1% chance of being worth $1b, therefore it’s worth $10m.

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Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010

SoCal CTO

The collapse of the IPO market and dysfunctional math in the venture capital community has stacked the odds against you. Listening to first-time entrepreneurs talk about their competitive advantages is as predictably invalid as the local weatherman's 10-day forecast. Each of those domains would get one point in the aggregated list.

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How to Fine-tune Your Small Business Finances—from Funding to Growth [Webinar Recap]

Up and Running

What I did is I learned the art of a pro forma and the value of a pro forma which basically is a forecast. If you don’t know what your cash flow forecast is, you don’t really understand your capital needs. When you go into a community bank on average fifty percent of applicants are declined. My name is John Bates.

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Impact Investing: a time for problems to become opportunities

VC Cafe

The Forecasted 2016 to 2026 job growth stands at 120%. A good example is the young firm Fifty Years , an entrepreneur-run early stage venture capital company based in San Francisco, which backs startups that aim to be both massively profitable and make a serious dent in achieving one of the SDGs. Source: Fundera .