Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

lack of traction, lack of downstream financing availability. Call any CEO that has me as a lead and they’ll tell you that I’ve been on midnight phone calls the night before big meetings acting as a sparring partner. founder fighting. existential threats (Apple announced they are competing directly with you). and much more.

Syndicate 356

Syndicate Syndication Cofounder Early Stage 356

Austin Startup

JULY 6, 2018

Ask the Users Startup Accelerators: Bundled and Unbundled Over the past several years, accelerators have emerged as a powerful filtering and signaling mechanism in early-stage startup ecosystems, allowing high-potential young startups to connect with investors, advisors, and other strategic partners far faster and more efficiently than before.

Dilution 48

Dilution Startup Technical Review Equity 48

VC Cafe

MAY 4, 2011

IVC Research Center has released the Quarterly Survey of Israeli Private Equity Deals for Q1 2011. Eleven private equity deals in Q1 2011, amounted at $216 million, a 68% decrease from the $668 million in Q1 last year, and a 74% decline from the previous quarter ($826 million). Figure 1: Private Equity Deal Value by Quarter ($M).

Private Equity 99

Private Equity Equity Mezzanine 99

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

easy business finance software. YCombinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents. Mark Suster GRP Partners Advice. Founder Equity Issues. Venture Hacks equity section. Legal, Equity, etc. Philippe Botteri, Bessemer Venture Partners. Startup Threads. Videos/presentations. SlideShare.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

David Teten

JULY 14, 2014

What that means is that a traditional 80% / 20% equity bond portfolio is set to lose a lot more money in a crisis than most investors are comfortable with. Katina Stefanova : The government is looking for effective ways to increase transparency in the aggregate risk of the system and hold investment managers accountable.

Management 114

Management Portfolio Institutional Investors Government 114

Cracking the Code

MARCH 12, 2010

While the group sentiment for 2010 did not improve significantly vs. November 2009, the projections for 2011 are now a lot more optimistic - 42% higher 2011 aggregated EBITDA announced in March 2010 vs. the November 09! Finance Dissertation Help. Finance Dissertation Proposal. Philippe Botteri Accel Partners London, UK My Bio.

Software Review 63

Software Review Technical Review Cloud Forecast 63

David Teten

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Although any given early-stage company is quite risky, when aggregated across a large portfolio, returns are very attractive. From the point of view of a limited partner, the great challenge is scaling the business. Our finance team acts as an outsourced CFO. What was striking was what an attractive asset class it was.

Early Stage 148

Early Stage Private Equity Portfolio Aggregator 148

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Each VC firm/partner has a different spin on what to weigh more.) 3) invest in and take equity stakes in exchange for capital. These types seem dangerous, yet are often the ones needed on board to get the fund to invest in the first place, seeing that the younger partners naturally have less pull during the Monday round-ups.

Silicon Valley 217

Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 217

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

owing to projected weakness in the economies of Israel’s main trading partners, the United States and Europe. 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.

Bandwidth 79

Bandwidth Framework Forecast 79

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

I would put my firm, GRP Partners in with the group working with teams in different ways. I believe some VCs have entered the early-stage market as simply an option on future financing rounds. And of course hedge funds and growth-equity funds can’t resist trying to get earlier-stage exposure again. There are also others.

Venture Capital 296

Venture Capital Software LP Early Stage 296

David Teten

JUNE 13, 2012

I spent a lot of time researching search strategies for sales of all kinds when I was writing The Virtual Handshake and worked on my research study on how private equity and VC funds find great companies. As a result, I was able to adopt an effective process-driven approach to finding my spouse.

Private Equity 138

Private Equity New York Aggregator Matching 138

Altgate

APRIL 22, 2009

"  It's basically a web tool that creates draft preferred financing term sheets for startups.  Obviously, WSGR has a much larger sample size and the fact that they make it public (in aggregate) is impressive. link] Swedes Start Voting as Reinfeldt’s Coalition Is Poised to Win Second Term | BZEE Finance [.]

Term Sheet 52

Term Sheet Intellectual Property Venture Capital Hawaii 52

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

Why the Unicorn Financing Market Just Became Dangerous…For All Involved. All Unicorn participants — founders, company employees, venture investors and their limited partners (LPs) — are seeing their fortunes put at risk from the very nature of the Unicorn phenomenon itself. By January of 2016, that number had ballooned to 229.

IPO 40

IPO Term Sheet Silicon Valley Valuation 40

techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Tweet View Comments Sarah Lacy Feb 19, 2010 Pepperdine has a new study out that attempts to shed some light on the clubby, shadowy world of private finance. Researchers polled experts in lending, mezzanine capital, private equity, venture capital and private businesses themselves. A few more stats make that picture look worse.

Venture Capital 62

Venture Capital Technical Review Sweat Equity Valuation 62

Hearpreneur

AUGUST 2, 2016

What is CrowdFunnel, what is unique about your form of marketing and what types of partners benefit most from your services? We help our partners create efficiencies in their traditional marketing efforts while delivering verified leads of investors with real-time interest in their deals. Find the experts and our affiliated partners.

Accredited Investor 48

Accredited Investor Non-Compete Vertical Acquisition 48

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Between the worse data aggregation method and the much higher amount of work Wesabe made you do, it was far easier to have a good experience on Mint , and that good experience came far more quickly. At the end, I asked myself what are the most critical resources I need to be successful and the answer was partners and developers.

Software Review 79

Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

K9 Ventures

MAY 14, 2011

The incubators invest usually for an equity stake and buy equity at a extremely low valuation (for example, 7% for $15,000, which implies a pre-money valuation of less than $200,000). They are still individual investors, they invest on a full-time basis as professionals, but they have funds with Limited Partners. Institutional.

Preferred Stock 125

Preferred Stock Seed Stage Incubator Early Stage 125

Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

A partner from the law firm (sponsor, covers the drinks and food) tosses out some softball questions to the panelists, the audience chimes in with Q&A and finally, culminates with the meet and greet where the panelists are flooded with business cards and pitches on the next great thing, which is often very similar to the last great thing.

Pre-Money Valuation 28

Pre-Money Valuation Angel Investor Angel Groups Valuation 28

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Some of the firm’s partners may move on to new jobs during this phase but at least some are usually still around. a VC fund’s entire portfolio in aggregate, net of management fees and carried interest) a good return from an LP’s perspective would be 2.5-3.0x Kevin Rose was on the cover of BusinessWeek.

LP 154

LP Portfolio Venture Capital IRR 154

David Teten

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

The average equity fund investor earned a market return of only 4.25%. In the asset management industry, the norm is that the General Partner puts in 1-2% of the total assets under management. In aggregate, angels are significant investors. I can only think of a few exceptions to this zero-sum principle.

Management 114

Management Pre-Money Valuation Venture Capital New Hampshire 114