View from Seed
SEPTEMBER 3, 2015
In the 10th edition of Traction, we hear the story of Vin Vacanti , co-founder/CEO of Yipit.com (daily deals aggregator) and YipitData (analyzes web data for institutional investors). So much tactical goodness rolled into one episode. How did both these companies come into being at the same time?
David Teten
JULY 14, 2014
The most pervasive has been the expansion of passively managed portfolios, such as index funds and ETFs, which allow both retail and institutional investors access to a broad spectrum of investment opportunities at a much lower cost. How does the increase in government regulations come into play?
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Agile VC
OCTOBER 23, 2012
Diversification in that a small investor (by large institutional standards), say a foundation with $25M in assets that wants to commit $1M (4%) of their assets to VC, can get exposure to 10+ individual VC funds through a FoF but might only be able to inveset in 1-2 if they tried to do it directly.
View from Seed
SEPTEMBER 3, 2015
In the 10th edition of Traction, we hear the story of Vin Vacanti , co-founder/CEO of Yipit.com (daily deals aggregator) and YipitData (analyzes web data for institutional investors). So much tactical goodness rolled into one episode. How did both these companies come into being at the same time?
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. The only problem that faces startup investors now is how to mine this new data layer efficiently to increase returns.”. 9) Time, market, and exit investment.
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 19, 2015
Along with Greycroft, I was the first institutional investor in Maker Studios (sold to Disney for nearly $1 billion) and am still the largest investor in Mitu Network , the largest online video producer of Latino content. You have to have some of your own content formats and not just be an aggregator of talent.
K9 Ventures
MAY 14, 2011
This in theory is very similar to the behavior of institutional investors, however, there is one big difference. Institutional investors make sizable investments in a company, so that when they do get a big hit that can make the whole fund. <$50K in aggregate. Lots, 20-100. 1-2 per partner. Individual.
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