David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. 1) Manage the firm . This is harder than it sounds.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

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. A major angel group used Influitive , an advocate management tool, to track, activate and motivate their members. 4) Manage deal flow. 9% (1 / 12). Pitchbot.vc

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

Agile VC

OCTOBER 23, 2012

It’s true that FoFs provide LPs a way to purchase VC funds in a basket, but by design these are comparatively narrow actively-managed investment funds rather than broad-based passive vehicles. But no matter how you slice it, FoFs don’t really represent a broad-based way to invest in VC. 3.0x+ cash on cash) is profitable.

LP 176

LP Accredited Investor Carried Interest Portfolio 176

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Here digital intercepts of consumer activities are aggregated into large data sets, analysed, and assessed versus market expectations. PC and mobile interfaces dynamically display portfolio valuations and exposures, along with system-generated investment recommendations tailored to a specific client’s financial goals and risk appetite.

Technical Review 131

Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Software Review IPO 131

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

There’s too much PR and too many tech blogs and too many newsletters and aggregators and Twitter summarizers to even try to catch everything that’s going on and equally there’s so much noise that it becomes harder to be heard. Across our partnership we will do 10-12 deals per year and with 5.5 I can’t do every deal.

Software Review 150

Software Review Turkey Portfolio Syndicate 150

David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

(written by Philipp von dem Knesebeck , Managing Partner, Blue Future Partners (bluefp.com, @bluefutureteam ), and David Teten ). Lisa Edgar, Managing Director at fund of funds Top Tier Capital Partners , observed: “It’s not surprising that venture capitalists are using software to help manage their business.

Early Stage 60

Early Stage Technical Review Software Review Venture Capital 60

The Startup Magazine

MARCH 1, 2021

David has twenty years’ experience in the healthcare construction industry with a background in construction project management. ICAS® can then be scaled up across the customer’s portfolio bringing enterprise-wide benefits. TSM: What kind of traction are you getting and can you share some examples of your product impact?

Technical Review 110

Technical Review Founder Saudi Arabia Cofounder 110

View from Seed

MAY 11, 2016

The reasons are fairly obvious: It’s easy to reference them and understand their track record; they’ve made a ton of mistakes already that they have hopefully learned from and are unlikely to make again; they are probably more adept at raising and managing capital, which reduces financing risk down the road, etc.

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Founder Cofounder CTO Hire Early Stage 159

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 25, 2021

It’s an industry that’s long been in need of digitisation and many businesses still find themselves wading through piles of paper invoices, manual processes and managing heterogeneous payment cycles. Managing the timing of payments is critical and can have dire consequences.

B2B 62

B2B Cloud Europe 62

The Equity Kicker

MAY 20, 2013

Short run manufacturing is getting cheaper and cheaper due to robot manufacturing and improved supply chain management techniques. A number of factors are combining that enable faster product iteration in hardware. 3D printing is reducing the cost of prototyping. 3D printing is reducing the cost of prototyping.

Open Source 102

Open Source Venture Capital Software Review Aggregator 102

Mucker Lab

JULY 21, 2016

Editor’s Note: This guest post is the first of an ongoing series offering up an insider-point of view from a portfolio company. Everipedia is more than just a crowdsourced encyclopedia – it is an information aggregator that provides deep insight into a vast array of fields. Guest post by Dave Liebowitz.

Portfolio 60

Portfolio Massachusetts Dallas Aggregator 60

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Startups need to understand how to manage the seed money they receive from investors and VCs. Patent trolls purchase portfolios containing patents and sue companies for infringing them. Law firms that focus on emerging technology companies understand their legal issues from multiple perspectives and offer excellent advice.

Convertible Security 100

Convertible Security IP Technical Review Software Review 100

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

You Manage What you Measure. One of the things I discuss the most with the portfolio companies I’m involved with is that “you manage what you measure.”. Or they go in the opposite direction and spend too much time capturing & measuring data that isn’t used to make management decisions. On measurement.

Metrics 346

Metrics Startup Acquisition SEM 346

Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 24, 2022

And to your question specifically, once you start to say, okay, well, where am I in my, I roll on the S curve overall, everything that's required of me, but it very much is a portfolio of curves that you are going to have a number of different curves that you're on within your work. So you're putting together that portfolio.

Leadership 81

Leadership Technical Review Fractional CTO Utah 81

Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 18, 2022

And to your question specifically, once you start to say, okay, well, where am I in my role on the S curve overall, everything that's required of me, but it very much is a portfolio of curves that you are going to have a number of different curves that you're on within your work. So you're putting together that portfolio.

Leadership 76

Leadership Utah Portfolio Technical Review 76

Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2019

MANAGING DIRECTOR OF TECHSTARS AUSTIN AMOS SCHWARTZFARB REVEALS DETAILS ON SEPT. Austin-based author, tech investor and Managing Director of Techstars Austin Amos Schwartzfarb reveals details for the launch event for his new book “Sell More Faster: The Ultimate Sales Playbook for Start-Ups,” published by Wiley.

Austin 48

Austin Management Los Angeles New York City 48

SVPG

JUNE 16, 2012

” "The company cares about what the leader cares about" - I attribute this to Bill Campbell, the product legend known as the Coach of Silicon Valley, and I argue this applies not just to the CEO, but also to the product managers (the team cares about what the product manager cares about). Very hard for me to pick just ten.

Silicon Valley 69

Silicon Valley Aggregator Curation Agile 69

David Teten

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Asset management also shows the traditional earmarks of an industry ripe for disruption — most obviously, unhappy customers and extremely profitable incumbents. Despite this, it’s hard to think of good examples of disruption to asset management in the classic, Clay Christensen sense.

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Management Pre-Money Valuation Venture Capital New Hampshire 114

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

We realized that there were certain open positions in our portfolio we wanted to call extra attention to. You'll be responsible for the successful management of the sales organization in order to meet the objectives of the Company. A week or so ago, we launched the Key Hire Wire at First Round. You make it happen.

Part-Time VPE 92

Part-Time VPE CTO Hire Engineer Sales 92

David Teten

JUNE 1, 2011

Deal aggregation websites Increasing in popularity, trying to increase market efficiency. Panel 1: Creating The Right Deal Flow — Creating & Managing Sustainable, Replicable Strategies. Much of this is done for quarterly earnings management reasons. Intermediaries. Benchmark yourself to overall market activity.

Private Equity 122

Private Equity Deal Flow Equity Developer 122

View from Seed

DECEMBER 11, 2019

But even at the Partner-level, the amount of transition in Venture Capital is much more than you perhaps would expect… especially in a business which should have a long term orientation with portfolio investment-hold periods and Partnerships lasting more than a decade. So why is there so much turnover in Venture Capital? Title subtleties.

Venture Capital 204

Venture Capital Cap Table Partner LP 204

View from Seed

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Some VC firms have eschewed taking direct investments from public pension funds, as state laws now sometimes require these pension funds to publicly disclose information about their investments that VCs consider sensitive, confidential info, like fund-level returns or individual companies in the portfolio. Endowments. new buildings, etc).

LP 335

LP Private Equity Institutional Investors Venture Capital 335

Feld Thoughts

MARCH 31, 2011

A bunch of our portfolio companies are hiring. But the growth is everywhere – Zynga (throughout the US), AdMeld (NY, London, Berlin), Fitbit (Bay Area), Gnip (Boulder), Oblong (LA), Trada (Boulder), and – well – most of our other portfolio companies.

Seattle 132

Seattle Aggregator Portfolio Email 132

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Attendance is complimentary and exclusively for senior capital markets professionals exclusively focused on emerging trends and technology companies impacting the asset management industry. Carrie Jaquith , Lazard – VP, Digital Product Manager & Head of Emerging Technology Group.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Cofounder Aggregator Equity 60

A Crowded Space

AUGUST 11, 2014

Offer portfolios  Many different people like to showcase their work online. Now there are free portfolio tools for almost every type of individual. Once a site is successful in gaining users for their free portfolio tool, you end up having solved your initial supply challenge. Find aggregators. See: Gigwalk.

Aggregator 101

Aggregator Curation Demand Portfolio 101

Gust

JANUARY 4, 2012

How much is it worth investing in cultivating and enforcing an IP portfolio ? How much risk do IP issues in the aggregate pose to our business ? If you do manage to threaten them, they’re more likely to buy you than sue you. What kind of advantage will this create vs. our competitors ? Barriers to entry ?

Intellectual Property 143

Intellectual Property IP Startup United States 143

OnlyOnce

DECEMBER 8, 2020

By aggregating and anonymizing thousands of data points across hundreds of private companies, we hope to (for the first time ever) provide CEOs with a very real, in-the-moment look at how their board today stacks up against others in similar cohorts. VC partners will be able to see patterns across the entire portfolio. .

Aggregator 71

Aggregator Portfolio Networking Design 71

Agile VC

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Some VC firms have eschewed taking direct investments from public pension funds, as state laws now sometimes require these pension funds to publicly disclose information about their investments that VCs consider sensitive, confidential info, like fund-level returns or individual companies in the portfolio. Endowments. new buildings, etc).

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Venture Capital LP Private Equity Institutional Investors 279

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. . - Providing standardized operational support for portfolio companies. They’re also inflation-hedged.

Early Stage 148

Early Stage Private Equity Portfolio Aggregator 148

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Department of Defense along with the European Space Agency (ESA) all have adopted the TRL to manage their complex projects. As simple as it is, the TRL is used to manage funding and go/no decisions for complex programs worldwide. Air Force , then the Army and then the entire U.S. Those days are over. Lessons Learned.

Oakland 326

Oakland Incubator Lean Metrics 326

www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Managing Director, Enterprise Partners. In fact, by using analytics software that relies on a different way of measuring risk, the San Diego firm is becoming known in some circles as “the Moneyball of venture capital,” according to David Coats, a co-founder and managing partner. President and CEO, Complete Genomics. Dan'l Lewin.

San Diego 40

San Diego Venture Capital Technical Review San Francisco 40

Hunter Walker

AUGUST 26, 2022

I’m an Ashley Mayer superfan so beyond the affinity, have been fortunate enough to also bring her into Homebrew as an advisor to our portfolio companies, and invest in Coalition , a venture firm she founded along with three other amazing female operators. We had overlapping circles and then became friends. Enter Box. They gave me a shot.

IPO 91

IPO Cofounder Early Stage Portfolio 91

Ben's Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2020

In conversation with a16z managing partner Jeff Jordan (and former CEO of OpenTable and former GM of eBay among other things) — so, from all sides of investing, operating, life — Annie shares tips for decision makers of all kinds making decisions under uncertainty… really, all of us. Jeff: Yeah. That resonates a lot.

San Antonio 36

San Antonio Aggregator Jordan Stock 36

Version One Ventures

AUGUST 16, 2017

George Psiharis (the awesome VP of Business Operations at Clio ) reached out with a great suggestion: connect the data teams across our portfolio companies with the goal of building a peer network to share best practices, and together push the bar on data science innovation. At Kinnek , they’ve assigned a “data liaison” to each team.

San Francisco 87

San Francisco Metrics SQL Portfolio 87

VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Check out the 28 Israeli startups coming to London next week to showcase at the Innovate Israel 2012 portfolio. We do this by combining elastic cloud computing abilities, powerful and efficient service management tools, and a wide range of enabled experiences – far exceeding video streaming. Craze - Company Website.

Securities and Exchange Commission 133

Securities and Exchange Commission Technical Review Software Review 133

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

At Risk – Usually starts with a firm beginning to see challenges in large portions of its portfolio, or in keeping the partnership together, or in the viability of the firm’s core strategy as broader markets start to shift (e.g. Well first it’s worth understanding the distinct phases of exactly how a VC firm dies.

LP 154

LP Portfolio Venture Capital IRR 154

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Over the same 30 years, Venture Capital firms have honed their skills and strategies to match Wall Streets needs to achieve liquidity for their portfolio companies. A serious study here: [link] concluded that younger people being more creative is a highly predictable at the aggregate level. What Do VC’s Do?

Silicon Valley 217

Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 217