www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

New San Diego VC Firm Emerges as ‘The Moneyball of Venture Capital’. Here’s some big news for San Diego’s innovation economy: There’s a new venture capital firm in town—and its investment methodology represents a fundamentally different approach to the conventional business model for venture investing. Hacker News.

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 23, 2012

The same is not true for venture capital of course, since the underlying startups VCs invest in aren’t publicly selling their equity. 4) Venture Is Driven By Exceptional, Not Average Outcomes - The entire VC business is based upon outlier outcomes, not the average. 3.0x+ cash on cash) is profitable.

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LP Accredited Investor Carried Interest Portfolio 176

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. One of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make is misunderstanding the role of venture capital investors. What Do VC’s Do?

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Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 217

VC Adventure

AUGUST 15, 2018

Back in the olden days of venture capital, company boards had wide discretion in pricing company options. It was and is imprecise science but – at least in the case of venture backed startups – there wasn’t much harm in an option being priced low. Quick note: I’m not your lawyer.

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Valuation Common Stock Cap Table Software Review 48

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. VP of Engineering, AppNexus - New York, NY "It's over a billion ad impressions a day, we got a full tank of venture capital, half a pack of cigarettes, the future of ad networks is dark, and we're wearing sunglasses."

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Part-Time VPE CTO Hire Engineer Sales 92

Genuine VC

JULY 22, 2012

In the past few weeks, we’ve seen extremely positive headlines about the surge in VC fundings like “ Venture Capital Hits Highest Level Since Dot-Com Bubble.” along “… with seed-round venture capital hit[ing] an all-time high ” [According to CB Insights ]. It must be the best of times for the industry with $8.1B

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Venture Capital Aggregator Portfolio Search 164

Genuine VC

JULY 10, 2012

Term-driving investor approach – An entrepreneur finds a lead (quasi-)institutional venture investor to price and set the structure/dynamics of the round, working together to bring in additional syndicate partners (either/both other funds and individual angels). We’ve seen it directly in our portfolio companies raising successive rounds.

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Syndicate Syndication Seed Stage Portfolio 207

Gust

OCTOBER 17, 2012

In addition, angels were up against a selection problem: All the best entrepreneurs and opportunities would naturally gravitate to the best venture capital funds, leaving only the “scraps” for angel investors. This is absolutely competitive with venture capital returns. So which is it? Only they’re not. It is risky.

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Angel Investor Venture Capital Seed Stage Silicon Valley 152

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . The proportion of LPs using technology to manage their portfolios will continue to increase, and GPs unable to provide quality data to LPs will find it increasingly hard to retain and attract LPs.

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Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

David Teten

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Before making the decision to join ff Venture Capital , I did some research on early-stage tech investing as an asset class and how it’s evolving. Although any given early-stage company is quite risky, when aggregated across a large portfolio, returns are very attractive. They’re also inflation-hedged.

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Early Stage Private Equity Portfolio Aggregator 148

Genuine VC

MAY 5, 2015

Today, I’m thrilled to publicly announce NextView’s Talent Exchange, a program helping both top talent and NextView-backed startups connect with each other more easily, beginning with Boston companies (which make up just over half our portfolio). Below, I’ll quickly explain the genesis of this initiative and share a few more key details.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

When the NVCA or PriceWaterhouse surveys come out at the end of year I’m not saying they will necessarily will show aggregate $$$ or deal numbers up. But there are many zombie VC’s with no more investments left in their portfolios so it’s hard to know which trend has more impact. This is one book-end of the cycle.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

He was introduced through mutual friends to Highland Capital. At the time consumer internet venture capital was still suffering from the collapse of the Tech Bubble. But it was an attractive time to enter because the successful internet companies were scaling and in need of capital. Tell us more about MetaCafe? (37:00-40:30).

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Vertical Curation Boston Burn Rate 265

Hunter Walker

AUGUST 26, 2022

From Box to Glossier, and Comms to Venture Capital, Ashley Mayer Is Carving a Pretty Unique Path. Maybe this is my inherent bias as a comms pro, but in aggregate , I believe the uncaptured upside when women founders stay under the radar is far more detrimental than the risks that come with visibility.

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IPO Cofounder Early Stage Portfolio 91

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! Portfolio. (3). Venture Capital. (3). Explore Venture Capital. Cloud Computing. (1).

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Software Review Technical Review Cloud Forecast 63

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 13, 2012

In addition, angels were up against a selection problem: All the best entrepreneurs and opportunities would naturally gravitate to the best venture capital funds, leaving only the “scraps” for angel investors. This is absolutely competitive with venture capital returns. So which is it? Only they’re not. It is risky.

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Angel Investor Venture Capital Seed Stage Silicon Valley 103

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Buyside members generally draw from Portfolio Management, Research, Trading, Data Science, Risk and Innovation roles. billion, and 12 have been acquired for more than $6 billion in aggregate since presenting at the AIR Summit. John Klick , Credit Suisse – VP, Program Innovations Program Lead.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Cofounder Aggregator Equity 60

David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

In his white paper How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood , PEVCTECH.com founder David Teten explored how private equity and venture capital investors are trying to automate more of their job. Boldstart uses both Zapier and Catalytic for this purpose.

Early Stage 60

Early Stage Technical Review Software Review Venture Capital 60

Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Over the next two weeks, I set out to build my own Mattermark / CBInsights by aggregating the APIs of Crunchbase, AngelList, and Twitter, as well as any other relevant datasets I could get access to. At later stages, there’s more access to private data that they can benchmark against their own successful portfolio.

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Seed Stage Later Stage Algorithm API 127

David Teten

MAY 8, 2012

As an alternative, entrepreneurs have been using crowdfunding sites like Indiegogo , one of our portfolio companies, to raise money for their companies through online donations. For small businesses, registering a company is timely and costly in management fees, accounting fees, and legal fees.

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Securities and Exchange Commission IRR Entrepreneur Angel Investor 148

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 28, 2008

Wize provides consumers with a unique way to leverage the online wisdom by aggregating the opinions of millions of users and by letting people ask questions about a specific product or need to the Wize community. Portfolio. (3). Venture Capital. (3). Explore Venture Capital. Cloud Computing. (1). internet.

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Software Review Technical Review Los Angeles Europe 48

K9 Ventures

MAY 14, 2011

I define a super angel as an individual investor, who is investing his or her own capital, but doing so on a full-time basis , i.e. this individual has decided to be a professional investor. He or she doesn’t have a “day-job” but spends all of his or her time in evaluating new investment opportunities or working with portfolio companies.

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Preferred Stock Seed Stage Incubator Early Stage 125

Austin Startup

JANUARY 13, 2018

Crypto is a bubble, and while I understand the value in a decentralized and distributed ledger, I believe the near-term economic impact of the actual blockchain technology is <10% of the current aggregate crypto market cap.

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Austin Aggregator Portfolio Distribution 48

Agile VC

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Most folks reading this will know that many startups were built in part with the help of venture capital. The income these investments generate then help fund the operations of those organizations or capital investment (e.g. LPs typically seek to invest in a portfolio of several VC funds, not just a single firm.

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Venture Capital LP Private Equity Institutional Investors 279

The Equity Kicker

MAY 20, 2013

Kickstarter and other crowdfunding platforms are radically improving capital efficiency because customers are now paying for product months in advance and because first demand validation is now virtually free. Venture Capital' A number of factors are combining that enable faster product iteration in hardware.

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Open Source Venture Capital Software Review Aggregator 102

www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Peter Cohen www.saasmarketingstrategy.com David Skok Peter, this is a great point, and one which has led to many long discussions with my portfolio companies. aggregate pipeline created in a given week) could be altered reflexively by their measurement -- a sort of Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle for high-velocity sales.

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Metrics Design Entrepreneur Startup 55

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

There are some obvious structural reasons why a shakeout in the venture capital industry takes a long time. The lights are usually still on, both literally and metaphorically, and there are often follow-on investments in existing portfolio companies still being made. The lights go off and whoever is still there moves on.

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LP Portfolio Venture Capital IRR 154

View from Seed

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Most folks reading this will know that many startups were built in part with the help of venture capital. The income these investments generate then help fund the operations of those organizations or capital investment (e.g. LPs typically seek to invest in a portfolio of several VC funds, not just a single firm.

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LP Private Equity Institutional Investors Venture Capital 335

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. About this same point in time, the journalists that focus specifically on the venture capital industry noted something quite profound. Competition also has access to capital.

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IPO Term Sheet Silicon Valley Valuation 40

David Teten

JUNE 1, 2011

Deal aggregation websites Increasing in popularity, trying to increase market efficiency. Staying on the buyers’ lists is based on how well you conduct yourself in the diligence processes, “beauty contest” Banks are aware of your funding situation and your portfolio / investment thesis. Intermediaries.

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Private Equity Deal Flow Equity Developer 122

David Teten

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

At my firm, ff Venture Capital, we’re trying our part to rethink how the industry works, and also actively looking for opportunities to invest in companies creatively disrupting this sector, e.g., our portfolio companies Addepar and Indiegogo. In aggregate, angels are significant investors. Photo credit: JD Hancock.

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Management Pre-Money Valuation Venture Capital New Hampshire 114

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

If you are an entrepreneur seeking funding, try our free Funding Recommendation Engine to identify a list of angels, venture capital and state grant programs that best match your business. Check out the Brain’s Guide to Angel Investin g and the Brain’s Guide to Venture Capital. Company: Home Portfolio.

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Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 25, 2021

Israel produced three public cloud companies - Wix, Jfrog and Varonis - representing an aggregated market cap of more than $25b, c. Primetime for Israel’s Cloud ecosystem Melio’s meteoric journey is one more proof point that the Israeli Cloud ecosystem is at its prime.

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B2B Cloud Europe 62

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

As a private company, you have a VERY high cost of capital (well above 10%), whether you raise venture capital, angel money, friends and family investments, bank financing, or all of the above. 3) Analyze the aggregated data to determine best practices and benchmarks across your customers. Portfolio. (3).

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Software Review North America Europe Metrics 48

Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. A few times per year, Bessemer organizes a CxO event for our portfolio companies and we decided to focus our first session of 2008 on Software-as-a-service (SaaS). Labels: Portfolio , SaaS , software. Portfolio. (3).

Software Review 48

Software Review South Korea IPO Portfolio 48

techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Researchers polled experts in lending, mezzanine capital, private equity, venture capital and private businesses themselves. Not a big shock, but things don’t look pretty, especially in the venture capital world. 41% of them feel that they qualify for venture capital funding. Add to this that 72.7%

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Venture Capital Technical Review Sweat Equity Valuation 62

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2017

Chang Xu for her tireless effort in helping me prepare and analyze the data) If you met with LPs to raise a fund in 2009–2012 the most common refrain was, “We have too many managers and too many dollars in venture. link] So here are some details (please thank & follow!

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