View from Seed

JUNE 7, 2016

At NextView, one founder we invested in last year proactively asked us, as her lone institutional investor, to start doing this. Your investors will appreciate it, it builds confidence and trust and helps strengthen that relationship, and it will empower the company to succeed. You can download the 2.0

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The Next Web

MAY 4, 2013

He is a part-time hacker, angel investor, and product advisor, and was selected from more than 300 people to “shadow” Dave McClure at 500 Startups. You can check out his blog and follow him on Twitter. This will help you develop your network and get the legitimacy you need to show bigger investors.

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San Francisco Europe Technical Review Due Diligence 159

Gust

JANUARY 31, 2013

Nevertheless, selective disclosure could be said to unfairly benefit analysts and institutional investors at the expense of other stockholders, particularly individual investors, who lack access to the same information. Or its blog? Or via Netflix’s Twitter account? Or via the company’s Pinterest account?

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SEC Prospectus United States Technical Review 158

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 12, 2014

Prorata investments rights given investors the right to invest in your future fund-raising rounds and maintain their ownership % in your company as your company grows and raises more capital. This is a direct result of the prorata shuffle more than just goodwill by investors.

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Technical Review Later Stage Early Stage LP 336

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). Listeners should also check out Vin’s blog for entrepreneurs, ViniciusVacanti.com. So much tactical goodness rolled into one episode.

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Framework Cofounder Seed Stage B2C 120

Agile VC

APRIL 30, 2019

This post also appears on NextView’s blog. Fairly frequently public market investors believe that a new consumer company is “the next X”. We first saw this with Twitter in 2013 when they went public and many (both retail & institutional investors) believed that company might be the “next Facebook”.

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View from Seed

APRIL 30, 2019

Fairly frequently public market investors believe that a new consumer company is “the next X”. We first saw this with Twitter in 2013 when they went public and many (both retail & institutional investors) believed that company might be the “next Facebook”. Something similar happened with Snapchat in 2017 with their IPO.

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IPO B2B B2C Institutional Investors 180

Rob Go

OCTOBER 14, 2012

But there actually have been unifying themes (which I’ll blog more about another time). About 75% of the portfolio companies that are at least 6 months old have successfully raised series A’s from good institutional investors at a nice valuation step-up from our initial investment.

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New Hampshire Croatia Omaha Portfolio 50

Hunter Walker

JUNE 29, 2014

I’m suprised how many founders – even multiple time entrepreneurs – are unfamiliar with the institutional investors that back most of the major venture funds. So we’ve blogged openly about our own fundraising process and dealflow analysis. Jeff Clavier announcing SoftTech IV.

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Founder Institutional Investors Silicon Valley Portfolio 99

Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2011

The technology blogs (TechCrunch, et al.) start cheerleading, and the general business press/blogs start paying attention. And all of the investors trot out explanations of “why—this time—everything is different&#. Meanwhile, smart VCs continue to invest in this segment and increase their ownership of existing companies.

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Silicon Valley Stealth Valuation Mississippi 327

Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

With that background, here are 30 tips to help you make the most of Gust: Subscribe to the Gust Blog , and go back and read the past posts. Once you have your startup profile fully completed and up-to-date, and have carefully identified logical potential investors, it’s time to reach out to them.

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Angel Groups Elevator Pitch Software Review Deal Flow 159

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Venture debt provides a very cost-effective way to receive capital from a big financial institution if you have liquidity or existing financial backing from a well-known investor. A considerable number of banks and financial institutions, all which specialize in this type of financing. The downsides of venture debt?

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Covenant Institutional Investors Balance Sheet Warrant 60

David Teten

MAY 12, 2011

In leading this research, we are leveraging our experience working with a wide range of top-tier investors and our proprietary dataset of the origination practices of over 150 institutional investors globally with whom we have conducted in-depth interviews. 10/5/10: Institutional Investor , Where Are the Deals? -

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Private Equity Institutional Investors Equity Venture Capital 122

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Of the last 15 investments we’ve made, we’ve been the lead or co-lead investor over 80% of the time. . That said, we tend to be very flexible on syndication to bring on great partners, and have collaborated with terrific partners like our most frequent co-investors Founder Collective, Accomplice, LHV, Softech, and others.

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North America Seed Stage Early Stage Lead Investor 36

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2015

If you want to understand the software trend that drove the creation of the seed-stage VC phenomenon I wrote about it that linked blog post but in short: cloud computing drove down the cost to create startups enabling a new category of investor. And some angels running around like Reid Hoffman & Keith Rabois. But not many others.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2015

Any reader of this blog for a period of time will know that I’ve been long YouTube for years. 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.

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SEM Los Angeles Silicon Valley Acquisition 150

The Equity Kicker

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

There’s been a lot of talk recently about what will happen to startup financing in 2016, including here on this blog. He also surveyed 72 institutional investors in VC funds who said they think they will maintain their rate of commitments to new funds this year.

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Marketing Institutional Investors Venture Capital Later Stage 60

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

As I’ve blogged about in the past, there are positives and negatives to this strategy, but it is a viable option to some founders. Non-institutional Leads. This happens because institutional investors tend to be more price and terms sensitive overall.

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Cram Down Institutional Investors Dilution Seed Stage 66

Board Effect

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

It’s common for investors to make large financial commitments for a few years with the hope of helping nonprofits be successful over the long term. That figure accounts for 38% of companies that were investing in ESG.

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South Africa Government Africa Institutional Investors 76

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 25, 2011

Yesterday I saw a Tweet from Chris Sacca fly by that prompted me to want to write a blog post helping entrepreneurs understand why they should push back against VCs asking for “super pro-rata” rights. Institutional investors will always insist on pro-rata rights. A primer on “pro-rata” rights.

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Entrepreneur Dilution Finance Silicon Valley 310

Growthink Blog

JULY 7, 2013

Endurance has amassed a bunch of non-bank lenders including successful entrepreneurs, wealthy individuals, family offices and institutional investors. That''s why I will thrilled when I recently spoke with Endurance Lending Network. Conclusion Crowdlending is a great new way to raise money to start or grow your business.

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Entrepreneur Equity Institutional Investors Portfolio 128

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.

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Preferred Stock Seed Stage Incubator Early Stage 125

Hunter Walker

APRIL 27, 2014

Here’s what we covered – it’s a bit inside baseball but just as with the funding post linked above, we think exposing the mechanics of venture can help entrepreneurs and future investors (plus, we learn a lot from any resulting discussions). Blogging to put our POV out there. Afternoon Session.

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LP Cofounder Term Sheet Valuation 97

Austin Startup

OCTOBER 27, 2017

I have seen it firsthand, and while it exists everywhere, it is directly correlated with (i) the number of investors willing to write checks into a particular ecosystem, and (ii) the degree to which entrepreneurs confidentially share information among each other on VC behavior, producing adverse selection issues for the real a s.

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Founder Cap Table Preferred Stock Common Stock 48

K9 Ventures

MARCH 23, 2011

The fact of the matter however is that The Golden Rule (He who has the gold, makes the rules) applies, and often when the company is raising follow-on-financing, the institutional investors will force the company to renegotiate the notes, often with adverse affects to the note holders — sometimes changing the cap or changing the discount.

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Pre-Money Valuation Valuation Equity Liquidation Preference 132

Ben's Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Have bankers simply become even more evil in 2020, deliberately diverting more money from a company’s coffers to line the pockets of the buy-side institutional investors who subscribe to IPO shares? However, many banks had been bundling research as part of the commissions that institutional investors paid.

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IPO Securities and Exchange Commission Demand SEC 36

Rob Go

JANUARY 7, 2013

See my recent blog post here for more detail. But we behave pretty much exactly the same way in those companies as we do when we are the lead and only institutional investor. Introduced by a co-investor: 5. Other: 2 (includes 1 inbound from a blog post). We do look for opportunities to invest in smaller rounds.

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Portfolio Seed Stage Cofounder B2B 49

David Teten

APRIL 13, 2021

They had 154 visits, 97 due diligence requests, 33 second visits, and 12 reference requests, to ultimately produce 9 institutional investors. Similarly, Elizabeth Yin of Hustle Fund highlights in her blog how she personally completed 345 meetings in a nine-month period for the firm’s first $11.5 million venture fund.

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Private Equity Technical Review Management LP 60

Growthink Blog

MAY 10, 2012

At this point, you will be ready for institutional investors who can provide funding to scale or rapidly grow your business. Stage #3: Early Stage Investment (Series A & B) "Series A" is the term used to describe the first round of institutional funding for a venture.

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Equity Mezzanine Later Stage Venture Capital 88

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Excel and Google simply aren’t going to cut it if you expect to build a high quality institutional investor base.”. Beacon technology system , which automatically outbound-solicits a universe of over 10,000 institutional investors, without requiring LPs to register for an online network of funds. .

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Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Small Business Force

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

All choices they made without the assistance of outside institutional investors. I've written a previous blog post on this subject. The companies are nicely profitable, haven't been growing at more than a 10-15% pace for the last few years. But right now, they're very comfortable, thank you! Take a lesson here.

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Entrepreneur Venture Capital Valuation United States 37

David Teten

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

This is effectively a sequel to my study of best practices in deal origination , published last year in the Journal of Private Equity , Harvard Business Review , Institutional Investor , and Business Insider. I wrote a blog post on this. I’m already doing this on an experimental basis on my blog. - Publishing research.

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Government Technical Review New York Offshore 146

David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

We drew on our work with leading institutional investors and in-depth interviews with over 150 funds. Historically, institutional investors kept their investing strategy very discreet. About 10-15% of the 1,000 active venture capitalists blog, according to Jeff Bussgang, General Partner, Flybridge Capital Partners.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Equity 114

Small Business Force

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

All choices they made without the assistance of outside institutional investors. I've written a previous blog post on this subject. They are nicely profitable, haven't been growing at more than a 10-15% pace for the last few years. You have a choice" Why? But right now, they're very comfortable, thank you! Take a lesson here.

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Entrepreneur Venture Capital Valuation United States 34

Hunter Walker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Starting a venture capital blog post with 1970s country music lyrics is pretty uncommon, but so is writing about when and why an investor might choose to sell equity before the company exits. Below I’ll share some of the principles we use at Homebrew , knowing that there’s not really a single ‘right’ answer for a fund manager.

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Venture Capital Cap Table LP Equity 122

The Next Web

JANUARY 16, 2014

Canva claims to give you everything you need to easily turn ideas into stunning designs, be it for Web or print, blog graphics, presentations, Facebook covers, flyers, posters, invitations and more. In a nutshell, the startup allows non-designers to use ‘Search and drag simplicity to create beautiful designs without ever leaving the Web.’.

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Australia San Francisco IPO Cofounder 146

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 24, 2012

Let me direct you first of all to my blog. Venture capitalists are raising money from other investors, institutional investors who expect certain returns from us. Mark: I tend not to use that term, but I’m not opposed to that term. It’s called Both Sides of the Table. I think you know that.

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Silicon Valley Software Review Internet Technical Review 204