Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 19, 2010

He also write a nice post on limiting email and managing on the important / urgent matrix from the perspective on a recovering ex investment banker. This comment and blog post prompted me to write a post that has been in my queue for a long time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2010

As it turns out, you’re exactly the right age to be starting a business! ##### Today's guest blog is by Akira Hirai, the founder of Cayenne Consulting. He has a diverse background as a Tier I management consultant, investment banker, technologist, and Silicon Valley entrepreneur.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 28, 2020

There’s a popular narrative that evil investment bankers are intentionally underpricing traditional IPOs to steal from companies, lining banker pockets and those of their fatcat Wall Street clients. The proof is seemingly obvious: IPOs are 50x oversubscribed!

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 28, 2020

There’s a popular narrative that evil investment bankers are intentionally underpricing traditional IPOs to steal from companies, lining banker pockets and those of their fatcat Wall Street clients. The proof is seemingly obvious: IPOs are 50x oversubscribed!

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 4, 2012

I first heard the word “ grinfucker ” a decade or so ago from a close friend who was a former investment banker. It’s excellent - go read it – this blog post will wait patiently for you to come back. ” I loved the word and, as I found out later, it described the person perfectly.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 25, 2010

In the continuation of the Learning to Program series with Nate Abbott and Natty Zola from Everlater , I asked them a few questions about which web sites, books, and blogs they consumed at the beginning of their journey when they knew nothing about programming. Not surprisingly, Nate and Natty read a lot of blogs.

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Start Up Blog

MARCH 31, 2012

The truth about investment bankers. The general populous has been tricked into thinking that investment bankers (yes the type that hang out in wall street and ruin economies) are mathematicians and brilliant statisticians who work out innovative ways to generate more money than existed before they arrived.

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Up and Running

JUNE 19, 2012

It seems like many of my peers are on the fast-track to immediately become an investment banker on Wall Street, or to go to medical or law school upon graduation. Are you a college student thinking about your future? Well, I am, and let me tell you: it’s scary. After that, the next most popular profession dropped off to only 3%.

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The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 24, 2016

Shoreditch locals don’t want to shop in the same places as investment bankers a mile south of here. As you might have read on this blog I have a ton of respect for Amazon but they aren’t going to take the whole market.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

This is the third of three blog posts on financial modeling for startups. While working on my most recent startup, Navon Partners , we were fortunate to have Raul Trevino , a star former Citi investment banker and Columbia MBA, interning with us. Download the Startup Options Valuation model here. Photo credit: dierken.

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

When seeking such a buyer, your best bet is to use the services of a qualified investment banker. While the banker will charge you fixed cash and success fees (a percentage of the amount for which your company is sold), most are well worth the cost. the timing of your payout, etc.). the timing of your payout, etc.).

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Growthink Blog

JULY 11, 2011

But a focus on simple to do list management, in the modern world, is far from sufficient. My answer is – no surprise here if you've ever met me at a party - is to have my cake and eat it too.

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Start Up Blog

MARCH 31, 2012

The truth about investment bankers. The general populous has been tricked into thinking that investment bankers (yes the type that hang out in wall street and ruin economies) are mathematicians and brilliant statisticians who work out innovative ways to generate more money than existed before they arrived.

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Growthink Blog

JANUARY 24, 2011

Troy for the past 15 years has worked and lived in New Media as a strategist, entrepreneur, and investment banker, and in the past few months he has interviewed dozens of social media and advertising executives, marketers, and investors.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2012

Pete Cashmore at Bloomberg Venture , July 7, 2010: By this point, anyone familiar with new media, technology, social media, and the Internet know Mashable, seeing as how it’s currently one of the largest, most profitable blogs around. Beh Weng Wei at Tech65.org Emily May at The Pixel Project , Jan. 9, 2012: Thanks to Emily May’s Hollaback!

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Growthink Blog

JANUARY 28, 2013

Let me close with a few words about deal advisors - management consultants, business brokers and investment bankers. Only by going through the exercise of actually building and defending a financial projections model can one acquire the knowledge base and savoir-faire to effectively deal make.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 21, 2014

Now it is neither unusual nor unreasonable for even midlevel management consultants and investment bankers to bill out at $250 an hour and more on a cash basis, and much more than this on a cash equivalent basis when services are performed in exchange for contingent and / or equity compensation pay structures.

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Jeff Hilimire

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

However, if you are reading this blog then you are not likely one of those people. I’ll leave you with this story to hammer home the point: An American investment banker was at the pier of a small coastal Mexican village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 19, 2012

Now, when selling a sub $2 million business, you often use a business broker (versus using an investment banker to sell a larger business). And for businesses above $2 million, you are generally selling to a corporate buyer. And most business brokers among other things, will list your business for sale on several websites.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Although I don''t blog for the sake of blogging, I am committed to writing more regularly this year. Former students who are readers of this blog may recall the Amazon IPO case from Entrepreneurial Finance class. Before diving in to the topic at hand, I realize Professor VC has been gone for a long time.

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Seeing Both Sides

JUNE 12, 2014

My friend, Ed Zimmerman, wrote a terrific post for his WSJ blog - "Help Me Help You" - on soliciting him (and others like him) for investor introductions. one of our best deals came from an introduction from a banker whom we respect greatly) and others are disregarded (e.g., the radom investment banker / broker semi-cold emails).

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ithacaVC

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Nothing better than sitting at LGA writing blog posts. 100,000) of transaction expenses. ($800,000) of investment banker fees assuming a banker is used. Instead of heading for my meeting (does not start for a few hours), I decided to hang out in the food court for a bit and watch. I know……living on the edge.

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Tim Keane

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

Have they done a lot/a few/ no transactions with Investment Bankers? Have they done a lot/a few/ no transactions with Investment Bankers? Subscribe to this blogs feed. How long is their buy cycle? How do they like to be approached? For strategic buyers --. What gaps in their offering exist that we fit in?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 10, 2011

Back in my IMVU days, I met with an investment banker who wanted to help us understand the M&A landscape. Vanity metrics and success theater are in a moral grey area; they are masking the fact that some of our industry’s most “successful” ventures are actually value destroying. Even worse, this breeds tremendous mistrust.

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Up and Running

JULY 24, 2014

Having worked previously as an investment banker, Fancy knows the importance of sitting down and creating a feasibility plan for a business, and took the same approach when it came to starting a nonprofit venture. The post Funding Sources for Your Nonprofit appeared first on Bplans Blog. Share your story in the comments below!

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

See their blog post on multiples.). Originally designed for investment bankers, it’s now also being used by VCs to help portfolio companies with fundraising.”. Modano standardizes Excel models to improve comparability and reduce error rates. 10) Report.

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David Teten

JANUARY 8, 2013

MCM has implemented Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, an RSS feed, and a blog on its website. It also sends out a monthly newsletter to over 6,000 investment bankers, lenders, intermediaries, and current and potential LPs. Additionally, MCM uses the blog to place new contacts into its CRM (Microsoft Dynamics).

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Scott Edward Walker

NOVEMBER 26, 2017

From a practical perspective, this means getting actively involved in your local tech community, regularly attending industry events and conferences, writing blog posts/articles, integrating yourself into communities on social networks and, of course, doing outstanding work as an employee (to develop a great reputation).

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

With entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, attorneys, and investment bankers from over 18 countries represented - from places as far afield as Switzerland, Singapore, and Spain (and Santa Monica and Silicon Valley!) - it was a truly international gathering.

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Small Business Force

OCTOBER 22, 2017

As an entrepreneur with multiple startups I founded; as CEO or senior executive of several small companies that either were public or went public; as an investment banker for dozens of small business clients; as an angel investor in various startups and small business opportunities. Related blogs

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Arthur Rock, an investment banker at Hayden Stone in New York (who helped broker the financing of Fairchild) moved out to San Francisco in 1961 and partnered with Tommy Davis. Davis (an ex- WWII OSS agent) then a VP at the Kern Land Company got involved with investing in technology companies through Fred Terman.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 31, 2020

Whether it’s Yotta encouraging emergency savings accounts, Dave.com providing overdraft protection, or Stash enabling broad participation in public market investing, I believe that the private sector could be an inflection point for the country’s financial health – and that fintechs will lead the way.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

But if I see a really great piece of work product, I generally will just try to, say hey, let's post this on the blog externally. ER : Oh, if it's worth doing, it's worth blogging about. It's one of those things that founders can do sometimes where other employees are afraid to do it. And so I think we saved.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

Prior to joining Andreessen Horowitz, I held several executive positions in a publicly-traded software company and was previous to that an investment banker.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

Add micro payments services like Square to the equation and very soon we will begin to hear investment bankers start to cry foul like journalists and recording industry executives have been doing since Napster.

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