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

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 11, 2019

I've been in venture now twice. I was in Boston, working for the first time in venture capital as an analyst for this guy who was incredible and an amazing mentor. In a place where there are many, many venture capital firms, he couldn't think of a single female general partner. What's the message?

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Founder Lean Venture Capital Cofounder 68

VC Adventure

JULY 27, 2011

First – they achieved a significantly better tax outcome on the distribution of proceeds. This helped them with a number of things. More importantly, this handily resulted in their ability to completely wipe out the common ownership in the business. That’s right. Aren’t there lawyers involved? How could they let this happen?

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Due Diligence Cap Table Portfolio 120

The Next Web

OCTOBER 21, 2013

In many cases we have observed, the founders have given away too much equity to their first investors — typically angels and family offices, who have little experience with fast-growing startups or the venture capital funding model.

Cap Table 128

Cap Table Option Pool Angel Investor Entrepreneur 128

Haystack

DECEMBER 17, 2019

They then, in turn, brought that software into their small businesses, their sub-groups within companies, and provided the kindling of distribution within work-related networks. While that consumer window was no longer opening, individual consumers began discovering new software tools to make themselves more productive.

Cap Table 113

Cap Table Finance Database Software 113

VC Adventure

JULY 27, 2011

First – they achieved a significantly better tax outcome on the distribution of proceeds. This helped them with a number of things. More importantly, this handily resulted in their ability to completely wipe out the common ownership in the business. That’s right. Aren’t there lawyers involved? How could they let this happen?

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Due Diligence Cap Table Portfolio 48

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

In Silicon Valley boardrooms, where “growth at all costs” had been the mantra for many years, people began to imagine a world where the cost of capital could rise dramatically, and profits could come back in vogue. You can no longer simply look at the cap table and estimate your return. Competition also has access to capital.

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IPO Term Sheet Silicon Valley Valuation 40

This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Besides being “busy doing great deals and distributing cash to your LPs”, what are they’re actually doing to make that happen? Venture capital is basically the complete opposite. That’s how it feels when your hot deal from two years ago winds up running low on cash and gets into a pay-to-play round that wipes out the cap table.

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Non-Compete Cofounder Cap Table Reputation 97