David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

See my summary on how lead investors think about building out their syndicate. . See best practices in building financial models , a template financial model , and valuing startup employee options. : Best Practices of Private Equity and Venture Capital Funds in Originating Investment Opportunities. 5) Manage deal flow.

Technical Review 60

Technical Review Private Equity Management Cap Table 60

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

See my summary on how lead investors think about building out their syndicate. . See best practices in building financial models , a template financial model , and valuing startup employee options. : Best Practices of Private Equity and Venture Capital Funds in Originating Investment Opportunities. 5) Manage deal flow.

Technical Review 60

Technical Review Private Equity Management Cap Table 60

This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 3, 2020

If you do 100% true angel investing, where you’re putting money directly into companies, and not other people’s funds or syndicates, you have to ask yourself the question of how likely it is that you’ll see enough good deal flow to find the big winners. Option #2 Do 50/50 angel investing and fund investing. So is everyone else.

Portfolio 134

Portfolio Syndicate Syndication Deal Flow 134

Haystack

AUGUST 18, 2019

You lose influence as larger investors come into the cap table and start throwing their weight around. Back in 2017, Fred Wilson noted the strategic importance of the seed stage , writing: Seed is really hard. You lose way more than you win. You wait the longest for liquidity. It is where most people start out.

Seed Stage 108

Seed Stage Cap Table Early Stage Malaysia 108

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

EShares is an increasingly popular tool in our portfolio for tracking private company cap tables. We use the vendors of PE/VC investing data I list above to track the interests of potential private equity/VC coinvestors, and selectively introduce our companies as I build out a syndicate. .

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

Rob Go

JANUARY 27, 2014

Almost all the founders we back have seed and series A syndicates that look like this. These syndicates have a manageable number of people on the cap table, and each person there is known and is there for a reason. But this is slowly changing. One Company at a Time. If not every day then every week it seems.

Syndicate 73

Syndicate Syndication Early Stage Cap Table 73

Hunter Walker

JANUARY 20, 2015

Despite being the smallest line on a founder’s cap table, we were often one of the first calls they made when confronted with a problem to solve or opportunity to consider. You can reference check angels just like you would VCs or employees. Avoid these folks. What are some differences btw 10x Angels and 0x Angels?

Cap Table 48

Cap Table Warrant Syndicate Syndication 48