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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund and mutual fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. EShares is an increasingly popular tool in our portfolio for tracking private company cap tables. But we’re doing it slowly.

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The Changing Structure of the VC Industry

Both Sides of the Table

There has been much discussion in the past few years of the changing structure of the venture capital industry. The rise of alternative sources of capital (crowd funding and the like). The overall trends in our industry have breathed a new life into the venture capital industry. The iPhone was released.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

Similar to the explosion of seed funds in the past decade, we (and some limited partners too ) believe these Flexible VCs are on the forefront of what will become a major segment of the venture ecosystem. We detail below the major categories of VC: VENTURE CAPITAL TYPOLOGY. 2-5x return cap + path to uncapped equity-returns.

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Greenhouse CEO Daniel Chait on how AI is changing human resources and weaning his company off venture funding via private equity

Hunter Walker

Originally backed by venture capital, in 2021 Daniel worked with TPG , a large private equity firm, to make them the majority investor. My dad had a medical practice and my mom founded an HR company at the kitchen table and grew it into a global powerhouse in their industry.

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How to Pick the Right Attorney For Your Startup

Up and Running

This should be clearly spelled out in your Capitalization Table , or “Cap Table” as it’s commonly called. A Cap Table shows who owns the company, what the ownership shares are, and what the owners have invested in exchange for that share. Have they worked with companies who have a global footprint?

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Working for Equity Instead of Cash

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EMERGENT RESEARCH is focused on better understanding the small business sector of the US and global economy. The Global Small Business Blog. Even the best venture capital firms have a lot of failures and few successes. Globalization. venture capital. Follow us on Twitter. Emergent Research.

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The Summer Solstice And Seed Stage Squeeze

Haystack

They’ve all accepted that this is a new world of capital abundance and that the pistons driving the global economy are technology and network effects. You lose influence as larger investors come into the cap table and start throwing their weight around. You lose way more than you win.