Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

I’m sure many of you have heard his name. In spite of this, private equity funds have used the rallying cry of efficiency to hijack corporate strategy and loot the profits that historically would have been reinvested into research and development and new products. Let’s start with Joseph Schumpter. This never ends well.

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Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property 329

David Teten

JANUARY 11, 2020

In the venture capital/private equity business, investors are B2B microinfluencers. We market to four populations: High-potential founders. Other coinvestors: Limited partners, other VCs who are coinvestors, private equity funds which are potential growth-stage investors, etc. I welcome suggestions.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

I hope that you can join us Monday night, April 4, midtown NYC, at a panel on “Innovation in Private Company Liquidity-Online Merger Markets, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO” The program is sponsored by the HBS Club of New York and the HBS Angels of NY.

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Private Equity Merger IPO Equity 68

Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

For investors outside of Austin and LPs: Austin is a a vibrant startup market and this list of capital sources can help you identify firms to co-invest with and funds to invest in. He is the founder and former Co-Chairman and CEO of Motion Computing. We’ve compiled a definitive list of sources of startup capital in Austin.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. . The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies. 1) Manage the firm . 3) Raise capital.

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Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 18, 2013

by Jeffrey Kadlic, co-founder & managing partner of Evolution Capital Partners. It’s somewhat similar to the way we regard Santa and his elves; the big guy gets the name recognition, but we all know that it’s the anonymous elves toiling away in the background that help make every Christmas a smashing success for Mr. Claus.

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Employee Cleveland Ohio Private Equity 145

Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

It seems like every day there is a new headline about an exceptional startup founder, investor, or corporate headquarters moving to Texas. These names aren’t the end of the story?—?they I expect to see more announcements of big name people and companies moving to Texas every month in 2021. Joe Lonsdale. Drew Houston. Jim Breyer.

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Texas San Antonio Houston Dallas 90

Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2015

Takashi Tsutsumi and Masato Iino , founders of Learning Entrepreneur’s Lab in Japan. He was named by Defense News as one of the 100 most influential people in the defense industry in 2012. John recently co-founded P360, a business that produces animated training content for the military, and he works for BMNT Partners.

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Channel Japan Bosnia Silicon Valley 120

David Teten

APRIL 7, 2017

In my research on how private equity and VC funds source investments , one of our conclusions was that VCs get better returns when they invest outside of the traditional geographic hotspots of New York, Boston, and the Bay Area. The Showcase is focused on US-based founders with ties to the MENA region.

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New York Africa Cofounder Egypt 60

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 18, 2017

by Andrew Durlak, Co-Founder & VP of Operations at Scout RFP. There are a few key traits to look for when selecting new technology — namely, that is emphasized usability, automation, and collaboration. Andrew Durlak is Co-Founder & VP of Operations at Scout RFP. Choose the appropriate technology.

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Technical Review Finance Software Review Due Diligence 124

Growthink Blog

AUGUST 14, 2010

The best articulation of it comes from Basil Peters, a serial technology entrepreneur, co-Founder of Nexus Engineering, former Canada Entrepreneur of the Year, and Managing Partner at 3 venture capital funds – Fundamental Technologies I and II and the BC Advantage Funds. The next big technology investment idea is the “Early Exit.”

Private Equity 67

Private Equity Intellectual Property IPO Venture Capital 67

David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Howard Lindzon is Co-Founder and CEO of StockTwits, a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information. Parekh started his career at Goldman Sachs, developing the firm’s equities business in the Middle East, with high net worth family offices and sovereign wealth funds.

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Technical Review Technology North Carolina Switzerland 128

Austin Startup

OCTOBER 10, 2017

The Institute includes a co-working space and accelerator (the Blackstone LaunchPad at UT Dallas), an incubator, a training group, a seed fund, and much more — all working together under the unifying, umbrella theme of entrepreneurship. I’m also executive director of the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

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Mike Michalowicz

AUGUST 10, 2015

A long-time entrepreneur, Joseph founded/co-founded many technological companies throughout the years. Joseph has more than 20 years of strategic, operational and senior management experience in business ranging from early stage start-ups to private equity backed assets and from mid-stage business to large turn-around operations.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

A few years ago, it was Private Equity, then Real Estate, then Hedge Funds. His name is Jason Jacobs – he’s the founder of Runkeeper (a mobile fitness system with over 6M downloads, funded by the excellent folks at OATV ). But being an entrepreneur is in vogue and has been for a while.

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Founder Private Equity Syndicate Syndication 59

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2022

9- Be a household name. I started my business because I wanted to become a household name that services seniors. My co-founder and I have both been professional matchmakers for over 20 years each when we started our business. Thanks to Caitriona McTiernan, TPR Teaching ! #9- Photo Credit: Tim Connon.

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Entrepreneur Technical Review Software Review Non-Compete 118

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

Listen to this episode if you want to hear about a founder who has a product and users and paying customers … and is trying to figure out how to take his company to the next level and grow faster. Edwin: Correct, I fully agree and the name MeetingKing already says that my initial focus definitely was on meetings, right?

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Austin Startup

JUNE 9, 2019

Dallas and Frisco We started the morning off at Old Parkland in Uptown Dallas, which is “the Capital Factory of private equity”?—?a Then we headed to Capital Factory in Uptown Dallas to hear from Mance Harmon, the CEO and co-founder of Hedera Hashgraph. Thank you, @ATXStartupScene for a day we will never forget.

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Texas Houston Dallas Startup 48

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. The industry is now dominated by hedge funds and other quant driven approaches.

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Early Stage Technical Review Software Review Venture Capital 60

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2011

The finished book will come out on September 13, featuring an amazing cover designed by my IMVU co-founder Marcus Gosling and refined and tested by so many of you. Consider the total amount of funding for doomed projects that comes from VC’s, large company M&A departments, government grants, and private equity firms.

Lean 167

Lean Startup Metrics Private Equity 167

David Teten

JUNE 12, 2011

With a mission to provide the best executive education online with brand-name academic institutions, authors, and experts; CorpU is a trusted advisor to world-leading organizations and is in the best position to bring “branded” higher education to the corporate market. Founder Ian Shea has 8 years of internet/tech experience with ReplayTV.

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Technical Review Private Equity Fractional CTO Cofounder 84

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

You may know him as the founder of Soylent, the nutrition company he started in his kitchen and scaled nationwide. Many of you will know Robert as the founder of Soylent, which he started out of his kitchen and then grew into a nationwide phenomenon. My name is Robert Rhinehart. Here is my conversation with Robert Rhinehart.

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Technical Review Software Review Finance Technology 68

This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

It just seemed like a fitting title for a company built around narrative by a founder who used to write stories for a living. I'm joined by Lerer Hippeau Ventures, Red Sea Ventures, NucleasHG, the founders of Seamless, a host of extremely helpful angels, and a CircleUp syndicate led by my friend Tom Potter, co-founder of Brooklyn Brewery.

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Venture Capital Cofounder Syndicate Syndication 60

David Teten

APRIL 29, 2014

In addition, 83% of companies had a racial composition that was entirely Caucasian, while only 12% of founders were Asian and less than 1% of founders were African-American. I published in 2010 a research study on best practices in how private equity and VC funds source investments. Conventional Founder Background.

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Venture Capital Los Angeles Cofounder Technical Review 114

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JUNE 20, 2011

As you’d suspect, I was similarly ignorant of such things while watching the sale of ITWatchDogs (where I was a co-founder), and still harbored misconceptions as I went into the sale of Smart Bear. So, once and for all, I’d like to share my own perspective on how this works. I’ve also heard “10x profit.&#.

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Sales Channel Cofounder Valuation 260

Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

My name is John Bates. My founders and I started the company about three years ago. The way that I leverage that is when I’m faced with a decision before I go to make the decision and let’s say my executive team and I or my co-founder and I or just myself I get an idea and I think what if we were to do X, Y and Z.

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Small Business Finance Forecast Metrics 95

Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 23, 2020

She is a business psychologist, advisor and consultant to public and private companies as well as government and nonprofit institutions. She’s the founder of Katzman Consulting and the author of a book we’re going to talk about today, Connect First: 52 Simple Ways to Ignite Success, Meaning and Joy at Work.

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Social Media New York City Naming Email 41

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

.” Hackernews list of “Tools of the Trade” for startups - includes over 150 SaaS tools used by startups, and over 150 comments with interesting insights from founders. Add a class name to buttons, forms, quotes, etc. YCombinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents. Founder Equity Issues.

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