David Teten

JULY 14, 2014

The most pervasive has been the expansion of passively managed portfolios, such as index funds and ETFs, which allow both retail and institutional investors access to a broad spectrum of investment opportunities at a much lower cost.

Management 114

Management Portfolio Institutional Investors Government 114

Austin Startup

JANUARY 2, 2021

As a result, he thought that many people in Silicon Valley aren’t as invested in the community or focused on making it better for their children and their neighbors. A great job is the start, but also a great home, a great neighborhood, a great community they feel a part of. How different that is than the feeling in Austin right now!

Silicon Valley 100

Silicon Valley Austin Texas Raleigh 100

Rob Go

OCTOBER 14, 2012

About 75% of the portfolio companies that are at least 6 months old have successfully raised series A’s from good institutional investors at a nice valuation step-up from our initial investment. Stepping back to the big picture, it’s remarkable to see how quickly things change in the VC and entrepreneurial community.

New Hampshire 50

New Hampshire Croatia Omaha Portfolio 50

Berkonomics

AUGUST 3, 2023

This class of investor, once quite disorganized, has become much like the venture capital community, creating a process including due diligence (careful examination of a business before investment), terms of investment that match those of venture capitalists, and a process that sometimes takes months from introduction to investment.

Private Equity 118

Private Equity Valuation Cap Table Accredited Investor 118

The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

The final piece of my four-part guide to expanding a business into Asia is tailored more towards local startups and a big issue that affects many of them: raising funding from investors. Asia has far fewer VC firms and institutional investors, each of which invests a far smaller amount of capital.

Asia 132

Asia Silicon Valley India Term Sheet 132

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

The appeal of robo-advisors in the investment community lies in the fact that they are readily accessible to investors more than human financial advisors. However, the rise of online brokerage platforms is already leveling the ground between the average individual investors and the billion-dollar institution investors.

Investment Bankers 113

Investment Bankers Marketing Startup Institutional Investors 113

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The most common way for a public hospital to become part of a larger health system (whether community nonprofit, faith based, or for-profit) is by using a lease structure, rather than an outright sale of stock or assets. Second, the Board can usually avoid a public vote or referendum by leasing to a new partner, something politicians fear.

Private Equity 130

Private Equity New York City Chicago Investment Bankers 130

Austin Startup

JUNE 14, 2017

But there are a whole lot of people in every business community who are quite mediocre at the actual service they provide, but are exceptional at marketing themselves and building referrals. Most A-level people rely on both (because the first leads to the second).

Silicon Valley 48

Silicon Valley Houston San Antonio Austin 48

Rob Go

AUGUST 11, 2011

Focus here – it will be obvious quickly whether or not you are talking to an investor with deeper than normal insight into your space. But you want to develop a reputation in the community that you are a credible founder. I really think that only 5% or fewer of startups cross the threshold of institutional investors.

Software Review 62

Software Review Florida Institutional Investors Lean 62

David Teten

JULY 12, 2017

When I meet with other VCs, family offices, and other institutional investors, the most common question I get is: “What are the highest-potential companies in your portfolio which are raising now?” These all help to maintain the firms’ brand awareness, and I get a lot of useful market insight from these conversations.

Syndicate 60

Syndicate Syndication Institutional Investors LP 60

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

My colleagues Sebastian Soler , Steven Greenberg and I recently launched a new online community, PEVCTech.com , exclusively for PE/VC investors; engineers who work at PE/VC funds; and other technologists who specialize in working on this problem. to motivate their angel community to support their startups.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

You attend annual meetings and hop on investor calls as a means of oversight and to help you decide whether or not to invest in a future fund. For the VC that means if you're returning money to your institutional investors, that's about all you need to worry about. If you're an individual, you've probably put in less money, so.

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Limited Partner Venture Capital Partner LP 60

Hunter Walker

APRIL 27, 2014

Here’s what we covered – it’s a bit inside baseball but just as with the funding post linked above, we think exposing the mechanics of venture can help entrepreneurs and future investors (plus, we learn a lot from any resulting discussions). Afternoon Session. We make available coworking space for free.

LP 97

LP Cofounder Term Sheet Valuation 97

Berkonomics

JUNE 8, 2017

This class of investor, once quite disorganized, has become much like the venture capital community, creating a process including due diligence (careful examination of a business before investment), terms of investment that match those of venture capitalists, and a process that often takes.

Private Equity 106

Private Equity Valuation Cap Table Accredited Investor 106

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

We’re thrilled to have among our limited partners a select group of individuals from the startup ecosystem as well as several large institutional investors (including a university endowment, a corporate pension fund, and a multi-family office). NextView’s inaugural fund is just over $21 million.

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LP Seed Stage Silicon Valley Limited Partner 100

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. Mr. Lindzon has more than 20 years experience in the financial community acting in both an entrepreneurial and investing capacity. He was an Institutional Investor ranked analyst for several years.

Technical Review 128

Technical Review Technology North Carolina Switzerland 128

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations. To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. . Excel and Google simply aren’t going to cut it if you expect to build a high quality institutional investor base.”.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Ben's Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Have bankers simply become even more evil in 2020, deliberately diverting more money from a company’s coffers to line the pockets of the buy-side institutional investors who subscribe to IPO shares? However, many banks had been bundling research as part of the commissions that institutional investors paid.

IPO 36

IPO Securities and Exchange Commission Demand SEC 36

onstartups.com

JULY 11, 2012

I know this because my in my early days as an Angel investor I fell prey to behaviors that would practically guarantee that I'd lose money. And now that I've gotten to know the Angel community, it turns out I wasn't alone. When a company begins to succeed, institutional investors want as much ownership as they can get.

Angel Investor 77

Angel Investor Dilution Investment Bankers Valuation 77

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

IPO markets had burned an entire cycle of retail stock investors and many institutional investors to boot. There is no sector of the economy that isn’t being transformed by the online community that is now voraciously consuming media, applications, communications and buying global products.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

Small Business Force

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

But, used by the investment community, "go big or go home" has an entirely different meaning. Last year, while $48 billion was invested in entrepreneurial businesses by professional investors, that is, angels, private investors or venture capital funds, less than 70,000 businesses received that funding.

Entrepreneur 37

Entrepreneur Venture Capital Valuation United States 37

The Next Web

JANUARY 16, 2014

He is co-founder of international start-up community event organisation 3beards and founder and director of Albion Drive , a fully integrated communicaitons agency for entrepreneurs and challenger brands. Meet-ups and community. Bryce Keane is an Australian expat now living in London. Australia is not short on those.

Australia 146

Australia San Francisco IPO Cofounder 146

David Teten

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Like virtually the entire tech industry, I am particularly in favor of Startup Visa , which has the goal of stimulating our domestic startup community through acts to keep our foreign-born entrepreneurs in the United States. What other policy initiatives should the venture community be working on? Image by Getty Images via @daylife).

Government 146

Government Technical Review New York Offshore 146

Small Business Force

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

But, used by the investment community, "go big or go home" has an entirely different meaning. Last year, while professional investors put $48 billion in entrepreneurial companies, that is, angels, private investors or venture capital funds, less than 70,000 businesses received that funding. And, most of them do it alone.

Entrepreneur 34

Entrepreneur Venture Capital Valuation United States 34

David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

We drew on our work with leading institutional investors and in-depth interviews with over 150 funds. Historically, institutional investors kept their investing strategy very discreet. We published the full report in the Journal of Private Equity ; it’s now the #2-most viewed article in the Journal’s history.

Private Equity 114

Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Equity 114

Up and Running

MARCH 21, 2016

If you’ve been building a great business, getting out and networking within the local startup and investing community can be a great way to meet investors,” recommends Diana Goodwin of AquaMobile Swim School. Most of my meetings with investors developed by being out at an event and mentioning my business.”.

Cofounder 60

Cofounder Metrics Angel Investor Silicon Valley 60

Austin Startup

AUGUST 1, 2017

While I work with a few companies in Silicon Valley, the vast majority of my clients are either in Austin or ecosystems that look much more like Austin than SV; “second tier” tech communities. The binary “get yacht-level rich or die trying” mindset is driven, first and foremost, by large institutional investors.

Liquidation Preference 48

Liquidation Preference Common Stock Valuation Silicon Valley 48

David Teten

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Since I became an institutional investor, my #1 learning is: this is a highly unusual and somewhat baffling industry. Disruptable Pattern #5: Institutional investors are eager to cut larger checks rather than smaller ones. This is like a chef who likes to buy a whole cow in order to serve a client one hamburger.

Management 114

Management Pre-Money Valuation Venture Capital New Hampshire 114

David Teten

JANUARY 8, 2013

PEHub just posted this guest article: Can professional investors use social media? Historically, institutional investors kept their investing strategy and their activities very discreet. Or, is social media strictly for teenagers and staying in touch with your friends?

Private Equity 114

Private Equity Social Media Equity Media 114

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2012

Treasury Department assembled 17 leaders of the startup business investment community, under the auspices of its Access to Capital Conference. But the relaxation itself comes with limits, Mitchell tells us - limits that maintain the spirit in which the reporting rules were created, and which many investors actually insisted should remain.

IPO 118

IPO SEC Silicon Valley Startup 118

VC Cafe

AUGUST 11, 2014

GLG continued to build it’s expert consulting network in the years to follow to become one of the top primary research tools for institutional investors because they have helped their customers to make things simple quickly. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.

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Curation Vertical San Francisco Angel Investor 167

Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

Concerns have been raised around what this reveals about the price discovery process for IPOs and whether retail investors are disadvantaged relative to certain institutional investors that have access to purchase shares at the IPO process. First, as the below chart shows, IPO pops are not a new phenomenon.

SEC 36

SEC Accredited Investor IPO Technical Review 36

Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 21, 2019

Jeff Fromm: And then you also have the CEO of BlackRock, which is the other side of the coin, the institutional investor, saying, “In the next few years, if you’re not doing this, we’re simply not gonna invest in your brand. Not all their brands do. They have hundreds of brands.

Kansas City 51

Kansas City Kansas Technical Review Conversion 51

Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

The most obvious place that businesses and or accountants turn to for their small business clients is generally banks, big banks, community banks, you name it. When you go into a community bank on average fifty percent of applicants are declined. They are a part of your community.

Small Business 95

Small Business Finance Forecast Metrics 95

VC Cafe

JUNE 19, 2020

There’s an increasing interest from institutional investors in particular, but also high-net-worth individuals, private banks and a variety of other players who are thinking to make more impact investments than we’ve seen in the past couple of years.”.

Venture Capital 174

Venture Capital Global South Africa 174