David Teten

MAY 14, 2013

I’m giving a talk next month on “ How Private Equity Funds Raise Capital and Source Deals with Social Media” at Terrapinn’s Private Equity Latin America & Real Estate Latin America conference in Miami. I discuss this topic in more depth in an earlier article I wrote. What else do you think I should discuss?

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Techventure 2011 – one of Asia’s topmost events for the venture capital community to engage with the latest technology entrepreneurs organized by Asiasons WFG and presented by National Research Foundation (NRF) and Singapore Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (SVCA) – will celebrate its 15th year on October 13 and 14.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Prior to joining ff Venture Capital , I published the first-ever study of how private equity and venture capital funds originate new investments, with my coauthor Chris Farmer , CEO of SignalFire and an experienced VC. By analogy, look at a middle market private equity firms such as the Riverside Company.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

I want to make my community, country or world a better place, while solving some of the toughest problems.”. Team Protocol One – Ensuring JTAC to Pilot Communication. Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 23, 2023

I didn’t want to have to sell back into the intelligence community, because I didn’t want to leverage my contacts so tactically, but plenty of people do it (and we need good people to do it. I knew I wanted to stay/go into an operator role because that’s where the business learning I sought would happen.

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Eric Friedman

DECEMBER 27, 2021

7/ SaaS roll-ups and micro-private equity become huge. This makes for “taking” a game community easier, and introduces new complexity for big game studios. 8/ Liquid Community – communities create and transact with both security and utility tokens they use to reward, incentivize, and govern their groups.

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David Teten

AUGUST 6, 2013

I was visiting as part of Terrapinn Private Equity World, a leading private equity conference for the Latin American technology community. Miami has many of the assets of an entrepreneurial hub, notably a flourishing creative community, and a strong public university system.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2013

I like the work just published by Bob Rice in “ The Alternative Answer ,” which does a great job of summarizing the investment universe, starting with the “conventional” stocks, bonds, and real estate, but moving on through more esoteric alternatives, including hedge funds, private equity, real assets, managed futures, and finally venture funding.

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David Teten

JANUARY 8, 2013

Fewer private equity funds are using social media for outreach, but 2xPartners , Healthpoint Capital , and MCM Capital Partners are notable exceptions. Private equity investing is a relationship business. MCM has implemented Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, an RSS feed, and a blog on its website.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 2, 2017

It’s hard enough to get a job at a venture capital or private equity firm; it’s even more complex to join as a Partner. Also see Preqin’s Key Due Diligence Considerations for Private Equity Investors. . VC and private equity are very illiquid on both the investing and the personnel side.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Prioritizing engagement certainly takes time, but it gives your brand a personality and helps you build a stronger community, helping your business benefit in the long run. Influencers can range from experts in your industry, credible individuals in your community or even your customers. Partner With Influencers.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 10, 2011

V iola Private Equity , an Israeli PE fund with $164 million under management for technology buyouts, has announced a $7 million investment in Zend , the leading provider of open-source and commercial solutions based on PHP web applications.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 14, 2011

“Increasingly, attention is shifting from established Western markets to our part of the world, and we believe Asia will increasingly drive venture capital and private equity activities in the future,” says Eugene Wong, chairman of the Singapore Venture Capital Association (SVCA). Ongoing Challenges.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 8, 2010

How Executives Can Work with Private Equity and Venture Capital Portfolio Companies.and Buy a Company with Private Equity Backing. Also, for background, see MIT Enterprise Forum of NY: Collaborative Investing Startups Software & Information Industry Association Panel on Content and Community.

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Austin Startup

MAY 11, 2017

Arena Growth Partners | Venture Capital and Private Equity | Austin, Texas - Venture to Lead™ Aspect Ventures We bridge the gap between your seed and later stage venture so together, we can turn great ideas into great companies. We all have decades of experience investing in and managing the best technology companies in the world.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. V: Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? VI: Revenue-based financing: The next step for private equity and early-stage investment. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

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Austin Startup

MAY 7, 2017

Some of the most interesting events in Austin for the week of May 8 through May 14 are as follows: Mon, May 8 thru Thurs, May 11: OSCON OSCON brings the software engineering and developer community together to explore what’s new and useful in open source languages, tools, and techniques. At Capital Factory at 7:00 pm. 79 entry fee.

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VC Cafe

MAY 18, 2023

as a management consultant and in 1977, he co-founded Apax Partners, a private equity firm. Apax Partners became one of the most successful private equity firms in the world, and Cohen became a billionaire. There is a growing community of impact investors who are looking for businesses to invest in.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Mr. Lindzon has more than 20 years experience in the financial community acting in both an entrepreneurial and investing capacity. He has lectured and consulted extensively for industry, academia, military, and intelligence communities. He has been granted two software patents, and has multiple patents pending.

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David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

In a prior life, I served as a consultant to Goldman Sachs Special Situations Group, Carl Icahn’s organization, and some other very large private equity investors. I saw “ portfolio operations ,” i.e., levers to enhance the operations efficacy of portfolio companies, become a standard part of the private equity toolkit.

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David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

In a prior life, I served as a consultant to Goldman Sachs Special Situations Group, Carl Icahn’s organization, and some other very large private equity investors. I saw “ portfolio operations ,” i.e., levers to enhance the operations efficacy of portfolio companies, become a standard part of the private equity toolkit.

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Venture Capital Private Equity Silicon Valley Differentiation 60

The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

They also partner with growth, private equity, and venture capital funds to help their B2B technology portfolio businesses improve their leadership, strategy and execution, and address revenue challenges across their portfolio. Giving back to the community. Mitul Ruparelia – Founder, Citius Partners.

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David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

Large private equity funds like KKR can afford to pursue a consulting model ( Capstone ), typically with associated fees, but that doesn’t normally make economic sense for a VC. N etwork – We organize events regularly to build out our community. We have lower AUM, therefore lower management fees.

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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).

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David Teten

JANUARY 11, 2020

In the venture capital/private equity business, investors are B2B microinfluencers. Other coinvestors: Limited partners, other VCs who are coinvestors, private equity funds which are potential growth-stage investors, etc. (That said, I think videoconferencing will supplant more in-person meetings over time.).

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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. Later stage Private Equity buyers rely more on existing hospital management and employees than in other industries.

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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.

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David Teten

JUNE 12, 2011

Chairman Alan Todd was formerly Founder and CEO of KnowledgePlanet, the largest cloud-based learning management system, which was acquired by a private equity consortium; and Founder and CEO of KnowledgeSoft, the largest IT training company in the mid-Atlantic region, which was acquired by Technicsource. It’s Pandora for style.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 20, 2017

While general impact investing is becoming more mainstream for high net worth individuals and institutions, gender lens investing has not benefitted from the same level of traction in the private equity and venture capital space.

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Growthink Blog

JUNE 28, 2010

But, if this is the case, why don’t investors in private equity diversify? Unfortunately, most individual investors in private equity significantly under-diversify their portfolios -- investing in one or only a handful of companies. angel investor deal community - namely Silicon Valley.

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Growthink Blog

JUNE 28, 2010

But, if this is the case, why don’t investors in private equity diversify? Unfortunately, most individual investors in private equity significantly under-diversify their portfolios -- investing in one or only a handful of companies. angel investor deal community - namely Silicon Valley.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

To this day, although New Frontier Data has been successful, Aguirre de Carcer still feels the effects of biases against women that are often held by the business and tech communities. While private equity has a history in the U.S. How did women seeking venture capital funding fare during this time period? “Our

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2022

After working 10+ years in sustainable private equity and impact investing, I realized there is a significant lack of awareness regarding how to invest and where to invest your money sustainably which is what gave me the idea for my business. #20- Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community. 18- Create investment awareness.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

JB: The next generation of great brands and businesses will be built on three pillars: content (watch, read, listen), community (engage, share, identify), and commerce (buy). So we are set up to buy, invest in, and start businesses that will pull all this together.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 4, 2021

And that’s how I started my private equity business where I acquire both online and offline assets such as lead generation websites and physical real estate. We have now grown into an overnight hit, as we had built up a huge community of black women with skin conditions years before even launching Topicals.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 3, 2012

corbett3000 : Peter Corbett, CEO of iStrategyLabs discusses engaging communities through innovation on @corbett3000. ibarguen : Follow along with Alberto Ibarguen, Knight Foundation CEO, as he discusses the promotion of informed and engaged communities. Foundations, Associations & Non-Profits.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

These connections are likely best when firms are networked with other sources of capital vertically (angel groups, venture debt, private equity and investment bank relationships) and horizontally (in-market and out-of-market venture capital firms).

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