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. The Wall Street Journal recently had a good article comparing the two.

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Management Portfolio Institutional Investors Government 114

The Next Web

MAY 4, 2013

Coming to San Francisco to network, meet interesting people, get advice on your company is a great learning opportunity and the cost is well worth it. Put yourself in the shoes of a US investor. Investors work in pattern recognition mode, and as a European entrepreneur in the valley, the pattern doesn’t look too good.

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San Francisco Europe Technical Review Due Diligence 159

Berkonomics

AUGUST 3, 2023

When the need is high… For the rest of us, desiring to build large, valuable enterprises quickly, the need for outside capital is high on our list of requirements and even the source for some sleepless nights as we worry over the availability and cost of capital. Often private equity investors will want control of the business as well.

Private Equity 118

Private Equity Valuation Cap Table Accredited Investor 118

David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2013

Aspen is looking for institutional investor and entrepreneur speakers willing to share their investing insights and personal experiences. If you would like to be a speaker or simply attend any of the programs below, at no cost, contact Katherine St. More details. Onge, Katherine.St.Onge(@)aspeninst.org.

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Tunisia Libya Algeria Mauritania 114

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2013

It won’t work, it costs time and money, and hurts your credibility when you need them later. They are not trying to make money, but simply to recoup their costs over time. Separately at this stage, you may look for small funding amounts from Angel investors , called seed investments. Growth and exit stage.

Incubator 256

Incubator Entrepreneur Exit Strategy Institutional Investors 256

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2014

Unless you are bootstrapping everything, you need to have a clear plan on what networking and documents are required to get to friends and family, Angel investors, and institutional investors. Here is another often overlooked area of process that kills many startups, both in cost and time. Manage human resources.

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Startup Institutional Investors Angel Investor Bootstrapping 268

Austin Startup

JUNE 30, 2017

And having access to many resources that they once would’ve relied on VCs for, founders can focus on other variables in investor diligence; like how helpful they are on the Board. But outside of the true elite, the traditional format and cost of accelerator programs is likely not sustainable. And always *always* ask the users.

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Curation Startup Cofounder Equity 48

Austin Startup

JUNE 14, 2017

And in both cases, that works very well, because there isn’t a cost to ‘going local.’ There is some benefit also to your investors being familiar with company counsel, although that issue is usually exaggerated for reasons that I’ll discuss more below. Silicon valley startups generally use silicon valley startup lawyers.

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Silicon Valley Houston San Antonio Austin 48

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

It won’t work, it costs time and money, and hurts your credibility when you need them later. They are not trying to make money, but simply to recoup their costs over time. Separately at this stage, you may look for small funding amounts from Angel investors , called seed investments. Growth and exit stage.

Incubator 120

Incubator Startup Exit Strategy Institutional Investors 120

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

I’ve also presented at a range of industry conferences on how institutional investors can use professional networks for research , origination , market research , and value creation. And on the periphery, we like to help our members with some basic resources, at no additional cost. In that way, we see the value from both sides.

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New York Technical Review Networking Advisory Board 114

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 5, 2020

Pavel told me that although there’s a category of investors who are willing to fund ideas in early stages, the truth is that in most cases is that funding will include your friends and family at the beginning. Institutional investors would want to first see that there’s a strong team. Startup Programs with Large Companies.

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Founder Institutional Investors Silicon Valley Cofounder 80

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2012

It won’t work, it costs time and money, and hurts your credibility for when you need them later. They are not trying to make money, but simply to recoup their costs over time. Separately at this stage, you may look for small funding amounts from angel investors , called seed investments. Growth and exit stage.

Incubator 237

Incubator Startup Exit Strategy Institutional Investors 237

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2013

Unless you are bootstrapping everything, you need to have a clear plan on what networking and documents are required to get to friends and family, Angel investors, and institutional investors. Here is another often overlooked area of process that kills many startups, both in cost and time. Manage human resources.

Institutional Investors 230

Institutional Investors Angel Investor Bootstrapping Database 230

Rob Go

OCTOBER 14, 2012

Our intended pace is roughly 10 investments per year, and we had a handful of legacy angel investments that we rolled into the fund at cost. In the rest, we were part of the first “institutional round” We have not participated in any seed extensions or full-blown series A investments as our first check into a company.

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New Hampshire Croatia Omaha Portfolio 50

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Medium-risk loans have medium returns, and low-risk loans sport low returns for investors. Consider Low-cost online brokerages. Many potential investors tend to shy away from the market because they don’t think they have enough trading/investment capital to get an audience with the top-tier investment managers on Wall Street.

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Investment Bankers Marketing Startup Institutional Investors 113

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Unless you are bootstrapping everything, you need to have a clear plan on what networking and documents are required to get to friends and family, angel investors, and institutional investors. Here is another often overlooked area of process that kills many startups, both in cost and time. Manage human resources.

Startup 255

Startup Institutional Investors Angel Investor Bootstrapping 255

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Venture debt provides a very cost-effective way to receive capital from a big financial institution if you have liquidity or existing financial backing from a well-known investor. A considerable number of banks and financial institutions, all which specialize in this type of financing. Why is venture debt desirable?

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Covenant Institutional Investors Balance Sheet Warrant 60

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 13, 2011

It won’t work, it costs time and money, and hurts your credibility for when you need them later. They are not trying to make money, but simply to recoup their costs over time. Separately at this stage, you may look for small funding amounts from angel investors , called seed investments. Growth and exit stage.

Incubator 230

Incubator Startup Exit Strategy Institutional Investors 230

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2015

Along with Greycroft, I was the first institutional investor in Maker Studios (sold to Disney for nearly $1 billion) and am still the largest investor in Mitu Network , the largest online video producer of Latino content. Any reader of this blog for a period of time will know that I’ve been long YouTube for years.

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SEM Los Angeles Silicon Valley Acquisition 150

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The buyers (or lessees) in these transactions are pension funds, insurance companies, or private equity representing other institutions. Investors seek returns of ~10-15% that are predictable, secure, uncorrelated to other asset classes, and inflation adjusted. Capital Solutions. Public Good Concerns.

Private Equity 129

Private Equity New York City Chicago Investment Bankers 129

Pascal's View

AUGUST 12, 2009

economy: “… Sarbanes-Oxley compliance costs, Eliot-Spitzer’s stock analyst settlement and the economic downturn have created an historic drought in venture-backed companies going public. . Investors take risk in order to reap rewards.

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IPO Silicon Valley Merger Sweat Equity 28

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2010

Unless you are bootstrapping everything, you need to have a clear plan on what networking and documents are required to get to friends and family, angel investors, and institutional investors. Here is another often overlooked area of process that kills many startups, both in cost and time. Manage human resources.

Startup 239

Startup Institutional Investors Angel Investor Bootstrapping 239

Growthink Blog

JULY 7, 2013

The investor would get $4 million of the sales price (40%). So, the cost to you of the $1 million investment was $4 million. Conversely, let''s say the investor lent you the $1 million at 10% interest. In that case, the cost of the funding would have been $1.1 In this scenario, debt funding would have cost you ONLY $1.1

Entrepreneur 128

Entrepreneur Equity Institutional Investors Portfolio 128

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

It’s Amazon selling books online just when everyone wanted to buy stuff online but before everyone believed shipping costs weren’t overwhelming. For the institutional investor, it’s a set of bets. It’s precognition combined with impeccable timing.

Institutional Investors 240

Institutional Investors India China Viral 240

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2015

If you want to understand the software trend that drove the creation of the seed-stage VC phenomenon I wrote about it that linked blog post but in short: cloud computing drove down the cost to create startups enabling a new category of investor.

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Seed Stage Silicon Valley Syndicate Syndication 150

Berkonomics

JUNE 8, 2017

For the rest of us desiring to build large, valuable enterprises quickly, the need for outside capital is high on our list of requirements and even the source for some sleepless nights as we worry over the availability and cost of capital. Several are well-known and professional investors pay special attention to their graduates.

Private Equity 106

Private Equity Valuation Cap Table Accredited Investor 106

Hunter Walker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

These “ piggy rounds ” usually left little room for other institutional investors, in contrast to traditional seed rounds which may include several funds collaborating. Their earlier ownership stake allows the fund to dollar cost average into a more realistic total valuation. How This Impacts Homebrew.

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Later Stage Valuation Semantic Institutional Investors 95

thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 18, 2020

What happened after that crypto crash were 3 intense years of building behind the scenes – namely the scaling, custody, regulatory clarity and transparency required before institutional investors could feel comfortable holding this emerging, computer based asset class.

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SEC Valuation Institutional Investors Global 45

Women Entrepreneurs Can

JUNE 11, 2021

Stock markets are a common platform where individual and institutional investors come together to buy and sell shares. Their cost could be anywhere between $1000. For the people, it becomes a mode to earn income. Your ownership of a company depends on the number of stocks you own.

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Stock Securities and Exchange Commission Portfolio Dividend 52

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 28, 2012

Sustainability initiatives can reduce costs, improve efficiency, and create other net business benefits. That, however, is changing, as more mutual fund companies and other institutional investors recognize that companies providing evidence of improved ESG practices and performance may offer superior investment returns and lower risks.

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Green Institutional Investors Employee Hosting 154

David Teten

AUGUST 21, 2019

Lower processing cost. BJ Lackland wrote, “It’s customary for the company to pay the investor’s legal fees. Much lower cost of capital, if company is highly successful. The cost of VC funding to a unicorn CEO can easily be the equivalent of paying well over 100% annual interest.

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Revenue Liquidation Preference Equity Cofounder 60

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Sources like Crunchbase , Angel List , and Seed Invest even give this data away for free or very low cost. The only problem that faces startup investors now is how to mine this new data layer efficiently to increase returns.”. This also can be a valuable tool for increasing fund transparency and communicating with LPs.”.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2010

There is a primary reason that inside investors give companies convertible debt rather than just giving you the money as equity. VC’s money comes from mostly institutional investors called LPs (limited partners). Better even still if there’s a way to fund 9 months.

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Startup Burn Rate Warrant Bankruptcy 290

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? These commissions are a process by which an investor pays, say, $0.30 sell-side research) for free.

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IPO Securities and Exchange Commission Demand SEC 36

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. They need a combination of capital and experience to separate from the rest of the pack – the low cost of starting a business means it is even more vital to become the market leader more quickly.

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Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 12, 2009

However, such flexibility is countered by increased compliance costs due to the application of complex partnership tax rules that also apply to LLCs. It may use taxable losses generated at the entity level to offset taxable income of the individual LLC members. Similar to LLCs, S corps receive flow through tax treatment. Fundraising.

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K9 Ventures

MARCH 23, 2011

The fact of the matter however is that The Golden Rule (He who has the gold, makes the rules) applies, and often when the company is raising follow-on-financing, the institutional investors will force the company to renegotiate the notes, often with adverse affects to the note holders — sometimes changing the cap or changing the discount.

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Pre-Money Valuation Valuation Equity Liquidation Preference 132