David Teten

MAY 9, 2012

The National Association of Investment Companies (NAIC) is the trade association representing women and diverse private equity and venture firms. VCAP© will be operated through NAIC’s subsidiary, The Marathon Foundation, a business development network that supports entrepreneurial growth, access to capital and deal flow.

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Venture Capital Programming Accredited Investor New York 154

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

AngelList 101 : As you know, AngelList is a platform where angels can invest in semi-screened tech deals. It should help some entrepreneurs to better access early-stage capital and should allow some angel investors better access to deal flow. Social proof can be helpful. But it can also be destructive. and much more.

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Syndicate Syndication Cofounder Early Stage 356

View from Seed

MAY 12, 2015

Yet once the right firms are identified, I believe that the tougher challenge is to determine which partner at these firms to approach. Most firms have anywhere from a couple to up to a dozen or more partners listed on their websites. Sometimes it’s as simple as going to the partner who is “easiest” to get to.

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David Teten

JUNE 1, 2011

I enjoyed participating in last week’s Capital Roundtable Private Equity Masterclass on “ Best Practices for Sourcing Quality Deal Flow & Developing New Business ” (May 26 th , 2011). High Road Capital Partners Deal Sourcing Keynote. Fitzsimmons, High Road Capital Partners.

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Private Equity Deal Flow Equity Developer 122

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

You never got around to agreeing exact equity splits but you had many conversations about it. I find that one of my best sources of deal flow is from lawyers. Focus on the partner you would be working with. One issue he talked about was working with partners. I also like to work with partners.

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Southern California Silicon Valley IP Stock Options 318

Haystack

JANUARY 18, 2020

Acceptance that firms and partners need to actively market themselves. There are too many angels, accelerators, scouts, and seed funds who are giving them checks early, potentially diverting deal flow. This also eats into the time and fee income those partnerships generated. What a difference a decade makes!

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David Teten

MAY 4, 2011

The Capital Roundtable is holding a MasterClass May 26 on “ Best Practices for Sourcing Quality Deal Flow & Developing New Business for Private Equity Funds “, and I’m honored to be one of the speakers. The conference is being chaired by Bob Fitzsimmons, of High Road Capital Partners. Christopher A.

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Private Equity LLC LP Equity 122

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

I often advise startup companies not to try and pin all of your brand equity into an announcement. If you’re an associate, an assistant, in finance or a new partner interviewing with the firm – you know what we expect! Greg Bettinelli – You may know that we added partner Greg Bettinelli earlier this year.

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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. . But, most of use raise capital and source deals the same way people looked for dates 20 years ago: by networking at conferences (or bars). . But in business, you want a lot of partners.

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Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

Anything from intense customer love despite barely even having a product, pre-sales, a deal for access to data that creates a moat that no one else has—the list goes on. It’s the “hook” that gets a team noticed in a partner meeting. This is lazy, sexist, and racist—and also stupid because it has no provable impact on deal flow quality.

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Venture Capital Cofounder Deal Flow Later Stage 162

www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Angelrounds are their whole business, as online video was for YouTube.Whereas VCs who make angel investments mostly do it as a way togenerate deal flow for series A rounds. [ In a traditional series A round, the partnerwhose deal it is takes a seat on the startups board. In this case the super-angels are the invaders.

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Startup Valuation Non-Compete Deal Flow 93

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

To do this they have to accomplish five things; 1) get deal flow – via networking and legwork, they identify likely industries, companies and teams with the potential for rapid growth (less than 10 years), 2) evaluate those companies and teams on the basis of technology, market opportunity, and team.

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Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 217

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

You can see a list of the 70+ investors and other partners who have signed on to participate in local programming at the bottom. You should come along for the ride if you are interested in investing more in Texas technology and disruptive commerce companies and want to develop relationships with local investors who can be your deal flow.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 15, 2011

A group such as LinkedIn’s Deal Flow Network has over 11,000 members and provides a simple way for investors to share tips about strategies and upcoming opportunities. If the CEO is paid less than average, it more likely his interest will line up with the equity shareholders.”. Investors Seed Multiple Ventures.

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The Equity Kicker

OCTOBER 24, 2014

It’s a great way for us to meet with lots of founders, improve our deal flow and hopefully give a little back to teh community. Do your research on Forward Partners ahead of time (or other VCs if you are meeting them) – you want the whole 15 minutes to be about you. Every month we run an open office hours.

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Deal Flow Community Founder Partner 120

www.seriesseed.com

DECEMBER 9, 2012

We went with equity because ivestors would prefer to get equity for the following reasons: 1. One of the reasons notes have become so popular is that the equity documents were too expensive. Good idea, I think this will benefit lots of startups and some angels. Posted by: toby | 03/01/2010 at 09:52 PM. This is great!

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Finance Term Sheet Vesting LLC 40

The Equity Kicker

OCTOBER 1, 2013

I’m also a fan of focused investment strategies – they allow you to build expertise resulting in better investment decisions and better deal flows as entrepreneurs seek out your expertise. According to pandodaily , as well as being focused we are also contrarian: Silicon Valley has run away from the ecommerce category.

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Silicon Valley eCommerce Deal Flow Valuation 92

Business Plan Blog

JANUARY 2, 2014

Every crowdfunding site works differently, but the model that the majority of equity crowdfunding platforms are taking looks like something like this: a person or collection of people can form a group that other accredited individual investors can join. While startups are still limited by the types of investors they can take money from (i.e.

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Angel Groups Accredited Investor Angel Investor Due Diligence 51

David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Not surprisingly, the list above also is ranked from least to most equity stake in an investment for the investor, relative to the cash they invest. How would one set up such a startup to eventually raise capital from outside VCs, who will be wary of ‘dead equity’ (i.e., equity that belongs to departed cofounders)? The cliffs?

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Software Developers Software Development Software Review Technical Cofounder 60

David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2013

The good news for Techcrunch readers: Every major study conducted to date has placed angel investors’ IRR between 18 and 38 percent, as summarized by my Partner John Frankel and Professor Robert Wiltbank in prior Techcrunch articles. Second, all investments are equity instead of debt. I previously published this at Techcrunch. .

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IRR Angel Investor Angel Groups Cofounder 114

David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

(written by Philipp von dem Knesebeck , Managing Partner, Blue Future Partners (bluefp.com, @bluefutureteam ), and David Teten ). Based on this paper, Blue Future Partners and PEVCTech recently completed a large-scale survey to find out which tools are most commonly used by venture capital firms.

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Early Stage Technical Review Software Review Venture Capital 60

K9 Ventures

MAY 14, 2011

The incubators invest usually for an equity stake and buy equity at a extremely low valuation (for example, 7% for $15,000, which implies a pre-money valuation of less than $200,000). They are still individual investors, they invest on a full-time basis as professionals, but they have funds with Limited Partners. Deals/Year.

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Preferred Stock Seed Stage Incubator Early Stage 125

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 7, 2011

Andrew Wong, CEO of MAD, has been working with us for almost a year, and we have made a mutual choice to deepen the partnership by making MAD a premiere value-added reseller partner of the 1M/1M program. This, we believe, will create a strong downstream deal flow for all of you - incubators, angel investors, and VCs.

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Malaysia Incubator Silicon Valley Entrepreneur 114

David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

It might appear that origination is becoming much easier because of new tools like AngelList and the SEC moving toward adoption of rules that will allow equity based crowdfunding. 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

This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 22, 2018

Vetting deal flow is part of the job. I don't want to outsource my deal vetting to people who don't do what I do for a living. Another thing that skews the process is the lack of accessibility of many partner-level VCs, especially to diverse communities. You're a partner at a firm, you're married, have kids, etc.,

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 9, 2015

There would be no generational planning, no transitions to younger partners, and no senior partner hold-outs who would hang onto economics well after they had stopped working. For the past 13 years, Lindel Eakman has been the head of UTIMCO’s private equity group.

Later Stage 70

Later Stage Early Stage Advisory Board Deal Flow 70

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

I still think it’s best to take money from Dave when you’re also partnered with a more focused, hands-on seed-stage VC who brings different things to the table – like more ability to write larger checks in a downturn (for one) or solving a deep crisis that involves super hands-on involvement. My Personal Take on AngelList.

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Valuation Deal Flow Lead Investor Cofounder 292

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

After that, I did it for a private equity firm then we became a part of a larger corporation. Why not get a partner? And so professional angels that have access to real deal flow? ” So people who are great and have good deal flow have the ability to not have to take as much risk. ” Jason: So?

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Technical Cofounder Cofounder Software Review Management 220

VC Adventure

DECEMBER 9, 2015

There would be no generational planning, no transitions to younger partners, and no senior partner hold-outs who would hang onto economics well after they had stopped working. It’s also been fun – a great way to get close to new managers, build lasting personal relationships, and see deal flow for our Foundry Group investing activity.

Later Stage 48

Later Stage Early Stage Advisory Board Deal Flow 48

Rob Go

MARCH 16, 2014

In venture capital, an example of this sort of strategy can be seen in the growth equity realm. Typically, a lot of venture capital deal flow is driven by proprietary relationships. A lot of VCs historically milked relationships and backed a small cadre of entrepreneurs over and over.

Distribution 66

Distribution Venture Capital Deal Flow Aggregator 66

David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

Avataar Ventures invests exclusively in companies which fit these criteria: “$15 Million + in Annual Recurring Revenues; Strong Tech-Led B2B & SaaS Companies; Core Operations in India/ South East Asia; Open to Active Partnering.” They exist as heuristics, but at the end of the day, deal flow trumps everything.

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Technical Review Cofounder Venture Capital Deal Flow 78

Professor VC

MARCH 12, 2015

The above was the opening salvo of a controversial tweetstorm yesterday by my former student and 500 Startups founding partner, Dave McClure (full venom below). Authy was a YC company, so Sam''s firm held a 7% common stock equity stake and benefited from the other angels holding the short end of the stick.

Syndicate 28

Syndicate Syndication Silicon Valley Common Stock 28

This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 1, 2020

Who benefitted equity-wise from Uber's success? Black drivers make up over 20% of who is actually behind the wheel but have no equity in the company as they are not technically employees. Sure, that means exponentially opening up the flow of deals and going through a ton of deal flow.

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Michigan Deal Flow Accredited Investor Equity 117

David Teten

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Blue Future Partners, a venture capital fund of funds, recently interviewed me on ESG in venture capital. In an article you wrote for Techcrunch in 2019 about Revenue Based Investing you mentioned that “ traditional equity VC is biased structurally against some women and underrepresented founders”. Why is that?

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