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. . 3) Raise capital. Excel and Google simply aren’t going to cut it if you expect to build a high quality institutional investor base.”. Deer Isle Group has built the D.I.G.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

billion multi-stage venture capital firm focused on IT-related investments… I also serve on various investment committees, including for the St. Jude Children’s Cancer Hospital and the Stanford Medical Center, and teach entrepreneurship and venture capital at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. 1990-1998 13.3%

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SEC Accredited Investor IPO Technical Review 36

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 28, 2018

Once you have some traction, you can approach venture capital organizations , with funding amounts of $1-10 million for the real rollout, often referred to as the “A-round,” or first institutional funding. These usually charge you a fixed fee up front, and then perhaps a small percentage of the raise.

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Incubator Exit Strategy Institutional Investors Angel Investor 236

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 12, 2014

Prorata investments rights given investors the right to invest in your future fund-raising rounds and maintain their ownership % in your company as your company grows and raises more capital. New investors sometimes want older investors NOT to participate so that the new investor can take more of the round.

Technical Review 336

Technical Review Later Stage Early Stage LP 336

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2013

Once you have some traction, you can approach venture capital organizations , with funding amounts of $1-10 million for the real rollout, often referred to as the “A-round,” or first institutional funding. These usually charge you a fixed fee up front, and then perhaps a small percentage of the raise.

Incubator 256

Incubator Entrepreneur Exit Strategy Institutional Investors 256

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

Once you have some traction, you can approach venture capital organizations , with funding amounts of $1-10 million for the real rollout, often referred to as the “A-round,” or first institutional funding. These usually charge you a fixed fee up front, and then perhaps a small percentage of the raise.

Incubator 120

Incubator Startup Exit Strategy Institutional Investors 120

View from Seed

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Most folks reading this will know that many startups were built in part with the help of venture capital. Many large institutions from the list above invest directly in VC funds, but others from the same categories will invest indirectly through a range of different intermediaries. Subscribe here for more.

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LP Private Equity Institutional Investors Venture Capital 335

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

I’ve written on the expert network industry a fair amount in the past: see How to Earn More Consulting Revenue from Expert Networks and How Executives Can Work with Private Equity and Venture Capital Portfolio Companies. So GLG started connecting our clients directly to the smartest people on any given topic.

New York 114

New York Technical Review Networking Advisory Board 114

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2012

Once you have some traction, you can approach venture capital organizations , with funding amounts of $1-10 million for the real rollout, often referred to as the “A-round,” or first institutional funding. These usually charge you a fixed fee up front, and then perhaps a small percentage of the raise.

Incubator 237

Incubator Startup Exit Strategy Institutional Investors 237

Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2011

It sent a signal that there is an irrational demand for tech IPOs. Filed under: Venture Capital. We have just entered the mania phase. The Linked-in IPO valued the company at $8.9 billion at the end of the first day of trading. Silicon Valley startups are falling over each other to file their S-1 documents to go public.

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Silicon Valley Stealth Valuation Mississippi 327

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.

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Asia Silicon Valley India Term Sheet 132

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 24, 2012

of companies should never raise venture capital. Venture capital, it’s a very particular industry. Venture capitalists are raising money from other investors, institutional investors who expect certain returns from us. Let me say this to you. 99%, maybe 99.8%

Silicon Valley 204

Silicon Valley Software Review Internet Technical Review 204

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 13, 2011

Once you have some traction, you can approach venture capital organizations , with funding amounts of $1-10 million for the real rollout, often referred to as the “A-round,” or first institutional funding. These usually charge you a fixed fee up front, and then perhaps a small percentage of the raise.

Incubator 230

Incubator Startup Exit Strategy Institutional Investors 230

The Equity Kicker

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

I just saw a great presentation from Mark Suster/Upfront Ventures on the State of the Venture Capital in 2016 which explains the discrepancy between the sentiment in the market and the observation that there are lots of funds out there which need to deploy capital.

Marketing 60

Marketing Institutional Investors Venture Capital Later Stage 60

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. I think there are many more opportunities to disrupt the space. Photo credit: JD Hancock.

Management 114

Management Pre-Money Valuation Venture Capital New Hampshire 114

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

So what is driving the new energy in the remaining venture capital firms when we kept hearing how much the whole industry was “against the ropes?&# … 1. The Market rebound – Let’s face it, just as investor sentiment is unnecessary shaken when the markets dive it also becomes overly optimistic when markets bounce.

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IPO Investment Bankers Venture Capital Marketing 255

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

abovethecrowd.com

MAY 20, 2013

As Benchmark is a large institutional investor in Grubhub, we were actively involved in the merger process, and we are quite excited about the potential of the two companies coming together. Finding a way to meld two complex capital structures is non-trivial, and may require compromise from many parties involved.

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Merger Institutional Investors Liquidation Preference Preferred Stock 53

Pascal's View

MARCH 9, 2010

This is the second in our series of ten frequently asked questions from investors in venture capital partnerships. To get to the core of your question, providing passive institutional investors with more financial information about illiquid securities isn’t going to make them more liquid.

Government 31

Government Private Equity Institutional Investors Venture Capital 31

Genuine VC

MARCH 25, 2010

At the recent March Web Innovators Group event, I invited a panel of serial entrepreneurs to talk about their founding stories, during which David Cancel said that “one of the most unproductive things new founders do is talk to investors too early… I test all my ideas on the web.” Establish a relationship and assess fit.

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Early Stage Venture Capital Term Sheet Conversion 123

Genuine VC

MARCH 25, 2010

At the recent March Web Innovators Group event, I invited a panel of serial entrepreneurs to talk about their founding stories, during which David Cancel said that “one of the most unproductive things new founders do is talk to investors too early… I test all my ideas on the web.” Establish a relationship and assess fit.

Early Stage 121

Early Stage Venture Capital Term Sheet Conversion 121

Pascal's View

AUGUST 22, 2009

”, written by Mark Veverka, asserting that “venture capitalists want to widen the playing field for the underwriters.” ” The story includes quotes from former National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) chairman Dixon Doll of DCM and investment banker Paul Deninger, who is the vice-chairman of Jefferies & Co.

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IPO Merger Institutional Investors Venture Capital 40

abovethecrowd.com

AUGUST 23, 2020

The traditional IPO process does not use a market-based approach (like an order -matching system ) to efficiently match supply and demand and to discover price. Matching supply-demand through an electronic system is exceptionally straight-forward circa 2020. Most potential buyers of stocks are blocked out of the IPO process.

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IPO Silicon Valley Warrant Matching 118

Pascal's View

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

The small growth company is widely recognized as creating new jobs, and, in America, over the past eleven years we’ve witnessed the capital markets death of one of the great job-creation mechanisms in the United States, the sub-$50 million IPO. Between 1991 and 200 80% of IPO’s raised $50mm or less. IPOs were neither VC nor PE backed.

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IPO Term Sheet Marketing United States 31

abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

On March 26, SoFi announced that “it will be offering its members (at least those with $3K in their account) the ability to invest in IPOs for companies going public, an investment opportunity that has traditionally been reserved for large institutional investors or ultra-high-net-worth individuals.” I kid you not —100% true.

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IPO Customer Matching Silicon Valley 82