Mucker Lab
AUGUST 27, 2014
After stints as a technology investment banker, a dot-com entrepreneur, and a product manager in Silicon Valley, I moved to Los Angeles in 2006. For the last couple of years, I’ve been investing in startups as a partner at Mucker, while spending a lot of time in the Valley working with potential co-investors and partners.
David Teten
JULY 25, 2017
We think coaching is a key lever for doing this, with our own team or through outside partners. Similarly, we have an ongoing program to introduce our companies to later-round VCs, and have more credibility in presenting our companies to other investors than an independent investment banker would have.
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Ben's Blog
AUGUST 31, 2020
Whether it’s Yotta encouraging emergency savings accounts, Dave.com providing overdraft protection, or Stash enabling broad participation in public market investing, I believe that the private sector could be an inflection point for the country’s financial health – and that fintechs will lead the way.
David Teten
DECEMBER 3, 2019
But in business, you want a lot of partners. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies. Before you can actually invest, you have to manage your fund. In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers. Most of us want one spouse and we’re done. 1) Manage the firm .
The Startup Magazine
FEBRUARY 6, 2020
By that time investment bankers were on a roll privatizing assets as far flung as Chilean Electricity Distribution Rights, Montreal’s container port, parking meters in Chicago, sections of the Pennsylvania turnpike, the London City airport, and (the proposed) CA & FL Lottery systems. Ironically, given the U.S.’s
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 21, 2010
However, a paper published a while back by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation – the group devoted to fostering entrepreneurship around the world – suggests that the age distribution among company founders is much broader than we might have imagined. First of all, we all know that the age distribution in the U.S. is inching higher.
Seeing Both Sides
SEPTEMBER 15, 2015
According to Izhar Shay, a general partner at Canaan Partners, “The investment community has matured to recognize they need to plan for scale. According to Modi Rosen, general partner of Magma Ventures, “The challenge of scaling is primarily in hiring for the sales and marketing front. Think Bigger.
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