OnlyOnce

JULY 13, 2017

I have a lot of institutional investors in our cap table at Return Path. I was struck this week by two emails that landed in my inbox literally adjacent to each other. One was from one of our institutional investors, sharing guidelines and timetables for doing CEO reviews across its portfolio.

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David Teten

JUNE 1, 2012

The Landmark Venture Forum is hosted by Landmark Angels , an angel investor group, and will feature 12 promising emerging companies in the digital media space. For more information on this event, please email nycinfo(@)landmarkangels.com.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 3, 2023

Friends, family and fools: [Email readers, continue here…] This term, although pejorative, describes the typical mix of early investors in a small, young growing business. Several are well-known and professional investors pay special attention to their graduates.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 10, 2012

OtherInBox, an Austin-based company that reduces unwanted email, announced today that they have been acquired and will now be a wholly owner subsidiary of ReturnPath. The company had raised approximately $4M in investment over the years from non-institutional investors. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, as [.].

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View from Seed

MARCH 26, 2015

Much digital ink has been spilled about what dollar amount constitutes a pre-seed and how that might affect a startup’s ability to go raise a “normal” seed round from institutional investors. Among those trying to inform the industry and offer perspective was my partner Rob Go.).

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 30, 2018

Knowing that other institutional investors (including your insiders) are paying the same price as them in this round helps. Many investors. If you’ve enjoyed or learned please email to a friend or share through social. When you are raising for 8–10 new sources vs. 1–2 sometimes it’s easier just to name price.

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David Teten

JANUARY 23, 2021

For example, one LP told me she prefers customized emails from fund principals, as opposed to a bulk-mailed quarterly update. Conduct an honest self-evaluation: can you realistically raise money from institutional investors, or should you focus on high net worths/family offices? Control the meeting format.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 2, 2021

He was the first institutional investor in Facebook and also an early-stage investor in groundbreaking companies like Etsy, Spotify, C3.AI, Email me at Josh@QuitYourJob.com and I’ll do my best to connect you. Why Jim Breyer? Jim Breyer has spent his career on the cutting edge. Why are you moving to Austin?

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

I met Adam and Social Fortress at the first Flashpoint Demo Day in New York earlier this year; ff became the only institutional investor and I joined the Board in May. (I I hope you’ll join us at the next Flashpoint Demo Day this Thursday.) We think this is an exceptional company.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Hilary Mason , Data Scientist in Residence at Accel Partners , has a TED talk on how she replaces herself with a shell script to handle her email deluge. One global institutional investor is investigating setting up a large-scale co-investment vehicle, similar to Correlation Ventures, but focused on private equity transactions.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 8, 2017

It might be useful to list some of the ways in which you can raise money for growth with and without outside investors. Email readers, continue here…] Bootstrapping: This term describes your ability to start a business with little investment and grow it using internally-generated funds.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

At Flow Capital, we use HubSpot’s sequences and workflows functions to automate a bulk of our emails and internal tasks. Excel and Google simply aren’t going to cut it if you expect to build a high quality institutional investor base.”. Another provider which identifies email addresses of strangers is Contactout.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 27, 2014

Here’s what we covered – it’s a bit inside baseball but just as with the funding post linked above, we think exposing the mechanics of venture can help entrepreneurs and future investors (plus, we learn a lot from any resulting discussions). Afternoon Session. Evening Dinner.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

I can tell you first hand than bankers are out making road shows to gin up interest in VCs and institutional investors. This is one book-end of the cycle. I hear from several sources that Sequoia is very active in the market aggressively chasing several deals and even driving up prices on some early-stage deals.

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David Teten

APRIL 13, 2021

They had 154 visits, 97 due diligence requests, 33 second visits, and 12 reference requests, to ultimately produce 9 institutional investors. Ha Duong, investment principal at Ocean Investment, a single family office, said to me via email, “It’s extremely hard to identify a good placement agent to work with.

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abovethecrowd.com

AUGUST 23, 2020

Below is a marketing email sent around by one of the participating investment banks after the recent nCino IPO (which was underpriced in record-setting fashion, 195% first day “pop” – “the biggest first-day surge since the 2000 tech bubble”). It has also been uncovered in email threads. This is backed up by academic research.

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VC Adventure

MAY 21, 2014

Also reply to each request for intro and expect these people to email you back, usually with questions. The request for intros are often investors who do more diligence about the investment. Make sure this email goes only to the Not Started group. Come up with something to update them about.

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Up and Running

MARCH 21, 2016

Particularly if you are a first-time entrepreneur, it will be much easier to get investments on good terms (particularly from non-institutional investors) if you have some traction first,” he explains. Investors want proof that your idea is going to work, and nothing proves this better than having real, paying customers.

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David Teten

MARCH 24, 2014

We had an email conversation about the rationality, or lack of rationality, of professional investors. For Professional Institutional investors: agency risk is a huge problem. My recent post on “ Asset Management is a Bizarre Industry Ripe for Disruption ” got one of the most interesting reactions I’ve received.

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VC Adventure

MAY 21, 2014

Also reply to each request for intro and expect these people to email you back, usually with questions. The request for intros are often investors who do more diligence about the investment. Make sure this email goes only to the Not Started group. Come up with something to update them about.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

My key takeaways from talking to roughly 40 institutional investors in the valley about investing to an European startup are: Traction cures all ills. Email lfrith@octopusventures.com to book a space in advance. Seriously, we purposefully do not have voicemail in the building, so we are supremely accessible.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 24, 2012

You can subscribe to Smart Bear Live on iTunes (please review the podcast as well!) … and if you’d like to appear on a future episode of Smart Bear Live, send an email to Patrick.Foley@microsoft.com to schedule a recording with Jason. And to get those returns, we need very big wins.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 4, 2017

Every email, phone call, meeting, and text message was noted. Free CRM for Small Businesses - HubSpot I wrote a lot of emails. It was the primary way I communicated with prospective investors. Every single prospecting email was hand written for that specific investor. Here is my cold prospecting funnel.

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David Teten

JANUARY 8, 2013

PEHub just posted this guest article: Can professional investors use social media? Historically, institutional investors kept their investing strategy and their activities very discreet. Or, is social media strictly for teenagers and staying in touch with your friends?

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grasshopperherder.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

As such, you should make sure to think of the proposals as an investor and get a reasonable term sheet. Please note: I am not an institutional investor and I am not a consultant although I occasionally dabble/consult in projects I find particularly interesting. Email Address. Here are some of my favorite things to avoid.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2009

ARD was almost exclusively focused on the East Coast ARD proved that institutional investors, not just family money had an appetite for investing into venture capital firms. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print! Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 21, 2019

Jeff Fromm: And then you also have the CEO of BlackRock, which is the other side of the coin, the institutional investor, saying, “In the next few years, if you’re not doing this, we’re simply not gonna invest in your brand. Whether that’s LinkedIn, Jeff Fromm, or you can email me, jfromm@thefuturecast.com.

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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.”

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

I have gotten an email every single morning at 5:15 every day for the last six years while we’ve built TSheets and it’s the first I do when I wake up in the morning even though all the magazines say not to do this, I roll over, I open up that email and look to see how much we grew yesterday.

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