Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , (videos here ) Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique. Recognizing the ability of these teams to produce real results, 38 members of the venture and private equity community dialed in to these presentations.

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Oakland Asia Lean Video 301

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2010

All private equity groups go about due diligence in their own way, but there are a few key areas of focus that entrepreneurs should always expect: Team strength and health. Technical due diligence typically starts with a full one or two day review with the engineering and product marketing staff. Product or service readiness.

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Technical Review Due Diligence Intellectual Property Private Equity 225

Austin Startup

MAY 7, 2017

Some of the most interesting events in Austin for the week of May 8 through May 14 are as follows: Mon, May 8 thru Thurs, May 11: OSCON OSCON brings the software engineering and developer community together to explore what’s new and useful in open source languages, tools, and techniques. At Galvanize at 6:00 pm. At Galvanize at 10:00 am.

Technical Review 75

Technical Review Austin North America Software Review 75

Gust

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

All private equity groups go about due diligence in their own way, but there are a few key areas of focus that entrepreneurs should always expect: • Team strength and health. Technical due diligence typically starts with a full one or two day review with the engineering and product marketing staff. Product or service readiness.

Technical Review 152

Technical Review Due Diligence Intellectual Property Private Equity 152

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

The Google founders didn’t conclude that search engines were a terrible idea based on AltaVista and Ask Jeeves. Rather, they concluded that no company had executed a search engine well. Their implementation of that vision — and perhaps their lack of leadership skills — deserve far more credit.

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Private Equity Startup Engineer Equity 182

David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

Large private equity funds like KKR can afford to pursue a consulting model ( Capstone ), typically with associated fees, but that doesn’t normally make economic sense for a VC. As I’ve worked to build out HOF Capital ’s portfolio acceleration platform , the #1 question I think about is: how do we scalably support our companies?

Portfolio 60

Portfolio Technical Review Private Equity Database 60

Steve Blank

APRIL 8, 2022

The technology insights and expertise of Stanford Engineering. Integrate and incent the Venture Capital/Private Equity ecosystem to invest at scale. Exceptional students willing to help the country win the Great Power Competition. Silicon Valley’s deep commercial technology ecosystem.

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Security Silicon Valley China Private Equity 217

Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

Public investors, cross-over investors, and even traditional private equity firms have taken notice, further blurring the lines of what constitutes true venture capital. Hundreds of new micro funds somehow keep getting into the market. More and more angels will be minted as the 2019 IPO class emerges.

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Technical Review Venture Capital Russia China 165

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. . The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies. In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers. 1) Manage the firm .

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Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

These connections are likely best when firms are networked with other sources of capital vertically (angel groups, venture debt, private equity and investment bank relationships) and horizontally (in-market and out-of-market venture capital firms).

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Venture Capital Austin Texas Private Equity 54

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 16, 2012

It’s a good thing that the Singaporean passport lets its holder travel to most countries without fuss, and there’s no lack of innovation when it comes to online travel services – social travel discovery and recommendation sites, for example, or airline comparison and booking engines. million worth of currency transactions.

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Singapore Private Equity Asia China 237

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Why do you think there are so few women in private equity, and what can be done to change that? If you work for a toxic company or boss, look for an exit ramp before you are overtaken by events and can’t engineer your best plan. I always ask: how does this company make money? Even nonprofit businesses have financial goals.

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Switzerland Private Equity Stock Options Equity 264

Scott Edward Walker

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

The most common financial buyer is a private equity firm. Indeed, big private equity firms (such as Blackstone, TPG, Apollo, etc.) There are also, however, lots of small private equity firms that you never read about and which are on the hunt for small, private companies.

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Private Equity New York City Equity Deal Structure 59

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 24, 2020

He builds sustainable revenue growth engines and drives their execution on behalf of his clients which include CEOs, business owners, and Private Equity firms. Paul Sparrow is Area Managing Partner & CMO with Chief Outsiders , the nation’s largest and fastest growing fractional CMO group.

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Private Equity Vertical Forecast Equity 127

Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Also, as startups move from a uniform growth path to one that considers a wider variety of sources of capital (angel, non-traditional seed, strategic, private equity, debt, royalty-based, etc.), Any law firm working with LLCs should have access to tax specialists, and if they don’t, that is a red flag.

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Delaware LLC Startup Silicon Valley 48

Rob Go

DECEMBER 28, 2011

Wayfair: This is somewhere between an exit and and a growth round, but the largest independent ecommerce company focused on the huge home/furniture category raised a $165M round from a group of growth, private equity, and venture investors. Big Companies Moving In. It’s been quite a busy year.

Technical Review 54

Technical Review Boston Software Review IPO 54

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

In addition, I do a few consulting projects on the side, in the areas of product strategy, search engine optimization, and intellectual property. For consulting work, I have done several projects with Lou Sokolovskiy of Genero Capital , a boutique private equity firm. I'll be interested to see what it turns into.

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Management Product Entrepreneur Silicon Valley 150

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

It’s true that the carrier then gets their huge slice for being the billing and payment engine but the idea is that you as a website more than make up for this in terms of customer conversion. It has proven a very successful strategy to get consumers to activate the payment on their mobile phone bill. 4mm in Series A.

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Venture Capital Cofounder Spain San Diego 270

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2017

That summer a private equity fund acquired the assets of the company. We engineered incentives for those visitors that took longer than this time to act. In 2015, 9-figure apparel retailer Karmaloop.com filed for bankruptcy. The company had been bleeding cash, losing six figures per month. They brought me in as CMO.

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Bankruptcy Marketing Campaign Intellectual Property 106

ReadWriteStart

MAY 17, 2012

But the company, which was bought by private equity firms for $2.25 Domian names, website hosting and site-building tools, SSL certificates, marketing tools like search engine optimization, search engine marketing, email marketing and social media. billion last year has even bigger aspirations. “We

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San Francisco Arizona Private Equity Hosting 115

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

Side note: LA seems to have had some success in mega deals led by private equity firms as evidenced by DemandMedia and Chris DeWolf’s latest company backed by more than $20 million in private equity. Recruiting will be different – You can build a great management team in LA. You don’t. Get over it.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 28, 2010

There is plenty of debate, however, over what drives that job creation engine in our country. 6) The most efficient fuel for this IPO engine is venture capital. Private-equity and venture capital firms have been hard hit too. does not exceed 500, which studies show is the level required to support 3% annual U.S.

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Venture Capital America Initial Public Offering IPO 56

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 23, 2012

After all, before the house of cards inevitably tumbles, private equity investors get a tidy return. GroupOn’s engine that turned capital into revenue growth was a form of force-feeding rather than building a product). It’s my goal to join the ranks of those excellent companies at WP Engine. And it is magic.

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IPO Flash Bootstrapping Private Equity 240

David Teten

MARCH 16, 2011

Our audience is the NY Financial Engineering Meetup, so we’ll be going into some of the detailed technical and financial modeling architecture we’re using. This Sunday, March 20, 6pm on W.

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Engineer Architecture Audience Partner 60

Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

With science and engineering breakthroughs ingrained in the fabric of Houston’s economy, the region has become a thriving hub of digital technology talent. Private Equity According to Pitchbook data, there are over 600 private equity firms in Texas. from growing startups to late-stage buyouts.

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Pascal's View

MARCH 18, 2010

economy, our legislators, could make some structural changes to our small company capital markets regulations to fuel the greatest job creation engine in America—the entrepreneur driving an emerging growth company. You would think that maybe the stewards of the U.S. Share and Enjoy:

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IPO Government SEC Venture Capital 28

Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

The whole reason I’m an entrepreneur and the reason I didn’t take private equity investment when starting my business is that I want all of my employees to own their work and determine their destinies. Thanks to Justin Thomas, Journey Engine ! #17- Thanks to Robin Dimond, Fifth & Cor ! #5-

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Entrepreneur Private Equity CPA Employee 124

Growthink Blog

AUGUST 14, 2010

The best articulation of it comes from Basil Peters, a serial technology entrepreneur, co-Founder of Nexus Engineering, former Canada Entrepreneur of the Year, and Managing Partner at 3 venture capital funds – Fundamental Technologies I and II and the BC Advantage Funds. The next big technology investment idea is the “Early Exit.”

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Private Equity Intellectual Property IPO Venture Capital 67

Hunter Walker

APRIL 10, 2014

Dentists from the Midwest, tech CEOs, Facebook engineers, VC’s and private equity partners. Join today at: https://angel.co/penchina#syndicate. penchina#syndicate. Anyone can join. I have $1,000 backers and big money backers. What’s great is they all want to help too.

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David Teten

JANUARY 8, 2013

Fewer private equity funds are using social media for outreach, but 2xPartners , Healthpoint Capital , and MCM Capital Partners are notable exceptions. Private equity investing is a relationship business. MCM has implemented Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, an RSS feed, and a blog on its website.

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Private Equity Social Media Equity Media 114

Professor VC

MARCH 10, 2009

His goal in building the company was to spend 3 years building value and find a good home for the engineers and product. They have a standard presentation on bootstrapping, which they present around the country. In this case, a win-win for everyone, except perhaps the VCs who didnt get the opportunity to participate.

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Bootstrapping San Jose Silicon Valley Software Review 28

500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

Or, as my friend Marc Andreessen might say, Software Eats the Private Equity World. For many early-stage companies still working on their product or developing customers, most of their challenges do not require large amounts of capital nearly as much as they require expertise – particularly in engineering, design, and marketing.

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Silicon Valley Early Stage Venture Capital Valuation 74

Growthink Blog

JANUARY 7, 2015

this leadership also attracts the best and the brightest scientists, engineers, and developers from around to the world to our shores. private equity firms and $515 billion on the balance sheets of leading tech. In addition to the massive flows of capital and wealth created and distributed by the top tech. Record Exports.

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Balance Sheet Private Equity Venture Capital .Net 48

Campus Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Students participating were from engineering, liberal arts, and business and the six judges represented a variety of different industries (from commercial insurance and direct marketing to private equity and staffing). We have seen impact and fortune created by both types of firms on the Maryland Campus and also globally.

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Maryland Private Equity Equity Direct Marketing 39

finance.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 21, 2012

Term Sheet The latest on private equity, M&A, deals and movements — from Wall Street to Silicon Valley. Now, as for those private equity funds: Blackstone Communications Partners I (2000): 129% (97%). Providence Equity Partners IV (2000): 198% (186%). Spectrum Equity Investors IV (2000): 133% (127%).

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Naming Term Sheet Private Equity Equity 49

Growthink Blog

MARCH 14, 2010

So goes the public markets, so go the private equity markets, of which startup investing is a subset. Best illustration of this - in spite of throwing millions at them, Google has a hard time hanging onto their best engineering talent. The answer seems obvious. A falling tide sinks all boats. Always have, always will.

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Stock Private Equity Marketing Startup 75

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

This is excellent news, and is one of the most important ways that we are going to get the growth engine humming again in this country. A few years ago, it was Private Equity, then Real Estate, then Hedge Funds. Business students (both undergrad and grads) are notorious for flocking towards the hot sectors of the present.

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