David Teten

MAY 9, 2012

I am very happy to announce today a new program I’ve been working on designed to support women and diverse entrepreneurs, particularly those in the technology sector. The National Association of Investment Companies (NAIC) is the trade association representing women and diverse private equity and venture firms.

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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. I’m very interested in additional ways to use technology to extend each of these! RJMetrics ); technology (e.g., I’ve listed a few ideas below.

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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. . When I met my now-wife, I realized that any technology that can find me a spouse is a killer app. But in business, you want a lot of partners. Most of us want one spouse and we’re done.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

Most of these are non-profits, set up by a university to commercialize new technologies, or a municipality to foster business development for the local economy. Accelerators generally accept startups at a slightly later stage, and attempt to compress the timeline to commercialization into a few months, instead of a year or more.

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David Teten

JUNE 22, 2012

VCAP© launched on May 9, 2012 and generated entries from a large range of industries and market sectors, including technology, retail and entertainment. Founded in 1970, NAIC firms deposit in try (early stage/later stage) and private equity (growth/buyout/mezzanine/ distressed/secondary funds). domestic market.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. V: Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? VI: Revenue-based financing: The next step for private equity and early-stage investment. II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

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Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

Collectively they have $850M in capital in their most recent funds: [link] Both Silverton Partners and LiveOak Venture Partners have filed regulatory documents associated with new fundraising efforts in 2017 so we should all look forward to announcements from them on successfully raising new funds.

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David Teten

JUNE 22, 2012

VCAP© launched on May 9, 2012 and generated entries from a large range of industries and market sectors, including technology, retail and entertainment. Founded in 1970, NAIC firms deposit in try (early stage/later stage) and private equity (growth/buyout/mezzanine/ distressed/secondary funds). domestic market.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2013

The first post described how China built a science and technology infrastructure to support advanced weapons systems development. The first wave of startups began when R&D centers and universities began to provide the technology and seed capital for new startups that were spin-outs or spin-offs. Like the U.S.

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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. We’re backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, Silver Lake Partners, and individual investors like Ron Conway, among others.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

Most of these are non-profits, set up by a university to commercialize new technologies, or a municipality to foster business development for the local economy. Accelerators generally accept startups at a slightly later stage, and attempt to compress the timeline to commercialization into a few months, instead of a year or more.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

When to get a lawyer - If you plan to be a venture or angel backed technology company (what I mostly write about) the best time to start meeting and getting to know lawyers is long before you ever start your company. You never got around to agreeing exact equity splits but you had many conversations about it. Get to know them.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2013

The first post described how China built a science and technology infrastructure to support advanced weapons systems development. The first wave of startups began when R&D centers and universities began to provide the technology and seed capital for new startups that were spin-outs or spin-offs. Like the U.S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Most of these are non-profits, set up by a university to commercialize new technologies, or a municipality to foster business development for the local economy. Accelerators generally accept startups at a slightly later stage, and attempt to compress the timeline to commercialization into a few months, instead of a year or more.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Second, the Board can usually avoid a public vote or referendum by leasing to a new partner, something politicians fear. The buyers (or lessees) in these transactions are pension funds, insurance companies, or private equity representing other institutions. Capital Solutions.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 30, 2010

” Figuring out the market for your equity, appropriate capital structures, reasonable milestones, and most important of all, the right partner, aren't things that usually happen on the first try without some amount of trial and error. Tags: First Round Capital Venture Capital & Technology.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Texas is the most promising technology market in the United States. These are all potential customers and strategic partners for startups. It won’t be an island, however, it will be connected to the other health centers in Texas and other innovation centers in technology, defense, robotics and other disciplines across the state.”

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 31, 2012

It is with this backdrop that I was really happy to learn from my friend Ethan Anderson (HBS alum & founder of RedBeacon) about an awesome program at HBS run by Tom Eisenmann called Launching Technology Ventures. I got an email recently from my friend & fellow VC, Jeff Bussgang from Flybridge Capital Partners in Boston.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 30, 2014

My partner is a full-time developer and math teacher, and I’m an engineer. Accelerators focus on early-stage startups, while incubators are geared toward later-stage startups. At the halfway point of the program, we feel that the returns on our participation are much greater in value than the equity that we gave up.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Since we are early stage investors, it simply doesn’t matter if we are a short term bull or bear. We are long-term extremely optimistic about the opportunity to invest in and help build important, new, innovative technology companies. Do you see a substantial uptick in private and growth equity in the market? . Decide to do it.

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The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

In the traditionally slow moving world of venture capital they have gone from standing start to raising $4bn across three funds in 5 years – Summit Partners , an older highly successful later stage VC took 15 years to achieve the same feat. These three strategies are hard for the incumbents to copy effectively.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Richard discussed how New York City’s rejection of Columbia University in the competition to build a new technology campus was a real wake up call. Richard Witten , is a former General Partner at Goldman Sachs with with 35+ years of experience in the global capital marketplace. ” Was that a shock to the system?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 14, 2009

It’s just that many companies waste equity on advisory boards, pick the wrong advisers or set up advisory boards with the wrong expectations. The final reason you might find board observers is where you have an investor on your board in an early round of investment and the later stage investors want to take the board seats.

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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.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

The more brand equity you have, the easier it will be to get customers onside. It goes into more detail, such as how likely they are to be a market leader and which technologies they’re using. In the long term, you might move from being a vendor for the account into a partner and advisor. How is your company perceived?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

If you don’t want to read that post, the summary is: Open source computing drove computing costs down 90%, which spurred innovation in technology. Some have done earlier-stage deals and done well. Others have chased earlier-stage but lack the skills or relationships to do this effectively. There are also others.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

In addition, Battery’s partners showed their commitment by putting more money into the fund themselves than in its past funds, among other moves, he said. Maturity : Battery invests in companies at all stages – from seed to later stage private equity buyouts.

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Growthink Blog

JUNE 28, 2010

But, if this is the case, why don’t investors in private equity diversify? Unfortunately, most individual investors in private equity significantly under-diversify their portfolios -- investing in one or only a handful of companies. Becoming a Limited Partner Investor in a Venture Capital or Private Equity Fund.

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Growthink Blog

JUNE 28, 2010

But, if this is the case, why don’t investors in private equity diversify? Unfortunately, most individual investors in private equity significantly under-diversify their portfolios -- investing in one or only a handful of companies. Becoming a Limited Partner Investor in a Venture Capital or Private Equity Fund.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 3, 2013

I normally look to invest my first money below a $20 million valuation and when deals get to lofty prices I normally bow out to later-stage investors who have deeper pockets. In the B round we invested the maximum amount we could alongside the lead – Scale Venture Partners. Not so DataSift. We knew we had a winner.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 10, 2011

V iola Private Equity , an Israeli PE fund with $164 million under management for technology buyouts, has announced a $7 million investment in Zend , the leading provider of open-source and commercial solutions based on PHP web applications. According to Linkedin , Zend has a headcount of 130.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 19, 2021

They might both be accomplished writers or editors, but for a particular project, each partner focuses on a single role, and their different foci make the partnership stronger. As investors, we are active partners to the founders and CEO. I am the invited partner in the room who is here to help this company succeed.”.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

There is much discussion online and also in small, private groups, about why the price of technology companies – public and private – are falling. Many experienced partners are funds have 7-10 boards and most of these will need more capital. This is how VCs feel. So when prices go down their first reaction is, “S**t.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 3, 2017

In November of 2015, the Austin Chamber of Commerce in partnership with the Austin Technology Council released the Inaugural Capital Landscape Analysis to answer these questions. City leadership is actively championing the development of later stage funding sources, and the city’s culture lends itself to supporting that.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

Angels whove made money in technology are preferable,for two reasons: they understand your situation, and theyre asource of contacts and advice. Angels and even VC firms occasionally do this, but they alsoinvest at later stages. The problems are different in the early stages. Whendel.icio.us

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. In Meebo’s case, for example, I was lucky enough to partner up with Elaine and Sandy. No looking for partnerships (who’s going to partner with you anyway?). No phone system.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

All Unicorn participants — founders, company employees, venture investors and their limited partners (LPs) — are seeing their fortunes put at risk from the very nature of the Unicorn phenomenon itself. In Q1 of 2016 there were zero VC-backed technology IPOs. LIMITED PARTNERS (LPS). We should expect more of these in the future.

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