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Venture Capital Access Program launches to aid women and diverse entrepreneurs

David Teten

We are in the midst of two great disruptions to American business: the internet’s ongoing disruption of most traditional industries: finance, healthcare, retail, finance, fashion, etc. Any company that aspires to maintain a leadership position needs to position itself to exploit these two macro trends. domestic market.

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How To Disrupt The Investing Business, With Katina Stefanova (Ex-Bridgewater Management Committee)

David Teten

The most pervasive has been the expansion of passively managed portfolios, such as index funds and ETFs, which allow both retail and institutional investors access to a broad spectrum of investment opportunities at a much lower cost. Do you think “too big to fail” is “too big to exist”, as some argue? Cross-posted in Forbes ).

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VC Governance FAQ: (3) How can investors protect themselves against key-person risk from fraud in VC-backed portfolio companies?

Pascal's View

Susan Mangiero , CEO of Investment Governance’s Fiduciary X , asked me the following: Question: Given recent instances of VC-backed company fraud and questions about the management team, how can institutional investors protect themselves from key person risk? Will they work 24/7 to get the job done? Share and Enjoy:

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The Biggest Threats to My Business

Rob Go

Non-institutional Leads. I’ve seen a few cases now where a number of very high-quality institutional investors were interested in investing in a company at valuation, but a non-institutional investor was willing to set terms 1.5 – 2X higher than that valuation. Alternative funding sources.

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The iconic VC-Backed founders are all White & Asian men. So why invest in diversity?

David Teten

BCG (January 2018): “Companies that reported above-average diversity on their management teams also reported innovation revenue that was 19 percentage points higher than that of companies with below-average leadership diversity — 45% of total revenue versus just 26%.”.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley 11: The Rise of “Risk Capital.

Steve Blank

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.

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On Going Public: SPACs, Direct Listings, Public Offerings, and Access to Private Markets

Ben's Blog

Concerns have been raised around what this reveals about the price discovery process for IPOs and whether retail investors are disadvantaged relative to certain institutional investors that have access to purchase shares at the IPO process. First, as the below chart shows, IPO pops are not a new phenomenon.

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