Berkonomics

AUGUST 3, 2023

The subject of raising money is critical to many businesses and a passing option to others, depending upon the capital efficiency of the enterprise. And even with the significant cost of credit card debt, many entrepreneurs aggressively use existing cards to finance a startup. For those of you who fit that description, nice work.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Professional expert networks allow you to efficiently convert your financial capital into relationship capital. Like many established finance & media companies, GLG knows that the tech startup sector is a growing part of the economy. Or, you can go straight to the source.

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New York Technical Review Networking Advisory Board 114

David Teten

JULY 3, 2013

I hope you can join me for this program, cosponsored by Empire Angels ; HBS Alumni Angels of Greater New York ; and the The Young Venture Capital Society. what you need to know as an early stage investor: best practices in origination, evaluation, structuring and adding value. So You Want to Be an Angel?

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David Teten

JULY 3, 2013

Co-Sponsored by Empire Angels, HBS Alumni Angels of Greater New York, and Young Venture Capital Society. Must be an individual Accredited Investor who plans to make a private investment in 2013. Members include representatives of several VCs, family offices and other institutional investors.

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Pascal's View

MARCH 10, 2010

This is the third in our series of ten frequently asked questions from investors in venture capital partnerships. Answer: You are asking a fundamental question here about trust, which relates to your prior question. How will they behave when unforeseen challenges occur—which they always do? Share and Enjoy:

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

For startups and high-growth businesses, as you scale and encounter new milestones and obstacles, you will be faced with the question of how to finance and plan for that growth. Luckily for founders, the ways in which you can finance your startup are varied based on your business model, your preference, your goals, and timeline, and so on.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2010

Often when startups who have raised venture capital need another round of financing they will turn to their existing investors to give them money before raising from outsiders. a loan) that is later converted to equity at the time of the next financing. It starts as a debt instrument (e.g.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

To begin with, it is important to understand some basic facts about the world of entrepreneurial finance: There are many more entrepreneurs than there are investors, with the result that only one company out of every 400 that seeks venture funding actually receives it.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Most significant VCs in New York , including ff Venture Capital , are active investors in fintech. Aquiline Capital Partners. AXA Strategic Ventures. Citi Ventures. Capital One Growth Ventures. Transamerica Ventures. Worldquant Ventures. Technyc.org (not fintech specific).

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Berkonomics

JUNE 8, 2017

The subject of raising money is critical to many businesses and a passing option to others, depending upon the capital efficiency of the enterprise. And even with the significant cost of credit card debt, many entrepreneurs aggressively use existing cards to finance a startup. For you who fit that description, nice work.

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Private Equity Valuation Cap Table Accredited Investor 106

David Teten

AUGUST 21, 2019

Most founders who are raising capital look first to traditional equity VCs. Or should they look to one of the new wave of Revenue-Based Investors? Revenue-Based Investing (“RBI”) is a new form of VC financing, distinct from the preferred equity structure most VCs use. RBI capital is normally treated as debt.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

What’s the secret to manufacturing this combination of foresight, timing, and financing? For the institutional investor, it’s a set of bets. Even so, venture capital has a horrible record in the past ten years — most funds don’t make good money.

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The Equity Kicker

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

There’s been a lot of talk recently about what will happen to startup financing in 2016, including here on this blog. He also surveyed 72 institutional investors in VC funds who said they think they will maintain their rate of commitments to new funds this year.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 10, 2012

Mezzanine Financing Most companies that raise equity capital and are eventually acquired or go public receive multiple rounds of financing first. No right or wrong answer here, but if this is your vision then it's important to consider when negotiating deal terms on earlier stage financing rounds. Seed Funding 3.

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Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 5, 2020

One of the hottest topics in the technology and finance world right now is an old idea that has suddenly found new life, the special purpose acquisition company or “SPAC.” Most IPOs are managed by a handful of investment banks who run a roadshow to sell stock to risk-averse institutional investors.

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Haystack

OCTOBER 2, 2019

What I will say is many institutional investors require them, and fair or not, most investors view the pitch deck as a proxy for how the founders will present to customers. An accelerator that can help a founder raise more capital would be a huge value-add. We won’t get into that here.

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K9 Ventures

MAY 14, 2011

This in theory is very similar to the behavior of institutional investors, however, there is one big difference. Institutional investors make sizable investments in a company, so that when they do get a big hit that can make the whole fund. However, there is a difference. The cycle will continue, as it inevitably does.

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Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 12, 2009

Any company that raises venture financing will need to be a C corp in order to issue preferred stock. If founders want the benefit of flow through tax treatment with respect to losses prior to an outside financing, an S corp election may make sense as long as there are no entity or non-U.S. citizen/resident stockholders.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

So what is driving the new energy in the remaining venture capital firms when we kept hearing how much the whole industry was “against the ropes?&# … 1. The Market rebound – Let’s face it, just as investor sentiment is unnecessary shaken when the markets dive it also becomes overly optimistic when markets bounce.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

When we started NextView, there were relatively few seed focused venture capital funds in the country, even fewer on the east coast, and almost none in the Boston area. Non-institutional Leads. The institutions walked, but the round got done. New Competition. Today, the landscape is very different. Getting Crammed Down.

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David Teten

APRIL 7, 2017

This is a generalizable principle: you get higher returns where other investors are not. Because of that insight, we co-founded the Venture Capital Access Program , focused on helping women and minority entrepreneurs raise capital from HBS Alumni Angels. The summit is hosted by: – ABANA – the preeminent U.S.

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Hunter Walker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Starting a venture capital blog post with 1970s country music lyrics is pretty uncommon, but so is writing about when and why an investor might choose to sell equity before the company exits. Below I’ll share some of the principles we use at Homebrew , knowing that there’s not really a single ‘right’ answer for a fund manager.

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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. . Excel and Google simply aren’t going to cut it if you expect to build a high quality institutional investor base.”. The Ultimate Early-Stage Investor’s Tech Stack.

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abovethecrowd.com

MAY 20, 2013

As Benchmark is a large institutional investor in Grubhub, we were actively involved in the merger process, and we are quite excited about the potential of the two companies coming together. Finding a way to meld two complex capital structures is non-trivial, and may require compromise from many parties involved.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

He was an Institutional Investor ranked analyst for several years. The second panel will focus on collaborative investing in non-public alternative investments (private equity, venture capital, receivables, etc.). . Nic Perkin is the President and Co-Founder of The Receivables Exchange.

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BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

To have institutional investors the quality of Knollwood and Top Tier Capital seeking an allocation to seed and NYC enterprise shows the tremendous progress we have all made. Most importantly, we wanted to thank our amazing group of founders that we have had the privilege to partner with over the years.

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Small Business Force

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

Last year, while $48 billion was invested in entrepreneurial businesses by professional investors, that is, angels, private investors or venture capital funds, less than 70,000 businesses received that funding. And of those, less than 3,600 got their funding from venture capital funds.

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Rob Go

JANUARY 7, 2013

This means that we like working as a catalyst for a round, negotiate terms, bring in other investors, and sit on boards. The fact that each member of our team has worked at larger, institutional venture capital firms is an important asset. We invest in about 10 companies each year. This isn’t a quota. Consumer: 9.

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Small Business Force

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

Last year, while professional investors put $48 billion in entrepreneurial companies, that is, angels, private investors or venture capital funds, less than 70,000 businesses received that funding. And of those, less than 3,600 got their money from venture capital funds. You have a choice" Why?

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Pascal's View

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

The small growth company is widely recognized as creating new jobs, and, in America, over the past eleven years we’ve witnessed the capital markets death of one of the great job-creation mechanisms in the United States, the sub-$50 million IPO. Between 1991 and 200 80% of IPO’s raised $50mm or less. IPOs were neither VC nor PE backed.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 9, 2010

T he birth of the Israeli venture capital industry was supported by government programs like Yozma. The proposal will enable investors in startups to receive tax write-offs on investments for high-tech companies who spend at least 70% of their salaries in Israel. Today, most of the LPs for Israeli funds are foreign investors.

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abovethecrowd.com

AUGUST 23, 2020

I would argue that any first year finance student or computer science student would naturally assume this is how traditional public offerings already work (they would be wrong). The direct listing process is much simpler, is elegant, and uses modern market-based approaches to both price discovery and allocation.

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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. Investors can tap this network for executive talent, followon financings, and eventually an exit.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Since I became an institutional investor, my #1 learning is: this is a highly unusual and somewhat baffling industry. Disruptable Pattern #5: Institutional investors are eager to cut larger checks rather than smaller ones. I think there are many more opportunities to disrupt the space. Photo credit: JD Hancock.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Plus, if the business doesn’t raise enough the capital in the first round to become self-sustaining, the crowdfunding round’s cap table and/or terms may make the deal unattractive or not doable for follow-on, institutional investors. He’s formed multiple venture capital funds, founded angel groups, and is an angel investor.

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Gust

OCTOBER 26, 2011

As we conclude our convertible note financing series, there are assorted terms commonly seen in term sheets and deal documents that are worth touching on briefly. The Note Purchase Agreement and Convertible Promissory Note are essential documents for any convertible note financing. Next section: Amendment.

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David Teten

MARCH 5, 2021

What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? Of course, one could rebut that by saying traditional VC is all about investing in outliers: Seth Levine analyzed data from Correlation Ventures (21,000 financings from 2004-2013) and writes that “a full 65% of financings fail to return 1x capital.

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