ithacaVC

MARCH 9, 2017

Good corporate governance is critical at startups and other companies alike! The importance of the Board is why institutional investors (like VCs) often get a seat on the Board after an investment. The list goes on and on. The Board discusses and agrees on strategy. Discussion is critical.

Seed Stage 58

Seed Stage Software Review Institutional Investors Lead Investor 58

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. Will they work 24/7 to get the job done? How will they behave when unforeseen challenges occur—which they always do?

Government 28

Government Technical Review Due Diligence Institutional Investors 28

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

This article will focus on the impact of hospitals in that equation, specifically those public health system owned and controlled by local Governments. [2]. Further into their lifecycle, though, they found themselves beholden to certain financial and governance handicaps. Hospital System Roots. Unions often cast an outsized presence.

Private Equity 129

Private Equity New York City Chicago Investment Bankers 129

Austin Startup

APRIL 1, 2017

TL;DR Nutshell : There are few governance-related decisions with a more outsized impact on a company’s power structure than the selection of an independent director. Is the candidate looking for other appointments, either as a director or a more-involved executive; potentially at companies where your lead investors could deliver access?

Term Sheet 48

Term Sheet Institutional Investors Technical Review Lead Investor 48

View from Seed

OCTOBER 29, 2014

For public sector roles, such as government employees, teachers, and firefighters, DB pension funds are still the norm, and many public pension funds still invest in VC funds (though some of these are very large entities, making scale an issue, which I’ll discuss more below). The first is a staff constraint. Why Write About This Now?

LP 335

LP Private Equity Institutional Investors Venture Capital 335

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2014

Think about the implications of each to your own business, and the potential impact of getting them done incorrectly, or forgetting to do them entirely: Manage your financials and physical assets. Manage human resources. Even the government is watching to see where you fit. entrepreneur funding hobby investors startup'

Startup 268

Startup Institutional Investors Angel Investor Bootstrapping 268

Agile VC

OCTOBER 29, 2014

For public sector roles, such as government employees, teachers, and firefighters, DB pension funds are still the norm, and many public pension funds still invest in VC funds (though some of these are very large entities, making scale an issue, which I’ll discuss more below). The first is a staff constraint.

Venture Capital 279

Venture Capital LP Private Equity Institutional Investors 279

VC Cafe

JUNE 19, 2020

“This is part of a process taking place in the world in the past decade,” writes TechForGood CEO Omri Boral, “in which the approach of organizations, investors and countries towards social and environmental issues is changing from seeing them as a problem to becoming an opportunity.”. Cohen asks.

Venture Capital 174

Venture Capital Global South Africa 174

David Teten

FEBRUARY 16, 2013

The Southern States Business Coalition (SSBC) is bringing some of the country’s leading Plan Sponsors, Institutional Investors, and Alternative Investment professionals to Birmingham, AL, March 3-6 for the Southern States Alternative Investment Symposium 2013. My Partner John Frankel and I are both speaking.

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Alabama Virginia Arizona Arkansas 114

This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 12, 2020

The new point person seemed intent on bringing in new managers. I could never have imagined going from a 25-year-old analyst at an institutional investor to seeing what I’ve seen and being a part of this community. I got in a good two months of raising, which seemed promising at first until things started to come apart.

LP 136

LP Technical Review Software Review Valuation 136

Board Effect

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

ESG , or environmental, social , and governance, is an issue that’s making big waves, and ESG for nonprofits is getting its share of attention as well. Organizations demonstrate their commitment to ESG for nonprofits, in part, by how they manage relationships with employees, vendors, and others.

South Africa 76

South Africa Government Africa Institutional Investors 76

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2013

Think about the implications of each to your own business, and the potential impact of getting them done incorrectly, or forgetting to do them entirely: Manage your financials and physical assets. Manage human resources. Even the government is watching to see where you fit. Marty Zwilling.

Institutional Investors 230

Institutional Investors Angel Investor Bootstrapping Database 230

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. Not literally, but one big surprise to me was that in the 40 odd investor meetings I had, I managed to open the deck probably only 5-10 times. Simplify, practice.

Silicon Valley 104

Silicon Valley Startup Seed Stage Delaware 104

Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 12, 2009

C corps, LLCs, and S corps differ significantly in the areas of taxation, ownership, fundraising, governance and structure, and employee compensation. Such inflexible features are typically unattractive to venture investors. Governance/Structure. Almost all technology startup companies that I work with are C corps. Fundraising.

LLC 61

LLC Stock Options Preferred Stock Stock 61

Women Entrepreneurs Can

JUNE 11, 2021

Stock markets are a common platform where individual and institutional investors come together to buy and sell shares. Portfolio Investment covers a wide range of assets that include stocks, government, and corporate bonds. If you select index or mutual funds, all the hard work falls on the fund managers.

Stock 52

Stock Securities and Exchange Commission Portfolio Dividend 52

Austin Startup

JANUARY 2, 2021

Some are running away from skyrocketing tax rates, dysfunctional government, and devastating wildfires. He was the first institutional investor in Facebook and also an early-stage investor in groundbreaking companies like Etsy, Spotify, C3.AI, Austin is positioned to be the biggest winner of them all. Why Jim Breyer?

Silicon Valley 100

Silicon Valley Austin Texas Raleigh 100

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.” see below).

IPO 82

IPO Customer Matching Silicon Valley 82

Pascal's View

MARCH 9, 2010

This is the second in our series of ten frequently asked questions from investors in venture capital partnerships. To get to the core of your question, providing passive institutional investors with more financial information about illiquid securities isn’t going to make them more liquid.

Government 31

Government Private Equity Institutional Investors Venture Capital 31

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 28, 2012

Most employee retirement plans do not offer options to direct invested funds to investment vehicles employing security selection based on environmental, social, and/or governance (ESG) characteristics, and relatively few such choices have been available from the largest investment managers.

Green 154

Green Institutional Investors Employee Hosting 154

Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 21, 2014

This notion is more common now than it was when we started the fund early in 2013, there’s still occasional question about whether this slows down a company’s operations or gives investors too much control. My answer is, if it does, you’ve selected the wrong investors, which is a bigger problem.

Cofounder 102

Cofounder Seed Stage Syndicate Syndication 102

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2012

This from Kate Mitchell, the former chair of the National Venture Capital Association, and current Managing Director of Scale Venture Partners. But the relaxation itself comes with limits, Mitchell tells us - limits that maintain the spirit in which the reporting rules were created, and which many investors actually insisted should remain.

IPO 118

IPO SEC Silicon Valley Startup 118

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2009

These technology startups had no risk capital – just customers/purchase orders from government/military/intelligence agencies. 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.

Silicon Valley 159

Silicon Valley Securities and Exchange Commission Venture Capital RSS 159