David Teten

JANUARY 23, 2021

Conduct an honest self-evaluation: can you realistically raise money from institutional investors, or should you focus on high net worths/family offices? Institutional investors in funds are typically conservative. Keep an ongoing list of high-caliber investor-focused events in your geographies and sectors of interest.

Venture Capital 78

Venture Capital Private Equity Equity Technical Review 78

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

In the 10th edition of Traction, we hear the story of Vin Vacanti , co-founder/CEO of Yipit.com (daily deals aggregator) and YipitData (analyzes web data for institutional investors). So much tactical goodness rolled into one episode. How did both these companies come into being at the same time?

CTO Hire 120

CTO Hire Framework Startup Cofounder 120

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2023

Once you have some traction, you can approach venture capital organizations , with funding amounts of $1-10 million for the real rollout, often referred to as the “A-round,” or first institutional funding. These usually charge you a fixed fee up front, and then perhaps a small percentage of the raise. Growth and exit stage.

Startup 305

Startup Incubator Angel Investor Venture Capital 305

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 21, 2019

Gui Costin , author of “ Millennials Are Not Aliens “, is an entrepreneur, and founder of Dakota, a company that sells and markets institutional investment strategies.

Technical Review 116

Technical Review Software Review Due Diligence Institutional Investors 116

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 2, 2021

However, most institutional investors (venture capital groups, for instance) don’t mind this structure, and they, in fact, prefer to invest in corporations due to protections from issuing stocks. While LLCs cannot issue stocks, they can sell bonds to investors. Lower tax rates allow an LLC to be more flexible with finances.

Technical Review 155

Technical Review LLC Startup IPO 155

David Teten

MAY 20, 2016

Membership in the Meetup is open exclusively to: Institutional investors in private markets (VC, growth, buyout, distressed, etc.) The goal of this Meetup is to help ffVC and our peers to learn from one another so we can all be more effective. . who use tech solutions in their day-to-day process.

Private Equity 113

Private Equity Equity Cap Table Venture Capital 113

View from Seed

JULY 14, 2022

Investors can start investing in their personalized index today with no minimum up-front investment. Before Pebble, this type of personalized indexing had only been available to large institutional investors or extremely wealthy individuals via separately managed accounts.

Finance 156

Finance Institutional Investors Stock Mobile 156

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 23, 2014

If your business success so far is based on family and Angel investors, perhaps it’s time to start working with institutional investors and external business partners. With each new skill you acquire, your likelihood of long-term success is improved. Expand your investment alternatives.

Entrepreneur 262

Entrepreneur Technical Review Angel Investor Due Diligence 262

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

If your business success so far is based on family and Angel investors, perhaps it’s time to start working with institutional investors and external business partners. With each new skill you acquire, your likelihood of long-term success is improved. Expand your investment alternatives.

Technical Review 149

Technical Review Entrepreneur Angel Investor Due Diligence 149

YoungUpstarts

JULY 19, 2019

Gui Costin , author of “ Millennials Are Not Aliens “, is an entrepreneur, and founder of Dakota, a company that sells and markets institutional investment strategies.

Software Review 106

Software Review Marketing Due Diligence Institutional Investors 106

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 2, 2022

I still get a lot of questions on these mysterious and often invisible investors, so here is another attempt to bring them out of the ether. By definition, an angel investor is not an “institutional investor.” Venture capitalists (VCs) are paid to invest other people’s money, and measured on the rate of return they get.

Angel Investor 384

Angel Investor Advisory Board Startup Institutional Investors 384

David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

He was an Institutional Investor ranked analyst for several years. Alex Bangash is the founder of Trusted Insight, an institutional investor marketplace and social network for Alternatives, and Rumson, an adviser to institutional investors focused on venture capital and emerging markets.

Technical Review 128

Technical Review Technology Cofounder Venture Capital 128

Gust

APRIL 27, 2014

Unless you are bootstrapping everything, you need to have a clear plan on what networking and documents are required to get to friends and family, Angel investors, and institutional investors. Measure yourself against a researched plan, or your “out of cash” brick wall will be looming before you know it. Manage human resources.

Startup 187

Startup Angel Investor Bootstrapping Institutional Investors 187

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Once you have some traction, you can approach venture capital organizations , with funding amounts of $1-10 million for the real rollout, often referred to as the “A-round,” or first institutional funding. These usually charge you a fixed fee up front, and then perhaps a small percentage of the raise. Growth and exit stage.

Startup 429

Startup Incubator Angel Investor Venture Capital 429

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 2, 2021

However, most institutional investors (venture capital groups, for instance) don’t mind this structure, and they, in fact, prefer to invest in corporations due to protections from issuing stocks. While LLCs cannot issue stocks, they can sell bonds to investors. Lower tax rates allow an LLC to be more flexible with finances.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review LLC Startup IPO 78

David Teten

MAY 9, 2012

HBSAANY members include venture capitalists, individual accredited investors, and other institutional investors. The organization invests in companies led by both Harvard and non-Harvard alums across all industries. HBSAANY currently invests at a pace of close to $2 million in 7-10 companies per year. domestic market.

Venture Capital 154

Venture Capital Entrepreneur Accredited Investor Programming 154

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

If your business success so far is based on family and Angel investors, perhaps it’s time to start working with institutional investors and external business partners. With each new skill you acquire, your likelihood of long-term success is improved. Expand your investment alternatives.

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Leadership Marketing Entrepreneur 120

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2020

Even if your business success so far has been based on bootstrapping, it may be time to look to institutional investors to help you with acquisitions and new initiative funding. Use outside investment and acquisition to expand your scope.

Customer 359

Customer Institutional Investors Bootstrapping Channel 359

ithacaVC

MARCH 9, 2017

The importance of the Board is why institutional investors (like VCs) often get a seat on the Board after an investment. But don’t be fooled, there is an element of control as investors want a say in critical decisions. The list goes on and on. Good corporate governance is critical at startups and other companies alike!

Seed Stage 58

Seed Stage Lead Investor Institutional Investors Software Review 58

David Teten

JUNE 22, 2012

HBSAANY members embody try capitalists, particular accredited investors, and other institutional investors. NAIC firms beget poignant earnings for institutional investors and shareholders by investing in and transforming secretly hold businesses in tellurian rising markets as good as a $6 trillion annual women and diverse U.S.

Entrepreneur 128

Entrepreneur Accredited Investor Programming Venture Capital 128

Steve Blank

AUGUST 19, 2013

It has gotten so bad that pension funds and other institutional investors in venture capital funds have told these funds to stay away from Life Science – or at the least, early stage Life Science. And while the vast majority of Life Science exits remain below $125M, other sectors have seen exit valuations soar. WTF is going on?

Startup 291

Startup Venture Capital Lean Institutional Investors 291

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2020

That’s why it is better to use institutional investors and loans when you are able, with realistic time frame expectations. This money is real, so don’t assume it doesn’t have to be repaid. Some founders are too focused on quick repayment, and they compromise strategic decisions.

Angel Investor 308

Angel Investor Management Cram Down Entrepreneur 308

Gust

MAY 24, 2012

The “con” side should be readily apparent: Entrenching management inherently disempowers individual and even large institutional investors, whose capital the company is entrusted with investing to earn a return.

IPO 159

IPO Equity Common Stock Stock 159

David Teten

JUNE 22, 2012

HBSAANY members embody try capitalists, particular accredited investors, and other institutional investors. NAIC firms beget poignant earnings for institutional investors and shareholders by investing in and transforming secretly hold businesses in tellurian rising markets as good as a $6 trillion annual women and diverse U.S.

Entrepreneur 114

Entrepreneur Accredited Investor Programming Venture Capital 114

The Equity Kicker

OCTOBER 14, 2014

If you are approaching an institutional investor then people who are new to the firm and/or more junior often have more time, although maybe less influence. Moreover, those ‘yesses’ will naturally skew to the people they already know and know well, making it tough to break in. Venture Capital'

Startup 123

Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur Early Stage 123

This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 15, 2020

As a former institutional investor, one of the stats we focused on was carry distribution. Very few institutional Limited Partners have reached out to their investors to even ask about VC policy, let along try to influence it. Morever, LPs should be influencing these policies. Because they’re afraid to lose their access.

Venture Capital 131

Venture Capital Institutional Investors Hiring Later Stage 131

OnlyOnce

JULY 30, 2020

Institutional investors can require liquidity too, and while it’s possible to buy out shareholders or create a debt / equity financing, you might think about selling the company instead.

Startup 48

Startup Cap Table Institutional Investors Early Stage 48

David Teten

JUNE 8, 2020

On June 25, I’m speaking to the Stamford Fintech Meetup on “Asset Managers, Prepare to Have Your Business Disrupted” This is based on my Institutional Investor cover story: “ Asset Managers, Prepare to Have Your Business Disrupted ”, cowritten with Katina Stefanova (CEO/CIO, Marto Capital; former management committee at Bridgewater (..)

Institutional Investors 60

Institutional Investors Management Private Equity Venture Capital 60

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.

Institutional Investors 114

Institutional Investors Alabama Virginia Arizona 114

Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

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.

IPO 36

IPO Accredited Investor SEC Marketing 36

Early Growth Financial Services

JULY 24, 2015

Once regarded as part of a libertarian fringe, Bitcoin is increasingly commanding the attention of the world’s major financial institutions, institutional investors, and governmental regulatory bodies. Current estimates put the amount of Bitcoin outstanding at $14.2

Institutional Investors 28

Institutional Investors Technical Review Stock Operations 28

View from Seed

JUNE 7, 2016

At NextView, one founder we invested in last year proactively asked us, as her lone institutional investor, to start doing this. Just to discuss a few benefits more in-depth… First and foremost, getting into a regular cadence readies the company to think and operate more professionally for later rounds of financing.

Founder 120

Founder Seed Stage Seed Capital Institutional Investors 120

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 27, 2019

I still get a lot of questions on these mysterious and often invisible investors, so here is another attempt to bring them out of the ether. By definition, an angel investor is not an “institutional investor.” Venture capitalists (VCs) are paid to invest other people’s money, and measured on the rate of return they get.

Angel Investor 247

Angel Investor Startup Advisory Board Institutional Investors 247

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Of the last 15 investments we’ve made, we’ve been the lead or co-lead investor over 80% of the time. . That said, we tend to be very flexible on syndication to bring on great partners, and have collaborated with terrific partners like our most frequent co-investors Founder Collective, Accomplice, LHV, Softech, and others.

Seed Stage 120

Seed Stage Lead Investor Early Stage Cofounder 120

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 14, 2019

This book is an essential read for aspiring female venture investors who want to be inspired by the life stories of women who made it all the way to the top in venture capital. It is also a valuable resource for male investors interested in increasing diversity.

Venture Capital 177

Venture Capital Institutional Investors Boston Entrepreneur 177

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 28, 2018

Once you have some traction, you can approach venture capital organizations , with funding amounts of $1-10 million for the real rollout, often referred to as the “A-round,” or first institutional funding. These usually charge you a fixed fee up front, and then perhaps a small percentage of the raise. Growth and exit stage.

Incubator 236

Incubator Angel Investor Startup Venture Capital 236

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

Just 3 years ago there was talk of institutional investors “not being able to write small enough checks.” [Note the full presentation deck with additional slides can be found on SlideShare here or you can simply scroll through it at the bottom of this post.]. ” Stated simply – if you seed funded Uber at $4.5m

Venture Capital 398

Venture Capital Technical Review Valuation IPO 398