Pascal's View

MARCH 16, 2010

Susan Mangiero , CEO of Investment Governance’s Fiduciary X , asked me the following: Question; How should institutional investors contact VC funds? Answer : First, nothing beats direct contact with managers. Directly or via an investment consultant?

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David Teten

MARCH 5, 2021

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%.”. David Teten is a past Advisor to Real Ventures. *We

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 3, 2018

Procter & Gamble, the biggest company ever targeted this way, made headlines in 2017 when Nelson Peltz of Trian Partners demanded, and ultimately won, a seat on its board. One thing’s for sure: No company is immune to activist investors. Management promised huge efficiency improvements that never came.

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David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2013

Partners for a New Beginning (PNB), a public-private partnership housed at the Aspen Institute, is organizing a Venture Capital, Private Equity and Angel Investor Delegation from the Maghreb. Aspen is looking for institutional investor and entrepreneur speakers willing to share their investing insights and personal experiences.

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David Teten

MAY 9, 2012

. “We are pleased to partner with them on VCAP©, which will provide women and diverse entrepreneurs with access to capital essential to innovation and job creation.” HBSAANY members include venture capitalists, individual accredited investors, and other institutional investors. domestic market.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

Limited Partners or LPs (the people who invest into VC funds) have taken notice as 2014 is by all accounts the busiest year for LPs since the Great Recession began. Just 3 years ago there was talk of institutional investors “not being able to write small enough checks.”

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

We drew on our work with leading institutional investors and in-depth interviews with over 150 funds. Now that I’ve been an institutional VC for a few years, I thought it would be helpful to revisit our findings from the investor side of the table. dedicated deal sourcers for every generalist investment professional.

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David Teten

JUNE 22, 2012

In announcing these finalists, David Teten, Founder and Chairman of HBSAANY, and Partner at ff Venture Capital ( ffvc.com ), said “VCAP has introduced us to entrepreneurs looking at opportunities which would otherwise have been invisible to us. We think the potential of the companies we’ve met through this initiative is exceptional.”.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 15, 2020

In venture, it’s all about getting an opportunity to make partner and being included in the carry—the economic upside of a fund. As a former institutional investor, one of the stats we focused on was carry distribution. Not all hires, however, are made equally. Morever, LPs should be influencing these policies.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

My colleagues Sebastian Soler , Steven Greenberg and I recently launched a new online community, PEVCTech.com , exclusively for PE/VC investors; engineers who work at PE/VC funds; and other technologists who specialize in working on this problem. Greylock Partners. You can register for the survey here. VC Firm. $ Tech % of workforce.

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David Teten

JUNE 22, 2012

In announcing these finalists, David Teten, Founder and Chairman of HBSAANY, and Partner at ff Venture Capital ( ffvc.com ), said “VCAP has introduced us to entrepreneurs looking at opportunities which would otherwise have been invisible to us. We think the potential of the companies we’ve met through this initiative is exceptional.”.

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David Teten

MARCH 28, 2012

The objective of the research is to define a blueprint for how investors can help portfolio companies succeed through operational (non-financial) support, including but not limited to facilitating shared services, recruiting, knowledge sharing, and enhancing management skills.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

Editor’s Note: This testimony was delivered by a16z managing partner Scott Kupor to the U.S. By way of background, I am the Managing Partner for Andreessen Horowitz, a $16.5 IPO market. In essence the IPO Pop is the increase in the price of the opening trade of an IPO relative to the IPO price.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 16, 2014

Secondly, because he had single-handedly managed to achieve something that my adopted startup hometown of London (despite a fair amount of wailing and hand-wringing) has not yet achieved; namely, an incredibly successful public flotation of a homegrown tech company listing on the local market. Accelerators. Co-working spaces.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

We are seeking Partner-level investment professionals at hedge funds, mutual funds, VCs, sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, family offices, and other institutional investors to interview for this research project. . DisruptInvesting Financial Services Fund Management Investing' Photo credit.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 20, 2021

He later joined the O’Hara Administration, an investment and asset management firm, where he manages the firm’s investment strategy and fund-raising initiatives. Partner relationships have been in place with model Paula Echevarria, singer Usher and DJs Steve Aoki and Nicky Romero. A Shining Future for Sunglasses Brand Hawkers.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 29, 2014

This post was originally published on the personal blog of NextView founding partner Lee Hower. Most of the dollars a VC firm invests come from outside limited partner investors (LPs). Some institutional investors simply aren’t big enough to have in-house employees to vet and manage a portfolio of VC funds.

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SiliconHills

MARCH 19, 2018

TurnKey Vacation Rentals, one of the nation’s largest vacation rental management companies, recently announced it has received $31 million in funding. To date, the company […].

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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. Asset management also shows the traditional earmarks of an industry ripe for disruption — most obviously, unhappy customers and extremely profitable incumbents.

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 9, 2021

Screendoor is 100% an economic vehicle, not a philanthropic one, but we decided to make it ‘no fee/no carry’ so that all the profits flow back to the investors, not us middlemen. And we’re all LPs (investors) in the fund itself, which means we have skin in the game. Partnering With Other VCs To Get This Done.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 12, 2014

Prorata investments rights given investors the right to invest in your future fund-raising rounds and maintain their ownership % in your company as your company grows and raises more capital. People all across the value chain have taken notice including Limited Partners who are the people who invest in VC funds in the first place.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 3, 2023

Friends, family and fools: [Email readers, continue here…] This term, although pejorative, describes the typical mix of early investors in a small, young growing business. Strategic investors validate a business, by their presence creating the very value they pay for with increased price per share purchased.

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David Teten

MARCH 24, 2014

My recent post on “ Asset Management is a Bizarre Industry Ripe for Disruption ” got one of the most interesting reactions I’ve received. We had an email conversation about the rationality, or lack of rationality, of professional investors. For Professional Institutional investors: agency risk is a huge problem.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

You attend annual meetings and hop on investor calls as a means of oversight and to help you decide whether or not to invest in a future fund. For the VC that means if you're returning money to your institutional investors, that's about all you need to worry about. If you're an individual, you've probably put in less money, so.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 5, 2020

Pavel is a co-founder and managing partner at Mindrock Capital. Pavel is also a managing partner at GVA Capital. Pavel told me that although there’s a category of investors who are willing to fund ideas in early stages, the truth is that in most cases is that funding will include your friends and family at the beginning.

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Most of the dollars a VC firm invests come from outside limited partner investors (LPs). The actual partners of a VC firm (GPs) will typically invest a minimum of 1% of the total size of their fund,* though frequently this percentage is substantially higher (especially in many of the best funds). The first is a staff constraint.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 5, 2012

They didn't care about you when you needed commercial credit, but now--now they want to manage your money. The problem is that there are fantastic opportunities out there with completely trustworthy managers. You've never dealt with these expensive suit Wall Street types and don't want to. Welcome to family office investing.

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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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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.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 20, 2021

He later joined the O’Hara Administration, an investment and asset management firm, where he manages the firm’s investment strategy and fund-raising initiatives. Partner relationships have been in place with model Paula Echevarria, singer Usher and DJs Steve Aoki and Nicky Romero. A Shining Future for Sunglasses Brand Hawkers.

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David Teten

JULY 12, 2017

When I meet with other VCs, family offices, and other institutional investors, the most common question I get is: “What are the highest-potential companies in your portfolio which are raising now?” We see our potential coinvestors in four primary buckets: 1) HOF Capital ’s own limited partners.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 30, 2018

If a VC prices a flat or down round it means that management teams are often taking too much dilution. Each new investor knows that the people who have the MOST asymmetric information on your performance are the previous round investors. Many investors. But there is also another very rational reason.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

I recently met with a friend who’s a senior executive at a large investment management organization. Aquiline Capital Partners. Motive Partners. NYCA Partners. Pivot Investment Partners. QED Investors. SenaHill Partners. Point72 Asset Management. FT Partners Fintech Research. Broadhaven.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

Jussi Laakkonen , CEO & founder of Applifie, summarized it well: We recently raised our seed round at Applifier and it was led by a silicon valley seed fund MHS Capital, whose general partner is Mark Sugarman. Use your network #2: approach a corporate financier who advised a company we recently partnered. Simplify, practice.

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David Teten

JULY 11, 2019

In practice, sometimes we cannot exercise these rights, as company management may ask us to make room for certain desired new investors. These are designed to allow an institutional investor to invest followon rounds in existing portfolio companies. Blue Future Partners: ?How How much to charge for an SPV ”.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 2, 2021

He was the first institutional investor in Facebook and also an early-stage investor in groundbreaking companies like Etsy, Spotify, C3.AI, Breyer Capital’s Chinese partner IDG Capital, where Jim is Co-Chairman, led some of the first investments in Chinese companies Tencent, Baidu, and Xiaomi.

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