Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2015

Along with Greycroft, I was the first institutional investor in Maker Studios (sold to Disney for nearly $1 billion) and am still the largest investor in Mitu Network , the largest online video producer of Latino content. Any reader of this blog for a period of time will know that I’ve been long YouTube for years.

SEM 150

SEM Los Angeles Silicon Valley Acquisition 150

Steve Blank

JUNE 17, 2011

Smart Money are prescient angel investors and Venture Capitalists who started investing in social networks, consumer and mobile applications and the cloud 3, 4 or 5 years ago. What no one tells the Marks is that as they’re buying, the smart money and institutional investors are quietly pulling out and selling their assets.

Investment Bankers 310

Investment Bankers Stock Valuation Venture Capital 310

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

IPO markets had burned an entire cycle of retail stock investors and many institutional investors to boot. hours per day on average, and that’s excluding the other 13 hours a day where we have our mobile devices, our connected TVs, our iPads and Kindles and soon our cars connected to the web. And the future?

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

I can tell you first hand than bankers are out making road shows to gin up interest in VCs and institutional investors. With the iPhone, Apple finally broke the hegemony that the telecom carriers had over mobile applications and that has stifled innovation for too many years. We’re only in the second inning on mobile.

IPO 255

IPO Investment Bankers Venture Capital Marketing 255

BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Our goal was to be the best first check partner for enterprise founders, bringing the value add of a VC firm while moving with the speed and conviction of an angel investor. We set out to build boldstart at the height of mobile app mania and viral growth and were faced with questions about our focus on enterprise and NYC.

Cap Table 60

Cap Table Cofounder Dividend Institutional Investors 60

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

We’re thrilled to have among our limited partners a select group of individuals from the startup ecosystem as well as several large institutional investors (including a university endowment, a corporate pension fund, and a multi-family office). NextView’s inaugural fund is just over $21 million. Read More ».

LP 100

LP Seed Stage Silicon Valley Limited Partner 100

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Excel and Google simply aren’t going to cut it if you expect to build a high quality institutional investor base.”. Point Nine Capital uses Qwilr to create modern, mobile-native collateral. We are also seeing technology evaluation as an increasingly important part of LP operational due diligence. 4) Originate investments.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 24, 2012

Dan: Our goal is really to get beyond search social and the inefficiencies that search social and mobile have introduced to us. With the exception of Facebook and Twitter, it seems like this magic 10 million user number is a rare benchmark that companies hit, and yet that’s only 10% of the mobile market. What is it?

Silicon Valley 204

Silicon Valley Software Review Internet Technical Review 204

The Next Web

JANUARY 16, 2014

The Brisbane-based creators of Fruit Ninja and Jetpack Joyride were acquired by Onan Games in 2012, but still deserve an honorable mention for being Australia’s answer to global mobile gaming giants King.com and Rovio. Having seen the talent Australia has produced so far, I’m inclined to agree with him.

Australia 146

Australia San Francisco IPO Cofounder 146

View from Seed

MAY 29, 2019

This is why, as I said previously, most seed rounds today still have 2–3 institutional investors involved although it’s less likely that all three are equally happy about their allocations in the round. As rounds have gotten bigger, there is often still an opportunity for at least a couple funds to collaborate.

Syndicate 267

Syndicate Syndication Cofounder Cap Table 267

VC Cafe

AUGUST 11, 2014

GLG continued to build it’s expert consulting network in the years to follow to become one of the top primary research tools for institutional investors because they have helped their customers to make things simple quickly. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.

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Curation Vertical San Francisco Angel Investor 167

View from Seed

JULY 14, 2022

Pebble makes it easy to create a truly personalized ETF, all within their user-friendly mobile app. Investors can start investing in their personalized index today with no minimum up-front investment.

Finance 156

Finance Institutional Investors Stock Mobile 156

Steve Blank

AUGUST 19, 2013

While the time, expense and difficulty to exit has soared in Life Sciences, all three critical factors have been cut by orders of magnitude in other investment sectors such as internet or social-local-mobile. And while the vast majority of Life Science exits remain below $125M, other sectors have seen exit valuations soar.

Venture Capital 301

Venture Capital Startup Lean Philadelphia 301

abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

If you download their mobile app, Krispy Kreme will give you a free doughnut , McDonald’s will give you a free large fries , and Baskin-Robbins will give you a free scoop of ice cream. On the demand side, the IPO process is limited to a handful of institutional investors and also ignores the vast majority of retail investors.

IPO 82

IPO Customer Matching Silicon Valley 82