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. Expand your investment alternatives. Entrepreneurship is not a one-time transformation that qualifies you long-term success.

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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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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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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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The Equity Kicker

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Early stage investors like Forward Partners look for a minimum of a great entrepreneur and a great idea. 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. Venture Capital'

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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

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

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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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.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

The final piece of my four-part guide to expanding a business into Asia is tailored more towards local startups and a big issue that affects many of them: raising funding from investors. Asia has far fewer VC firms and institutional investors, each of which invests a far smaller amount of capital.

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David Teten

MARCH 28, 2012

This study is effectively a sequel to the study David Teten led with Chris Farmer of General Catalyst on best practices of venture capital and private equity funds in originating new deals , published in Journal of Private Equity , Harvard Business Review , Institutional Investor , etc.

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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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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

I’ve also presented at a range of industry conferences on how institutional investors can use professional networks for research , origination , market research , and value creation. We’re backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, Silver Lake Partners, and individual investors like Ron Conway, among others.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 3, 2023

It’s an option, even though an expensive one. “ Strategic partner” investors: If you can find a strategic partner willing to invest in your enterprise, consider it a blessing. 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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Austin Startup

JANUARY 3, 2019

Feedback to investors about what helps and doesn’t help founders when fundraising. I originally asked this question to several founders with the intent of addressing angel investors but I’ve found it doesn’t exclude other institutional investors either.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 20, 2021

He works closely with European banks and institutional investors and is O’Hara’s largest shareholder for private equity investments, principally held in banking, internet and oil and gas companies. Partner relationships have been in place with model Paula Echevarria, singer Usher and DJs Steve Aoki and Nicky Romero.

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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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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

JULY 14, 2014

The most pervasive has been the expansion of passively managed portfolios, such as index funds and ETFs, which allow both retail and institutional investors access to a broad spectrum of investment opportunities at a much lower cost. The current environment is reactive and still risk averse after the last crisis.

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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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SiliconHills

MARCH 19, 2018

The Austin-based startup received the funding from Adam Street Partners which led the Series D round along with participation from existing investors including Altos Ventures and two new institutional investors. To date, the company […].

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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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Rob Go

OCTOBER 14, 2012

One of the earliest things we did at NextView when my partners and I started working together was go away as a team to the New Hampshire mountains. It’s commonly said that the biggest risk facing a new VC firm is disharmony among the partners. At the time, I think we didn’t even had a name for the fund.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Because the best early stage investments are often very non-obvious, we tend to go into an investment assuming that we may be the only institutional investor in the round and don’t get particularly worked up on who else is interested and whether others have passed.

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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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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 5, 2012

I would argue that returns might go up if VC fundraising was a lot more meritocratic and if the big Limited Partners got to see everyone who was fundraising at the same time. Everyone would know who they were and they could have a short form that you could apply to pitch your fund to for free? For myself, I've been lucky.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 12, 2020

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. They’re too busy awkwardly trying to explain their overdue search for a new “diverse” partner and why it took until 2020 to realize that a fund full of white people was a problem.

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David Teten

JANUARY 23, 2021

I’ve been fortunate to be a Partner at two different VC firms over the past 9 years, and we’ve grown AUM 10X both times. If you take the fifteen steps below, you’ll have the core of a high-performing fundraising and investor relations function. . Build the firm as much as possible before you solicit limited partners. .

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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. Economic benefit.

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 29, 2014

I’m suprised how many founders – even multiple time entrepreneurs – are unfamiliar with the institutional investors that back most of the major venture funds. At Homebrew’s first annual meeting this past spring we invited founders and fund advisors to a dinner with our four major LPs.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2019

In each of these cases, you may have been able to demonstrate your company’s financial viability convincingly enough to enter into a funding partnership with a financial institution, investor, or stakeholder, but due to circumstances beyond your control were not able to make the funding periods line up seamlessly.

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SiliconHills

MARCH 2, 2017

The fund was oversubscribed by $25 million and its limited partners include leading institutional investors, funds of funds and family offices. Next Coast Ventures announced Thursday that it has closed on its debut fund at $85 million.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 20, 2021

He works closely with European banks and institutional investors and is O’Hara’s largest shareholder for private equity investments, principally held in banking, internet and oil and gas companies. Partner relationships have been in place with model Paula Echevarria, singer Usher and DJs Steve Aoki and Nicky Romero.

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Rob Go

AUGUST 11, 2011

” It also helps give confidence that you can get things done when it comes to recruiting, finding partners, etc. I really think that only 5% or fewer of startups cross the threshold of institutional investors. But its very hard to predict whether any particular company will be attractive to a particular investor.

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The Equity Kicker

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Normal termsheets, by contrast, take a position that is favourable to the investor with the expectation that they will be negotiated down. Forward Partners Venture Capital'

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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. . I’m now launching a research project to better understand the emerging investment opportunities.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Aquiline Capital Partners. Motive Partners. NYCA Partners. Pivot Investment Partners. QED Investors. SenaHill Partners. FT Partners Fintech Research. 14 Industry Trends the Top FinTech Execs are Watching (Institutional Investor). Anthemis Group. Broadhaven. Conversion Capital.

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