thebarefootvc

MAY 6, 2020

In the midst of highly volatile traditional financial markets, savvy investors are searching for new avenues for not only higher returns, but the best risk-adjusted ones as well. I’ve often faced questions from institutional investors who considered Bitcoin a passing fad and too volatile for any serious consideration.

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Zimbabwe Venezuela Argentina Institutional Investors 59

Austin Startup

JANUARY 2, 2021

When the Army Futures Command was searching for the location to launch their new headquarters, there were also focused on talent… but they knew they didn’t want to be in Silicon Valley. After an exhaustive search, they narrowed it down to three finalist cities: Austin, Boston and Raleigh. Why Army Futures Command? Why Jim Breyer?

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

Rather than limiting your search to venture funds, therefore, consider the full range of startup options. Once you have your startup profile fully completed and up-to-date, and have carefully identified logical potential investors, it’s time to reach out to them.

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Angel Groups Elevator Pitch Software Review Deal Flow 159

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

VCs tout themselves as frontier technology investors, but most are using the same infrastructure tools they have used for the past 20+ years: Excel and recent college grads searching Google. Coalesce address the more general problem of searching through large data sets for best fits. But beyond that, not much.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 18, 2020

A global pandemic and recession has put quantitative easing on turbocharge in 2020, leading to near zero interest rates and significant dollar decline, which has led to a search for higher yield as well as an inflation hedge. Fast forward to 2020 and truer words have never been spoken.

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SEC Valuation Institutional Investors Global 45

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. According to Google data 30% of all restaurant searches now come via mobile devices. Search for a restaurant, book a table, eat in 30 minutes. Search for movies times, book your tickets, see a show.

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Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2013

The results don’t generalize to all angels, but they strongly suggest that more professional, institutional investors should do even better than individual amateur angels. With all that said, the data is definitely weaker here than, say, the data Identified (ff VC company) uses to gamify your job search.

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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). My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 5 days ago Search. Previous Entries.

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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. VC’s are working hand-in-glove with the investment bankers to prepare for IPOs or create auction-style trade sales. There is a lot of pent-up demand. – IPO-able in any normal market.

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IPO Investment Bankers Venture Capital Marketing 255

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.”. Beacon technology system , which automatically outbound-solicits a universe of over 10,000 institutional investors, without requiring LPs to register for an online network of funds. .

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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. Jason: There’s no way families are sitting around saying, “If only somebody could reduce the inefficiencies that search social.” I think that we get lost in search and social.

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Silicon Valley Software Review Internet Technical Review 204

David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Just do a search online and the VC’s job is done! But in practice, these phenomena create a tremendous volume of startups, which investors then have to filter. We drew on our work with leading institutional investors and in-depth interviews with over 150 funds. Become open and transparent.

Private Equity 114

Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Equity 114

The Next Web

JANUARY 16, 2014

In a nutshell, the startup allows non-designers to use ‘Search and drag simplicity to create beautiful designs without ever leaving the Web.’. It will be a continued series of wins and IPOs to build confidence that the talent pool is deep here, so we can generate more capital and funds from institutional investors into the ecosystem.”.

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Australia San Francisco IPO Cofounder 146

David Teten

JANUARY 8, 2013

PEHub just posted this guest article: Can professional investors use social media? Historically, institutional investors kept their investing strategy and their activities very discreet. Or, is social media strictly for teenagers and staying in touch with your friends?

Private Equity 114

Private Equity Social Media Equity Media 114

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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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

These costs are much higher than those for IPOs, even accounting for IPO Pops; SPAC shares tend to drop by one third of their value or more within a year following a merger, leaving investors who hold shares post de-SPAC most vulnerable to price declines; and SPAC investors typically differ from de-SPAC investors.

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SEC Accredited Investor IPO Technical Review 36

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. — which have sped up their search dramatically. WTF is going on?

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Venture Capital Startup Lean Philadelphia 301

Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

What should my startup be focusing on, marketing, searching for leads, or working on our strategy? I’m working for a startup that has a ton of great ideas and a great vision but is currently understaffed and lacking capital. There is so much work to be done that it’s getting overwhelming.

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