YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 25, 2015

Investors/buyers may even ask that the company be restructured. Larger institutional investors often prefer the predictability of a corporate structure and the protections of those pesky operation formalities. You should research the investors you may want to work with in the future to see if they have a preference.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 1, 2022

Blockchain is essentially a records-keeper, much like your favorite accounting software. In its simplest form, the Blockchain is just computer programs that perform specific functions. They are decentralized, meaning they are not owned by a specific entity.

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Rob Go

OCTOBER 14, 2012

We have investments in e-commerce, SMB SaaS, Business Software, AdTech, Payments, Enabling Platforms, Consumer Social, Gaming, and Education. About 75% of the portfolio companies that are at least 6 months old have successfully raised series A’s from good institutional investors at a nice valuation step-up from our initial investment.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

One excellent way to do this (with a good bit of help from the experts), is to create a draft business plan using LivePlan from Palo Alto Software. 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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Austin Startup

JUNE 19, 2014

NIMBOXX today unveiled its ‘atomic unit’ of the software-defined data center, an all-in-one solution that puts a hyper-scale computing model within reach for organizations of all sizes. technology companies.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Sebastian Soler recently launched Knowledge.vc , which uses software and machine learning to enhance deal sourcing and diligence for VC firms. One global institutional investor is investigating setting up a large-scale co-investment vehicle, similar to Correlation Ventures, but focused on private equity transactions.

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Rob Go

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.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2015

If you want to understand the software trend that drove the creation of the seed-stage VC phenomenon I wrote about it that linked blog post but in short: cloud computing drove down the cost to create startups enabling a new category of investor. There was Ron Conway (SV Angel) – I think there was always Ron Conway!

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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.

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Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

Our original target was $10M, so I’m extremely grateful at the confidence our investors placed in the fund. In addition, I’m particularly excited that this final close includes an institutional investor, the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) – their announcement can be found here.

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BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

We each independently fell in love with enterprise software 20+ years ago as seed investors (cos like gotomeeting/Citrix, greenplum/EMC, livperson/IPO LPSN) and founders (workmarket, onforce/Adecco, spinback/buddymedia/salesf0rce) and are now benefiting from the ecosystems, knowledge and network that we’ve collectively developed.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 6, 2010

the cloud infrastructure software company, today announced it has secured $3.5 million in Series A funding to develop management solutions that help secure open source software such as Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP/Perl (LAMP), and accelerate enterprise adoption of public, private and hybrid cloud environments. Gazzang, Inc.,

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SQL PHP Database Open Source 59

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.

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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. . On building a VC.

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Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

He was an Institutional Investor ranked analyst for several years. He has been granted two software patents, and has multiple patents pending. , eBay, DoubleClick, Webex, Real Networks, Exodus, Equinix, amongst many other pioneering companies, as well as covering companies like America Online and Netscape.

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Technical Review Technology North Carolina Switzerland 128

Ben's Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Have bankers simply become even more evil in 2020, deliberately diverting more money from a company’s coffers to line the pockets of the buy-side institutional investors who subscribe to IPO shares? However, many banks had been bundling research as part of the commissions that institutional investors paid.

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IPO Securities and Exchange Commission Demand SEC 36

David Teten

AUGUST 21, 2019

Ali Hamed observes that “software companies are blessed with high margins that allow them to payback expensive capital. Much lower cost of capital, if company is highly successful. The cost of VC funding to a unicorn CEO can easily be the equivalent of paying well over 100% annual interest.

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Revenue Liquidation Preference Equity Cofounder 60

Transformify

MARCH 22, 2023

Social media has an impact on market movements and cryptocurrency values that extends beyond individual investors. Institutional investors and hedge funds often keep an eye on social media for news and opinions about cryptocurrencies. How does social media impact the cryptocurrency market?

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Social Media Securities and Exchange Commission Media Software Review 52

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

If you want to understand the details of why this is, I covered it in detail in this post, Understanding Changes in the Software Industry. IPO markets had burned an entire cycle of retail stock investors and many institutional investors to boot. This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds.

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Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

David Teten

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

By contrast, as a venture capitalist, I can report that almost all of our portfolio companies are desperate to hire talented software engineers, and eager to hire in a range of other roles. Just like me, they’re distressed about the poor economy and jobs situation.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 16, 2014

Having raised a $35m Series A round from Accel Partners and angel investors behind ebay, Flickr and Squarespace to expand their global presence (which now include offices in San Francisco, Berlin, Paris and Rio), 99designs remain the darlings of the Aussie startup scene and one to watch.

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abovethecrowd.com

AUGUST 23, 2020

So the “real” oversupply is likely much, much higher than 30X – simply because most investors are not even given the opportunity to show their interest [fatal flaw #2 above]. Now imagine you are selling any other asset, be it a piece of art, a home, a piece of software, or perhaps your car.

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Up and Running

MARCH 21, 2016

Particularly if you are a first-time entrepreneur, it will be much easier to get investments on good terms (particularly from non-institutional investors) if you have some traction first,” he explains. Investors want proof that your idea is going to work, and nothing proves this better than having real, paying customers.

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Cofounder Metrics Angel Investor Silicon Valley 60

David Teten

MARCH 24, 2014

Addepar is precisely trying to collect and convert into software these best practices. (ff ff Venture Capital is both an investor and also runs our back office on Addepar.). For Professional Institutional investors: agency risk is a huge problem. It is not investment performance.

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Software Review Due Diligence Venture Capital Portfolio 114

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 24, 2012

Welcome back to Smart Bear Live, the call-in show with Jason Cohen, sponsored by Software Promotions. Pin It Listen to this episode if you want to learn what a VC investor thinks about “Internet scale” and how you can usually simplify your idea by charging a fair price for your product.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 4, 2017

Raise enough to get you 12–18 months and hit growth to get you into the larger institutional investors (or profitability if that’s your goal.) If you don’t treat the raise like a sales process by tracking it in a CRM you will definitely let potential investors fall through the cracks and you don’t deserve anybody’s money.

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Austin Institutional Investors Angel Groups Deal Flow 54

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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David Teten

MARCH 5, 2021

A number of the institutional investors we’ve spoken to have gone so far as to say that they can no longer meet their targets without alternatives, including venture investments. “. Second, the outlier model of investing in VC also typically results in a bias towards investing in homogeneous teams. ” .

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

Prior to joining Andreessen Horowitz, I held several executive positions in a publicly-traded software company and was previous to that an investment banker. Such an inquiry could lead to enhanced disclosures to retail investors in particular about the nature of the shareholder base they may be joining in connection with the de-SPAC.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 20, 2011

Atlantic Capital , a new German venture fund based in Munich, has allocated $100 million for secondary (growth) software investments in Europe and Israel. . - Businesswire press release. Israeli venture capital news. The method: finding tired Israeli entrepreneurs that are looking for liquidity.

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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?

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

For this discussion, we were joined by CEOs Jared Hecht of Fundera, Joshua Reeves of ZenPayroll, Matt Rissell of TSheets, and our own Sabrina Parsons of LivePlan and Palo Alto Software. Then now into TSheets which is a subscription based software with a much different model so again thank you for having us, having me on the panel.

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