David Teten
MAY 20, 2016
Engineers, product managers, and platform managers building tech solutions for private market investing. Totem is a tool that centralizes all the data about our companies’ management, metrics, investment history, co-investors and cap table tracking. who use tech solutions in their day-to-day process.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 27, 2013
In this period (less than 2 years) he has brought on incredibly talented senior execs is sales, marketing, product management, client services, finance, vp engineering and more. By being so metrics driven we can have a lot more quantifiable and objective discussions at board meetings and at mid-point reviews. . Further Reading.
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Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 20, 2019
If your metric move immediate up-and-to-the-right? When you think about having likely been through seed, A, B and then C financing and the respective interests and responsibilities that each investment group has to their own LPs in writing millions of dollars in checks to you you can see why you’ll have 3 parties asking for board seats.
Austin Startup
AUGUST 10, 2017
Before graduating, I decided to forgo the finance path and instead dove into engineering and later sales and product management roles at VersaSuite (health IT) in Austin. As entrepreneurs, Tushar and I immediately knew that when product-market fit hits you in the head, you jump on it. We were infatuated with tech.
David Teten
JANUARY 19, 2021
This structure allows for alignment on the front end, and real-time flexibility for performance metrics,” says Samira Salman , a family office investor and advisor. . Flexible VCs have created structures based on other company performance metrics than revenues, such as profits or founder salaries. Flexible VC 102: Variations.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 27, 2016
I was asked again in an LP meeting later in the week and then again at a founder breakfast gathering we hosted yesterday. I spend hours thinking about the products, competitors, market opportunities, recruiting and financing of these businesses. I answered in the same way I always do so I thought I’d just write it publicly.
David Teten
SEPTEMBER 23, 2017
An investor had few hard metrics other than the actual financials, and little technology to make the process scaleable. Over the past few decades, better metrics became available, and investors could take a more analytical, data-driven approach. ” Historically, investing was a manual, artisan process.
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