David Teten

JANUARY 23, 2021

The next best move is to build your core team, e.g., recruit an Advisory Board, Venture Partners, and EIRs. For ideas, see How Executives Can Work from Home with Private Equity and Venture Capital Funds. For example, one LP told me she prefers customized emails from fund principals, as opposed to a bulk-mailed quarterly update.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2017

We were roommates at the time and launched two different companies out of a kind-of dumpy apartment: We both went on to raise millions in venture capital and build meaningful businesses in interesting spaces. We invest in protocols that meet our quantitative and qualitative metrics. But we never lost the finance bug.

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David Teten

MARCH 2, 2013

I recently had an extensive debate with Tom about why and whether small funds (like mine, ff Venture Capital ) tend to outperform large funds (like his). I argue that, just as with hedge funds and mutual funds, the larger the venture capital fund, the more difficult it is to generate strong returns.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . Tim Friedman, Founder, PE Stack , said, “If I could offer one piece of advice to today’s managers, it would be to take the time to understand the demands of the modern institutional LP.

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Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 12, 2015

I define #PeakVC as the point in time when the maximum amount of $$s are entering the Venture Capital industry. There are simply too many LPs stuffing the VC goose! That is because the venture capital industry operates in cycles. That increases the overall money supply coming in to venture.

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K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 10, 2017

You see, Dan knows more about venture than most people; and if Dan isn’t aware that “pre-seed is a thing,” then I haven’t done a good enough job of explaining to the world what I and K9 do! If the Micro-VCs are looking for Series A-like metrics, what does a company do when it’s just getting started? Seed rounds were getting bigger.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2013

In a discussion I had with Fred Wilson at the Invesco LP meeting Fred said the same about the influence of Clayton. He believes that one of the financial metrics taught at business schools and reinforced by Wall Street has accelerated offshoring of industries. He spoke about ROCE (return on capital employed). Venture Capital.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

The human joy per square foot metric is one we'll be tracking closely over time here. I was working for the GM pension fund, an institutional LP, as an analyst, doing a research project on consumer private equity and venture capital investing. It's a part of the neighborhood--not just a dispensary of ice cream.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

Related: when people say that execution is the most important metric of who will win, keep in mind that executing a fundraise is almost paramount. Where there isn’t consensus is what metrics meet the bar for “early traction” and who qualifies as a “great team”. That’s a metric! especially in a winner-take-all category?—?that

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

In Silicon Valley boardrooms, where “growth at all costs” had been the mantra for many years, people began to imagine a world where the cost of capital could rise dramatically, and profits could come back in vogue. Anything that hints of a down round brings questions about the success metrics that have already been “booked.”

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K9 Ventures

DECEMBER 10, 2011

Funding environment : No one can question that Silicon Valley has the most developed venture capital and funding environment for startups. There are more venture capital funds, micro-VCs, super-angels, angels and incubators in the valley than probably in the rest of the world combined (exaggerating to make a point).

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K9 Ventures

DECEMBER 10, 2011

Funding environment : No one can question that Silicon Valley has the most developed venture capital and funding environment for startups. There are more venture capital funds, micro-VCs, super-angels, angels and incubators in the valley than probably in the rest of the world combined (exaggerating to make a point).

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

There are a lot of people that artificially group together performance metrics for venture, and try to extrapolate successful stratagies from it. I know, because those people all used to pitch me as an institutional LP back in the day. Do what you're good at. It's that simple.

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