David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund and mutual fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. An investor had few hard metrics other than the actual financials, and little technology to make the process scaleable. But we’re doing it slowly.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

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.

Cofounder 78

Cofounder Technical Review Equity Dividend 78

David Teten

JULY 23, 2019

See How VCs structure a syndicate and recruit coinvestors for more on this. – 1 sentence with most exciting metric from their growth. – Ideally revenues and other financial metrics if we can include that. One of my most important responsibilities as a VC is recruiting appropriate co-investors and follow-on investors.

Portfolio 60

Portfolio Elevator Pitch Syndicate Syndication 60

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. . Lean Case provides standard business models & metrics, so you can apply a standard approach to business planning, modeling, and profitability tracking.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Rob Go

JULY 17, 2014

For a seed stage venture capital firm, product/market fit comes down to two questions. We are still very small in the scope of venture capital firms, and we think that allows us to have a favorable balance of fund size to potential ownership in our portfolio companies. 1) How is the portfolio performing?

Seed Stage 69

Seed Stage Early Stage Due Diligence Liquidity Event 69

Feld Thoughts

APRIL 29, 2015

No underlying metrics that drive the financing. Kyle followed the tradition of extreme openness about the financing process that I think Rand Fishkin started with his post three years ago titled Moz’s $18 Million Venture Financing: Our Story, Metrics and Future. There’s no real story there. Data, data everywhere.

Atlanta 70

Atlanta Valuation Term Sheet Finance 70

Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 9, 2006

Done deal: after a quick syndication with the kitchen team (their job was at stake, so they were easy to convince.), Venture Capital. (3). SaaS business metrics: why are they different? Explore Venture Capital. we bought a $4 measuring spoon with an expected return of 1,000 times in the coming year.

Software Review 48

Software Review Technical Review Europe Venture Capital 48