David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

We drew on our work with leading institutional investors and in-depth interviews with over 150 funds. Now that I’ve been an institutional VC for a few years, I thought it would be helpful to revisit our findings from the investor side of the table. dedicated deal sourcers for every generalist investment professional.

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David Teten

JUNE 22, 2012

In announcing these finalists, David Teten, Founder and Chairman of HBSAANY, and Partner at ff Venture Capital ( ffvc.com ), said “VCAP has introduced us to entrepreneurs looking at opportunities which would otherwise have been invisible to us. HBSAANY now invests during a gait of tighten to $2 million in 7-10 companies per year.

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David Teten

JANUARY 23, 2021

I’ve been fortunate to be a Partner at two different VC firms over the past 9 years, and we’ve grown AUM 10X both times. If you take the fifteen steps below, you’ll have the core of a high-performing fundraising and investor relations function. . Build the firm as much as possible before you solicit limited partners. .

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Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Software Review 78

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But in business, you want a lot of partners. To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. . In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers. See Bessemer Venture Partners’ A comprehensive guide to security for startups.

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Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

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

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

My colleagues Sebastian Soler , Steven Greenberg and I recently launched a new online community, PEVCTech.com , exclusively for PE/VC investors; engineers who work at PE/VC funds; and other technologists who specialize in working on this problem. Greylock Partners. You can register for the survey here. VC Firm. $ Tech % of workforce.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

View from Seed

MAY 29, 2019

These funds would regularly share deal flow with one another and could share the work in supporting founders and helping to push the company forward. This post will try to describe why this is happening and what repercussions are for founders and investors. Is This is Good or Bad for Founders?

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Most of these rhyme with what we’ve said in the past, but some have also evolved to fit the changing landscape and our own convictions about what really matters for founders and their investors at the seed stage. Of the last 15 investments we’ve made, we’ve been the lead or co-lead investor over 80% of the time. .

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 30, 2018

I know that some founders feel uncomfortable with this as though they might somehow be sharing something so confidential that it ultimately hurts you. So a VC doesn’t want to price a deal in which the founder feels aggrieved from day one but takes your money anyway because he or she doesn’t have a choice. After all?—?we

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 27, 2014

We brief our major investors quarterly and decided to model our LP meeting after what “big funds” do, albeit with a few Homebrew flourishes :) Logistically this meant an afternoon session with presentations/Q&A then a dinner with founders/advisors. Afternoon Session. Roughly 50% result in a first meeting.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 21, 2014

My answer is, if it does, you’ve selected the wrong investors, which is a bigger problem. Out of 17 core investments, Satya or I serve on 12 Boards at the behest of the founders, while in five other cases, we’re either Observers or work with the companies outside of a formal Board role. million institutional seed round.

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David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2013

The good news for Techcrunch readers: Every major study conducted to date has placed angel investors’ IRR between 18 and 38 percent, as summarized by my Partner John Frankel and Professor Robert Wiltbank in prior Techcrunch articles. I previously published this at Techcrunch. .

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 5, 2020

Pavel is a co-founder and managing partner at Mindrock Capital. Pavel is also a managing partner at GVA Capital. I spoke with him about what founders and CEOs need to know about raising early checks. When Should Founders Try Raising Early Checks? Recommendations from Other Founders Or Investors.

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Founder Institutional Investors Silicon Valley Cofounder 80

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

You attend annual meetings and hop on investor calls as a means of oversight and to help you decide whether or not to invest in a future fund. For the VC that means if you're returning money to your institutional investors, that's about all you need to worry about. If you're an individual, you've probably put in less money, so.

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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 weve collectively developed.

Cap Table 78

Cap Table Cofounder Dividend Institutional Investors 78

David Teten

JULY 12, 2017

When I meet with other VCs, family offices, and other institutional investors, the most common question I get is: “What are the highest-potential companies in your portfolio which are raising now?” We see our potential coinvestors in four primary buckets: 1) HOF Capital ’s own limited partners.

Syndicate 60

Syndicate Syndication Institutional Investors LP 60

David Teten

APRIL 7, 2017

This is a generalizable principle: you get higher returns where other investors are not. Because of that insight, we co-founded the Venture Capital Access Program , focused on helping women and minority entrepreneurs raise capital from HBS Alumni Angels. The Showcase is focused on US-based founders with ties to the MENA region.

New York 60

New York Africa Cofounder Egypt 60

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.

Cap Table 60

Cap Table Cofounder Dividend Institutional Investors 60

David Teten

AUGUST 21, 2019

Most founders who are raising capital look first to traditional equity VCs. Or should they look to one of the new wave of Revenue-Based Investors? For more background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. Like traditional lenders, RBI investors usually don’t take board seats.

Revenue 60

Revenue Liquidation Preference Equity Cofounder 60

Rob Go

JANUARY 7, 2013

As a founder, it feels like a long time, but it’s really a blip on the radar in the scheme of things. But we behave pretty much exactly the same way in those companies as we do when we are the lead and only institutional investor. This equates to 3-4 investments that are “led” internally by each partner.

Portfolio 49

Portfolio Seed Stage Cofounder B2B 49

Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Most IPOs are managed by a handful of investment banks who run a roadshow to sell stock to risk-averse institutional investors. Yet once a company goes public, it’s typical for its VC board members to roll off, leaving the CEO without someone to play an analogous role as an experienced partner.

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Venture Capital IPO Cofounder Institutional Investors 28

VC Cafe

MARCH 20, 2011

Footbo has been running since 2007 and is led by co-founder and CEO Mani Honigstein – full article on Techcrunch. Perhaps this is how we’ll start solving co-existence in Israel? Moshe Bar, a general partner in the fund is a former entrepreneur and chairman of Zooppa – full article. Footbo raises $2.5

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Venture Capital Israel Startup Chicago 87