The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

The final piece of my four-part guide to expanding a business into Asia is tailored more towards local startups and a big issue that affects many of them: raising funding from investors. Asia has far fewer VC firms and institutional investors, each of which invests a far smaller amount of capital. Thus, VCs have the upper hand.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 3, 2018

Procter & Gamble, the biggest company ever targeted this way, made headlines in 2017 when Nelson Peltz of Trian Partners demanded, and ultimately won, a seat on its board. One thing’s for sure: No company is immune to activist investors. Activist Investor Target: CSX Railroad.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

I’ve also presented at a range of industry conferences on how institutional investors can use professional networks for research , origination , market research , and value creation. Our founders realized that investors needed to learn interactively, on-demand, on very specific topics, and in an atmosphere of trust.

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New York Technical Review Networking Advisory Board 114

David Teten

JULY 14, 2014

The most pervasive has been the expansion of passively managed portfolios, such as index funds and ETFs, which allow both retail and institutional investors access to a broad spectrum of investment opportunities at a much lower cost. That has to be balanced with not stagnating growth.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But in business, you want a lot of partners. 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. Cobalt for General Partners helps GPs to optimize their fundraising strategy. 1) Manage the firm

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 29, 2014

This post was originally published on the personal blog of NextView founding partner Lee Hower. Most of the dollars a VC firm invests come from outside limited partner investors (LPs). Some institutional investors simply aren’t big enough to have in-house employees to vet and manage a portfolio of VC funds.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

It’s among the most-asked questions on startup forums, and an issue we’re dealing with right now at WPEngine as we bring on new employees: How do you decide how much equity (shares) to give a new employee or partner? Now consider this scenario: That same new hire quit her old job but demands the same $10,000/mo from you.

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Equity Salary Hiring Institutional Investors 276

Agile VC

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Most of the dollars a VC firm invests come from outside limited partner investors (LPs). The actual partners of a VC firm (GPs) will typically invest a minimum of 1% of the total size of their fund,* though frequently this percentage is substantially higher (especially in many of the best funds). The first is a staff constraint.

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Venture Capital LP Private Equity Institutional Investors 279

David Teten

APRIL 13, 2021

They had 154 visits, 97 due diligence requests, 33 second visits, and 12 reference requests, to ultimately produce 9 institutional investors. Using a placement agent is sometimes viewed as a negative signal by investors in the capacity-constrained world of emerging managers. Limited partner checklist for evaluating funds.

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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.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 30, 2018

How you talk about valuation will of course depend on how well your business is performing and how much demand you have from other investors. Knowing that other institutional investors (including your insiders) are paying the same price as them in this round helps. Many investors.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Sentiment is strong in personal portfolios and up commensurately with VC’s expectations that their last fund will now be worth something (and along with that increase the partners’ personal wealth). I can tell you first hand than bankers are out making road shows to gin up interest in VCs and institutional investors.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 20, 2021

The company’s founders struggled to meet with demand and order fulfillment suffered. He works closely with European banks and institutional investors and is O’Hara’s largest shareholder for private equity investments, principally held in banking, internet and oil and gas companies. Growth came quickly, almost too fast.

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Viral Private Equity Venezuela Los Angeles 158

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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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Polk came out of retirement in 2020 to lead the transformation of Private Equity firm Berkshire Partners’ portfolio company, Implus LLC. He was named by Institutional Investor Magazine to The All-America Executive Team as Best CEO in the Consumer Goods industry in 2017 and 2018.

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Genuine VC

MARCH 25, 2010

I had coffee with an entrepreneur friend the other day who is in the early stages of putting a company together, and he recounted how his informal conversations with a venture capitalist had quickly escalated into a full partner pitch in just a few weeks. Establish a relationship and assess fit.

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Genuine VC

MARCH 25, 2010

I had coffee with an entrepreneur friend the other day who is in the early stages of putting a company together, and he recounted how his informal conversations with a venture capitalist had quickly escalated into a full partner pitch in just a few weeks. Establish a relationship and assess fit.

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Early Stage Venture Capital Term Sheet Conversion 121

David Teten

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Since I became an institutional investor, my #1 learning is: this is a highly unusual and somewhat baffling industry. Disruptable Pattern #4: Most investors put in only a modest amount of their own money into their funds. Disruptable Pattern #5: Institutional investors are eager to cut larger checks rather than smaller ones.

Management 114

Management Pre-Money Valuation Venture Capital New Hampshire 114

Hunter Walker

APRIL 27, 2014

Here’s what we covered – it’s a bit inside baseball but just as with the funding post linked above, we think exposing the mechanics of venture can help entrepreneurs and future investors (plus, we learn a lot from any resulting discussions). Afternoon Session. We issued 18 offers and won 14 deals. 3) Company Overviews.

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LP Cofounder Term Sheet Valuation 101

The Startup Magazine

JULY 20, 2021

The company’s founders struggled to meet with demand and order fulfillment suffered. He works closely with European banks and institutional investors and is O’Hara’s largest shareholder for private equity investments, principally held in banking, internet and oil and gas companies. Growth came quickly, almost too fast.

Viral 78

Viral Private Equity Venezuela Los Angeles 78

The Equity Kicker

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

A lot of them are focused on Series A investing and favour the ecommerce and marketplace sectors that Forward Partners focuses on. Mark also notes that startup valuations went up 3x from 2006-2015, and simple supply and demand logic suggests the non-VC cash in the market was important in driving prices up.

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Pascal's View

MARCH 9, 2010

Susan Mangiero , CEO of Investment Governance’s Fiduciary X , asked me the following: Question: At a time when transparency is so important to institutional investors, how can fiduciaries reconcile that there is limited information available with a private company?

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Hunter Walker

MAY 18, 2015

The James Irvine Foundation joined us in Fund I and has been a great partner since. As you know, the standard ”excess return” and “diversification” benefits attributed to venture are widely debated among institutional investors. An investor needs much more than patient capital and an appetite for illiquidity.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

Editor’s Note: This testimony was delivered by a16z managing partner Scott Kupor to the U.S. By way of background, I am the Managing Partner for Andreessen Horowitz, a $16.5 Second, by better matching supply and demand, direct listings have generally mitigated the magnitude of IPO Pops, thus engendering better overall price discovery.

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