View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Of the last 15 investments we’ve made, we’ve been the lead or co-lead investor over 80% of the time. . That said, we tend to be very flexible on syndication to bring on great partners, and have collaborated with terrific partners like our most frequent co-investors Founder Collective, Accomplice, LHV, Softech, and others.

North America 120

North America Seed Stage Early Stage Lead Investor 120

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2020

The alternative is to work with an innovation institute to evaluate your technology, or hire a consultant. Once you have some traction, you can approach venture capital organizations , with funding amounts of $1-10 million for the real rollout, often referred to as the “A-round,” or first institutional funding.

Incubator 429

Incubator Startup Exit Strategy Institutional Investors 429

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 24, 2012

Venture capitalists are raising money from other investors, institutional investors who expect certain returns from us. Then we hired two people and got profitable again in another six months. And to get those returns, we need very big wins. It doesn’t matter how many people that is.

Silicon Valley 204

Silicon Valley Software Review Internet Technical Review 204

David Teten

MARCH 24, 2014

For Professional Institutional investors: agency risk is a huge problem. Teten : No one ever got fired for hiring Och-Ziff, or any other of the massive hedge funds. No one wants to acknowledge these truths of investor decision making. It is not investment performance. So the retail market is notoriously irrational.

Software Review 114

Software Review Due Diligence Venture Capital Portfolio 114

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

The question is further complicated when the new hire is getting a salary. Here’s why: Suppose a new hire just quit a job paying $10,000/month and agrees to take $3,000/month for a year with you, after which time (assuming the company does as well as everyone hopes) she’ll be raised back up to $10,000/month.

Equity 276

Equity Salary Hiring Institutional Investors 276

ithacaVC

MARCH 9, 2017

The Board has to vote on issuing stock, approving the annual budget, setting the company’s strategy, changing the company’s by-laws and certificate of incorporation, selling the company, merging with another company, hiring officers like the CEO, shutting the company down, etc. The list goes on and on.

Seed Stage 58

Seed Stage Software Review Institutional Investors Lead Investor 58

This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Sometimes, the family hires some really fantastic people to run the investment of their assets. In fact, one of my largest investors from a family office were former private investment people themselves, and their due dilligence was off the charts.

LP 97

LP Venture Capital Technical Review Nebraska 97

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2023

The alternative is to work with an innovation institute to evaluate your technology, or hire a consultant. Once you have some traction, you can approach venture capital organizations , with funding amounts of $1-10 million for the real rollout, often referred to as the “A-round,” or first institutional funding.

Startup 305

Startup Incubator Exit Strategy Institutional Investors 305

Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2011

Hiring technology talent in Silicon Valley is getting difficult, and the time it takes to drive across Palo Alto has tripled—all signs of the impending apocalypse. Today, the signs of the new bubble are the Linked-In initial public offering (IPO), Facebook’s stratospheric valuation and the rapid rise of early-stage startup valuation.

Silicon Valley 331

Silicon Valley Stealth Valuation Mississippi 331

David Teten

APRIL 13, 2021

Empirically, few small emerging investment managers hire placement agents, particularly in venture capital. And even the firms that hire a placement agent almost always still have to run their own internal process. . Homebrew doesn’t report hiring a placement agent for their Fund I, despite (or because of) a well-pedigreed team.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Technical Review Management LP 60

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2014

Unless you are bootstrapping everything, you need to have a clear plan on what networking and documents are required to get to friends and family, Angel investors, and institutional investors. At this stage, you should start recruiting, hiring, paying, and training others to help you run your business.

Startup 268

Startup Institutional Investors Angel Investor Bootstrapping 268

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2013

The alternative is to work with an innovation institute to evaluate your technology, or hire a consultant. Once you have some traction, you can approach venture capital organizations , with funding amounts of $1-10 million for the real rollout, often referred to as the “A-round,” or first institutional funding.

Incubator 256

Incubator Entrepreneur Exit Strategy Institutional Investors 256

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Unless you are bootstrapping everything, you need to have a clear plan on what networking and documents are required to get to friends and family, angel investors, and institutional investors. At this stage, you should start recruiting, hiring, paying, and training others to help you run your business.

Startup 255

Startup Institutional Investors Angel Investor Bootstrapping 255

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2012

The alternative is to work with an innovation institute to evaluate your technology, or hire a consultant. Once you have some traction, you can approach venture capital organizations , with funding amounts of $1-10 million for the real rollout, often referred to as the “A-round,” or first institutional funding.

Incubator 237

Incubator Startup Exit Strategy Institutional Investors 237

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 28, 2018

The alternative is to work with an innovation institute to evaluate your technology, or hire a consultant. Once you have some traction, you can approach venture capital organizations , with funding amounts of $1-10 million for the real rollout, often referred to as the “A-round,” or first institutional funding.

Incubator 236

Incubator Exit Strategy Institutional Investors Angel Investor 236

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 13, 2011

The alternative is to work with an innovation institute to evaluate your technology, or hire a consultant. Once you have some traction, you can approach venture capital organizations , with funding amounts of $1-10 million for the real rollout, often referred to as the “A-round,” or first institutional funding.

Startup 230

Startup Incubator Exit Strategy Institutional Investors 230

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2010

Unless you are bootstrapping everything, you need to have a clear plan on what networking and documents are required to get to friends and family, angel investors, and institutional investors. At this stage, you should start recruiting, hiring, paying, and training others to help you run your business.

Startup 239

Startup Institutional Investors Angel Investor Bootstrapping 239

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2013

Unless you are bootstrapping everything, you need to have a clear plan on what networking and documents are required to get to friends and family, Angel investors, and institutional investors. At this stage, you should start recruiting, hiring, paying, and training others to help you run your business.

Institutional Investors 230

Institutional Investors Angel Investor Bootstrapping Database 230

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Excel and Google simply aren’t going to cut it if you expect to build a high quality institutional investor base.”. Beacon technology system , which automatically outbound-solicits a universe of over 10,000 institutional investors, without requiring LPs to register for an online network of funds. .

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 15, 2020

There have been a lot of calls for VC firms to make more hires from the Black and Brown community, as well as to hire more women. Not all hires, however, are made equally. As a former institutional investor, one of the stats we focused on was carry distribution. Morever, LPs should be influencing these policies.

Venture Capital 124

Venture Capital Institutional Investors Later Stage Limited Partner 124

View from Seed

MAY 29, 2019

This is why, as I said previously, most seed rounds today still have 2–3 institutional investors involved although it’s less likely that all three are equally happy about their allocations in the round. Some funds have elevated or hired junior professionals to “partner” titles to try to address this.

Syndicate 267

Syndicate Syndication Cofounder Cap Table 267

Hunter Walker

JUNE 9, 2021

And frankly, much of the venture industry is moving too slowly, making incremental hires or diluting the impact of their diversity statements with self-serving content marketing efforts. A first time manager might be raising a $5-$50m fund but large institutional investors write $10m, $25m, $50m+ checks into venture funds.

Columbus 163

Columbus Institutional Investors Dilution Early Stage 163

Austin Startup

JUNE 30, 2017

I’ve written before about law firms that pitch magical access to investors. A founder who gets into a top accelerator, however, gains access to a vast, well-curated network of other founders, mentors, potential hires, etc.

Curation 48

Curation Startup Cofounder Equity 48

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Of the last 15 investments we’ve made, we’ve been the lead or co-lead investor over 80% of the time. . That said, we tend to be very flexible on syndication to bring on great partners, and have collaborated with terrific partners like our most frequent co-investors Founder Collective, Accomplice, LHV, Softech, and others.

North America 36

North America Seed Stage Early Stage Lead Investor 36

Austin Startup

JUNE 14, 2017

The reason VC or Angel-backed startups in Houston, San Antonio, Dallas, Atlanta, Miami, New Orleans, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, and similar cities often hire startup lawyers who aren’t local is that they (correctly) recognize that their local ecosystems (generally) lack the density to support truly specialized, scalable startup/vc law practices.

Silicon Valley 48

Silicon Valley Houston San Antonio Austin 48

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Over the past few years, ff Venture Capital hired two full-time engineers to build out its internal technology stack, called Totem. Totem is an operating system that makes investors smarter by helping them leverage their knowledge, relationships & insights.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

The alternative is to work with an innovation institute to evaluate your technology, or hire a consultant. Once you have some traction, you can approach venture capital organizations , with funding amounts of $1-10 million for the real rollout, often referred to as the “A-round,” or first institutional funding.

Incubator 120

Incubator Startup Exit Strategy Institutional Investors 120

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.

Curation 167

Curation Vertical San Francisco Angel Investor 167

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2012

Some 92% of job growth comes after a company goes public - which makes sense, because a company acquires public capital in order to hire people. RWW asked Kate Mitchell how much of that expense was actually wrapped up in meeting reporting requirements and hiring independent auditors. was created by firms less than five years old.

IPO 118

IPO SEC Silicon Valley Startup 118

David Teten

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

We are seeking Partner-level investment professionals at hedge funds, mutual funds, VCs, sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, family offices, and other institutional investors to interview for this research project. . – What would you change about the providers whom you hire if you could?

Management 60

Management Institutional Investors Boston Global 60

David Teten

JANUARY 8, 2013

PEHub just posted this guest article: Can professional investors use social media? Historically, institutional investors kept their investing strategy and their activities very discreet. These investors are exploiting the wealth of information about private companies available online, increasingly leaked via social media.

Private Equity 114

Private Equity Social Media Equity Media 114

Austin Startup

JULY 20, 2010

of a $9M investment round, with none of that money coming from venture or institutional investors. The executive hires include Tom Chmielewski as Vice President of Sales, and David Costilow joining as Vice President of Customer Services. The company exemplifies what startups and entrepreneurship are really all about.

Institutional Investors 63

Institutional Investors Austin Partner Global 63

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. Commitment : Yeah, that tattoo. 3) Company Overviews.

LP 112

LP Cofounder Term Sheet Valuation 112

BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

To have institutional investors the quality of Knollwood and Top Tier Capital seeking an allocation to seed and NYC enterprise shows the tremendous progress we have all made. Most importantly, we wanted to thank our amazing group of founders that we have had the privilege to partner with over the years.

Cap Table 78

Cap Table Cofounder Dividend Institutional Investors 78

BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

To have institutional investors the quality of Knollwood and Top Tier Capital seeking an allocation to seed and NYC enterprise shows the tremendous progress we have all made. Most importantly, we wanted to thank our amazing group of founders that we have had the privilege to partner with over the years.

Cap Table 60

Cap Table Cofounder Dividend Institutional Investors 60

Women Entrepreneurs Can

JUNE 11, 2021

Stock markets are a common platform where individual and institutional investors come together to buy and sell shares. They are hired by those who have substantial money and prefer to outsource their money management. For the people, it becomes a mode to earn income. Nowadays, these exchanges exist as an electronic market.

Stock 52

Stock Securities and Exchange Commission Portfolio Dividend 52

Austin Startup

MAY 17, 2017

The Board of Directors, however, is the most powerful group of people in the Company , with the ability to hire and fire senior executives and approve (or block) key transactions. Their interests as an investor are more aligned with the new VCs investing in the Series A than they are with the Common Stock. They just advise.

Seed Stage 48

Seed Stage Startup Cap Table Angel Investor 48