David Teten

MAY 9, 2012

HBSAANY members include venture capitalists, individual accredited investors, and other institutional investors. The National Association of Investment Companies (NAIC) is a 501(c)(6) trade association representing women and diverse alternative asset managers whose investment strategies focus on mid-market opportunities.

Venture Capital 154

Venture Capital Programming Accredited Investor New York 154

Agile VC

OCTOBER 23, 2012

It’s true that FoFs provide LPs a way to purchase VC funds in a basket, but by design these are comparatively narrow actively-managed investment funds rather than broad-based passive vehicles. But these long-term LPs are by definition using active managers in search of alpha (i.e.

LP 176

LP Accredited Investor Carried Interest Distribution 176

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 12, 2014

Prorata investments rights given investors the right to invest in your future fund-raising rounds and maintain their ownership % in your company as your company grows and raises more capital. But I can’t secretly take 50% while offering angels 0%. That seems fair. We are all bound to the same economics.

Technical Review 336

Technical Review Later Stage Early Stage LP 336

David Teten

JUNE 22, 2012

The national outreach for women and minority entrepreneurs and the selection process was co-managed by the National Association of Investment Companies, the trade association representing private equity firms focused on the middle market. We think the potential of the companies we’ve met through this initiative is exceptional.”.

Programming 128

Programming Accredited Investor Naming New York 128

David Teten

MARCH 28, 2012

The objective of the research is to define a blueprint for how investors can help portfolio companies succeed through operational (non-financial) support, including but not limited to facilitating shared services, recruiting, knowledge sharing, and enhancing management skills.

Portfolio 144

Portfolio Private Equity Venture Capital Early Stage 144

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2020

Cohen and John Kador, in their classic book “ What Every Angel Investor Wants You to Know ,” includes these great points of practical advice on this subject: Manage expectations before the fact. That’s why it is better to use institutional investors and loans when you are able, with realistic time frame expectations.

Management 308

Management Cram Down Angel Investor Equity 308

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 24, 2012

It’s rich contact management, event planning, notification services, and task management, but at the family level. We’ve got amazing calendar tools, we’ve got contact management tools. Venture capitalists are raising money from other investors, institutional investors who expect certain returns from us.

Silicon Valley 204

Silicon Valley Software Review Internet Technical Review 204

David Teten

JANUARY 23, 2021

In particular, highlight the metrics by which you measured your past activities: size of exit, number of people you managed, $ budget you were responsible for, etc. We are using Digify to manage this. Institutional investors in funds are typically conservative. See How to Sell Your Professional Background.

Private Equity 78

Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Software Review 78

David Teten

JUNE 22, 2012

The national outreach for women and minority entrepreneurs and the selection process was co-managed by the National Association of Investment Companies, the trade association representing private equity firms focused on the middle market. We think the potential of the companies we’ve met through this initiative is exceptional.”.

Programming 114

Programming Accredited Investor Naming New York 114

David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2013

The group is about 22 people; managing directors, partners and COO’s of major investments firms in Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, and Tunisia. Aspen is looking for institutional investor and entrepreneur speakers willing to share their investing insights and personal experiences. More details.

Tunisia 114

Tunisia Libya Algeria Mauritania 114

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 25, 2015

This can also vary as you grow and as some owners pull back from managing the LLC. Management. Corporate management is dominated by required formalities—shareholder meetings, a board of directors, resolutions, certificates, etc. Then the Directors elect Officers who actually manage the company. Verdict : LLC.

LLC 100

LLC Technical Review Software Review Limited Liability Company 100

David Teten

APRIL 13, 2021

It would make life a lot easier for emerging managers if they could outsource the entire fundraising process. Empirically, few small emerging investment managers hire placement agents, particularly in venture capital. There are eight main reasons why so many small emerging managers do not work with placement agents: Economics. .

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Technical Review Management LP 60

Pascal's View

MARCH 16, 2010

Susan Mangiero , CEO of Investment Governance’s Fiduciary X , asked me the following: Question; How should institutional investors contact VC funds? Answer : First, nothing beats direct contact with managers. Directly or via an investment consultant?

Institutional Investors 28

Institutional Investors Government Technical Review Due Diligence 28

View from Seed

JUNE 7, 2016

At NextView, one founder we invested in last year proactively asked us, as her lone institutional investor, to start doing this. For professional development as well as exposure for your management team, founders often bring in VPs (or SVPs, or other C-levels, etc.) You can download the 2.0

Seed Stage 120

Seed Stage Founder Seed Capital Institutional Investors 120

David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

We drew on our work with leading institutional investors and in-depth interviews with over 150 funds. Many private equity funds we interviewed for the Journal of Private Equity study view a CEO over age 60, or a family-run company that hires an outside manager, as a tell that the firm may welcome an outside investor.

Private Equity 114

Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Equity 114

The Next Web

JANUARY 16, 2014

Secondly, because he had single-handedly managed to achieve something that my adopted startup hometown of London (despite a fair amount of wailing and hand-wringing) has not yet achieved; namely, an incredibly successful public flotation of a homegrown tech company listing on the local market.

Australia 146

Australia San Francisco IPO Cofounder 146

David Teten

MARCH 24, 2014

My recent post on “ Asset Management is a Bizarre Industry Ripe for Disruption ” got one of the most interesting reactions I’ve received. We had an email conversation about the rationality, or lack of rationality, of professional investors. For Professional Institutional investors: agency risk is a huge problem.

Software Review 114

Software Review Due Diligence Venture Capital Portfolio 114

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 3, 2018

If what made you successful isn’t working anymore, don’t wait for an activist investor to force the shift to a new way of competing. Management promised huge efficiency improvements that never came. It will be up to the new management team, and whomever the board installs as CEO-successor, to continue this process.

Agile 113

Agile Malaysia Private Equity Non-Compete 113

VC Cafe

MARCH 8, 2010

billion (net management fees and operational expenses). Koby Simana, IVC CEO, said: “foreign institutional investors – who before the crisis had been the lead source of capital invested in Israeli funds – have suffered serious losses due to the credit crunch.

IRR 74

IRR Israel Venture Capital Institutional Investors 74

Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

Make your public profile as sexy, comprehensive and enticing as possible, adding a short, well done, elevator pitch video (think “the kind of video you see on great Kickstarter campaigns”) and listing your full management team. And don’t forget the ability to customize your profile’s background.

Angel Groups 159

Angel Groups Elevator Pitch Software Review Deal Flow 159

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. 1) Manage the firm . This is harder than it sounds.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

David Teten

MARCH 5, 2021

BCG (January 2018): “Companies that reported above-average diversity on their management teams also reported innovation revenue that was 19 percentage points higher than that of companies with below-average leadership diversity — 45% of total revenue versus just 26%.”. David Teten is a past Advisor to Real Ventures. *We

Cofounder 78

Cofounder Founder Technical Cofounder Technical Review 78

This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 5, 2012

They didn't care about you when you needed commercial credit, but now--now they want to manage your money. The problem is that there are fantastic opportunities out there with completely trustworthy managers. You've never dealt with these expensive suit Wall Street types and don't want to. Welcome to family office investing.

LP 97

LP Venture Capital Technical Review Nebraska 97

View from Seed

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Some institutional investors simply aren’t big enough to have in-house employees to vet and manage a portfolio of VC funds. The definition of “big enough” varies widely but, generally speaking, entities that manage less than $1 billion in assets will often go the indirect route. The first is a staff constraint.

LP 335

LP Private Equity Institutional Investors Venture Capital 335

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

My key takeaways from talking to roughly 40 institutional investors in the valley about investing to an European startup are: Traction cures all ills. Not literally, but one big surprise to me was that in the 40 odd investor meetings I had, I managed to open the deck probably only 5-10 times. Simplify, practice.

Silicon Valley 104

Silicon Valley Startup Seed Stage Delaware 104

abovethecrowd.com

AUGUST 23, 2020

During each and every modern IPO, the banks all tell the management teams that there are two key objectives in the road-show process. Talk to any management team from any IPO in the past three years, and you will find they had this exact conversation. This is critically important to understand, partially because it’s so outlandish.

IPO 118

IPO Silicon Valley Warrant Matching 118

The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

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.

Leadership 122

Leadership Developer Private Equity LLC 122

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2014

Think about the implications of each to your own business, and the potential impact of getting them done incorrectly, or forgetting to do them entirely: Manage your financials and physical assets. Manage human resources. Here are eight key business tasks that relate to almost every startup, generally prioritized by criticality.

Startup 268

Startup Institutional Investors Angel Investor Bootstrapping 268

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Cohen and John Kador, in their recent book “ What Every Angel Investor Wants You to Know ,” includes these best points of practical advice I’ve seen recently on this subject: Manage expectations before the fact. That’s why it is better to use institutional investors and loans when you are able, with realistic time frame expectations.

Founder 254

Founder Cram Down Angel Investor Equity 254

ithacaVC

MARCH 9, 2017

The importance of the Board is why institutional investors (like VCs) often get a seat on the Board after an investment. But don’t be fooled, there is an element of control as investors want a say in critical decisions. The list goes on and on. Good corporate governance is critical at startups and other companies alike!

Seed Stage 58

Seed Stage Software Review Institutional Investors Lead Investor 58

VC Adventure

MAY 21, 2014

Syndicate Dynamics: To sign up for FG Angels, an investor must be approved by Foundry Group and agree to their terms, which include a carry. The carry is a percentage of the returns on the investment that the investor will give to Foundry Group for managing the syndicate and investments (note that AngelList itself takes a carry as well).

Syndication 93

Syndication Syndicate Technical Review Due Diligence 93

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Think about the implications of each to your own business, and the potential impact of getting them done incorrectly, or forgetting to do them entirely: Manage your financials and physical assets. Manage human resources. Here are eight key business tasks that relate to almost every startup, generally prioritized by criticality.

Startup 255

Startup Institutional Investors Angel Investor Bootstrapping 255

Agile VC

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Some institutional investors simply aren’t big enough to have in-house employees to vet and manage a portfolio of VC funds. The definition of “big enough” varies widely but, generally speaking, entities that manage less than $1 billion in assets will often go the indirect route. The first is a staff constraint.

Venture Capital 279

Venture Capital LP Private Equity Institutional Investors 279

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2010

Think about the implications of each to your own business, and the potential impact of getting them done incorrectly, or forgetting to do them entirely: Manage your financials and physical assets. Manage human resources. Here are eight key business tasks that relate to almost every startup, generally prioritized by criticality.

Startup 239

Startup Institutional Investors Angel Investor Bootstrapping 239

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2013

Cohen and John Kador, in their new book “ What Every Angel Investor Wants You to Know ,” includes these best points of practical advice I’ve seen recently on this subject: Manage expectations before the fact. That’s why it is better to use institutional investors and loans when you are able, with realistic time frame expectations.

Cram Down 230

Cram Down Angel Investor Equity Dividend 230

David Teten

APRIL 13, 2016

We’re happy to report that Institutional Investor just published our summary of our research study in their April issue: “ Asset Managers, Prepare to Have Your Business Disrupted ” (about 2,000 words). The post Institutional Investor Just Published our Research Study on Disruption of Investing appeared first on David Teten.

Institutional Investors 60

Institutional Investors Affiliate Management Private Equity 60

David Teten

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Since I became an institutional investor, my #1 learning is: this is a highly unusual and somewhat baffling industry. Asset management also shows the traditional earmarks of an industry ripe for disruption — most obviously, unhappy customers and extremely profitable incumbents.

Management 114

Management Pre-Money Valuation Venture Capital New Hampshire 114