View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Amidst the rise of new funds, new technologies, and potentially disruptive late stage players, I thought it was important to share what we consider to be our core operating principles here at NextView. . It’s been an interesting several years in the early stage venture eco-system, and the sands have shifted considerably.

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North America Seed Stage Early Stage Lead Investor 120

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.

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Asia Silicon Valley India Term Sheet 132

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. We’re backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, Silver Lake Partners, and individual investors like Ron Conway, among others.

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New York Technical Review Networking Advisory Board 114

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. Make bold moves before an activist investor forces you to do so.

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Agile Malaysia Private Equity Non-Compete 113

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. The current environment is reactive and still risk averse after the last crisis.

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Management Portfolio Institutional Investors Government 114

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

Jussi Laakkonen , CEO & founder of Applifie, summarized it well: We recently raised our seed round at Applifier and it was led by a silicon valley seed fund MHS Capital, whose general partner is Mark Sugarman. Use your network #2: approach a corporate financier who advised a company we recently partnered.

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Silicon Valley Startup Seed Stage Delaware 104

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But in business, you want a lot of partners. I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations. In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers. Most of us want one spouse and we’re done. 2) Market .

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Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

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). The income these investments generate then help fund the operations of those organizations or capital investment (e.g.

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LP Private Equity Institutional Investors Venture Capital 335

View from Seed

MAY 29, 2019

This segment of the market is basically mirroring other segments of the venture ecosystem which has operated this way for some time. 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.

Syndicate 267

Syndicate Syndication Cofounder Cap Table 267

Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 12, 2009

If a C corp generates net operating losses rather than net income, these are carried forward to offset future corporate taxable income. However, such operating losses may not be used to offset taxable income of the individual shareholders. Such inflexible features are typically unattractive to venture investors. Fundraising.

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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.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

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). new buildings, etc).

Venture Capital 279

Venture Capital LP Private Equity Institutional Investors 279

David Teten

APRIL 22, 2013

Ted Schlein, general partner at KPCB , and Tom Noonan, partner at TechOperators , will join the board of directors. ff VC became the only and first institutional investor and I joined the company’s board in May. This is the second ff VC company that KPCB has invested in, after Klout.).

Venture Capital 114

Venture Capital Security Operations Atlanta 114

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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IPO Investment Bankers Venture Capital Marketing 255

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2010

There is a primary reason that inside investors give companies convertible debt rather than just giving you the money as equity. VC’s money comes from mostly institutional investors called LPs (limited partners). You might have legitimate concerns that warrant not funding the ongoing operations.

Startup 290

Startup Burn Rate Warrant Bankruptcy 290

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Amidst the rise of new funds, new technologies, and potentially disruptive late stage players, I thought it was important to share what we consider to be our core operating principles here at NextView. . It’s been an interesting several years in the early stage venture eco-system, and the sands have shifted considerably.

North America 36

North America Seed Stage Early Stage Lead Investor 36

The Startup Magazine

JULY 20, 2021

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. Betancourt Lopez began the Hawkers transformation by fixing the operational issues that had caused the company to struggle.

Viral 158

Viral Private Equity Venezuela Los Angeles 158

David Teten

JANUARY 8, 2013

Historically, institutional investors kept their investing strategy and their activities very discreet. According to Jeff Bussgang, General Partner at Flybridge Capital Partners, about 10-15% of the 1,000 active venture capitalists in the U.S. A visitor’s average time on the site had increased from 1:32 to 3:17 minutes.

Private Equity 114

Private Equity Social Media Equity Media 114

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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Leadership Developer Private Equity LLC 121

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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Limited Partner Venture Capital Partner LP 60

ithacaVC

DECEMBER 22, 2012

There are many angel investors that rarely take or want a board seat. It is not their operating model. My subjective view is that once a company raises money from a few institutional investors over $400K – $500K in total that the company should have an investor representative on the board. Fair point.

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Seed Stage Preferred Stock Founder Angel Investor 82

View from Seed

OCTOBER 22, 2015

That thinking led us to the approach and operating principles we have today. We only make a small number of investments each year per partner so that we can be hands-on. – We are seed investors. – We are seed investors. We try not to hang around the hoop and jump in when there is heat around an opportunity.

Seed Stage 120

Seed Stage Startup Portfolio Institutional Investors 120

VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2010

The acquisition is a bitter-sweet end to the story of Veoh, which has raised $70 million since getting funded in 2005 from institutional investors (Goldman Sachs, Intel Capital, Shelter Capital and Spark Capital among others) and big media companies such as ABC, CBS and Warner Brothers.

Bankruptcy 74

Bankruptcy Early Stage Merger Institutional Investors 74

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

Last week we held our first annual LP meeting, when venture funds get their investors together with updates on operations and results. I wrote about the two we lost last year to firms that have been around longer and proud to say that since that time, we’ve been able to beat out and/or partner with many great funds.

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LP Cofounder Term Sheet Valuation 99

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. Economic benefit.

Syndicate 60

Syndicate Syndication Institutional Investors LP 60

The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2019

In each of these cases, you may have been able to demonstrate your company’s financial viability convincingly enough to enter into a funding partnership with a financial institution, investor, or stakeholder, but due to circumstances beyond your control were not able to make the funding periods line up seamlessly.

Institutional Investors 64

Institutional Investors Startup Security Finance 64

Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 21, 2014

This notion is more common now than it was when we started the fund early in 2013, there’s still occasional question about whether this slows down a company’s operations or gives investors too much control. My answer is, if it does, you’ve selected the wrong investors, which is a bigger problem.

Cofounder 106

Cofounder Seed Stage Syndicate Syndication 106

The Startup Magazine

JULY 20, 2021

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. Betancourt Lopez began the Hawkers transformation by fixing the operational issues that had caused the company to struggle.

Viral 78

Viral Private Equity Venezuela Los Angeles 78

VC Cafe

MARCH 20, 2011

Google partners with The Hebrew University, Tel Aviv University and the Technion to fund 20 research projects that address the opportunities of the Internet economy, with a particular focus on the fundamentals of online auctions. Moshe Bar, a general partner in the fund is a former entrepreneur and chairman of Zooppa – full article.

Venture Capital 87

Venture Capital Israel Startup Denmark 87

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.

LP 48

LP Portfolio Early Stage Institutional Investors 48

David Teten

AUGUST 21, 2019

There is a huge universe of compelling, growth-focused companies that operate outside of the technology world, and they sometimes don’t get the attention that they deserve from institutional venture equity investors.” . Works for non-tech companies. Works for early-stage companies. RBI capital is normally treated as debt.

Revenue 60

Revenue Liquidation Preference Equity Cofounder 60

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.

Private Equity 114

Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Equity 114

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.

Venture Capital 28

Venture Capital IPO Cofounder Institutional Investors 28

Small Business Force

JUNE 11, 2010

If you've had experience with professional/institutional investors in the past, no matter your success, it heightens your odds, especially if you go back to them. This is why, in the early going, you should bootstrap your operation the best you can. If you have some access to capital (your own, partners, etc.)

Entrepreneur 30

Entrepreneur Institutional Investors Angel Investor Business Model 30

Rob Go

OCTOBER 22, 2015

That thinking led us to the approach and operating principles we have today. We only make a small number of investments each year per partner so that we can be hands-on. – We are seed investors. – We are seed investors. We try not to hang around the hoop and jump in when there is heat around an opportunity.

Seed Stage 28

Seed Stage Portfolio Institutional Investors Later Stage 28

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Second, the Board can usually avoid a public vote or referendum by leasing to a new partner, something politicians fear. The buyers (or lessees) in these transactions are pension funds, insurance companies, or private equity representing other institutions. Capital Solutions.

Private Equity 143

Private Equity New York City Chicago Investment Bankers 143