David Teten

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

This is effectively a sequel to my study of best practices in deal origination , published last year in the Journal of Private Equity , Harvard Business Review , Institutional Investor , and Business Insider. We typically do this by partnering with graduate student teams.

Government 146

Government Technical Review New York Offshore 146

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. People all across the value chain have taken notice including Limited Partners who are the people who invest in VC funds in the first place.

Technical Review 336

Technical Review Later Stage Early Stage LP 336

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

If your business success so far is based on family and Angel investors, perhaps it’s time to start working with institutional investors and external business partners. Expand your investment alternatives. Entrepreneurship is not a one-time transformation that qualifies you long-term success.

Technical Review 149

Technical Review Due Diligence Institutional Investors Angel Investor 149

The Next Web

JANUARY 16, 2014

Having raised a $35m Series A round from Accel Partners and angel investors behind ebay, Flickr and Squarespace to expand their global presence (which now include offices in San Francisco, Berlin, Paris and Rio), 99designs remain the darlings of the Aussie startup scene and one to watch. Accelerators. Co-working spaces.

Australia 146

Australia San Francisco IPO Cofounder 146

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. 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

JANUARY 9, 2013

Partners for a New Beginning (PNB), a public-private partnership housed at the Aspen Institute, is organizing a Venture Capital, Private Equity and Angel Investor Delegation from the Maghreb. Aspen is looking for institutional investor and entrepreneur speakers willing to share their investing insights and personal experiences.

Tunisia 114

Tunisia Libya Algeria Mauritania 114

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Because the best early stage investments are often very non-obvious, we tend to go into an investment assuming that we may be the only institutional investor in the round and don’t get particularly worked up on who else is interested and whether others have passed.

North America 120

North America Seed Stage Early Stage Lead Investor 120

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. .

Private Equity 78

Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Software Review 78

David Teten

MARCH 28, 2012

This study is effectively a sequel to the study David Teten led with Chris Farmer of General Catalyst on best practices of venture capital and private equity funds in originating new deals , published in Journal of Private Equity , Harvard Business Review , Institutional Investor , etc.

Portfolio 144

Portfolio Private Equity Venture Capital Early Stage 144

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. We think the potential of the companies we’ve met through this initiative is exceptional.”.

Programming 114

Programming Accredited Investor Naming New York 114

The Equity Kicker

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Early stage investors like Forward Partners look for a minimum of a great entrepreneur and a great idea. If you are approaching an institutional investor then people who are new to the firm and/or more junior often have more time, although maybe less influence. Venture Capital'

Early Stage 123

Early Stage Institutional Investors Startup Venture Capital 123

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

If your business success so far is based on family and Angel investors, perhaps it’s time to start working with institutional investors and external business partners. Expand your investment alternatives. Entrepreneurship is not a one-time transformation that qualifies you long-term success.

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Leadership Due Diligence Marketing 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.

Asia 132

Asia Silicon Valley India Term Sheet 132

Pascal's View

MARCH 16, 2010

This is the seventh in our series of ten frequently asked questions from investors in venture capital partnerships. Susan Mangiero , CEO of Investment Governance’s Fiduciary X , asked me the following: Question; How should institutional investors contact VC funds? Directly or via an investment consultant?

Institutional Investors 28

Institutional Investors Government Technical Review Due Diligence 28

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.

New York 114

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

Management 114

Management Portfolio Institutional Investors Government 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. Activist Investor Target: Buffalo Wild Wings.

Agile 113

Agile Malaysia Private Equity Non-Compete 113

David Teten

MARCH 5, 2021

Shelly Porges, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Beyond the Billion , observed, “While we all want to have invested in those exciting home-runs/unicorns, most investors are seeking the data points to construct reliable portfolios. Gender, Race, and Entrepreneurship: A Randomized Field Experiment on Venture Capitalists and Angels.

Cofounder 78

Cofounder Founder Technical Cofounder Technical Review 78

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.

Silicon Valley 104

Silicon Valley Startup Seed Stage Delaware 104

This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 5, 2012

I would argue that returns might go up if VC fundraising was a lot more meritocratic and if the big Limited Partners got to see everyone who was fundraising at the same time. Everyone would know who they were and they could have a short form that you could apply to pitch your fund to for free? For myself, I've been lucky.

LP 97

LP Venture Capital Technical Review Nebraska 97

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

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 12, 2020

I could never have imagined going from a 25-year-old analyst at an institutional investor to seeing what I’ve seen and being a part of this community. They’re too busy awkwardly trying to explain their overdue search for a new “diverse” partner and why it took until 2020 to realize that a fund full of white people was a problem.

LP 147

LP Technical Review Software Review Valuation 147

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.

LP 335

LP Private Equity Institutional Investors Venture Capital 335

Rob Go

OCTOBER 14, 2012

One of the earliest things we did at NextView when my partners and I started working together was go away as a team to the New Hampshire mountains. It’s commonly said that the biggest risk facing a new VC firm is disharmony among the partners. At the time, I think we didn’t even had a name for the fund.

New Hampshire 50

New Hampshire Croatia Omaha Institutional Investors 50

David Teten

MARCH 24, 2014

For Professional Institutional investors: agency risk is a huge problem. To quote my Partner John Frankel , traditional money managers are great at managing your money until there is none left. So the retail market is notoriously irrational.

Software Review 114

Software Review Due Diligence Venture Capital Portfolio 114

Rob Go

AUGUST 11, 2011

” It also helps give confidence that you can get things done when it comes to recruiting, finding partners, etc. I really think that only 5% or fewer of startups cross the threshold of institutional investors. But its very hard to predict whether any particular company will be attractive to a particular investor.

Software Review 62

Software Review Florida Institutional Investors Lean 62

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.

Venture Capital 279

Venture Capital LP Private Equity Institutional Investors 279

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

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

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. In our experience, when trying to select a good partner for a geography we cannot cover, we found it as difficult to get connected to the right agent as getting connected to a strong LP.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Technical Review Management LP 60

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? This is the key, because Q — what an institutional investor would accept — is a well-understood system.

Equity 276

Equity Salary Hiring Institutional Investors 276

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.

Cofounder 60

Cofounder Metrics Angel Investor Silicon Valley 60

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 14, 2019

This book is an essential read for aspiring female venture investors who want to be inspired by the life stories of women who made it all the way to the top in venture capital. It is also a valuable resource for male investors interested in increasing diversity.

Venture Capital 177

Venture Capital Institutional Investors Boston Engineer 177

Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 12, 2009

Most venture and institutional investors favor C corps because they may have separate classes of stock, allowing for the creation of various levels of preferences, protections, and share valuations. Finally, investors simply may be less familiar with LLCs and therefore less willing to invest in them. Fundraising.

LLC 61

LLC Stock Options Preferred Stock Stock 61

David Teten

FEBRUARY 16, 2013

The Southern States Business Coalition (SSBC) is bringing some of the country’s leading Plan Sponsors, Institutional Investors, and Alternative Investment professionals to Birmingham, AL, March 3-6 for the Southern States Alternative Investment Symposium 2013. My Partner John Frankel and I are both speaking.

Alabama 114

Alabama Virginia Arizona Arkansas 114

This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 15, 2020

In venture, it’s all about getting an opportunity to make partner and being included in the carry—the economic upside of a fund. As a former institutional investor, one of the stats we focused on was carry distribution. Not all hires, however, are made equally. Morever, LPs should be influencing these policies.

Venture Capital 131

Venture Capital Institutional Investors Later Stage Limited Partner 131

Austin Startup

JANUARY 3, 2019

Feedback to investors about what helps and doesn’t help founders when fundraising. I originally asked this question to several founders with the intent of addressing angel investors but I’ve found it doesn’t exclude other institutional investors either.

Founder 48

Founder Angel Investor Technical Review Due Diligence 48