David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund and mutual fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. VCs tout themselves as frontier technology investors, but most are using the same infrastructure tools they have used for the past 20+ years: Excel and recent college grads searching Google.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

17, on “How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology”. He was an Institutional Investor ranked analyst for several years. Ahlberg earned his doctorate from Chalmers University of Technology and has worked as a visiting researcher at the University of Maryland.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

I have been close to the tech & startup sectors for more than 20 years and I can’t think of a period in which I felt more optimistic about the innovation and value creation I see in front of us. If you want to understand the details of why this is, I covered it in detail in this post, Understanding Changes in the Software Industry.

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Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

David Teten

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

By contrast, as a venture capitalist, I can report that almost all of our portfolio companies are desperate to hire talented software engineers, and eager to hire in a range of other roles. New York has an extremely active Meetup culture; almost every night there are 3-10 tech-focused events.

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Government Technical Review New York Offshore 146

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. . Of the last 15 investments we’ve made, we’ve been the lead or co-lead investor over 80% of the time. .

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Moat, the biggest exit out of the bunch, was sourced when I met Mike Walrath at a tech event. He said they’d consider any “special situations” funds I was doing—at which point I realized that he had never even looked at the deck and had zero intentions of doing any real diligence. I’ve had to start muting libertarian VC Twitter.

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LP Technical Review Software Review Valuation 147

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. PepperstoneFx. It’s not hard to see why.

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abovethecrowd.com

AUGUST 23, 2020

So the “real” oversupply is likely much, much higher than 30X – simply because most investors are not even given the opportunity to show their interest [fatal flaw #2 above]. Now imagine you are selling any other asset, be it a piece of art, a home, a piece of software, or perhaps your car.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 24, 2012

Welcome back to Smart Bear Live, the call-in show with Jason Cohen, sponsored by Software Promotions. Pin It Listen to this episode if you want to learn what a VC investor thinks about “Internet scale” and how you can usually simplify your idea by charging a fair price for your product. Jason: I use them. It means no.

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Silicon Valley Software Review Internet Technical Review 204

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. . Of the last 15 investments we’ve made, we’ve been the lead or co-lead investor over 80% of the time. .

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North America Seed Stage Early Stage Lead Investor 36

Pascal's View

AUGUST 12, 2009

Large corporations are generally not known for being innovative and even less for creating new jobs after acquiring other companies (merger “synergy” is code for firing people). Investors take risk in order to reap rewards. Share and Enjoy:

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Rob Go

OCTOBER 14, 2012

Late last week, I wanted to take a step back and review what has transpired the last two years. We have investments in e-commerce, SMB SaaS, Business Software, AdTech, Payments, Enabling Platforms, Consumer Social, Gaming, and Education. But like us, all of these companies are very early.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

Prior to joining Andreessen Horowitz, I held several executive positions in a publicly-traded software company and was previous to that an investment banker. The value of mutual fund investments in private tech companies was estimated at just north of $7 billion in 2016, or about.05% 05% of total US mutual fund assets.

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SEC Accredited Investor IPO Technical Review 36

Steve Blank

AUGUST 19, 2013

has gone offshore primarily due to the toughened regulatory environment. It has gotten so bad that pension funds and other institutional investors in venture capital funds have told these funds to stay away from Life Science – or at the least, early stage Life Science. Pharma companies are staggering under the costs.

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