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. I wrote a blog post on this. HBS Angels will likely execute this in 2012. Details to come.

Government 146

Government Technical Review New York Offshore 146

David Teten

MAY 20, 2016

Our meetup is focused on how to use technology to enhance investing in private markets, including VC, growth, buyout, and distressed. Membership in the Meetup is open exclusively to: Institutional investors in private markets (VC, growth, buyout, distressed, etc.) I asked him to write a guest post: Hi!

Private Equity 113

Private Equity Equity Cap Table Venture Capital 113

VC Cafe

JUNE 9, 2010

In broad strokes, the high-tech support plan consists of the following pieces: Renewing the flow of capital to the high-tech industry - primarily by encouraging Israeli institutional investors to invest in Israeli venture capital funds. Today, most of the LPs for Israeli funds are foreign investors.

Technical Review 88

Technical Review Government Israel Technology 88

David Teten

MAY 9, 2012

I am very happy to announce today a new program I’ve been working on designed to support women and diverse entrepreneurs, particularly those in the technology sector. HBSAANY members include venture capitalists, individual accredited investors, and other institutional investors. domestic market.

Venture Capital 154

Venture Capital Programming Accredited Investor New York 154

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . When I met my now-wife, I realized that any technology that can find me a spouse is a killer app. I previously posted a detailed presentation with sales technology tools useful for B2B sales.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 12, 2014

Prorata rights are one of the most important rights of a private market technology investors and yet are seldom fully understood. They often create the biggest tensions between investors who are investing at different stages in the business.

Technical Review 336

Technical Review Later Stage Early Stage LP 336

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

VCAP© launched on May 9, 2012 and generated entries from a large range of industries and market sectors, including technology, retail and entertainment. HBSAANY members embody try capitalists, particular accredited investors, and other institutional investors. domestic market.

Programming 128

Programming Accredited Investor Naming New York 128

David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

We drew on our work with leading institutional investors and in-depth interviews with over 150 funds. I’ve shown below a case study of the geographic diversification of the largest late-stage technology venture capital / growth equity investors. dedicated deal sourcers for every generalist investment professional.

Private Equity 114

Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Equity 114

David Teten

JUNE 22, 2012

VCAP© launched on May 9, 2012 and generated entries from a large range of industries and market sectors, including technology, retail and entertainment. HBSAANY members embody try capitalists, particular accredited investors, and other institutional investors. domestic market.

Programming 114

Programming Accredited Investor Naming New York 114

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. .

North America 120

North America Seed Stage Early Stage Lead Investor 120

Gust

JANUARY 31, 2013

Public companies have dealt with financial disclosure in ways that evolved over time with markets and technologies. Nevertheless, selective disclosure could be said to unfairly benefit analysts and institutional investors at the expense of other stockholders, particularly individual investors, who lack access to the same information.

SEC 158

SEC Prospectus United States Technical Review 158

David Teten

JULY 14, 2014

Technology innovation, globalization of markets, and recent market volatility such as the 2008 market collapse are driving painful changes (for some) in the asset management industry. However, this is about to change. The asset management industry is confronted by the reality of increasingly lower fees and more intense competition.

Management 114

Management Portfolio Institutional Investors Government 114

David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2013

Aspen is looking for institutional investor and entrepreneur speakers willing to share their investing insights and personal experiences. Monday, January 14 th : Technology Investing – 3-4:30 PM, NYU Wagner at 295 Lafayette Street (Puck Building ). More details.

Tunisia 114

Tunisia Libya Algeria Mauritania 114

David Teten

JANUARY 23, 2021

Conduct an honest self-evaluation: can you realistically raise money from institutional investors, or should you focus on high net worths/family offices? Institutional investors in funds are typically conservative. Keep an ongoing list of high-caliber investor-focused events in your geographies and sectors of interest.

Private Equity 78

Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Software Review 78

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 25, 2015

Investors/buyers may even ask that the company be restructured. Larger institutional investors often prefer the predictability of a corporate structure and the protections of those pesky operation formalities. You should research the investors you may want to work with in the future to see if they have a preference.

LLC 100

LLC Technical Review Software Review Limited Liability Company 100

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

Dan: Well, you and I also just mentioned that we’re on the bleeding edge of technology. Venture capitalists are raising money from other investors, institutional investors who expect certain returns from us. No one uses them, because they quite simply require too much effort for someone to engage them.

Silicon Valley 204

Silicon Valley Software Review Internet Technical Review 204

VC Cafe

MARCH 8, 2010

TriVentures II , a $25 million medical device fund (with American medical technology company Medtronic Inc. as its main investor). Only three Israeli venture capital funds completed their fund raising efforts in 2009: Sequoia Capital Israel , announced final closing of Sequoia IV, a $200 million vintage 2009 fund.

IRR 74

IRR Israel Venture Capital Institutional Investors 74

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2020

By drawing on the current network of drivers and the app technology it already has in place, UberEATS could be a major competitor for food delivery services such as DoorDash. Don’t be the next Xerox who totally missed the personal computer market, even though they had the technology and the processes well before Apple, IBM, and others.

Customer 359

Customer Institutional Investors Channel Acquisition 359

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. Can you give a brief overview: when you were founded, investors, current status? We kind of bring it all together.

New York 114

New York Technical Review Networking Advisory Board 114

Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2011

A tech bubble is the rapid inflation in the valuation of public and private technology companies that exceeds their fundamental value by a large margin. 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. The Who 1971.

Silicon Valley 331

Silicon Valley Stealth Valuation Mississippi 331

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.

Incubator 305

Incubator Startup Exit Strategy Institutional Investors 305

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. A past employee of McKinsey & Company and Kimberly-Clark, Setili served as an executive with successful disruptive technology startups in the U.S. Lesson 2: Make bureaucracy your enemy.

Agile 113

Agile Malaysia Private Equity Non-Compete 113

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. Leverage information technology. Manage human resources. Don’t try this without a formal process.

Startup 268

Startup Institutional Investors Angel Investor Bootstrapping 268

Steve Blank

JUNE 17, 2011

My esteemed colleague Ben Horowitz essentially makes four arguments : 1) look at how relatively cheap Apple, Google and Amazon stock is compared to their growth; 2) Major technology cycles tend to be around 25 years long with the bulk of the purchases occurring in the last five-to-ten years. The Shills are the middlemen in a bubble.

Investment Bankers 318

Investment Bankers Stock Valuation Venture Capital 318

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. Leverage information technology. Manage human resources. Don’t try this without a formal process.

Startup 255

Startup Institutional Investors Angel Investor Bootstrapping 255

This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 5, 2012

If anyone has any solutions to this, as a former institutional investor myself, I'm all ears--especially if we think that the best fund opportunities are the smaller ones.

LP 97

LP Venture Capital Technical Review Nebraska 97

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

View from Seed

OCTOBER 29, 2014

This typically has a dual purpose: generate a return on the company’s cash while also gaining insight into new startups and technologies that may be of strategic interest to the corporation. 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

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. Leverage information technology. Manage human resources. Don’t try this without a formal process.

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. Leverage information technology. Manage human resources. Don’t try this without a formal process.

Institutional Investors 230

Institutional Investors Angel Investor Bootstrapping Database 230

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

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.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

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.

Incubator 230

Incubator Startup Exit Strategy Institutional Investors 230

Agile VC

OCTOBER 29, 2014

This typically has a dual purpose: generate a return on the company’s cash while also gaining insight into new startups and technologies that may be of strategic interest to the corporation. Some institutional investors simply aren’t big enough to have in-house employees to vet and manage a portfolio of VC funds.

Venture Capital 279

Venture Capital LP Private Equity Institutional Investors 279