YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 22, 2018

He has extensive professional experience as an investment banker and venture capitalist and has provided valuable strategic and operational guidance to nine fast-growing SaaS companies including Iowa-based Dwolla and BirdDogHR.

Iowa 113

Iowa Investment Bankers Cloud Software Review 113

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 11, 2023

While it seemed like a good idea and had the Navy’s backing, the founders got turned down for funding by companies, investment bankers and everyone, until they talked to John Parker. Why Minneapolis/St. Serendipity came to Minneapolis-St. Paul when the Navy team met John Parker.

Minnesota 317

Minnesota Engineer Minneapolis Silicon Valley 317

YoungUpstarts

MAY 25, 2018

He founded Brabble in 2013, working the contacts he’s developed over the years to do much better than a shoestring operation – raising millions through his network of private investors and investment bankers. You need to have a vision,” he advises others similarly on the entrepreneurial path.

Developer 159

Developer Investment Bankers eCommerce Social Media 159

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

At the end of the day, so many factors go into your company’s ability to win an investment, but if you use these five steps as your guide, you will increase your chances for success. She was working as an investment banker at Bank Leumi before putting Syte into the limelight.

Startup 138

Startup Investment Bankers Technical Review Cofounder 138

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Although underwriting an IPO shares some similarities with ICOs, it’s only at the highest level and the details of executing — both technically and pragmatically — are quite different (for some insight think of old-line white shoe investment bankers versus millennials, and how and where they communicate differently).

Technical Review 154

Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Software Review IPO 154

Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2017

About Growthink Since 1999, Growthink's professional business plan writers and investment bankers have assisted more than 2,000 clients in launching and growing their businesses, and raising more than $1 billion in growth financing. Ready to get started? Download Growthink's business plan template and finish your business plan today.

Venture Capital 129

Venture Capital Business Plan Technical Review Private Placement 129

Spencer Fry

AUGUST 20, 2018

It's like walking up to the investment banker or a lawyer at a party who’s wearing a light blue button up, dark slacks, and brown loafers -- just like every other investment banker I've ever met. All they stand for is not looking unprofessional and it makes me gag every time I see it.

Investment Bankers 63

Investment Bankers Startup Software Review Technical Review 63

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 10, 2011

Back in my IMVU days, I met with an investment banker who wanted to help us understand the M&A landscape. Vanity metrics and success theater are in a moral grey area; they are masking the fact that some of our industry’s most “successful” ventures are actually value destroying. Even worse, this breeds tremendous mistrust.

Silicon Valley 167

Silicon Valley San Francisco Lean Investment Bankers 167

Berkonomics

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Many CEOs have asked me if I felt an investment banker adds value if the buyer has already been identified. Investment bankers sometimes slow the process by requiring a “deal book” to be prepared containing considerable information about a company to help a buyer. Deal books are expensive to create.

Investment Bankers 83

Investment Bankers Liquidity Event Salary Lean 83

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

At the end of the day, so many factors go into your company’s ability to win an investment, but if you use these five steps as your guide, you will increase your chances for success. She was working as an investment banker at Bank Leumi before putting Syte into the limelight.

Startup 113

Startup Investment Bankers Technical Review Cofounder 113

Mucker Lab

AUGUST 27, 2014

After stints as a technology investment banker, a dot-com entrepreneur, and a product manager in Silicon Valley, I moved to Los Angeles in 2006. For the last couple of years, I’ve been investing in startups as a partner at Mucker, while spending a lot of time in the Valley working with potential co-investors and partners.

Los Angeles 138

Los Angeles Southern California Silicon Valley Technical Review 138

Up and Running

AUGUST 21, 2013

Mike Scanlin runs Born To Sell , a website dedicated to helping investors generate more monthly income from stocks they own, offering a ‘covered call screener’ Previously Mike was a venture capitalist, investment banker and software engineer. Do you have a great story about how you did it?

Investment Bankers 69

Investment Bankers Customer Networking Software Engineering 69

Up and Running

JULY 24, 2014

Having worked previously as an investment banker, Fancy knows the importance of sitting down and creating a feasibility plan for a business, and took the same approach when it came to starting a nonprofit venture.

Silicon Valley 123

Silicon Valley Government United States Programming 123

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2020

The new investors you need at this stage are investment bankers, private equity, or competitors, to buy you out via merger or acquisition (M&A), or to go public with an Initial Public Offering (IPO). “The ride has been fun, but I need my money out to start the next big thing.”

Angel Investor 370

Angel Investor Intellectual Property Investment Bankers Private Equity 370

Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Many CEOs have asked me if I felt an investment banker adds value if the buyer has already been identified. How investment bankers behave. For small deals, an investment banker will ask as much as ten percent, although the average is slightly above half that. Deal books are expensive to create.

Investment Bankers 62

Investment Bankers Salary Lean Cloud 62

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 19, 2010

He also write a nice post on limiting email and managing on the important / urgent matrix from the perspective on a recovering ex investment banker. That means most of us are getting derailed from our work four times each hour, maybe more if you work in a high email traffic office.&#.

Product 301

Product Investment Bankers Email Mobile 301

Scott Edward Walker

JUNE 30, 2011

Entrepreneurs often make the common mistake of retaining unregistered finders (commonly referred to consultants, financial advisors or investment bankers) to raise capital for their companies. Tip #2: Do Not Use an Unregistered Finder to Sell Securities.

Securities and Exchange Commission 76

Securities and Exchange Commission Accredited Investor Private Placement Finder 76

Hearpreneur

AUGUST 11, 2021

After I graduated from Ithaca College, I turned down a position as an investment banker because I wanted the freedom of entrepreneurship, just like my dad did. My father loved the freedom of entrepreneurship, and I’ve had an entrepreneurial spirit since my youth when I would go door-to-door selling greeting cards and vegetable seeds.

Entrepreneur 127

Entrepreneur Technical Review Social Media Bootstrapping 127

thebarefootvc

JANUARY 27, 2014

Gone are the days I remember as an investment banker in the mid-‘90s when we’d simply apply a private company discount (due to illiquidity and scale) when valuing private companies versus public companies. Further, while the public markets are opening up to IPOs once again, companies take much longer to IPO than in previous cycles.

Technical Review 63

Technical Review Valuation Venture Capital Investment Bankers 63

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2023

The new investors you need at this stage are investment bankers, private equity, or competitors, to buy you out via merger or acquisition (M&A), or to go public with an Initial Public Offering (IPO). “The ride has been fun, but I need my money out to start the next big thing.”

Angel Investor 313

Angel Investor Intellectual Property Investment Bankers Private Equity 313

David Teten

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Should you hire an investment banker? The good news: even if you are a small company and can’t afford a banker, you can synthetically and cheaply replicate a banker. That’s part of the value proposition of an institutional VC; I have been the (unpaid) investment banker for many of my portfolio companies. .

Investment Bankers 60

Investment Bankers Database Private Equity SEC 60

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 1, 2011

I’ve suddenly become very popular with investment bankers and have been on the receiving end of over 50 emails that look something like the following: “We met once a long time ago when I was with firm X. In the last month I’ve had the chance to make about 50 new friends. I’m now at firm Y.

Investment Bankers 135

Investment Bankers Widget Email Partner 135

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2015

I’m not getting paid like an investment banker. One day I was having lunch with my boss and I’d worked really hard on the weekend, and he said, “Hey. You need to do XYZ more.” ” I said, “Look. I’m working as hard as I can. I’m already working harder than everyone.”

Las Vegas 120

Las Vegas Entrepreneur Cofounder Nevada 120

Rob Go

JANUARY 18, 2012

Nick Beim (Gilt, The Ladders, JBoss) was a consultant and investment banker. Fred Wilson (Twitter, Zynga, Foursquare) has been a VC for almost his entire career. Danny Rimer (Skype, Tellme, Stardoll) started out as an equity analyst.

Operations 50

Operations Technical Review Investment Bankers Cofounder 50

Hearpreneur

MAY 26, 2017

The fact that we’ve done all of that with no external investments (we’ve bootstrapped until now) and with no previous formal experience in education makes it even cooler (my business partner worked in infrastructure projects and I was an investment banker on Wall Street for five years prior to this). Daniel Pink.

Miami 48

Miami Software Review Technical Review Investment Bankers 48

David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

There’s also a huge amount of luck in timing and amount of exits, so it’s also hard to compensate an internal “M&A investment banker” fairly for expediting an exit, given they may deserve zero credit. . Further reading: How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Accelerate Portfolio Company Success.

Private Equity 78

Private Equity Venture Capital Portfolio Equity 78

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Before Twitter he held similar roles at SuccessFactors (SaaS), Akamai (telecoms infrastructure), McAfee (Security Software) and was an investment banker. So he covers a ton of ground for industry knowledge and M&A chops. If you want to learn more about Seksom you can read his TechCrunch interview here.

Pre-Money Valuation 471

Pre-Money Valuation Valuation Venture Capital Early Stage 471

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

Expensive new IT systems, consultants, and investment bankers are usually required. Most estimates of the expense for compliance and accounting procedures of a public company are at least double, or maybe quadruple those of a private company. Increasing government regulations.

Exit Strategy 239

Exit Strategy IPO Investment Bankers Entrepreneur 239

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2011

Expensive new IT systems, consultants, and investment bankers are usually required. Most estimates of the expense for compliance and accounting procedures of a public company are at least double, or maybe quadruple those of a private company. Increasing government regulations.

Exit Strategy 235

Exit Strategy IPO Entrepreneur Investment Bankers 235

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2010

He has a diverse background as a Tier I management consultant, investment banker, technologist, and Silicon Valley entrepreneur. As it turns out, you’re exactly the right age to be starting a business! ##### Today's guest blog is by Akira Hirai, the founder of Cayenne Consulting.

Silicon Valley 233

Silicon Valley Investment Bankers Affiliate Vertical 233

Steve Blank

JUNE 17, 2011

They’re the mortgage brokers and real estate agents in the housing bubble, the investment bankers and technology press in the dot.com bubble. They know others will. The Shills are the middlemen in a bubble. They profit from the boom times.

Investment Bankers 318

Investment Bankers Stock Valuation Venture Capital 318

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

This is the final stage of investment in venture opportunities, and is the point where investors expect to see the return and gain from the original investment. At this stage, you need investment bankers to negotiate a merger or acquisition (M&A), go private, or help you go public with an Initial Public Offering (IPO).

Investment Bankers 241

Investment Bankers Venture Capital Startup Initial Public Offering 241

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

IPOs and M&A have returned – and with them the investment bankers have staged a rebound. VC’s are working hand-in-glove with the investment bankers to prepare for IPOs or create auction-style trade sales. but I’ll save that for post 3/3). billion and Omniture to Adobe for an astounding $1.8

IPO 255

IPO Investment Bankers Venture Capital Marketing 255

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Expensive new IT systems, consultants, and investment bankers are usually required. Most estimates of the expense for compliance and accounting procedures of a public company are at least double, or maybe quadruple those of a private company. Increasing government regulations.

IPO 224

IPO Founder Exit Strategy Investment Bankers 224

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2010

This is the final stage of investment in venture opportunities, and is the point where investors expect to see the return and gain from the original investment. At this stage, you need investment bankers to negotiate a merger or acquisition (M&A), go private, or help you go public with an Initial Public Offering (IPO).

Investment Bankers 231

Investment Bankers Venture Capital Startup Initial Public Offering 231

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 28, 2010

Finding the best jobs takes a lot of commitment to taking many different networking meetings with executives, recruiters, entrepreneurs, VC’s, investment bankers, etc. Let’s start with the obvious. The best jobs (as you know) are found through personal connections.

Los Angeles 326

Los Angeles San Francisco Chicago Investment Bankers 326

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Gregg is an ex Investment Banker and Wharton MBA. It works well because they always had well defined roles. Evan is artist who is the creative genius who was working with the low-cost film medium in the late 90′s. It was a marriage that worked well from day 1. How do you keep the momentum after 11 years?

Viral 303

Viral Investment Bankers Video Business Model 303