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. . The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies. In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers. 1) Manage the firm .

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

I'm working quite a bit with startups who are leveraging social media, but I'm finding it hard to predict success and metrics. And how can an early stage company think about social media relative to important startup metrics (see [link] )? I'm sure that you had to think about that at Google and United Online. How did you do that?

Management 150

Management Product Entrepreneur Silicon Valley 150

This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 21, 2011

For 78 straight weeks, my " This Week in the NYC Innovation Community Newsletter " enjoyed industry leading metrics. My buddy Dan Primack has a private equity newsletter called the Term Sheet that is now getting caught in Gmail's spam filter as well. Near 40% opens, almost 15% clickthroughs, and almost 4,000 subscribers.

Technical Review 104

Technical Review Clickthrough Private Equity Term Sheet 104

Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

Public investors, cross-over investors, and even traditional private equity firms have taken notice, further blurring the lines of what constitutes true venture capital. Also during this time, the underlying metrics in that business can change positively, potentially trapping companies to accept the initially-agreed upon valuation.

Technical Review 165

Technical Review Venture Capital Russia China 165

Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 29, 2017

#10- Address financial and operating metrics. By screening hundreds of SMB acquisition opportunities as managing partner at my private equity firm, I saw first-hand that the vast majority of small business owners run their firms without the benefit of good financial or operating metrics. Photo Credit: Dave Robinson.

Entrepreneur 90

Entrepreneur Social Media Liquidity Event Private Equity 90

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2023

He speaks from a wealth of personal experience in private equity, as well as top executive positions at American Express, Sears, and Citigroup. Focus on two or three pertinent metrics in any situation. Unbundle projects into smaller elements, and personalize the top couple of metrics for each team. by Steven D.

Customer 350

Customer Miami Private Equity Social Media 350

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2022

They need a large infusion from venture capitalists, private equity, bank loans, or mezzanine financing. Managing business growth is more than metrics. I like the ten steps he outlines, which I characterize here as follows: Seek major capital infusion. There is no free lunch. Install a real board of directors.

Mezzanine 368

Mezzanine Private Equity Bandwidth Metrics 368

ConversionXL

MAY 14, 2014

We analyzed the site, created a design treatment (built based on their brand guidelines) and it beat the control on every metric by 30%, 40% and so on. Meanwhile this company gets bought by a private equity group who installs a new CEO. Their home page had terrible bounce rate – like 85% or something. Great success.

Conversion 124

Conversion eCommerce Technical Review Software Review 124

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2020

He speaks from a wealth of personal experience in private equity, as well as top executive positions at American Express, Sears, and Citigroup. Focus on two or three pertinent metrics in any situation. Unbundle projects into smaller elements, and personalize the top couple of metrics for each team. by Steven D.

Leadership 321

Leadership Miami Private Equity Social Media 321

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

After that, I did it for a private equity firm then we became a part of a larger corporation. What I mean by that is startups nowadays that raise money have absolutely ludicrous metrics. And again, that doesn’t have the metrics that a VC wants. You know that I ran WinZip before. I first did it for the founder.

Technical Cofounder 220

Technical Cofounder Cofounder Software Review Management 220

Austin Startup

MARCH 20, 2017

While general impact investing is becoming more mainstream for high net worth individuals and institutions, gender lens investing has not benefitted from the same level of traction in the private equity and venture capital space. There is also much progress to be made in the standardization of gender lens investment criteria.

Private Equity 54

Private Equity Venture Capital United States Equity 54

David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

In a prior life, I served as a consultant to Goldman Sachs Special Situations Group, Carl Icahn’s organization, and some other very large private equity investors. I saw “ portfolio operations ,” i.e., levers to enhance the operations efficacy of portfolio companies, become a standard part of the private equity toolkit.

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Private Equity Silicon Valley Differentiation 60

David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

In a prior life, I served as a consultant to Goldman Sachs Special Situations Group, Carl Icahn’s organization, and some other very large private equity investors. I saw “ portfolio operations ,” i.e., levers to enhance the operations efficacy of portfolio companies, become a standard part of the private equity toolkit.

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Private Equity Silicon Valley Differentiation 60

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2018

He speaks from a wealth of personal experience in private equity, as well as top executive positions at American Express, Sears, and Citigroup. Focus on two or three pertinent metrics in any situation. Unbundle projects into smaller elements, and personalize the top couple of metrics for each team. by Steven D.

Employee 241

Employee Miami Private Equity Social Media 241

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

They need a large infusion from venture capitalists, private equity, bank loans, or mezzanine financing. Managing business growth is more than metrics. I like the ten steps he outlines, which I characterize here as follows: Seek major capital infusion. There is no free lunch. Install a real board of directors.

Mezzanine 244

Mezzanine Private Equity Startup Bandwidth 244

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

They need a large infusion from venture capitalists, private equity, bank loans, or mezzanine financing. Managing business growth is more than metrics. I like the ten steps he defines, which I can summarize here as follows: Seek major capital infusion. There is no free lunch. Install a real board of directors.

Mezzanine 240

Mezzanine Private Equity Bandwidth Metrics 240

Steve Blank

MARCH 17, 2020

What are the new financial metrics? This time around, the health of the venture business may depend on what hedge funds, investment banks, private equity firms, sovereign wealth funds, and large secondary market groups do. Are those assumptions about payers still correct? How do you know? Receivables – get on top of them.

Burn Rate 436

Burn Rate Startup Valuation Sales Cycle 436

Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Maybe you are wondering which metrics to track, or whether or not you should take out a loan for your business. Which metrics do you most rely on to understand your business itself. The question is what metrics do you most rely on to understand your business’s health? What specific metrics should they be monitoring?

Small Business 95

Small Business Finance Forecast Metrics 95

500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

Or, as my friend Marc Andreessen might say, Software Eats the Private Equity World. Hell, there are still plenty of VCs who don’t even have a blog or use twitter, and many more who have no idea on how to use data services to analyze and collect metrics on their own portfolio. Mega VC, Micro VC.

Silicon Valley 74

Silicon Valley Early Stage Venture Capital Valuation 74

Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

And remember that whomever you take money from, whether it is an angel investor, a VC, or private equity (PE) firm, that the partnership with them is like a marriage. But it was the dot-com craze and all of the metrics (eyeballs, pageviews, etc.) And when you think big, you think global, as we have at Bazaarvoice.

Bootstrapping 52

Bootstrapping IPO Business Model Software Review 52

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

They need a large infusion from venture capitalists, private equity, bank loans, or mezzanine financing. Managing business growth is more than metrics. I like the ten steps he outlines, which I characterize here as follows: Seek major capital infusion. There is no free lunch. Install a real board of directors.

Mezzanine 141

Mezzanine Private Equity Startup Bandwidth 141

Hunter Walker

APRIL 4, 2014

other venture/private equity shops. Third fund is the B round – metrics, results. There’s a influx of capital to back new funds: crowding funding via AngelList syndicates. high net worth individuals. family offices. strategic investors (including corporates). The result has been many new managers, many new funds.

San Francisco 119

San Francisco Private Equity LP Syndicate 119

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

He speaks from a wealth of personal experience in private equity, as well as top executive positions at American Express, Sears, and Citigroup. Focus on two or three pertinent metrics in any situation. Unbundle projects into smaller elements, and personalize the top couple of metrics for each team. by Steven D.

Leadership 120

Leadership Miami Private Equity Social Media 120

Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

John Warrillow: They sure are, and by the way, that’s a typical fishing letter used by either a private equity group or a business broker, as flattering as it can be, it probably doesn’t mean a whole lot. I love looking at cost per account acquired as a key metric to share with potential acquirers.

Entrepreneur 68

Entrepreneur Switzerland Revenue Differentiation 68

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2011

Inspired by lessons from lean manufacturing, it relies on “validated learning,” rapid scientific experimentation, as well as a number of counter-intuitive practices that shorten product development cycles, measure actual progress without resorting to vanity metrics, and learn what customers really want.

Lean 167

Lean Startup Metrics Private Equity 167

The Equity Kicker

MARCH 5, 2018

It’s the biggest European gathering of venture capital fund managers, private equity fund managers and LPs, the institutions that invest in both types of funds. We also had LPs who have historically invested in private equity but not venture questioning whether it was time for them to make a change.

Private Equity 92

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Europe 92

deal architect

JANUARY 25, 2024

He is in constant touch with entrepreneurs in the EU discussing go-to-market, operational metrics. For the 112th episode of Burning Platform we have Ton Dobbe of Value Inspiration. Ton and I regularly participate in our respective podcasts and video series.

Entrepreneur 170

Entrepreneur Metrics Video Operations 170

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Brokers should use a variety of different benchmarking metrics – including your litigation history and your company’s market capitalization – to model potential losses and determine optimal D&O policy limits. Do you have the right international coverage?

IPO 147

IPO Prospectus Merger Initial Public Offering 147

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

They need a large infusion from venture capitalists, private equity, bank loans, or mezzanine financing. Managing business growth is more than metrics. I like the ten steps he outlines, which I characterize here as follows: Seek major capital infusion. There is no free lunch. Install a real board of directors.

Mezzanine 120

Mezzanine Private Equity Startup Bandwidth 120

Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 30, 2025

Alex Smereczniak (02:24.058) Yeah, so I actually, you know, I've done a lot of research on franchising as a whole and two metrics that have jumped out to me before is that, you know, the two year success rate of a franchise business is about 76%. Oh, sorry, sorry. And he also becomes a McDonald's franchisee. John Jantsch (08:08.098) Yeah.

Private Equity 76

Private Equity Bankruptcy Naming Equity 76

David Teten

JUNE 12, 2014

We are also the second or third most active angel group in New York, depending on which metric you use. In my research on how private equity and VC funds source investments , one of our conclusions was that VCs get better returns when they invest outside of the traditional geographic hotspots of New York, Boston, and the Bay Area.

New York 114

New York Angel Groups Connecticut Florida 114

David Teten

MARCH 2, 2013

The Economics of Private Equity Funds demonstrates that the VC industry survives mostly on fee-based income (of which larger funds have a proportionally larger amount). Tom draws on two metrics to demonstrate that larger funds are, in fact, more likely to be top performers. But the paper I linked to by Steve Kaplan et al.

LP 114

LP Securities and Exchange Commission Silicon Valley Venture Capital 114

David Teten

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

The model outputs standard financial statements and key operating metrics based on a wide range of user inputs, and is highly customizable and entirely transparent. Download the template financial model in Excel here. This is designed to be a simple end-to-end financial model for an early-stage startup.

Balance Sheet 154

Balance Sheet Startup Equity Valuation 154

VC Adventure

AUGUST 15, 2013

I''m on my way back from [an] investor conference where we met a bunch of VC & Private Equity guys. The point is that people talk (in this case the topic was VCs but you could imagine the same thread on larger technology company partnerships or the best tools for managing metrics across your business, etc.).

Reputation 77

Reputation Private Equity Portfolio Equity 77

Agile VC

MARCH 18, 2012

Compared on typical media metrics of reach and engagement, Facebook stands apart which is why it’s both much larger as a business (30-40X bigger in revenue) and a far more valuable company. The “follow” modality is an interesting one and Twitter was a pioneer here where many others have now followed (sorry, no pun intended).

Media 113

Media Advertising Silicon Valley Revenue 113

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Over the past 20+ years, as an angel investor, former venture capitalist and private equity investor, and serial entrepreneur, I have seen and written, a wide variety of pitch decks and business plans. Beyond discussing facing adversity and overcoming obstacles, many of them have shared their business plans with me.

Business Plan 124

Business Plan Elevator Pitch Equity Private Equity 124

VC Cafe

JUNE 19, 2020

Impact Investing has been around for a long time, most prominently since the 1960’s as companies and governments began engaging with the concept through private equity and debt investing in developing economies.

Israel 174

Israel Venture Capital Global South Africa 174