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Identifying Private Company Investment Opportunities
Speaker: David Teten, Investment Banker / Entrepreneur, Teten Advisors, LLC |
David Teten is an investment banker with Teten Advisors (www.Teten.com ) and a serial entrepreneur. He was most recently Managing Director of Evalueserve, the world's largest knowledge process outsourcing company. In early 2009, he will release the results of a large-scale study of best practices in deal origination by private equity and venture capital firms. He co-lead the Circle of Experts, and lead Evalueserve's services helping venture capital and private equity funds originate investments. Founded in 2000, the company has over 2,400 employees. Among its 1,100 clients are 6 of the top 10 investment banking entities and 10 of the top 15 strategy consulting firms. David joined Evalueserve when the firm acquired his research firm, the Circle of Experts.
David was formerly CEO of Teten Executive Recruiting, which he sold to Accolo, #42 on the 2007 Inc. 500 list. Previously, he was Founder and CEO of GoldNames, an Israeli investment bank serving the internet domain name asset class. He worked with Bear Stearns' Investment Banking division as a member of their technology/defense M&A team, and was a strategy consultant with Mars & Co. He holds a Harvard MBA and a Yale BA, both with honors.
David is a member of the Advisory Board for Accolo and Grouply. He is a frequent keynote speaker to finance and technology conferences. David is lead author of The Virtual Handshake: Opening Doors and Closing Deals Online, the first book on how businesses can use online networks and other "Web 2.0" technologies to originate deals, win new clients, recruit star employees, and market their firm. David runs TheVirtualHandshake.com reference site and blog.
David Teten will discuss:
- In the current challenging climate, what are investors looking for?
- How do investors filter the deluge of companies seeking capital? And how do they create the deluge in the first place?
- As an investor, what are best practices in deal origination from existing companies, and in spotting "Greenfields" for new company creation?
- The mating dance: How does an investor become a company's preferred funder?
- What does research on deal-origination indicate are the primary sources of investable companies for institutional investors?
- What are the earmarks of a potential investment opportunity?