Where are the Deals?!
Private Equity and Venture Capital Funds’
Best Practices in Deal Origination
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
12:00pm – 1:30pm
The quality of the deals you originate is one of the greatest drivers of your success as an investor. What are you doing to improve your deal flow?
You can see a sneak preview of the discussion here: Deal Origination Presentation. David Teten, our keynote speaker, will discuss:
- How can you position yourself to become your target's preferred investor?
- In the current tough climate, how can you lower your deal origination costs?
- What does research on deal-origination indicate are the primary sources of deal flow
for institutional investors?
- What can you do to identify companies that might be interested in being approached?
- What are the earmarks of a potential investment opportunity?
- How can you increase your inflow of useful referrals?
- How can you best affiliate with operating executives who want to be owner-operators,
with backing from private equity?
- What is the best way to make warm cold calls?
Speaker Biography
David Teten is CEO of Teten Advisors, which specializes in advising private equity and venture capital funds on accelerating deal flow, portfolio company executive optimization and recruiting, and due diligence. In 2009, he will release the results of the first study of best practices in venture capital and private equity deal origination, based on interviews with over 125 professional investors, his work with a range of institutional investor clients, and research he conducted in writing his book, The Virtual Handshake: Opening Doors and Closing Deals Online. The Virtual Handshake is the first business book about how you can originate investment opportunities, raise capital, and win new clients with online networks, blogs, and other Web 2.0 technologies. The deal origination study will be published in the Journal of Private Equity (an Institutional Investor publication).
David was most recently a Managing Director with Evalueserve, a global research and analytics company. Founded in 2000, Evalueserve has over 2,500 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 was previously Founder and CEO of Circle of Experts, an investment research firm acquired by Evalueserve.
David was formerly Founder and CEO of Teten Recruiting, an executive recruiting firm acquired by Accolo, #42 on the 2007 Inc. 500 list. He was also formerly Founder and CEO of an investment bank focusing on serving the internet domain name asset class, which he built to 450 customers. He worked with Bear Stearns’ Investment Banking division as a member of their technology/defense mergers and acquisitions team, and was a strategy consultant with Mars & Co. David holds a Harvard MBA and a Yale BA, both with honors.
David is a frequent keynote speaker to audiences such as Franklin Templeton; CEO Trust; Association for Corporate Growth; the Vistage CEO Community; Alliance of Merger & Acquisition Advisors; Kauffman Fellows program; CFA Institute; and IRC Alternative Investment Summit. He has twice received the highest ratings of any speaker at a conference. David sits on the Advisory Boards of Accolo, Grouply, Dancetime Publications, and the Word of Mouth Marketing Association.
Members: $20.00
Non-members: $35.00
Time: 12:00pm – 1:30pm, boxed lunch and refreshments to be provided.
Location: California Plaza 2
350 S. Grand Ave, ETC Room (Map)
Los Angeles, CA 90071
