Agile VC

JUNE 13, 2019

I know some of the investors in Chewy prior to the PetSmart acquisition, but I am not a shareholder nor do I intend to purchase shares in the IPO. Chewy helpfully provides some cohort data on both aggregate $ revenue, active customer spend, and LTV/CAC basis. spent by new customers in 2015, that same group (in aggregate) bought $1.65

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Leadership .Net Revenue Acquisition 100

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 18, 2010

With staged releases, time provides a (somewhat illusory) safety net. Examples of things I monitor are the numbers of user activations, active users, and aggregate page hits to user galleries. With staged releases, time provides a (somewhat illusory) safety net. On the one hand, this is the ultimate in customer responsiveness.

Continuous Deployment 151

Continuous Deployment San Francisco Lean Wiki 151

Startup Company Lawyer

MAY 26, 2012

Under the crowdfunding provisions, the aggregate dollar amount of securities that an issuer can sell in a crowdfunding transaction is limited to $1 million (less the aggregate amount of securities sold under other exemptions) over a 12-month period.

SEC 58

SEC Securities and Exchange Commission Accredited Investor Private Placement 58

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2022

This requires a simple signature that you have a net worth of at least $1M or have made at least $200K each year for the last two years. These may be aggregated by an angel group up to about $1M for an angel round. Liquidity events include merger or acquisition (M&A), or Initial Public Offering (IPO) when the stock goes public.

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Liquidity Event Angel Investor SEC Accredited Investor 300

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Leaders (company is leaving China, our IPO is next week, 1,800 new stores are being opened in 180 days, our new IRR is 8%). … You can see the wisdom of not just setting a 20% aggregate conversion rate, based on the above benchmarking data. Any big shifts in investment (marketing, customer experience, team sizes, tools).

Analytics 133

Analytics Vertical Metrics Web 133

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

The pressures of lofty paper valuations, massive burn rates (and the subsequent need for more cash), and unprecedented low levels of IPOs and M&A, have created a complex and unique circumstance which many Unicorn CEOs and investors are ill-prepared to navigate. In Q1 of 2016 there were zero VC-backed technology IPOs.

IPO 40

IPO Term Sheet Silicon Valley Valuation 40

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

This requires a simple signature that you have a net worth of at least $1M or have made at least $200K each year for the last two years. These may be aggregated by an angel group up to about $1M for an angel round. Liquidity events include merger or acquisition (M&A), or Initial Public Offering (IPO) when the stock goes public.

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Liquidity Event SEC Entrepreneur Accredited Investor 224

Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

Instead, they prefer to buy through large distribution companies that aggregate products from lots of suppliers and then make that inventory available to retailers to purchase. Net Profit. If you have any of these income or expense streams, you will list them below your Net Profit. Retail Distribution. Use of Funds.

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Business Plan Forecast Balance Sheet Distribution 163

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

This requires a simple signature that you have a net worth of at least $1M or have made at least $200K each year for the last two years. These may be aggregated by an angel group up to about $1M for an angel round. Liquidity events include merger or acquisition (M&A), or Initial Public Offering (IPO) when the stock goes public.

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Liquidity Event SEC Accredited Investor Angel Investor 184

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

This requires a simple signature that you have a net worth of at least $1M or have made at least $200K each year for the last two years. These may be aggregated by an Angel group up to about $1M for an Angel round. Liquidity events include merger or acquisition (M&A), or Initial Public Offering (IPO) when the stock goes public.

Accredited Investor 219

Accredited Investor Liquidity Event SEC Stock 219

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

This requires a simple signature that you have a net worth of at least $1M or have made at least $200K each year for the last two years. These may be aggregated by an Angel group up to about $1M for an Angel round. Liquidity events include merger or acquisition (M&A), or Initial Public Offering (IPO) when the stock goes public.

Portfolio 228

Portfolio Accredited Investor Liquidity Event SEC 228

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

The IPO market remained closed to IT startups, but there were big acquisitions like Google buying YouTube for $1.65B (Fall 2006) and late stage financing rounds for companies like Facebook (Microsoft round at $15B valuation in Fall 2007). In the mid 2000′s VC’s were largely prospering. So at a fund level (e.g.

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LP Portfolio Venture Capital IRR 154

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

This requires a simple signature that you have a net worth of at least $1M or have made at least $200K each year for the last two years. These may be aggregated by an Angel group up to about $1M for an Angel round. Liquidity events include merger or acquisition (M&A), or Initial Public Offering (IPO) when the stock goes public.

Accredited Investor 120

Accredited Investor Liquidity Event SEC Entrepreneur 120

Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

You see every day these IPOs coming out of companies that we work, for example. Just had an IPO and last quarter they lost $700 million. And we use the standard kind of format that most acquirers have adopted, which is called Net Promoter Score. John Jantsch: So you mentioned the idea of growth potential. John Warrillow: Right.

Entrepreneur 49

Entrepreneur Switzerland Revenue Differentiation 49

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Save Asia for post-IPO Single instance, multi-tenant, single datacenter - Have only one version of the code in production. The CLTV is the net present value of the recurring profit streams of a given customer less the acquisition cost. The CAC ratio determines the payback time on your sales and marketing investment: a CAC ratio of 0.5

Software Review 48

Software Review North America Europe Metrics 48

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

It was one of the year's most successful IPOs so far, and has been heralded as a "landmark moment" for cryptocurrency's entrance into mainstream investing. Just before the IPO, I had a far-reaching conversation with co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong as he approached this major milestone for the company he co-founded back in 2012.

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IPO Cofounder Technical Review Government 113

Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

2007 was a turning point for the SaaS industry with the successful IPOs of NetSuite, SuccessFactors, DemandTec, Salary.com, Aprimo and Constant Contact. This introduction was also the opportunity to illustrate the amazing growth of our software and saas portfolio in the past years, with aggregated revenues reaching $1.2B

Software Review 48

Software Review South Korea IPO Portfolio 48

abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

Would that help retention and NPS (Net Promote Score)? If somehow Sofi could obtain allocation to these so called “hot IPOs” clearly it would be a powerful marketing tool. If somehow Sofi could obtain allocation to these so called “hot IPOs” clearly it would be a powerful marketing tool. Would they be loyal?

IPO 82

IPO Customer Matching Silicon Valley 82

VC Cafe

JUNE 19, 2020

There’s an increasing interest from institutional investors in particular, but also high-net-worth individuals, private banks and a variety of other players who are thinking to make more impact investments than we’ve seen in the past couple of years.”. Business as usual is no longer an option,” they conclude. Israel, a hub for Impact Tech?

Venture Capital 174

Venture Capital Global South Africa 174

pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Meanwhile, the rash of early liquidity and recent IPOs — unsatisfying as they were — gave liquidity to thousands of employees at large companies, and a subset of those made very real money. This time around, there has been an explosion at the early stages, and the very late pre-IPO growth stages. Source: AllThingsD ]. -

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Technical Review Silicon Valley Incubator Syria 93