Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 11, 2022
Something happened in the past 7 years in the startup and venture capital world that I hadn’t experienced since the late 90’s — we all began praying to the God of Valuation. How might our next phase of the journey seem brighter, even with more uncertain days for startups and capital markets? What happened? There was no money train.
Version One Ventures
DECEMBER 14, 2016
Mattermark (a portfolio company) looked at the matriculation rates for a class of startups. They started with a simple question: if 100 startups raise a Seed round, how many of those will go on to raise a Series A, and then a Series B ? Mattermark found that, on average, around 31 of the initial startups raised a Series A.
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Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 13, 2011
“My startup business was acquired and I worked for the company that bought us; which was a public company called Ameridata that bought about 40 companies in about three years. So I was an Angel investor from 1994 to 1996. Was about a billion dollars on the IPO” and “was one of the first web analytics companies.
adamac.blogspot.com
MARCH 9, 2010
Adam MacBeth Tuesday, April 07, 2009 10 Startup Red Flags Ive worked on a number of startups: from seed-stage through IPO, as a founder, employee, advisor, and consultant, as well as evaluating a bunch from the outside, so Ive seen my share of screw-ups. This means there MUST be a technical founder in a startup.
Feld Thoughts
OCTOBER 28, 2014
Between 1994 and 1996 I made 40 angel investments with the money I made from the sale of my first company. Every day I’m reading about a new thing in the startup world. Strategic investment is in vogue again, with virtually every large public company trying to figure out how to fund startups. What’s old is new again.
Growthink Blog
APRIL 27, 2010
At Google's IPO that represented a stock share position worth over $280 million! Sure, it would have been great to get into Google at its IPO price of $85/share, especially as the shares are up over 535% since then. Remember this was 1998 not 1994. When Google went public in 2004, that $250,000 investment translated into 3.3
Growthink Blog
APRIL 25, 2010
At Google’s IPO that represented a stock share position worth over $280 million! Sure, it would have been great to get into Google at its IPO price of $85/share, especially as the shares are up over 535% since then. Remember this was 1998 not 1994. When Google went public in 2004, that $250,000 investment translated into 3.3
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