Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

Perhaps you are caught in the “Series A crunch” or perhaps you are a consumer company and expected that you would be valued on users rather than revenue like the last time. 3/29/1996: 22.3. 3/31/2011: 15.4. Financing capital market down round fundraising outkast' But they most certainly are not. How could this be?

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Pascal's View

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Clovis Oncology is set to price a $160 million offering, despite having a whopping $0 in revenue. Also on the docket is Lashou Group, which only reports $16 million in revenue for the first nine months of 2011. And InterMolecular, with $26 million through the first nine months of 2011. IPOs were neither VC nor PE backed.

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Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

Perhaps you are caught in the “Series A crunch” or perhaps you are a consumer company and expected that you would be valued on users rather than revenue like the last time. 3/29/1996: 22.3 3/31/2011: 15.4 But they most certainly are not. Or maybe you are a lucky enterprise company and are pleasantly surprised—this time.

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Ben's Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

Similarly, in recent high profile private financing rounds for private technology companies with valuations over $1B, the valuation multiples were at or below corresponding multiples for publicly traded companies such as Google. In fact, 2010 venture capital fundraising is at the same level as it was in 1995 and 1996.

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 21, 2009

Although new financings may pick up a bit in the second half of 209, I would predict that VC funding for 2009-2011 doesn't exceed $20 billion per year and probably stays closer to $15 billion per year. The Q1'09 figure was $3.0 billion, suggesting we are on a $12 billion runrate. And guess what? VC downsizing is ok.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

November 1, 2011 by Joshua Baer. He founded SKYLIST in 1996 from his college dorm room at Carnegie Mellon, and created UnsubCentral in 2004. Include screenshots of your product , a video walk-through and one or two charts that display traction or revenue. Here are some tips… November 1, 2011 16:54:48. Holiday Lists.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Bates: Good morning and welcome to our CEO panel, “How to Fine-Tune Your Small Business Finances From Funding to Growth” which I think is the direction that we would all like to be going. I’m here with some really phenomenal CEOs who are going to talk to us today about small business finances from funding to growth.

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