BeyondVC

APRIL 15, 2011

OK, I may be biased having been an early stage VC based out of New York since 1996, but I must say that the vibe, energy, and people at the Techstars NYC Demo Day event yesterday was simply awesome. Dave Tisch and team simply did a fantastic job guiding the startups, recruiting the mentors, and organizing the event.

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BeyondVC

APRIL 15, 2011

OK, I may be biased having been an early stage VC based out of New York since 1996, but I must say that the vibe, energy, and people at the Techstars NYC Demo Day event yesterday was simply awesome. Dave Tisch and team simply did a fantastic job guiding the startups, recruiting the mentors, and organizing the event.

New York 129

New York Sweat Equity Marketing Startup 129

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Freeloader — On $3m invested, sold for $38m in 1996 — shut down in 1997. So it IPO’ed at a $13b valuation but has dropped month-over-month to one-fourth that value and appears to be in “constant pivot mode” while they try to figure out a new, massive market for which their existing infrastructure is an asset.

IPO 240

IPO Flash Bootstrapping Private Equity 240

help.bplans.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

If you really believe your $200 million valuation by next year (a very hard to believe figure, for the record), then you are giving somebody equity worth $2 million a year from now, to save $1,500 dollars. Copyright ©1996-2011 Palo Alto Software, Inc. You are selling 1% equity for $1,500. That’s a bad bet. Site Map. |.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

But knowing the right people and knowing a market only works well for angel investors in bullish tech markets in which IPO’s happen quickly (97-99) or where larger companies are actively scooping up little tiny companies at sub $50 million valuations to drive innovation (05-08, 10-?).

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Seeing Both Sides

JULY 21, 2014

million in one year, the year we went public at a billion dollar valuation (ok, it was 1996; everyone went public in 1996 with a billion dollar valuation), and then $61 million the following year. As a result, the full revenue for each deal was recognized in that quarter as soon as the software was shipped.

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Revenue Valuation Churn Rate Portfolio 54

Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

You probably thought that valuations would be roughly the same as they were the last time you raised money. 3/29/1996: 22.3. And those are big companies with real earnings, so you can imagine how a private company’s valuation might fluctuate. In June of 2000, I raised money at an $820M post-money valuation.

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Down Round Marketing Preferred Stock Post-Money Valuation 78

Seeing Both Sides

DECEMBER 27, 2013

Aileen Lee''s now-famous unicorn analysis listed 39 companies founded in the last 10 years who had achieved $1 billion plus valuations. I wrote a blog post two and a half years ago in response to cries of a bubble that it felt a lot more like 1996 than 1999 right now. And if you are worried about bubbles right now, don''t.

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IPO Stock Valuation Portfolio 49

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

But knowing the right people and knowing a market only works well for angel investors in bullish tech markets in which IPO’s happen quickly (97-99) or where larger companies are actively scooping up little tiny companies at sub $50 million valuations to drive innovation (05-08, 10-?). Let’s call these cards 1996-99 and 2005-08.

Angel Investor 152

Angel Investor Cap Table Early Stage Deal Flow 152

The Equity Kicker

MARCH 19, 2012

One of our slides today showed VC exits over $100 million since 1996, split between the US and Europe. They are on the look-out for discrepancies with what we have presented previously, whether we have sufficient reserves, and any signs that we are too bullish about our valuations or exit projections.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

There is additional encouraging news for aspiring entrepreneurs on many fronts, just in case you are thinking about joining the existing ranks: Valuations of successful startups have hit an all-time high. The percent of entrepreneurs who are Baby Boomer starting a business since 1996 has grown from 14.3 percent to 23.4

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IPO Entrepreneur Social Media Startup 273

Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

You probably thought that valuations would be roughly the same as they were the last time you raised money. 3/29/1996: 22.3 And those are big companies with real earnings, so you can imagine how a private company’s valuation might fluctuate. In June of 2000, I raised money at an $820M post-money valuation.

Marketing 46

Marketing Preferred Stock Post-Money Valuation Down Round 46

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Believe it or not, three years after founding the company in 1996, Larry Page and Sergey Brin actually tried to sell Google for $1 million. . - Modest profitability. - The price offered was high for this type of business. No introduction is required here. Their offer was rebuffed and the company went public five years later.

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IPO Exit Strategy San Francisco Startup 162

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2015

There is additional encouraging news for aspiring entrepreneurs on many fronts, just in case you are thinking about joining the existing ranks: Valuations of successful startups have hit an all-time high. The number of entrepreneurs who are Baby Boomer starting a business has grown from 14 percent in 1996 to over 30 percent last year.

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IPO Angel Investor Startup Incubator 120

Ben's Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

As we do so, keep in mind that the relevant bubble statistic is not valuation. High valuations are fine if the underlying value is there. In the great bubble of 1998-2000, the boom in public valuations mirrored the boom in private valuations. If too much venture capital hits the streets, valuations will bubble up.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Venture Capital Valuation Database 78

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

I’m a partner at TCV, which we founded in 1996. That’s a valuation number and pricing number. Here is the full YouTube — Please enjoy this episode: How to Scale Unicorns. And before we get started, could you share a little about TCV and what got you into venture investing? David Zhang. We’re a crossover fund.

Partner 132

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

Technical founders Tom Leighton and Danny Lewin built the original prototype at their lab at MIT starting in late 1996 before raising capital, so in a sense Akamai’s Minimum Viable Product (MVP) was a prototype with the basic architecture and traffic mapping in place that validated algorithms for the founders and investors alike.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

We alsothought wed be able to sign up a lot of catalog companies, becauseselling online was a natural extension of their existing business.But in 1996 that was a hard sell. When we got real funding nearthe end of 1996, we hired a great CFO, who fixed everything retroactively. We officially launched in early 1996.

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Startup Cofounder Software Stock 105

Pascal's View

AUGUST 22, 2009

To be clear, there are plenty of strong venture-backed companies today that should be public but that do not meet the valuation or liquidity criteria of the three large remaining investment banks (more on this below). The IPO chasm that exists today is the result of the death of the sub $50 million IPO. jobs today.

IPO 40

IPO Merger Institutional Investors Venture Capital 40

Seeing Both Sides

MAY 26, 2009

Terry co-founded Polaris in 1996 after seven years as a VC at Burr Egan.  billion, as the company has successfully “grown into its valuation” and become the leading in the content delivery market). .  billion, as the company has successfully “grown into its valuation” and become the leading in the content delivery market).

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Private Equity Boston Massachusetts IPO 20

Feld Thoughts

JULY 14, 2015

Assuming equity is raised at or above that cap, the total dilution, before the new money, is 16.6% (equivalent to an equity financing of $1m at a $6m post money valuation. The term sheet converts all the convertible debt into a post-money valuation of $100, essentially making the convertible debt worthless. Sure – it happens.

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Recapitalization Pre-Money Valuation Post-Money Valuation Angel Investor 70

Ben's Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

Looking across these nearly 50 companies, the study finds that founding CEOs consistently beat the professional CEOs on a broad range of metrics ranging from capital efficiency (amount of funding raised), time to exit, exit valuations, and return on investment. Let’s just say he didn’t have the benefit of the doubt.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 78

Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Only a handful of so-called unicorns — companies that have achieved a valuation of over $1 billion in the last 10 years — come from Israel, and only one Israeli firm, Teva, ranks in the world’s 500 largest companies by market capitalization. That’s the good news. The bad news is that Israeli startups are struggling to scale.

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Cofounder Technical Review United States 20

Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

I have been involved in startups since I graduated from college in 1996.

Small Business 95

Small Business Finance Forecast Metrics 95

crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 21, 2015

How to Play the Valuation Gap Between Start-Ups and Public Tech Companies crowdspring.co/1gtYySK. More Wearable Designs 1996–2008 crowdspring.co/1IzLdlC. My Management Lessons from Three Failed Startups, Google, Apple, Dropbox, and Twitter – buff.ly/1LdcduZ. Where Clicks Reign, Audience Is King nytimes.com/2015/08/17/bus….

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Small Business Design Social Media Baltimore 48

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

(there’s a great story from Jonah in the video but you have to watch to hear it :)) But it’s undeniable that it has become a digital media powerhouse having raised around $500 million in capital with a valuation reported at $1.7 billion and revenues likely exceeding $250 million (Wikipedia lists 2015 revenue at $167 million).

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