Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 11, 2022
I started my first company in 1999 and was admittedly swept up in all of this: Magazine covers, fancy conferences, artificial valuations and easy money. Almost no financings, many VCs and tech startups cratered for the second time in less than a decade following the dot com bursting. So now our collective companies are worth less.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 25, 2010
When I first read Paul Graham’s blog post on “High Resolution&# Financing I read it as a treatise arguing that convertible notes are better than equity. He’s fine with equity provided it’s cheap to paper it legally. Photo credit: D. Blanchard/O’Reilly Media. and not a min.
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www.inc.com
SEPTEMBER 24, 2011
Finance | Tuesdays. Financing a Small Business. Financing A Small Business. Personal Finance. Should You Share Equity with Consultants? To grow his cash-strapped start-up, Parker ended up sharing equity -- not only with employees, but also with consultants and vendors. Start-up | Mondays. How to Incorporate.
Feld Thoughts
DECEMBER 10, 2018
Rates have risen significantly in the last eighteen months, pulling capital out of the equity markets and into the fixed income markets. This dynamic is reflected in the article Scooter Firm Chases Funding to Staunch Losses about the current Lime and Bird financings. I also have no idea what the timing of anything is.
Up and Running
SEPTEMBER 5, 2017
“In a lot of the industries in which I ended up launching companies, there was a pre-existing profile of what a successful entrepreneur should look like—typically a young, white male with a technical, finance, or political background,” says Aguirre de Carcer. While private equity has a history in the U.S.
Pascal's View
AUGUST 28, 2010
v) “Since 1999, over 60% of IPOs have been VC-backed. billion, followed by finance, 19 deals, and healthcare, 17 deals. Private-equity and venture capital firms have been hard hit too. .” (iii) “Roughly 600,000 new businesses (that employ others) are started each year in the U.S.” . (iv) ” (ix) The U.S.
abovethecrowd.com
OCTOBER 17, 2013
In addition to market concerns, I had the unique experience of working with Dan Nordstrom and the team at Nordstrom.com in August of 1999. On August 23, Stitch Fix announced that it had shipped its 100,000th Fix , and today the company announced that it has grown 500% since its last financing round this past February.
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