Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2012

Remember that equity investments are not like loans with interest. But since the Internet bubble burst in the year 2000, the IPO rate has declined every year until 2010, and is now at about 15%. Shareholders are demanding, and liability concerns are high. The investor sees no return until he cashes out, or the company is sold.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2011

Remember that equity investments are not like loans with interest. But since the Internet bubble burst in the year 2000, the IPO rate has declined every year until 2010, and is now at about 15%. Shareholders are demanding, and liability concerns are high. The investor sees no return until he cashes out, or the company is sold.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 8, 2021

Business focuses on the gradual accumulation of intrinsic value, derived from the ability of our publicly owned corporations to produce the goods and services that our consumers and savers demand, to compete effectively, to thrive on entrepreneurship, and to capitalize on change. Speculating is precisely the opposite. my investment.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

They’re looking to be paid properly in the context of the overall salary structure, including cash, benefits, and equity, and to be paid commensurate with performance. Is there a development step that you must take to fulfill demand for a particular use case, and, if so, how does that cost get absorbed? Are the logistics manageable?

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

I hope that you can join us Monday night, April 4, midtown NYC, at a panel on “Innovation in Private Company Liquidity-Online Merger Markets, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO” The program is sponsored by the HBS Club of New York and the HBS Angels of NY.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

He or she might call himself a “consulting CTO,&# “freelance CTO,&# “on-demand CTO,&# “CTO on call,&# “CTO for hire,&# or just a “technology strategy advisor.&# And finally, you may be able to avoid diluting your equity. Why are consulting CTOs so scarce? Perhaps the more failures, the better?

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Amelia Investments – “Amelia Investments is a private equity fund creating economic opportunities throughout the Middle East region. Phoenix will act as a platform to channel Gulf investment into OurCrowd’s 220 portfolio companies, building on the pent-up demand in the UAE for opportunities in the thriving Israeli start-up scene.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Competition: Chegg (has raised $144 in debt and equity)—estimated by Steven Carpenter ( TechCrunch ) to be 10x more unique visitors than BookRenter (during peak book renting seasons) with nearly $140mm in revenues for 2010. Founded in January 2000 in Oakland by Tim Westergren; new CFO, Steve Cakebread was previously CFO of Salesforce.com.

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Ben's Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The laws of supply and demand, and marginal pricing, withstand the test of time. Demand matters: IPOs are a bull market product Gauging demand for an IPO can be difficult, in part because so many IPO order books are over-subscribed. The tl;dr: It’s Economics 101.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

I’d like to explain as best I can my opinion on what is going on because most of what I hear from entrepreneurs is not only wrong but is reminiscent of what I heard in 1997-2000. The Laws of Supply & Demand. The most basic chart of microeconomics is a supply & demand curve. What is the True Sentiment of VCs?

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Spencer Fry

APRIL 17, 2017

What I worry about is the demand on every one of your potential customer’s attention and time. Long story short, it’s just not 2000's anymore. How much and at what terms, is up to the deal you strike with your investors, but you can’t take money without giving away equity. Competition is everywhere.

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 8, 2019

From around 2000, and perhaps coinciding with the need to work harder to win deals as opportunities dried up after the internet bubble burst, individual partners at VC firms began adding ‘helping CEOs win’ to their job descriptions. . As well as being great investors, Applied VCs need to run a high value services business.

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Austin Startup

JULY 23, 2010

The company announced that is just completed $13M in financing from existing investors SMH Private Equity Group, ABS Ventures, Austin Ventures, and Trellis Partners. This financial commitment from our investors will help us capitalize on increased market demand, and accelerate our market lead.”. Or both things could be happening.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 21, 2011

Capital Markets Advisory Partners cleaves the demand for pre-public VC-backed equities into two worlds: “Demand Pull (Buzz) and Supply Push (No Buzz) companies. … We have a stock market that works for one kind of buzzy (Demand Pull) stock but is a disaster for the rest of the economy. . It is intentional.

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Designmantic Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2015

They’re very demanding, regardless of background.”. Sweat equity is the most valuable equity there is. Ortega started his life in poverty before he would eventually find the clothing retail business that now boasts of over 2000 stores in 88 countries and that would make him the richest man in Europe. “We

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Don’t exacerbate the issue by needing to figure out how to deal with large equity deadweight on your hands (investors won’t like that the #2 stakeholder is absent, even estranged, from your company). So, the best way of dealing with this issue is to take a long, long vesting period for all major sweat equity founders.”.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 20, 2010

With the exponential growth of video traffic, operators are being forced to invest in network upgrades to meet customer demand. Avi Zeevi, General Partner of Carmel Ventures, said: “OTT Video has become an important aspect of network quality and an opportunity for monetization. For more information visit [link].

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Ideally you can pay them based + equity so that you’ll get their attention and focus on the project. Then decide if you can build more value on either end of that process to demand a higher premium. There’s no formula however I do know … the more you build before you need to hire / partner, the more equity you can keep.

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The Entrepreneurial Mind

JUNE 18, 2011

Lending is still constrained, and the old methods of self-funding a business -- maxing out credit cards or taking a home-equity loan -- are no longer as viable. business -- maxing out credit cards or taking a home-equity loan -- are no longer as viable." It is demand in the economy. The credit crunch has exacerbated the problem.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

The average equity fund investor earned a market return of only 4.25%. And what happens if you don’t get into the one VC that gets into Cornerstone On Demand (ffVC company, now the 10th largest SaaS company in the world)? This is a key reason why the average retail investor consistently earns below-average returns.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

declined Microsoft’s offer (summer 2000) to be the first enterprise software company with a.NET product (a Microsoft employee came back from a follow-up meeting with Allen and said “He reminds me of a lot of CEOs of companies that we’ve worked with… that have gone bankrupt.”). During this year they.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 9, 2017

I think [00:14:48] graphic from six years ago still largely holds true the website is one of the core pieces of digital equity that you can build and just because people aren’t seeing it as much doesn’t make it any less valuable.

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