Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. is the leading consumer internet company with Terry Semel as CEO. Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. Salesforce.com is a startup with 76,000 subscribers (over 2.1M How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. May 26, 2011.

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Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Five Quarters of Profitability During the 1980’s and through the mid 1990’s startups going public had to do something that most companies today never heard of – they had to show a track record of increasing revenue and consistent profitability. The world of building profitable startups as the primary goal of Venture Capital would end in 1995.

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Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 223

Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Up until late August, Lightning Labs had capped the channel capacity and payment size for users of their popular implementation of the network to ~$2000 USD and ~$500 respectively to better protect user funds with experimental software. . Instant: all settlement on Lightning happens instantly. 3) Exchanges + HFTs.

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David Cohen

MARCH 30, 2020

In 2000, the Internet bubble burst. Founded in 2006, Techstars ran our first startup accelerator in 2007. Uber took the shockingly low valuation of $4m when raising it’s first $1.5m. 3m valuation. Less than a $2m valuation for their seed round. In 1999, we sold that business and I started angel investing.

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Founder Valuation Startup IP 174

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

As a courtesy if you enjoyed his write-up please check out his startup company, ChannelStack. Infonautics went public in 1996 and Half.com was sold to eBay in 2000. Twitter wanted to raise money for this new venture at a pre-money valuation which was quite a bit higher than First Round’s $10 million limit. and Half.com.

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Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

We looked at the companies in New England (call them "Boston and surrounding") that had exited in the last 10 years (2003-2013) with greater than $500 million in market valuation. Apparently, successful Boston-based startups have an even greater concentration of immigrant influence. 2004), Kayak ($1.8B/2004) 2004) and Fleetmatics ($1.4B/2004),

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Boston Technical Review Silicon Valley Software Review 55

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2016

One of the reasons that now is the time to be an entrepreneur is the explosion of startup assistance organizations, usually called incubators or accelerators. A few are still trying to make a profitable business out of nurturing startups, but it’s a challenge to make money when your customer startups don’t have many resources to give.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

It’s no coincidence we designed 500 Startups with these evolutions in mind, altho none of the required strategies have been easy to execute and we are still refining our approach. In short, we were a lot more geeky than the previous generation of fund managers , and we started blogging a lot about tech startups and best practices.

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Silicon Valley Early Stage Venture Capital Valuation 74

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

If you’ve taken the roller coaster ride that is a startup – you know what I’m talking about. The truth is that in my experience very, very few people really enjoy the “pure&# startup environment: months with no salary, months with no live product and lots of trial, error & rejection. It’s addicting. 8 beers that night.

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Entrepreneur Startup Salary Egypt 384

This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

"Every investor and entrepreneur knows there is something scary about the current startup economy. At least nine out of ten high-quality angel-funded startups face an unnecessary death, because there is no Series A money to help them survive critical expansion. Is 2012 going to be 2000 all over again? Valuations.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Advisor. ); STARTUP. Internet and Online Business. Jumpstart was one of Grahams first clients; it signed on shortly after he founded Arizona Bay, in 2000. In the past few years, hundreds of small companies have been snatched up by private equity firms willing to agree to ever-rising valuations. Email address: Home.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2010

Recently I’ve been debating with a number of young startup companies that are raising money in the next few months, “what is the right about of capital to raise at a startup?&#. 24 months for most tech startups is usually too much money. - This is part of my ongoing series on Raising Venture Capital. add a buffer.

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Venture Capital Startup Silicon Valley Warrant 319

This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 30, 2015

Will this bubble also end in a blaze of glory with companies shutting down left and right in a massive startup apocalypse? Most internet opportunities were of modest scale – often worth pursuing – but not usually worth taking public. But at what valuation? Enter the Zombie Startup Apocalypse. So where does that leave us?

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Hockey Stick Valuation Startup Maryland 60

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

When times are really good for fund raising many teams delay to maximize their valuation. I’m a very big believer in the “Lean Startup&# principles as espoused by Steve Blank and Eric Ries. In the seed phase startups are typically raising between $500k-$1m in today’s market. How do you push valuation?

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Pre-Money Valuation Dilution Valuation PR 303

ReadWriteStart

MAY 25, 2018

Cryptocurrency startups, much like the dot-coms, are experiencing an influx of capital that’s boosting the valuations of solid, innovative companies along with their relatively worthless counterparts — Dogecoin comes to mind as a cautionary tale. In November 2000, an index of 280 internet stocks was down by $1.7

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

If you’ve taken the roller coaster ride that is a startup – you know what I’m talking about. The truth is that in my experience very, very few people really enjoy the “pure&# startup environment: months with no salary, months with no live product and lots of trial, error & rejection. It’s addicting. 8 beers that night.

Entrepreneur 176

Entrepreneur Startup Salary Egypt 176

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

I have been close to the tech & startup sectors for more than 20 years and I can’t think of a period in which I felt more optimistic about the innovation and value creation I see in front of us. The number of startups being created has increased by an order of magnitude. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin! The Funding Problem.

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Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 11, 2013

We both believe that now is an attractive time to invest in European technology startups and started why we think so differently to most of the people we would like to invest in our funds. I was chatting with a friend last night about the lack of institutional investor (LP) interest in European venture capital as an asset class.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Advisor. ); STARTUP. Internet and Online Business. As you think about how much equity to offer, have a reasonable valuation in mind thats been determined using professional advice. Copyright © 2000 inc.com. Entrepreneur news from reporter Eric Markowitz. Sales & Marketing | Wednesdays. Email address: Home. Newsletters.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 12, 2012

What year was the internet (defined as 2 computers sending and receiving data to each other) first get used? Does the NASDAQ have a higher or lower valuation now, than it did in the year 2000? Leave the answers in the comments section and who ever gets the most will win one of these which I will send via mail to you personally.

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Cofounder Valuation Web Naming 67

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. . This trend accelerated through the emergence of VC and operator blogging in the early 2000s. .

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Austin Startup

JULY 23, 2010

Having been founded in 1999, Zilliant is hard to categorize as a startup anymore. So why would you not think that internet retailers are interested in maximizing pricing as well? The company creates the leading software in an enterprise niche called pricing optimization and margin management. An item’s price is the price.

Balance Sheet 67

Balance Sheet Private Equity LP IPO 67

Start Up Blog

APRIL 12, 2012

What year was the internet (defined as 2 computers sending and receiving data to each other) first get used? Does the NASDAQ have a higher or lower valuation now, than it did in the year 2000? Leave the answers in the comments section and who ever gets the most will win one of these which I will send via mail to you personally.

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Cofounder Valuation Web Naming 48

Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2011

Ben and his partner Marc Andreessen (the founder of Netscape and author of the first commercial web browser on the Internet ) are the definition of Smart Money. They understood the ubiquity, pervasiveness and ultimate profitability of these startups and doubled-down on their investments. The Internet May Liberate Us.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet: AOL. It was an online community like CompuServe and eventually started offering people dial-up access to the Internet for a monthly fee. AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. AOL was closed, the Internet was open. And then came AOL.

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Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

David Teten

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Each new investor tends to raise valuations and lower returns for all the other competitive investors. This is the psychology that drives VCs to load up a company with more capital, rationalizing that $5m at a $20m pre-money valuation is little different than $10m at a $40m pre-money valuation.

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Management Pre-Money Valuation Venture Capital New Hampshire 114

Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

There are a number of trends concerning IPOs and capital formation to note: First, the raw number of IPOs has declined significantly: From 1980-2000, the US averaged roughly 300 IPOs per year; from 2001-2016, the average fell to 108 per year. 1999-2000 51.6% Time Period IPO Pop % Above IFR 1999-2000 51.6% 1999-2000 37.5%

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

I have been involved in startups since I graduated from college in 1996. My background with entrepreneurialism is this is my sixth startup. My name is John Bates. I’m the CEO of Executive Speaking Success and I’m a long-time entrepreneur. This is really an exciting panel to be a part of. Bates: Fantastic. Thank you Sabrina.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

In more than a decade of writing about the Internet and tech-enabled businesses I’ve learned that mobs don’t do nuance well. Decentralized Internet — This is perhaps the most unsexy part of cryptocurrency but the one that most purists I follow on this topic are most excited about.

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