Scalable Startup

AUGUST 26, 2014

Drupal was launched in 2001, and Acquia started in 2007. Red Hat was one of the first of these types of companies bridging open source with big finance, leveraging Linux support into a profitable business, also leveraging the enterprise. Will Amazon try to acquire all of Acquia before the inevitable IPO? Acquia, Inc.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

TL:DR : This post aims to recap significant changes in the venture capital industry over the past ten years, and then make some [biased] predictions as to major forces at play in the next five years. However, all three shifts are related and can be summed up simply as: Geeks are Taking Over Venture Capital.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 13, 2013

The previous post described the evolution of the Chinese Venture Capital system. China Venture Capital. If it’s driven by profit then the ecosystem needs both entrepreneurs as well as Venture Finance. China has the biggest Venture Capital industry outside the U.S. Entrepreneurship in Beijing.

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Silicon Valley China Venture Capital Merger 159

Gust

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Me: So, you raised venture capital? Me: Raising convertible notes as a seed round is one of the biggest disservices our industry has done to entrepreneurs since 2001-2003 when there were “full ratchets” and “multiple liquidation preferences” – the most hostile terms anybody found in term sheets 10 years ago. On the phone ….

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 26, 2012

In an interview with ReadWriteWeb, Davidson explains how the latest industry to receive the disruption treatment has been the venture capital business itself, with the epicenter of the quake right around San Francisco. There used to be the Four Horsemen of the IPO world, back in the '80s and '90s. Number of U.S.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 19, 2016

I began my career at McKinsey and when the Internet bubble burst in 2001, I made a shift towards online software (ASP at the time). They also need VCs capable of financing their entire life cycle — on average, SaaS startups raise between $80 and $100 million before an IPO.

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API Silicon Valley Europe Differentiation 48

Professor VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

With companies remaining private much longer today, most of the value appreciation is pre-IPO. Former students who are readers of this blog may recall the Amazon IPO case from Entrepreneurial Finance class. Kleiner got a markup of approximately 12X at the IPO. bubble IPO unicorn valuation venture capital'

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Ben's Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

Let’s look at public market comparables and venture capital flows to see if we can find a match. 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.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Loading… Personal Finance. Personal Finance. Over the past two years, one of the most influential venture-capital firms has turned the usual rules of start-up investing on its head. in exchange for $70,000 in venture capital and a $30,000 loan from the early venture firm. » More.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

. “…thank you very much for the opportunity to submit written testimony regarding capital formation and the state of the U.S. IPO market. billion multi-stage venture capital firm focused on IT-related investments… I also serve on various investment committees, including for the St.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Juno IPO’d while Joel was there, and it was the first “broken&# IPO of the dot-com era. There’s a big business in Finance working with Excel, but that’s an outlier. Lesson: Joel had been building a community of readers since 2001. With StackOverflow, Joel raised money through venture capital.

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