The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Belnick founded BizChair.com with $500 in 2001. Sachin Bansal and his business partner, Binny Bansal, launched an e-commerce site in India in 2007. The name of this startup was Flipkart and they started it with $6,500. This company’s valuation peaked at $10 billion in 2013/2014. Source: Pexels. Sean Belnick. Peter Gylfe.

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Cofounder Venture Capital India Valuation 140

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Each VC firm/partner has a different spin on what to weigh more.) 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.

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Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 223

Gust

OCTOBER 20, 2011

In 2011, the valuation of pre-revenue, start-up companies is typically in the range of $1.5–$2.5 Scorecard Valuation Methodology. This method compares the target company to typical angel-funded startup ventures and adjusts the average valuation of recently funded companies in the region to establish a pre-money valuation of the target.

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Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Intellectual Property Technical Review 146

Up and Running

JULY 7, 2014

At my startup, iSuppli, I created an organization structure that revolved around weekly status meetings and quarterly business reviews that allowed me to feel clued in and integral to every part of the business, without micromanaging or holding back our growth. Start now – Oliver Emberton, Richard Branson and Tim Berry (oh, and Nike).

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Entrepreneur Software Review Cofounder Audience 142

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

Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

Editor’s Note: This testimony was delivered by a16z managing partner Scott Kupor to the U.S. By way of background, I am the Managing Partner for Andreessen Horowitz, a $16.5 44% 2001-2019 13.7% IPO market. double the rate of the prior year, 103 of those being venture-backed companies. Time Period IPO Pop* 1980-1989 6.1%

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SEC Accredited Investor IPO Technical Review 36

Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

He is also co-founder and Managing Partner of Deciens Capital, an early stage investment fund. I think there are some real virtues to that, however, when I talk to my business partner, Ishan [Sachdev], about it, I use a slightly different metaphor: I talk about Jiro [Ono], Nobu [Matsuhisa], and Benihana. On Dan’s Former Startup.

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Silicon Valley Venture Capital Cofounder Africa 88

View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2017

A startup can benefit in various ways from having a strategic investor involved in their company, but there are plenty of drawbacks too, both commonly known and more subtle. On the flip side, simply taking strategic investor capital because it’s there or it’s easier or cheaper than other capital rarely works out well for startups.

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Strategic Investors Post-Money Valuation Seed Stage Cofounder 120

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 24, 2015

I’ve seen friends (and family members) lose much of their savings that way over the years because “Black Swans” happen and in 1987, 2001, 2003 & 2008 (just to name a few from my memory) huge market gyrations caused much financial distress to people seeking short-term gains. So plan your start date accordingly.

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Stock Finance Marketing Valuation 150

genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Steve and Carolyn are partners at Emergent Research and Senior Fellows at the Society for New Communications Research. Planning, Startups, Stories. The best start-up I ever invested in went bankrupt in 2001. SF Chronicle: Ultralight startups: little capital, just computer. The authors are Steve King and Carolyn Ockels.

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Equity Technical Review San Jose Stock 40

thebarefootvc

AUGUST 26, 2015

As someone who invested through the 2001 and 2008 crashes I can assure you that down rounds and fire sales are not fun for anyone involved. There is a silver lining to the recent volatility: a more rational market separates out the noise – for both investors and teams who are looking for experienced, long term partners.

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Marketing Investment Bankers Valuation China 40

thebarefootvc

AUGUST 26, 2015

As someone who invested through the 2001 and 2008 crashes I can assure you that down rounds and fire sales are not fun for anyone involved. There is a silver lining to the recent volatility: a more rational market separates out the noise – for both investors and teams who are looking for experienced, long term partners.

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Marketing Investment Bankers Valuation China 40

This is going to be BIG.

JULY 30, 2015

One of the first things I did when I joined the venture asset class as a lowly institutional LP analyst in 2001 was to build the VC fund cashflow model. You don't want the "average" fund, because average funds don't do well--just like you don't want to model the average startup, because you might as well draw a big flaming hole in the ground.

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Venture Capital Pre-Money Valuation IRR Valuation 60

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

We were trying to optimize around a few criteria: price, size of round, number of syndicate partners and, of course, terms. million at a $15 million pre-money valuation. Morgan Stanley had proposed a higher valuation to let them in. I lived through this again September 2001. We ended up agreeing a term sheet for $16.5

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Technical Review Term Sheet Due Diligence Venture Capital 301

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 12, 2020

This is true not just for startups, but for so many of the institutions that govern society. Commitments to respect their employees, their customers, their partners. And this is true not just of startups, but of so many of the institutions that govern society. You may have suppliers, vendors, partners, and then you have society.

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Silicon Valley Design Hiring Government 113