SoCal CTO
JUNE 9, 2010
Unexpected Startup Lesson #1: Quitting the day job - Currently Obsessed , May 10, 2010 This post is the first of a series on “unexpected lessons&# learned through my experience as co-founder and CEO of Snapvine , a venture-backed mobile social networking service founded in 2005 and acquired by WhitePages in June of 2008.
YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 23, 2017
PC and mobile interfaces dynamically display portfolio valuations and exposures, along with system-generated investment recommendations tailored to a specific client’s financial goals and risk appetite. Today employment in the sector is comparable to levels from 2005-2006 when revenues were also similar.
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Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 28, 2011
The trend of funding anything from the first $25k to funding $50 million at a billion+ valuation is unlikely to last as the skills and style to be effective at all stages are diverse enough to warrant focus. These two trends had a major impact on the computing industry from 2000-2005 but the effects weren’t yet felt by the VC industry.
The Equity Kicker
JULY 8, 2019
The emergence of these best practices created an opportunity for VCs to become a channel for these best practices, simultaneously improving their service to entrepreneurs and accelerating value creation at their portfolio companies. This trend accelerated through the emergence of VC and operator blogging in the early 2000s. .
This is going to be BIG.
DECEMBER 26, 2011
Time is money and there are too many people wanting me to spend a lot of money on better ways for me to spend my time for their not to be better channels for this, because I still can't figure out what to do with myself this weekend. Android Backlash.
Altgate
JUNE 3, 2011
A startup that could get their app onto the Verizon deck and installed on the handset at the time of sale could expect a bump in valuation close to $100 million. As my good friend Steve Murray at Softbank says, “Every year since 2005 has been the year of enterprise mobile&#. But I think 2011 really is it.
Steve Blank
FEBRUARY 26, 2020
What was a Series A round in 2005 is now a pre-seed or seed round. At the end of this post, we’ll discuss the valuation at each step (how much the investors value your company and therefore how much of it you need to give up to get this money) and how much revenue you should generate at each step.). Step 5: Series, C, D….
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