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. In 2014 Granger, a Ph.D.
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 25, 2016
But that’s harder to build in 2016 than it was in say 2005. Our portfolio company Ring had a new “security doorbell” which is truly a new market. That’s why Ring is amongst the fastest growing company in our portfolio. What are the customer’s alternatives? Competition.
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The Equity Kicker
JUNE 23, 2016
The first thing to happen was that the bar for a Series A went up – unsurprising given that startups could now get much further with pre-Series A amounts of capital (2005-2010). That created a gap in market which sub $100m dedicated seed funds (aka micro-VCs) stepped into – there are now over 300 of them (2005-2016).
The Equity Kicker
JULY 8, 2019
Then from the mid 2000s, value add began moving beyond the partner to the firm as VCs began employing people who’s full time job was helping their portfolio. The most common strategies are to provide networking services and content to portfolio leaders so they can be more effective in their jobs. . Building platforms.
Feld Thoughts
SEPTEMBER 8, 2011
Today one of our portfolio companies BigDoor announced the acquisition of San Francisco-based OneTrueFan , a community and web check-in company. Recently the market demand has been outpacing their ability to keep up, so they turned to OneTrueFan as a means of accelerating their product development and overall growth.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 1, 2009
But there are many zombie VC’s with no more investments left in their portfolios so it’s hard to know which trend has more impact. Sentiment is strong in personal portfolios and up commensurately with VC’s expectations that their last fund will now be worth something (and along with that increase the partners’ personal wealth).
Software By Rob
JANUARY 8, 2019
Hundreds and hundreds of tweets, re-tweets, likes, Hacker News upvotes, email responses…it was immediately obvious that there is pent up demand for this kind of alternative early-stage startup funding. The response was overwhelming. Previously On.TinySeed. On average, a unicorn is found less than 3% of the time.
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