VC Cafe
FEBRUARY 26, 2023
” – Marc Andreessen In the book “ Super Founders “, author Ali Tamaseb, studied 200 Unicorns, aka startups valued at over $1 billion, started between 2005 to 2018. They should be able to identify a gap in the market that their product can fill, and be able to communicate this to investors and employees.
Agile VC
APRIL 17, 2011
5) High Productivity: Kayak had 148 employees at the end of 2010. That means that Kayak generates roughly $1.15M in revenue for each employee which puts it in the same league as Google and Apple (both >$1M/head). round closed Feb 2005. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010.
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Gust
NOVEMBER 4, 2011
Rather than reinvent the wheel, I would point readers to Martin Kleppmann’s useful blog post with graphs illustrating the effects of a valuation cap on entrepreneurs, seed investors and later-round (typically VC) investors. Valuation caps can come into play in settings other than seed-stage convertible note financing rounds.
Ben's Blog
APRIL 7, 2021
And since VC dollars tend to concentrate around high-tech R&D areas, it’s notable that more than 90% of the nation’s innovation-sector growth (2005-2017) is accounted for by just five metro areas — Boston, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, and San Diego. Federal government The U.S.
Steve Blank
FEBRUARY 26, 2020
Btw, the definition of each startup financing stage has changed in the last decade. What was a Series A round in 2005 is now a pre-seed or seed round. And what used to be a seed round a decade ago is now a pre-seed round. Pre-seed Round of Funding. Number of employees? Seed Round of Funding.
www.paulgraham.com
APRIL 28, 2010
November 2005 Venture funding works like gears. The reason is that employees are investors too—oftheir time—and they want just as much to be able to cash out. Ifyour competitors offer employees stock options that might make themrich, while you make it clear you plan to stay private, yourcompetitors will get the best people.
www.paulgraham.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
March 2005 (This essay is derived from a talk at the Harvard ComputerSociety.) Usually you get seed money from individual rich people called"angels." the seed stage, investors dont expect you to have an elaboratebusiness plan. If two companies have the same revenues,its the one with fewer employees thats more impressive.
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