crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 5, 2012

Some Thoughts On The IPO Market For Web Companies (by @fredwilson) – [link]. Experienced entrepreneurs preserve equity – [link]. 41 billion has been lost or is likely to go unspent in gift cards issued since 2005 – [link]. The Seven Habits of Spectacularly Unsuccessful Executives – [link].

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 23, 2012

.” Here’s the summary of his track record (excerpted from the Fast Company article): Forefront — IPO’ed in 1995 by CBT — CBT stock fell 85% in 1998 and prompted class-action lawsuits. invested, IPO’ed in 2000 for $32/share — stock price now $2. from an IPO under a year ago of $10.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

In brief, a cap acts to place a limit on the conversion price of a convertible note such that investors are guaranteed a minimum number of shares for their bridge loans if the startup does a priced equity round at a high pre-money valuation – “high” meaning above the cap, which is often a heavily negotiated term. (The of MySpace, Inc.

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Now let's turn to the only topic that self-interested and red-blooded investors really care about when it comes to Facebook and its IPO. Well, at the start, recognize that, in a capitalistic economy, early -stage private equity investing is both the most exhilarating and the most vexingly challenging of all business undertakings.

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David Teten

MAY 16, 2011

Geleerd acquired the stadium out of highly publicized bankruptcy and turned around its financial position and ultimately engineered the sale back to the Toronto Blue Jays in 2005. Mr. Geleerd has been a member of YPO since 2000. In addition Geleerd was recognized by Crain’s Business Chicago 40 Under 40.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

Or, as my friend Marc Andreessen might say, Software Eats the Private Equity World. Mega VC has focused on the challenges of the post-SarbOx IPO market in the US, and has discovered opportunity in offering larger amounts of growth capital ($10-100M+) to private companies with reduced access to public markets. Mega VC, Micro VC.

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Professor VC

APRIL 11, 2008

In fact, for a good laugh, I just went back and checked our accounting system, and at the end of one quarter in 2005, we were down to $143 cash on the balance sheet. At times, I do miss being part of a team that takes a company from infancy all the way to IPO and beyond.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

He’s been at it since 2005. At some point, this breaks if their isn’t an exit or IPO. I founded it in 2005 at the age of 37. We trade emails on the topic of entrepreneurship often. The VCs basically have liquidity in management fees along the way, in the sense they get paid decently along the way.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

He is an active angel with many successful angel investments including: Rent.com, (purchased by Ebay in 2005 for $415 million), Golfnow.com (purchased by Comcast in June 2008), and Lifelock (lead investors include Bessemer Venture Partners and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers).

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Altgate

MAY 1, 2009

The bottom line take away (for me) is that VC is capacity limited by the value of exits (M&A plus IPOs). Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Entrepreneurship , Startups , Venture Capital and tagged entrepreneur , exits , IPO , limited partners , M&A , private equity , startup , venture capital.

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Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

But of course, the model had us requiring only $10M equity to breakeven and to achieve $185M in revenues in 2008 (the magic Year 5 in all business plans). In looking back at the old financials, at the end of Q2 2005, our cash balance was a whopping $546. offering to invest $75K if we could find another $250K by September 30, 2005.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 20, 2013

In another study of 212 startups , Wasserman found that it was rare for Founder-CEOs to run their companies in the long term; less than half were still CEO after 3 years, and less than a quarter of the CEOs of the companies that reached an IPO were Founder-CEOs.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

November 2005 Venture funding works like gears. In an IPO, it might not merely addexpense, but change the outcome. Those remedial actions can delay, stall or even kill the IPO. Of course the odds of any given startup doing an IPO are small.But not as small as they might seem. Want to start a startup?

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www.businessinsider.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Many if not most seed investments in startups these days are done in the form of convertible debt, which is a loan that can convert to equity in a subsequent financing. Y Combinator is a startup funding firm that was founded in 2005 by Paul Graham. Or maybe you wont, and youll need that offer to fall back upon. More » Owen Thomas.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Hundreds of startups featured since 2005, will yours be next? YCombinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents. Founder Equity Issues. Venture Hacks equity section. Legal, Equity, etc. Argonaut Private Equity. Seed Startups. VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups.

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