ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 20, 2012

Today’s venture capital deal flow to innovative new companies looks a lot like a fat man trying to squeeze into a slim Italian suit. The new shape of innvovation is a lot more inclusive of new approaches and sources of startup funding. In 2000, venture capitalists poured a staggering $112.2 It just doesn’t fit.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. Nevertheless, if you share too much in your funding process or meet too many VCs expect a certain amount of your ideas to spread around the startup community. This is unintentional and inevitable.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). VC & Startup Resources. Seed Startups. VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Hundreds of startups featured since 2005, will yours be next?

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mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

“Most of that money [from venture capitalists and angels] is used to build a product,&# explains Haig Kayserian, the CEO of Kayweb Angels. That company, which now has a client list of more than 200 companies and additional offices in the Philippines and New York, takes on the startup projects that Kayweb Angels selects.

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www.thisisgoingtobebig.com

OCTOBER 25, 2010

links » Attracting a CTO to your startup Wednesday, March 11, 2009 at 05:29AM by Charlie ODonnell Businesspeople ask me all the time how to find a technical partner for a startup. Lets start with finances. For a startup, if you are a businessperson, a) Do you already have money to start the businesses?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

For others it feels like a two-speed economy, where rules apply to hot tech startups that don’t apply elsewhere. Or worse yet they may never get financed. Raise at “ the top end of normal &# but not so high that future financings in a corrected market become impossible. That’s a fact. Have a cushion.

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VC Adventure

AUGUST 15, 2018

Back in the olden days of venture capital, company boards had wide discretion in pricing company options. It was and is imprecise science but – at least in the case of venture backed startups – there wasn’t much harm in an option being priced low. Quick note: I’m not your lawyer.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 14, 2010

If you want to raise venture capital more easily the advice could be quite practical and counter-intuitive. Many companies that are raising B or C venture capital rounds right now raised their initial money in 2005-2008. It is 2010. But pass they will. Brain damage. Reputation.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

If you’re a startup entrepreneur, you risk facing a competitive disadvantage if you wait too long to expand your operations. Clearly Define Your Business Model While this may sound like a trivial task, young startups often have an exciting and innovative product, but no real plan for monetizing it. in place before you expand.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 20, 2012

Today’s venture capital deal flow to innovative new companies looks a lot like a fat man trying to squeeze into a slim Italian suit. The new shape of innovation is a lot more inclusive of new approaches and sources of startup funding. In 2000, venture capitalists poured a staggering $112.2 It just doesn’t fit.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

Finance where needed. Come 2009 we felt really bullish about the future for startups because the froth was gone and so, too, were wantrapreneurs. Companies raised too much money in 2005-08 and had high burn rates. Venture capital is an industry best served up from 7-year aged casks. We need some visibility.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 19, 2019

Andy Rachleff co-founded the venture capital firm Benchmark Capital in 1995. In 2005, he retired to focus on giving back, beginning by teaching technology entrepreneurship courses at Stanford, becoming a trustee at the University of Pennsylvania (which he attended undergrad), and funding cancer research with his wife.

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www.businessinsider.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Top Startup Advisor Paul Graham Just Warned Against Taking Googles Money. Paul Graham is warning startups against "lowball offers.". What Its Really Like To Go Through Y Combinator, The Most Important Startup School In The World. What Its Really Like To Go Through Y Combinator, The Most Important Startup School In The World.

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allthingsd.com

AUGUST 24, 2012

According to Fenwick & West’s latest Silicon Valley Venture Capital Survey , fundings in the second quarter of this year showed the highest valuation increases in more than five years. Two big-ticket financings upped the Q2 number, which would have been 70 percent if they were removed. ATDstartups (Startups).

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Up and Running

AUGUST 1, 2017

While there’s a certain cachet that comes with being able to say you raised a round of funding for your startup, realize that it’s a lot of hard work to actually secure venture capital (VC) funding , and there are reasons you might not want to. If you really want financing, consider taking out a business loan instead.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

We tried to provide a framework for startups to think about what activities should be outsourced and why. What kind of startup outsources everything? Well, you’re right, most don’t, but one example of a startup that does is PlentyOfFish. Also, most startup attorneys will do deferred payment plans.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

TL:DR : This post aims to recap significant changes in the venture capital industry over the past ten years, and then make some [biased] predictions as to major forces at play in the next five years. However, all three shifts are related and can be summed up simply as: Geeks are Taking Over Venture Capital.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

What led you to the venture capital world? That company merged with another company in Boston and grew to about 80 people and was acquired in 2005. MK : I am currently investing out of K9 Ventures II, which is an institutionally-backed $40 million fund. How much do you put into each startup?

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Not all startups need outside investment to grow. What most founders don’t realize is: Every stage of a startup requires a different set of metrics and milestones and founder skills. Here’s the first 2½ years of a startup journey. The Startup Investment Landscape. Still, there are some benchmarks to keep in mind.

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Altgate

DECEMBER 15, 2010

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← No one wants to tell you your baby is ugly More on Liquidation Preferences → Pre-Money Valuation vs Number of Founders Posted on December 15, 2010 by admin Here’s a chart of the day worth sharing.

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Altgate

APRIL 22, 2009

"  It's basically a web tool that creates draft preferred financing term sheets for startups.   There are three categories (startup, equity financing and bridge loans) so we can expect more to come. link] Swedes Start Voting as Reinfeldt’s Coalition Is Poised to Win Second Term | BZEE Finance [.]

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

It has many stylistic errors — and a few substantive ones, too — that I would now change having learned more, but I realized that it still provides useful insights for entrepreneurs and startup participants outside of the Greylock network, particularly across three areas of interest: how entrepreneurs should approach the pitch process.

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Altgate

DECEMBER 16, 2010

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← Pre-Money Valuation vs Number of Founders Where Do Tech VCs Invest? The first thing I noticed was that the vast majority (76%) of financings have a “one x&# preference. Bookmark the permalink.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 20, 2011

Below is a round up of noteworthy Israeli startup headlines. Tip VC Cafe and get your startup on the map by filling the form: [link]. Venture capital Rounds. California-based Gigya , an Israeli startup developing social tools for websites, quietly raises $6 million according to a regulatory filing.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 15, 2012

So what would have happened had Sean met Joshua Schachter in 2005--would Josh have still sold out early to Yahoo! or would he have been convinced to take a financing round? Companies going for the long ball aren't discovered--they're juiced up to go for the homerun, with financing.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. You need to build genuine relationships with these portfolio startup founders as well as trust with them and the rest will follow. So why would raising venture capital be any different.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 18, 2011

The book originated in 2005 when Jason and I wrote a long series of posts on this blog about a typical Venture Capital term sheet. After I wrote Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup with David Cohen (the CEO of TechStars ), Jason and I decided to write Venture Deals. Negotiation Tactics.

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Planning, Startups, Stories. Member since 01/2005. Even the best venture capital firms have a lot of failures and few successes. SF Chronicle: Ultralight startups: little capital, just computer. Should You Hire People With Graduate Degrees for Your Startup? Small Business Blogs. OReilly Radar.

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Up and Running

APRIL 1, 2015

It’s like the plot of a Hollywood movie: Three best friends, with no prior business experience, decide to band together and form a startup business. The startup takes off, raising venture capital funds faster than you can say “storybook ending.”. This was our first stab at a legitimate startup,” says David. “In

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 8, 2019

When I started in venture capital in the late 1990s VCs were regularly lambasted for taking long summer holidays and spending too much time on the golf course. This is what brings us to the second big difference: the cost of Applied Venture is too large to finance from a standard VC management fee. .

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Up and Running

JUNE 9, 2010

He says: Our sales had grown steadily since 2005; by 2008 we were doing more than $1 billion in gross merchandise sales annually — two years ahead of our original plan. Credit was tight, and Zappos depended on commercial financing of inventory. We were now profitable, and our culture was even stronger. This was in 2009.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

So what is driving the new energy in the remaining venture capital firms when we kept hearing how much the whole industry was “against the ropes?&# … 1. note: there is one rare exception – in 2006 Sevin Rosen declared that Venture Capital was broken and actually returned money to their LPs !

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Mark Suster wrote a great post yesterday titled The Resetting of the Startup Industry. I learned this lesson 127 times between 2000 and 2005. I started investing in 1994 and while there was some bumpiness in 1997 and again in 1999, the real pain happened between 2000 and 2005. Go read it now – I’ll wait.

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Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

And when Under Armour went public in November 2005, the company raised $112.5 While I've identified 41 sources of funding to which entrepreneurs have access, many sources are tied to how far your venture has progressed. Kevin succeeded in finding this material, creating products from it, and building a company out of his products.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 5, 2010

ClickFox , the Israeli-American startup developing optimization software for customer service centers, announced it has raised $18 million in financing from a syndicate led by Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners (AIP). Israel’s Jerusalem Venture Partners sold part of its stake in Qlik Technologies Inc.

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Professor VC

OCTOBER 11, 2010

It was early in 2005 and the company was Facebook. Professor Bennet, I'm seeking advice (especially raising funding) for my startup called Lightning Storm Software. The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. Venture News. Blake Southwood.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Entrepreneurs and investors who have spent any time dealing with convertible debt seed financing transactions are likely to have encountered the subject of valuation caps. The cap is irrelevant if the next equity financing is at a valuation below the cap amount.) Redpoint, led by Geoff Yang , invested $11.5

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