Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

The rise of “micro VCs” or seed-stage funds. When you think about the trends of faster-growing startups due to social networking, credit card enable and mobile first consumers – the reality is that many startups are becoming very large financially before needing to go public. 2007 was the watershed year.

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Technical Review Venture Capital Valuation Pre-Money Valuation 398

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

I’m writing this post to explain to entrepreneurs what you should be thinking about in terms of the VC’s you approach and the size and stage of their funds. A fund size of $100 million – $200 million is likely to either be an A round investor or “stage agnostic&#.

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Venture Capital Balance Sheet Early Stage Software Review 269

K9 Ventures

JUNE 5, 2015

Almost two years ago, in a private/closed meeting with K9 Ventures’ LPs only, I claimed that: What was being referred to in the press as the “Series A Crunch” was not because fewer Series A deals were being done, but because there were too many Seed deals being done. Seed stage was super tough. Implications for Founders.

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Now that Google’s acquisition of ITA is closed, following lenghty FTC review, it would appear Kayak is poised to proceed with their IPO in the coming months. =. 166M round closed Dec 2007. How To Think About The Future. April 17, 2011.

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Pre-Money Valuation Liquidation Preference Dividend Common Stock 113

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

New products are launched everyday in tech. The biggest hardware launch by Apple since the iPhone was introduced in 2007, the Apple Vision Pro is a mixed reality headset and it’s about to send the world into a new era of spatial computing. Take a look at this patent for example that Apple filed back in 2007.

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Gust

OCTOBER 20, 2011

million and is established by negotiations between the entrepreneur and the angel investors. These anticipated outcomes were validated by “ Returns to Angels in Groups ” by Professor Rob Wiltbank in November 2007. We also have data points for VC investments in seed/startup companies (but not necessarily pre-revenue companies).

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Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Intellectual Property Technical Review 146

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Fred Wilson warns that it is starting to feel like a bubble again, with VCs writing $5 and $10 million dollar checks with very little due diligence, sometimes showing up to a first meeting with a term sheet… Israeli startup headlines for Nov 15, 2010. Realmatch was started in 2007 by Gal Almog. [ Source ]. Funding news.

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