Feld Thoughts

APRIL 7, 2015

I heard a rumor on a call the other day that some startup companies are starting to keep balance sheet cash in higher yield instruments such as corporate debt. This is apparently becoming trendy again as private companies do $25m+ rounds and end up with a bunch of cash on their balance sheets.

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Seeing Both Sides

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Over the last few months, investment bankers have been eagerly reaching out to corporate buyers at the large public technology companies, as their burgeoning balance sheets have grown large enough to cause even a sangfroid, buttoned-down banker to salivate. . And Little Red Riding Hood should still be very, very afraid.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

VC’s raise this money from university endowments, public & private pension funds, insurance companies, banks who invest from their balance sheet or that of their wealthy clients, “family offices&# which means money from very wealthy people, etc. And funds also have investments from the partners of the firm.

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Mike Michalowicz

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

. – as business progressed from my “shop at home”, model, I stepped out in faith- and opened a Hunter Douglas trademark Gallery Store in Lincoln 2005- then a second Gallery Store in Omaha, 2008. . We opened my balance sheet together, and Dave said “Sherri, it looks like you are running just ahead of your sales.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

Banks often require strong balance sheets and steady income — the very luxuries entrepreneurs most often lack—before they will lend money. Paul Aitken founded Borro Limited in 2008 and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Some things simply can’t wait to be addressed — or seized upon.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 19, 2017

Unfortunately, though, brick and mortar banks have undergone a lot of changes since the 2008 recession — one of the biggest ones being their willingness to fund small business loans. Have you been in business for less than two years?

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Pascal's View

JANUARY 26, 2009

of Lehman Brothers on September 15, 2008  at the hands of Treasury Secretary Henry. of Lehman’s failure was to ravage the razor thin balance sheets of CDS. In my view, financial historians will commonly cite the death. Paulson   (with the consent and support of other US financial policy makers), as America’s.

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Up and Running

MAY 9, 2016

Construction companies have their ups and downs (for example, the economic crisis of 2008 hit construction firms hard ), but it’s an industry that will always have demand—and where there’s demand, there’s opportunity. Projected Balance Sheet showing three years of assets, liabilities, and capital, to indicate projected net worth.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 12, 2014

Value means the stock is priced modestly compared to the strength of its balance sheet and cash flow. Or as he put it in a letter to shareholders in 2008, ‘Whether we’re talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.’ Two factors determine a value stock, he explains. Then he waits.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

42:07) On how the 2008 financial crisis prepared banks for the pandemic. (44:25) And half our clubs were in the state of California in 2008, so was a very interesting time to be a CEO and learned a lot. And as you start to lean into this conversation, is how you think about your balance sheet, right?

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

There are three key financial documents of any business that go here: an income statement, a balance sheet, and a cash flow statement. As we pointed out , Reports have shown a consistent increase in crowdfunded investments since the great recession in 2008. Financial plan. This section is for all things financial.

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VC Adventure

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

The first graph below shows this – you can see big spikes in the spread leading up to the 2000 market collapse and the 2008 market collapse (the spread continues through each of those two events, but the initial rise pre-dated the markets falling; btw, this also occurred before the ’87 crash).

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

We’ve certainly seen this in the public and private markets as well (for example in the 2000 crash where truly unsustainable levels of funding were driving too many bad ideas into the market and the perception of market value and future growth and profit potential was completely out of balance with reality).

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Professor VC

APRIL 11, 2008

Friday, 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. ▼ 2008. (14). ProfessorVC. The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Babys All Grown Up. ► May. (1). ► March. (1).

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Venture Chronicles

JULY 11, 2010

“The financial work force in New York has shrunk by more than 28,000 since its peak in January 2008″ So what exactly would suggest to the author that economic recovery is causing the hiring, even if the numbers are conservative we are talking about less than 10% of the jobs that were lost? . billion in 2009, the most ever.&#.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 6, 2021

But a slightly different version of that search, “why does my SEO suck,” returns a Moz article from 2008, and a “People also ask” box shows up. For example, if you’re Freshbooks, you can see that you own the first position for “straight line depreciation” but are just sixth for “balance sheet.”

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Altgate

MARCH 8, 2009

The turning point will come when large corporations that buy these later stage companies have cleaned up their own balance sheets and are again looking for growth opportunities. The later stage guys may see a pickup about the same time as the Series A guys but I suspect it will take longer (like the recovery after the 2000 crash).

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Professor VC

AUGUST 26, 2011

How much needs to be shown in the form of a cashflow statement, and balance sheet? ► 2008. (14). [SB] It is good to have a top down that is consistent with your bottoms-up, so I’d recommend doing both. Also, do you show accounts payable/receivable in these as they are not accurate or real? [SB] ► May. (1).

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Up and Running

APRIL 2, 2020

Building your balance sheet. Our business got through the 2008-2009 great recession without letting a single person go. For a full list check out the business plan guide and scroll down to the specifics about financials including: Key elements of a financial plan . H ow to do a sales forecast. How to build a profit and loss .

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Professor VC

JANUARY 20, 2009

million from Lighthouse Capital Partners , which ultimately became critical to our balance sheet and they turned out to be a great partner as we worked through the equity financing process. Our lead investor, Triangle Peak Partners closed on a $170 million first fund in late 2008. ► 2008. (14). We drew $1.5

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Blog Blazers: 40 Top Bloggers Share Their Secrets Startup Success Podcast, Open Source For-Profit Startups, One Laptop Per Child 2008, and $19 Usability Testing → The Software Product Myth Micropreneurship , Startups If youre trying grow your startup youve come to the right place. Congratulations! Check out my book Like this post?

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

The company had a wild year, from the initial crisis management that came in the form of restructuring the company and refunding millions of dollars off their own balance sheet, to lobbying Congress, to provide support to hosts, [and] launching initiatives to provide housing for frontline healthcare workers.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

The company had a wild year, from the initial crisis management that came in the form of restructuring the company and refunding millions of dollars off their own balance sheet, to lobbying Congress, to provide support to hosts, [and] launching initiatives to provide housing for frontline healthcare workers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

This was supposed to be Airbnb's biggest year by many measures, including its IPO, which was one of the most anticipated since the 2008 financial crisis. And that hadn't happened since 2009 and we launched in late 2008. But that was $250 million of money on our own balance sheet. It was that week.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

By 2008 I had gotten more serious about championing companies through our investment process. It was September 2008. The following is a 2-week graph of the end-of-week price of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) in Autumn 2008. The market had tanked. Lehman Brothers had filed for bankruptcy.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

We’re still caught in the “post recession bounce” : What’s happening is that the angel & VC community is still feeling good from having bounced back from the nadir of the famous “ RIP Good Times ” funk that we felt in 2008. What microprocessors are to computing, batteries are to electric vehicles… The U.S.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

For the purposes of this post, startups are companies started post financial crisis (since 2008), either private or public. Now the company wants to allocate some capital off balance sheet to invest into specific startup ideas the CEO, Henry Ward, sees as strategically important. Startup Funds. .”

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

billion shekels and a combined balance sheet of 20 billion shekels will be entitled to a company tax rate of 8% in the center of the country if they invest at least 800 million shekels in capital improvements. billion in 2008, and $1.54 Large corporations with a turnover of more than 1.5 Intel Israel exported $2.7

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 31, 2020

For consumers scarred by the 2008 financial crisis, those brands may be perceived as “safer” than fintech alternatives, but that doesn’t nearly explain the sharp increase in share of new accounts. Meanwhile, rewards for debit cards were discontinued by many banks after the 2008 financial crisis. Source: Cornerstone Advisors.

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