2008 Finance Later Stage Revenue 
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 24, 2017
— Unremarked and unheralded, the balance of power between startup CEOs and their investors has radically changed: IPOs/M&A without a profit (or at times revenue) have become the norm. Typically, this caliber of bankers wouldn’t talk to you unless your company had five profitable quarters of increasing revenue. Board Control.
This is going to be BIG.
SEPTEMBER 30, 2012
How else can you explain this headline matching a story about a professional social network still trying to explore revenues raising $17mm on an $80mm valuation? venture capitalists are now asking tougher questions about start-ups' revenue and profits.". Perhaps I need to rethink that. What follows in this story is pretty laughable: ".venture
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Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 5, 2011
The earlier you invest the higher the chances the company won’t work out and thus you pay a lower price than later-stage investors. 2007, 2011) and for the hottest of companies and in bad markets for fund raising (2003, 2008) prices test the bottom end of the range. million post-money valuation with no revenue.
David Teten
SEPTEMBER 5, 2014
Like many established finance & media companies, GLG knows that the tech startup sector is a growing part of the economy. This is particularly true in New York, where their traditional financial services industry client base has sustained significant damage since the 2008 financial crisis.
This is going to be BIG.
MAY 9, 2022
5) Is the post-money on your last round north of $30mm and you’ve yet to show meaningful and repeatable revenue traction that comes with positive contribution margins? After the 2008 financial crash that nearly bankrupted the entire global economy, VCs took about a nine-month pause before getting back to normal. But, you know what?
K9 Ventures
JUNE 5, 2015
Together this means that Seed stage companies need to run longer and at a higher expense structure, meaning they need to raise a lot more capital. A re-jiggering of deal stages and sizes had begun in 2013. I refer to this as The Venture Spiral (blog post from 2008). Stop living in denial. Scaling venture capital breaks it.
The Startup Magazine
FEBRUARY 6, 2020
trillion, it is by far the largest of its sort in the world and financed projects that in other settings may not have passed investment criteria screens. [3]. Later stage Private Equity buyers rely more on existing hospital management and employees than in other industries. Some attribute the lag to the uniqueness of the U.S.
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