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.
Professor VC
JANUARY 27, 2011
How Much Diligence is Due.Or Ive addressed the due diligence question in previous posts, but this came up again in a debate we were having at a recent meeting of the Sand Hill Angels. And in order to increase our groups returns, one of our goals should be to get more people and man hours involved in the diligence process.
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View from Seed
MARCH 19, 2015
If you’re in the tech startup industry today, you get the sense that every one of your peers wants to take on the entire world. I recently caught up with Savoia, who shared how this process works and how seed-stage startups might adopt it to find product-market fit more quickly and more cheaply. But how was that possible?
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 2, 2010
Example: if a VC is on their fourth $200 million fund that they just raised in 2009 then you might hear them talk about $800 million under management. Some wait 5-7 years but usually this is because it’s proving more difficult to raise a new fund due to market conditions or the lack of returns in their current fund.
Startup Lessons Learned
AUGUST 24, 2009
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, August 24, 2009 Marching through quicksand I have been spending a lot of time lately talking to people in various media companies: editors and agents, executives, journalists, producers and directors. When I reviewed a recent product development book, it immediately shot up to Amazon sales rank 300.
Tim Keane
DECEMBER 14, 2009
How To Change The World » December 14, 2009. He is a partner in a pretty much exclusively software seed stage fund, Y Combinator that you can read more about. Like VCs, one of the advantages of seed firms is the advice they offer. Starting Startups. So, Paul Graham is a brainiac.
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. =. Revenue growth: 51% YoY (2010), 1% YoY (2009), 131% YoY (2008). Read More ».
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