Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 12, 2019
Between 1999–2005 the costs went down by 90% and between 2005–2010 they went down a further 90%. With Things Going So Well for Seed Funds the Winds Shifted in 2015 Seed investors had a good run and all seemed rosy and then in 2015 the momentum seemed to shift. Why Has Seed Investing Declined?
View from Seed
FEBRUARY 18, 2016
But what I think is missing from this conversation is that there’s going to be some real pain for awhile because prices are “ sticky down.” This is going to be painful for those companies forced to operate businesses with cash balances like 2010 and cost structures like 2016. This surprises nobody.
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Agile VC
DECEMBER 13, 2011
I recently was having one of these conversations with an entrepreneur I’ve known for a couple years. In NextView’s case that’s seed stage internet and software companies. My partners and I at NextView know we’ll be wrong a decent chunk of the time, especially as seed stage investors.
Agile VC
APRIL 17, 2011
In 2010 I deconstructed the filings for GameFly and Quinstreet. GameFly filed in 2010 and remains in registration, though 2011 has seen a positive start for VC-backed IPOs with 14 in Q1 2011. Filing Date: initial S-1 filed Nov 17, 2010 , updated March 9, 2011. Financial Snapshot: 2010 Revenue: $170 million.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 2, 2010
Unfortunately over the period of 2000-2010 the VC industry hasn’t performed well and therefore the number of funds going forward is likely to reduce greatly. A fund size of $100 million – $200 million is likely to either be an A round investor or “stage agnostic&#. A lot will depend on how exits go in 2010/2011.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 23, 2014
The rise of “micro VCs” or seed-stage funds. There has been much discussion in the past few years of the changing structure of the venture capital industry. On the surface the narratives have been. The rise of alternative sources of capital (crowd funding and the like).
Agile VC
MAY 26, 2011
To give you a sense, for 2002 the entire US online ad market was $6B and had shrunk year over year (it was $25B+ for 2010). He provided our initial seed funding to launch the website publicly on May 5, 2003. Not long after the product launch we began the initial conversations with VCs for a Series A round. quite encouraging.
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