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How is the VC Asset Class Doing?

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At the time, I spent most of my time describing the metrics themselves and how VCs and their LPs evaluate performance based on these measurements. If you aren’t familiar with these metrics, I recommend reading the original post to get a sense of the numbers that I’ll be reviewing here. So, is this good or bad?

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Pre-Money Valuation vs Number of Founders | @altgate

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@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← No one wants to tell you your baby is ugly More on Liquidation Preferences → Pre-Money Valuation vs Number of Founders Posted on December 15, 2010 by admin Here’s a chart of the day worth sharing.

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The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development

Startup Lessons Learned

Brant and Patrick undertook a difficult challenge: to provide a generally accessible introduction to Customer Development, without diluting its impact or dumbing-down its principles. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, On the minus side, that has made it a wee bit hard to understand.

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State of VC 2.0

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Warning – this assumes some basic knowledge of VC performance metrics. One thing that jumps out quickly is that TVPI between 2004-2010 (avg 2.6x) has underperformed 2011-2017 (avg 3.0x). For a primer, I would recommend refreshing yourself here. Ok, let’s jump in. State of VC: are we in a bubble?

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

Despite all the energy invested in talking to authors about the size of their platform, very few gatekeepers have a rigorous set of metrics for measuring it. And as everyone’s attention starts to focus on those same indicators, their value is being diluted. My blog has over 14000 subscribers, for example. Is that a lot?

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State of VC 2.0

View from Seed

Warning – this assumes some basic knowledge of VC performance metrics. One thing that jumps out quickly is that TVPI between 2004-2010 (avg 2.6x) has underperformed 2011-2017 (avg 3.0x). For a primer, I would recommend refreshing yourself here. Ok, let’s jump in. State of VC: are we in a bubble?

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A real Customer Advisory Board

Startup Lessons Learned

Every time you listen to customers, you fear diluting your vision. Every time you listen to customers, you fear diluting your vision. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev.