Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

September 27, 2011. Providence Equity invested $100M at a $1B valuation not because of their technology or product, but because the network owners contributed a lot of valuable content… or at least access to it for 2years. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC.

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Professor VC

APRIL 1, 2010

was part of a Dow Jones VentureWire webinar last week titled Negotiating An Angel Deal: What Angels, Entrepreneurs & VCs Need to Know. One comment made by Jason was that angels tend to be less sensitive than VCs on valuation and can potentially make it difficult to get a venture financing done at acceptable valuation.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Financial Snapshot : 2011 Revenue: $3.71 2011 YoY Revenue Growth: 88%. 2011 Gross Profit Margin: 77%. 2011 Net Income: $1.00 2011 US Revenue = 56% of total, ROW = 44% of total. In fact Facebook’s ad revenue dropped in absolute terms slightly (about -3%) from Q4 2010 to Q1 2011.

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Agile VC

JANUARY 27, 2012

Multi-billion dollar valuations for late stage startups like Dropbox, et al. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC Syndicate 10 July 2012, 5:13 pm What A VC Orders for Breakfast Says 27 June 2012, 10:16 am To Leave or Not to Leave as Your Startup Grows 12 June 2012, 12:21 pm.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

I think the title of this post is a TV show, but fitting as there has been much debate in the venture community as to the whether angel investors are good or bad for entrepreneurs and VCs. One of my comments was that we would likely see more institutionalization of angel groups and syndication of deals among groups.

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 9, 2006

Done deal: after a quick syndication with the kitchen team (their job was at stake, so they were easy to convince.), Detailed SaaS Spreadsheet (Valuation and CAC benchmark). SaaS 13 Index Valuation. ► 2011. (2). Favorite VC and Entrepreneur blogs. S&M productivity (CAC ratio) for the SaaS 13 Index.

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Tim Keane

APRIL 12, 2006

Ten questions the entrepreneur should ask the (prospective) investor. If they’re making it as part of a group that the entrepreneur likes, fine. If they are “solo,” though, the entrepreneur will want to know a lot about their attitudes and expectations, especially when things go wrong. valuation than the previous round.

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Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

Monday, June 20, 2011. There are definitely some lessons in the story for entrepreneurs and angel investors, but before discussing, I thought Id share a bit about the early financing history for iControl. June 21, 2011 2:32 PM. June 21, 2011 4:21 PM. ▼ 2011. (7). ProfessorVC. How much is enough? Steve Bennet.

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San Jose Angel Investor Term Sheet Venture Capital 28

Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Basically started as somebody of how do we take photos of cars and the pricing and descriptions of the cars, and put it all in one place, but then syndicate it. We started that company in 2003, and we sold it in the 2011, so you frame up the timing. They’ve come light years from there, that’s for sure. Matt Watson: Yeah.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

A lot of times you hear VCs talk about their sourcing in raw numbers… “we saw X opportunities in 2011 and invested in [small fraction of X]“ But ultimately “good” dealflow is about signals – large amplitude, high signal to noise ratio, and enough strong signals on an absolute basis to build a portfolio.

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