Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

The number of startups rose in 2015 for the first time in five years, with the largest year-over-year increase in two decades. Establishing your brand with interactive social media. The cost of social media done well is low. Over 500,000 new businesses were created last year, or about one per minute of every day.

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Intellectual Property Startup Angel Groups Social Media 120

Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 10, 2014

As we enter the time of year where every media-related thingy publishes it’s “best of 2014″ and “predictions for 2015″ lists, I simply pass on participating in all of them and read none of them. The number of large, “later stage” financings are remarkable – both in size and velocity.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 6, 2018

One aspect is demand-side: when the number of seed financings peaked in 2014–2015 timeframe , a new seed round stopped becoming “news,” and so it became less interesting for the press to actually report on these events. and hopefully media coverage?—?by What’s going on? Instead, following PR 101 to get the most bang?—?and

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Seed Stage Stealth Seed Capital Later Stage 201

Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

For growth companies (usually Series D or later), there are pretty clear market comparables based on growth rate, revenue, gross margin %, and type of company. Any current trends that stand out to you that are changes from the 2015 environment? The word unicorn was used about 1000 times more often in 2015.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 24, 2015

You thought media twitter was bad… You thought tech twitter was bad… — Hunter Walk (@hunterwalk) August 24, 2015. If markets come back quickly then you’ll see a return to normal 2015 funding timeframes (which I can tell you are much quicker than in times past). At least later stage investors.

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K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 10, 2017

One of the people I respect the most in the VC/PE media ecosystem is Dan Primack. As far as I can tell, that is the first public use of “pre-seed” as a stage of financing. A follow-up post, titled The Seeds Have Changed: An Epilogue , on June 5, 2015, explained this further: Pre-Seed is the New Seed.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 21, 2017

Historically, while unicorn startups rightfully garner a lot of media attention and interest throughout the venture capital (VC) community, smart investors have spread their money around among a large number of startups, both large and small. at around 27 million. Of that number, only 98 are currently considered unicorns.

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Silicon Valley Venture Capital Valuation Later Stage 86