Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 6, 2020
It seems that most of you entrepreneurs I meet in my role as business advisor are convinced that starting a new business requires equity investors, exponential growth, and a plan to go public via IPO. Personal income is related to operations versus equity. With major investors, your equity and return is diluted and delayed.
David Teten
JANUARY 21, 2021
V: Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? VI: Revenue-based financing: The next step for private equity and early-stage investment. This is a summary of: Revenue-Based financing: State of the Industry 2020.
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ReadWriteStart
JANUARY 27, 2011
And, oh by the way, we also really like the idea of the 1M/1M entrepreneurs building valuation and negotiating leverage through these business development efforts, instead of signing off large chunks of their company in form of equity early on. Photo by nosheep. Discuss.
View from Seed
SEPTEMBER 14, 2021
For context, seed-stage pre-money valuations are up 24% from H1 2020 to H1 2021. Seed investors are being compensated for the risk because later-stage investors are paying higher prices, and diluting early-stage investors less. Source: Cambridge Associates (VC) & TradingView (Equities).
ReadWriteStart
SEPTEMBER 10, 2010
Whether it is credit or equity, funding is very, very tight. You can get cash without diluting your ownership in the company. Because customer financing equals revenue, not equity. I gave Gio some advice on funding, which I will repeat here for all of you. This is important, so please listen up. Photo by takatuka.
View from Seed
SEPTEMBER 14, 2021
For context, seed-stage pre-money valuations are up 24% from H1 2020 to H1 2021. Seed investors are being compensated for the risk because later-stage investors are paying higher prices, and diluting early-stage investors less. Source: Cambridge Associates (VC) & TradingView (Equities).
Transformify
JULY 23, 2018
To boost innovation and SME sector growth, the EU Commission has launched the SME Instrument of the Horizon 2020 program – the largest non-dilutive fund in the world. EUR 3 billion are available to fund a maximum of 7,500 startups by 2020! Why non-dilutive? It is a grant, not an equity funding.
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