article thumbnail

The Acquihire Market for Early Stage Startups is Ice Cold. One Better Strategy? Announce You’re For Sale.

Hunter Walker

Especially in the early days of mobile/iOS engineering, if you hired strong technical talent into your early stage company, you basically created an acquisition outcome floor. Those who do, often believe they can hire from the open market without the hassle of an acquisition. of the time my answer is no f **g way].

article thumbnail

VC Optimism Returning But More Pain Ahead In Their Portfolios

Hunter Walker

The reality is lots of companies – many of them quite promising – have already undergone, or will be facing, next financings which “clean up” old cap tables. Soft Acquisition Market. And fascinating new advances (and needs) in AI, climate, biology, etc are driving tech-IP driven startups.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

The value ascribed by subsequent investors (in a secondary); buyers (acquisition); or the public markets (IPO). Flexible VC offers you this. Additionally, Flexible VC can accommodate all types of companies, not just asset-lite, tech-enabled companies.”. Yes, typically preferred equity. 15-20% sold per round. Volatile, uncapped.

article thumbnail

Walker Twitter Highlights: July 23rd – August 5th

Scott Edward Walker

Cheers, Scott Top 5 Tweets Quora: Fellow seed investors, do you ask for founder reps on IP and cap table on your deals? My answer: [link] LOL: “Unable to find a legal job after graduation, he delivered pizzas before starting work as a contract lawyer.”