Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 21, 2009

We meet to discuss trends in the industry and to find ways to work together to help with SoCal deal syndication – somethings that happens automatically on Sand Hill Road in NorCal due to proximity. Fred Wilson supports Montgomery’s view in this thoughtful post on the return of the tech IPO market.

Technical Review 241

Technical Review IPO Southern California Venture Capital 241

Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

So far most of the top funded AngelList Syndicates look, well, not surprising. Additionally, funds such as Foundry Group and Google Ventures have taken their own approaches – the former creating a separate early stage entity , the latter encouraging their seed stage partners to create standalone personal syndicates.

Syndicate 99

Syndicate Syndication South America Seed Stage 99

Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. GameFly filed in 2010 and remains in registration, though 2011 has seen a positive start for VC-backed IPOs with 14 in Q1 2011. Now that Google’s acquisition of ITA is closed, following lenghty FTC review, it would appear Kayak is poised to proceed with their IPO in the coming months. =.

Pre-Money Valuation 113

Pre-Money Valuation Liquidation Preference Dividend Common Stock 113

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Crowdfunding is rapidly becoming the major source of funding for seed-stage startups. This is a relatively new term loosely applied to angels who invest their own money in a portfolio of startups (typically 20 or more) and are willing to lead multiple rounds, usually starting with a seed round. Startup incubator seed funding.

Seed Stage 120

Seed Stage Finance Early Stage Startup 120

Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Google is still a private company (their IPO was Aug 2004). Salesforce.com is a startup with 76,000 subscribers (over 2.1M Reid assembled the founding team drawing largely from his prior startups, with a few other folks he’d known for a long time. May 26, 2011.

Term Sheet 178

Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

Agile VC

MARCH 13, 2012

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. I have some limited experience in dealing with patents though, both from my time as a VC and also back in my own startup days. And at PayPal we were hit with a couple patent disputes while in the midst of our IPO process. With Facebook in the late innings of its IPO process, Yahoo!

IP 100

IP IPO Social Network Silicon Valley 100

Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Tech IPOs Are Back – So Now What? Three of the five “blockbuster” tech IPOs I predicted have happened (LinkedIn, Groupon, Zynga) and the biggest of all (Facebook) has filed and will likely go public within the next 90 days. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC.

IPO 100

IPO Silicon Valley Revenue Seed Stage 100