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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

Most startups equate the process of fundraising to dating – founders have to typically kiss a lot of frogs until the find the right fit. I’ve recently come across several of such lists and I thought it could be useful to aggregate them and share them here.

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Why Average VC Returns Don’t Really Matter

Agile VC

And even if they wanted the index return, there is essentially no way to buy (or sell) a broad-based basket of VC funds in the way you can trade the S&P 500 or Russell 2000 or other public equity index. Startup outcomes are a power law distribution rather than a standard distribution.

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St. Louis Startups Strut Their Stuff

ReadWriteStart

Louis show how vibrant the startup ecosystem has become there. On Wednesday, a group of 13 companies presented to 50 investors, looking to raise an aggregate of $16 million in capital. Two events this week in St. The companies were all part of Capital Innovators, an accelerator venture fund that has been operating since last fall.

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How to Scale Support of Portfolio Companies

David Teten

Large private equity funds like KKR can afford to pursue a consulting model ( Capstone ), typically with associated fees, but that doesn’t normally make economic sense for a VC. the “TOPSCAN” framework from my research study on value creation by VCs ): T eam-Building – We aggregate openings across our portfolio on our jobs page.

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What’s a Fair 409A Discount?

VC Adventure

Most boards did some level of work to determine the FMV of a company’s stock but generally options were priced between 10% and 15% of a company’s then preferred price (because common equity sits behind preferred equity there is typically a discount applied to the FMV of common stock to account for this “overhang”).

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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. How They Do It: Aggregate data from travel data warehouses like ITA as well as indexing travel providers websites, provide this information to consumers in a highly customizable search engine. Distribution revenue is CPC and CPA. . Kayak generates both distribution (i.e.

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Quality over quantity on The Equity Kicker

The Equity Kicker

When I look in my traffic sources now it’s all Twitter, Facebook, Google and aggregators like Mattermark, channels where posting daily makes much less of a difference. In summary, posting frequency no longer effects distribution. So I’ve posted pretty much every working day for nearly ten years now.

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