Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

For the last 10 years China essentially closed its search, media and social network software market to foreign companies with the result that Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Dropbox, and 30,000 other websites were not accessible from China. And they were increasing at an aggregate 33 million IOS and Android activations per month.

China 327

China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 327

David Teten

JULY 14, 2014

Technology innovation, globalization of markets, and recent market volatility such as the 2008 market collapse are driving painful changes (for some) in the asset management industry. What drove the expansion of the ETF market and who are the players that are taking advantage of it? However, this is about to change.

Management 114

Management Portfolio Institutional Investors Government 114

Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

For the last 10 years China essentially closed its search, media and social network software market to foreign companies with the result that Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Dropbox, and 30,000 other websites were not accessible from China. And they were increasing at an aggregate 33 million IOS and Android activations per month.

China 219

China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 219

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

So their revenue figures, pre IPO financing and ownership, and other info is all widely available. Tomorrow we’ll know Twitter’s market cap definitively, at least near term. To be fair the broad equity markets are up strongly over this time period, but clearly growth has been strongly favored.

IPO 194

IPO Aggregator B2B Internet 194

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

To do this they have to accomplish five things; 1) get deal flow – via networking and legwork, they identify likely industries, companies and teams with the potential for rapid growth (less than 10 years), 2) evaluate those companies and teams on the basis of technology, market opportunity, and team.

Silicon Valley 235

Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 235

Cracking the Code

MARCH 12, 2010

range where you would expect companies to start pumping more investment in sales and marketing to drive growth 3) Focus on profitability It is interesting to see that the improving sales and marketing productivity is not pushing companies to be more optimistic on their top line but on their bottom line. Finance Dissertation Help.

Software Review 63

Software Review Technical Review Cloud Forecast 63

K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 10, 2017

This post is intended to be a dynamic document, and I will attempt to update it from time to time with new questions that may arise or as financing trends evolve. Q: What amount of financing is considered Pre-Seed? Typically, Pre-Seed rounds are less than $1M in aggregate capital raised. Q: Define Pre-Seed?

Seed Stage 82

Seed Stage Finance Later Stage Equity 82

David Teten

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Although any given early-stage company is quite risky, when aggregated across a large portfolio, returns are very attractive. Our finance team acts as an outsourced CFO. Before making the decision to join ff Venture Capital , I did some research on early-stage tech investing as an asset class and how it’s evolving.

Early Stage 148

Early Stage Private Equity Portfolio Aggregator 148

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . In liquid markets, most of the calories expended on technology and analytics are focused on trade selection, or “ origination ”. 2) Market . This is harder than it sounds.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

www.seriesseed.com

MARCH 2, 2010

SeriesSeed.com Series Seed Financing Documents Blog Home Documents Blog Archives Subscribe 09/02/2010 Version 2.0   That’s because there are not that many issues to negotiate in a simple equity financing. In sum, Series Seed creates a level playing field between capped debt and equity documents in terms of speed and cost. 

Finance 58

Finance Term Sheet Equity Aggregator 58

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

It’s always fun chatting with Jason because he’s knowledgeable about the market, quick on topics and pushes me to talk more about VC / entrepreneur issues. Often times when companies raise “bridge” financing (this is money from internal investors. We just had our sixth episode of #TWiVC and I felt this one was the best.

Stealth 285

Stealth SEC Advertising Accredited Investor 285

Hearpreneur

AUGUST 2, 2016

What is CrowdFunnel, what is unique about your form of marketing and what types of partners benefit most from your services? CrowdFunnel offers a unique form of marketing and media buying for crowdfunding platforms, issuers and agencies. are all necessary components of a complete marketing strategy.

Accredited Investor 48

Accredited Investor Non-Compete Vertical Acquisition 48

K9 Ventures

MAY 14, 2011

The incubators invest usually for an equity stake and buy equity at a extremely low valuation (for example, 7% for $15,000, which implies a pre-money valuation of less than $200,000). <$50K in aggregate. The Series A is now the third round of financing for a company, but the nomenclature hasn’t been changed.

Preferred Stock 125

Preferred Stock Seed Stage Incubator Early Stage 125

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2019

My professional areas of interest cover Customer Service, User Experience and Finance, though here on Occam’s Razor my focus is on influencing incredible Marketing through the use of innovative Analytics. Each chosen obsession is very much in the spirit of my beloved principle of the aggregation of marginal gains.

Analytics 88

Analytics Marketing Algorithm Campaign 88

Startup Company Lawyer

JANUARY 9, 2011

Convertible debt with a price cap seems to be the preferred structure for early-stage financings. Over the last 12 months, I’ve noticed a trend where early-stage startup companies raise seed financings of between $250K and $1M using a convertible note with a price cap. Is a priced Series A financing a valid alternative?

Liquidation Preference 57

Liquidation Preference Finance Preferred Stock Common Stock 57

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

This will continue while we’re in a tech bull market and I predict will wane when we’re not. I believe some VCs have entered the early-stage market as simply an option on future financing rounds. And of course hedge funds and growth-equity funds can’t resist trying to get earlier-stage exposure again.

Venture Capital 296

Venture Capital Software LP Early Stage 296

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

Why the Unicorn Financing Market Just Became Dangerous…For All Involved. Many have noted that the aggregate shareholder value created by all of the Unicorns will vastly overshadow the losses from the inevitable failed unicorns. With the public markets down, these groups began writing down Unicorn valuations.

IPO 40

IPO Term Sheet Silicon Valley Valuation 40

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Between the worse data aggregation method and the much higher amount of work Wesabe made you do, it was far easier to have a good experience on Mint , and that good experience came far more quickly. surrendered market leadership and thought leadership. didn’t care/focus enough about discovering how to market eventvue.

Software Review 79

Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

David Teten

JUNE 13, 2012

Given how the tech ecosystem is becoming the new Hollywood , I thought it would be timely to post the notes from a talk I delivered a few years ago with my wife at a Jewish singles conference : “Investment Banking in the Marriage Market: a systematic and efficient method to optimize yourself and find, evaluate, and sign the deal with your spouse.”.

New York 138

New York Private Equity Aggregator Matching 138

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

At Risk – Usually starts with a firm beginning to see challenges in large portions of its portfolio, or in keeping the partnership together, or in the viability of the firm’s core strategy as broader markets start to shift (e.g. there’s a heck of a lot fewer pure-play cleantech VCs today than 5 years ago).

LP 154

LP Portfolio Venture Capital IRR 154

David Teten

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

The average equity fund investor earned a market return of only 4.25%. One are investors in truly new asset classes, e.g., frontier markets like the Pakistani stock market, which really do provide new opportunities for investors to put capital to work. In aggregate, angels are significant investors.

Management 114

Management Pre-Money Valuation Venture Capital New Hampshire 114

Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Bates: Good morning and welcome to our CEO panel, “How to Fine-Tune Your Small Business Finances From Funding to Growth” which I think is the direction that we would all like to be going. I’m here with some really phenomenal CEOs who are going to talk to us today about small business finances from funding to growth.

Small Business 95

Small Business Finance Forecast Metrics 95

techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Tweet View Comments Sarah Lacy Feb 19, 2010 Pepperdine has a new study out that attempts to shed some light on the clubby, shadowy world of private finance. Researchers polled experts in lending, mezzanine capital, private equity, venture capital and private businesses themselves. Might be kinda large market., just my opinion.

Venture Capital 62

Venture Capital Technical Review Sweat Equity Valuation 62

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

In 2006, PMC-Sierra acquired Herzliya-based Passave, a developer of system-on-chip semiconductor solutions for the Fiber To The Home (FTTH) access market, for $300 million. “The femtocell market has turned the corner in 2010 with more than 1 million femtocells global shipments expected by conservative estimates this year.

Bandwidth 79

Bandwidth Framework Forecast 79

Altgate

APRIL 22, 2009

"  It's basically a web tool that creates draft preferred financing term sheets for startups. "  The beauty of having the option to select from "standard" options is that WSGR has included some market data , e.g. what percent of term sheets in up rounds in 2008 included this term.

Term Sheet 52

Term Sheet Intellectual Property Venture Capital Hawaii 52

abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

Marketing 101: Customers love free stuff. As a result, it is a common marketing practice to offer things “for free” in order to impact customer behavior or encourage customer loyalty. That’s why it is a tried and true marketing scheme. Warren Buffet, 1997. You know what customers like more than free stuff?

IPO 82

IPO Customer Matching Silicon Valley 82

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Whether you’re wondering what site search you should use or what is the best email marketing tool, knowledge is power. Inbound Marketing vs Interruption marketing. Email marketing. Market Research. Promotions/Marketing. Put up a LaunchRock Page and get your marketing working right away.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

VC Cafe

JUNE 19, 2020

Impact Investing has been around for a long time, most prominently since the 1960’s as companies and governments began engaging with the concept through private equity and debt investing in developing economies. In its latest report , the private sector arm of the World Bank Group estimated that in 2019 between $505 billion and $3.5

Venture Capital 174

Venture Capital Global South Africa 174