VC Adventure

AUGUST 15, 2018

As is true today, there was a requirement that options be priced at or above the “fair market value” of the underlying stock (otherwise there would be tax consequences to the optionee and sometimes to the company as well).

Valuation 48

Valuation Common Stock Cap Table Software Review 48

Austin Startup

JULY 6, 2018

The below outlines how I would approach the decision: Cash and Equity. Very simply, what are you giving and what are you getting in return in terms of cash and equity for joining the program? Market Focus. Some accelerators are very up-front and overt about their market focus: biotech, energy tech, transportation, etc.

Dilution 48

Dilution Startup Technical Review Equity 48

Agile VC

OCTOBER 23, 2012

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. better than the market average), rather than trying to achieve an index return within the VC asset class.

LP 176

LP Accredited Investor Carried Interest Portfolio 176

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

With angel money being “packaged” and aggregated into large bundles it makes it easier for angels to ask for rights it might not otherwise have. I’ve always been a believer that new competitive dynamics are good for industries because they favor those that are most nimble in responding to the new market dynamics.

Syndicate 356

Syndicate Syndication Cofounder Early Stage 356

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 324

China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 324

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 216

China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 216

View from Seed

MARCH 5, 2019

When Uber started off as a more expensive “black car” service, people questioned whether it would eventually become a more mass market phenomenon or not. So it’s not really the case that Lyft’s riders (in aggregate) are using the service more often, but rather Lyft is getting much better at netting more revenue per active rider.

Aggregator 120

Aggregator IPO .Net Revenue 120

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Attendance is complimentary and exclusively for senior capital markets professionals exclusively focused on emerging trends and technology companies impacting the asset management industry. Tal Cohen , Nasdaq – EVP North American Markets. Speakers so far include: Wendy Harrington , Nuveen – Head of Nuveen Labs?.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Cofounder Aggregator Equity 60

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

Direct seed funding, for a share of the equity, and introductions to investors. An incubator won’t help you if the market opportunity is small, the competitors are large, or your solution doesn’t address a real need. As evidence that it does work, TechCrunch recently aggregated the combined valuation of YCombinator graduates at $14.4

Incubator 247

Incubator Silicon Valley Startup Small Business Administration 247

The Equity Kicker

DECEMBER 17, 2014

It is amazing how often people see an obvious use case for a piece of technology and assume that means there will be a big market. News aggregation and personalisation services are another good example. Benedict Evans wrote about it recently in his post asking How many people really care about Google services?

Marketing 132

Marketing Aggregator Email Media 132

Agile VC

MARCH 5, 2019

When Uber started off as a more expensive “black car” service, people questioned whether it would eventually become a more mass market phenomenon or not. So it’s not really the case that Lyft’s riders (in aggregate) are using the service more often, but rather Lyft is getting much better at netting more revenue per active rider.

Aggregator 100

Aggregator .Net Revenue IPO 100

Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Last week ZipCar began trading and has a market cap of about $1 billion. 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. Quinstreet priced at $15.00/sh Founding Date: 2004.

Pre-Money Valuation 113

Pre-Money Valuation Liquidation Preference Dividend Common Stock 113

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Tomorrow we’ll know Twitter’s market cap definitively, at least near term. Since they upped their IPO pricing range to $23-25/share the offering will imply a market cap of $12-14B, but where it will stand after the first day of trading is anyone’s guess and most of the guesses are $15-20B+. From Google Finance.

IPO 194

IPO Aggregator B2B Internet 194

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Just as I was getting the swing of things the world shifted beneath my feet and the stock market went into a free fall and venture capital all but shut down for nearly a year. Jason was a creator and saw a market opportunity that others didn’t. Some prefer to get in, buy cheap and show a big multiple.

IP 223

IP Intellectual Property IRR Cofounder 223

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 223

Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 223

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 4, 2012

It makes it legal for crowdfunding sites to give actual equity to investors - not just thank-you gifts such as T-shirts and coffee mugs - and it’s expected to draw a vast amount of capital to crowdfunding. In the past couple of weeks alone, two new equity-model crowdfunding sites have gone live, Fundable and CrowdFunder.

SEC 143

SEC Equity Aggregator Forecast 143

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

Up and Running

JUNE 23, 2015

“It took an enormous investment of sweat equity on both our parts,” Allyson admits. 90 percent of our clients are ordering more than one product at a time, so we’re an aggregator. 90 percent of our clients are ordering more than one product at a time, so we’re an aggregator. You need to be realistic,” she says.

Cofounder 60

Cofounder Sweat Equity Social Media Business Model 60

David Teten

MAY 8, 2012

Currently, these Crowdfunding sites don’t give donors any equity in the companies. Gust.com , Angel.co , and Second Market have all done this successfully, by being value-added on top of existing networks of investors and investees.

Securities and Exchange Commission 148

Securities and Exchange Commission IRR Entrepreneur Angel Investor 148

David Teten

JUNE 1, 2011

I enjoyed participating in last week’s Capital Roundtable Private Equity Masterclass on “ Best Practices for Sourcing Quality Deal Flow & Developing New Business ” (May 26 th , 2011). Deal aggregation websites Increasing in popularity, trying to increase market efficiency. View more presentations.

Private Equity 122

Private Equity Deal Flow Equity Developer 122

Start Up Blog

MARCH 29, 2020

Many of the parts that make an economy are real – like people – but much of it is just aggregated concepts for which measurements are possible. The market will start to ask what’s the yield and base their decisions on that. These equity positions should take the form of preferred convertible stock.

Government 87

Government Australia Denmark Balance Sheet 87

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. sales and marketing. (10).

Software Review 63

Software Review Technical Review Cloud Forecast 63

Venture Chronicles

MAY 26, 2010

Venture math is really simple, if you raise $10 million for a company that is valued at $10 million “pre-money&# then you have sold 50% of the equity to the new investors. I’d be willing to bet that more investors lose a great amount of aggregate capital here than at any other stage. pre-money then you have sold 75%.

Lean 40

Lean Early Stage Valuation Startup 40

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 12, 2016

As businesses have grown dramatically — in numbers of customers, products, services offered, and geographic markets — data and reports have increasingly become the primary tools for calibrating results and making decisions. His forthcoming book, “ Why Are There Snowblowers in Miami?

Customer 100

Customer Private Equity Miami Warrant 100

David Teten

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Although any given early-stage company is quite risky, when aggregated across a large portfolio, returns are very attractive. 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. What was striking was what an attractive asset class it was.

Early Stage 148

Early Stage Private Equity Portfolio Aggregator 148

The Equity Kicker

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

To start with they were aggregators in the same way as cable companies were aggregators and they competed with traditional TV companies for content – a happy world for content producers like Disney. That points to a significant part of the market going on a pay-per-view model.

Aggregator 60

Aggregator Lean Web Partner 60

The Equity Kicker

MAY 19, 2015

Firstly some apps will aggregate goods from lots of retailers and discovery will happen in app. The aggregation needs to be broad enough that transactions occur frequently but narrow enough that product discovery is truly engaging. Strong brands will be built on the back of amazing products and first class marketing.

eCommerce 60

eCommerce Mobile Aggregator Vertical 60

The Equity Kicker

JULY 12, 2012

As you can see from the tables below global PC shipments in Q2 were flat on the year before, meaning that in aggregate PCs are not participating in any of the growth in computing globally, and in the US PC shipments were down 11% in the same period. Analysts at IDC had expected PCs to fare better, predicting global shipments to grow 2.1%

Mobile 115

Mobile Aggregator Global Sales 115

K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Typically, Pre-Seed rounds are less than $1M in aggregate capital raised. Unless every aspect of product development is covered by founders who are only receiving equity, there are other parts of building a product that will require hiring highly qualified people. Q: What amount of financing is considered Pre-Seed?

Seed Stage 82

Seed Stage Finance Later Stage Equity 82

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

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. We discussed in the video why they don’t price this money but give it as convertible debt) they don’t make announcements to the market. They also avoid Reg D.

Stealth 285

Stealth SEC Advertising Accredited Investor 285

Gust

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Their firsthand knowledge of creating new businesses and new markets seemed quite relevant to successfully investing in other entrepreneurs working to do the same. Deductions like this are problematic because early-stage venture investing does not happen in an efficient market. Only they’re not. and UK) produced a gross multiple of 2.5X

Angel Investor 152

Angel Investor Venture Capital Seed Stage Silicon Valley 152

ReadWriteStart

MAY 3, 2013

Last month, the 17-year-old sold Summly , his news-aggregation app, to Yahoo for a reported $30 million! Do whatever it takes to build your product and get it to market.”. That’s why so many entrepreneurs try to leverage equity. Guest author Gary Whitehill is Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Startup Weekend.

Curation 61

Curation Silicon Valley Startup Jordan 61

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2022

Today most startup investors still register with the SEC as “ accredited ” investors before they buy any startup equity in the U.S. These requirements for equity investing have been relaxed only a bit, with caveats, with relevant crowdfunding changes. These may be aggregated by an angel group up to about $1M for an angel round.

Liquidity Event 300

Liquidity Event Angel Investor SEC Accredited Investor 300

Gust

OCTOBER 29, 2014

” If we’re talking about the US and you are NOT at the Accredited level ($1 million in investable assets, or $200,000 annual income), then for the moment you are actually not allowed to invest in privately held startups (emerging public companies, of course, you can buy on the stock market like everyone else.).

Accredited Investor 157

Accredited Investor Securities and Exchange Commission Technical Review Due Diligence 157

Venture Chronicles

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Relatively quickly the market became saturated with over 100 products and services claiming a unique capability for tracking and reporting on social media mentions and brand activity in social channels. These post level items are aggregated into a dashboard view and measurements of sentiment, trending, and relative status are calculated.

Social Media 60

Social Media Media Viral Channel 60