Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

lack of traction, lack of downstream financing availability. I have been involved with rounds of funding where individual angels asked to have lawyers review the next round of financing and slow up deals over what amounts to $25,000 out of a $5 million investment. founder fighting. strategic direction. and much more.

Syndicate 356

Syndicate Syndication Cofounder Early Stage 356

View from Seed

MARCH 24, 2021

So, we decided to aggregate NextView’s “greatest hits.” Finance is about reporting on historical performance and future planning through the lens of financial metrics.” ” (Melody Koh). ” (Melody Koh). ” (Melody Koh). ” (Rob Go).

Seed Stage 177

Seed Stage Hiring IPO Analytics 177

View from Seed

MARCH 1, 2016

Are you aggregating and leveraging a competitive dataset none will be able to reproduce? Each financing you raise is to get to the next milestone, so when pitching your startup, some portion of your pitch should include a called shot. “We This data and execution framing technique isn’t limited to financings. then go do X.

Founder 120

Founder Technical Review Cofounder Non-Compete 120

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 13, 2020

You may have received a loan from a bank at some point to finance a large purchase such as a house, car, or boat. Historically, if you wanted to get an overall picture of your finances, it took a lot of time to manually compile financial information from all accounts. An average consumer today has several bank and credit accounts.

Harvest 263

Harvest United States Security Aggregator 263

VC Adventure

MAY 10, 2020

After its enactment but before it was implemented, there were questions about the SBA’s “affiliation rules” which can disqualify companies if the aggregated number of employees at affiliate companies is greater than 500. The program sparked confusion from the start.

SBA 79

SBA Affiliate Los Angeles Cap Table 79

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

There is an old management adage which says that “you cannot manage what you cannot measure” This saying may be true in all parts of a company, but is especially pertinent in finance. Fourth, aggregate functions and processes within your organization to reduce inefficiencies as much as possible.

Cost 154

Cost Management Balance Sheet Software Review 154

David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

As an agenda for each meeting, I suggest: – How can we most add value, in addition to helping with financing? aggregates resources from all the VCs. Once you have assembled the right core team, I recommend prioritizing as follows: First, meet with your portfolio company management. – What are your fundraising goals?

Private Equity 78

Private Equity Venture Capital Portfolio Equity 78

View from Seed

MAY 11, 2016

The reasons are fairly obvious: It’s easy to reference them and understand their track record; they’ve made a ton of mistakes already that they have hopefully learned from and are unlikely to make again; they are probably more adept at raising and managing capital, which reduces financing risk down the road, etc.

Founder 159

Founder Cofounder CTO Hire Early Stage 159

VC Adventure

AUGUST 15, 2018

It was a benefit to employees and a slight value transfer from equity holders to option holders (generally speaking in M&A transactions the value of the aggregate option exercise ends up allocated across the rest of the cap table). Similarly I assumed that later stage companies would also show a smaller gap. I was wrong.

Valuation 48

Valuation Common Stock Cap Table Software Review 48

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

In other words, they’re telling companies that, in order to get next round funding, they’re somehow supposed to stay the same fast growers they were before the tech downturn, but just do that longer and get to higher aggregate revenue and performance numbers.

Lean 159

Lean Aggregator Portfolio Revenue 159

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 4, 2015

They gather the expertise of diligent, thoughtful, experienced donors so that each dollar donated by an individual – you, your friends in finance, your grandma – is as high impact as a dollar donated by the most well-informed, wealthy philanthropist. Agora Fund is a new organization that makes giving more effective.

Founder 100

Founder Arizona Cofounder Technical Review 100

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2021

We’ve had two companies where we had to bridge finance them several times before they eventually IPO’d We had a portfolio company turn-down a $350 million acquisition because they wanted at least $400 million. Another 3–5 could return in aggregate $300–500 million. It sold to Amazon for > $1 billion.

Bankruptcy 294

Bankruptcy Bridge Financing Portfolio Angel Investor 294

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Here digital intercepts of consumer activities are aggregated into large data sets, analysed, and assessed versus market expectations. Here’s where machine-learning comes into play to self-correct over time, dynamically adjusting detection algorithms based on experience, aiming to keep everything within a controllable cost/risk limit.

Technical Review 154

Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Software Review IPO 154

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Marketing should collaborate as a business function with sales, finance and ops, but you shouldn’t replace any of their tasks as a manager. If you target demand capture, you need to use intent channels that include paint point SEO, PPC, review websites, affiliates and aggregators, or intent data.

B2B 94

B2B Marketing Curation PPC 94

YoungUpstarts

JULY 29, 2020

Recognizing that people just weren’t being offered traditional lending opportunities as often or as eagerly as they were before (for obvious reasons), new alternative financing organizations stepped in to fill the void. In the wake of the Great Recession of the middle 2000s, the alternative lending industry exploded.

Aggregator 130

Aggregator Finance Technology Customer 130

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 21, 2017

Debt consolidation can help businesses regain control of their finances. It can also help a small business to put itself on firmer footing, making it a better candidate for growth financing in the future. Overall Business Finances. Not sure what’s causing the drag on your finances? Personal Credit Score.

Small Business Administration 145

Small Business Administration Finance Aggregator Small Business 145

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 3, 2014

Recognizing the problem, a number of startups and accelerators in Malaysia have banded together to create Launchpad , an online service that aggregates and provides information on startup internship positions in Asia to help graduates and students to decide which jobs are the best fit for them.

Malaysia 186

Malaysia Matching Asia Thailand 186

Austin Startup

JULY 6, 2018

Some accelerators will require you to “make room” for them in future financings up to a certain amount. When an accelerator says “our companies have raised an aggregate of $200 million,” they may be neglecting to mention that a huge chunk of that was raised before some of the companies (the top ones) ever “entered” the accelerator.

Dilution 48

Dilution Startup Technical Review Equity 48

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

a language corporate innovation groups can use to communicate to business units and finance. We collect the complete narrative of what they discovered talking to customers as well as aggregate interviews, hypotheses to test, invalidated hypotheses and mentor and instructor engagements. —-.

Incubator 310

Incubator Intellectual Property Startup Lean 310

Hunter Walker

AUGUST 8, 2023

” What are my major assumptions for why there’s more markdowns to come in the aggregate for the last decade of venture portfolios? 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. Valuations.

Portfolio 99

Portfolio Cap Table LP Valuation 99

Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

And they were increasing at an aggregate 33 million IOS and Android activations per month. The motivations are the same – profit – driven by entrepreneurs and venture finance. (They also probably haven’t seen a phone that isn’t mobile.) By the end of 2012, there were 85 million iOS and 160 million Android devices in China.

China 323

China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 323

David Teten

JULY 14, 2014

Katina Stefanova : The government is looking for effective ways to increase transparency in the aggregate risk of the system and hold investment managers accountable. In aggregate, the investment management community performs below the market benchmark when fees are taken into consideration.

Management 114

Management Portfolio Institutional Investors Government 114

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Through them, entrepreneurs can hook up with R&D resources in universities and companies, and get access to a robust support network that provides opportunities for visibility, growth and financing. Having JEI status is pretty much a golden ticket to financing, and JEI startups also get tax breaks and other benefits. The Startups.

France 163

France Technical Review Incubator Early Stage 163

Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

By aggregating user-generated speed and location data, Blink will provide instantaneously generated traffic-enabled maps, optimal routing, estimated time-to-arrival and predictive itinerary services to personal and corporate users. BlinkTraffic will empower mobile users in developing markets (Jakarta, Sao Paolo, Delhi, etc.)

Lean 298

Lean Business Model Customer Development Guinea 298

Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2018

And why funding from families and friends is a dominant source of financing for early-stage ventures (because friends and family know an entrepreneur’s ability better than any resume can convey). Increasing the number of new ventures will only generate aggregate wealth if those who start firms are truly more productive as entrepreneurs.

Entrepreneur 336

Entrepreneur Business Model Capital Gains Aggregator 336

Growthink Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2015

On a case x case basis, perhaps barely noticeable incremental improvements, but transformative in their aggregate. Personal Delights. For me, the most inspirational takeaway from the gathering was IoT’s under-stated potential to make our lives more “Personally Delightful” on a day-to-day basis.

Internet 48

Internet CTO Hire Fractional CTO Silicon Valley 48

View from Seed

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Yes, there are intermittent points of feedback along the way, like valuation marks from subsequent rounds of financing. Building a venture capital firm isn’t about continuing to scale talent aggregation over time like most businesses, rather it’s about having a consistent right amount of talent and scaling AUM over time.

Venture Capital 204

Venture Capital Cap Table Partner LP 204

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Certain experts have described the situation as a Keynesian supply shock, a negative event that triggers aggregate supply shortages with bigger impacts than the prior reduction in labor supply. A lot of companies suffered supply chain disruptions due to COVID-19. Yet, they get more complicated.

B2B 153

B2B Cost Management Forecast 153

VC Adventure

APRIL 30, 2020

I wrote recently about the The Finance Assistance Network (FAN) , that I helped set up (along with Lew Visscher and Phil Votteiro) three weeks ago to offer pro bono financial advice to small businesses affected by COVID-19. I though it was worth sharing here as well. Please join us by registering at [link].

Small Business 79

Small Business SBA Colorado Finance 79

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 13, 2017

Stephen Sheinbaum is the founder of Bizfi , an aggregation marketplace that offers many kinds of alternative funding, from short-term finance to longer term loans, equipment finance and lines of credit. If that means venturing into unfamiliar territory, follow these guidelines from the U.S.

Small Business 100

Small Business Small Business Administration Social Media Aggregator 100

Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

If your business needs financing, consider equity crowdfunding; its distinctive traits will lure investors desiring the rewards of investment returns and investor protection, in addition to the goodwill generated by their support. Set a Fundraising Goal. Evaluate the amount your business can reasonably collect.

Equity 125

Equity SEC Technical Review Security 125

Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

And they were increasing at an aggregate 33 million IOS and Android activations per month. The motivations are the same – profit – driven by entrepreneurs and venture finance. (They also probably haven’t seen a phone that isn’t mobile.) By the end of 2012, there were 85 million iOS and 160 million Android devices in China.

China 215

China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 215

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

And I think that we need to start thinking much more about these seemingly unlikely events and how they'll change our companies, because it turns out that well, any one of these might be unlikely and aggregate. Well, we spend upwards of 90% of our brain cycles and companies focusing on finances and operations, right?

Technical Review 62

Technical Review Networking United States Artificial Inteligence 62

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

So their revenue figures, pre IPO financing and ownership, and other info is all widely available. Well it’s not clear that media businesses, in aggregate, are inherently more valuable than e-commerce or premium services companies in aggregate [see Note 1 below regarding categorization]. From Google Finance.

IPO 194

IPO Aggregator B2B Internet 194

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

. … Due to the relatively small potential contract values in restaurants, startups serving these customer segments have to build very efficient sales teams or online customer acquisition tools to aggregate many of them inexpensively. Understanding your competition is critical to success.

Small Business 110

Small Business Marketing Startup Silicon Valley 110

Scott Edward Walker

JUNE 9, 2019

Over the past few weeks, two of my clients have received financing term sheets in which the investors requested super pro rata rights. Simply put, pro rata rights permit the investor to maintain its percentage ownership in subsequent financing rounds. Introduction. Pro Rata Rights.

Preferred Stock 56

Preferred Stock Term Sheet Dilution Stock 56

Cracking the Code

MARCH 12, 2010

While the group sentiment for 2010 did not improve significantly vs. November 2009, the projections for 2011 are now a lot more optimistic - 42% higher 2011 aggregated EBITDA announced in March 2010 vs. the November 09! Finance Dissertation Help. Finance Dissertation Proposal. Yahoo Finance. I was looking for such post.I

Software Review 63

Software Review Technical Review Cloud Forecast 63