Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

Accelerators generally accept startups at a slightly later stage, and attempt to compress the timeline to commercialization into a few months, instead of a year or more. As evidence that it does work, TechCrunch recently aggregated the combined valuation of YCombinator graduates at $14.4

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Over the next two weeks, I set out to build my own Mattermark / CBInsights by aggregating the APIs of Crunchbase, AngelList, and Twitter, as well as any other relevant datasets I could get access to. At later stages, there’s more access to private data that they can benchmark against their own successful portfolio.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Usually we see 2-3x, but in later stage companies, this multiple can be even higher. In the case of an early-stage startup that hasn’t issued preferred stock yet, the debt converts into stock of the acquiring company (if it’s a stock deal) at a valuation subject to a cap. Typical language follows.

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Rob Go

JUNE 7, 2012

But a lot of entrepreneurs and investors were hoping for a really strong showing to drive more liquidity in the market and continue the surge in hype around internet companies (both start-ups and later stage companies). But this is happening in massive areas that we never think about.

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Genuine VC

MAY 5, 2015

One of my first mentors in venture capital explained to me that the key role of a VC is to “aggregate talent.” Our Talent Exchange isn’t meant to replace any of the recruiting technology or processes used by startups, nor should it be viewed as an alternative to some later-stage VC firms’ in-house recruiters.

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K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Typically, Pre-Seed rounds are less than $1M in aggregate capital raised. It’s a legitimate stage of financing in the venture eco-system as of this writing (October 2017). That post was written with later stage companies in mind, but I’m now starting to see the same issues crop up in companies at earlier stages as well.

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Hippoland

MARCH 5, 2017

In other words, say you’re looking to close $500k, you will need enough serious investors such that should they all invest, they would invest approximately $1m in aggregate. The pipeline value of this serious investor group overall should be at least 2x the dollar amount you’re looking to raise.

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Hippoland

JANUARY 4, 2017

And as you raise money at later stages, you will most likely be raising equity rounds. So, in the aggregate, it is possible that you may be required to pay as much as $30k-$50k to get an equity round done. The concept of equity rounds (also called priced rounds) is very straightforward.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Data companies focused on early-stage startups include Aingel , fundsUP , Preseries , PredictLeads , and Sploda. Later stage investors are using for sourcing private company marketplace services focused on more established companies, listed below under “Step 11: Exit”. They read reviews of the products of target investments.

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K9 Ventures

MAY 14, 2011

<$50K in aggregate. The super angels of today will be the uVCs of tomorrow, and the uVCs of today, will become the early stage venture capitalists. Lots, 20-100. 1-2 per partner. Individual / Partnership. Individual. Partnership. Individual. Individual. Partnership. Partnership. Initial Investment. <$50K 10K – $100K.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

Some have done earlier-stage deals and done well. Others have chased earlier-stage but lack the skills or relationships to do this effectively. Some have moved into later stage investments in an effort to “put logos on their websites.&# The Explosion in Early-Stage Innovation.

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Version One Ventures

JULY 29, 2020

while users can only earn YPI tokens by using the yEarn yield aggregating tokens. In the same way that the first employees of a start-up not only get a much higher number of stock options but also a much lower entry price than later-stage employees for taking on early risk, the same logic should be applied to crypto platforms.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 1, 2013

These changes would lead me to believe that simply aggregating supply and demand isn't enough of a function for angel groups to survive. You should be active fund investors as well as angels--building up relationships with venture capitalists to both source deals, find co-investors, and pave the way for later stage investments.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

Many have noted that the aggregate shareholder value created by all of the Unicorns will vastly overshadow the losses from the inevitable failed unicorns. Some later-stage investors may be tempted to become Sharks themselves and start including structured terms into their own term sheets.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. Tony P great, though meebo’s place as a “successful&# start up is still open to debate – from consumer IM aggregator to white label IM, still not making big $$.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

of VCs said they had a decreased appetite for risk and that more than half of those polled expect their firms to do between zero and three deals in the next year and you start to get the feeling things are going to get a lot worse for private companies, in aggregate, before they get better. Add to this that 72.7%

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

They cover funding for small businesses from the initial funding stage to later stages of growth, and other areas in between. For this discussion, we were joined by CEOs Jared Hecht of Fundera, Joshua Reeves of ZenPayroll, Matt Rissell of TSheets, and our own Sabrina Parsons of LivePlan and Palo Alto Software.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

But at a macro level, widespread failure this early is far less painful than if it came at later stages. But the angels who’ve staked their funds on spreading bits of money all over the Valley are increasingly anxious that only 20 percent of their deals — in aggregate — will get the chance to keep going.

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