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).

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Posted on September 14, 2009 by steveblank Over the last 30 years Wall Street’s appetite for technology stocks have changed radically – swinging between unbridled enthusiasm to believing they’re all toxic. Your firm worked with an investment banking firm that underwrote and offered stock (typically on the NASDAQ exchange) to the public.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Investing in entrepreneurs and startups is a fun but different world from investing in conventional stocks, bonds, and commodities. Just like a seasoned stock investor would never put all his investible resources into a single stock, don’t put all your money into startups. Diversify your total investment across several startups.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2021

Shots on Goal Being great as a startup technology investor of course requires a lot of things to come together: You need to have strong insights into where technology markets are heading and where value in the future will be created and sustained You need be perfect with your market timing. I’ve definitely been wrong on market value.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Aggregation tools including Sprout, Hootsuite, and Buffer will allow you to make cross-platform posts to attract your entire audience base. You should focus on creating the best recipes, book reviews, beauty tips, stock tips, or lifestyle advice you can. Simplify Posting with Apps. Make Excellent Content.

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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. Author howerl.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

It’s Very Likely That Artificial Intelligence Will Be Worth More In Aggregate Than is Currently Being Invested (Just Unevenly Distributed) In kindergarten my daughter learned to not ‘yuck’ someone’s ‘yum.’ That is, just because you don’t like something there’s no reason to share that in the moment with another person enjoying it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

Investing in entrepreneurs and startups is a fun but different world from investing in conventional stocks, bonds, and commodities. Just like a seasoned stock investor would never put all his investible resources into a single stock, don’t put all your money into startups. Diversify your total investment across several startups.

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 23, 2012

For example, if there were no S&P 500 ETFs or index mutual funds an investor could easily buy a “synthetic” equivalent by buying shares of all the S&P 500 stocks in proportion to each company’s weighting in the index. But these long-term LPs are by definition using active managers in search of alpha (i.e.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Investing in entrepreneurs and startups is a fun but different world from investing in conventional stocks, bonds, and commodities. Just like a seasoned stock investor would never put all his investible resources into a single stock, don’t put all your money into startups. Diversify your total investment across several startups.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 8, 2023

At the time, this is last quarter and the stock market has trended upwards nicely since then (a potential leading indicator of private tech valuations), we all agreed venture portfolios were probably still 25-40% overvalued. Soft Acquisition Market. Valuations. And that’s what’s happening here.

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Austin Startup

JULY 6, 2018

More traditional and comprehensive programs often require 5–8% of common stock, but often provide between $20K and $100K up-front as well. Market Focus. Some accelerators are very up-front and overt about their market focus: biotech, energy tech, transportation, etc. Anti-Dilution. Know that some accelerators do the same.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

The company's market cap at the time of their entry into the public markets topped $100 billion dollars. It kind of aggregates technology content, I suppose. That's basically the loop of how you find product market fit is go talk to the customers, take their feedback, and go improve the product. I promise."

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Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

Groupon’s become a juggernaut in the immense local marketing space. 3) Groupon’s Business is Like An ATM: Groupon is currently unprofitable on a GAAP basis thanks to acquisition related expenses in 2010 as well as ongoing marketing spend to acquire customers.

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Version One Ventures

JULY 29, 2020

And as the crypto market expanded, we have seen permissionless innovation really take off. while users can only earn YPI tokens by using the yEarn yield aggregating tokens. YPI’s market cap went to dozens of millions of dollars in only a few weeks. We’ve written about the power of “money lego blocks” in defi.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Reuters TV Interview by Rhonda Schaffler Investing in entrepreneurs and startups is a fun but different world from investing in conventional stocks, bonds, and commodities. Just like a seasoned stock investor would never put all his investible resources into a single stock, don’t put all your money into startups.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

20 years ago, much of public equity investing was done by mutual funds run by a few smart folks picking stocks. It’s hard to find anyone who says “I just have the magic” in stock picking. Creating content and sending it out via newsletters has been one of the most popular ways for VC funds to market themselves.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Investing in entrepreneurs and startups is a fun but different world from investing in conventional stocks, bonds, and commodities. Just like a seasoned stock investor would never put all his investible resources into a single stock, don’t put all your money into startups. Diversify your total investment across several startups.

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Start Up Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Yet ‘investors’ are currently paying more than the aggregate value of the next 12 biggest car companies to own a piece of Tesla. As I write this, Tesla has a market capitalisation of US$1.230 trillion. The second biggest car company in the world as defined by market value is Toyota. Will Tesla stock crash?

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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.

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View from Seed

JULY 28, 2016

In episode 22 of our podcast, Traction , Unbounce co-founder and marketing keynote speaker Oli Gardner shared five key parts to well-optimized startup landing pages. Your email list can be used to get real-world feedback as you validate the market. In other words, ditch the standard stock photo and use something original and specific.

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Andrew Payne

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

But for a scalable & sustainable fixed-to-variable cost arbitrage business, we must consider the entire product-market fit equation. Second, does the market value “variability”? My bet: WeWork, assuming they make it public, becomes yet another roughly zero-sum stock market poker table for the hedge funds.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

In liquid markets, most of the calories expended on technology and analytics are focused on trade selection, or “ origination ”. I use another live Google doc to maintain my database of companies I’m marketing to other VCs. 2) Market . Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors.

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Ben's Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2020

And when to spend time deciding or not, especially when not all decisions are equal and some may seem bigger and more impactful — whether it’s investing in life decisions, like getting married, or business decisions, such as what product to invest in, or what strategy to pursue, or what market or what investment. That’s what a market is.

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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.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

Startups are lucky that they can’t afford research, so they test in market and land upon on ideas that would never fly based on what we think or what focus groups would respond with. Given technology is becoming the major form of market access – it should now be viewed in the same realm as access to medicine and education.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 28, 2013

Masterful design, branding and marketing. As a Digital Marketing Evangelist you can imagine how much that pains me. Shows me again if the product is in stock. by creating a great experience, reassuring me with clear pricing, and they won't even have to pay a bounty to their aggregators! It says Continue securely.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2017

Even by July 2014, Facebook’s core application had effectively saturated the US market, with more than 80% of US adults on Facebook. Had Facebook not purchased Instagram, Facebook’s aggregate numbers likely would have dipped as millennials have largely abandoned Facebook for Instagram and Snapchat. It’s up from 40 minutes in July 2014.

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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.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Recommendations can be powered by aggregate data, which determines the relevance of a certain item in relation to a given context, or user specific data, that fuels personalized recommendations. Getting this right is extremely important, given that according to the Pareto’s rule in marketing, 80% of product sales come from 20% of products.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Without it, companies like Magic Leap would be starved of capital while trying to bring their AR technology to market. Social Medial does the legwork for you. Photo: REDPIXEL / Adobe Stock.

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ithacaVC

DECEMBER 14, 2011

As most of you probably know, LP is one of the fundamental economic attributes of preferred stock that preferred shareholders enjoy. Yes, it is possible to issue preferred stock without liquidation preference, but that is rarely done. Series B round = $5mm and the Series B preferred stock is participating with a 2x LP.

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Business Plan Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

MC – Brant Cooper, Market By Numbers. Stockjoust is a virtual stock trading platform. At the core of our platform is head to head stock market games for real money rewards. Join Stockjoust and hone your stock portfolio strategies against other competitors. David Turner, CEO Parallel6. Navid Alipour, Investor.

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Venture Chronicles

MAY 26, 2010

At this point it’s all paper valuation because the stock isn’t liquid so achieving an outcome is a function of executing on the business to achieve a next round of funding or selling it. I’d be willing to bet that more investors lose a great amount of aggregate capital here than at any other stage.

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ithacaVC

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

In “VC world” Rule 409A is best known for providing a safe harbor for private company valuations, and in particular the setting of strike prices for employee stock options. Here is what he told me: the board can set the stock option price and not rely on the 409A valuation safe harbor. That is Jason’s point.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Incubators, too, helped flood the markets with even more startups, and AngelList played its part too. At each turn, these market changes were heralded as wonderful developments for entrepreneurs. Surprisingly, the leading market for Google Play revenue is Japan, not the US. ” The stock traded at about $12.10

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 6, 2012

Chris Anderson wrote a really influential book some years ago called “ The Long Tail ” that shaped how many people think about emerging Internet markets. At the left of the graph is the “head end” of the market, where the “hits” are produced for mass audiences. Why is that?

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