Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Incubators I hear mentioned most often include YCombinator , led by Paul Graham in Silicon Valley, and TechStars , located in Boston, Boulder, New York City, and Seattle. To convince you it can work, TechCrunch recently aggregated the combined valuation of YCombinator companies at $7.78

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2011

Incubators I hear mentioned most often include YCombinator , led by Paul Graham in Silicon Valley, and TechStars , located in Boston, Boulder, New York City, and Seattle. To convince you it can work, SiteBoat recently aggregated the combined valuation of the top 21 companies graduated by YCombinator at $4.7

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Multiply that by literally a couple thousand, and that’s what 2013 is going to look like in Silicon Valley, and to a lesser degree some other startup ecosystems. “There are so many companies in Silicon Valley that have raised $30 million and done absolutely nothing with it.” Source: AllThingsD ]. -

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Venture Chronicles

MAY 26, 2010

Back in March, Ben Horowitz of Andreessen Horowitz wrote a post called The Case For The Fat Startup, where he outlined some of the reasons why a fledging company might want to consider taking a large amount of funding — a strategy that contrasts with the ‘lean startup’ model that has become common in Silicon Valley.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

Incubators I hear mentioned most often include YCombinator , led by Paul Graham in Silicon Valley, and TechStars , located in Boston, Boulder, New York City, and Seattle. To convince you it can work, TechCrunch recently aggregated the combined valuation of YCombinator companies at $7.78

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Incubator Entrepreneur New York City Silicon Valley 147

Gust

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Valuable lessons learned from Andy’s personal experience venture investing in Silicon Valley. Fortunately there is now good data on angel returns in Silicon Valley and nationally, and while more research is certainly needed, the data suggest that angel investors can and often do make money.

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Angel Investor Venture Capital Seed Stage Silicon Valley 152

Hippoland

JANUARY 4, 2017

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. For example, if a startup is raising $1m in a priced round, this means that the startup must find enough investors to in aggregate invest $1m into your company at specified terms within a certain time period.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. I was on a panel earlier this week with several other investors from Angel Groups in the Valley. The panel was a typical Silicon Valley shmoozefest hosted at a law firm with about 75+ attendees. Another comment which probably deserves more discussion is around valuation.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 13, 2012

Valuable lessons learned from Andy’s personal experience venture investing in Silicon Valley. Fortunately there is now good data on angel returns in Silicon Valley and nationally, and while more research is certainly needed, the data suggest that angel investors can and often do make money.

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

The IPO market remained closed to IT startups, but there were big acquisitions like Google buying YouTube for $1.65B (Fall 2006) and late stage financing rounds for companies like Facebook (Microsoft round at $15B valuation in Fall 2007). Kevin Rose was on the cover of BusinessWeek. So at a fund level (e.g.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

According to VCs, there’s been a 65% decrease in up-rounds (where a company gets a bigger valuation) in the last six months and more than 60% of those polled expect a longer wait for an exit. e.g. invest $2 mil and expect a $60-$100 mil valuation for exit. A lot of the stats weren’t surprising. Add to this that 72.7%

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Seed Stage Valuation Guide. aggregation. Silicon Roundabout. silicon valley. Silicon Valley Bank. Silicon Wadi. Valley Venture Capital. valuations. Useful blogs and links for startups. Best of Y-Combinator Startup Advice. Best of Y- Combinator Startup Advice. VC Experts.

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Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

One key to this population growth has been the remarkable ease of the Unicorn fundraising process: Pick a new valuation well above your last one, put together a presentation deck, solicit offers, and watch the hundreds of million of dollars flow into your bank account. By January of 2016, that number had ballooned to 229.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

We’re building a True SaaS company in Boise, Idaho, not in Silicon Valley or not in New York. You don’t want to be in a dynamic where you basically don’t have the capital that you need at the most important time to use it. The second concept which really builds upon the first is all about unique economics.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

According to an interview with Elon Musk, this campaign cost Paypal about $60 million , which most Silicon Valley historians would consider money well spent. Also, take a look at this critically important data point , also aggregated by Professor Jay Ritter. This data set looks at 8,610 IPOS over 39 years from 1980-2019.

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