View from Seed

AUGUST 17, 2021

One industry specific example is the strange fascination among some LPs and GPs around term IRR. Even though everyone knows that VC funds take 10+ years to come to fruition, one often can’t help but benchmark themselves based on IRR in the early days. But I think the generic advice that competition doesn’t matter isn’t true.

IRR 205

IRR Dilution Founder Portfolio 205

View from Seed

AUGUST 17, 2021

One industry specific example is the strange fascination among some LPs and GPs around term IRR. Even though everyone knows that VC funds take 10+ years to come to fruition, one often can’t help but benchmark themselves based on IRR in the early days. But I think the generic advice that competition doesn’t matter isn’t true.

IRR 156

IRR Dilution Founder Portfolio 156

View from Seed

AUGUST 17, 2021

One industry specific example is the strange fascination among some LPs and GPs around term IRR. Even though everyone knows that VC funds take 10+ years to come to fruition, one often can’t help but benchmark themselves based on IRR in the early days. But I think the generic advice that competition doesn’t matter isn’t true.

IRR 136

IRR Dilution Founder Portfolio 136

Steve Blank

MARCH 4, 2014

In the last few years we’ve recognized that a startup is not a smaller version of a large company. We’re now learning that companies are not larger versions of startups. But paradoxically, in spite of all their seemingly endless resources, innovation inside of an existing company is much harder than inside a startup.

IRR 335

IRR Startup Business Model Agile 335

David Teten

APRIL 8, 2013

Great thanks to my coauthors on the research, Adham AbdelFattah (CEO of CircleVibe and consultant on leave from McKinsey & Company in NY); Koen Bremer (consultant with the Boston Consulting Group in Amsterdam, Holland); and Gyorgy Buslig (consultant with McKinsey & Co. What are some other ways that VCs can help their startups?

Private Equity 114

Private Equity Hungary IRR Venture Capital 114

Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2014

When I was where you are, 36 years ago (can ya believe it) I didn’t have a plan—but I did have an aspiration: I wanted to go to Silicon Valley and I wanted to work in startups. But they weren’t really in Silicon Valley at the time—they were in Boston, Minneapolis, New York. Eventually I left Oracle, wanting to do another startup.

Venture Capital 333

Venture Capital Silicon Valley Chicago Cofounder 333

This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 28, 2013

My total valuation multiple across that span is nearly 4x and the return rate is up over 110% IRR. All of the companies but one were funded in NYC, with the other in Boston. Let''s invite all the important venture and startup people people we know of--and don''t forget to throw in a few women, too.". That''s 25%.

Venture Capital 152

Venture Capital Cofounder IRR Dilution 152