Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

Reinventing the board meeting may offer venture-backed startups a more efficient, productive way to direct and measure their search for a profitable business model. The combination of Venture Capital and technology startups is only about 50 years old. 1) It’s their fiduciary responsibility. The Wrong Discussion s.

Silicon Valley 290

Silicon Valley Business Model Venture Capital Balance Sheet 290

Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2010

If you take funding from a venture capital firm or angel investor and want to build a large, enduring company (rather than sell it to the highest bidder), this isn’t the decade to do it. The collapse of the IPO market and dysfunctional math in the venture capital community has stacked the odds against you. Here’s why.

Venture Capital 297

Venture Capital IPO Liquidity Event Entrepreneur 297

David Teten

JANUARY 11, 2020

They’re taking a $1m check from me, or giving $5m to me as a limited partner. In the venture capital/private equity business, investors are B2B microinfluencers. Other coinvestors: Limited partners, other VCs who are coinvestors, private equity funds which are potential growth-stage investors, etc.

Social Media 60

Social Media Technical Review Media Private Equity 60

Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

Reinventing the board meeting may offer venture-backed startups a more efficient, productive way to direct and measure their search for a profitable business model. The combination of Venture Capital and technology startups is only about 50 years old. 1) It’s their fiduciary responsibility. The Wrong Discussion s.

Silicon Valley 258

Silicon Valley Business Model Venture Capital Balance Sheet 258

David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance.

Revenue 60

Revenue Technical Review Software Review Equity 60

Growthink Blog

MAY 23, 2011

With this seed capital – more often than not totaling between $100,000 and $1,000,000 - the company accomplishes a number of key technical milestones, gets a beta customer or two, and then goes on a "road show" to venture capitalists around the country for capital to “scale” the business.

Angel Investor 112

Angel Investor Venture Capital Sweat Equity Cram Down 112

Early Growth Financial Services

JANUARY 20, 2014

As an early-stage venture capital investor with a keen emphasis on the seed stage, I spend a lot of time at startup accelerators working with first-time entrepreneurs. The quick answer is market, team, business model, projections, and the ask…prioritized in that order of importance. By Marlon Nichols.

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Seed Stage Venture Capital Limited Partner Early Stage 52

Agile VC

JULY 19, 2012

1) Self-Awareness & Humility - These are of course virtues that transcend venture capital or even professional pursuits broadly. This is true not only in a firm’s dealings with entrepreneurs but also with it’s limited partners and even within the firm among its partners.

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Cofounder Limited Partner Early Stage LP 193

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . Boardex and Relationship Science make it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. Stanford List of Venture Capital and Private Equity Sources.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Scott Edward Walker

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Financial buyers are investors that are interested in a return on their investment business – which is the business of buying and selling companies. venture capital), they buy and sell companies and seek a return that way. Instead of investing in the stock market or in startups (e.g.,

Private Equity 59

Private Equity New York City Equity Deal Structure 59

K9 Ventures

JULY 19, 2012

Not interested in me-too businesses. No three-way business models and no content, media, advertising-based companies. Capital Appropriate : Companies whose capital needs over the life of the business make sense given the potential size of the opportunity/exit.

Technology 132

Technology Seed Stage San Francisco Limited Partner 132

K9 Ventures

JULY 19, 2012

Not interested in me-too businesses. No three-way business models and no content, media, advertising-based companies. Capital Appropriate : Companies whose capital needs over the life of the business make sense given the potential size of the opportunity/exit.

Technology 132

Technology Seed Stage San Francisco Limited Partner 132

Professor VC

JANUARY 20, 2009

The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic. However, as we soon discovered, many of these firms were forced to hoard capital for existing portfolio companies and focus most of their time and energy on deciding which ones deserved these reserves. Labels: bootstrapping , CFO , Fliqz , venture capital , venture financing.

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Venture Capital Silicon Valley San Jose Bootstrapping 28

Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

And so, we keep hearing how venture capital is about to be disrupted. Decentralized platforms are a mix of a new technology and a new business model. But the tokenization of decentralized business models makes these projects immediately liquid assets: you can buy and sell at any stage (assuming enough liquidity).

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Venture Capital LP Dilution Limited Partner 164

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 13, 2011

Reinventing the board meeting may offer venture-backed startups a more efficient, productive way to direct and measure their search for a profitable business model. The combination of Venture Capital and technology startups is only about 50 years old. It's their fiduciary responsibility.

Silicon Valley 117

Silicon Valley Balance Sheet Metrics Early Stage 117

K9 Ventures

APRIL 28, 2010

Direct Revenue : The company must have a direct revenue model. No advertising, content or media businesses which may have a three-way business model, but rather companies which deliver direct value to paying customers. K9 Ventures sits in between individual angels and institutional venture capital funds.

Seed Stage 61

Seed Stage San Francisco IP Portfolio 61

David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

In his white paper How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood , PEVCTECH.com founder David Teten explored how private equity and venture capital investors are trying to automate more of their job. Boldstart uses both Zapier and Catalytic for this purpose.

Early Stage 60

Early Stage Technical Review Software Review Venture Capital 60

Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2009

To an entrepreneur, being asked to join a venture firm with an Entrepreneur-in-Residence title means you have been tapped on the shoulder by the VC gods. The CDROM content business in the early 1990’s was one of the many of the long line of venture capital fads. Make game, market, sell, profit?

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Technical Review RSS Software Review 120

Agile VC

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Most folks reading this will know that many startups were built in part with the help of venture capital. Most of the dollars a VC firm invests come from outside limited partner investors (LPs). FoFs take capital from institutions, wealthy families, and others, and then invest it in a basket of underlying VC funds.

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Venture Capital LP Private Equity Institutional Investors 279

This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

As for companies like Twitter, Tumblr, Pinterest, Instagram and Foursquare--the jury remains out on whether or not they'll create business models that justify their valuations, but they're well funded and will have the runway to figure it out. I don't know that either, but here's something I do know.

Angel Investor 104

Angel Investor Valuation Startup Revenue 104

Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

always focus on the business model and assumptions, but there are too many unknowns to put much faith in the future cash flow projections. I was a limited partner in Angel Investors, LP, Ron Conways fund in the late 1990s. Labels: due diligence , financial analysis , venture capital. Steve Bennet.

San Jose 33

San Jose Angel Investor Venture Capital Mezzanine 33

Professor VC

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

My first reaction is incredulity that limited partners would buy into this idea. Of course, when 10-year returns for the entire venture capital asset class is about to drop below zero, drastic measures may be in order. Labels: entrepreneur , seed investing , venture capital , venture financing.

San Jose 28

San Jose Silicon Valley Venture Capital Angel Investor 28

BeyondVC

JUNE 29, 2005

I am not sure how many entrepreneurs understand the structure of venture capital funds but the bottom line is that while VCs manage funds, we ultimately report to our investors or Limited Partners (LPs).

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LP Private Equity Due Diligence Venture Capital 60

VC Cafe

JANUARY 15, 2024

The M&A market has become increasingly selective, with potential buyers wary of high valuations that don’t align with company fundamentals Private equity – In 2023 PE firms were seen deploying their capital in more cautious and strategic ways, reflecting the shift in market dynamics.

IPO 88

IPO Valuation Private Equity 88

View from Seed

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Most folks reading this will know that many startups were built in part with the help of venture capital. Most of the dollars a VC firm invests come from outside limited partner investors (LPs). FoFs take capital from institutions, wealthy families, and others, and then invest it in a basket of underlying VC funds.

LP 335

LP Private Equity Institutional Investors Venture Capital 335

Professor VC

DECEMBER 8, 2015

one company running out of cash and another with cash but searching for a business model). Often times those involve trading within a venture capital portfolio or between two venture firms portfolios. But what about the case where both companies are well capitalized and doing well?

Merger 28

Merger LP IPO Redemption 28