Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

portfolios. Many of these businesses were what First Round Capital called FNACs (features, not companies – this acronym has always stuck with me). Let’s take your revenue line. How will your costs scale as your revenue scales. Or lower revenue assumptions. Here’s why. You get the point.

Business Plan 334

Business Plan AJAX Venture Capital Technical Review 334

Hippoland

JULY 24, 2018

And if your fund does well – i.e. your companies either raise more money or they grow their revenues a lot – you also don’t make more money, because your salary is based on a percentage of your fund size. And then later, when the fund needs money, the fund does a capital call.

Salary 48

Salary Capital Call Bootstrapping Cofounder 48

Hippoland

JULY 24, 2018

And if your fund does well – i.e. your companies either raise more money or they grow their revenues a lot – you also don’t make more money, because your salary is based on a percentage of your fund size. And then later, when the fund needs money, the fund does a capital call.

Salary 48

Salary Capital Call Bootstrapping Cofounder 48

Altgate

MARCH 8, 2009

Growth stage investors are usually the Series B or C investors who come in when the product is in the market but there is little or no revenue and the team is probably in the 20-something range with the goal to ramp it up to 40-50 employees with the new money, build out a sales team, etc. But some will be saved. “Series B&# funds.

Later Stage 34

Later Stage Early Stage Venture Capital Portfolio 34