Start Up Blog

MAY 28, 2020

If a firm seems ‘futuristic’ enough, the market can be incredibly irrational. Uber has lost $38 billion since 2013 and yet still has a market valuation of around $60 billion. The figures below represent the market capitalisation of the biggest car companies in the world, divided by how many cars they sell per year.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2021

billion gamers worldwide will help the global games market generate revenues of $189.3 It’s enough to see the rapid adoption of new social platforms from Signal in messaging to Clubhouse’s $1 billion valuation in less than a year. of US social network users) according to Falcon.io’s 2021 digital marketing trends.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 29, 2023

According to Jungle Ventures, Southeast Asia’s technology startups had a combined valuation of $340 billion in 2020. A booming economy and continuous growth in the tech sector have paved the way for Southeast Asian startups to become unicorns and Decacorns, a company with a valuation of over $10 billion.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

I know – I was there when the first people debating funding it at less than a $5m valuation. They point out perceived market risks, they might question the management team’s experience, they might worry about regulatory risk or incumbent competitive powers. So if you add people like me the target market is tens of millions.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2013

I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. In these series of 5 posts, I thought I’d share what I learned in China. I was only in China for a week so this a cursory view. Investing in China Today. All the usual caveats apply.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 24, 2015

If you didn’t notice that the stock markets in the US dropped nearly 4% today (after falling last Thursday and Friday) then you were probably completely off-the-grid and on vacation. And by this I assume he meant that “market prognosticator twitter” was vomitous. It was a nerve racking morning. Neither do I.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 6, 2018

It’s almost exactly 5 years since Aileen Lee first coined the term “unicorn” in reference to startups with $1 billion+ valuations. A few of these had previously raised private rounds at $1B+ valuations like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, but a good majority of them only reached unicorn status upon exit. valuation in 2017 round).

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2011

A tech bubble is the rapid inflation in the valuation of public and private technology companies that exceeds their fundamental value by a large margin. Today, the signs of the new bubble are the Linked-In initial public offering (IPO), Facebook’s stratospheric valuation and the rapid rise of early-stage startup valuation.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Yet as we enter February 2017 the VC funding markets are booming, Snap, Inc has filed for its IPO, AppDynamics was just purchased for $3.7 So if funding from VCs slowed, valuations dropped and burn rates were slashed, WTF happened to winter again? But it’s not just China and Singapore. Baidu alone raised $3.2

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2011

“Maybe,&# says Naval, “Certainly valuations are creepy up quickly in all stages of deals. On the other hand, 10 years ago when we all felt like this last time the total market size for any company was at maximum 100 million potential users. Now we’re in the billions of users. Let’s repeat that. And so it is.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

” There are a lot of data points that one can observer to get a sense of the venture capital markets – both LP fundings into venture and VC financings of startups. They point to some widely known facts: financings & valuations are up massively over the past 7 years and non-VC money has entered the system. How do I know?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2013

I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. In these series of 5 posts, I thought I’d share what I learned in China. I was only in China for a week so this a cursory view. Investing in China Today. All the usual caveats apply.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 7, 2023

This brings the company’s valuation to over $1 billion. eFishery’s current focus is on the Indonesian market. Only China has a larger fishing and aquaculture industry than Indonesia does; Indonesia’s industry is currently ranked in second place. The remarkable annual output of 5.8

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 5, 2015

Low supply of companies with traction drove the valuations and deal sizes up. So I mostly kept my opinion within a small closed group and let my LPs know that K9’s strategy was to *not* change our strategy despite the pressures of the market. Valuations are rising to match. Seed stage was super tough. The Epilogue.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2014

Events for enthusiasts, called Maker Faires, now stretch far outside California to places such as Detroit, New York and even Shenzhen, China. In today’s fast moving market, the basic product development cost and time are critical to survival. A recent California event packed in 100,000 people.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

The limited partners could put their money in the stock market, but instead, they give it to you, the venture capitalist, which is much more risky, but you’re promising them huge returns. — Getting Keen Home’s smart vent to market was no small task. So there’s what called spot market, and a futures market (for parts).

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thebarefootvc

AUGUST 26, 2015

After a tumultuous week in global markets, today the US stock market ended higher on the session. On the heels of macroeconomic data that showed strong fundamentals in the US, along with overtures from China to slow its downturn, the Standard & Poor’s 500 gained 3.9% Does this mean that we’ve dodged a bear market?

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thebarefootvc

AUGUST 26, 2015

After a tumultuous week in global markets, today the US stock market ended higher on the session. On the heels of macroeconomic data that showed strong fundamentals in the US, along with overtures from China to slow its downturn, the Standard & Poor’s 500 gained 3.9% Does this mean that we’ve dodged a bear market?

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Marketing Investment Bankers Valuation China 40

thebarefootvc

JULY 26, 2015

After a tumultuous week in global markets, today the US stock market ended higher on the session. On the heels of macroeconomic data that showed strong fundamentals in the US, along with overtures from China to slow its downturn, the Standard & Poor’s 500 gained 3.9% Does this mean that we’ve dodged a bear market?

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

The key investors to keep tabs on are, for the most part, concentrated in four primary markets: China. With the strengthening Yuan , China is a great place to look for funding right now. Of course, to land any funding, you typically have to be based there and focused on the Chinese market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2012

Industry & market sizing. Start with the evolution of the overall industry, market segmentation, market dynamics, and customer landscape. Data from accredited market research groups like Forrester or Gartner is required for credibility. Avoid any statements like “All we have to do is get 1% of the market.”

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Haystack

DECEMBER 30, 2018

Well, actually, quite a few tech companies IPO’d in 2018, though many of those are a bit underwater now given December’s public market volatility. Caveat: The market could not be kind to some of these companies — What will investors think of Uber losing billions of dollars per quarter? especially the Bay Area) and China.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 20, 2015

Our perspectives on the topic wax and wane with market cycles. Here’s what I believe, but won’t claim to “know” because every time I think I know something the market seems to do something entirely different. And if you’re lucky and hit product/market fit straight out of the gate – awesome.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 1, 2020

If you’re a CEO who can’t quickly bias yourself for action and if you wait around for someone to tell you what to do, then your investors, or more likely the market, will make those decisions for you. Health of Your Current Target Market(s). Emergence of New Market(s). Marketing programs spending. External Assessment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2011

Industry & market sizing. Start with the evolution of the overall industry, market segmentation, market dynamics, and customer landscape. Data from accredited market research groups like Forrester or Gartner is required for credibility. Avoid any statements like “All we have to do is get 1% of the market.”

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The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 14, 2016

Valuations were stretched, both on a fundamentals basis and compared with the public markets, and there were even whispers of a ‘new paradigm’ for valuing companies now that businesses can expand around the world so fast. That process started quietly after the summer last year. A bit of context is important.

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NZ Entrepreneur

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Intellectual property (IP) can help support a competitive advantage in the market and provide a valuable asset that can help grow your business. Registering a trade mark also ensures freedom-to-use and is the best way to prevent trade mark hijacking in civil law countries such as China. This, in itself, is an expensive legal step.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2017

It seems obvious but strategic investment only makes sense when that corporate VC is providing technology, market access, or other aid that cannot be obtained through a simple business relationship or from a startup’s other investors or advisors. In the last 25 years Intel Capital has invested more than $11 billion in over 1,000 startups.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

Many cups of coffee and pizzas later, the weekend culminates in a round of presentations from the teams, which clearly articulate the startup’s pitch: problem, market, solution, team, etc. For example, you may point out that there is a company with similar technology, but different application/market. Know your market.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Companies that find product/market fit deserve to grow--and if there are enough of those, there will be enough capital to follow them. Valuations. There are a ton of companies being funded at $500+ million valuations--seriously limiting exit opportunities. Are their valuations justified? stock market."

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 17, 2016

The public markets have been stumbling around lately, trying to figure out what China and oil prices mean for the rest of the world economy. Fear, not surprisingly, weighs markets down. That uncertainty creates fear--and in a US Presidential Election where fear is the debate topic de jour, we've got plenty of that to go around.

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Gust

AUGUST 5, 2012

Industry & market sizing. Start with the evolution of the overall industry, market segmentation, market dynamics, and customer landscape. Data from accredited market research groups like Forrester or Gartner is required for credibility. Avoid any statements like “All we have to do is get 1% of the market.”

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 22, 2012

This is less true for Salesforce – it continues to be a market darling while continuously losing huge sums of money. That’s very healthy revenue, but significantly below the revenue needed to justify a 100 billion dollar valuation. And in its most important market – the U.S. was around $500 million last year.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 5, 2020

The residential real estate market is ripe for disruption because as millennials enter the home buying market (now they are 30% of all homebuyers in America) they are looking for online tools and apps that will empower them with information and tools to help them manage this extremely stressful, overwhelming, and expensive process. #12-

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K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 12, 2015

This includes, but is not limited to money from China, India, Middle-East and also from “retail” investors (or otherwise unsophisticated investors who are attracted to a market simply because of the amount of press/media attention it gets). As valuations increase, VC returns go down.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2010

Industry & market sizing. Start with the evolution of the overall industry, market segmentation, market dynamics, and customer landscape. Data from accredited market research groups like Forrester or Gartner is required for credibility. Avoid any statements like “All we have to do is get 1% of the market.”

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 16, 2006

I think he must have been biased by the infrastructure view of Mercury/HP, which admitedly will not be a SaaS early adopter market for many reasons. china tour beijing tour beijing travel china tour tibet tour tibet travel computer monitoring software employee monitoring. Detailed SaaS Spreadsheet (Valuation and CAC benchmark).

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