Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

In LA we have www.socaltech.com but in every market there’s some sort of database. If you’re three s -hot kids from Stanford, Caltech or MIT you might be able to push valuation higher. Because I believe that getting the best possible angels around the table is far more important than ultimate valuation.

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Silicon Valley Ireland Technical Review Valuation 291

David Teten

MARCH 28, 2012

The value creation study draws on a wide range of research: in-depth interviews with over 50 venture capital investors, entrepreneurs, startup incubators and advisory service providers; a proprietary database and survey of VCs’ portfolio value creation practices; a wide scan of academic and practitioner publications focused on the topics of entrepreneurship (..)

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Portfolio Private Equity Venture Capital Early Stage 144

Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

Because Gust is the word’s most comprehensive database of high-growth startup companies (in terms of size, larger than Crunchbase and AngelList combined), it is increasingly used as a source for third party listings and directories.

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Angel Groups Elevator Pitch Software Review Deal Flow 159

VC Adventure

APRIL 2, 2020

Everyone is being cautious about valuations. Anecdotally I’ve heard that early stage valuations are already down 30-50%. Additionally, as a general rule, funds with larger portfolios are more likely to be on lock-down for new investments. Funds will smaller portfolios are more likely to be looking at new deals.

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Valuation Portfolio Database Early Stage 118

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Current round: $35mm in Series C (extension of Series B at higher valuation) from General Atlantic, Matrix Partners. SimpleGeo provides sites with LBS databases and tool sets (such as SpotRank ), while also helping sites warehouse and analyze the large volumes of generated LBS data; all services and data accessible through simple APIs.

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Partner New York City Cofounder Syndicate 240

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

However, about 5% of the VCs in our database, mostly younger ones, are trying to build a competitive advantage by crawling large amounts of publicly available data and building analytical functions to flag companies with accelerating traction to them. Kushim , Totem , and VisibleVC focus on serving this need among VCs.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

The trend of funding anything from the first $25k to funding $50 million at a billion+ valuation is unlikely to last as the skills and style to be effective at all stages are diverse enough to warrant focus. Then they launched a simple database, management tools and so on. When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

While most companies focus on revenue and profitability, Silicon Valley leaders tend to view valuation as a success barometer. It replaces relational databases. Because services like SQL Server and Oracle cover similar territory as blockchain, some people assume it’s meant to replace more traditional relational databases.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 18, 2011

If they have, then we should be able to see some evidence that the dominant public technology companies are moving towards bubble valuations. Apple’s valuation is now a case for business historians to discuss because I don’t think there are modern precedents. Ex-cash it’s 13.5. Third, LinkedIn—there are now 2.1

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 22, 2012

70 master databases. Instagram had similar efficiencies , and we will see more and more startups aspire to and beat these benchmarks and try to emulate Instagram’s $1bn exit or Pinterest’s $1.5bn valuation. They have 275 EC2 instances. Written in Python and Django. This is an amazing story, but it isn’t unique.

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EC2 Database Open Source Valuation 138

David Teten

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

The wrong decision can cost you millions of dollars, in the form of a broken deal process, a suboptimal valuation, or inappropriate investors. . You can also look in online investment banker databases. Malik suggests his clients use their database to “[l]ook up the transactions the investment banks have completed in your sector.

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 26, 2014

As further market proof of the power of Drupal in the enterprise, Acquia has received about $100 million in funding in the past 3 months, which puts its valuation at over $1 billion. There’s a lot of buzz about the Amazon acquisition of TWITCH this week.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I use another live Google doc to maintain my database of companies I’m marketing to other VCs. For more rigorous, bottoms-up sizing exercises I suggest tools such as Statista and the United States Census Bureau (also their North American Industry Classification System database) to help identify more specific data. 7) Negotiate .

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

Spreadsheet Database. This spreadsheet database form can be used for different purposes to organize processes in the class. Type in the highlighted fields to tailor the form to your specific needs. The fillable PDF forms can be used as a class to help you keep track of grades or other information on every student.

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Cloud Non-disclosure Agreement Database Vertical 90

Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) is the foundational layer of cloud computing, and includes raw storage, compute, backup, disaster recovery, databases, and security. Detailed SaaS Spreadsheet (Valuation and CAC benchmark). SaaS 13 Index Valuation. S&M productivity (CAC ratio) for the SaaS 13 Index. My Investments.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Pitchbook shows that Notion has a post money valuation of $800M, making Notion a fast unicorn from the time of funding. A bit like Wix with its templates) To do list/Task list/ List making (think Trello, Todoist or Monday.com). First Round was.

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David Teten

APRIL 6, 2015

In fact, I recently had dinner with a well-known VC who said that he was surprised to see the CB Insights database includes investments his firm has made in stealth companies which haven’t even been announced yet. CB Insights has become a very influential data source in the industry. He said he had no idea how CB Insights got that data.

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A Crowded Space

MAY 18, 2017

I can’t simply look at a database of startups and write 200 checks to startups for 100K each for a 20M fund. Note, these are not necessarily 50X investments because of dilution + follow-on investments at higher valuations, but we’re all quite happy with the returns. Just FYI - Vanguard now has 2T under management).

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Up and Running

APRIL 11, 2016

When asked how he figured out who his target market was, he responded, “I looked at the volume of sales in my city, from the property valuation administrator, and then looked for the ‘sweet spot.’ The only real piece of technology that might not be common sense is a database. Your database is your business.”.

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Ben's Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

As we do so, keep in mind that the relevant bubble statistic is not valuation. High valuations are fine if the underlying value is there. In the great bubble of 1998-2000, the boom in public valuations mirrored the boom in private valuations. If too much venture capital hits the streets, valuations will bubble up.

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Technical Review Venture Capital Valuation Database 78

help.bplans.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

If you really believe your $200 million valuation by next year (a very hard to believe figure, for the record), then you are giving somebody equity worth $2 million a year from now, to save $1,500 dollars. According to the numbers in your email the standard non-equity rate is $150, the proposed rate is $100, and we are talking about 30 hours.

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Software By Rob

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Stabilization involved moving all code and the 250GB database to a new server to ensure high uptime and improve performance. If you can go over the valuation methods each side used, that would be very helpful to know, even if you don’t share the cash figures involved. Plug the marketing funnel. Spread the word. Stabilization.

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Acquisition Software Review Technical Review NDA 53

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

But becoming a Unicorn, or receiving a billion dollar valuation is no longer an indication of growth. “The Centaur is a business that reaches $100 million of annual recurring revenue (ARR)—a rare breed of cloud business, part of an elite subset of the growing unicorn herd.” ” Bessemer.

Software Review 109

Software Review B2C Open Source 109

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 15, 2012

While much of the literature on succession planning tends to be about long-term legal planning as well as the importance of valuation, buy/sell agreements, and tax and estate planning, my advice is that you first focus on what will happen tomorrow if you don’t have any plan already in place. ” Throne, you say?

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Startup Valuation Small Business Database 94

Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

The following organizations and databases can help: [link] [link] [link] 2. Before scheduling a meeting with the investor, you should have an idea of what they’re looking for when it comes to industry, market size, consumer surplus, exit valuation, etc.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2010

Third, he notes that even if they do invest they’re likely to do so at a lower price because you can’t truly get an independent valuation. We had to buy expensive Sun servers, Oracle databases, Unix licenses and build complex software. .&# This is true and does happen. I’m sure this happens, too.

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Venture Capital Term Sheet Early Stage Silicon Valley 265

David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

However, all of the current talk about machine learning and AI tools running on top of these databases is absolutely nonsensical, unless there is keen focus and incentives on getting the underlying data right.

Early Stage 60

Early Stage Technical Review Software Review Venture Capital 60

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 11, 2019

Simply put, a blockchain is a database. However, there is one huge difference between how you probably currently think of a database and how a blockchain database works. In most cases, a traditional database sits on one computer or in one location. What is a Blockchain?

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The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 8, 2017

To do that they must pass valuation milestones. conversational interfaces to FAQ databases can improve customer service). We talked through numerous real and hypothetical examples and got confident that when we make Applied AI investments they will be able to raise their next rounds at a good step up in valuation.

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Artificial Inteligence eCommerce Early Stage Algorithm 78

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

billion a 125% increased compared to the equivalent period in 2020, the number of Unicorns, private companies valued at $1 billion or more has grown significantly, with several companies achieving “Decacorn” status – achieving valuations of $10 billion and up, including eToro , soon to complete a SPAC merger, and Rapyd payments.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

They have a cute little app that takes a picture of a business card, populates your contact database and data is confirmed through crowd sourced labor. I asked him how the deal came out for investors since the sale price was significantly lower than the valuation on the round they were raising when we met.

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Acquisition San Jose Angel Investor IPO 31

www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

They all use the same simple-minded model.They seem to have approached the problem by thinking about how todo database matches instead of how dating works in the real world.An If you give an investor new shares equal to 5% ofthose already outstanding in return for $100,000, then youve donethe deal at a pre-money valuation of $2 million.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Friendster’s valuation set the tone for the entire social networking space. In old-school resume databases, most talented professionals didn’t want or need to participate. When you’re finding people on LinkedIn, you’re finding them through a network as opposed to a resume database.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Only a handful of so-called unicorns — companies that have achieved a valuation of over $1 billion in the last 10 years — come from Israel, and only one Israeli firm, Teva, ranks in the world’s 500 largest companies by market capitalization. That’s the good news. The bad news is that Israeli startups are struggling to scale. billion in 2013.

Cofounder 20

Cofounder Technical Review United States 20

David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

125 theses so far submitted by investors into the OpenVC database. Valuation: $1M – $3M. Out of 125 funds in the database, 33 state they invest in 1 type of technology (e.g. We’ve identified 6 common patterns of how VCs articulate their theses, and some best practices in doing so. Check Size: $50K to $200K.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Cofounder Venture Capital Deal Flow 78

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

Valuations were enormous relative to progress in companies. Companies with less than $2 million in revenue were asking for $50-60 million valuations and getting them. I spent my days meeting companies, figuring out what areas of the market interested me and trying to get a sense for how VCs thought about fair valuations.

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Stock Technical Review Marketing Greece 305

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. was the worst ever. investments.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Sweat Equity Valuation 62