View from Seed
OCTOBER 21, 2014
As the seed-stage startup fundraise process has received more transparency in recent years, ranging from published advice on how to raise seed capital to increased availability through AngelList, Funders Club, and various accelerator programs, I’ve noticed another trend emerging. Lower-Than-Market Value. Market Value.
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 13, 2012
by Christopher Wallace, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Amsterdam Printing. A volatile stock market and economic recession have since changed much of this thinking. Strikingly different attributes enabled this company to take a different path than Zappos: - Rapidly growing market. The current market cap is only $1.8
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Genuine VC
JULY 30, 2012
Like any economic transaction, the pricing of a startup’s seed round ultimately depends on the equation of perceived supply (the quality of the team, product, & market) and demand (how many competitive alternatives there are to any one given funder, including non-consumption). Above market.
David Teten
MAY 20, 2013
Ari Rabban, CEO of our portfolio company Phone.com , said, “I saw many great business opportunities in the telecom space fail because of marketing. According to Braden Pollock of Legal Brand Marketing, approximately 50 million names – 20% of all registered domains — are parked. VentureCamp.com is another roughly similar program.
David Teten
MAY 20, 2013
Ari Rabban, CEO of our portfolio company Phone.com , said, “I saw many great business opportunities in the telecom space fail because of marketing. According to Braden Pollock of Legal Brand Marketing, approximately 50 million names – 20% of all registered domains — are parked. VentureCamp.com is another roughly similar program.
David Teten
JANUARY 21, 2021
Recognizing the need for creative investment structures in their Colorado market, they cofounded the Alternative Capital Summit , creating the first community of Flexible VCs and alternative startup investors. . Their 2016 Fund was the first and largest fund so far using this structure, with $25M AUM. —– Indie.vc
Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak
JANUARY 21, 2011
I attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, a top ten business program year-in year-out and love to pretend to brag about it. Stock Market In my Junior year in college, I started day trading and grew a $2,000 pot to over $40,000 thanks to a big one-hit wonder. Where do I get the money to invest in the markets?
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