The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 25, 2016

However severe our current situation is, I’m sure there will be plenty of short term negatives, including more job losses, company failures and down rounds. We need a new disruptive capitalism that is designed for a much more mature internet market, one that can bring founders, investors, and employees together.

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Scalable Startup

JANUARY 27, 2011

If you’re venture funded, things get kind of ugly -unhappy board members, cut off from communications, down- rounds to keep you going, or no more funding. Those are all nice and should be designed impact revenues, but usually aren’t a real measurement (unless you’re Twitter). What about users? Press Mentions?

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Revenue Early Stage Down Round Software Review 22

Bryce Dot VC

APRIL 19, 2016

Instead of their intended use of kicking the hard conversation of setting a valuation down the road, founders had come to believe that setting a high cap today meant that they must clear that cap to sufficiently reward themselves and their seed backers. Caps are not valuations, they are aspirational and are designed to be grown into.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! How You Get Slaughtered in a Down Round: When Taking Venture Capital Doesn’t Go as Planned – crowdspring.co/MvF29W. “If you want to sell ads, sell ads.

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Others should swing for the fences - Some companies are designed to be big, industry changing plays. If you do a $1 million angel round at $6 million pre-money and hope to do a Series A round for $2-3 million that’s fine as long as you’re doing awesome against your metric goals and the market continues to be frothy.

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Liquidity Event Silicon Valley Seed Stage Finance 308

www.mattbartus.com

DECEMBER 9, 2012

Interesting strategy, although I don't know if it justifies the added risk of having a flat (or down) round next time you go to raise. Interesting strategy, although I don't know if it justifies the added risk of having a flat (or down) round next time you go to raise. link] Brad Hargreaves. link] Roy Rodenstein.

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Warrant Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Term Sheet 40

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Put your users first: pretend that your customers have a seat at the table when you design your product roadmap. Many startups that raised money in 2021 on inflated valuations that were detached from their actual value, are struggling to raise up-rounds and face difficult choices these days: down rounds, early sellout or failing altogether.

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Founder Startup Valuation Pre-Money Valuation 187

Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

And so my basic idea is that, I think this is probably because of my background as a designer, I like to take a very systematic approach. When I was at RISD, I went to Rhode Island School of Design, there was this idea that was emerging called The Green Movement, the sustainability movement. Because capitalism isn’t won. It’s a market.

Silicon Valley 69

Silicon Valley Hosting Rhode Island Design 69

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

In times when venture capital is hard to get, investors extract high costs for failure (down-rounds, cram downs , new management teams, shut down the company.) The Customer Development Model is designed to minimize the risk of launching a product for a market that does not exist. Blog at WordPress.com.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

And so my basic idea is that, I think this is probably because of my background as a designer, I like to take a very systematic approach. When I was at RISD, I went to Rhode Island School of Design, there was this idea that was emerging called The Green Movement, the sustainability movement. Because capitalism isn’t won. It’s a market.

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Silicon Valley Hosting Rhode Island Design 36

www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

So after this the option pool is down to 13.7%). [ 7 ] They also spend a little money on a freelance graphic designer. Terrible things happen tostartups when they run out of money, because theyre designed forgrowth, not adversity. Down rounds are bad news; it is generally the common stockholders who take the hit.

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Technical Review Startup Software Review Angel Investor 76

Bryce Dot VC

APRIL 21, 2016

One paragraph stands out: If you believe, as we do, that there will come a time when not having taken loads of VC funding, not selling out your users and not being forced to maximize shareholder value will be a competitive advantage then this type of designation might matter.

Silicon Valley 40

Silicon Valley Dilution Term Sheet Down Round 40

Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

In the last five years, there’s been this sort of acknowledgment of the consumerization of the enterprise, which is consumer product development, design methods applied to business software, of which SaaS and cloud and all these things are examples. Alexia Tsotsis: Are you seeing down rounds because the NASDAQ is down?

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Software Review Startup Venture Capital Stock 22