Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2014

as a distribution channel have vastly reduced the amount of capital a startup needs at the early stage when the risk is greatest. Startups still need capital to scale once they find good product-market fit and a repeatable-scalable business model.). Focus on capital efficient, scalable startups and founders.

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Early Stage Silicon Valley Oregon Technical Review 287

Steve Blank

JULY 19, 2010

The fallacy is believing that a founders value is evenly distributed over four years. Where’s My Liquidity Event. Specifying what the metrics are for a repeatable business model is what the board and founders should be doing in the first place. Filed under: Venture Capital. Preparing For Chaos.

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Vesting Liquidity Event Venture Capital Founder Vesting 255

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Startup Metrics for Pirates â?? SaaS Metrics Tutorial â?? free, distributed source code control management system. Boilerplate Venture Funding Documents. National Venture Capital Association â?? Raising Venture Capital.

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Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

Rob Go

JULY 17, 2014

For a seed stage venture capital firm, product/market fit comes down to two questions. We have had a number of companies that have achieved successful liquidity events, including Rentjuice ( acq. 1) How is the portfolio performing? 2) Is your reputation in the market such that great people will want to work with you?

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Seed Stage Early Stage Due Diligence Liquidity Event 69

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2013

Obviously that barrier has been brought down with low-cost ability to capture, stream and distribute content over the Internet. He believes that one of the financial metrics taught at business schools and reinforced by Wall Street has accelerated offshoring of industries. He spoke about ROCE (return on capital employed).

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Bankruptcy Offshore Liquidation Preference Balance Sheet 403

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

In Silicon Valley boardrooms, where “growth at all costs” had been the mantra for many years, people began to imagine a world where the cost of capital could rise dramatically, and profits could come back in vogue. In 1999, record valuations coexisted with record IPOs and shareholder liquidity. Competition also has access to capital.

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IPO Term Sheet Silicon Valley Valuation 40