Down Round Equity Partner Revenue 
Berkonomics
AUGUST 3, 2023
It’s an option, even though an expensive one. “ Strategic partner” investors: If you can find a strategic partner willing to invest in your enterprise, consider it a blessing. It is most often a win-win for both you and the strategic partner. Often private equity investors will want control of the business as well.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 22, 2011
Ah, but today’s Internet companies have real revenue! But this mania to not miss out on the next big thing is driving some investors to pay growth-equity prices for traditional market risk (as in, they’re paying up before it is clear there is product / market fit). And so on down then line. and profits!
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VC Cafe
FEBRUARY 27, 2024
A founder asked me what makes a $2M round “pre-seed”? especially if the startup already has a product and revenue? And why do we still sometimes hear about pre-seed rounds that look more like a series A in pricing and size?
Berkonomics
JUNE 8, 2017
Strategic partner” investors: If you can find a strategic partner willing to invest in your enterprise, consider it a blessing. It is most often a win-win for both you and the strategic partner. Venture, private equity and more: Here we lump a large number investor classes into one.
Hippoland
NOVEMBER 13, 2016
Primarily these things: Companies dissolvingCompanies exitingCompanies raising equity rounds All of these events are concrete events that attach a numerical value to a company. If a company raises a good round, it gets marked up to the new value. And if a company takes a down-round, it gets marked down.
Growthink Blog
MAY 23, 2011
An entrepreneur starts a company in classic " bootstrap " fashion - with a combination of sweat equity and their own financial resources. This venture capital financing - usually between $3 and $10 million - is the first of a number of rounds of outside investment over a period of three to five years.
David Teten
AUGUST 7, 2019
Likely signs of a Value investment: the company has challenges in filling out the round; the investors have more negotiating leverage than the founders during the closing process; the company has significantly better metrics (e.g. LTV / CAC, revenue growth, etc.) were clearly Momentum, but [in hindsight] they were also Value.”
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