David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

V: Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? VI: Revenue-based financing: The next step for private equity and early-stage investment. VIII: The Leading Flexible VCs, With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing.

Equity 78

Equity Revenue Cofounder Colorado 78

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Early-stage entrepreneurs rightly keep their focus on creating an innovative product or service. After celebrating success at that level, they often find themselves ill-prepared to move to the next stage, for scaling their business into a high-performing enterprise. There is no free lunch. Install a real board of directors.

Mezzanine 141

Mezzanine Private Equity Startup Bandwidth 141

K9 Ventures

APRIL 9, 2014

They can probably cobble together an initial round of funding because a) there’s a lot of money in the early stage ecosystem right now (both individual money and institutional money), and, b) they’re raising the initial round on hope (see Hope and Numbers ). Series C/D is the new Mezzanine.

Mezzanine 134

Mezzanine Seed Stage Early Stage IPO 134

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

Early-stage entrepreneurs rightly keep their focus on creating an innovative product or service. After celebrating success at that level, they often find themselves ill-prepared to move to the next stage, for scaling their business into a high-performing enterprise. There is no free lunch. Install a real board of directors.

Mezzanine 240

Mezzanine Private Equity Bandwidth Metrics 240

Genuine VC

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Dharmesh Shah had a great post up last week about the lessons learned from raising a mezzanine round of financing. When you compromise on terms in the early stages, you will have to pay the price in the later stages. It’s really interesting, but perhaps only applicable to a more limited set of entrepreneurs.

Finance 128

Finance Mezzanine Valuation Seed Stage 128

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Early-stage entrepreneurs rightly keep their focus on creating an innovative product or service. After celebrating success at that level, they often find themselves ill-prepared to move to the next stage, for scaling their business into a high-performing enterprise. There is no free lunch. Install a real board of directors.

Mezzanine 120

Mezzanine Private Equity Startup Bandwidth 120

Scalable Startup

OCTOBER 26, 2011

The second round can also be a mezzanine, or pre-IPO round, or even the IPO itself. In one scenario in my career I was with a company that had taken only one round of equity financing.

Mezzanine 22

Mezzanine Due Diligence IPO Angel Investor 22

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

With new micro VC entrants into to early-stage investing plus increased competition from angels, incubators and the like – traditional VCs have taken notice. So VCs spent a couple of years experimenting with earlier-stage investing, which is OK. The Explosion in Early-Stage Innovation. There are also others.

Venture Capital 296

Venture Capital Software LP Early Stage 296

Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

One other chart worth noting is the the expected returns from various private capital providers (Banks, Asset based lenders, Mezzanine, Private Equity and VC). I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases.

San Jose 33

San Jose Angel Investor Venture Capital Mezzanine 33

techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Researchers polled experts in lending, mezzanine capital, private equity, venture capital and private businesses themselves. Been there Done that This is very depressing for all future founders, or even currently early stage founders. Not a big shock, but things don’t look pretty, especially in the venture capital world.

Venture Capital 62

Venture Capital Technical Review Sweat Equity Valuation 62