Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2018

And as you become a later stage company in fund raising you’ll likely have several follow up decks to discuss things like: Unit economics LTV / CAC analyses Cohort analyses Retention rates (SaaS) or repurchase rates (eCommerce) etc. It’s always best to have a shorter meeting where you leave the VC wanting to learn more.

Portfolio 261

Portfolio IP Later Stage Email 261

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2016

With one of the new free tools and a dose of sweat equity, you can create a website for almost nothing -- and you are on your way to success with ecommerce, your latest invention or personal services. According to many experts , over 90 percent of successful businesses currently start this way.

Bootstrapping 120

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Summit is a hugely respected firm in Silicon Valley and a long-term “institution&# but they’re better known as more of a “private equity&# investor meaning that they do later stage investments in much larger companies that are profitable. Obviously they see big things in Wildfire. 4mm in Series A.

Venture Capital 270

Venture Capital Cofounder Spain San Diego 270

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

His plans are still solidifying but will likely involve some later-stage activities in the eCommerce & retail sectors unrelated to early-stage venture capital. I’ve been to his house and he did build a little putting green atop his patio deck in the hills above Brentwood that has spectacular views.

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View from Seed

JUNE 16, 2015

For series A or later investment rounds, the dynamic is similar, but there are some benchmarks that might be helpful to target to know if you are at least in the ballpark. For ecommerce: >$500K revenue/month. And third, that it’s already starting to happen (or happening to a higher, more scalable degree, for later stages).

Boston 120

Boston Syndicate Syndication eCommerce 120

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The templates you can access include the following: Google Ads Search Performance Overview Google Ads Campaign Performance YouTube Channel Report Google Analytics Audience Overview Ecommerce Store performance. You can link to multiple sources, either when you initially set up your dashboard or at a later stage.

Sales 137

Sales Metrics Customer Analytics 137

The Equity Kicker

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

A lot of them are focused on Series A investing and favour the ecommerce and marketplace sectors that Forward Partners focuses on. The consensus is definitely negative, but one thing that has buoyed my optimism about the prospects for our portfolio is the number of new funds raised in London recently.

Marketing 60

Marketing Institutional Investors Venture Capital Later Stage 60

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

That said, Amazon – through AWS – even without strong competition is as wonderful an experience as Amazon the eCommerce retailer feels to you as an online shopper. And 9 years after they launched AWS there are still no credible competitors. I find this strange. And maddening.

Venture Capital 334

Venture Capital Software PHP Open Source 334

Genuine VC

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

For later-stage, it’s a high-priced financing round, tipping scales on widespread adoption, rapid hiring, or credible information on successive revenue-growth quarters. Whether it’s early or late, there are always a certain set of startups within a particular ecosystem that are generating all of the talk in the community.

Startup 148

Startup Portfolio Later Stage Hiring 148

The Next Web

JULY 29, 2013

We decided to go for Berlin also because we want to shape Berlin’s startup culture, always with the goals to expand to the US at a later stage. When I came to Berlin the trending topics were all ecommerce, communities and software-as-a-service, and it then became social, mobile and cloud.

San Francisco 125

San Francisco Cofounder Germany Europe 125

View from Seed

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

That’s a pretty astounding figure, especially when you consider that many students in the latter years of that cohort have yet to raise or have yet to raise later-stage, larger rounds. As you can see, it’s relatively broad, with a notable 30% specializing in ecommerce. Combined, they’ve raised over $2.5

North America 120

North America Founder Cofounder San Francisco 120

Hippoland

JANUARY 2, 2016

3) Unit economics > Growth numbers Although a lot of investors are all about growth growth growth, I’ve seen a ton of high growth companies with poor unit economics get stuck in the later stages of fundraising. Surprise surprise! profitability does matter at some point. via GIPHY. Think Uber. Think Facebook.

Silicon Valley 48

Silicon Valley Later Stage eCommerce Founder 48

Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

They cover funding for small businesses from the initial funding stage to later stages of growth, and other areas in between. For this discussion, we were joined by CEOs Jared Hecht of Fundera, Joshua Reeves of ZenPayroll, Matt Rissell of TSheets, and our own Sabrina Parsons of LivePlan and Palo Alto Software.

Small Business 95

Small Business Finance Forecast Metrics 95