Scalable Startup

AUGUST 26, 2014

As further market proof of the power of Drupal in the enterprise, Acquia has received about $100 million in funding in the past 3 months, which puts its valuation at over $1 billion. is the for-profit company founded by Dries Buytaert, the inventor of Drupal, to support his open source project. Because they are open source.

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www.seriesseed.com

DECEMBER 9, 2012

Series Seed Financing Documents Blog.   That’s because there are not that many issues to negotiate in a simple equity financing. Have you had anyone from Canada use these documents for financing a Canadian (Quebec) entity? If that hypothesis is correct, the company raises money at a higher valuation. SeriesSeed.com.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Convertible Debt – Valuation Caps. If you want to see an actual convertible debt term sheet or the actual legal documents, take a look at the TechStars Open Sourced Model Seed Financing Documents. The series is now complete – here are the links to the posts in order. Convertible Debt Series.

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K9 Ventures

MARCH 23, 2011

The convertible note was really intended as an instrument for a “bridge financing” – when an equity round was imminent, and likely to occur, but the company needed some money in between. In that case, it made good sense to have a debt instrument, where the note holder then converted into equity when the financing occurred.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

The competition for funding startups is increasing the valuations of startups, giving entrepreneurs and founders better investment terms. The result is that many venture capital firms are now making smaller angel investments in an attempt to get close with startup founders that are likely to raise bigger funding rounds later on.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

The competition for funding startups is increasing the valuations of startups, giving entrepreneurs and founders better investment terms. The result is that many venture capital firms are now making smaller angel investments in an attempt to get close with startup founders that are likely to raise bigger funding rounds later on.

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Jason Ball

JANUARY 16, 2008

I posted last year’s figures from Icon Corporate Finance, showing how exit valuations were 1.5x -2x sales. I use figures like that as 3rd party data when discussing valuations. Many companies I’ve met with over the past 12 months have really pumped up their valuations.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

I did a short video at BothSidesoftheTable th at talks about the key terms in the term sheet you need to know about AND how VCs calculate valuation differently than entrepreneurs and what to look out for. Ycombinator open source term sheet is a good start for Seed deals. You can find there here: [link] softhetable.c.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. Yes, it’s true that FOMO (fear of missing out) is driving some irrational behavior and valuations amongst uber competitive deals and well-financed VCs. The Exit Problem.

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Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Some notable metrics are revenue growth rates, free cashflow, leverage ratios, historical financing amounts, returns on marketing spend, customer acquisition costs, lifetime value of customers, customer churn rates, and team social scores. I have not found a thorough platform for due diligencing all aspects of a potential investment.

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Ben's Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

As we do so, keep in mind that the relevant bubble statistic is not valuation. High valuations are fine if the underlying value is there. In the great bubble of 1998-2000, the boom in public valuations mirrored the boom in private valuations. If too much venture capital hits the streets, valuations will bubble up.

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BeyondVC

JUNE 11, 2007

We all know the story – it is incredibly cheaper to start a web-based business versus 5 years ago with the rise of open source software and commodity servers. The trick for entrepreneurs is to look at bringing on debt concurrent or soon after your close of equity financing. Why can raising venture debt be great?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2016

Prior to then the concept of “seed funds” barely existed and as I’ve argued before the seed fund phenomenon was largely driven by: Open source + horizontal computing + Amazon AWS. It had come on the heels of a long, public slide at Twitter and the beginning of a questioning about valuations overall. Rise of Angels.

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mashable.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Sponsored by Deutsche Telekom, Unify is published under a dual open source license (MIT and Apache version 2.0) Unify Project The Unify Project is a set of tools designed to make it easier for developers to create smartphone apps using HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Just a few years on and Snyk has evolved from being an open source vulnerabilities scanner and to becoming the world’s first developer security platform that start-ups worldwide can build upon. As the company announces its $530 million Series F at a valuation of $8.5 Everything about it was built through that lens.

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David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

(co-written with Stephane Nasser , co-founder of OpenVC , an open-source initiative to collect and analyze all VC theses.). OpenVC is a new, open-source initiative to collect and analyze all publicly available VC theses, to help founders more efficiently find the right investors, and vice-versa. No ideas or prototypes.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

Today open source software has slashed the cost of software development from millions of dollars to thousands. A 20 th century VC was likely to have an MBA or finance background. Their need to get into high-profile deals has driven late-stage valuations into unicorn territory.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

interactions, widgets, effects Django – high-level Python framework Cappuccino – open source framework for app development Kodingen – cloud development environment, code editor, hosting service, collaboration platform.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

It is also true that open source and the commoditization of many technologies has put much more emphasis on experience. The more structured the effort of the 'distribution' people will be, the clearer the communication with design and technical people and the higher mutual respect/valuation.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. High Quality, and open sourced! Mantis (Open source). Nagios (open source). Panda (Open source). launchpad (bzr only, also only open source projects).

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