Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

So as to reap a financial harvest and windfall. We will know just like a public company does what we need to do - financially, strategically, culturally - to attain our dreamed of financial harvest. The dream of every entrepreneur is to build a company successful enough so as to one day be able to attract a buyer to and for it.

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Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

Unfortunately, Mr. Slywotzky makes an important assertion about venture capital that is incorrect. First, the venture capital business is contracting severely: From the April 18th, 2009 NVCA/PWC Moneytree report: “Venture capitalists invested just $3.0 ” FULL STOP.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

This tendency is a two edged sword: by iterating strategy a startup can dramatically improve the size and trajectory of the company, but at times this process can be the bane of venture investors (and why they have prematurely grey hair.)

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Growthink Blog

MAY 23, 2011

With this seed capital – more often than not totaling between $100,000 and $1,000,000 - the company accomplishes a number of key technical milestones, gets a beta customer or two, and then goes on a "road show" to venture capitalists around the country for capital to “scale” the business. There are a lot of dark, hard days.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

venture capital to date (more on this in a separate post), unfortunately relegating billion-dollar exits as “ho-hum” events to the technology crowd. Every time there is a big technology exit (usually via M&A), I attempt to quickly unpack key takeaways from the transaction. 1/ Cash Is King: The $1.4B

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 25, 2012

We are delighted to announce that the six General Partners of Andreessen Horowitz, with our families, are all committing to donate at least half of all income from our venture capital careers to philanthropic causes during our lifetimes. John O’Farrell and Gloria Principe: Second Harvest Food Bank. The reason is simple.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 11, 2014

I took this picture of Rob, Michael Galpert, and Danny Wen of Harvest. Venture Capital & Technology' He was an interesting guy and I watched him throughout a bunch of interesting projects, like a complete open source business where all the employees got to make the decisions. That was the year Twitter took off.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 26, 2017

6 – Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds that you plant. I’ll call this the harvest. Once the credit score increases, that’s their harvest. Without seeds, there can be no harvest! In short, venture capital is a lot like debt bondage.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

He’ll be speaking at this year’s Lean Startup Conference , and also has a new book (for which I very happily wrote a short foreword) coming out next month: Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It. What is venture capital, really? And what does a venture capital firm do?

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

  I’ve sat down with entrepreneurs and a copy of a term sheet guide I like [ “Term Sheets & Valuations - A Line by Line Look at the Intricacies of Venture Capital Term Sheets & Valuations ” by Alex Wilmerding, Aspatore Press.] and walked through each proposed term and why it is or isn’t important.

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Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Very simply, they are harvesting that most important form of capital of our modern age. Intellectual Capital. So to go to the next level of modern business success, we simply need to go to the next level of increasing and harvesting it to compete and win like never before. Our ability to learn new things.

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Scalable Startup

APRIL 6, 2015

We’ve been hearing the word bubble for that long, people trying to predict a crash, mostly out of envy for not being able to harvest any cash from this current crazy market. Angel Investor CEO Succession Scalability startup startup CEO angel investor Cash Flow first revenue The Next Level tom nora venture capital'

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

I attended the annual LP meeting for a venture capital firm this week and got into a discussion about the above question. The whole process of building companies revolves around recognizing an opportunity, assembling the resources, building the company and harvesting the venture. Venture News. ProfessorVC.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 4, 2024

Its automated BeeHomes are solar-powered, climate- and humidity-controlled, allow for automated harvesting, and can even alert apiculturists when their hive is likely preparing to swarm, preventing injuries to both humans and bees.] credit rating forecast dropped in November, and since then the S&P 500 index has jumped by 15%.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . These same tools are used by companies raising capital. Fund/SPV management services specifically are provided by Assure Services and Proteus Capital. What’s Your VC Tech Stack?

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Spencer Fry

APRIL 17, 2017

Having started and sold 3 successful bootstrapped businesses, and am now running 1 venture capital backed business ( Coach ), this is a topic I know a thing or two about. Do you know Danny Wen of Harvest? Days before the conference started, I was asked (and felt honored) to lead two workshops on bootstrapping vs. raising money.

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ithacaVC

JANUARY 10, 2012

One of my students just asked me what a “Venture Partner” is in the context of a venture capital firm. I quickly typed in “venture partner” into the Wikipedia query box. So, then I typed “venture partner definition” into the Google search box. No results. Lousy results.

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Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Or pursue a hybrid and harvest as much cash as possible from those parts of our businesses that allow it, while carving out entirely new businesses for some possibility-filled “ moonshots? Or if our financial results are going to continue to be bleak, should we just cut our losses and close up shop?

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

When I began investing a little over five years ago, it felt like the conventional wisdom was that one had to invest in the Bay Area to harvest venture-like returns. Just like Sequoia with their franchise model, or Accel, or the other larger funs, the top-tier venture capital firms have scaled up and out to grab these opportunities.

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Growthink Blog

AUGUST 19, 2015

Teams like the San Antonio Spurs that most effectively harvest and use this data are able to both identify under-valued players (critical in a Salary Cap league) and empower their coaching staffs with key insights as to the best game lineups and player substitution patterns.

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

All of this is plan versus actual management, and that’s where we harvest the effort of lean business planning. Should be less effort than a traditional business plan, but the harvest is in the management, unless, and here I’m going in our last ten minutes. Do I need venture capital? Do I get financing?

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Today, however, it seems that these tech companies believe the time has come for them to harvest what they’ve invested in. Even so, there is still a large volume of venture capital raised within the country over the last five years. Their influence in the sector may lead to a collapse due to several reasons.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2022

In 2021 venture capital funds invested over $2 billion in 90+ Quantum technology companies. At the same time, a week doesn’t go by without another story about a quantum technology milestone or another quantum company getting funded. Quantum has moved out of the lab and is now the focus of commercial companies and investors.

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BeyondVC

DECEMBER 10, 2003

While the average selling prices for companies that leverage the channel are much lower than pure, direct enterprise sales, I like the fact that these types of companies can utilize a seed and harvest model. While the initial sale may not be $1mm upfront, you may be able to get $1mm in the life of a deal.

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The Equity Kicker

DECEMBER 30, 2013

Optionality is the property of asymmetric upside (preferably unlimited) with correspondingly limited downside (preferably tiny).” Venture capital, when practiced properly by a top tier firm, is a classic example of a business that benefits from optionality. He explains why in his first bullet: 1.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 7, 2015

Follow-On Decisions Become Part of Agenda: Since a fund in Year Two is still in value creation, not harvest, mode, the trajectories of Year One investments is often more illuminating than recently funded ventures. What’s Different in Year Two.

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Pascal's View

MARCH 8, 2009

"We are indeed living off the harvest of seeds planted long ago, and people don’t understand that America will decline unless the investment is. It can be productive but only if the climate is right for innovators to innovate with a minimum of 'governing' by the government!"

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

They are harvesting data on Americans to build profiles of our beliefs, behavior, and biological makeup for tailored attempts to manipulate or coerce individuals. The path forward for the DoD should be supporting open research, but optimizing on data set collection, harvesting research results, and fast application. .

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

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