A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

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Trends: Follow or flee?

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

For the institutional investor, it’s a set of bets. It’s Twitter connecting the world with real-time mass mini-chat before everyone realized how tiny and fragmented our attention spans could become. What’s the secret to manufacturing this combination of foresight, timing, and financing?

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How to think about cash vs. equity compensation

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

This is the key, because Q — what an institutional investor would accept — is a well-understood system. So what kind of return does an angel investor need to make on their $84,000? So if that’s the same as P, we’re done.

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Smart Bear Live 5: Dan from SyncBloc.com with Mark Suster

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Venture capitalists are raising money from other investors, institutional investors who expect certain returns from us. And to get those returns, we need very big wins. At GRP, the partnership that I work at, we have produced 15 companies that have exited north of a billion dollars.