Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

Angel investors typically provide early-stage funding, while venture capital firms typically come in at later stages. This is the realm of venture capital professional investors, with funding amounts of $1-10 million, often referred to as the “A-round,” or first institutional funding. Funding or rollout stage.

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Venture Chronicles

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Like most people, I had the opportunity to review Facebook’s IPO filing yesterday and admit that, like Apple’s recent earnings announcement, this is pretty damn impressive. Here are a couple of lessons worth reinforcing: 1) People’s view of what is normal and acceptable in emergent online activities is constantly evolving.

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Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 5, 2020

” SPACs, which are sometimes referred to as blank check companies, are entities that go public and raise money from investors so that the IPO proceeds can be used to invest in and acquire companies. The reason I think SPACs are hot right now is the lack of innovation in the IPO process. In 2014, SPACs raised $1.8

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Angel investors typically provide early-stage funding, while venture capital firms typically come in at later stages. This is the realm of venture capital professional investors, with funding amounts of $1-10 million, often referred to as the “A-round,” or first institutional funding. Funding or rollout stage.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Angel investors typically provide early-stage funding, while venture capital firms typically come in at later stages. This is the realm of venture capital professional investors, with funding amounts of $1-10 million, often referred to as the “A-round,” or first institutional funding. Funding or rollout stage.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

They have an expectation that the IPO will be in 3 years and they were in at the ground floor. LinkedIn is the obvious starting point not only because it maps out so many relationships but also because you can tell a lot about work history, references, etc. I don’t think that hairy dentists really expect that.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

TL:DR : This post aims to recap significant changes in the venture capital industry over the past ten years, and then make some [biased] predictions as to major forces at play in the next five years. However, all three shifts are related and can be summed up simply as: Geeks are Taking Over Venture Capital.

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www.mattbartus.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Client references. Matt is a lawyer representing technology companies through all phases of their lifecycle, from pre-incorporation, seed & VC financings, exit transactions and IPOs (read more). Cooley Report Reviews Second Quarter Venture Capital Financing Trends. Venture Capital. A View from the Valley.

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Startup Company Lawyer

AUGUST 31, 2012

This is why convertible debt is sometimes referred to as a “bridge loan.” ” The theory is that the number of seed stage Series A deals led by venture capital firms is decreasing, meaning that it will be difficult for startups to raise a new round of financing. Series A) or have to be repaid. .”

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 2, 2012

IPOs by year, 1980-2011, with pre-IPO last 12-month sales less than (small firms) or greater than (large firms) $50 million (2009 purchasing power). But it could affect one thing right away: the level of buzz and information surrounding young IPOs, which no longer have to keep mum. Number of U.S. Credit: Prof.

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Pascal's View

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Dan Primack posted an article in Term Sheet last week titled Yelp This: IPO Market Is Killing It. equity capital markets for emerging growth companies with market capitalizations below $500 million are structurally broken and systemically dysfunctional. .” Between 1991 and 200 80% of IPO’s raised $50mm or less.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 30, 2018

That’s still OK given the IPO is more of a financing event than anything else, right? Well, actually, quite a few tech companies IPO’d in 2018, though many of those are a bit underwater now given December’s public market volatility. I am expecting to see this happen as soon as mid/late January.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 23, 2011

The angel then introduces the entrepreneur to his or her wealthy friends and business connections who, based on the good reputation of the referring angel, also invest. This venture capital financing - usually between $3 and $10 million - is the first of a number of rounds of outside investment over a period of three to five years.

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Gust

MAY 24, 2012

Dual-class voting structures are receiving a lot of attention these days along with intense publicity related to the Facebook IPO , following in the wake of other recent tech IPOs with a similar structure such as Zynga and LinkedIn. Options and warrants, when issued, are also typically exercisable for shares of Common Stock.

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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. times the investment.).

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Up and Running

APRIL 8, 2013

Also, equity investors usually only see a return on their investment if the company is acquired or IPO s. Common forms of equity investment are friends and family, angel investors and venture capital. Additional resources on angel groups and venture capital firms are available here and here. or greater.

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Gust

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Of IPO dreams once held so dear. And it was all fully justified, because the inevitable IPO would repay those investments many times over, and quite soon indeed. Today, we do still see, very rarely, a superstar company launched towards the IPO heavens. Listen my children and you shall hear. Hardly a founder now alive.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 26, 2012

In an interview with ReadWriteWeb, Davidson explains how the latest industry to receive the disruption treatment has been the venture capital business itself, with the epicenter of the quake right around San Francisco. There used to be the Four Horsemen of the IPO world, back in the '80s and '90s. Number of U.S.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This third body is often referred to as an advisory board (Beirat), sometimes also as a supervisory board (Aufsichtsrat). IPO issues: Possibly the biggest problem for German venture-backed companies is the very low number of IPOs in Germany. In addition, there are the managing directors as executive bodies.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

My first IPO at Convergent. He showed me a little Korean hard drive portable music player, not much more than the Compaq reference design it was based off of. We must have made them play the demo twenty times. First silicon of the MIPS RISC processor.) com Michael Robertson.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 21, 2014

There were some great responses to my post last week as to the poor returns experienced by venture capital fund investors. Some suggested that the blame for this lied more with the very difficult market and deal conditions of the past decade than with the VC investment model itself.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 18, 2010

Lean, when used in the context of lean startup, refers to a process of building companies and products using lean manufacturing principles applied to innovation. Truth: There’s nothing wrong with raising venture capital. Many lean startups are ambitious and are able to deploy large amounts of capital.

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allthingsd.com

JULY 16, 2012

Venture Capital Has Its Biggest Quarter Since Dot-Com Days. venture capitalists put $8.1 venture capitalists put $8.1 It’s clear that factors like the greater American economy and the bumpy tech IPO market don’t necessarily have a direct and/or timely correlation with venture capital spending.

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Babbling VC

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

I've often made the dating reference when it comes to VC's and entrepreneurs. Be it via an IPO or a trade sale, we eventually want out. When this happens, we all generate the type of returns necessary for venture capital backed businesses. After we invest, we want to eventually sell our stake.

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Hippoland

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

The #1 problem with the venture capital game, in general, is that *actual success* is measured over decades not years. So while I’m waiting for my portfolio companies to either die or go IPO, what am I looking at as indicators of success / failure? But I should have thought about it. This is necessary but far from perfect.

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K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 19, 2015

If you’re even remotely connected to the “industry” of Venture Capital, you need to read Howard Marks’ It’s Not Easy memo. And it isn’t the venture capital firms that are paying these exorbitant prices in private markets it is the hedge funds, corporate funds, and sometimes sovereign wealth funds.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 17, 2013

In a casino, the term “rake” refers to the commission that the house earns for operating a poker game. One company with an astonishingly high rake is recently IPOed Shutterstock, a photo-purchasing marketplace where the content owner receives only 30% of gross receipts.

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Up and Running

JUNE 22, 2010

Audrey Watters posted “Is Venture Capital Broken?&# The title is direct reference to an essay, titled “Venture Capital is Broken&# , which angel investor Chris Sacca released as the “creed&# of his new investment firm, Lowercase Capital. this weekend on ReadWriteWeb’s startup channel.

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Scott Edward Walker

JUNE 9, 2011

Introduction This post originally appeared as part of the “ Ask the Attorney ” column I am writing for VentureBeat ; it is another installment of my ongoing series regarding venture capital term sheets. two or three times the Original Purchase Price) to create more flexibility with regard to an IPO.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Time is short — it helps to refer to what those investors already understand. The usual tempo for raising money from venture capital is at a minimum of a year between financings. The above mockup reinforces the idea that a network overlay improves job postings and reference checking. The pitch was “ Jaws with Paws”.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2022

In 2021 venture capital funds invested over $2 billion in 90+ Quantum technology companies. While most of the IPOs have been in Quantum Computing, Quantum technologies are used in three very different and distinct markets: Quantum Computing , Quantum Communications and Quantum Sensing and Metrology. Key Quantum Concepts.

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Austin Startup

MAY 19, 2018

Don’t do reference checks … until you are actually ready to write a check. This one comes from personal experience, months into conversations and after reference checks (which went well) one particular VC decided he didn’t have commitment to the space. Wow us with your consistency and follow through and you’ll win our hearts.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 11, 2014

How to Make Better Reference Calls - crowdspring.co/1e9bls4. Five Reasons Not To Raise Venture Capital, by Rachel Chalmers | Model View Culture - crowdspring.co/1lIlpYH. Inside Sequoia Capital: Silicon Valley’s Innovation Factory - crowdspring.co/1hyz3sN. Google, Apple or IPO: What’s Next for Square?

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 2, 2020

In the pipeline, there’s no shortage of future unicorns, fondly referred to as ‘charging ponies’ by our friend Yaron Samid at TechAviv. To be in venture capital one has to be an optimist, as ultimately we invest in the future and hope our companies can solve humanity’s largest problem.

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philipsmith.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

While there have been times in the last dozen or so years, usually during times of venture capital excess, that cash to founders, early-stage executives and other key employees has matched regular market compensation (still with the upside of the equity), this is not true in the vast majority in the start-up game. Venture Capital.

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David Teten

MARCH 5, 2021

What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? First Round Capital found that among its portfolio companies, startups with female founders outperformed those without by 63%.” . Well, we learn to invest exclusively in men, preferably white or Asian. .

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infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

A quick search of “Netflicks” shows over 50,000 unique instances of this misspelling (contrasted with the nearly 12 million distinct references to “Netflix”). John Greathouse is a partner at Rincon Venture Partners , a venture capital firm investing in early stage web-based businesses. Launching Venture (34).

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