Steve Blank
APRIL 10, 2019
Startup Compensation Changes with Growth Capital – 12 Years to an IPO. And Mark Suster of Upfront Capital has a great post that summarizes these changes. The three examples Suster uses – Salesforce, Google and Amazon – show how much more valuable the companies were after their IPOs. That made sense.
View from Seed
MARCH 24, 2021
Magic Graph: How Much Seed Capital Should You Raise? “At some point, an entrepreneur begins to exhaust her network, and her network’s network, and the incremental hours devoted to fundraising will begin to yield less capital raised than the previous.” Why Do Consumer IPOs and B2B IPOs Get Treated Differently?
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Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 6, 2019
This huge increase of capital is really just money that used to be invested post-IPO, so more value is captured by VCs who traditionally sold post-IPO In a way we see this late-stage capital as a different market segment than traditional venture capital but it gets lumped into the same classification.
YoungUpstarts
FEBRUARY 20, 2015
This is because these days it’s a trendy word, conjuring up images of youthful exuberance, all-night coding parties, and developing revolutionary apps that transform into mind-boggling IPOs. Find a mentor who can help you learn the business faster than any educational media or seminar can teach you.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 8, 2014
This method was perfected by Gil Elbaz and his team at Applied Semantics in LA and in what some have called “ the most important acquisition ever made by Google ” they acquired the company for $102 million before Google had even IPO’d. Many of the early winners sold for north of a half a billion dollars.
Steve Blank
MAY 9, 2017
For life sciences it was the Genentech IPO in 1980 that proved to investors that life science startups could make them a ton of money. A unicorn is a startup with a market capitalization north of a billion dollars. The second thing that’s changed is that we’re now Compressing the Product Development Cycle.
View from Seed
JANUARY 28, 2015
In the last six months, we’ve been asked and answered several key questions about seed-stage startups and raising seed capital. All we do is seed — we focus on it, we want to be the best seed partner, and we obsess over helping startups through that first, formative 18-24 month period.
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