Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 2, 2014

VCs will be looking for a 10X return on their investment in 3 to 5 years, or 30% annual IRR (Internal Rate of Return). For Angel investors, you only need to do some local networking to get interest. How large is the financial return you project? Angel investors wish for the same return, but may accept a 5X deal.

Angel Investor 266

Angel Investor Entrepreneur Venture Capital IRR 266

VC Adventure

AUGUST 12, 2014

The resulting fund would have an IRR in the range of 10% (the exact IRR would depend on the timing of the cash flows, but I constructed a few models to approximate this and 10% was the average return). As I mention above, we’re coinvestors with Correlation in Distil Networks.

IRR 133

IRR Portfolio Distribution Venture Capital 133

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2016

VCs will be looking for a 10X return on their investment in 3 to 5 years, or 30% annual IRR (Internal Rate of Return). For Angel investors, you only need to do some local networking to get interest. How large is the financial return you project? Angel investors wish for the same return, but may accept a 5X deal.

Angel Investor 120

Angel Investor IRR Valuation Startup 120

VC Adventure

AUGUST 12, 2014

The resulting fund would have an IRR in the range of 10% (the exact IRR would depend on the timing of the cash flows, but I constructed a few models to approximate this and 10% was the average return). As I mention above, we’re coinvestors with Correlation in Distil Networks.

IRR 122

IRR Portfolio Distribution Finance 122

David Teten

JULY 10, 2017

Angel investing is an exceptionally high-return asset class; I have collected twelve studies on angel returns in the US and UK, which show median internal rate of return (IRR) between 18 and 38 percent. This matching structure takes advantage of the industry knowledge, proprietary deal flow, and network of senior executives.

Employee 60

Employee Balance Sheet Syndicate Syndication 60

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2011

The second company in which I invested, back in 2001, was a novel concept from the serial entrepreneur who invented social networking. After that evaporated, I didn’t invest again until just after the dotcom crash (when my long-suffering spouse grounded me from any further entrepreneurial ventures :-)). The third company is still alive.

New York 221

New York Accredited Investor Advisory Board IRR 221

VC Cafe

JULY 2, 2012

Lots of returns are being made these days, but the latest CalPers report shows dissapointing returns by Israeli VC firms , with an IRR of 3.5%-3.8% Facebook’s acquisition of Face.com will enable the social network to embed face recognition software into its photo app. to JVP and Carmel, the highest performing funds. . Facebook Inc.

Latvia 109

Latvia Lithuania Russia 109

Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2014

Two companies I helped start in 1992, DCTM and Grand Junction Networks both became Stanford business school cases and very valuable, successful companies. I was on the way to my lifetime IRR of 90%. My two best partners went off to start Benchmark Capital, very successful to this day, so my firm was going to blow up.

Venture Capital 334

Venture Capital Silicon Valley Chicago Cofounder 334

Professor VC

MARCH 10, 2009

His latest venture, Bharosa, was sold to Oracle for a 6X multiple in 3 years to his angel investors, a sweet close to triple digit IRR. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? Jon Fisher purposely avoided raising venture capital in his ventures. A Lot of Horn Tooting over a Kazoo sized deal.

Bootstrapping 28

Bootstrapping San Jose Silicon Valley Software Review 28

Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 1, 2018

The $750 million fund combines all of our prior fund strategies – our early stage, early growth, and partner fund investments – into a single fund. When we started Foundry Group, we had four equal partners. We now have seven equal partners. The seven partners all work directly with the companies and partner funds.

Syndicate 17

Syndicate Syndication IRR Canada 17

K9 Ventures

MAY 14, 2011

They provide additional value add in the form of coaching and mentorship, and most of all access to a network of other entrepreneurs and smart people – that to me is really the real value of being involved with an incubator / accelerator. They have 4-10 partners who are investing on their behalf. 1-2 per partner. Super Angel.

Preferred Stock 125

Preferred Stock Seed Stage Incubator Early Stage 125

K9 Ventures

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

The General Partners (GPs) are the operating guys. The money that the GPs and other employees of the firm invest comes from Limited Partners (LPs) — typically the big university endowments, retirement funds, charitable organizations, family offices and high net-worth individuals. This is what makes it more difficult to scale.

IRR 48

IRR Venture Capital LP Early Stage 48

Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

A partner from the law firm (sponsor, covers the drinks and food) tosses out some softball questions to the panelists, the audience chimes in with Q&A and finally, culminates with the meet and greet where the panelists are flooded with business cards and pitches on the next great thing, which is often very similar to the last great thing.

Pre-Money Valuation 28

Pre-Money Valuation Angel Investor Angel Groups Valuation 28