Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

When you’re company is growing >10x year over year, I suppose if management didn’t invest a lot in continued growth their board directors would line them up against the wall. My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 5 days ago Search. The company is currently unprofitable, though generating meaningful free cash flow.

North America 100

North America Chicago Boston Silicon Valley 100

Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

As Qwikster becomes a more expensive and conceptually separate product (remember, you’ll have to manage queues on 2 separate sites for both DVD and streaming) to consumers, I suspect you’ll see at least some turn to their pay TV providers for the occasional recent blockbuster instead of getting DVDs by mail from Qwikster.

Silicon Valley 100

Silicon Valley Private Equity Seed Stage Syndicate 100

Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

Groupon didn’t manage to get out until November and Zynga in December. My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 5 days ago Search. There’s some natural seasonality to the capital markets, but if you recall companies like Zynga and Groupon originally expected to price offerings in September 2011 after the summer lull.

IPO 100

IPO Silicon Valley Revenue Seed Stage 100

Agile VC

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Most of the dollars a VC firm invests come from outside limited partner investors (LPs). The actual partners of a VC firm (GPs) will typically invest a minimum of 1% of the total size of their fund,* though frequently this percentage is substantially higher (especially in many of the best funds). The first is a staff constraint.

Venture Capital 279

Venture Capital LP Private Equity Institutional Investors 279

Agile VC

MAY 10, 2012

So it took me a minute to describe to my partners why SaaS for cows is incredibly exciting… Farmeron is a SaaS company focused on the data management challenges facing the agriculture sector. age, weight, immunization, breeding status, etc) to inventory management info (e.g. feedstocks). Author howerl. link] aweissman.

Silicon Valley 223

Silicon Valley Cofounder Seed Stage Syndicate 223

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Some of the firm’s partners may move on to new jobs during this phase but at least some are usually still around. For those who aren’t familiar, Mobius was a VC fund with offices in Silicon Valley and Boulder CO and at it’s peak Mobius had $2B+ under management. So at a fund level (e.g.

LP 154

LP Portfolio Venture Capital IRR 154

Agile VC

DECEMBER 6, 2012

A little more inside baseball from the VC biz… why VC’s rarely make “crossover” investments, with capital from multiple funds the VC firm manages invested in a single startup (see note 1). I was talking with an entrepreneur recently about this phenomenon.

LP 178

LP Balance Sheet Differentiation Limited Partner 178

Agile VC

JUNE 25, 2012

And of course email, CRM, and other tools for managing your network of contacts are far older. Though he’s been both a CTO and a VP Product and managed large teams before, he built all of Cloze’s initial product himself from the back end through to the presentation layer. Previous Entries. Avatars by Sterling Adventures.

Cofounder 140

Cofounder Stealth Silicon Valley Mobile 140

Agile VC

JUNE 12, 2012

In fact my first job as an early employee of PayPal was as Product Manager responsible for our mobile products (WAP-enabled cell phones and our legacy Palm Pilot IR port product) and the first international version of PayPal. My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 5 days ago Search. Previous Entries. Avatars by Sterling Adventures.

Mobile 250

Mobile Disintermediation SMS Government 250