The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Thomas Clayton has started and run numerous high-tech startups in Silicon Valley. He is currently CEO of Bubbly , a social media startup backed by Sequoia Capital, SingTel Innov8, and JAFCO. The company is one of the largest VC–backed startups in Southeast Asia, having raised over $60M in funding. Sequoia , Accel , NEA , etc.).

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Asia Silicon Valley India Term Sheet 132

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Warning – this assumes some basic knowledge of VC performance metrics. Or is there a major disconnect between a portfolio’s valuations and the actual dollars returned to LPs? Both early- and late-stage startup valuations are currently elevated. For a primer, I would recommend refreshing yourself here.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Warning – this assumes some basic knowledge of VC performance metrics. Or is there a major disconnect between a portfolio’s valuations and the actual dollars returned to LPs? Both early- and late-stage startup valuations are currently elevated. For a primer, I would recommend refreshing yourself here.

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Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Distribution Early Stage 295

Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Salesforce.com is a startup with 76,000 subscribers (over 2.1M I also joke with Reid Hoffman that this was back in the days before he was “Reid” Reid’s an incredible entrepreneur, startup investor, and human being. The rest, as they say, is history.

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Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Warning – this assumes some basic knowledge of VC performance metrics. Or is there a major disconnect between a portfolio’s valuations and the actual dollars returned to LPs? Both early- and late-stage startup valuations are currently elevated. For a primer, I would recommend refreshing yourself here.

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Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Distribution Early Stage 156

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Many startups are hoping to be the next name on that list. The landscape of consumer subscription startups is growing: Consumer SaaS landscape (Source: GP Bullhound ). The rest, like Disney+ and Spotify, might try to catch up by acquiring or launching their own bundles. Covid-19 US Consumer Survey (source: McKinsey ).

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B2C Cloud Valuation Acquisition 187

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

You can read the rest of the posts in the series by clicking here *. A few potential slides which can be included in the Appendix: Exit Analysis: Not always as important during the early startup stage since an exit event is presumably in the distance away. Other Questions: Every startup is different.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Entrepreneurs and investors who have spent any time dealing with convertible debt seed financing transactions are likely to have encountered the subject of valuation caps. Valuation caps can come into play in settings other than seed-stage convertible note financing rounds. Read on for a fuller explanation.

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Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Merger Vesting 98

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Five Quarters of Profitability During the 1980’s and through the mid 1990’s startups going public had to do something that most companies today never heard of – they had to show a track record of increasing revenue and consistent profitability. The world of building profitable startups as the primary goal of Venture Capital would end in 1995.

Silicon Valley 217

Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 217

David Teten

AUGUST 6, 2015

One common option is a dedicated assumptions tab that flows into the rest of the model, and then outputs key pieces of data right at the bottom of the assumptions tab, so that the key inputs and outputs are in one place. financial statement summaries, valuation analysis, ratio analysis, etc.) 11) Separate out your model output.

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Balance Sheet Software Review Forecast Acquisition 60

Feld Thoughts

APRIL 21, 2016

Anything that hints of a down round brings questions about the success metrics that have already been “booked.” If you are a founder, an employee in a startup, or an investor in a startup, you have to be playing a long term game. The post Current Startup Market Emotional Biases appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2012

In fact, a business plan is needed more by you than investors, as the blueprint for your company, team communication, and progress metrics. Rest assured that potential investors will ask for names, and place some calls. Include a current valuation estimate. Financial forecast and metrics. Funding requirements.

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Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 283

Feld Thoughts

APRIL 29, 2015

Now that everyone is overly focused on unicorns, the headline number on the valuation (e.g. Company X raised Y at a valuation of Z from A, B, and C) has crept into the story on big rounds. No underlying metrics that drive the financing. in Funding: Here is the Valuation, Term Sheet and Why We’re Doing It.

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Atlanta Valuation Term Sheet Finance 70

The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 10, 2020

We like those things in the same way as the rest of the industry. I think we differ a little from the rest of the industry, though, particularly with our focus on early stage companies. Maybe they’ll pivot to something great eventually, but in the interim period, the valuation goes sideways – and that’s not a good place for a VC to be.

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Partner Early Stage Portfolio Metrics 68

Rob Go

OCTOBER 14, 2012

NextView is our startup, and I often reflect on how things are going and what we could do better. In the rest, we were part of the first “institutional round” We have not participated in any seed extensions or full-blown series A investments as our first check into a company. So that 23 is right on pace. OUR INDUSTRY.

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New Hampshire Croatia Omaha Portfolio 50

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2011

In fact, a business plan is needed more by you than investors, as the blueprint for your company, team communication, and progress metrics. Rest assured that potential investors will ask for names, and place some calls. Include a current valuation estimate. Financial forecast and metrics. Funding requirements.

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Business Plan Sweat Equity Exit Strategy Intellectual Property 290

VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

There’s an increased focus on key metrics – especially those core metrics that drive the spend/growth curve such as LTV/CAC and months to pay back CAC. Valuations are Down. In the public markets public SaaS valuations (EV/Revenue) are down 33% since January and 66% since their high in January 2014.

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Balance Sheet Valuation Metrics B2B 48

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2010

In fact, a business plan is needed more by you than investors, as the blueprint for your company, team communication, and progress metrics. Rest assured that potential investors will ask for names, and place some calls. Include a current valuation estimate. Financial forecast and metrics. Funding requirements.

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Business Plan Exit Strategy Sweat Equity Intellectual Property 186

trada.com

APRIL 7, 2010

One of my favorite startup debates is about stealth mode. Vivek Wadhwa ( @vwadhwa ) TechCrunch even published a piece decrying the end of startup stealth mode. Which is in direct contradiction to his earlier blog post, “ Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret.&#

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

I have been close to the tech & startup sectors for more than 20 years and I can’t think of a period in which I felt more optimistic about the innovation and value creation I see in front of us. The number of startups being created has increased by an order of magnitude. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin!

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Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Not all startups need outside investment to grow. What most founders don’t realize is: Every stage of a startup requires a different set of metrics and milestones and founder skills. Here’s the first 2½ years of a startup journey. The Startup Investment Landscape. Still, there are some benchmarks to keep in mind.

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Cofounder Seed Stage Valuation Metrics 429

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Legendary venture investor and General Partner at Austin Ventures John Thornton told us, “Social content has tremendous potential to drive a new level of consumer engagement on media, entertainment and retail properties – but the market needs a startup with expertise in both social and enterprise tech in order turn the promise into reality.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 2, 2010

Money at a startup is kind of like cash in your wallet—it gets spent. The level of increased complexity in a startup that goes from let’s say two developers and a business or product person just focusing on one thing, to three or four developers and more than one product front to wage war on is significant. Drive one key metric.

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Cap Table Seed Stage .Net Venture Capital 106

Hearpreneur

AUGUST 5, 2020

This means that creating a simplified and easy-to-navigate software that allows real-time metrics and communication to be had in a professional management environment is currently an industry for the taking. This may be due to the complexity or upkeep that is needed to be maintained by a non-remote team. 10- Virtual field trips for kids.

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Technical Review Software Review Entrepreneur China 157

Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 19, 2021

True, many boards are dysfunctional, but when you build a great startup board, it will be a powerful tool that can help the CEO make the company successful. This essay, which is based on Part 1 of a two-part episode of the Greymatter Podcast, will cover the fundamentals of building great startup boards.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Investors will read your executive summary and decide whether or not it’s worth their time to read the rest of the plan. Consider this example: Pleasant Acres Real Estate, LLC (PARE) is a startup company located in El Paso, Texas. Financial Summary: Explain your business model, startup costs, revenues, and liabilities to the company.

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El Paso Business Plan Technical Review Forecast 61

betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

This past week while I was in Tokyo for meetings with potential partners for Fab, I was invited to participate in a panel discussion on startups. All the rest is noise. There’s no time to dicker around at a startup. Startups are hard work. If you are down on someone, the rest of your team will already know. ?.

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Technical Review Technology Software Review Valuation 108

reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

It has many stylistic errors — and a few substantive ones, too — that I would now change having learned more, but I realized that it still provides useful insights for entrepreneurs and startup participants outside of the Greylock network, particularly across three areas of interest: how entrepreneurs should approach the pitch process.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

We expanded to Houston, San Francisco, New York, and Los Angeles within months, and we were generally doing all the things and seeing all the things that a startup needed to do and see in order to feel good about VC funding prospects. startups with billion-dollar valuations) in recent years. It’s not my goal to bash anyone.

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Silicon Valley Technical Review Venture Capital San Francisco 48

betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

The CEO of a startup must, must, must be the product manager. All the rest is noise. ” This is someone who has done it before — raised money, done deals, worked with startups. Don’t choose your investors based on valuation. 10M post-money valuation = $100M target. Be technical. Connect With Me.

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Post-Money Valuation Valuation Dilution Advisory Board 92

K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 19, 2015

I believe that if you get those three things right the rest will figure itself out. I like to think of it as looking at the derivative (in a mathematical sense, not a financial sense) is often more revealing than looking at the raw change in a metric. It’s not my thing. I like to focus on ideas, people, products.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Maybe you are wondering which metrics to track, or whether or not you should take out a loan for your business. I have been involved in startups since I graduated from college in 1996. My background with entrepreneurialism is this is my sixth startup. This is really an exciting panel to be a part of. Bates: Fantastic.

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