thebarefootvc

JANUARY 27, 2014

Do I think we are in a valuation bubble? Last week, a chart in the Wall Street Journal listed private companies globally that have raised capital at $1 billion-plus valuations from venture capital firms. So are we in a bubble or are these companies really worth their valuations? Or so it seems.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

They provide a hands-on transformation and revenue growth partner for B2B technology companies. Prior to working with Citius, he helped global businesses generate up to $200M in annual recurring revenue and realise valuations of $1Bn+. Mobile phone technological advance. Transformation of Mobile Handset business.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

As a testament to the growing power of “the creator economy,” visual content creation app development startup Lightricks has secured an impressive $130 million investment round, at a valuation of $1.8 Hanaco Venture Capital is a fund located in New York and Tel Aviv that invests in developing and late-stage startups from across the world.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Consumer spending is 70% of the economy and will continue to be stretched – We can look all we want at tech innovation, VC funding cycles and hot M&A deals, but ultimately growth and therefore investment must be underpinned by revenue. This has a tangible impact on the valuation of start-ups and the pace of investment.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Our guest this week on #TWiVC was Dana Settle , partner at Greycroft Partners , a venture capital firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. Note that these are “gross” revenue numbers. Current round: $35mm in Series C (extension of Series B at higher valuation) from General Atlantic, Matrix Partners. OTHER DEALS: 1.

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Scalable Startup

JULY 20, 2013

These are now done either transparently in the background, in the cloud, or done using minimally invasive mobile apps. Spell-guesser, auto-fill, travel, accounting, calculating company valuations, facebook, pinterest, dropbox, codecademy, me writing this blog are all managed by a SaaS platform. It vastly reduces computer waste.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Which brings me back to your mobile phones. It’s worth noting that everything from the Internet, to electric cars, genomic sequencing, mobile apps, and social media — were pioneered by startups, not existing companies. Companies horde cash and squeeze the most revenue and margin from the money they use. Apple owned 0%.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Many Asian entrepreneurs tell me that they want to raise funds from Silicon Valley firms because they perceive the valuations to be higher. The venture capital landscape in Asia is varied and complex, as most of the active firms on the continent are concentrated in just a few areas. Finally, don’t over-optimize on valuation.

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The Equity Kicker

APRIL 27, 2012

It is now two and a half weeks since Facebook announced its $1bn acquisition of Instagram yet people are still talking about how and why such a young startup with no revenues achieved such a high valuation. If the gossip and rumours are to be believed Instagram employed two pretty standard tactics to maximise their valuation on exit.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2011

A tech bubble is the rapid inflation in the valuation of public and private technology companies that exceeds their fundamental value by a large margin. Today, the signs of the new bubble are the Linked-In initial public offering (IPO), Facebook’s stratospheric valuation and the rapid rise of early-stage startup valuation.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Why We’re Pivoting from Mobile-first to Web-first – [link]. … Checking In on Foursquare’s Valuation – [link]. The Biggest Problem in Mobile: Retention – [link]. Want Venture Capital Funding? The Biggest Problem in Mobile: Retention – [link]. Just got acquired?

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

George Deeb is the Managing Partner at Chicago-based Red Rocket Ventures , a startup consulting and financial advisory firm based in Chicago. One of the questions I get, more often than not, is what is the appropriate valuation of my business. Each industry typically has its unique valuation methodologies. Your industry.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Dave Graham Business Venture Capital Private Equity GlobalLogic Inc. Venture Capital Firms. In the past few years, hundreds of small companies have been snatched up by private equity firms willing to agree to ever-rising valuations. Arizona Bay has also blended equity payments with revenue-sharing deals.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 17, 2011

Smart Money are prescient angel investors and Venture Capitalists who started investing in social networks, consumer and mobile applications and the cloud 3, 4 or 5 years ago. But they don’t support his justification of the bubble valuations we are seeing for companies filing for IPO’s (Pandora Media just priced its IPO at $2.6

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

In India, two female journalists launched a mobile app to allow women to report harrassment and abuse, an issue in their hometown of Delhi and throughout the world. Applications such as Xtify , Local Response , and Placecast provided turnkey mobile solutions for retailers to target consumers.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The signals are loud and clear : seed and late stage valuations are getting frothy and wacky, and hiring talent in Silicon Valley is the toughest it has been since the dot.com bubble. VC’s worked with entrepreneurs to build profitable and scalable businesses, with increasing revenue and consistent profitability – quarter after quarter.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 23, 2021

Or, you might proactively change your business in a way that requires you to rebuild your dashboard to account for an additional revenue stream. The problem was that Groupon’s revenue growth was a false positive. One of the fundamental principles of venture capital is that size does matter. DATA AND VC INVESTING.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 24, 2015

I was interviewed by Seema Mody at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. As the Nasdaq reached 5,000 pts that day, the focus of the discussion was not on mobile trends but on valuation and whether or not we are in a bubble. For example, if you look at SaaS comps, the average FWD revenue multiple is around 5.4x

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Growthink Blog

MARCH 20, 2010

Growthink has worked on a number of projects with these emerging companies and offers the following insight to individuals who are looking to break into the lucrative mobile application market. One space that has found a way to do this is mobile gaming. As would be expected, venture capital has followed the mobile gaming space.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

Financial models, especially valuation models, are interesting in that they can be particularly precise. While it may seem like a tough question to answer, I would argue that most practitioners of valuation analysis would state “not very high.” It is not my aim to specifically convince anyone that Uber is worth any specific valuation.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . Point Nine Capital uses Qwilr to create modern, mobile-native collateral. 645 Ventures released a cap table simulator to help level the playing field. 7) Negotiate .

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 6, 2011

And its current revenues don't nearly support that. But, Facebook is doing something that it hopes will allow it to continue to grow like wildfire and grow into its $75 Billion valuation. It allows mobile devices that are less sophisticated than smart phones to use mobile applications. So what does Snaptu do?

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Scalable Startup

APRIL 6, 2015

A $1 billion valuation used to be a big deal for a web based company that wasn’t one of the top few. Almost anyone with a web based working “app” or mobile app can get funding. to create and deploy an Internet and/or mobile app live on the web or a phone. No business plan, no ROI. I get pitched one every day.

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David Teten

JULY 23, 2019

– Ideally revenues and other financial metrics if we can include that. – Fundraising history summary, including notable current investors and last round valuation. . – Drop Technologies *: The fastest-growing mobile rewards program. – 1 sentence with most exciting metric from their growth.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

“The Centaur is a business that reaches $100 million of annual recurring revenue (ARR)—a rare breed of cloud business, part of an elite subset of the growing unicorn herd.” But becoming a Unicorn, or receiving a billion dollar valuation is no longer an indication of growth. ” Bessemer.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 11, 2012

That didn't quite work out--while Zynga does represent over 10% of Facebook's revenue, Zynga continued to grew, went public at a multi-billion dollar valuation, and just bought a significant mobile foothold with OMGPOP. Facebook's Mobile Dilemma: While there's a ton of usage of Facebook on mobile, their app has serious issues.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Valuations. There are a ton of companies being funded at $500+ million valuations--seriously limiting exit opportunities. Facebook is doing billions in revenues. LinkedIn has great revenue growth. Are their valuations justified? The have actual revenues that are growing. stock market."

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Ben's Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

As we do so, keep in mind that the relevant bubble statistic is not valuation. High valuations are fine if the underlying value is there. Let’s look at public market comparables and venture capital flows to see if we can find a match. Venture capital flows. It’s the valuation:value ratio.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

However, the shift to mobile sparked a need for similar tools that could be accessed by anyone easily and in real-time.” ” This past September, the company raised $130 million in their Series D round , which skyrocketed Lightricks’s valuation to $1.8 It helps that they are backed by some of social media’s biggest stars.

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VC Cafe

JULY 13, 2022

There is a a lag of 2-3 months between public markets valuation changes and private markets reported investments. billion in revenue in 2021, 5% of global industry revenues in 2021 ($175 billion) ? billion in revenue in 2021. Initial signs of change can be seen in the decrease in round sizes. Some of the highlights: ?

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Professor VC

AUGUST 26, 2011

Everyone seems to know someone who has raised huge amounts of venture capital without ever putting together even back of the envelope projections. Does a complicated sales build model make sense for a pre-revenue SaaS company? I often do this in the revenue tab. Rebuild our Inner Cities one Venture at a time?

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Whether it was angel investment you were after or venture capital, or even investment from friends or family, you didn’t get the money. But, fewer than 100,000 businesses get angel investment, and fewer than 5,000 get venture capital. Focus on the parts of it most likely to generate early revenue. Get moving.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Around 2003, Quigo was doing tens of millions of dollars in revenue with two main products: a ready-to-use, search engine marketing solution for advertisers called FeedPoint and a contextual advertising platform for publishers called AdSonar. But, they also want it to remain fun and engaging and access it from mobile devices.

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Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

But of course, the model had us requiring only $10M equity to breakeven and to achieve $185M in revenues in 2008 (the magic Year 5 in all business plans). Once you raise venture capital, you are forced on a path to spend ahead of the business and seek the highest growth business model options. Venture Hacks. Steve Bennet.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

These are areas that may be gaps in the portfolio of large companies, and are perfect for M&A deals in three to five years after building enough validation and $10-$20 million in revenue. By definition, the capital investment needs to be relatively low such that the investors and the entrepreneurs all make a healthy return on investment.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

These are areas that may be gaps in the portfolio of large companies, and are perfect for M&A deals in three to five years after building enough validation and $10-$20 million in revenue. By definition, the capital investment needs to be relatively low such that the investors and the entrepreneurs all make a healthy return on investment.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

We had raised a small round of funding in 2013, led by a local angel investor who was a member of Central Texas Angel Network, and used the funds to build our first product (a mobile website) and launch with recommendations from friends of mine in Austin the week before South by Southwest Festival.

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