ithacaVC

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

The MCOP can serve a critical role as founders and other management team members are diluted down by rounds of financing or if their equity is not in the money. As the investors’ aggregate liquidation preference (ALP) increases typically the need for a MCOP also increases. A few key points to consider: 1.

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Liquidation Preference Management Preferred Stock Dividend 55

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. . In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers. (To see the video above, please click the image, and then click on the Play button.).

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2022

Today most startup investors still register with the SEC as “ accredited ” investors before they buy any startup equity in the U.S. This requires a simple signature that you have a net worth of at least $1M or have made at least $200K each year for the last two years. Diversify your total investment across several startups.

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Liquidity Event Angel Investor SEC Accredited Investor 300

K9 Ventures

MAY 14, 2011

The incubators invest usually for an equity stake and buy equity at a extremely low valuation (for example, 7% for $15,000, which implies a pre-money valuation of less than $200,000). <$50K in aggregate. or may come from VC firms (as is now the case with YC being funded by Sequoia ). Lots, 20-100. 1-2 per partner.

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Preferred Stock Seed Stage Incubator Early Stage 125

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Today most startup investors still register with the SEC as “ accredited ” investors before they buy any startup equity in the U.S. This requires a simple signature that you have a net worth of at least $1M or have made at least $200K each year for the last two years. Diversify your total investment across several startups.

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Liquidity Event SEC Entrepreneur Accredited Investor 224

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

Today most startup investors still register with the SEC as “ accredited ” investors before they buy any startup equity in the U.S. This requires a simple signature that you have a net worth of at least $1M or have made at least $200K each year for the last two years. Diversify your total investment across several startups.

Liquidity Event 184

Liquidity Event SEC Accredited Investor Angel Investor 184

Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

Instead, they prefer to buy through large distribution companies that aggregate products from lots of suppliers and then make that inventory available to retailers to purchase. Net Profit. If you have any of these income or expense streams, you will list them below your Net Profit. Retail Distribution.

Business Plan 163

Business Plan Forecast Balance Sheet Distribution 163

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Today you still need to be registered with the SEC as an “ accredited ” investor to legally buy any startup equity. This requires a simple signature that you have a net worth of at least $1M or have made at least $200K each year for the last two years. These may be aggregated by an Angel group up to about $1M for an Angel round.

Accredited Investor 219

Accredited Investor Liquidity Event SEC Stock 219

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Today you still need to be registered with the SEC as an “ accredited ” investor to legally buy any startup equity. This requires a simple signature that you have a net worth of at least $1M or have made at least $200K each year for the last two years. These may be aggregated by an Angel group up to about $1M for an Angel round.

Portfolio 228

Portfolio Accredited Investor Liquidity Event SEC 228

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Today you still need to be registered with the SEC as an “ accredited ” investor to legally buy any startup equity in the U.S. This requires a simple signature that you have a net worth of at least $1M or have made at least $200K each year for the last two years. Diversify your total investment across several startups.

Accredited Investor 120

Accredited Investor Liquidity Event SEC Entrepreneur 120

View from Seed

OCTOBER 29, 2014

A smaller portion of the total capital in the VC ecosystem comes from high net worth individuals. There’s a wide range of intermediaries for venture capital and private equity investment, each with its own structure and business model. Insurance Companies. What Are These Intermediaries? Why Write About This Now?

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LP Private Equity Institutional Investors Venture Capital 335

Agile VC

OCTOBER 29, 2014

A smaller portion of the total capital in the VC ecosystem comes from high net worth individuals. There’s a wide range of intermediaries for venture capital and private equity investment, each with its own structure and business model. Insurance Companies. What Are These Intermediaries? What prompted me to think about this now?

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Venture Capital LP Private Equity Institutional Investors 279

David Teten

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

The average equity fund investor earned a market return of only 4.25%. I don’t think that a Net Present Value calculation is appropriate for every company. In aggregate, angels are significant investors. million households in the US with a net worth of $1 million or more. First, because of the returns.

Management 114

Management Pre-Money Valuation Venture Capital New Hampshire 114

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

3) Sometimes The Promise of Success Turns Into Actual Success – Setting aside very late-stage VC or growth equity type investors, successful VCs always raise new funds on the promise of success rather than actual (realized) returns of the most recent fund. So at a fund level (e.g. typically, which in most cases would to >20% IRR.

LP 154

LP Portfolio Venture Capital IRR 154

Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

John Warrillow: They sure are, and by the way, that’s a typical fishing letter used by either a private equity group or a business broker, as flattering as it can be, it probably doesn’t mean a whole lot. And we use the standard kind of format that most acquirers have adopted, which is called Net Promoter Score.

Entrepreneur 49

Entrepreneur Switzerland Revenue Differentiation 49

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

Many have noted that the aggregate shareholder value created by all of the Unicorns will vastly overshadow the losses from the inevitable failed unicorns. I get that you want to grow and I want you to grow, but let’s internally finance that growth by spending gross margin dollars rather than new dilutive dollars of equity.

IPO 40

IPO Term Sheet Silicon Valley Valuation 40

techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Researchers polled experts in lending, mezzanine capital, private equity, venture capital and private businesses themselves. However, enough on digital, so Sarah, please stop with the positive news- where will VC go to invest outside of net negative or zero ROI on green? A lot of the stats weren’t surprising. Add to this that 72.7%

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Venture Capital Technical Review Sweat Equity Valuation 62

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

PMC-Sierra is buying Wintegra for a net purchase price of $213 million and will pay up to an additional $60 million based on growth and performance milestones in 2011. billion net profit. PMC-Sierra, a premier Internet infrastructure semiconductor solution provider, is purchasing Wintegra Inc. , billion, of which $2.5

Bandwidth 79

Bandwidth Framework Forecast 79

Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

That’s because I think that sales and revenue solves a whole bunch of problems for companies, sometimes it creates [crosstalk 00:38:16] them but the majority is that it solves them is that I use for us a metric called Our Net Subscription Revenue Growth. Are you going for private equity? That’s fantastic.

Small Business 95

Small Business Finance Forecast Metrics 95

abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

Would that help retention and NPS (Net Promote Score)? Also, take a look at this critically important data point , also aggregated by Professor Jay Ritter. Their proceeds are delivered net of the banker fee of 5-7%! Do you think those customers would find that interesting and compelling? Would they be loyal?

IPO 82

IPO Customer Matching Silicon Valley 82

VC Cafe

JUNE 19, 2020

Impact Investing has been around for a long time, most prominently since the 1960’s as companies and governments began engaging with the concept through private equity and debt investing in developing economies. Impact tech investors include Bridges Fund Managements, DBL, Accion, Elevar equity and Patamar, among others.

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Venture Capital Global South Africa 174