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. For example, if you are producing a medical device, you will have milestones associated with clinical testing and government approval processes. Net Profit.

Business Plan 163

Business Plan Forecast Balance Sheet Distribution 163

View from Seed

OCTOBER 29, 2014

A smaller portion of the total capital in the VC ecosystem comes from high net worth individuals. The third reason is less in the hands of these institutional investors, and that’s governance. There’s a wide range of intermediaries for venture capital and private equity investment, each with its own structure and business model.

LP 335

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. The third reason is less in the hands of these institutional investors, and that’s governance. There’s a wide range of intermediaries for venture capital and private equity investment, each with its own structure and business model.

Venture Capital 279

Venture Capital LP Private Equity Institutional Investors 279

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

A huge cleantech boom occurred and battery companies like A123 went public along with biofuels companies like Amyris, Gevo, and others, though in retrospect this was more of a bubble driven by unsustainable government subsidies (A123 is bankrupt and the biofuels companies trade at a fraction of their IPO valuation). So at a fund level (e.g.

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 50

Entrepreneur Switzerland Revenue Differentiation 50

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

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