Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 2, 2010
You can always talk to your VC about the “stage&# (seed, A, B, C) of deals they like to do and their “typical first investment size.&# All quotes in this post are VC lingo. In an early stage deal that fund might reserve 2x their initial investment or if it’s a larger round or later stage they might reserve 1x.
Steve Blank
APRIL 12, 2013
The second wave of technology investors were Chinese banks, who provided the majority of the later stage investments in the Torch Program. By 1991, 70% of the Torch funded startups were getting bank financing for expansion and later stages of the new ventures, with local governments acting as guarantors. Like the U.S.
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Steve Blank
APRIL 12, 2013
The second wave of technology investors were Chinese banks, who provided the majority of the later stage investments in the Torch Program. By 1991, 70% of the Torch funded startups were getting bank financing for expansion and later stages of the new ventures, with local governments acting as guarantors. Like the U.S.
Austin Startup
JUNE 27, 2017
Looking more closely at the pacing of the funds Austin Ventures raised in the table below, it also got caught up in the Dot Com frenzy, raising new, much larger funds almost every year from 1997–2001. Entrepreneurs with early stage companies typically look for local funding before going out of region to pursue other funding sources.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 28, 2010
This probably wasn’t a fun period of time for a new VC but nonetheless probably made Mike stronger than having started in 1997. Since then Mike his built his career by investing in early-stage companies (seed or series A), which is remarkable given that Polaris Ventures is a $1 billion fund. This lasted from about 2001-2004.
Version One Ventures
APRIL 14, 2021
It was a much later stage for us than our typical pre-seed/seed investment. At Version One, we believe that we are best when we stay in our early-stage lane, but in this case, we felt very confident that we should make an exception to our investment focus. Relative to how the Internet developed, we might only be in 1997/98.
Agile VC
OCTOBER 5, 2012
Even if that startup is ultimately unsuccessful or you’re joining a fairly large, later stage startup, getting the experience of being in a high growth company surrounded by other entrepreneurially minded people is the single best way to prepare for being a founder. The next best thing would be to join a recently public (e.g.
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