Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Way back in 2004, he cared enough about an associate's injury to spend time investigating, and used the exercise to isolate a root cause without blaming anyone. Elon Musk often talks about identifying all the dimensions of a problem, such as lower cost battery technology, as the key to moving the electric vehicle industry ahead.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Warning – this assumes some basic knowledge of VC performance metrics. One thing that jumps out quickly is that TVPI between 2004-2010 (avg 2.6x) has underperformed 2011-2017 (avg 3.0x). For context, seed-stage pre-money valuations are up 24% from H1 2020 to H1 2021. Ok, let’s jump in. State of VC: are we in a bubble?

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Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Distribution Early Stage 319

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Warning – this assumes some basic knowledge of VC performance metrics. One thing that jumps out quickly is that TVPI between 2004-2010 (avg 2.6x) has underperformed 2011-2017 (avg 3.0x). For context, seed-stage pre-money valuations are up 24% from H1 2020 to H1 2021. Ok, let’s jump in. State of VC: are we in a bubble?

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Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Distribution Early Stage 295

View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Warning – this assumes some basic knowledge of VC performance metrics. One thing that jumps out quickly is that TVPI between 2004-2010 (avg 2.6x) has underperformed 2011-2017 (avg 3.0x). For context, seed-stage pre-money valuations are up 24% from H1 2020 to H1 2021. Ok, let’s jump in. State of VC: are we in a bubble?

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Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Distribution Early Stage 156

Ben's Blog

AUGUST 17, 2020

A multiple is a company value divided by a metric. While both earnings and EBITDA multiples are widely used, we often see investors in public and private technology companies resort to revenue multiples (enterprise value / revenue). Not too shabby! But would that be a good deal for the shareholders entering at this stage?

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 3, 2024

The UN’s 2004 “Who Cares Wins” report was a major milestone, but it wasn’t until The Paris Agreement in 2015 that ESG took center stage, pushing companies to focus on environmental impact. After tracking over 1000 facilities per month, the company has calculated more than 200 million metric tonnes of total CO2 emissions.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Software Review Cloud 147

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 27, 2020

And then, when COVID happened, we felt an obligation to see if our technology had any application there and went with it once we saw there was promise. And our core technology focuses on disabling sperm cells from getting close to the egg, and ultimately fertilize an egg. But I think that, again, this is hindsight being 2020.

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