Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Distribution revenue is CPC and CPA. . Historically more revenue came from distribution/lead-gen (57% in 2007), but this tipped in 2008 though appears to be steady from 2009 to 2010 at about 58% advertising and 42% distribution. Kayak generates both distribution (i.e. round closed Feb 2005. Series B Preferred.

Pre-Money Valuation 113

Pre-Money Valuation Liquidation Preference Dividend Common Stock 113

Austin Startup

JUNE 19, 2018

THE IMPORTANCE OF GENDER PARTNERSHIP ‘The future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed.’ While not as imbalanced as physics, there were still more men then women that advanced to the partner track. Geoffrey used to quote William Gibson: “The future is already here, it’s just unevenly distributed”.

Ukraine 48

Ukraine Pennsylvania China Austin 48

500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

Or, as my friend Marc Andreessen might say, Software Eats the Private Equity World. A few years before all this scandalous VC behavior occurred, in 2005 Paul Graham ) started Y Combinator. However, all three shifts are related and can be summed up simply as: Geeks are Taking Over Venture Capital. Mega VC, Micro VC.

Silicon Valley 74

Silicon Valley Early Stage Venture Capital Valuation 74

Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 2, 2017

The nature of the way podcasts are produced and distributed (audio, web page and often video) makes them much more shareable than typical blog posts – resulting in more likes, shares, tweets, backlinks and traffic. Again, just the review equity from this alone make podcast guesting worth it. Free long-form blog posts. Oh yeah, Sales !

Kansas City 58

Kansas City Kansas SEO Marketing 58

Bryce Dot VC

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Back in 2005 we started a venture firm called OATV, O’Reilly Alpha Tech Ventures, myself, my partner Tim O’Reilly, and my partner Mark Jacobson. In that case, if you want to pay yourself more than 150% of a market salary, we would consider that a distribution. Then we put a 5X cap on the distributions.

Venture Capital 40

Venture Capital Valuation Los Angeles Chicago 40

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Luckily, I teach with two great VCs, Mar Hershenson of Pear Ventures and Jeff Epstein of Bessemer Venture Partners who both put together presentations unraveling the mysteries of how and why startups raise money. What was a Series A round in 2005 is now a pre-seed or seed round. Step 4: Series B – you raise $10-$50M.

Cofounder 429

Cofounder Seed Stage Valuation Metrics 429

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Spark Capital is relatively new to VC (founded in 2005) yet has become one of the hottest new VCs having invested in Twitter, Tumblr, AdMeld, Boxee, KickApps and many more companies. We also discussed having distributed teams (e.g. Current round: $31.0mm in Series C by Insight Venture Partners (Jeff Lieberman).

Venture Capital 217

Venture Capital Los Angeles Oakland Asia 217