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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

Both Sides of the Table

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. So money spent should add equity value or create IP that eventually will. (it is also the title of a fabulous book from Internet 1.0

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SailPoint Files to Raise $100 Million in a Public Offering

SiliconHills

SailPoint Technologies, founded in 2005, filed papers with federal regulators on Friday to raise $100 million in an initial public offering. The Austin-based cybersecurity firm has raised $26 million to date in venture capital and private equity funding.

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

Both Sides of the Table

But this mania to not miss out on the next big thing is driving some investors to pay growth-equity prices for traditional market risk (as in, they’re paying up before it is clear there is product / market fit). And well they should be. And so on down then line. We’re not cheap, but we’re disciplined.

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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

2010 Operating Income: $16 million. Obviously most of these employees are working hard primarily for equity upside compensation, but Kayak’s personnel costs are roughly $200K/head so the company is highly productive on a per employee basis. round closed Feb 2005. 2010 Net Income: $8 million. Series B Preferred.

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VC Evolution: Physician, Scale Thyself.

500hats.com

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. They are operators, through and through. Ok, let’s dive in and discuss in more detail. Mega VC, Micro VC. and no, we didn’t.

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Seed and pre-seed – trends and definitions

The Equity Kicker

The first thing to happen was that the bar for a Series A went up – unsurprising given that startups could now get much further with pre-Series A amounts of capital (2005-2010). That created a gap in market which sub $100m dedicated seed funds (aka micro-VCs) stepped into – there are now over 300 of them (2005-2016).

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April 4-Innovation in Private Company Liquidity-Online Merger Markets, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO

David Teten

I hope that you can join us Monday night, April 4, midtown NYC, at a panel on “Innovation in Private Company Liquidity-Online Merger Markets, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO” The program is sponsored by the HBS Club of New York and the HBS Angels of NY.