Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

How They Make Money: Majority of Kayak’s revenue actually comes from advertising on their site (55%), not lead generation or referral fees to travel suppliers as you might think (more on this below). Financial Snapshot: 2010 Revenue: $170 million. Revenue growth: 51% YoY (2010), 1% YoY (2009), 131% YoY (2008).

Pre-Money Valuation 113

Pre-Money Valuation Liquidation Preference Dividend Common Stock 113

Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

But of course, the model had us requiring only $10M equity to breakeven and to achieve $185M in revenues in 2008 (the magic Year 5 in all business plans). In looking back at the old financials, at the end of Q2 2005, our cash balance was a whopping $546. Before the $52M Series D , the $23M Series C , the $15.5M

San Jose 28

San Jose Angel Investor Term Sheet Venture Capital 28

www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

November 2005 Venture funding works like gears. There never has to be atime when you have no revenues. Some angel investors join together in syndicates. It costs you a little more equity, but being able to play the two firms off each other (as well as ask one if the other is being out of line) is invaluable.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Startup Software Review Angel Investor 76