Up and Running

AUGUST 29, 2014

Many people who want to start a business believe they will be able to get grants or loans to help them finance the venture. Part of a venture feasibility study is to look at what financial resources are already available in personal bank accounts, equity in a home, life insurance, family and friends or from selling assets.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

“In a lot of the industries in which I ended up launching companies, there was a pre-existing profile of what a successful entrepreneur should look like—typically a young, white male with a technical, finance, or political background,” says Aguirre de Carcer. While private equity has a history in the U.S. 33 billion in venture funding.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

Michael is a very accomplished corporate executive in his own right having run Sega Gameworks and helped IPO EuroDisney as well as having been on the founding team of DreamWorks SKG (where he helped them raise their first $900 million in equity). Venture Financing. Founded in 2002 and expanded after founders graduated from CMU in 2006.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 12, 2010

4) Cash balance increase indicates a focus on M&A to drive further growth The past few months have also been marked by a few high profile equity and debt announcements - most notably SuccessFactors, Taleo and Saleforce.com. Finance Dissertation Help. Finance Dissertation Proposal. ► 2006. (7). Yahoo Finance.

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Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 5, 2010

In 2006, China’s total venture capital investment reached $1.78 Renmin University was among the first universities to create a venture capital major in the School of Finance and teach venture capital for undergraduates. Mannie and I share a strong interest in research in the field of venture capital and private equity.

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Gust

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Here are the trends in venture capital financings from 2006 through 2010 – the number of seed stage deals funded and total investment by region in millions of dollars. . All Seed-VC. Silicon Valley. New England. Southern California*. Northwest. . $$$$. Deals. $$$$. Deals. $$$$. Deals. $$$$. Deals. $$$$. Deals. $$$$. Investment.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 26, 2016

There are a number of factors that have contributed to the rise of pre-seed rounds, but the strongest have been the frothy late-stage financing market, coupled with both the scaling-up of some of the early winners in the institutional seed ecosystem and the scaling-down of some larger funds that retrenched after the financial crisis.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

3) invest in and take equity stakes in exchange for capital. For the next four or five years, technology M&A boomed, growing from 50 in 2003 to 450 in 2006. We could for example, find warning signs in popular literature about e.g. finance suggesting rapid maturation in bond trading. Warning sign? At best. ~

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Entrepreneurs and investors who have spent any time dealing with convertible debt seed financing transactions are likely to have encountered the subject of valuation caps. The cap is irrelevant if the next equity financing is at a valuation below the cap amount.) was spun out, and the valuation was set by that financing round.

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The Equity Kicker

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

There’s been a lot of talk recently about what will happen to startup financing in 2016, including here on this blog. Mark also notes that startup valuations went up 3x from 2006-2015, and simple supply and demand logic suggests the non-VC cash in the market was important in driving prices up.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

It means they have to deal with finances and customers and investors and other things that aren’t what they love to do, which is building software. ” I believe that by this he means they want cash rather than equity. Finance (1). © 2006-present Robby Grossman. But conceptually it does ring of some truth.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 2, 2010

In addition, I’ve made many seed investments as an angel investor in two time periods,1994-1996 and 2006-2007, and seen many more through my involvement as a co-founder of TechStars. ?Our Tags: Seed Financing seed VC. Million Round From Google Ventures.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Clearly a startup should consult its lawyer before filing or not filing.But the attorneys I relied on to write this piece told me that they’ve done lots of Section 4(2) deals in the past, and would recommend it to clients who had relatively simple financing agreements (not tranched-out, not too many investors, etc.) Short answer: no.

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Up and Running

JULY 29, 2015

Equity Crowdfunding. Equity crowdfunding takes the crowdfunding process to the next level. These sites function a lot like the sites listed above, but investors get equity in your startup. See Also Are You Ready for Equity Based Crowdfunding? With LendingClub, loans are financed through investors. Crowdfunder.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Prior to joining First Round in early 2006, Mr. Fralic was VP of Business Development at social bookmarking and tagging company del.icio.us Mr. Fralic earned his BS in Finance from Villanova University and his MBA from St. through the Yahoo! acquisition. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia.

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The Startup Lawyer

MARCH 11, 2010

I welcome these and future standardized seed funding docs because they provide entrepreneurs with the chance to take a look at financing terms. No set of seed funding documents will replace counsel, either pre-financing or post-financing. That’s one of the reasons why I started this blog in 2006. However, most (all?)

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The Startup Lawyer

MARCH 11, 2010

I welcome these and future standardized seed funding docs because they provide entrepreneurs with the chance to take a look financing terms. No set of seed funding documents will replace counsel, either pre-financing or post-financing. That’s one of the reasons why I started this blog in 2006. However, most (all?)

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Delaware Hockey Stick Preferred Stock Open Source 45

David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Mr. Parekh started his career at Goldman Sachs, developing the firm’s equities business in the Middle East, with high net worth family offices and sovereign wealth funds. Panel 2 – How Social Investing is Disrupting Investments in Hedge Funds, Private Equity Funds, and Other Alternatives.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 22, 2009

If you assume a 20% cost of capital (typical for equity, debt is generally cheaper), then getting an upfront payment for one additional year on a $10k MRR contract saves you $24k. ► 2006. (7). Yahoo Finance. Accelerating bonuses for upfront cash payment depends on your cost of capital. ► 02/11 - 02/18. (2).

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Jason Ball

JANUARY 16, 2008

I posted last year’s figures from Icon Corporate Finance, showing how exit valuations were 1.5x -2x sales. What’s clear though is that the multiples for 2007 are trending down from those of 2006… If you’re an entrepreneur out fundraising, you need to keep these multiples in mind.

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Tim Keane

APRIL 12, 2006

» April 12, 2006. What’s your attitude about “next round” financing? The percentage owned by the entrepreneur after the investment has been made is the “sweat equity” that represents the work the entrepreneur has done to get to this point. Second, the fundamental question about the percentage for the equity is value.

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

The IPO market remained closed to IT startups, but there were big acquisitions like Google buying YouTube for $1.65B (Fall 2006) and late stage financing rounds for companies like Facebook (Microsoft round at $15B valuation in Fall 2007). Kevin Rose was on the cover of BusinessWeek.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

October 2006 In the Q & A period after a recent talk, someone asked what madestartups fail. The sixth largest center for oil, or finance, or publishing?Whatever Want to start a startup? Get funded by Y Combinator. After standing there gaping for a few seconds Irealized this was kind of a trick question. Why is the falloff so sharp?

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

HW: Having been at MySpace 2006-2009 do you have empathy today for what Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are trying to solve (safety and abuse, manipulation)? I’ve also learned that I’m best when I have 14 plates spinning and 18 balls in the air at once. So I’m drawn to opportunities full of those challenges.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

In 2006, PMC-Sierra acquired Herzliya-based Passave, a developer of system-on-chip semiconductor solutions for the Fiber To The Home (FTTH) access market, for $300 million. Wintegra, founded in 2000, has 165 employees with the majority of its R&D development team located in Ra’anana, Israel, and Austin, Texas.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 19, 2019

Previously, on the venture side you wanted to invest as early as possible, because the first round of financing got you to a product, and then you'd get beta-type customers, and then you'd raise a second round at a much higher price, and the business could immediately take off from there. It's literally impossible. That sounds ideal.

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Silicon Valley Lean Venture Capital Pre-Money Valuation 159