Professor VC

DECEMBER 18, 2008

Many entrepreneurial programs feature a business plan competition, which is a great exercise. At SJSU, we also have a business plan competition in the spring, which ideally allows the students to build a viable business model around their NIF projects. One of my favorite projects from 2007 was a solar power wetsuit.

San Jose 28

San Jose Silicon Valley Technical Review Angel Investor 28

Professor VC

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

He raised less financing than originally planned but was able to launch the site and was running a business by the time his classmates graduated 9 months later. I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases. ► October. (1).

Technical Review 28

Technical Review San Jose Angel Investor Silicon Valley 28

Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

While currently free to angel groups, their business model revolves around aggregating the angel investment data. If my math is correct, this is approximately a 31% IRR, which has to beat individual angel investments on aggregate and venture capital returns over the period of the study (1990-2007). Back to the panel.

Pre-Money Valuation 28

Pre-Money Valuation Angel Investor Angel Groups Valuation 28

Professor VC

AUGUST 26, 2011

To that last one, there is certainly some truth as the standard time vs. revenue chart in most business plans looks like this: Im not teaching Entrepreneurial Finance this semester for the first time since Fall 2007. Is the model consistent with the business plan? Does the business model make sense?

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Silicon Valley San Jose Hockey Stick Venture Capital 35

Professor VC

JANUARY 20, 2009

The latest statistics from VentureSource show 554 financings in Q4, down from 620 in Q3 and 718 in Q4 2007. I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases. Total amount raised fell from $7.5 billion to $5.5 million and $4.2

Venture Capital 28

Venture Capital Silicon Valley San Jose Bootstrapping 28

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Huge funding increases lead to massive wage inflation, rent inflation and thus higher burn rates. You’ll see here that in 2007 people were willing to pay 7.7x forward revenue for SaaS businesses when in the years before it had been less than 5x. This corrected only to go back up to 13.4x

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