Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. Often times when companies raise “bridge” financing (this is money from internal investors. Doxo (November 2009 financing, just announced in May 2010 as company exited stealth mode). Short answer: no.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 16, 2020

What’s more, one of the least appreciated or understood parts of owning and running a successful business is the importance of building and maintaining a credit profile that makes borrowing easier and provides options for financing that a poor profile doesn’t. Make sure your vendors report your good credit history.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Friday, October 10, 2008. The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008 Release. When we first published Bessemer’s Top 10 Laws for Being "SaaS-y" in early 2008 in conjunction with our annual invitation-only SaaS CEO Summit, we were overwhelmed with the positive response and feedback we received. Philippe Botteri.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2021

We’ve had two companies where we had to bridge finance them several times before they eventually IPO’d We had a portfolio company turn-down a $350 million acquisition because they wanted at least $400 million. Early-stage venture capital is about extreme winners. It sold to Amazon for > $1 billion.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Bottom line, early stage equity is very, very expensive. So at any point, if you are trying to raise money, and you are hearing from investors that you are too early and have too little validation, it may be a good thing. Then Liana Thompson pitched Trendy Loot , a very early stage deal site for low-end jewelry.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2017

Although we were studying finance, we were always more interested in tech. Take a look at some of the emails between us from 2010: We were attending NYU from 2008–2012. But we never lost the finance bug. But we got serious in early 2016 when we developed deep conviction around the immense technical vision of Ethereum.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 24, 2015

I’ve seen friends (and family members) lose much of their savings that way over the years because “Black Swans” happen and in 1987, 2001, 2003 & 2008 (just to name a few from my memory) huge market gyrations caused much financial distress to people seeking short-term gains. So plan your start date accordingly.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Yes, it’s true that FOMO (fear of missing out) is driving some irrational behavior and valuations amongst uber competitive deals and well-financed VCs. Try charging customers for your product when you have 12 competitors giving the product away free finances by $20 million of VC. The Exit Problem.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 5, 2011

The smart home business is still in the very early stages in India, and it will take some time before Evolutech ramps up. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. These resellers buy devices from the U.S. and Singapore at significantly higher prices and presumably would be open to sourcing lower-cost parts.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

Early-stage investors in technology startups are only looking for growth-oriented companies that can achieve an “exit&# someday – either via selling your company to a larger company or via an IPO. That’s the deal you get when you’re raising in a good market for startup financing. That’s fine.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Nonetheless, in the last couple of years, the flow of first-time entrepreneurs who come out with the misconception that Entrepreneurship = Financing has not abated. Folks, please understand a simple point: Business schools, when they teach you entrepreneurship, teach you about financing.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

I call it drip-financing. Most entrepreneurs have no choice but to avail of this sort of financing along with the mentoring and the contacts that could come with it (doesn't always come along, though). In 1M/1M, our preferred financing strategy is customers. Because customer financing equals revenue, not equity.

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Cloud Silicon Valley Incubator Finance 115

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 7, 2013

Startups are hungry for credit, but banks and other financial institutions have never been stricter with their financing parameters. They’re using metrics that are often unworkable in the current business environment, causing growing businesses to look elsewhere for capital and increasingly towards alternative forms of financing.

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 5, 2015

Together this means that Seed stage companies need to run longer and at a higher expense structure, meaning they need to raise a lot more capital. A re-jiggering of deal stages and sizes had begun in 2013. I still wanted K9 to be the first institutional money in a company and work with “frighteningly early-stage” companies.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2014

” Golden Gate Ventures , which has incubated 18 companies across 6 countries in Asia, estimates that the number of companies across Southeast Asia to receive Series A financing will double in 2014. The NRF has identified these six VC firms after evaluating 32 submissions of which 18 were initially shortlisted.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

I will work with him on his inventory financing strategy. I started doing my free Online Strategy Roundtables for entrepreneurs in the fall of 2008. JCLABoutique.com. Then Jeanne Chinn with JCLABoutique.com presented an upcoming e-commerce company that is planning to sell $210 tote bags for carrying pets.

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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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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

With a unique vision for starting and successfully managing innovative companies, he is the Managing Partner of Social Leverage, a holding company that invests in early stage web businesses. He holds a Master of Science in Finance from the London Business School and a Bachelor of Arts from Tulane University.

Technical Review 128

Technical Review Technology North Carolina Switzerland 128

Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). Now, for very early stage companies, you may be thinking, “I don’t have any cash, so outsourcing isn’t an option.&# To that I say baloney.

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VC Adventure

APRIL 2, 2020

Anecdotally I’ve heard that early stage valuations are already down 30-50%. It’s early and not clear where this will end up, but I’ll keep my eye on it and will report here what we’re seeing. Funds will smaller portfolios are more likely to be looking at new deals. Obviously, better to invest after.

Valuation 118

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Life Beyond Code

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

SM: In September 2008, when the first Entrepreneur Journeys book was released, D.D. And today, we have a group of early adopter premium members who are making good use of the program. This, of course, doesn’t mean that we discourage entrepreneurs to seek financing. The rest of the services are for paying members only.

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Programming Silicon Valley Bootstrapping Technical Review 116

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 6, 2011

From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. And today, we have a group of early adopter premium members who are making good use of the program. In over 100 roundtables, I have personally coached more than 400 early-stage entrepreneurs. She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Sequoia has financed them. I started doing my free Online Strategy Roundtables for entrepreneurs in the fall of 2008. With 600-800 vendors with their own specific integration requirements, there is a plethora of opportunities to build integration services companies around specific vendors or specific domains.

Cloud 117

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gtziralis.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

This indeed is a healthy approach and it seems to work pretty well to begin with it, especially in the pre-product, or also in the pre-revenues early stage of a technology company. December 2008. November 2008. October 2008. September 2008. August 2008. April 2008. March 2008.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Like many established finance & media companies, GLG knows that the tech startup sector is a growing part of the economy. This is particularly true in New York, where their traditional financial services industry client base has sustained significant damage since the 2008 financial crisis.

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New York Technical Review Networking Advisory Board 114

Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

How would Billy Beane have done as an early stage investor? Im still not convinced that "gut feel" isnt a good way to invest at the early stage, but this can certainly get rid of over-thinking and provides diversification and investments in entrepreneurial teams that would be otherwise overlooked. ► 2008. (14).

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Technical Review Early Stage San Jose Angel Investor 38

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 29, 2018

The book is also full of very practical early-stage marketing advice so you can break through the noise. Step Three: You need to think big or you will quickly fall into the pattern of being a first-stage entrepreneur (I describe the stages of entrepreneurship in this Lucky7 post ). yes, in the 4th quarter of 2008.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

Equity Crowdfunding: Your Solution for Small Business Financing? Small businesses haven’t had it easy since the dawn of the recession in 2008, but thankfully they’ve enjoyed a steady (if slow) recovery. Crowdfunding for Small Business: Marketing and Financing. Despite being the strongest drivers of growth in the U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 23, 2015

And this is following mega financings at Honest Company ($75 million), JustFab ($85 million), Victorious ($25 million) as well as the obviously known standouts like Tinder and SnapChat. But that was so 2008. LA has grown up a lot over the past 5 years. This is not your dad’s LA. They had only one problem.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

While a flood of new VCs came into existence during the late 90’s internet boom, many had difficulty raising new funds after the crashes of 2000-2001 and 2008 , and as a result significantly fewer fund managers exist now compared to a decade ago. In the past ten years there have been several dramatic changes in venture capital.

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Silicon Valley Early Stage Venture Capital Valuation 74

genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Media Fragmentation and the Growth of Small Publishers » April 07, 2008. Before you agree to take equity in lieu of cash, you need to understand that any individual early stage start-up company equity is most likely going to be worthless. Posted by Steve on April 07, 2008 at 12:57 AM | Permalink. Assistant Edge.

Equity 40

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

2- Business and Finance. I run an early stage-startup called Smarthome NX that helps consumers discover Smart home technologies through content, collaborative partnerships and commerce. My background comes from owning my own photography business when I became an entrepreneur back in 2008. Photo Credit: Elizabeth Urenda.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

There has been a preponderance of early-stage deals that have seen quick exits. My thesis on why this is happening is that large tech companies didn’t invest enough in R&D between 2008-2010 (Google even went through layoffs!!!) And the best early-stage investors know this.

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Angel Investor Early Stage Cap Table Deal Flow 284

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

My own firm was involved with the sale of our portfolio company BillMeLater (an online credit company – think PayPal but for credit) to eBay for $1 billion in October 2008. One of her early-stage investors, Jeff Clavier, played a very active role. I agreed to help.

Silicon Valley 280

Silicon Valley Early Stage Portfolio Chad 280

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

VC Financings: 1. Marketing and lead automation software for businesses; claim to have largest market share in sector since March 2008. I knew that OATV had invested in the company and I typically like to look harder at stuff that they do since I consider them to be very savvy with early stage trends.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Preserve your equity by using a consulting CTO to ramp up your company before securing early-stage financing and hiring a permanent technology partner. 9 Responses to Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO Startup Advice: Developer Stockholm Syndrome « Web Startup Help says: November 10, 2008 at 5:10 pm [.]

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thebarefootvc

JULY 13, 2016

We are now in the early stages of another major technological development called the blockchain. Once every 20 years or so, new technology comes to market that has the potential to change how we communicate, how we do business, and pushes the boundaries of everything we thought was possible.

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