YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

When Amazon came knocking in 2009, they had been modestly profitable for only two years. They devalued the company and sold 70% of the business to private investors in 2009. Negotiating a different deal structure could have prevented the price from dropping. Unique social networking product. Low profitability.

IPO 162

IPO Exit Strategy San Francisco Startup 162

K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 10, 2017

It is what Seed used to be from 2009-2013, until the Seed rounds got fat and bloated and the bar for raising a Seed round became a lot higher. If it doesn’t have the product fully baked yet? A Seed round today — like the Series A round of yesteryear — requires some kind of traction or product. Q: Define Pre-Seed?

Seed Stage 82

Seed Stage Finance Later Stage Equity 82

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Like SaaS products themselves, we now intend for these laws to be periodically refined through major releases to reflect the changing landscape of the SaaS world. Save Asia for post-IPO Single instance, multi-tenant, single datacenter - Have only one version of the code in production.

Software Review 48

Software Review North America Europe Metrics 48