Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

. “I don’t know the exact math, but I hear it again and again: the top 2% of firms generate 98% of the returns in venture capital.” As you can see from the chart their data suggests there are about $25 billion of VC distributions per year in the US. By 2009 had reduced to around $15 billion in capital from LPs.

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LP Later Stage IRR Term Sheet 374

VC Cafe

MAY 29, 2014

In 2013, mobile gaming generated $13.2 Source: Gartner, Oct 2013). The Internet made it easy to distribute cognitive games, and mobile devices meant they could be played anywhere. Both companies are backed by venture capital funds. The rise of mobile gaming. billion in revenue worldwide. billion for 2014.

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Marketing Mobile Cofounder Venture Capital 162

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

He’ll be speaking at this year’s Lean Startup Conference , and also has a new book (for which I very happily wrote a short foreword) coming out next month: Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It. What is venture capital, really? And what does a venture capital firm do?

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Lean Venture Capital Conversion IPO 108

VC Adventure

AUGUST 12, 2014

It’s a generalization but one that’s pretty well accepted in venture circles and it’s how many VCs describe target fund distribution, myself included. Correlation Ventures just released a study that shows the distribution of outcomes across over 21,000 financings and spanning the years 20014-2013. Actually no.

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IRR Portfolio Distribution Finance 122

The Next Web

DECEMBER 30, 2012

These are with no doubt worthwhile goals, but I’d like to pose an important challenge for founders: Make learning and development your key resolution in 2013. Learn how to raise capital from angel investors and venture capitalists (and how to decide who you should target). Khan Academy.

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Artificial Inteligence Founder Private Equity Ruby 156

Growthink Blog

JANUARY 7, 2015

In addition to the massive flows of capital and wealth created and distributed by the top tech. In addition to the massive flows of capital and wealth created and distributed by the top tech. And from this human capital new technologies and new companies are born. companies continue to lead the way. Record Exports.

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Balance Sheet Private Equity Venture Capital .Net 48

K9 Ventures

APRIL 9, 2014

” The venture landscape was evolving and had reached a point where Super Angels were an important part of the ecosystem. Well, now in 2013, almost 2 years to the date, things have changed again. Top engineering talent today has a bimodal distribution. K9 Ventures is also on Facebook and Google+.

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Mezzanine Seed Stage Early Stage IPO 134

Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

  I’ve sat down with entrepreneurs and a copy of a term sheet guide I like [ “Term Sheets & Valuations - A Line by Line Look at the Intricacies of Venture Capital Term Sheets & Valuations ” by Alex Wilmerding, Aspatore Press.] and walked through each proposed term and why it is or isn’t important.

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Term Sheet Valuation Dividend Liquidation Preference 68

Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

I lovingly call him the curmudgeon of fintech – in this episode we go deep into how he is building a venture capital firm and practice, not just running a fund and how he views the world of fintech investing. He is also co-founder and Managing Partner of Deciens Capital, an early stage investment fund.

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Silicon Valley Venture Capital Cofounder Africa 88

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 8, 2016

As reported by The Wall Street Journal, a minimum of 110 “open source startups” had raised more than $7 billion from venture capitalists as of 2015, up over 100% since 2013. Both companies offer Hadoop distributions, but Cloudera has been much more willing to offer proprietary add-ons to complement its open source platform.

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Software Open Source Valuation Analytics 60

Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

The Future of Startups 2013-2017, beginning of a series. Sunday, January 27th, 2013. The big advantage that we have as a venture capital firm over a hedge fund or a mutual fund is we have a 13-year lockup on our money. So jump on this next rain now, more postings on this to come. ALEXIA TSOTSIS.

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Software Review Startup Venture Capital Stock 22

Jeff Hilimire

AUGUST 30, 2013

Chapter two was Engauge, which we sold to Publicis in August 2013. One inhibiting factor is Atlanta’s community of angel investors and venture capital firms, many of whom have little experience with B2C startups. Backed by his $5 million Atlanta Ventures fund, Cummings hopes to “de-risk” such investments.

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Atlanta B2C Georgia Los Angeles 77

Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

I’d been experimenting with distributed payments online and couldn't figure out whether to create a business around this or not when Jesse contacted me about a crypto exchange he was building. It sounded fun, so I went to San Francisco to join the team and Kraken launched in summer 2013. How did Kraken come about? ?

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San Francisco Europe New York Cofounder 62

Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

The business model (OEM through broadband and home security companies for mass distribution) if not specific product functionality has remained largely the same. Once you raise venture capital, you are forced on a path to spend ahead of the business and seek the highest growth business model options. Venture News.

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San Jose Angel Investor Term Sheet Venture Capital 28

abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Unfortunately, either information asymmetry or physical distances and the resulting distribution costs can both cut against the economic advantages that would otherwise arise for all. VIPKid , which was founded in 2013 by Cindy Mi , is a truly amazing story. As you can see, that can be a big mistake.

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Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

Tim Keane

APRIL 24, 2006

Last night, Bob Zieserl, Venture Capitalist, and general partner at Stratus Ventures, was the keynote speaker at the Marquette University Business Plan Competition. "Over the last twenty years, 11,000 companies have had Venture Capital investments. April 2013. January 2013. They were unsuccessful.

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Wisconsin Angel Investor Bootstrapping Venture Capital 60

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 26, 2013

“So many folks in the venture capital business are sheep that just want to follow the herd. 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2013 | MIT Technology Review – [link]. Downfalls of Distributed Startups – [link]. – [link]. 5 Hiring Mistakes That Can Crush Your Company’s Culture – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 90

abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

In 2015, 46 percent of workers were enrolled in a plan with an annual deductible of $1,000 or more, up from 38 percent in 2013 and 22 percent in 2009. Our venture capital firm, Benchmark, has made four investments consistent with the “customer-first” theme. Here are a list of the new forces pushing the U.S. healthcare market.

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Customer Technical Review Venture Capital Software Review 59

David Teten

MARCH 5, 2021

What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? Of course, one could rebut that by saying traditional VC is all about investing in outliers: Seth Levine analyzed data from Correlation Ventures (21,000 financings from 2004-2013) and writes that “a full 65% of financings fail to return 1x capital.

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Cofounder Founder Technical Cofounder Technical Review 78

Haystack

DECEMBER 17, 2019

As a little tradition on this blog, I’ve singled out companies starting in 2012 with Stripe ; there was Snap back in 2013; Slack in 2014 (after prematurely saying there wasn’t one); took a break in 2015-16, as I wasn’t inspired to select one then; in 2017 it was Coinbase ; and last year, 2018, it was Airtable.

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Cap Table Finance Database Software 113

Professor VC

MARCH 5, 2014

When I finally bought the car in January, 2013, a single Bitcoin was worth $15. For those not familiar with Ripple, it is an open-source, distributed payment protocol. Ripple''s goal is to make payments just like communications -- global, distributed, instant and free. We are open to all ideas.

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Venture Capital Distribution Open Source Analytics 31

Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Only a handful of so-called unicorns — companies that have achieved a valuation of over $1 billion in the last 10 years — come from Israel, and only one Israeli firm, Teva, ranks in the world’s 500 largest companies by market capitalization. billion in 2013. So how do Israeli ventures scale up? But is all of that changing?

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Cofounder Technical Review United States 20

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Since 2013, when Wix, the first of these companies went public, the Euroscape Public Index has outpaced the Nasdaq by 2.5x, achieving more than 500% growth in seven years. We expect the growth of the Index to only accelerate as Europe generates more unicorns.

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Europe Cloud Silicon Valley 71

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 1, 2013

Venture Capital Returns – [link]. Fully Distributed Teams: are they viable? 18 Meta Tags Every Webpage Should Have in 2013 | iAcquire Blog – [link]. 55 Brand New Adobe Photoshop Actions for 2013 – [link]. Play by your own rules – [link]. When culture turns into policy – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 97

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Then came the rise of the private equity firms, the explosion of Venture Capital and more recently Corporate Venturing. Greater availability has led to a dramatic reduction in prices as providers find innovative ways to distribute their offerings. at the end of 2013. New sources of funding.

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Private Equity Australia Security Venture Capital 100

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Added – March 2013* Startup Intelligence tools. Read post Why Learning should be your top 2013 new year’s resolution  for a full list. free, distributed source code control management system.

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Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Skype became part of Microsoft so I was at Microsoft for two years and then in September of 2013 I left Microsoft and GroupMe to start Fundera which is an online marketplace for small business loans. If you’re looking for five million dollars, you should be thinking institutional capital. Bates: Fantastic.

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Small Business Finance Forecast Metrics 95