Gust

JULY 30, 2015

2015 is shaping up to be a strong year for the startup and early stage investor ecosystem. 2015 Is A Strong Year For Startups appeared first on The Gust Blog. Coming out of the second quarter of the year, the total number Read more >. Coming out of the second quarter of the year, the total number Read more >.

New York City 70

New York City United States Early Stage New York 70

Gust

JULY 30, 2015

2015 is shaping up to be a strong year for the startup and early stage investor ecosystem. 2015 Is A Strong Year For Startups appeared first on The Gust Blog. Coming out of the second quarter of the year, the total number Read more >. Coming out of the second quarter of the year, the total number Read more >.

New York City 70

New York City United States Early Stage New York 70

YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2019

If followed, we believe it can help startup teams navigate the critical early stages of development – and avoid joining a majority of early stage companies that end up on the entrepreneurial scrap heap. Read on to discover why successfully traversing the Traction Gap is critical to early stage companies.

Cleveland 217

Cleveland Early Stage Framework Startup 217

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2015

In all cases, grants should be seen as primarily an early-stage development assist, and not the last step to commercialization. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 6/3/2015. Technology is not enough. The only real funding that counts in startup success comes from customers. They don’t ask for equity either.

SBIR 120

SBIR Equity Technical Review Early Stage 120

View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

We first invested in co-founders Ben Forgan & Pat Wilbur in early 2015, when NextView led a $1.3M And early-stage VC investors have increasingly ventured beyond their backyards of SF, NYC, and Boston to more actively invest in (and in some cases relocate to) places like Miami, Austin, Chicago, Seattle, and other cities.

Chicago 177

Chicago Cofounder Miami B2B 177

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

million early-stage raise that involved pitching to over a dozen PE firms, which took months to negotiate. Takeaway lesson: There’s a reason that private equity companies tend to concentrate their early-stage investments among Ivy League graduates in Silicon Valley, and that reason is reduced risk.

Private Equity 94

Private Equity Pre-Money Valuation Equity Startup 94

Feld Thoughts

MARCH 5, 2021

We created the Techstars Foundation in 2015 to help make innovation and entrepreneurship more accessible and inclusive. Through Accelerate Equity, the Techstars Foundation identifies early-stage nonprofits and ideas to empower and support underestimated entrepreneurs.

Equity 163

Equity North Carolina Early Stage Distribution 163

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Below are six key mobile holiday shopping trends we’re seeing take shape for 2015: 1. Shoppers will still need to peck in sixteen-digit credit card numbers in the 2015 holiday season. Prior to founding Moovweb, Ajay was an early stage investor in startups and wrote apps for the very first smartphones. Recap of Trends.

Mobile 100

Mobile Software Review eCommerce .Net 100

View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

We first invested in co-founders Ben Forgan & Pat Wilbur in early 2015, when NextView led a $1.3M And early-stage VC investors have increasingly ventured beyond their backyards of SF, NYC, and Boston to more actively invest in (and in some cases relocate to) places like Miami, Austin, Chicago, Seattle, and other cities.

Chicago 156

Chicago Cofounder Miami B2B 156

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 22, 2015

These community-led experiences were so much fun -- and became a source of such serendipitous, fruitful connections -- that we’ve decided to iterate on the idea for the 2015 conference and make it a core part of our program. Get Involved The 2015 conference will be held from November 16th-19th at historic Fort Mason in San Francisco.

Lean 60

Lean San Francisco Startup Cofounder 60

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Here’s a short summary of the discussion: Guy, you launched Snyk in 2015, and a large part of your success was driven by your freemium model. I see a lot of early-stage companies struggling with this. With COVID, we’re getting into a world with tighter budgets and likely longer sales cycles.

Early Stage 62

Early Stage Open Source Development Team Review Security 62

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 9, 2016

In 2015, Canada ranked second in the world in terms of entrepreneurial activity, surpassing most G7 countries and a majority of the developed world. The research also found that 13 percent of Canada’s working-age population is engaged or involved in various early-stage entrepreneurial activities.

Canada 100

Canada Entrepreneur Technical Review Australia 100

VC Cafe

APRIL 23, 2016

Another Vietnamese government arm, the Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST), published their intention to launch a VC fund in 2015. Vietnam’s promising start-up ecosystem. 500 Startups announced their $10 Vietnam fund in March , while FPT Ventures has a Seed Fund and Golden Gate Ventures maintains a rep focused on Vietnam.

Vietnam 60

Vietnam Venture Capital Silicon Valley Early Stage 60

Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 14, 2016

From Series A and onwards, fundraising takes longer and valuations are typically below the expectations and benchmarks of 2015. This can set up a perfect storm if early-stage companies don’t manage their expectations and reality properly. 2016 for Version One companies.

Technical Review 60

Technical Review Early Stage Portfolio Valuation 60

David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

Though RBI will displace some traditional equity VC, its much bigger impact will be to expand the pool of capital available for early-stage entrepreneurs. . However, only recently have early-stage companies started to use this model at any scale. . So what is Revenue Based Investing?

Revenue 60

Revenue Term Sheet Founder Technical Review 60

NZ Entrepreneur

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Founded in 2015, Niesh provides an app designed to meet the challenges of the modern university student, and now offers both a suite of services for brands to connect with the youth market and deals to make every student’s life easier. New Zealand startups need to know that the local market is limited by the relatively small population of 4.8

Global 50

Global New Zealand Incubator Startup 50

View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

We first invested in co-founders Ben Forgan & Pat Wilbur in early 2015, when NextView led a $1.3M And early-stage VC investors have increasingly ventured beyond their backyards of SF, NYC, and Boston to more actively invest in (and in some cases relocate to) places like Miami, Austin, Chicago, Seattle, and other cities.

Chicago 136

Chicago Cofounder Miami B2B 136

thebarefootvc

JULY 3, 2016

As I look at the data, I am proud of what we’ve built and by all accounts we had a great 2015. I am thankful to all of FPV’s early LPs, advisors and entrepreneurs who are an indispensable part of FPV’s mission and success to date. The post FuturePerfect Ventures: A 2015 Recap appeared first on The Barefoot VC. 2015EOY_FPV_v31.

North America 40

North America Early Stage New York City Portfolio 40

thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

As I look at the data, I am proud of what we’ve built and by all accounts we had a great 2015. I am thankful to all of FPV’s early LPs, advisors and entrepreneurs who are an indispensable part of FPV’s mission and success to date. The post FuturePerfect Ventures: A 2015 Recap appeared first on The Barefoot VC.

North America 40

North America Early Stage New York City Portfolio 40

View from Seed

JULY 15, 2020

For example, a 2015 vintage fund is adding new portfolio companies in 2015, 2016, and perhaps 2017. Some early stage businesses may even be able to get to CFBE fairly quickly. VC’s also manage multiple funds that get deployed over 10+ years, with new investments happening over the first 2-3 years of a fund’s life.

Portfolio 215

Portfolio IRR Dilution Distribution 215

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

msuster looking for an inspired post on when an exclusivity deal (w/ major industry player) works (cons as well) for an early stage tech co. — PR Malloy (@diddly_do_indy) June 13, 2015. I must admit I discuss this very frequently with portfolio companies but hadn’t thought to write about it.

PR 150

PR Early Stage Software Naming 150

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2015

I challenge any entrepreneur, for example, to define the difference between "seed-stage" and "early-stage" financing. Asking for early-stage money before you have customers and revenue will likely kill your credibility with real investors. Yet, knowing this distinction is important.

Seed Stage 120

Seed Stage Finance Early Stage Startup 120

Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

Austin Ventures remained the dominant firm in Austin — and Texas — from the launch of its predecessor fund, Rust Ventures, in 1979 through 2015. link] But by 2015, it had become clear that Austin Ventures was unable to raise its eleventh fund and Fortune signaled its demise with an article entitled The Death of Austin Ventures.

Venture Capital 54

Venture Capital Austin Texas Private Equity 54

K9 Ventures

JUNE 5, 2015

I still wanted K9 to be the first institutional money in a company and work with “frighteningly early-stage” companies. Fast-forward to June 2015, two years later, and now I feel that the change that I started to notice back in 2013, is here, and it’s here to stay. Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) June 4, 2015.

Seed Stage 48

Seed Stage Venture Capital Early Stage Valuation 48

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2016

We All Know That Dollars into Venture Have Gone Up … As a starting point, we know that the dollars into venture have steadily rebounded to pre great-recession levels, with just under $30 billion committed to US technology venture capital in 2015. …But LPs Have Been Putting Out More Money Than They Are Getting Back.

Venture Capital 150

Venture Capital LP Silicon Valley Marketing 150

David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

This is a model used in at least one case by China’s third-largest private equity firm, China Science & Merchants Investment Management Group ($12 billion+ AUM), which funded in 2015 CSC Upshot, a $400m seed fund through AngelList. In this, they resembled many other professional services firms.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Cofounder 60

Up and Running

JUNE 13, 2018

In the early stages of starting a business, many entrepreneurs are too concerned with how old they are and what they haven’t yet achieved compared to other business leaders. A 2015 study by a cake company found one out of every three individuals polled felt more stressed at the time of the survey compared to five years prior.

Management 107

Management Early Stage Green Entrepreneur 107

thebarefootvc

JULY 3, 2017

Success in early stage investing is about spotting unique talent and collaborating with entrepreneurs to help grow their businesses, not a prescribed method of pattern recognition. When I started my career, I never envisioned starting a fund. I’ve said it many times: we can’t have one demographic funding the future of innovation.

LP 65

LP Technical Review Silicon Valley Limited Partner 65

View from Seed

MARCH 16, 2016

Most impressively, there seems to be a thriving startup of every flavor, with many more joining the list of Pillar Startups on the Guide in 2016 compared to 2015. This is true when it comes to early-stage funding, but also as it relates to support platforms being built by local firms to help Boston-based startups.

Boston 215

Boston Early Stage Artificial Inteligence Semantic 215

Berkonomics

JANUARY 20, 2022

Dave’s note: This is a reprint of a 2015 insight that seems to have struck a chord with investors and entrepreneurs. Most of us in this world of early-stage investing have seen thousands of proposals, good and bad. Here are some rules that entrepreneurs almost always ignore to their future peril.

Valuation 127

Valuation Startup Seed Money Early Stage 127

Transformify

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Commenced in July 2017, The Youth Enterprise Development Fund provides start-up loans to help young entrepreneurs fund their businesses at a very early stage. However, to diversify its workforce and economy, in 2015 the country adopted TizaaWorks.

Africa 75

Africa Benin Seychelles Nigeria 75

Up and Running

MARCH 6, 2015

Most of those people are at the very early stages of starting a business and as such, are looking to see what others have done. Where should you be focusing your energies in 2015? Take a look at this great list of food trends for 2015 compiled by TakePart contributor Jason Best. What are the most popular industries?

Business Plan 60

Business Plan Technical Review eCommerce Connecticut 60

View from Seed

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Palantir ($20B valuation in 2015 round, but unknown today). Fab.com (asset sale to PCH in 2015). But as an early-stage VC investor I’m more impressed by a company that achieves a $500M enterprise value with <$25M of paid in capital than one that hits $1B with >$250M in funding. Pinterest ($12.3B Fallen Unicorns.

IPO 120

IPO Valuation San Francisco Silicon Valley 120

Rob Go

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

This is happening because many series A investors are not really investing in early stage companies any more. In fact, many of these investors are not just looking for early product/market fit, but for meaningful scale and growth. Our prediction in October was that this is not a sustainable situation for the early stage market.

Later Stage 28

Later Stage Marketing Early Stage Ratchet 28

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

I had witnessed a number of early-stage tech startups in LA raise seed capital from the Bay Area and relocate. We formed a partnership with some of our favorite early stage investors and friends including Jim Andelman at Rincon Ventures and Peter Lee at Baroda. We have some announcements set for 2015.

Early Stage 290

Early Stage Venture Capital Los Angeles Coder 290

Version One Ventures

JULY 20, 2015

Consensus estimate of approximately $270M for 2015 revenue. for 2015 GMV. YoY growth for most recent quarter (ending Q1 2015): 45%. So what about early-stage marketplaces? But you might be wondering how to value your early-stage marketplace startup. Early-stage companies are valued very differently.

Valuation 60

Valuation Early Stage IPO eCommerce 60

K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

The following interview by Steven Loeb was published in Vator.tv on 5 September 2015 and is reproduced below in its entirety. What everyone can agree on, though, is that there are definitely more seed and early stage funds now than ever before, and more people willing to give money to young companies looking to make it big.

San Francisco 48

San Francisco Early Stage Portfolio Software Engineering 48