Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2023

With the advent and growth of crowdfunding over the past few years, many entrepreneurs have predicted the demise of angel investment groups and venture capital organizations. Way back in 2015, the Kickstarter Pebble smartwatch raised $20.3 billion to USD 3.62 Early crowdfunding successes have been undeniable.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

Reasons for funding. ? Scale up your operations. One of the most prominent reasons for funding is to scale up your operations, for expansion and achieve economies of scale. Now you may want to scale up your operations or expand your presence. The third reason is to fund your short term operational expenses or working capital.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

With the advent and growth of crowdfunding over the past few years, many entrepreneurs have predicted the demise of those demanding angel investment groups and venture capital organizations. Way back in 2015, the Kickstarter Pebble smartwatch raised $20.3 Early crowdfunding successes have been undeniable.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

When you first start your company and raise initial venture capital your board probably consists of 1-3 founders and 1-2 VCs. Reviewing financial & operational performance. See as a board we can already see very clearly how our 2014 & 2015 years pencil out with a fair degree of predictability. In the Early Days.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

Austin-Based Venture Capital Firms There are a eleven venture capital firms based in Austin that are actively investing today, six of which are first funds. VC Firms Actively investing in Austin Companies Finally, there are a group of venture capital firms that are not based in Austin that are active investors here.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. I believe that Revenue-Based Investing (“RBI”) VCs are on the forefront of what will become a major segment of the venture ecosystem. Village Capital: Alternative Investment Strategies to Drive Inclusive Innovation.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 2, 2018

Photo credit: Erik Binggeser Austin is one of the top 10 metro areas with the highest economic growth rates for women-owned business, and as our startup community continues to get more VC dollars ($385M in Q2 alone), it still operates in a way that lifts all ships. In the venture capital world, it’s similarly staggering, with 4.2%

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Operating experience (Helped run parts of CitySearch & UrbanSpoon, tons of product management experience, Board of Hatch Labs which helped spawn Tinder). Helped merge company with Seedling – on track to do $20 million combined revenue in 2015 – will now become Chairman).

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 5, 2015

So while the infrastructure cost and startup costs may have declined, the operating costs have increased. 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. Scaling venture capital breaks it. Impact of Public Markets.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2019

At Wildcat, we’ve organized these steps into the Traction Gap Framework – a centralized strategy that codifies key lessons learned by me and my founding General Partners over the course of our decades-long operating and venture investing experience. When we initially formed our firm, we reviewed our prior performance as investors.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Pitchbook reports venture capital funding of US mental health startups as already surpassing the entirety of capital raised for 2019. Moreover, investments in the space have more than quadrupled since 2015. For example, Lyra Health said at the time that membership had more than doubled in 2020 to 1.5 Senior Care.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

But after the 2008 collapse, and until around 2015, the small & medium enterprise sectors were struggling to get back on their feet. The stats are now looking better, and even venture capitalists are more prepared to take risks. It’s also an environment that rewards hard work and persistence.

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Cracking the Code

MAY 2, 2019

Algolia has been doubling YoY since we invested in 2015 and has now more than 300 people, including 90 engineers. We now operate a squad model, where our engineers are grouped into smaller teams dedicated to one specific task. We asked Sylvain to share his secret tips with us. How do you attract talent as an enterprise start-up?

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thebarefootvc

JULY 3, 2016

As I reflected on FPV’s first full year of operation, I thought back to my original thesis and reasons for starting the fund. As I look at the data, I am proud of what we’ve built and by all accounts we had a great 2015. The post FuturePerfect Ventures: A 2015 Recap appeared first on The Barefoot VC. 2015EOY_FPV_v31.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

As I reflected on FPV’s first full year of operation, I thought back to my original thesis and reasons for starting the fund. As I look at the data, I am proud of what we’ve built and by all accounts we had a great 2015. The post FuturePerfect Ventures: A 2015 Recap appeared first on The Barefoot VC.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Currently, most ecommerce businesses have IT staff constantly running manual tests to confirm that their site is operating properly, or they manually create expensive software to run these tests. In the end, however, that PE investment was a successful venture for all parties, and Carlson left the organization to start a new venture.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The real question is, “do the founders or operators understand the role of governance and embrace it, or are they trying to intentionally undermine the very notion of governance?” As a result of many technical voting requirements, this can be rationalized as a way to make operating the company smoother and simpler. Aversion to Audits.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2018

Since 2015, Michael Patryn’s expertise in finance, compliance and strategic growth initiatives has helped a range of companies successfully position themselves to go public on the CSE and TSX-V. For companies that are in a more advanced stage of growth, venture capital can be key.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

And Jim & I went on to raise several more venture capital funds in our day jobs. As we started to focus on what each of us wanted to do, Adam raised his venture capital fund – Plus Capital. She joined Mesa Global where she is doing both venture capital and investment banking. And Adam his.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

It feels like something you could turn your attention to once you have tens of millions of dollars and a large staff to run operations and you could step back from it all and think about how to lead. We’re a national venture capital investment firm but with our roots firmly in Los Angeles. Team Building. Communications.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

You need extra cash for inventory, marketing and a real operations team, and investors can calculate the return and risk. If one of the top venture-capital firms invests in your startup, your potential for success will be boosted by the association. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 10/30/2015.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Prior to founding Taxfyle in 2015, Richard worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers as an auditor. Fast forward to today; since we founded Taxfyle in 2015, it has earned the support and investment of numerous venture capitalists and is one of the fastest-growing companies in any sector in the U.S. Last year, Taxfyle ranked No.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 26, 2022

From Box to Glossier, and Comms to Venture Capital, Ashley Mayer Is Carving a Pretty Unique Path. We originally filed to go public in March of 2014, and didn’t actually become a public company until January of 2015. Operating keeps you honest, while getting to work across multiple companies and categories gives you perspective.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 12, 2016

The firm operates digital currency exchanges between fiat money and the gold bullion like currency Bitcoin in nearly thirty countries. It has raised over $35 million in venture capital funds. Paydiant was acquired in 2015 for $300 million by PayPal. The company was established in 2010.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 10, 2015

That’s an especially tough challenge in your first year or two of operation, even if you use every technique known to get traffic flowing. When Facebook did it a few years ago, the company used more than $100 million in venture capital funding before it became profitable.

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K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Manu Kumar (@ManuKumar) October 13, 2015. I define #PeakVC as the point in time when the maximum amount of $$s are entering the Venture Capital industry. That is because the venture capital industry operates in cycles. That increases the overall money supply coming in to venture.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 21, 2017

To put that benchmark in context, the latest estimates place the total number of businesses operating in the U.S. The report also found that funding for seed rounds was also down from 33 percent in 2015 to 28 percent in this quarter.”. at around 27 million. Of that number, only 98 are currently considered unicorns.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

He also had backing from well-known venture capital investors like Union Square Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Google Ventures, and even Richard Branson. And yet Uber and Lyft are the market leaders, with a combined 98% of the US market , while Sidecar shut down in 2015. The difference?

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Up and Running

JULY 16, 2015

But then the credit crunch and global recession took hold, and 2015 is a markedly different landscape for small businesses in need of finance. If you are operating a new or small-scale business of any kind, a grant could be a great way to improve your prospects and inject some cash into your operational equation. In the U.K.,

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 1, 2014

SocialSignIn , just announced as one of the Techstars NYC companies in this cohort, is growing revenues and has their in-venue marketing solution operating across multi-unit chains, theaters and lots of other places where venue owners want a better relationship with their on location customers. Venture Capital & Technology'

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

Scott Kupor is the managing partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he’s responsible for all operational aspects of running the firm. I caught up with him recently to talk about venture capital from both sides of the equation, investing for the long-term, missed opportunities, and how he gets good ideas. ** Let's start with something basic.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

venture capital to date (more on this in a separate post), unfortunately relegating billion-dollar exits as “ho-hum” events to the technology crowd. It’s been a few years now since BlackBerry made phones, and this represents its largest purchase to date (by a factor of 3) since its 2015 acquisition of Good Technology.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

V: Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? GCVF is pioneering the future of venture capital and high growth startups for all small communities. In 2015, they invested $1m (out of OATV Fund III) in 8 companie s as a pilot. —– Indie.vc

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 17, 2016

“Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose” is an old French saying that translates literally as “The more it changes, the more it’s the same thing” Before the Brexit vote there was a lot of debate about the trajectory of the venture capital markets and that has intensified considerably in the last couple of weeks.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

When we get involved in Seed investments we usually represent 60–80% in one of the first institutional rounds of capital, we almost always take board seats and then we serve these founders over the course of a decade or longer. That was a question I had been asked by LPs in 2015 when we began our Early Growth program.

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The Equity Kicker

JUNE 23, 2016

Creating a gap for Pre-Seed which is beginning to emerge as a category (2015-ongoing). NextView Ventures recently published this graphic which captures the trends nicely. Note that they have added a ‘Second-Seed’ stage which I haven’t described above.

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