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10 Steps To Investing Successfully In New Ventures

Startup Professionals Musings

Today most startup investors still register with the SEC as “ accredited ” investors before they buy any startup equity in the U.S. But these requirements have been relaxed with the Crowdfunding JOBS Act implementation in 2016. These may be aggregated by an angel group up to about $1M for an angel round.

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Lyft S-1: Kicking Off the Decacorn Bonanza of 2019

View from Seed

Revenue per rider has more than doubled from 2016–2018 (from $15.88 So it’s not really the case that Lyft’s riders (in aggregate) are using the service more often, but rather Lyft is getting much better at netting more revenue per active rider. Analysis of Lyft S-1. So what about those cohorts?

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Denouement

View from Seed

Aggregate VC investment in 2009 hits a low of roughly $20B, a figure last seen in 2003 in the wake of the bursting of the dotcom and telecom bubble and 2001 recession. 2012-2016: The Era of Blitzscaling. We’re only a few months past Sequoia’s famous “R.I.P. Good Times” presentation (Oct 2008). Image from Sequoia Capital presentation.

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Lyft S-1: Kicking Off the Decacorn Bonanza of 2019

Agile VC

Revenue per rider has more than doubled from 2016–2018 (from $15.88 So it’s not really the case that Lyft’s riders (in aggregate) are using the service more often, but rather Lyft is getting much better at netting more revenue per active rider. Analysis of Lyft S-1. So what about those cohorts?

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Denouement

Agile VC

Aggregate VC investment in 2009 hits a low of roughly $20B, a figure last seen in 2003 in the wake of the bursting of the dotcom and telecom bubble and 2001 recession. 2012-2016: The Era of Blitzscaling. We’re only a few months past Sequoia’s famous “R.I.P. Good Times” presentation (Oct 2008). Image from Sequoia Capital presentation.

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Connecting With Customers

YoungUpstarts

These findings are informative, but often consist of aggregated data and use sophisticated statistical techniques to infer or explain what is going on with customers. “, will be available in Sept 2016. His forthcoming book, “ Why Are There Snowblowers in Miami?

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Impact Investing: a time for problems to become opportunities

VC Cafe

Impact Investing has been around for a long time, most prominently since the 1960’s as companies and governments began engaging with the concept through private equity and debt investing in developing economies. Output in tech is set to increase from $356 billion in 2016 to $482 billion in 2026—a 135% increase. Source: Fundera .