ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

The bridge or exit stage is generally of very large transactions and for companies with substantial valuation. The essential components of your pitch include a comprehensive business plan with projections of 5 years along with investment offerings and estimated valuations. Point number 3: Never raise money with an increased valuation.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

So, four years later, DPI is still trying to catch up with TVPI from 2017. Or is there a major disconnect between a portfolio’s valuations and the actual dollars returned to LPs? One thing that jumps out quickly is that TVPI between 2004-2010 (avg 2.6x) has underperformed 2011-2017 (avg 3.0x). The answer is likely a mix of both.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2017

They come at the early stage while a startup has no revenue or valuation, so professional investors are hard to find. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 08/09/2017. In today’s fast moving market, the basic product development cost and time are critical to survival. Now is the time to catch the wave and just do it yourself.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

So, four years later, DPI is still trying to catch up with TVPI from 2017. Or is there a major disconnect between a portfolio’s valuations and the actual dollars returned to LPs? One thing that jumps out quickly is that TVPI between 2004-2010 (avg 2.6x) has underperformed 2011-2017 (avg 3.0x). The answer is likely a mix of both.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Due to the efficiencies of digital, it is now commonplace to have companies with billions of dollars of revenue and valuation, with few employees, and without years of building infrastructure. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 10/05/2017. Pay-as-you-go provides infinite ability to scale every business.

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 14, 2016

In other words, any correction in public valuations happened quickly and has now stabilized. From Series A and onwards, fundraising takes longer and valuations are typically below the expectations and benchmarks of 2015. Looking ahead to 2017. We expect that the financing scene in 2017 will look very similar to 2016.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

So, four years later, DPI is still trying to catch up with TVPI from 2017. Or is there a major disconnect between a portfolio’s valuations and the actual dollars returned to LPs? One thing that jumps out quickly is that TVPI between 2004-2010 (avg 2.6x) has underperformed 2011-2017 (avg 3.0x). The answer is likely a mix of both.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

As a result of the efforts of Sam, Rahul, Ted, Nicolas, Chang and the entire MakeSpace team our revenue grew 150% between the months of January and October of 2017, having served more than 20,000 customers and stored more than a million individual items for our customers. What is a reasonable payback period and how quickly do we want to grow?

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VC Cafe

JULY 4, 2022

The WSJ confirmed what we already know: Q2 venture capital investments declined both in size and in valuation. billion valuation, according to the WSJ, down from $45.6 Declining investment: U.S. VC funds invested about $47.5 VC funds invested about $47.5 Venture Capital Feels the Stock Market’s Pain, Wall Street Journal.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 6, 2018

It’s almost exactly 5 years since Aileen Lee first coined the term “unicorn” in reference to startups with $1 billion+ valuations. A few of these had previously raised private rounds at $1B+ valuations like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, but a good majority of them only reached unicorn status upon exit. valuation in 2017 round).

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 20, 2016

The switch from PDRs to VDRs resulted in deal cycles and increased valuations. trillion between 2012 and 2017 respectively. The benefits so far accrued from the use of VDRs is unprecedented. According to IBISWorld, the VDR industry grew at an incredible annualized rate of about 16.7 percent between 2009 and 2014.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

In 2017, venture capital made a total of $148 billion in startup investments, with 40 VC-backed companies achieving valuations of $1 billion or more, qualifying for the unicorn club. Here’s a good cheat sheet on how startup valuation works. Competition Forces Evolution. The Officeless World Of Online Business.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 12, 2020

That leaves me out raising with two funds under my belt and no big exit and no unicorn valuations. It’s been incredibly difficult for both professional and personal reasons—and if I hadn’t met my wife Aja in late 2017, this would have all been a pretty dismal time, to be honest. There are others, but they’re still pretty young.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Yet as we enter February 2017 the VC funding markets are booming, Snap, Inc has filed for its IPO, AppDynamics was just purchased for $3.7 But the reality is that “global warming” massively blunted the effects of winter and my prognosis for VC fundings of entrepreneurs in 2017–2018 is now very sunny indeed.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Asset valuation. The concept of asset valuation may seem counterintuitive, but it is an important idea. Most financial valuation formulas value an asset by discounting the asset using the cost of capital (interest rate) to the present day. Compared to Accounting, Finance is ruthlessly forward looking.

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View from Seed

APRIL 30, 2019

In the last decade or so, high profile consumer IPOs have often gotten lofty valuations. Something similar happened with Snapchat in 2017 with their IPO. And Zoom has become the most valuable of the three in terms of market cap though daily fluctuations put it and Lyft fairly close ($16B+).

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 6, 2017

Beware of high valuations with low revenue and profit. Existing bubbles are often characterized by high excitement and high valuations, without the requisite intrinsic value or cash flow. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 02/17/2017. Don’t let your ego keep you from seeking advisor and expert input.

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Rob Go

DECEMBER 21, 2016

I started out writing about a couple things I’ve been observing that I think will end up coming to greater fruition in 2017. Next thing you know, I had a 2017 prediction post So, here are three fairly unrelated things I’m thinking about as we approach 2017. I think 2017 will be that year. New New Media.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 5, 2017

I think I’d be very disappointed if we’re not into space with a test flight by the end of the year,” Branson told the UK’s Daily Telegraph in April of 2017. Joe Carlen is the co-founder of Value Guards, LLC and a practitioner of business valuation, patent valuation, and market assessment.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2021

Despite the sustained climate of uncertainty, valuations continued to climb and VC exit values reached their second highest total ever in Q3. Elizabeth Holmes of Theranos saw a once $9 billion valuation dissolve into 12 felony fraud charges. Firms invested $434 Million in female founded companies in Q3, the lowest since Q2 2017.

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Version One Ventures

MAY 1, 2017

In 2017 alone, ICOs raised more than $100 million in 15 deals. million at a valuation close to $300M in just a matter of minutes (the valuation has more than quadrupled since in secondary markets). Most launches were through Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs), basically crowdfunded app coin sales. And boy, has it taken off!

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 10, 2023

Entrepreneur Yanni Hufnagel has cultivated a uniquely high-energy company culture at Lemon Perfect, the flavored lemon water brand he debuted in 2017. Hufnagel hopes the brand will reach a $5 billion valuation. He knows that quality of startup hiring is linked to the tone the founder sets for the company.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 6, 2018

“I know that our repeat purchase rate is lower than the industry average now, but …” “I know that our margins are lower than VCs like to see, but …” “I know our revenue decelerated in the last 2 quarters of 2017, but …” Remember that fund raising is a sales process. How to talk about valuation 13. Why “no” is ok in fund raising 9.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 18, 2020

In the 2017 article, I wrote “True alpha returns have been difficult to achieve in the globally low interest-rate environment…”. In the heady days of 2017, my hairdresser asked me to show him how to buy crypto. Fast forward to 2020 and truer words have never been spoken. All in one day!

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 18, 2018

Tech stocks blew expectations out of the water in 2017, outpacing the S&P 500 by 21 percentage points. While 2017 certainly marked an exceptional year for tech stocks, it was also a harbinger of things to come. Target acquired Instacart competitor Shipt for $550 million at the close of 2017. And Amazon’s $13.7

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Bitcoin fees reaching 2017 levels again ($>25) along with a new wave of impatient newbie traders eagerly awaiting deposit and withdrawal confirmations could easily force exchanges to prioritizing Lightning adoption. This could change very quickly, however, with a new bull run.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

This company’s valuation peaked at $10 billion in 2013/2014. By 2017, the fund was worth $250 million. Holmes founded a company known as Theranos in 2003 when she was just 19 years old. She was a sophomore student at Stanford University at the time. Holmes dropped out of university to focus on her company. Olaf Carlson Wee.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

The existential freakout that occurred in January and February seemed like the distant past with the lingering hangover being a clearer focus on valuation and overall funding needs from new investors. I expect we will make around ten new investments in 2017. What other “macro” trends do you see affecting the rest of 2016 and 2017?

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Agile VC

APRIL 30, 2019

In the last decade or so, high profile consumer IPOs have often gotten lofty valuations. Something similar happened with Snapchat in 2017 with their IPO. And Zoom has become the most valuable of the three in terms of market cap though daily fluctuations put it and Lyft fairly close ($16B+).

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Hunter Walker

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

Phase 2 California + NYC (2015-2017). Phase 3 US and Canada (2017+). Some of these are generalizable and our friend Semil Shah does a nice job covering several in his post “ Investing Outside the Bay Area.” Did we miss some great companies in places like Seattle, Los Angeles, Denver and so on? Yes we did! Where are we now?

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ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

Reprinted (or Adapted) from Hacking Growth: How Today’s Fastest Growing Companies Drive Breakout Success Copyright © 2017 by Sean Ellis and Morgan Brown. Some companies have made the mistake of relying so heavily on the Facebook News Feed that such a change has been life-threatening. Pick it up on Amazon today.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2019

There is additional encouraging news for aspiring entrepreneurs on many fronts, just in case you are thinking about joining the existing ranks: Valuations of successful startups have hit an all-time high. Statistica reports that almost 20 percent more companies went public in 2018 versus 2017.

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ithacaVC

SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

Highlights: Methodology: Pitchbook tracked founders of companies that received a first round of venture funding between January 1, 2006 and August 18, 2017. Page 11: Cornell ranks 3 rd for undergraduate founder unicorns (companies with over $1 billion in valuation). Here is their just published report. Large data base. Good reading.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

August 20, 2017: This is another in my series of posts all leading up to a book on Startup Decision Making. Keep the valuations consistent with company progress. The bottom line is that the pedigree of your investors will have much to do with your ultimate valuation and with your enjoyment of the startup experience.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 1, 2017

If you don’t like any of these models, you can always try the non-revenue model, sometimes called the Twitter model, where you count on investors to sustain your costs while your valuation increases exponentially based on millions of customers. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 11/17/2017.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

Collectively they have $850M in capital in their most recent funds: [link] Both Silverton Partners and LiveOak Venture Partners have filed regulatory documents associated with new fundraising efforts in 2017 so we should all look forward to announcements from them on successfully raising new funds.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 8, 2017

A post shared by Charlie O'Donnell (@ceonyc) on Jul 6, 2017 at 9:31am PDT I was once asked by a potential investor what I thought the exit of this company will be. One of the most exciting companies I've ever been involved with is building sustainable tech to save us from being buried alive by our own garbage--in #Newark!

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