Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

It’s meant to support and grow a business until an “exit” in the form of an IPO, a merger or acquisition, or in less than ideal scenarios, a company shutdown. Learning everything you can about VC first is important for that reason, but also to ensure it’s the right form of financing for your business.

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VC Adventure

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

I wrote a post a few months ago based on some data from Correlation Ventures about the distribution of returns on venture deals (which revealed that outsized winners are, in fact, much more rare than most people think). Venture Economics company exits IPO M&A venture exits venture IPOs'

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 2, 2023

On a global level, venture financing of private companies dropped 33% year over year, from a record $733B in 2021 to $490B in 2022. The ten biggest exits of the year included a mix of IPOs and acquisitions. Sector funding distribution according to Greenfield Partners. That’s of course part of a global trend.

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VC Adventure

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

I wrote a post a few months ago based on some data from Correlation Ventures about the distribution of returns on venture deals (which revealed that outsized winners are, in fact, much more rare than most people think). This reached it peak in 2008, although that may in large part be due to the lack of a public market option at that time.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

The value ascribed by subsequent investors (in a secondary); buyers (acquisition); or the public markets (IPO). Flexible VC creates early liquidity which can be either reinvested or distributed to LPs. Further reading: The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Finance: A New Typology. Yes, typically preferred equity.

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Cofounder Technical Review Equity Dividend 78

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

For entrepreneurs who want to learn about how to work with investment banks, how to position yourself to be acquired and what the IPO markets look like this is the episode to watch. How to investment banks help with the M&A (mergers & acquisitions) process? Should you use investment banks to raise venture capital?

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Haystack

DECEMBER 26, 2018

TechCrunch’s Kate Clark has done a round-up of the largest “private VC” rounds of 2018, and there’s a whole other list for just $100M+ financings led by Softbank’s Vision Fund. Speaking of acquisitions — many leaders of larger VC funds have privately given up on the incumbents buying their companies.

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Professor VC

DECEMBER 8, 2015

I think we will see more of these in 2016 and beyond as IPOs are still far and few between and unicorns struggle to justify their stratospheric valuations. Both companies were relatively well capitalized, building peer to peer payments businesses and spending a significant amount of their funding on customer acquisition.

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Growthink Blog

JUNE 4, 2012

Back then, equity finance was dominated by fundamental, long-term investors that had strong biases toward the clean and easy pricing of public stocks and the uniform reporting and disclosure requirements imposed by the major exchanges. Well, for starters, it was usually the purest and best way to raise growth capital. read more.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Meanwhile, the rash of early liquidity and recent IPOs — unsatisfying as they were — gave liquidity to thousands of employees at large companies, and a subset of those made very real money. This time around, there has been an explosion at the early stages, and the very late pre-IPO growth stages. Source: AllThingsD ]. -

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. In early 2011 an acquisition by a Fortune 500 company fell apart. Less than 1% are currently in IPO registration. Finance, Banking, Loans, etc.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Are Israeli companies on the verge of developing a repeatable playbook to scale their companies and become market leaders, not just acquisition fodder for the Silicon Valley giants? In 2014, for example, 18 IPOs raised a record-breaking $9.8 How do I strengthen my market position through acquisitions and innovation? We think so.

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Cofounder Technical Review United States 20

K9 Ventures

APRIL 9, 2014

Threshold for an IPO is higher Ten years ago, if you had $20M in revenue you were ready to go public. Top engineering talent today has a bimodal distribution. Seed is not the first round of financing any more. 6M-$15M used to scale customer acquisition and revenue) Series B is the new Series C.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

MAY 5, 2016

Over the years we’ve had the privilege of working with amazing founders and helping them grow from infancy to IPO or acquisition in many cases. He received his MBA in finance from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Like Batman and Robin, we’re in the service of our citizens…and our service goes far beyond capital.

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Silicon Valley Advisory Board Flash Pennsylvania 60

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Any big changes in your marketing/customer acquisition strategy over the last time period (more money doing Search, less money in Email, elimination Facebook as it does not work, etc., Outcomes of the conversations with your Finance team and Sr. The Default Channel Grouping the same as in your Acquisition > Channels report.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

great web customer acquisition tutorials. free, distributed source code control management system. easy business finance software. YCombinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents. Startup Threads. Videos/presentations. SlideShare. Haiku Deck. GoAnimate *. Customer service. Get Satisfaction. Event platforms. Eventbrite.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Because they have no presence in the market, they have to find distribution channels to bring in customers. but few step back and really examine the underlying assumptions of startup finance. Do you have any thoughts on scalable customer acquisition in cases where a decent bit of knowledge work has to be invested into each customer?

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Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

Financing, that is.I One truth of start-up financing is that it generally takes twice as long and twice as much money to accomplish your milestones. The business model (OEM through broadband and home security companies for mass distribution) if not specific product functionality has remained largely the same. ProfessorVC.

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