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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

This method was perfected by Gil Elbaz and his team at Applied Semantics in LA and in what some have called “ the most important acquisition ever made by Google ” they acquired the company for $102 million before Google had even IPO’d. Many of the early winners sold for north of a half a billion dollars.

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Quickly Unpacking Two Recent Acquisitions (of Cylance; of PlanGrid)

Haystack

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. 1/ A Pre-Seed Reminder: According to Crunchbase, PlanGrid was founded and went through Y Combinator in 2012. The company only raised a bit over $1M as seed capital.

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JOBS Act to Change Startup Funding Landscape

ReadWriteStart

IPOs by year, 1980-2011, with pre-IPO last 12-month sales less than (small firms) or greater than (large firms) $50 million (2009 purchasing power). But it could affect one thing right away: the level of buzz and information surrounding young IPOs, which no longer have to keep mum. Number of U.S. Credit: Prof.

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Three New Types of AngelList Syndicates I Hope to See

Hunter Walker

Institutional VCs rely a model which optimizes for billion dollar outcomes via an acquisition or IPO. Or have different liquidity assumptions beyond acquire or IPO. With seed capital requirements which fall somewhere between a bank small business loan and venture. 3) The Alternate Liquidity Syndicate.

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Raising Startup Capital Through Convertible Debt Financing

Business Plan Blog

Raising Seed Capital. Most startup founders do not have enough capital to launch their companies and need to raise money at some point. The return only happens when there is an exit via acquisition or an IPO. Raising Angel Capital.

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Accidental VC: The Most Dangerous Question for Founders to Overlook in Pitches

View from Seed

Additionally, if you’re talking to VCs, it’s implied that you’re thinking big and thinking about a large acquisition or IPO, as well as generating hundreds of millions in revenue. Note that many were included in our pitch deck templates for raising seed capital. You can find those here. ).

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