VC Adventure
MAY 10, 2020
After its enactment but before it was implemented, there were questions about the SBA’s “affiliation rules” which can disqualify companies if the aggregated number of employees at affiliate companies is greater than 500. The program sparked confusion from the start.
VC Adventure
AUGUST 15, 2018
It was a benefit to employees and a slight value transfer from equity holders to option holders (generally speaking in M&A transactions the value of the aggregate option exercise ends up allocated across the rest of the cap table). Similarly I assumed that later stage companies would also show a smaller gap. I was wrong.
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Hunter Walker
AUGUST 8, 2023
” What are my major assumptions for why there’s more markdowns to come in the aggregate for the last decade of venture portfolios? The reality is lots of companies – many of them quite promising – have already undergone, or will be facing, next financings which “clean up” old cap tables.
View from Seed
DECEMBER 11, 2019
Yes, there are intermittent points of feedback along the way, like valuation marks from subsequent rounds of financing. Building a venture capital firm isn’t about continuing to scale talent aggregation over time like most businesses, rather it’s about having a consistent right amount of talent and scaling AUM over time.
Hunter Walker
AUGUST 26, 2022
The first was in July of 2014, when we made the unusual move of raising and announcing another round of private financing while on file to go public. In the process of investing, we became rather obsessed with helping founders build more diverse and impactful cap tables. Two additional moments stand out to me.
David Teten
DECEMBER 3, 2019
Some notable metrics are revenue growth rates, free cashflow, leverage ratios, historical financing amounts, returns on marketing spend, customer acquisition costs, lifetime value of customers, customer churn rates, and team social scores. 645 Ventures released a cap table simulator to help level the playing field.
abovethecrowd.com
APRIL 20, 2016
Why the Unicorn Financing Market Just Became Dangerous…For All Involved. Many have noted that the aggregate shareholder value created by all of the Unicorns will vastly overshadow the losses from the inevitable failed unicorns. By the first quarter of 2016, the late-stage financing market had changed materially.
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