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Does Fintech Disruption Break The Investment Banking Model?

YoungUpstarts

Here digital intercepts of consumer activities are aggregated into large data sets, analysed, and assessed versus market expectations. According to research from JP Morgan, revenues from investment banking peaked in 2009 at $207.7 Today employment in the sector is comparable to levels from 2005-2006 when revenues were also similar.

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Tech IPOs Are Back ? So Now What? ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Tech IPOs Are Back – So Now What? Three of the five “blockbuster” tech IPOs I predicted have happened (LinkedIn, Groupon, Zynga) and the biggest of all (Facebook) has filed and will likely go public within the next 90 days. I see several dynamics at work in today’s IPO markets. March 8, 2012.

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Airbnb S-1 (Part 1): So How Profitable Is This Thing Really?

View from Seed

One of the most highly anticipated startup IPOs of recent years, we now get a peek inside Airbnb’s business. You can read various articles out there which will give you the cursory facts about Airbnb like their overall revenue or profitability or how their business has faired here in 2020 in the COVID environment.

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The Pre-Seed FAQ

K9 Ventures

Typically, Pre-Seed rounds are less than $1M in aggregate capital raised. In order for a company to attract a full Seed round ($2M – $3M), that company needs to show an almost completed product, an advanced prototype, or some kind of traction/demand metrics. 6M-$15M used to scale customer acquisition and revenue).

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

The other revels in the world as we all know it will be someday: limitless distribution enabled by new technologies, the importance of collaborative filters, and on-demand availability of all content for end-users. What is the right revenue model? Gatekeepers are overloaded. In other words, what is the minimum viable product ?

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On the Road to Recap:

abovethecrowd.com

The pressures of lofty paper valuations, massive burn rates (and the subsequent need for more cash), and unprecedented low levels of IPOs and M&A, have created a complex and unique circumstance which many Unicorn CEOs and investors are ill-prepared to navigate. In Q1 of 2016 there were zero VC-backed technology IPOs.

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How to Write a Business Plan

Up and Running

Your prices need to match up with consumer demand and expectations. Instead, they prefer to buy through large distribution companies that aggregate products from lots of suppliers and then make that inventory available to retailers to purchase. Price too high and you may have no customers. Retail Distribution.