Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

In financial markets, the window between Labor Day and Thanksgiving is often referred to as "Capital-Raising Season," as it is a very active time for companies and investors to connect, to diligence each other, and to do deals. I call it the " No Excuses " time of year. Hard to pull off?

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Scott Edward Walker

APRIL 16, 2014

From the seller’s perspective, the first step in connection with the sale of his company is the negotiation and execution of a confidentiality agreement (sometimes referred to as a “non-disclosure agreement” or an “NDA”) with the potential buyer. Mistake #1: Not Negotiating/Executing a Confidentiality Agreement. on a need-to-know basis.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 2, 2013

Count stuff – This is what most would call finance, but to me it also includes measuring and analyzing all manner of data, both tangible and intangible. Affiliate marketers fall into this category as do what are commonly referred to as value added resellers (VARs). Deliver stuff – This is where the real value exchange happens.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 12, 2015

Traffic sources, like keywords, referring sites, campaigns, countries, are examples of dimensions. All data in aggregate is crap. You have to get good at some predictive analysis and forecasting (basic kinds), being able to talk to other teams, working with Finance in particular, understanding macro business trends etc.

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K9 Ventures

MAY 14, 2011

Friends and Family : Or sometimes referred to as the 3Fs for Friends, Family and Fools. <$50K in aggregate. The Series A is now the third round of financing for a company, but the nomenclature hasn’t been changed. This gradual upstream movement in the venture industry, is what I refer to as the Venture Spiral.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

First of all, it means that most aggregate measures of success, like total revenue, are not very useful. extraneous SHIMMER reference spotted; you are dating yourself eric. but few step back and really examine the underlying assumptions of startup finance. This unit of progress is remarkable in several ways.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

It was during one of his entrepreneur finance classes that he said he designed a business plan and model for the note-sharing idea and entered SJSU’s business plan competition. The business plan took 10 days to create, and Guerrettaz took first prize at the competition and won $10,000 toward financing his idea, he said.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 4, 2011

and then work with Finance to identify economic value, and then you have to configure it in the tool and then apply advanced segments, and then figure out how things are doing. "All data in aggregate is crap." That is love. I mean that is analysis! Or at least all the work that goes into being able to do effective analysis.

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Pascal's View

JUNE 23, 2008

I was referred to SolarCity by my friend John Fisher of DFJ, an investor and a director of the company, as a one-stop shop to get this conversion done. We are at the front end of the process, and I will report further on my experience with the transition as it occurs. The SolarLease vs. Buy Option. 117lbs of particulates.

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Startup Company Lawyer

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

Due to aggregate liquidation preferences that may exceed the acquisition price in an M&A deal, common stock may be rendered worthless. In response to the problem of worthless common stock, some companies have implemented employee retention plans, which are also referred to as M&A carveout plans.

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Retention Liquidation Preference Employee Common Stock 31

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Outcomes of the conversations with your Finance team and Sr. … You can see the wisdom of not just setting a 20% aggregate conversion rate, based on the above benchmarking data. The above graph shows you the dangers of setting targets on aggregated benchmarking analysis. And other such things. And who does not love Organic?

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Analytics Vertical Metrics Web 133

Professor VC

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

2930) , commonly referred to as Crowdfunding. Are you refering to the various early stage platforms that are popping up? My skeptical side assumes that the intermediaries are the only ones that will make money in aggregate on these deals. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. Monday, November 14, 2011.

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SEC San Jose Angel Investor Accredited Investor 54

Occam's Razor

JULY 18, 2011

Measure retention rate over time in aggregate – or for optimal health, segment retention rate – and measure it for the various objectives you have set for your email marketing program. The difficulty in getting the numbers (bug Finance!) Oh, and don’t forget to segment it like crazy. More ideas here and here.

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viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Tech startups create real value in one of three ways: ( note: for example companies, I’m referring to their initial prototypes ): Technology Innovation. I have a degree in finance. There’s a lot of ways to think about it, but I think it really comes down to where you think your startup is going to create real value.

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Startup Company Lawyer

JANUARY 9, 2011

Convertible debt with a price cap seems to be the preferred structure for early-stage financings. Over the last 12 months, I’ve noticed a trend where early-stage startup companies raise seed financings of between $250K and $1M using a convertible note with a price cap. Is a priced Series A financing a valid alternative?

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Liquidation Preference Finance Preferred Stock Common Stock 57

abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

FSAs/HSAs — Flexible Spending Accounts, also referred to as Health Savings Accounts, are pools of money set aside by an employee and their employer to be used for healthcare spending. Increasing coinsurance costs also have the effect of turning patients into shoppers/consumers.

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Customer Technical Review Venture Capital Software Review 59

Occam's Razor

APRIL 19, 2010

Point of confusion: People, like me, often also use the term Desirable Outcomes to refer to business objectives. Full disclosure: Depending on the specificity of your business objectives my asking you for your "desirable outcomes" could refer to "what are your goals". I'll consult with my finance team. See below.].

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Analytics Metrics Web Framework 138

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

It also allows you to track who referred which client and why. Database, File Storage & Information Management Pixily – An online service that lets you aggregate, organize, find and share your documents. Simple Sales Tracking – An online sales tracking app that offers free and paid plans.

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Software Review Social Media Social Network Software 78

Up and Running

MAY 21, 2014

So then my definition of sales is, turning “know, like, and trust” into try, buy, repeat, and refer. With these terms; know, like, trust, try, buy, repeat, and refer, represent to me, are behaviors, actually, that our buyer wants to go on. You know, service, education, your follow-up – even finance?

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Marketing Social Media Sales Media 72

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

It kind of aggregates technology content, I suppose. And of course, I wasn't really interested in the finance side of it to me. I hadn't focused on that area of computer science, but the Bitcoin paper solved this long standing problem in computer science, which people refer to as the Byzantine General's problem. I'm curious.

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IPO Cofounder Technical Review Government 113

techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Tweet View Comments Sarah Lacy Feb 19, 2010 Pepperdine has a new study out that attempts to shed some light on the clubby, shadowy world of private finance. Paglia, Pepperdiine’s Denney Academic Chair and Associate Professor of Finance. Think Again. Not a big shock, but things don’t look pretty, especially in the venture capital world.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Sweat Equity Valuation 62

Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

This introduction was also the opportunity to illustrate the amazing growth of our software and saas portfolio in the past years, with aggregated revenues reaching $1.2B Yahoo Finance. Your key business metrics are CMRR (Contracted Monthly Recurring Revenue) and cash. “Bookings” is for suckers. Justin Label. Jeremy Levine.

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Software Review South Korea IPO Portfolio 48

Scott Edward Walker

JANUARY 13, 2012

Background As the term suggests, “crowdfunding” is funding from a crowd of people — that is, many people provide small amounts of money to finance something. Indeed, it is unclear whether the Senate will even pass a crowdfunding bill (and, if so, in what form).

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Graphs - Chris Dixon , July 22, 2010 It has become customary to use “ graph &# to refer to the underlying data structures at social networks like Facebook. Computer scientists call the study of graphs “ network theory ,&# but on the web the word “network&# is used to refer to the websites themselves).

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Software Review Startup Venture Capital Technical Review 217

abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

Also, take a look at this critically important data point , also aggregated by Professor Jay Ritter. Across 2,908 VC-backed IPOs the first day underpricing (euphemistically referred to as a “pop”) is 28.3%. This data set looks at 8,610 IPOS over 39 years from 1980-2019. of VC-backed companies vs Buyout-backed companies.

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IPO Customer Matching Silicon Valley 82

pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

But the angels who’ve staked their funds on spreading bits of money all over the Valley are increasingly anxious that only 20 percent of their deals — in aggregate — will get the chance to keep going. They don’t have to worry. That’s fine if you have a home run in that 20 percent. Source: AllThingsD ]. -

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Technical Review Silicon Valley Incubator Syria 93