VC Adventure

AUGUST 15, 2018

However the board could determine what that fair market value was and, generally speaking, there wasn’t a practical way that these valuations could be challenged. It was and is imprecise science but – at least in the case of venture backed startups – there wasn’t much harm in an option being priced low.

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Valuation Common Stock Cap Table Software Review 48

The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

From breakthrough online products to new features from established platforms, today’s startups should be jumping on the most promising of tomorrow’s trendy technology. Look out for more products that aggregate and organize existing accounts and automatically scrub your inboxes, feeds and social media connections.

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API Social Media Mobile Valuation 157

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

One of the reasons that now is the time to be an entrepreneur is the explosion of startup assistance organizations, usually called incubators or accelerators. A few are still trying to make a profitable business out of nurturing startups, but it’s a challenge to make money when your customer startups don’t have many resources to give.

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Incubator Silicon Valley Startup Small Business Administration 247

Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. How They Do It: Aggregate data from travel data warehouses like ITA as well as indexing travel providers websites, provide this information to consumers in a highly customizable search engine. Post-money valuation probably no higher than $12M (2). Pre-money valuation was approx.

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Pre-Money Valuation Liquidation Preference Dividend Common Stock 113

Hunter Walker

AUGUST 8, 2023

At the time, this is last quarter and the stock market has trended upwards nicely since then (a potential leading indicator of private tech valuations), we all agreed venture portfolios were probably still 25-40% overvalued. Valuations.

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Portfolio Cap Table LP Valuation 103

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2012

By way of a definition, a business or startup incubator is a company, university, or other organization which provides resources to nurture young companies, helping them to survive and grow during the startup period when they are most vulnerable. A few are still trying to make money doing it, but it is hard to make money off startups.

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Incubator Entrepreneur New York City Silicon Valley 215

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2011

By way of a definition, a business or startup incubator is a company, university, or other organization which provides resources to nurture young companies, helping them to survive and grow during the startup period when they are most vulnerable. A few are still trying to make money doing it, but it is hard to make money off startups.

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Incubator New York City Silicon Valley Startup 234

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Advances in machine learning, specifically natural language processing, have made generating these baseline, aggregate datasets possible, at scale, with high accuracy. The only problem that faces startup investors now is how to mine this new data layer efficiently to increase returns.”. 7) Monitor and report investments.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

View from Seed

JANUARY 7, 2020

For this analysis, I focused on the four largest startup ecosystems in the U.S. – I aggregated each firm’s latest announced fund by home market to get a sense of available lead seed dollars of each market. Now comes the interesting part – how about the available lead seed dollars per “High Potential Startup”?

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New York Boston Marketing Aggregator 207

Venture Chronicles

MAY 26, 2010

Back in March, Ben Horowitz of Andreessen Horowitz wrote a post called The Case For The Fat Startup, where he outlined some of the reasons why a fledging company might want to consider taking a large amount of funding — a strategy that contrasts with the ‘lean startup’ model that has become common in Silicon Valley.

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Lean Early Stage Valuation Startup 40

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Five Quarters of Profitability During the 1980’s and through the mid 1990’s startups going public had to do something that most companies today never heard of – they had to show a track record of increasing revenue and consistent profitability. The world of building profitable startups as the primary goal of Venture Capital would end in 1995.

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Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 237

ithacaVC

JANUARY 24, 2013

One interesting point that comes up a lot is how to factor the convertible debt into the premoney valuation of the Series A round. 62,000 of convertible debt outstanding with $13,700 of aggregate interest accumulated, which also converts as well in the qualifying round. . I am going to ignore any valuation cap feature.

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Valuation Balance Sheet Option Pool Dilution 53

Genuine VC

JULY 9, 2013

Although these startups are very diverse businesses themselves, they face similar requirements (especially in that they’re currently all in the seed to Series B range of company stage). But rather than just keep the info internal, wouldn’t it be more productive to publicly publish the aggregate results for the whole community?

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Early Stage Boston Portfolio Silicon Valley 246

Gust

APRIL 30, 2014

Having now invested in over 85 startups, and finding that my personal metrics are very similar to aggregated industry ones, it is clear that (a) there is little to no correlation between my home runs and my personal favorites, and (b) angel investing done correctly really *can* produce a consistent IRR in the 25%-30% range.

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Angel Investor IRR Due Diligence Aggregator 148

Gust

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

By way of a definition, a business or startup incubator is a company, university, or other organization which provides resources to nurture young companies, helping them to survive and grow during the startup period when they are most vulnerable. A few are still trying to make money doing it, but it is hard to make money off startups.

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Incubator Entrepreneur New York City Silicon Valley 147

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 6, 2016

Apparently, the number 10 plays an important role for startup’s. In an earlier article, we had suggested not to get into a startup venture, unless your product or solution is 10 X better, 10 X cheaper or faster. We bring you a lowdown of lessons from Shark Tank: 1. 10 sec rule. Do the Math.

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Cofounder Startup SEC India 100

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

It's tough to be a startup in the daily deals space these days. To quantify some of this, CB Insights has released a report covering valuation multiples for both M&A and venture financing for Daily Deal startups. Of course this is two seperate data sets so you have to be careful but it's probably directionally accurate.).

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Valuation Aggregator Acquisition Differentiation 124

Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Naively thinking that the problem was our own capacity to sift through the large quantity of startups (and not the fact that there is a large noise to signal ratio), I asked myself, what if I just developed a model to find more companies? I then applied some ML algorithms in an attempt to predict startup success.

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Seed Stage Later Stage Algorithm API 126

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

As many of you know, in the past I’ve done a series of posts deconstructing the S-1s of VC-backed internet startups going public. A few years ago this was sort of a novelty… not that many startups were going public and not that many bloggers or mainstream journalists took the time or had familiarity with combing these SEC filings.

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IPO Aggregator B2B Internet 194

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Since the recent recession, and at least partially sparked by it, I’m seeing a real resurgence of entrepreneurial spirit, and more startup activity than ever before. An unprecedented number of startups, easily 25 and possibly exceeding 40, are valued today at $1 billion or more, according to a recent NY Times article.

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IPO Entrepreneur Social Media Startup 273

The Equity Kicker

JUNE 6, 2016

When I look in my traffic sources now it’s all Twitter, Facebook, Google and aggregators like Mattermark, channels where posting daily makes much less of a difference. Next up will be some thoughts on mutual funds investing in startups and their impact on valuations and the VC industry. But the world has changed.

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Equity Aggregator Valuation Distribution 60

Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

In the case of an early-stage startup that hasn’t issued preferred stock yet, the debt converts into stock of the acquiring company (if it’s a stock deal) at a valuation subject to a cap. Some sort of conversion does occur. If it’s not a stock deal, then one normally sees one of the above scenarios.

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Conversion Sales Later Stage Preferred Stock 96

Growthink Blog

APRIL 22, 2015

Investors interested in aggregating positions in Disruptive Technology Companies at their most opportune moments: after the highly unpredictable Startup stage, but before they become widely known and priced to market.

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Venture Capital Valuation Aggregator Business Model 48

View from Seed

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

One of the most highly anticipated startup IPOs of recent years, we now get a peek inside Airbnb’s business. Uber is an $85B+ market cap company today but is essentially flat to its IPO price and late private round valuations. Airbnb’s public S-1 dropped Monday afternoon.

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North America IPO Prospectus Europe 401

ithacaVC

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

In “VC world” Rule 409A is best known for providing a safe harbor for private company valuations, and in particular the setting of strike prices for employee stock options. If the company conducts an outside independent valuation, then, under 409A, the burden is on the IRS to prove that the valuation was not reasonable (i.e.,

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Liquidation Preference Common Stock Stock Options Valuation 49

The Equity Kicker

MAY 15, 2012

When I read on Techcrunch this morning that Quora has raised $50m at a $400m valuation I thought “‘wow’, that’s interesting, I haven’t heard much about them recently, I wonder how they are getting on”.

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Viral Framework Aggregator Retention 108

Hippoland

JANUARY 4, 2017

Here’s a quick primer on how investments tend to work in startup companies at the seed stage. So, in the aggregate, it is possible that you may be required to pay as much as $30k-$50k to get an equity round done. Newer VC firms, though, typically do not pass their costs to their startups, which is much more progressive.

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Convertible Security Equity Security Silicon Valley 48

VC Cafe

AUGUST 3, 2024

In July 2024, Israeli startups raised $703 million in 28 deals, more than double the amount raised in July 2023 (before the war). In the wider tech world, Generative AI startups raised $14.4B Kudos Eran Shust and team Holisto (formerly Splitty) on your $10M series B for your price aggregation technology!

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Technical Review Iran Generative AI 78

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

See Bessemer Venture Partners’ A comprehensive guide to security for startups. Data companies focused on early-stage startups include Aingel , fundsUP , Preseries , PredictLeads , and Sploda. For more on gathering data and using it to assess companies, see How to Assess Startups Using Machine Learning. 2) Market . 7) Negotiate

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Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

When the NVCA or PriceWaterhouse surveys come out at the end of year I’m not saying they will necessarily will show aggregate $$$ or deal numbers up. The growth and $1 billion valuation of Twitter and its impact on business – The Big Thaw discussion would obviously not be complete without discussing Twitter.

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IPO Investment Bankers Venture Capital Marketing 255

ithacaVC

DECEMBER 14, 2011

So, after the Series B round the company would have $13mm of aggregate liquidation preference ($3mm plus 2*$5mm). Is the $13mm of aggregate LP a problem? ” It may require a pay to play round that forced non-participants to convert to common (thereby lowering the aggregate LP) as an example. It might be.

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Liquidation Preference LP Preferred Stock Liquidity Event 49

K9 Ventures

MAY 14, 2011

The incubators invest usually for an equity stake and buy equity at a extremely low valuation (for example, 7% for $15,000, which implies a pre-money valuation of less than $200,000). The companies go through a 3-6 month long startup bootcamp and then typically try to raise angel/seed funding. However, there is a difference.

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Preferred Stock Seed Stage Incubator Early Stage 125

K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Typically, Pre-Seed rounds are less than $1M in aggregate capital raised. Well, enter the Pre-Seed round, where the startup raises closer to $500K. The amount of capital (and therefore the resulting valuation) also sets the stage for the next round of financing for a company. Q: What amount of financing is considered Pre-Seed?

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Seed Stage Finance Later Stage Equity 82

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Legendary venture investor and General Partner at Austin Ventures John Thornton told us, “Social content has tremendous potential to drive a new level of consumer engagement on media, entertainment and retail properties – but the market needs a startup with expertise in both social and enterprise tech in order turn the promise into reality.

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Curation Austin Cofounder Ruby 118

The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

” This past September, the company raised $130 million in their Series D round , which skyrocketed Lightricks’s valuation to $1.8 Link in Bio allows users to create beautiful microsites to aggregate their content and send their audience to their most important links.

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Venture Capital Bootstrapping Valuation Social Media 173

Scalable Startup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Their business model is easy to replicate, maybe not by one particular competitor but an aggregate of thousands. They should’ve taken that $5 billion form Google when it was offered – probably won’t see that valuation again without a major pivot. And that’s what’s happening – mass replication.

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Aggregator Valuation Business Model 22

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

In February of last year, Fortune magazine writers Erin Griffith and Dan Primack declared 2015 “ The Age of the Unicorns ” noting — “Fortune counts more than 80 startups that have been valued at $1 billion or more by venture capitalists.” Next came Rolfe Winkler’s deep dive “ Highly Valued Startup Zenefits Runs Into Turbulence. ”

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IPO Term Sheet Silicon Valley Valuation 40