VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

billion valuation) to invest in the Metaverse and build the future of digital entertainment Epic owns Fortnite, one of the most popular multiplayer games, enabling users to interact with each other online in an immersive way to play, socialise, attend to virtual concerts. In April 2022, the company announced it has raised $2 billion (at $31.5

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 13, 2024

Startups in the cybersecurity sector are facing a daunting market environment , contending with decreased valuations and increasing pressure to sell while competing for vital funding and collaborations.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 24, 2018

As I highlighted in a recent blog post , digitally mature companies derive more revenue from their physical assets (+9%), are more profitable (+26%) and have overall higher market valuations (+12%). It’s the kind of flexibility the IoT needs: an appetite for change and agility.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 20, 2023

And, over-fundraising can trigger a domino effect of complications, from cap-table issues to inflated valuations, which can ruin future fundraising. Contrary to the initial advice, I learned that it's essential to embrace agility and be willing to pivot when necessary. Thanks to Mike Pio Roda, The Creative VC ! #5-

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 19, 2020

Many have disappeared, and others have forgotten how to be agile and innovative. Super angels sometimes drive up valuations. Perhaps because of their focus on building a large portfolio, or their competitiveness, these angels sometimes accept valuations that cause later friction while moving to VCs, or even other angel groups.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Look at the valuations of companies like Tesla, Illumina, and Twitter. The companies that can show “startup-like” growth rates of 50% plus per year will get stratospheric market valuations. Ask Sony about Samsung, ask any retailer about Amazon, any car company about Tesla, and any newspaper company about the web. Act Like a Startup.

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Post-money valuation probably no higher than $12M (2). Pre-money valuation was initially set higher but was adjusted to match the Ser B valuation. Pre-money valuation was approx. Pre-money valuation was approx. Pre-money valuation was at least $250M (2). liquidation preference, 6% accumulated dividend (1).

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The signals are loud and clear : seed and late stage valuations are getting frothy and wacky, and hiring talent in Silicon Valley is the toughest it has been since the dot.com bubble. Underwriters realized that as long as the public was happy snapping up shares, they could make huge profits from the inflated valuations. Carpe Diem.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2014

Many have disappeared, and others have forgotten how to be agile and innovative. Super Angels sometimes drive up valuations. Perhaps because of their focus on building a large portfolio, or their competitiveness, these angels sometimes accept valuations that cause later friction while moving to VCs, or even other angel groups.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 30, 2019

A new kind of company, built to leverage new technologies, new media channels, new working practices and new consumer markets, Crowdify is agile, adaptive, responsive and forward thinking — but also grounded and focused on product and brand strategy and return on marketing investment.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

The terms and valuation for both offers were comparable and when the team debated which path to choose, we all agreed both firms would have made good partners. round which closed in November 2003, and the pre-money valuation between $10 million and $15 million. It was a pretty good valuation for the time. It was a $4.7M

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

The law of large numbers (of customers) says you cant help but make at least some money - your valuation is determined by how well you monetize the tidal wave of growth. The spread between your LTV and blended CPA determines either your profitability or your rate of growth, and a high valuation depends on balancing these two factors.

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

One has only to look at Facebook and Groupon’s multi-billion dollar valuations or Twitters 190 million+ users after just a few short years in business to see this. This is mostly stressful, but do remember that while standards are so much higher now, so are the rewards.

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ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

With the pace of innovation increasing, and powerful new tools—such as cloud storage of big data sets and machine learning algorithms for mining that data—now affordable and accessible to even fledgling start-ups, even the most powerful incumbents, such as Walmart and Microsoft, must learn to be more agile in both product development and marketing.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 31, 2021

It should reflect our mission and values, like agility and diversity. The leading fintech companies have seen their valuations triple or quadruple in just the last two years to tens of billions. We thought the name of the company should be more than catchy. It’s more important than ever to be thinking ahead.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

Many of the best entrepreneurs I see find themselves besieged by investors, and have actively turned them away , at least until they reach a point of valuation and scaling where they don’t have to give away a lion’s share of ownership and control. Bootstrapping not only reduces cash needs, but increases commitment.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 30, 2022

In this article, you’ll learn how bootstrapping makes you a better business – a leaner, smarter, more agile company that can roll with the punches. Will your market-driven valuation still achieve your exit goals once everyone (including the taxman) takes home their slice? Secondly, just how badly do you need that funding?

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Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

The very strongest companies can still likely get out if they really wanted, but may not command the valuations they hoped for in more bullish times. What does seem to be true is that the current aversion for new IPOs is mostly due to general lack of appetite for risk at present, rather than something intrinsic to growing tech companies.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2010

In fact, Google’s offer for $15 Million was equal to the highest valuation from the venture firms. They used Customer and Agile development to search for a scalable and repeatable business model to become a large company. Customer and Agile development to find the business model. It reduced risk while allowing them to aim high.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 20, 2021

Agility is the watchword for 2021. With the changes we plan to make, we’ll be able to upgrade and update our valuation process to make it easier to use and faster. innovating and designing something that can cater to the needs of people wanting to sell their car quickly or just get an instant valuation.

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The Equity Kicker

JUNE 21, 2012

One way to think about that is when penetration moves from say 0.25% to 5% – that is typically when companies can grow really fast and valuations sky rocket as analysts and incumbents come to recognise that a major market shift is underway. Agile Diagnosis - web and mobile app for doctors to improve speed and accuracy of diagnosis.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Most important slide: valuation Promising results Key questions: can you monetize that traffic? (or Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Expo SF (May.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

They also had greater and more rapid increases in valuation at successive rounds of venture capital funding. New startups need to be agile and flexible. The fact is, bookkeeping can be hard to learn. Successful startups make data-driven decisions rather than relying on instinct and “feel.” Get credit for your business.

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 16, 2006

Venture Capital is about investing in the small, fast and agile company hoping that it will beat the large and slow incumbent. Detailed SaaS Spreadsheet (Valuation and CAC benchmark). SaaS 13 Index Valuation. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Use agility to your advantage and make speed a team priority. ValuatIon should be a function of value, not ego. Kawasaki’s Law of Pre-Money Valuation: for every full-time engineer, add $500,000; for every full-time M.B.A., But valuations, especially those in the private market, are not necessarily a predictor of growth/ success.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

As a thought exercise though I thought I’d try to put the valuation in perspective. valuation and still have a hugely valuable stake in WhatsApp, but Sequoia just tripled down on a company they believed in. Clearly Facebook is buying WhatsApp for both offensive reasons and defensive/strategic reasons, as described by others.

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Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2010

New, agile and adroit venture firms with new business models have emerged to deal with the reality that 1) web 2.0 Being acquired has lots of math challenges about your valuation, amount of money raised, percent of founder ownership, type of investor, etc. Lessons Learned. Advice that’s more than 5 years old is obsolete.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 13, 2021

Agility is the watchword for 2021. With the changes we plan to make, we’ll be able to upgrade and update our valuation process to make it easier to use and faster. innovating and designing something that can cater to the needs of people wanting to sell their car quickly or just get an instant valuation.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

As a thought exercise though I thought I’d try to put the valuation in perspective. valuation and still have a hugely valuable stake in WhatsApp, but Sequoia just tripled down on a company they believed in. Clearly Facebook is buying WhatsApp for both offensive reasons and defensive/strategic reasons, as described by others.

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Rob Go

JULY 22, 2014

For example: We are seeing extremely healthy valuations for companies, some with very limited traction or semblance of a business. The day I started writing this post, RelateIQ (a 3-year old company) was acquired for ~$400M and RapGenius raised capital at a valuation of $1B. Maintain agility.

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Eric Friedman

JUNE 11, 2019

A strong bluff if you have no backup, but a reasonable move if you have a team and want to move onto the next company/prospect/project as a small agile team. Candidate Forcing Functions – are hard because you want to hire the best people, hire them fast, and keep your OpEx low.

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Agile VC

APRIL 30, 2019

In the last decade or so, high profile consumer IPOs have often gotten lofty valuations. And Zoom has become the most valuable of the three in terms of market cap though daily fluctuations put it and Lyft fairly close ($16B+).

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Facebook’s IPO was obviously a debacle, and in the private investment sphere valuations from the seed through late stage have declined for the most part from their peaks in late 2011 through early 2012. And as I’ve mentioned valuations in the private investment sphere have largely rationalized in the last 12-18 months.

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Agile VC

AUGUST 9, 2012

But at some point the valuation of the company puts it squarely into “value” stock territory rather than the heady “momentum” stock multiples Zynga once enjoyed, not that long ago. The “value” case goes like this: A) Valuation Net of Cash – Zynga’s market cap sits at around $2.2-2.3B

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Incubators and accelerators like Y-Combinator have institutionalized experiential training in best practices (product/market fit, pivots, agile development, etc.); As long as the CEO’s behavior affects their employees not their customers or valuation, VCs often turn a blind eye.

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Agile VC

JANUARY 21, 2015

Not every round of funding is closed at a “monster” valuation. But the reality of tech entrepreneurship is that not everyone is “killing it,” and certainly not all of the time. Not every startup is going to “crush” their original milestones and financial projections.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 20, 2023

And the model we had in mind, there's a book called Valuation, which our, our firm has had an updated every year for the past 20 years or more. And there's a bit of a sense that digital was a bit sort of the wild west in terms of, oh, it's all about agile and people improvise the method and you can't measure things as well.

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