VC Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2022

This is largely due to several major stock market crashes and global economic uncertainties. But even in the seed market the bar could get higher: I wouldn’t be surprised to see valuations drop and for VCs to have rising expectations about the level of traction they expect to see before funding.

Founder 173

Founder Technical Review Down Round Liquidation Preference 173

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 10, 2018

How do you find the balance between not too small to prove itself but not too big to have an off-putting valuation? Minimizing losses in the year before you begin shopping around for buyers will increase profit and help you get that higher valuation. Track Media Perception & Presence. This plan will help you with that.

Valuation 145

Valuation Technical Review Exit Strategy Metrics 145

View from Seed

APRIL 30, 2019

Zoom is a B2B company Pinterest and Lyft are obviously B2C companies. All three have different business models… SaaS, media/ad, and consumer transactional. In the last decade or so, high profile consumer IPOs have often gotten lofty valuations. The post Why Do Consumer IPOs and B2B IPOs Get Treated Differently?

IPO 180

IPO B2B B2C Institutional Investors 180

Agile VC

APRIL 30, 2019

Zoom is a B2B company Pinterest and Lyft are obviously B2C companies. All three have different business models… SaaS, media/ad, and consumer transactional. In the last decade or so, high profile consumer IPOs have often gotten lofty valuations. The post Why Do Consumer IPOs and B2B IPOs Get Treated Differently?

IPO 100

IPO B2B B2C Institutional Investors 100

Hearpreneur

JULY 28, 2019

6- Social media. Your social media presence is essentially your “modern day business card”. Technology and the applications of social media is changing modern day entrepreneurship and the way business is conducted. Ever since social media was introduced into our lives, it has completely revolutionized the business world.

Technical Review 50

Technical Review Technology Artificial Inteligence Entrepreneur 50

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors. We’re using … TinyLetter for our “Content Newsletter” … and Buffer to schedule social media posts. Point Nine Capital uses Mention for media monitoring. I previously posted a detailed presentation with sales technology tools useful for B2B sales.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 24, 2022

A look at the overall exits for both enterprise (B2B) and consumer (B2C) companies from 1995-2022 shows that both categories can produce power law returns, but they vary substantially: The top five enterprise companies with the largest exits account for $188B in value creation, or 12% of the $1,609B generated in the enterprise category since 1995.

B2C 103

B2C IPO B2B 103