Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The reward for doing so was a liquidity event via an Initial Public Offering. Show and talk at conferences, be on lots of blogs, use social networks and build a brand. VC’s worked with entrepreneurs to build profitable and scalable businesses, with increasing revenue and consistent profitability – quarter after quarter.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Rather than reinvent the wheel, I would point readers to Martin Kleppmann’s useful blog post with graphs illustrating the effects of a valuation cap on entrepreneurs, seed investors and later-round (typically VC) investors. (The cap is irrelevant if the next equity financing is at a valuation below the cap amount.) of MySpace, Inc.

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ithacaVC

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Nothing better than sitting at LGA writing blog posts. Continuing with the “No Mess” theme of commenting on things that give VCs pause, I thought it would be good to touch on liquidation preference. Yes, it is possible to issue preferred stock without liquidation preference, but that is rarely done.

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Business Plan Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

This is because most small companies do not have quick and easy exits, it is onerous to require directors and advisors to pay cash for shares in a company that is far from a liquidity event.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 7, 2013

In one post on Ravikant’s Venture Hacks blog called, “ The Option Pool Shuffle ,” it notes market expectations are to set aside 1 to 2 percent for a VP-level hire. What you need to consider: - x : percent ownership upon a liquidity event. Excluding the occasional exception, the grants appear significantly lower.

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Growthink Blog

JANUARY 13, 2013

Enacting a liquidity event. Here's how VCs earn returns for their investors: 1. Finding high growth companies 2. Making investments in them at favorable terms 3. Guiding and nurturing them 4. This typically occurs by selling the company or taking it public.

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Rob Go

JULY 17, 2014

We have had a number of companies that have achieved successful liquidity events, including Rentjuice ( acq. Follow our NextView blog here or the different members of our team. 2) Is your reputation in the market such that great people will want to work with you? Zillow ), Hyperpublic ( acq. Groupon ), and TapCommerce ( acq.

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Business Plan Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Angels realize their ROI during a liquidity event. Investors want to know how your competitive advantage is sustainable and how it will keep competitors from copying an advantage that you have discovered. Exit Strategy. As mentioned previously, Angel investors are looking for startups that have the potential to provide a large ROI.

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

VCs earn returns for their investors by finding high growth companies, making investments in them at favorable terms, guiding and nurturing them, and enacting a liquidity event (e.g., By providing a solid ROI to their investors, VCs earn bonuses and raise more funds so they can stay in business.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 26, 2011

Last week, TruckCenter.com was purchased by Liquidity Services (NASDAQ: LQDT), a company that runs online auctions for surplus goods. I found this pretty amusing since when a company is purchased, we often say it reached a "liquidity event." your business) into cash.

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entrepreMusings

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

So that means less time for me to write on the blog, but not to worry I am still getting my creative outlet through song writing. The EF provides a great service to our community by helping facilitate donations when companies have a liquidating event to charities of their choice. The kids and I saw Megamind in 3D today.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 13, 2012

And they'll want to invest if they believe your company has great potential to achieve a liquidity event, and one that enables them to earn a significant return on their investment. You prepare by making sure angel investors will want to invest in your company.

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Haystack

MAY 9, 2019

Believe it or not, this will now be the second blog post on this site about a billion-dollar exit for a shaving-related startup. Any billion-dollar liquidity event is a rare event, so it will get the Haystack blog treatment. Perhaps one could have had a 20% chance of predicting that.

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Hunter Walker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Starting a venture capital blog post with 1970s country music lyrics is pretty uncommon, but so is writing about when and why an investor might choose to sell equity before the company exits. Below I’ll share some of the principles we use at Homebrew , knowing that there’s not really a single ‘right’ answer for a fund manager.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

In the previous six months, I’d read several articles in finance blogs or newsletters about yet another company that had just been financed in their specific vertical. They had prototypes in the market and a respectable global mind share. Email readers, continue here…] Their niche was heating up quickly – unfortunately for them.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2013

” But I pointed out a professor at HBS ( Tom Eisenmann ) who teaches a course where blogs are a part of the classroom reading material. He talked about a unique model where you don’t have to become liquid in venture capital and can target singles & doubles. ” No royalty paid until there is revenue.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2009

Of course, they could be useful in creating liquidity events, but absent bubbly environment and disrupting marketplace what is the point? Blog at WordPress.com. Of course there have been many VC-backed successes because when new markets rise someone is going to win and many companies take the money along the way.

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Board Effect

MAY 10, 2019

Cap tables can play an essential role in scenario modeling ; particularly in waterfall analyses, using a series of assumptions to model shareholder payouts in a variety of liquidity events. Some startups prepare waterfalls before entering into seed or series funding to model hypothetical liquidity events for potential investors.

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dondodge.typepad.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Paul Graham wrote a blog " The Equity Equation " 1/(1-n), which basically says " You should give up n% of your company if what you trade it for improves your average outcome enough that what you have left is worth more than the whole company was before. How much money should I raise? How much equity should I give up?

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

What did you take from idea on the back of a napkin to liquidity event? Groupon's MVP was a WordPress blog and a spreadsheet. Groupon made money with their blog and spreadsheet, and it had zero technology. Blog about your vision and the talent will find you. Now we turn it around. For your employees?

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Think about it: Much easier than writing a guest blog post, you get some high quality content, you get great back links, people want to share that content, maybe you can even transcribe that content. Podcasts are really hot, right, but you know what’s also really hot? Appearing as a guest on one of the many, many podcasts out there.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Based on the list posted on StartupWeekend Resources pag e and the TokBox blog. Website/Blogging. website/blog spelling checker. Analytics blog â?? WordPress - king of blogging platformsâ?¦doubles another blogging platform. yet another blogging platform. blog on roadmap for learning rails.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

But that’s an entirely different blog post. The Startup Lottery I need to stop here and say this: with a “hot idea&# startup the odds are overwhelmingly against ever getting funding, much less having a liquidity event that puts money in your pocket.

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