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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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

Yes, via conversion rights at a valuation cap. Yes, via conversion rights at a valuation cap. Coinvestors: Flexible VC terms have not been standardized, which may make the investment harder to syndicate. (co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. Of the Inc. 5000 companies, only 6.5%

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View from Seed

AUGUST 20, 2014

If the company is doing really well, the VC will have an incentive to try to do more of the next round at perhaps not the highest possible valuation. It should be noted however that some angels belong to syndicates that allow them to speak for larger amounts of capital. Their aggressiveness sends a signal to the market.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2015

*. If you are a 20-something tech entrepreneur you could be forgiven for thinking that seed-stage investors, Angellist Syndicates and widely available angel money always existed. It is, of course, a very recent phenomenon. Let me take you back just 10 years ago to 2005 in Silicon Valley where I returned after 11 years of living in Europe.

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Professor VC

APRIL 1, 2010

One comment made by Jason was that angels tend to be less sensitive than VCs on valuation and can potentially make it difficult to get a venture financing done at acceptable valuation. We are typically looking at either smaller exits or require a lower valuation to get a reasonable step-up to a venture round. Blog Archive.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 26, 2016

This is the first of several blog posts discussing pre-seed rounds. This means that it has rewarded Series A and B investors for chasing momentum and made it less important for these investors to focus on valuation or sound, early unit economics. To ensure you receive the rest, subscribe here.

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 9, 2006

Done deal: after a quick syndication with the kitchen team (their job was at stake, so they were easy to convince.), Just happened to run across your blog after our call, and had a good laugh over this story! Note: high CAC ratio means high productiviy (see blog post for definition). SaaS 13 Index Valuation. Blog Archive.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

One of my comments was that we would likely see more institutionalization of angel groups and syndication of deals among groups. Another comment which probably deserves more discussion is around valuation. He also said they typically only invest at a $1 million pre-money valuation or less. My facebook can beat up your facebook.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

As I’ve blogged about in the past, there are positives and negatives to this strategy, but it is a viable option to some founders. In a frothy market, rounds can get done in this way at pretty high prices (or valuation caps for notes) albeit with less value-added investors involved. Non-institutional Leads.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 1, 2010

If you don’t understand the concept of “signaling&# please read the blog post I wrote on Understanding VC signaling. From the debate on VentureHacks, our offline chats and from our blog posts, I think that Chris Dixon and I are pretty much 98% aligned on the topic. This is the nature of compromise.

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Babbling VC

JANUARY 7, 2011

I decided to make a blog post out of this since my answer over on Quora to a similar question seems to have quite a bit of resonance: "Differences in Entrepreneurial Mindset between the US and Europe". Valuations were also therefore lower and I believe you could extrapolate that exit valuations too were lower.

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Professor VC

JULY 25, 2013

As regular readers of this blog know, I''m not a fan of convertible deals to begin with, and it is difficult for me to internalize how value in the company has been created in the two weeks a cap goes from $3 million to $5 million. AngelList (which I remain a big fan) also recently launched a syndicate program.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

The reports showcase raw data, analytics, visualizations, and benchmarking statistics on the company from dozens of sources, including team, intellectual property, technology, product, financial, banking, marketing, customer, risk, valuation, and investment information.”. See their blog post on multiples.). 7) Negotiate .

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2010

I recently wrote a blog post on understanding how the size and age of a venture capital fund might affect you when you’re raising money. In a world of The Funded, VentureHacks and entrepreneur blogs this kind of informations spreads like wildfire. If they blog make sure to read what they think on topics.

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www.gabrielweinberg.com

AUGUST 28, 2012

I syndicated (helped them put together the round) in five: Notehall, MyZamana, Locately, Zippykid, and Instinct. Get an edge (lower valuations, better deal flow, etc.) See a straightforward path to victory for $10-20M exit and get valuations that makes those economics work. by leading rounds and being willing to jump first.

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Rob Go

JANUARY 7, 2013

See my recent blog post here for more detail. We have pretty strong guidelines internally about how much capital we want to invest in a given company, at what valuation, and thus, what ownership we are looking for. Other: 2 (includes 1 inbound from a blog post). Syndicate Composition: NextView + Seed Funds + Angels: 9.

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Tim Keane

APRIL 12, 2006

valuation than the previous round. If the investors ideal size is smaller than your need, you ought to ask about syndication. If they don’t like to syndicate, or don’t have a track record of doing it, you will want to consider your options. It is used by some investors who like the deal but can’t come to terms on valuation.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

I have made many of my arguments in a blog post I wrote on The Innovator’s Dilemma , a concept that is critical for both innovators & incumbents to understand. I would take a lower valuation in exchange for bringing in world-class investors that can create the right structure for future success.

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Genuine VC

JULY 8, 2014

This is an excerpt from the original post, found on NextView’s blog, The View From Seed , launched this week. While there has been much discussion about the variances on syndicate composition and structure, and of course pricing variance, but essentially the “deal” is becoming fairly standard for all parties.

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Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

We managed to pull together an angel syndicate and close $450K on 9/30 after working the phones the last few days and anxiously waiting for signature pages to show up on the fax machine and wire confirms to hit the bank account. Blog Archive. My Blog List. Guess that means I had less experience than as well. Post a Comment.

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Rob Go

JANUARY 28, 2016

This is the best time to fundraise because that’s when you are able to command a meaningfully higher valuation for your next round to minimize your own dilution. This is why we typically recommend not building a huge syndicate during a pre-seed — you want everyone involved to be on the same page around what success does or does not look like.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Much easier than writing a guest blog post, you get some high quality content. Basically started as somebody of how do we take photos of cars and the pricing and descriptions of the cars, and put it all in one place, but then syndicate it. Podcast are really hot, right? But you know what’s also really hot? Think about it.

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Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Especially during the past decade bull run, when everything was up and to the right, venture investors loved to increase their exposure to companies by syndicating SPVs (or direct investment opportunities) to their LPs, friends and other industry luminaries. Disappearing TVPI. “It

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Scott Edward Walker

NOVEMBER 26, 2017

From a practical perspective, this means getting actively involved in your local tech community, regularly attending industry events and conferences, writing blog posts/articles, integrating yourself into communities on social networks and, of course, doing outstanding work as an employee (to develop a great reputation).

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mashable.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Partners W3 EDGE Concentric Sky Rackspace Intridea Dynect DNS Webtrends Global Syndication Partners ABCNews Forbes Metro USAToday Yahoo ©2005-2011 Mashable, Inc. Follow Sourcebits on Twitter and Facebook for recent news and updates. Javascript is old as dirt and cranky as hell. Reproduction without explicit permission is prohibited.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 18, 2015

My presentation from the Summit can be downloaded here and the embed is below but the summary message is the rest of this blog post. Either we’ve discovered magical beans and elixir or perhaps we’ve gotten ahead of ourselves on valuation. In 2014 3 out of 12 exits were occurred at a lower valuation than the previous round.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

Not the successful companies themselves but the entire b t culture of swash-buckling startups who define themselves by hitting some magical $1 billion valuation number and the financiers who back them irrespective of metrics that justify it. ” The title is a misnomer as it isn’t THAT kind of blog post. And I blame unicorns.

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