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What Founders Need to Know: You Were Funded for a Liquidity Event – Start Looking

Steve Blank

But for the last 40 years, it has provided the financial fuel for a revolution in Life Sciences and Information Technology and has helped to change the world. If you’re using the business model canvas , you’ve already figured this out when you articulated your revenue streams and noted where they are coming from. The Bad News.

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Term-sheets and Valuations: Thinking about Negotiations - Startups.

Tim Keane

3]   However, if they are built bottom up, they demonstrate and make explicit a range of business model assumptions the entrepreneur is using to think about his business and its revenue model. Second a liquidation preference and a participation. This is why a bottom up approach is more credible.

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Working for Equity Instead of Cash

genylabs.typepad.com

Tracking and Forecasting the Trends Impacting the Future of Small Business. Welcome to Small Business Labs. Small Business Labs, from Emergent Research , covers the key social, technology and business trends impacting small business. where your stock sits in the liquidity preference stack.

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Should you raise traditional VC or Revenue-Based Investing VC?

David Teten

Focus on lower-risk business models; no requirement for a ‘swing for the fences’ model. Borchers points out: “Only 50% of our investment activity involves technology-based businesses. But this is the same for a VC round with a liquidation preference. Paypal) or expensive technical R&D (e.g.,

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Startup Fairy Tales and Other Tall Tales That Venture Capitalists Tell

Growthink Blog

Through connections, or through a chance meeting at a networking or social event, an angel investor hears the entrepreneur's story, likes them and their technology, and on the spot, writes a check to provide the company with its first outside financing. There are a lot of dark, hard days. For most companies, it is simply a non-starter.

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Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010

SoCal CTO

10 Ways To Be Your Own Boss - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , June 18, 2010 The folks at Behance and Cool Hunting asked me to talk at their 99% Conference a couple months ago. liquidation preference. Here are the top 30 along with a brief snippet from the post. Yes, even bootstrappers. And then I took a stand.

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Investors Beware: Today’s $100M+ Late-stage Private Rounds Are Very Different from an IPO

abovethecrowd.com

Every successful technology company raises money throughout its lifecycle, perhaps starting with a seed investment and progressing through Series A, B, C, late-stage investments, and, for the most successful companies, an IPO. These large, high-priced private financings are the defining characteristic of this particular technology cycle.

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