Feld Thoughts
AUGUST 25, 2015
The key reason for the explosion in capital flowing into the industry, and therefore the large increase in practitioners, had nothing to do with 1970’s performance, early stage investing, or technology. Instead, the driver was the 1983 bull market. “By January 1984, investors had turned away from hardware toward software.”
VC Adventure
AUGUST 15, 2018
As is true today, there was a requirement that options be priced at or above the “fair market value” of the underlying stock (otherwise there would be tax consequences to the optionee and sometimes to the company as well). So 30%-40% is the range.
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Both Sides of the Table
JULY 29, 2010
The A round was done in February 2000 (end of the bull market) and my B round was done in April 2001 (bear market). In fact, far better if you haven’t raised venture capital. The longer you wait the higher the price they’ll have to pay and the less time the clock will be ticking on long-term capital gains tax.
The Startup Magazine
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
Advances in technology used to begin at the enterprise level and slowly trickled down to the consumer technology market. When the first microwave oven hit the market in 1955, it cost roughly $12,000 in today’s dollars; today you can pick one up for $64 on Amazon. Consumerization & Affordability of Technology. billion by 2022.
paulgraham.com
SEPTEMBER 23, 2012
To grow rapidly, you need to make something you can sell to a big market. Writing software is a great way to solve (b), but you can still end up constrained in (a). If you write software to teach Tibetan to Hungarian speakers, youll be able to reach most of the people who want it, but there wont be many of them.
Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak
MARCH 25, 2011
Eventually the Internet came along and the Trading Post no longer commanded the secondhand market like it once did (though it did successfully transition online). I didn’t use any software and most of the payments I received back then was via check or money order in the mail. Some kids would even send money and even coins (!)
www.seriesseed.com
MARCH 2, 2010
In my opinion, the reason that capped convertible debt is the current market leader is that entrepreneurs have been conditioned over time to believe that convertible debt is (a) faster (b) cheaper and (c) better for them than equity investment. Why use Series Seed Documents instead of capped convertible debt? million.
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