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How VCs Think About Adding New Partners

Both Sides of the Table

billion IPO), Envestnet (Chicago, $1.25 billion IPO), HealthDataInsights (Las Vegas, $400 million) as well as LA (Maker Studios $1 billion, TrueCar $1.3 In Kara’s case I got to see her work on deal structuring first hand having worked closely with her on her board at P.S. XO.

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Which books would you recommend to a VC analyst-associate?

Gust

Insights from Leading Practitioners on the Art of Raising a Fund, Deal Structuring, Value Creation, and Exit Strategies. A Venture Capital Insider Reveals How to Get from Start-up to IPO on Your Terms. The Business of Venture Capital. Raising Venture Capital for the Serious Entrepreneur. Mastering the VC Game.

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Knowing When It’s Time To Sell Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

Google reportedly turned down buyout offers from Microsoft shortly before the 2004 IPO. Google’s value has grown from $23 billion at the time of the IPO to over $200 billion today. This deal-of-the-day service was founded in November 2008 and quickly became a sensation. Highly profitable. The current market cap is only $1.8

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The Pre-Seed FAQ

K9 Ventures

So it’s normal for a company to have to raise Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A, Series B, Series C, Series D (and more) before it’s potentially ready for an IPO, but that bar for the IPO is much higher than what it used to be and the valuation of the company in private markets is considerably higher than what it used to be.

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Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

Cracking the Code

Save Asia for post-IPO Single instance, multi-tenant, single datacenter - Have only one version of the code in production. For sales, they should be paid on new CMRR with a standard deal structure (such as a one year deal, with quarterly pre-payments), and incentives for more favorable cash flow terms (such as multi-year pre-payments).