Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 12, 2023
Angels are more likely to fund new entrepreneurs, and early-stage or seed rounds, while VCs tend to focus on entrepreneurs with a successful track record, and later stage rounds. VCs tend to demand more control of your spending and strategic decisions, with required board seats and lower valuations.
David Teten
JANUARY 19, 2021
From RBI, Flexible VCs borrow the ability to reap meaningful returns without demanding founders build for an exit. Seed-stage compatible: Like traditional equity VC investors, Flexible VCs accomodate early-stage investment risk within their portfolios better than a traditional RBI funder. Short track record.
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Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 13, 2020
Angels are more likely to fund new entrepreneurs, and early-stage or seed rounds, while VCs tend to focus on entrepreneurs with a successful track record, and later stage rounds. VCs tend to demand more control of your spending and strategic decisions, with required board seats and lower valuations.
View from Seed
JULY 15, 2020
Some early stage businesses may even be able to get to CFBE fairly quickly. Mid-stage portfolios can be more acutely impacted if many companies have fat cost structures and were investing heavily in growth that is not materializing. These tend to vacillate a lot early on, but converge as portfolios mature.
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 2, 2014
Angels are more likely to fund new entrepreneurs, and early-stage or seed rounds, while VCs tend to focus on entrepreneurs with a successful track record, and later stage rounds. VCs tend to demand more control of your spending and strategic decisions, with required board seats and lower valuations.
Steve Blank
JUNE 11, 2013
And at this early stage you’ll be giving up a larger percentage of your firm to investors. A seed round can come from friends, family, Kickstarter, angels – and most importantly, early customers. What is an IRR? You invest the dollars to create end-user demand and drive those customers into your sales channel.
Seeing Both Sides
SEPTEMBER 26, 2010
During most periods, there has been a supply and demand imbalance that favors the VCs. A little IRR math shows the price of this elongated time to liquidity – a 5x return in 5 years yields a 38% IRR. If you find yourself in a market transaction and don’t know for sure that you are the wolf, then, sadly, you are the sheep.
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