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A VC’s take on the Season 5 premier of Sharktank

Lightspeed Venture Partners

With his back to the wall and about to run out of money, his first priority should have been runway extension, not dilution from new capital. pre money valuation seems big, the actual implication is only between 5% and 10% dilution since the round size is small. But eventually two syndicates emerged.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

Flexible VC creates early liquidity which can be either reinvested or distributed to LPs. Coinvestors: Flexible VC terms have not been standardized, which may make the investment harder to syndicate. Early liquidity. Equity VC is a “get rich slow” business.

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“Seed Is the New Series A” – Making Sense of the Confusion

View from Seed

Or maybe you are just a bit off on your product, or else you needed more experimentation to get to the right strategy for distribution. You may actually need to raise a few financing rounds just to get to a series A, so think about the syndicate you are constructing (will they be loyal to you?) We’re not at normal yet.

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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

Austin Startup

In 2019 and 2020, we saw hundreds of millions of dollars in non-dilutive funding go to Texas startups, most of which had never worked with the government before. In short, the first wave of internet companies were widely distributed and brought people online (AOL in Virginia, Microsoft in Albuquerque and Seattle, Dell in Austin, etc.)

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The Rise & Fall of Great Venture Firms [Part 1] ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

How do you deal with a severely uneven distribution of investment success between individuals or groups of partners? Like any other form of diluting your focus… it occasionally works, but usually doesn’t. What’s Your Favorite Future?

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ProfessorVC: How much is enough?

Professor VC

The business model (OEM through broadband and home security companies for mass distribution) if not specific product functionality has remained largely the same. One truth of start-up financing is that it generally takes twice as long and twice as much money to accomplish your milestones. So what does this all mean.

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Not Building a Unicorn

Austin Startup

By driving the valuation up, you’re usually not reducing your dilution in the round; you’re just increasing the size of the check they need to write in order to get to their desired %. This is the distributed portfolio mindset; i’ve got stakes in a lot of companies, so it’s OK if most fail, as long as I get at least one unicorn.