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Current Startup Market Emotional Biases

Feld Thoughts

Also, they have a strong belief that any sign of weakness (such as a down round) will have a catastrophic impact on their culture, hiring process, and ability to retain employees. Their own ego is also a factor – will a down round signal weakness? However, the DPI is the interesting number from a real perspective.

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Startup Fairy Tales and Other Tall Tales That Venture Capitalists Tell

Growthink Blog

Yes, you heard me right – multiple research studies, including from the Kauffman Foundation , have shown that when you remove a follow-on venture capital round from a founder or angel investor-funded company, that expected returns skyrocket. It is driven by the following: • The Best Metric for the Health of a Company is Cash Flow.

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On the Road to Recap:

abovethecrowd.com

Also, they have a strong belief that any sign of weakness (such as a down round) will have a catastrophic impact on their culture, hiring process, and ability to retain employees. Their own ego is also a factor – will a down round signal weakness? A down round is nothing. Get over it and move on.

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How NZ entrepreneurs can up their capital raising game

NZ Entrepreneur

I waited for the ‘casino-like’ world of startup investing until I was 28 years old, putting $10,000 into a friend’s software distribution company – a tidy sum for me at that age. A simple metric – when I registered my first company in 2004, the naming space was wide open. Seven years later, I exited for $220,000.

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The Future of Startups 2013-2017

Scalable Startup

And so the other reason that I am very interested in delving deep into this space is that it seems like IPOs like Workday, Palo Alto Networks are sort of — they have metrics and analytics that Wall Street understands, more so than a Facebook; like “We are going to sell X number of this in the next year.”