The Startup Magazine
AUGUST 11, 2023
I will tell you brief details about seed stage funding, and deal sourcing on this page, so read the conclusion until the end. The following is a condensed explanation of seed funding: Seed money is a form of early-stage financing that new businesses receive from investors in exchange for a share of ownership in the company.
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 22, 2014
In other words, how much of the business is financed with equity (owner’s money) or debt (borrowed money). Marketing plans that worked during the early life cycle of your business might have to change during later stages based on a number of variables, such as the economy, your competition, and new products or services.
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VC Adventure
AUGUST 15, 2018
Higher strike prices distributes proceeds away from short term gain tax to equity holders who more typically are paying long term gains on the value that was shifted (I’m skipping a huge amount of nuance and detail here but the above is a general representation of how things work). I was wrong.
VC Adventure
MAY 5, 2022
BUT (and you knew there was a but here given the post title…) it’s a poor way to compare the relative performance of funds early, and even into the mid/later, stages of a fund’s life. But that doesn’t seem to be stopping funds or LPs from touting IRR as the gold standard for evaluating relative fund performance.
The Startup Magazine
FEBRUARY 6, 2020
By that time investment bankers were on a roll privatizing assets as far flung as Chilean Electricity Distribution Rights, Montreal’s container port, parking meters in Chicago, sections of the Pennsylvania turnpike, the London City airport, and (the proposed) CA & FL Lottery systems. Ironically, given the U.S.’s municipal bond market.
Small Business Force
FEBRUARY 21, 2014
In early stage companies (and even some later stage or mature ones), there is no one area where most entrepreneurs and small business owners are lacking in just basic fundamentals, than in dealing with their company's finances and financial management. If it was a distribution business, shipping costs were critical.
Startup Lessons Learned
MAY 31, 2019
Learning everything you can about VC first is important for that reason, but also to ensure it’s the right form of financing for your business. In fact, it’s quite the opposite - making sure you have the same goals as your financing partner is probably the best thing you can do as an entrepreneur to maximize your chances for success.
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