Berkonomics

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Since this number is budgeted and pre-authorized, managers tend to focus upon other things such as sales, marketing and product development issues. It is not a strong bargaining position for the CEO to ask for money to complete a product promised for completion with the previous round of funding. The art of good management.

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Silicon Valley Burn Rate Angel Investor Down Round 118

Berkonomics

AUGUST 10, 2017

Since this number is budgeted and pre-authorized, managers tend to focus upon other things such as sales, marketing and product development issues. It is not a strong bargaining position for the CEO to ask for money to complete a product promised for completion with the previous round of funding.

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Silicon Valley Burn Rate Angel Investor Down Round 97

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

New investors hate down rounds. Huge structural under-employment in much of the country and full employment in some niche tech markets where it’s impossible to hire developers, designers or sales professionals. So I’m not advocating panic or a need to rush your funding round. Get funded now, if you can.&#.

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Saudi Arabia Valuation IPO Technical Review 309

Berkonomics

MARCH 30, 2010

It is not a strong bargaining position for the CEO to ask for money to complete a product promised for completion with the previous round of funding. And we were able to secure that investment along with a partner from that firm joining our board. All investors, including the VC firm, lost everything.

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Silicon Valley Burn Rate Angel Investor Down Round 85

Growthink Blog

MAY 23, 2011

This venture capital financing - usually between $3 and $10 million - is the first of a number of rounds of outside investment over a period of three to five years. With this capital, the company propels itself to $50 million+ in revenues, and to either a sale to a strategic acquirer or to an initial public offering.

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Angel Investor Venture Capital Sweat Equity Cram Down 112

David Teten

AUGUST 7, 2019

Likely signs of a Value investment: the company has challenges in filling out the round; the investors have more negotiating leverage than the founders during the closing process; the company has significantly better metrics (e.g. You could argue that when they were [raising] oversubscribed [VC rounds], Facebook, Google, Amazon, etc.,

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Venture Capital Valuation Stock NDA 60

Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

Greylock Partners · Brian Chesky | People-First Capitalism. And all of the other smart and operational decisions that have enabled Airbnb to weather the storm and go on to have one of the most successful public market debuts. So we have to think of ourselves as partners. I always saw it as the opposite.”. EPISODE TRANSCRIPT.

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Silicon Valley Hosting Rhode Island Design 69