Both Sides of the Table
MAY 19, 2010
Greycroft is an early-stage VC. Founded in November 2007 in New York City by Alexis Maybank and Kevin Ryan (co-founder of DoubleClick); CEO is Susan Lyne (ex-CEO Marta Stewart Living Omnimedia) Revenue estimates: $50mm in 2008; $170mm in 2009 (versus budget of $150mm); $450mm forecasted for 2010.
David Teten
JANUARY 19, 2021
In all these cases, capital is provided to fuel forecasted growth without creating a commitment to a particular vision for future funding rounds, exit goals, and associated blitzscaling. Coinvestors: Flexible VC terms have not been standardized, which may make the investment harder to syndicate. The State of Flexible VC.
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David Teten
SEPTEMBER 23, 2017
In venture capital in particular, early-stage companies are often operating in frontier industries, where the rules are unpredictable and conventional analytic frameworks may be misleading. The Pocket Negotiator is very early-stage attempt to aid in the negotiating process itself. . Accompany focuses on this use case.
Agile VC
MAY 26, 2011
In another we decended into a debate about our 5 year forecasts (I built the models so fielded most of these questions), and it became clear they probably weren’t the best fit for our Series A round (this group is no longer in the early-stage VC business). And a third firm “pressure tested” (i.e.
Hunter Walker
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
As cofounder of an early stage venture fund myself, I’m here to tell you that while these statements are accurate, they’re also misleading when trying to understand the broad impact these implosions may have upon a firm. Relationship Cost of SPVs/Direct Co-Investment and LP Credibility.
David Teten
NOVEMBER 15, 2013
This may make sense from the individual perspective of a given VC, but collectively it ensures that early-stage companies are overvalued. Services like Angel List syndicates are disrupting angel investing and reducing the traditional information costs and access issues that have made angel investing more work.
SoCal CTO
AUGUST 3, 2010
The process is called mass syndication, or a party round. Listening to first-time entrepreneurs talk about their competitive advantages is as predictably invalid as the local weatherman's 10-day forecast. In other words, the future of financing is continuous funding, not discrete. We have the most features. Silly, right?
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