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Trimming The Hedges, Planning For A Rainy Day

Haystack

Yet, looking back, not much changed — there’s more money than every in the early-stage ecosystem, bigger financing rounds, large private pre-IPO growth rounds, and much more. .” Then at the end of 2017, the same worry about 2018; rinse and repeat last year, looking toward 2019.

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The Corrosive Downside of Acquihires

Both Sides of the Table

For the past 5 years or so Google, Facebook and a handful of tech industry giants have been quietly buying scores of early-stage startups for their talent. And to keep up with the Jones’s it seems that Yahoo! Let’s assume an early-stage company around for 2 years with limited traction. .”

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2021 was a record breaking year for Israeli startups. What now?

VC Cafe

Both employees and investors typically have a 6 month lock up period (exceptions apply of course) so this can have devastating effects on liquidity and retruns. Given that some of these new stocks have low trading volume, in practice the lock up period can be longer.

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ProfessorVC: The Most Important Venture Capital Statistic

Professor VC

Dont miss Plan - This may seem obvious, but Ive seen a number of CEOs shot for missing the first quarters numbers after going public, which is a great way to shrink your market cap well before the lock-up period is up. The best way to describe my work is probably start-up CFO guy. Same principle here.