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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

For life sciences it was the Genentech IPO in 1980 that proved to investors that life science startups could make them a ton of money. Third, venture capital has now become Founder-friendly. A 20 th century VC was likely to have an MBA or finance background. VCs have now ceded more control to founders.

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Convertible Debt: Worst Form Of Seed Financing — Except For All The Others

Gust

How to finance a new seed-stage startup? ” Ressi in particular seems to be passionate about removing the “debt” component from convertible debt seed financing transactions. .” I won’t rehash all of the customary convertible note financing deal terms and points of negotiation here. (For

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Quickly Unpacking Two Recent Acquisitions (of Cylance; of PlanGrid)

Haystack

4/ The Big Winners: Cylance raised around ~$280M in financing, with large equity stakeholders being Khosla Ventures, Fairhaven, and Blackstone. 1/ A Pre-Seed Reminder: According to Crunchbase, PlanGrid was founded and went through Y Combinator in 2012. The company only raised a bit over $1M as seed capital.

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Startup Fairy Tales and Other Tall Tales That Venture Capitalists Tell

Growthink Blog

The typical wisdom regarding the appropriate financing course for a new company goes as follows: 1. 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.