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Unintended Consequences: When SAFE and Convertible Notes Go Awry

Pascal's View

While VC deals remain marketed on a pre-money basis, sophisticated investors know that what matters most is the post-money (how much of the company will I own after all of the new shares have been issued). All of these items are postponed until the elusive priced equity round. It’s going to be great!”.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Niche Marketplace Businesses Can Be Interesting

ReadWriteStart

Next Annette McClellan presented DaisyClip , a non-surgical contraception device for women that she is in the process of syndicating a $1.8 Her market penetration plan is to start with India, and she wanted to know what kinds of options/connections we could provide. Marketing Green Products and Services to Indian Consumers.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

The value ascribed by subsequent investors (in a secondary); buyers (acquisition); or the public markets (IPO). Coinvestors: Flexible VC terms have not been standardized, which may make the investment harder to syndicate. Governance. On average, founders own just 43% of equity by Series B , declining thereafter. Retain 100%.

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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

Her work included heading Nokia’s location-based services business and app portfolio for emerging markets, which she built from a back-of-a-napkin idea to a 100-person organization with over 10 million users. It comes as no surprise as technology today enables companies to prove product-market fit much earlier in their lifecycles.

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Smoothstone Lands $48M

Austin Startup

The company announced it is raising $48 million from a unique syndicate of investors comprising industry leading venture capital firms and semiconductor innovators. This kind of investment, the amount, and the strength of this syndicate is a strong endorsement for the innovation we are bringing to market,” said Smooth-Stone CEO Barry Evans.

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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

Austin Startup

Texas is the most promising technology market in the United States. Are they running from high prices, high taxes, dysfunctional government, and wildfires? All of the investors, all of the big companies, all of the government groups?—?they Tens of thousands visit Austin every year for the Austin City Limits Music Festival.

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Barron’s Article on Tech IPO’s Misses the Importance of the Extinct Sub-$50 million IPO

Pascal's View

On Monday, August 10, Barron’s ran a story “Does the IPO Market Shun Smaller Companies?”, The collateral effect of this market reality is that the vast majority of emerging VC-backed companies are effectively barred from going public. jobs today. Mergers trigger job losses; IPO’s create jobs.

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