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What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like?

Both Sides of the Table

Should SaaS companies trade at a 24x Enterprise Value (EV) to Next Twelve Month (NTM) Revenue multiple as they did in November 2021? 40% of our deals are done in Los Angeles but 100% of our deals leverage the LA networks we have built for 25 years. We do deals in NYC, Paris, Seattle, Austin, San Francisco, London?—?but

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The top 10 companies investing billions in the Metaverse

VC Cafe

billion revenue in 2021 for Epic Games and was played by 83.3 The NFTs are owned by celebrities, tech execs and investors, and the NFT owners own 100% of the IP on their Apes and are able to generate derivative income from creating products bearing the apes picture: music, fashion, food/drink etc. Fortnite generated $5.8

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Should Startups Focus on Profitability or Not?

Both Sides of the Table

I find it amusing when a journalist writes an article about a prominent startup (either privately held or preparing for an IPO) and decries that, “They’re not even profitable!” They have have raised $2-3 million, built a product that has some amount of market traction and got to annualized revenues of around $1 million.

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Opinion: It’s a startup world

NZ Entrepreneur

Addressing real world problems, they thrive in uncertainty, generating new jobs and new revenue streams in new markets. Generating liquidity usually entails either selling the venture or an IPO. In deep tech companies value creation milestones are more likely to be tagged to validating the technology and IP creation.

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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

VC Cafe

This is done by enriching transaction data points such as name, email address, and billing and shipping address with around 2,000 extra data points, such as an IP latency check to measure the real distance from the user, IP connection type, distance between key strokes, and email name match.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

More and more startups are pursuing Revenue-Based VCs , but “RBI” doesn’t fit everyone. Flexible VC 101: Equity Meets Revenue Share. By tying payments to actual revenues, founders and investors remain aligned around the company’s real-time performance, good or bad. Of the Inc. 5000 companies, only 6.5% raised from angels.

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How to Scale a Venture Capital (or Private Equity) Fund

David Teten

– Create a franchise and license access to it , e.g., the Draper Venture Network. HOF Capital provides hands-on support through our in-house team, plus a network of outside mentors who work with portfolio companies on an as-needed basis. This is a clever way for Tim Draper to leverage his brand and experience. .