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OnlyOnce
DECEMBER 15, 2021
Last week , I blogged a podcast riff I did about the biggest mistakes early stage founders make and what to do about them. Here’s a summary of part 2 of what I said about later stage founders.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 24, 2011
More on that later. This is a post I’ve been dying to write for 18 months. I invested in LA-based Gogii , one of the fastest growing, most exciting mobile social networking companies you’ve never heard of and maker of a product called textPlus. I know this because you’re not a young teenager. And if you are – what on earth are you reading such a boring blog as this?!? I only recently invested and I only got here through persistence. See, I originally lost this deal.
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The Equity Kicker
AUGUST 19, 2015
In the words of an alum from the 2006 cohort: Companies are joining YC at a much later stage. If you read this Techrunch post profiling 50 of the current YC companies you will notice that many of them are up and running with customers and revenues. That marks a shift in the YC investment strategy which used to focus on younger businesses. When I started YC, most companies wrote their first line of code in the first week in the program.
VC Cafe
JULY 20, 2011
Mid stage companies accounted for the highest rate of investments in Q2 2011, attracting 44% of all capital invested and later stage followed, with 27%. In the first half of 2011, Mid and late stage companies together raised $749 million, an increase of 108% from the first half of 2010 when mid and late stage companies attracted $360 million. Mid stage companies led capital raising with $249 million or 44 percent of the total capital raised.
aweissman.com
JULY 24, 2007
It is about the fact that while venture funding statistics show larger funds and more later stage investing, there are still a wealth of early ventures being formed, and getting funded. skip to main | skip to sidebar. aweissman.com. Maximizing the serendipity around you. Jul 24, 2007. Seed Investing. I wrote a piece for the new Silicon Alley Insider site about seed investing in New York.
Version One Ventures
MARCH 8, 2020
This puts the VC firm and its investors in a position to continue to exercise their pro-rata rights in later-stage rounds instead of giving them up. .
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 24, 2021
But markets have changed and I think investors, founders and experienced executives who want to join later-stage startups can all benefit from playing the long game. The abundance of late-stage capital is good for us all.
View from Seed
JANUARY 13, 2021
It turns out capital is not a weapon, especially in the early stages of building a business, and even experienced founders who can raise huge sums often realize this and right-size their asks. A year later, they did Coinbase and Instacart.
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 4, 2021
We all probably thought that our initial ideas and the right products were the key, but realized later that business is all about win-win relationships with partners, team members, and customers.
Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 28, 2020
You don’t have to be a heavily funded later stage startup to get access to “big data,” customer analytics, and metrics dashboards. Later cleanup can double your costs and risks.
Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 11, 2020
Accelerators generally accept startups at a slightly later stage, and attempt to compress the timeline to commercialization into a few months, instead of a year or more. Peer-to-peer networking with other startups and founders in the same stage.
VC Adventure
MARCH 17, 2022
With the markets down significantly, financings (at least at the later stages) slowing down, and inflation and interest rates on the rise, perhaps now is a good time to talk about your burn rate.
OnlyOnce
DECEMBER 8, 2021
I divided my response into “early stage” and “later stage” founders. Here’s a summary of what I said about early stage founders. Next week: the later stage founder answer (link won’t be live until 12/16/2021).
Startup Professionals Musings
MAY 18, 2020
Most new teams are geographically dispersed these days anyway, so paying rent for an office should be differed to later stages when revenue is plentiful. Defer your desire for expensive perks and vacations until later when you have time for them.
Steve Blank
MARCH 17, 2020
If you’re an early stage company, that number may be zero. They triage their deals – first worrying about liquidity of their late stage deals which have the highest valuations. If they pull back, there will be a liquidity crunch for later stage startups (Series B, C…).
VC Adventure
FEBRUARY 13, 2018
Venture is being increasingly driven by large rounds (especially at the later stages – this is significantly skewing the overall funding numbers that are being reported). Want to visualize how the venture funding market is changing? Look no further than these 3 slides (from a presentation put together by our friends at Greenspring ). I don’t think much commentary is needed here. Average round size at Series A is increasing dramatically.
Feld Thoughts
DECEMBER 10, 2014
The number of large, “later stage” financings are remarkable – both in size and velocity. But they are often extremely frustrating to strong, mid and later stage companies growing 25%+ year over year. We are syndication agnostic and are happy to continue to finance strong, later stage companies in our portfolio with or without new co-investors.
Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 13, 2020
Angels are more likely to fund new entrepreneurs, and early-stage or seed rounds, while VCs tend to focus on entrepreneurs with a successful track record, and later stage rounds. In all cases, investors tend to invest in people, more than the idea, or even the stage of execution.
Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 29, 2020
If you have more, they better be major investors or partners who will likely be part of your formal Board of Directors at a later stage.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 27, 2021
We tell our LPs the truth, which is that when we write the first check we think each one is going to be an amazing company but 10–15 years later it has been much hard to have predicted which would be the major fund drivers. Early-stage venture capital is about extreme winners.
View from Seed
JULY 8, 2020
Today I’m excited to announce the relaunch of our most popular resource ever: board meeting deck templates for seed-stage startups, now in conjunction with an investor update email template. We first released a version of the board meeting deck template template back in 2014 and then a revised version a couple of years later. Yet the landscape for the seed stage has evolved over that period. Founders should aspire to run your company as if it’s at the next stage.
Feld Thoughts
JUNE 20, 2014
With yesterday’s announcement that early-stage VC Greycroft has raised a $200 million growth fund , this type of fund has officially become a trend. ” Prior to this, plenty of VC firms invested across the early stage to late stage spectrum from the same fund (e.g. Others had separate early stage funds and late stage funds, often with separate teams and economics (e.g. Foundry Group fund Greycroft growth late-stage opportunity select USV
Version One Ventures
APRIL 14, 2021
It was a much later stage for us than our typical pre-seed/seed investment. At Version One, we believe that we are best when we stay in our early-stage lane, but in this case, we felt very confident that we should make an exception to our investment focus. Today our portfolio company Coinbase went public via a direct listing. With an initial market cap of over $100b, it is one of the most valuable public listings of all times in the US.
View from Seed
MAY 18, 2016
Here at NextView, we are strong proponents of creating a board at the seed stage. At the seed stage, we typically have three-person boards with two founders and one VC — though as companies grow at later stages, five-person boards and ultimately six- or seven-person boards become more common. I think having two or at most three VC board members is probably where this should cap out, even for later stage startups.
Hunter Walker
AUGUST 22, 2021
Now so many multistage firms also have some sort of growth/late stage vehicle it’s also possible to split an investment over time between those funds. Why Their Multibillion Dollar Outcome Flipped The Script. Pre-2014: Insider Rounds Are The Funding of Last Resort.
VC Adventure
MAY 5, 2022
BUT (and you knew there was a but here given the post title…) it’s a poor way to compare the relative performance of funds early, and even into the mid/later, stages of a fund’s life. It actually suppresses it in a similar way that investing over a somewhat longer time period does: by putting capital in the ground later in a fund’s life.
This is going to be BIG.
MAY 8, 2022
That being said, it’s not going to come down that much because so many VCs got funded, and the best later-stage deals have a little more consensus in the market based on their data—so you’re still going to get VC competition.
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 19, 2017
Venture capital fundraising can be divided into three stages: seed, early stage, and later stage. According to the same report by KPMG, the median deal size is the largest for later-stage funding, at $26 million. Later stage funding can be provided for startups that have fully matured with a wide user base and a working business model. by Marek Danyluk, managing partner at Space Executive.
The Next Web
JULY 19, 2015
Additionally, if the expansion goes well, you’ll have also demonstrated the adaptability and versatility of your product on a world stage. So when your later stage startup is ready to expand, where should you go? Regardless of where your startup resides, you should always monitor where else in the world your product is gaining traction. Expanding to a new country can lead to a larger client base, a foothold in another market, more media exposure, and more investors.
NZ Entrepreneur
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
While capital to large tech companies is increasing, smaller rounds for early-stage companies is drying up. This decline has also become evident in startup accelerator programs shifting their focus on later-stage scale-ups that provide higher returns. Building a tech startup?
Version One Ventures
JANUARY 23, 2019
For later-stage start-ups, it’s always advisable to have a Plan B on how to get to profitability with existing cash in case funding markets dry up. The world seems more volatile than ever before. There’s an explosion in the number of issues, combined with an ever-accelerating news cycle to cover each issue 24 hours a day. Much of today’s uncertainty can impact start-ups… When will the US government shutdown end? Are we heading into a US-China trade war?
The Next Web
JULY 24, 2015
Venture capital firms are typically growth-oriented, early-stage investors looking for these proof-of-concept points before cutting a check. Private equity firms are typically cash-flow oriented, later-stage investors, looking to invest in companies in excess of $10 million in revenues and $3 million in EBITDA (A company’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization) in size.
SiliconHills
JUNE 22, 2016
The addition of Serendex adds new drugs to its portofolio including Serendex’s flagship product, Molgradex, an inhaled drug in later stage clinical trials in Europe and Japan to treat autoimmune pulmonary alveolar proteinosis. Savara Pharmaceuticals, which creates drugs focused on rare respiratory diseases, announced it has acquired the assets of Serendex Pharmaceuticals.
K9 Ventures
FEBRUARY 8, 2020
” IMHO this was why @cartainc had such a hard time raising in the early stages. This is what makes early-stage investing so much more fun and exciting for me. I would be bored out of my mind if I were investing at later stages.
Feld Thoughts
JUNE 20, 2014
With yesterday’s announcement that early-stage VC Greycroft has raised a $200 million growth fund , this type of fund has officially become a trend. ” Prior to this, plenty of VC firms invested across the early stage to late stage spectrum from the same fund (e.g. Others had separate early stage funds and late stage funds, often with separate teams and economics (e.g. Foundry Group fund Greycroft growth late-stage opportunity select USV
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 27, 2014
We both agree that the later-stage valuations are being driven up to a point that feels irrationally priced [he uses b-round SaaS valuations as an example and I am willing to be even more broad based]. We both are concerned about non-traditional capital entering the late stages and the impact that may have in the next downturn in the economy to the startups who merely trying to optimize for short-term valuation maximization.
Feld Thoughts
JULY 13, 2014
I wish he had called it “This Unicorn Thing Is B t For Early Stage Investing” but I think he’s a little more restrained than I am. My original title for this post was “How Can This Be A Billion Dollar Company and other b t VCs ask early stage companies.” Now, I’ve invested in a few unicorns in my investing career, including at least one unicorn that went bankrupt a few years later (I guess that’s a dead unicorn.)
View from Seed
SEPTEMBER 14, 2021
You’d expect the number to go down over time, but it’s notable that even 14 years later, VC funds are showing that a very significant % of value is still illiquid. So, four years later, DPI is still trying to catch up with TVPI from 2017.
This is going to be BIG.
MAY 10, 2020
Some later stage funds will take a meeting long before they ever plan on writing a check with the promise of “opportunistic” seed investments (to the guy or girl they went to grad school with). VCs are notorious for kicking tires. VCs take a meeting just to learn about an area.
The Startup Magazine
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
Crosscutting will ensure it is impossible for prying eyes to glue the pieces back together at a later stage. If you have not implemented most, if not all, of the above features to secure your home office, it is best if you do so sooner rather than later.
View from Seed
SEPTEMBER 14, 2021
You’d expect the number to go down over time, but it’s notable that even 14 years later, VC funds are showing that a very significant % of value is still illiquid. So, four years later, DPI is still trying to catch up with TVPI from 2017.
Steve Blank
APRIL 12, 2013
The second wave of technology investors were Chinese banks, who provided the majority of the later stage investments in the Torch Program. By 1991, 70% of the Torch funded startups were getting bank financing for expansion and later stages of the new ventures, with local governments acting as guarantors. It’s done it in a series of evolutionary stages, each new one learning from the last.
Feld Thoughts
DECEMBER 9, 2015
During these discussions, we reflected on the incredible collection of early stage VC firms we’ve invested in personally over the years. We were clear at that point that we wanted to continue to make early stage investments through a new Foundry Group fund, which we subsequently raised in the middle of 2015 and started investing at the end of the year. At the same time we discussed our later stage investment strategy.
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