www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

On its website , the firm says, “We track everything from financing details, investors, board members, and management, to industry segments, business stages and exits.” Morgan Stanley was a lead investor,” Coats deadpans, “and we had to start fund-raising all over again.”

San Diego 40

San Diego Venture Capital Technical Review San Francisco 40

OnlyOnce

APRIL 27, 2021

There are signs that this is starting to change slowly — one big one is that of all the board searches we are running at Bolster, about ? The conversation with a new potential investor about not taking a board seat. If you have a big new lead investor writing a $40mm check into a growth round, you may not have a leg to stand on.

Vesting 48

Vesting Cofounder Startup Term Sheet 48

Genuine VC

JULY 30, 2012

By communicating pricing expectations with potential lead investors, I mean sharing either an “ask” or even stated floor for the pre-money valuation of the company (with a priced preferred round) or explicitly stating a valuation cap (for convertible note round). It’s like opening a job interview by sharing salary requirements.

Valuation 136

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Angel Investor Syndicate 136

View from Seed

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Using NextView as an example, since we both seek to lead the seed round and only lead during this round, I’ve seen this trend manifest in one of two ways: In a priced round, the entrepreneur will often share their valuation ask (or a stated floor) for the pre-money valuation of their company much sooner in the process.

Valuation 336

Valuation Founder Seed Stage Angel Investor 336

Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Great revenue projections from a small user base lead to worries over sustainability. Low revenue projections but demonstrated (or projected) impressive numbers of unique users lead investors to think that there may be a future method of monetizing the user base that makes the company attractive, even while currently losing money.

Metrics 83

Metrics Revenue Advertising Internet 83

ithacaVC

DECEMBER 9, 2018

They are independent from the founders, independent from the management team and independent from investors. You can search “independent director” on Wikipedia if you like. In this context, “better and better” means people that can really help the company grow from a strategic and operational perspective.

Stock Options 40

Stock Options Salary Lead Investor Founder 40

Agile VC

JANUARY 12, 2012

In fact we’re not very influenced by how a startup is received by other investors, as we’re comfortable investing in seed stage startups as either lead investor or as a participant with other investors. My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 5 days ago Search. Previous Entries.

Seed Stage 100

Seed Stage Silicon Valley Syndicate Syndication 100

Rob Go

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

This is kind of the equivalent of “I’m in as long as you have a lead” but sounds a lot better. Find a lead investor: These are funds that are willing to stick their neck out and be the first “yes” and issue a term sheet. There are ways to do this without a lead, but I’ll ignore that for now. Feel free to call them”.

Term Sheet 73

Term Sheet Due Diligence Valuation Seed Stage 73

reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Because unlike Google search or other means, it involves people you already trust. Thus, our pitch framed LinkedIn as a platform for finding the people you need, which we called “professional people search 2.0″, ″, making the parallel to Google because investors understood that Google was valuable. (On

Entrepreneur 111

Entrepreneur Revenue Viral Networking 111

Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 26, 2021

You can listen to the podcast here, or search for Greymatter Podcast in your podcatcher. This is one of the reasons why the best practice for a startup is to raise investment rounds from different lead investors rather than simply doing internal rounds, even if an internal round requires less work.

Startup 36

Startup Equity Early Stage Green 36

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Look for Your Lead Investor. First you’ll want to find a lead investor — someone many other investors will recognize and respect. This list of top angel investors is a good start. Once you have your lead, now it’s time to open up the floodgates and get your profile in front of more investors.

Social Media 80

Social Media Startup Angel Investor RSS 80

Professor VC

JANUARY 20, 2009

The funding search began the day after Labor Day and continued throughout the fall as the environment continued to worsen, and resulted in a term sheet the day before Thanksgiving. This brought in a new set of prospective investors and required a lower investment from the lead investor as our existing investors were committed and on board.

Venture Capital 28

Venture Capital Silicon Valley San Jose Bootstrapping 28

crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 4, 2010

Lead Investors, Dipshit Companies, and Funding Every Entrepreneur – [link]. The future of search & the death of SEO link building? Google’s latest search patent – [link]. If You Build It, They Won’t Come – [link]. Lessons from working for startups – [link]. Dyson fan - [link].

Social Media 92

Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

EcoMom Makes a Breakthrough in its Search for Funding. I ask Naval about the importance of a lead investor. My opinion is that it’s very important to raise money from someone who is helpful and reputable and is willing to bring in the same types of investors. What if nobody stands up as a lead investor?

Valuation 292

Valuation Deal Flow Lead Investor Cofounder 292

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2020

So, I reached out to a few people I know in the Bay Area to try to find a lab that was willing to let us do that, got mostly nos and maybes in the Bay Area, so then started searching around LA. I think I took the first two or three meetings with Fred's lead investor, which is pretty funny. Eric Ries : How many people was that?

Curation 60

Curation Government Los Angeles Partner 60

David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Just do a search online and the VC’s job is done! But in practice, these phenomena create a tremendous volume of startups, which investors then have to filter. Once that lead investor is in place, then these online tools are very valuable for filling out the round.

Private Equity 114

Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Equity 114

www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

Mechanics Angel investors often syndicate deals, which means they join togetherto invest on the same terms. In a syndicate there is usually a"lead" investor who negotiates the terms with the startup. All the search engines are trying toget people to start calling them "portals" instead. And doessearch even matter anyway?

Angel Investor 63

Angel Investor Syndicate Syndication Dilution 63