Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

This model applies to any vertical or expertise – imagine a Syndicate of 10 great growth hackers – would you not salivate to have them in your deal? 3) The Alternate Liquidity Syndicate. 3) The Alternate Liquidity Syndicate.

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Syndicate Syndication South America Seed Stage 98

A Crowded Space

AUGUST 26, 2013

Equity crowd-funding as a broad asset class is similar to VC in that it seeks to take a stake in early stage startups and hope for big liquidity events down the road. It’s a critical concept for marketplaces. Conclusion. However, both of these asset classes are dependent on a relatively small number of home runs to make solid returns.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

In the previous six months, I’d read several articles in finance blogs or newsletters about yet another company that had just been financed in their specific vertical. [Email readers, continue here…] Their niche was heating up quickly – unfortunately for them. Most of the financings I read about were for $5 million to $20 million.

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Haystack

MAY 9, 2019

Any billion-dollar liquidity event is a rare event, so it will get the Haystack blog treatment. 5/ DNVB Ceilings and Floors: Does this mean we will see even more digitally-native vertical brands (DNVBs) getting more funding on the belief they can grow into multi-billion dollar outcomes?

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Acquisition Liquidity Event Venture Capital Vertical 121

Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2009

Of course, they could be useful in creating liquidity events, but absent bubbly environment and disrupting marketplace what is the point? Of course there have been many VC-backed successes because when new markets rise someone is going to win and many companies take the money along the way.

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Silicon Valley Technical Review RSS Software Review 120