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Tech Industry Hiring In Canada Continues To Grow

YoungUpstarts

Vancouver has a situated tech market with a direct line to Silicon Valley. This generated $16 billion in annual revenues in 2015. By 2017, the tech industry in Toronto became one of North Americas fastest growing tech market, per a CBRE 2 018 North American Scoring Tech Talent report. billion in revenue.

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Groupon's S-1: From Zero to Like? Billions in 30 Months ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

They’ve grown from nothing to >$2B in revenue in 30 months time, making the company among the fastest growing businesses in the histroy of the world. How They Make Money: Groupon keeps a share of the coupon value (typically 40-50%) as its net revenue (1). Financial Snapshot: 2010 Revenue: $713M. to the merchant.

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2012 Valuation Survey of Angel Groups

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This summer I conducted our third annual survey of the pre-money valuation of pre-revenue companies recently funded by angel groups in North America. Access to our 2010 and 2011 surveys can be found at 2011 Valuation Survey of North American Angel Investor Groups. Pre-revenue software, internet, mobile and telecom deals.

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2011 Valuation Survey of North American Angel Groups

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To provide some reference points, I surveyed thirteen angels groups in North American to determine their recent experience in negotiating the pre-money valuation of pre-revenue companies. See the 2010 data reported here: Current Pre-money Valuations of Pre-revenue Companies. Pre-money Valuation of Pre-revenue Companies.

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Angel Investors Do Make Money, Data Shows 2.5x Returns Overall

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He is on the board of the Angel Resource Institute, and is a partner with Montlake Capital (a late stage growth capital fund) and with Revenue Capital Management (a royalty based lender). Valuable lessons learned from Andy’s personal experience venture investing in Silicon Valley. 100,000 invested, would return $250,000).

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The Ezra Klein Show: VC Bill Gurley on Transforming Health Care

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market in terms of revenue dollars (there is no question that digital tools will successfully impact specific acute diseases/disorders, but it’s our intuition these are best left to 100% focused HC investors). Bill is a general partner at Benchmark, one of Silicon Valley’s really legendary venture capital firms.