Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

What They Do: Travel search engine. How They Do It: Aggregate data from travel data warehouses like ITA as well as indexing travel providers websites, provide this information to consumers in a highly customizable search engine. Search Statistics: 2010 Queries: 634 million. Founding Date: 2004. 2010 Net Income: $8 million.

Pre-Money Valuation 113

Pre-Money Valuation Liquidation Preference Dividend Common Stock 113

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

But what is at play with Reid is another principle called “authority.&# Again, even though VCs are populated by Stanford & Harvard MBAs who all seemed to graduate near the tops of their classes – we’re all in search of authorities we trust to help guide our decisions.

Silicon Valley 293

Silicon Valley Technical Review Southern California Angel Investor 293

View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2017

One of our prior investments was an e-commerce company that grew primarily through organic search. PayPal took on these investors in small part because it gave us an imprimatur in the stodgy and regulated world of financial services.

Strategic Investors 120

Strategic Investors Post-Money Valuation Seed Stage Cofounder 120

Lightspeed Venture Partners

SEPTEMBER 21, 2013

to fund the company at a $6M post money valuation from a number of investors including Selena Gomez. Despite having over 500k downloads and making $450k in revenue over the last 21 months, he had only $185k left in the bank, which meant that he would be out of business in 90 days if he didn’t raise more money.

Pre-Money Valuation 161

Pre-Money Valuation Valuation Dilution Distribution 161

Lightspeed Venture Partners

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

When asked why the company is worth a $1M post money valuation, he said, “What it comes down to is passion.” He did not talk about any product features that actually focused on his baby boomer target market. And his business is taking on a very crowded market that has been around for a long time. That is not enough.

Valuation 99

Valuation Post-Money Valuation Viral Algorithm 99

Board Effect

MAY 13, 2019

Let’s assume your startup enters into negotiations at this stage with a neatly-formatted cap table, outfitted with equations for pre- and post-money valuation as well as equity dilution. Managing Cap Tables in Seed and Angel Funding. This is just enough to cover your bases at this stage of the game.

Cap Table 40

Cap Table Management Liquidity Event Dilution 40

Altgate

DECEMBER 18, 2008

Posted on December 18, 2008 by fnazeeri A while ago I wrote about how a liquidation preference works and I’ve noticed that this has quickly become one of the most popular posts on Altgate and a top-10 result in the Google search for that term. Well, I guess it’s a sign of the time.

Liquidation Preference 31

Liquidation Preference Venture Capital Post-Money Valuation Participating Preferred 31