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How to Scale a Venture Capital (or Private Equity) Fund

David Teten

Coinvestors need to figure out ways to prioritize themselves in a VC’s preference stack for syndicating opportunities. – Syndicate Special Purpose Vehicles (“SPVs”) for specific opportunities. Typically they get cofounder common equity, in addition to the preferred stock that a conventional VC gets.

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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

How They Make Money: Majority of Kayak’s revenue actually comes from advertising on their site (55%), not lead generation or referral fees to travel suppliers as you might think (more on this below). Financial Snapshot: 2010 Revenue: $170 million. Revenue growth: 51% YoY (2010), 1% YoY (2009), 131% YoY (2008).

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How to Fund a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

There never has to be atime when you have no revenues. Some angel investors join together in syndicates. He might also want preferred stock, meaning a specialclass of stock that has some additional rights over the common stockeveryone else has. Startups valuations aresupposed to rise over time.