Occam's Razor

JANUARY 4, 2022

Additionally, by aggregating products/services into lumpy groups, it can give a misleading sense of success. You can do this using an aggregate % number that you can lop off for CoGS. Net Profit then is revenue minus Media Costs minus CoGS minus FLCo. Net Profit then is revenue minus Media Costs minus CoGS minus FLCo.

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Conversion Analytics .Net Metrics 129

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 11, 2020

I just saw a friend of mine who's a finance person temporarily pause his job and volunteer to be the CFO or investor, whatever investor relations person for a startup was trying to work on a cure so that the founders could have more time to do the science. I think a lot more people can figure out ways to help out than they think.

Silicon Valley 68

Silicon Valley Technical Review Government .Net 68

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Some notable metrics are revenue growth rates, free cashflow, leverage ratios, historical financing amounts, returns on marketing spend, customer acquisition costs, lifetime value of customers, customer churn rates, and team social scores. Other firms are using Talent Relationship Management tools, e.g., Thrive. .

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

Why the Unicorn Financing Market Just Became Dangerous…For All Involved. Many have noted that the aggregate shareholder value created by all of the Unicorns will vastly overshadow the losses from the inevitable failed unicorns. By the first quarter of 2016, the late-stage financing market had changed materially.

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IPO Term Sheet Silicon Valley Valuation 40

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

The IPO market remained closed to IT startups, but there were big acquisitions like Google buying YouTube for $1.65B (Fall 2006) and late stage financing rounds for companies like Facebook (Microsoft round at $15B valuation in Fall 2007). Kevin Rose was on the cover of BusinessWeek. So at a fund level (e.g.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

I don’t think that a Net Present Value calculation is appropriate for every company. In aggregate, angels are significant investors. million households in the US with a net worth of $1 million or more. We are extremely fortunate to finance the growth side of the creative destruction we are witnessing all around us.

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K9 Ventures

MAY 14, 2011

They are generally high net worth (accredited) individuals who have done well in their career, either as entrepreneurs or as executives and early employees at some of the companies that have done well (in the Valley that usually means Paypal, Google, Facebook etc). <$50K in aggregate. Lots, 20-100. 1-2 per partner. Individual.

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ithacaVC

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

The MCOP can serve a critical role as founders and other management team members are diluted down by rounds of financing or if their equity is not in the money. As the investors’ aggregate liquidation preference (ALP) increases typically the need for a MCOP also increases. A few key points to consider: 1.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 6, 2009

The first source of the data are the logs that store the queries that are done by users on google.com (logs that have this data in aggregate, not by individual histories – you'll see the latter is not necessary). Example, here, Apparel, Beauty & Personal Care, Sports & Fitness, Finance etc etc.

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Startup Company Lawyer

MAY 26, 2012

In 2005, Kiva launched a micro-finance platform that allows people to lend small amounts of money to entrepreneurs in developing areas. 10 percent, not to exceed $100,000, of annual income or net worth of an investor, if either the investor’s annual income or net worth is equal to or greater than $100,000.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

And what Onward is endeavoring to do is both aggregate that information, but also organize it for the individual who's living through traumatic unemployment. I do not have a safety net. And so that ability to match the resource to the human, based on the human's unique attributes, is really the fundamental functionality of Onward.

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Fresno Community Technology California 60

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 9, 2019

I chose the name Vital Dollar for my personal finance website because I wanted a name that would be easy to remember and would clearly indicate that the website is about finance. 6- Personal finance journey. My company name came from my own personal finance journey. net,co,info, etc.) Photo Credit: Marc Andre.

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Summer is over, the holidays are far away, tax season further, so now is the time to get deals done - growth financings, strategic partnerships, big new customer sales, key new hires you name it - if a mission critical deal is to be done, this is the time of year to do it. I call it the " No Excuses " time of year. Hard to pull off?

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Hippoland

JANUARY 4, 2017

Later, if you sell the whole company to Google at say $5 per share, I will earn $500k for a net gain of $400k. So, in the aggregate, it is possible that you may be required to pay as much as $30k-$50k to get an equity round done. In the 1990s, your first round of financing was typically a Series A round between $1m-$5m.

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Convertible Security Equity Security Silicon Valley 48

Transformify

AUGUST 5, 2019

There is an aging workforce in the insurance industry; we have a need to hire both insurance specialists and those in non-insurance roles like IT, Marketing, Finance and HR. There has been an uptick in tools that enable companies to post job descriptions beyond the major job board aggregators to reach underrepresented demographics.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2010

The Israeli Cabinet approved Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz’s proposal to continue with the biennial state budget model in 2011-2012. The British mobile payments and messaging aggregator will become part of Amdocs’ OpenMarket US mobile transactions hub. Net-Aye is a subsidiary of Bar-Tec Ltd.

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Israel OTC Brazil Paraguay 68

techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Tweet View Comments Sarah Lacy Feb 19, 2010 Pepperdine has a new study out that attempts to shed some light on the clubby, shadowy world of private finance. Paglia, Pepperdiine’s Denney Academic Chair and Associate Professor of Finance. Think Again. Not a big shock, but things don’t look pretty, especially in the venture capital world.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Sweat Equity Valuation 62

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Outcomes of the conversations with your Finance team and Sr. … You can see the wisdom of not just setting a 20% aggregate conversion rate, based on the above benchmarking data. The above graph shows you the dangers of setting targets on aggregated benchmarking analysis. And other such things. And who does not love Organic?

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Analytics Vertical Metrics Web 135

Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Bates: Good morning and welcome to our CEO panel, “How to Fine-Tune Your Small Business Finances From Funding to Growth” which I think is the direction that we would all like to be going. I’m here with some really phenomenal CEOs who are going to talk to us today about small business finances from funding to growth.

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Small Business Finance Forecast Metrics 95

Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

Like most politically important information, consumers will eventually get to be in control of their own aggregated data. While non bank business financing is currently miniscule by comparison, the numbers from kickstarter.com tell us something is brewing. The final question is what happens to our data when we die?

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Uruguay Technical Review Vertical Las Vegas 123

abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

Would that help retention and NPS (Net Promote Score)? Also, take a look at this critically important data point , also aggregated by Professor Jay Ritter. Their proceeds are delivered net of the banker fee of 5-7%! Do you think those customers would find that interesting and compelling? Would they be loyal?

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IPO Customer Matching Silicon Valley 82

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

It kind of aggregates technology content, I suppose. And of course, I wasn't really interested in the finance side of it to me. And so, all of a sudden, you have finance, and compliance, and bankers, and folks like that. Or what advice would you give to other CEOs who are contemplating where they should net out on that question?

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IPO Cofounder Technical Review Government 113

VC Cafe

JUNE 19, 2020

There’s an increasing interest from institutional investors in particular, but also high-net-worth individuals, private banks and a variety of other players who are thinking to make more impact investments than we’ve seen in the past couple of years.”. Business as usual is no longer an option,” they conclude. Israel, a hub for Impact Tech?

Israel 174

Israel Venture Capital Global South Africa 174

Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

This introduction was also the opportunity to illustrate the amazing growth of our software and saas portfolio in the past years, with aggregated revenues reaching $1.2B Yahoo Finance. Some of the content presented during the event as well as select articles are available on the SaaS section of the Bessemer website. Justin Label.

Software Review 48

Software Review South Korea IPO Portfolio 48

pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

But the angels who’ve staked their funds on spreading bits of money all over the Valley are increasingly anxious that only 20 percent of their deals — in aggregate — will get the chance to keep going. This comes only a few weeks after LivingSocial posted 3rd quarter net losses of around $556 million.

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Technical Review Silicon Valley Incubator Syria 93

abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Our firm has had the good fortune to invest in many two-sided networks that used information aggregation, supplier aggregation, and user generated content to attract and inform consumers and resultantly disrupt and change different industries. There is more parking spaces, it’s easier to pull up. You pay premiums.

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