View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Building off Rob’s original post, let’s continue to look at the 2007 vintage. Note : not including vintages > 2012 because they have not been fully baked and there is some noise. At that time, the market had enjoyed a decent recovery from the economic crisis of 2008, but hadn’t quite fully recovered to its highs in 2007.

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Rob Go

DECEMBER 28, 2011

Wayfair: This is somewhere between an exit and and a growth round, but the largest independent ecommerce company focused on the huge home/furniture category raised a $165M round from a group of growth, private equity, and venture investors. Onwards to 2012! from Accel. Big Companies Moving In.

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The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 21, 2014

billion, 2012. billion, 2007. Postini – $625 million, 2007. Wildfire – $450 million, 2012. Following Google’s acquisition of Nest last week Venturebeat published the following list of Google’s top ten acquisitions by value: Motorola Mobility – $12.5 Nest Labs – $3.2 billion, 2014. DoubleClick – $3.1

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 12, 2010

4) Cash balance increase indicates a focus on M&A to drive further growth The past few months have also been marked by a few high profile equity and debt announcements - most notably SuccessFactors, Taleo and Saleforce.com. ► 2012. (1). ► 2007. (10). Best Venture and Technology Podcasts for 2007.

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Software Review Technical Review Cloud Forecast 63

www.lanceglasser.com

MAY 13, 2012

Customer Equity. Glasser 2007-2012. Queuing theory and product development. A Model for Return on Engineering Expenses. The Essential Product Investigation Phase Gate. So you want to ship the product early? General Management. The best and worst job in the company. Tricks of the trade. Woe be the average man. What goes around.

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Up and Running

JULY 12, 2013

percent in June 2007 to 2.65 percent in June 2012. Many individuals can’t refinance home mortgages because of a lack of home equity, but, despite running large deficits, the government has been effectively refinancing the public debt at lower rates every year.

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Growthink Blog

JUNE 18, 2014

in 2007 to a very discouraging 10% by October 2009. After being embarrassingly downgraded in 2012, S&P now says that they are prepared to increase the rating back to AAA as the ongoing evidence of the economic good times (and Congressional Good Behavior) continues to build. So for investors, this is as good as it gets.

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 3, 2012

Yesterday Microsoft announced the write off of $6.2bn of the $6.3bn it paid for interactive ad company aQuantive in 2007. In the quarter to March 2012 Microsoft’s Online Services Division (OSD) saw revenues of $707m which was about 4% of total revenues, and it lost $479m. Unfortunately this prediction has not come to pass.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 22, 2009

If you assume a 20% cost of capital (typical for equity, debt is generally cheaper), then getting an upfront payment for one additional year on a $10k MRR contract saves you $24k. ► 2012. (1). ► 2007. (10). Best Venture and Technology Podcasts for 2007. Online Gaming. (1). Portfolio. (3). software. (10).

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Software Review Clawback Sales Salary 91

ConversionXL

JULY 29, 2015

Equity-based – Equity returns (e.g., Harms (2007) found that economic value was one of the strongest motivators for crowdfunding supporters. Kuppuswamy and Bayus (2013) analyzed all Kickstarter projects from 2009 to 2012. Crowdfunding platforms vary by their rewards system: Donation-based – No rewards. shares, dividends).

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The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

(Draper Fisher Jurvetson ( DFJ ) were one of the first Valley funds to respond to the globalisation of innovation when they started building the DFJ network of funds around the world, which my partnership, DFJ Esprit , joined in 2007.).

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Silicon Valley Cost Startup Boston 97

David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Mr. Parekh started his career at Goldman Sachs, developing the firm’s equities business in the Middle East, with high net worth family offices and sovereign wealth funds. Panel 2 – How Social Investing is Disrupting Investments in Hedge Funds, Private Equity Funds, and Other Alternatives. Tuesday, Jan 17th, 2012.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

If my math is correct, this is approximately a 31% IRR, which has to beat individual angel investments on aggregate and venture capital returns over the period of the study (1990-2007). There needs to be enough equity to go around for founders, early investors, later investors, and employees. ► 2012. (1). Post a Comment.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

In 2007, he was named the Anne Armstrong Leadership Fellow, a position given annually to the most promising young foreign policy professional. As you know, I started a company in 2012 focused on the question of open banking. Dan Kimerling: In 2011 and 2012, I was working at a startup doing payment processing. Dan has a B.A.

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Silicon Valley Venture Capital Cofounder Africa 88

VC Cafe

JUNE 4, 2012

Jain Irrigation became a joint owner of the original NaanDan irrigation firm in 2007, with a call option to acquire the second half of the company when both sides saw fit. billion in venture capital and private equity funds. AGRITECH INVESTORS AND START-UPS GATHER AT AGRIVEST 2012. Burrill already manages $1.5

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Written By Dan Martell on February 2nd, 2012 | Category: Hiring LeanStartup Marketing Metrics Startup Life | 6 Comments. Ideally you can pay them based + equity so that you’ll get their attention and focus on the project. The great thing is, in 2007, we visited 75+ resorts for a demo tour, and have many leads I can follow up on.

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Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

Professor VC

JANUARY 20, 2009

The latest statistics from VentureSource show 554 financings in Q4, down from 620 in Q3 and 718 in Q4 2007. million from Lighthouse Capital Partners , which ultimately became critical to our balance sheet and they turned out to be a great partner as we worked through the equity financing process. ► 2012. (1). We drew $1.5

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techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

Convertible Equity, A Better Alternative To Convertible Debt? Friday, August 31st, 2012. From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. In the end, Ressi says that Convertible Equity allows startups and investors to have their cake and eat it too.

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Equity San Francisco Technical Review Angel Investor 87

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

When I first got into the industry it was 2007. I show charts on housing, structural unemployment, home equity re-financings that we spent meaning less spending power post crash, new housing sales, debt-to-income ratios, public-sector job problems that will cause crises in cities and states across the US. Yesterday was a Monday.

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techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. Currently, Docs supports equity (via Ted Wang from firm Fenwick and West) and convertible debt (with the help of law firm Perkins Coie) with minor modifications through side letters. Disrupt SF 2012.

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Term Sheet San Francisco Technical Review Seed Stage 70

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 19, 2011

Brands who build pages there are not building equity in the open Internet, they’re building it in today’s walled garden. Still, at its core I believe Google’s instincts are open. No prizes for guess who today’s AOL is. Strategically really well positioned today. Not so open. The “Internot.&#

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