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On the Road to Recap:

abovethecrowd.com

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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The VC Shakeout: Are We There Yet?

Agile VC

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). typically, which in most cases would to >20% IRR. So at a fund level (e.g.

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ProfessorVC: Touched by an Angel

Professor VC

While currently free to angel groups, their business model revolves around aggregating the angel investment data. 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). return on investment after 3.5

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Investor Nomenclature and the Venture Spiral

K9 Ventures

As fiduciaries, the general partners of the uVC funds have to begin to focus on the dreaded VC I-word : IRR. <$50K in aggregate. The Series A is now the third round of financing for a company, but the nomenclature hasn’t been changed. This also changes the types of deal terms that micro-VCs will undertake. Lots, 20-100.

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Benchmarking Performance: Your Options, Dos, Don'ts and To-Die-Fors!

Occam's Razor

Outcomes of the conversations with your Finance team and Sr. Leaders (company is leaving China, our IPO is next week, 1,800 new stores are being opened in 180 days, our new IRR is 8%). … You can see the wisdom of not just setting a 20% aggregate conversion rate, based on the above benchmarking data. And other such things.

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