YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 28, 2015

This article highlights their advice on issues ranging from financing to patent trolls: While startups may believe lawyers are too costly, working with one early on avoids potentially serious problems later. ” The Cost of Financing. In a Series A financing, companies must pay the investors’ lawyers as well as their own.

Convertible Security 100

Convertible Security IP Technical Review Software Review 100

David Teten

JULY 14, 2014

The most pervasive has been the expansion of passively managed portfolios, such as index funds and ETFs, which allow both retail and institutional investors access to a broad spectrum of investment opportunities at a much lower cost. How are investors thinking and protecting against volatility in their portfolios?

Management 114

Management Portfolio Institutional Investors Government 114

The Startup Magazine

MARCH 1, 2021

By interconnecting the design, procurement, and construction process into a single software platform, we provide customers with an “aggregated source of truth” for their projects delivering a unified offering to them that streamlines the entire process.

Technical Review 121

Technical Review Founder Saudi Arabia Cofounder 121

Occam's Razor

JULY 18, 2011

To not have it as an active part of your marketing portfolio is sub-optimal. Measure retention rate over time in aggregate – or for optimal health, segment retention rate – and measure it for the various objectives you have set for your email marketing program. The difficulty in getting the numbers (bug Finance!)

Metrics 138

Metrics Campaign Email Marketing 138

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. If you have one, please contact me. 7) Negotiate .

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2021

When you’ve been playing the game a bit longer or when you have responsibilities at the fund level you start thinking more about “portfolio construction.” So if you truly want to be great at investing you need all the right skills and access AND a diversified portfolio. You’re thinking about one bullet at a time.

Bankruptcy 294

Bankruptcy Bridge Financing Portfolio Angel Investor 294

Cracking the Code

MARCH 12, 2010

While the group sentiment for 2010 did not improve significantly vs. November 2009, the projections for 2011 are now a lot more optimistic - 42% higher 2011 aggregated EBITDA announced in March 2010 vs. the November 09! Finance Dissertation Help. Finance Dissertation Proposal. Portfolio. (3). Yahoo Finance.

Software Review 63

Software Review Technical Review Cloud Europe 63

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 25, 2021

With typically no in-house accounting and finance teams, and traditional accounts payable (AP) automation solutions like Bill.com not meeting their flexibility and cash flow control needs, small businesses are still writing and posting checks to pay suppliers, a process exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic.

Israel 62

Israel B2B Cloud Europe 62

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. ISRAELI CABINET APPROVES 2-YEAR MODEL FOR BUDGET 2011-2012.

Israel 68

Israel OTC Brazil Paraguay 68

Genuine VC

JULY 10, 2012

Active partner involvement level of lead partner post-financing – Venture firms approach involvement after a seed round wildly differently. Board seat requirements – Partner involvement post seed financing can, but doesn’t always, require codification with a board seat. larger check writers have a greater tendency to lead rounds).

Syndicate 207

Syndicate Syndication Seed Stage Portfolio 207

VC Adventure

AUGUST 15, 2018

It was a benefit to employees and a slight value transfer from equity holders to option holders (generally speaking in M&A transactions the value of the aggregate option exercise ends up allocated across the rest of the cap table). I thought it would be worth taking a look at the data across the Foundry portfolio. I was wrong.

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Valuation Common Stock Cap Table Software Review 48

Hunter Walker

AUGUST 8, 2023

Obvious caveats to my POV here, most specifically: exposure is limited to largely the US/SiliconValley ecosystem, driven by our own portfolio, my friends and co-investors, the funds I’m a LP in, and our institutional LP relationships. ” That is, for the class of funds institutional LPs tend to back, on average, where was bottom?

Portfolio 117

Portfolio Cap Table LP Valuation 117

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Database, File Storage & Information Management Pixily – An online service that lets you aggregate, organize, find and share your documents. carbonmade Carbonmade – A free online portfolio showcase. Shockfolio – An online portfolio site for actors, musicians and photographers.

Software Review 78

Software Review Social Media Social Network Software 78

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

When the NVCA or PriceWaterhouse surveys come out at the end of year I’m not saying they will necessarily will show aggregate $$$ or deal numbers up. But there are many zombie VC’s with no more investments left in their portfolios so it’s hard to know which trend has more impact. This is one book-end of the cycle.

IPO 255

IPO Investment Bankers Venture Capital Marketing 255

David Teten

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Although any given early-stage company is quite risky, when aggregated across a large portfolio, returns are very attractive. From the point of view of a limited partner, the great challenge is scaling the business. . - Providing standardized operational support for portfolio companies. They’re also inflation-hedged.

Early Stage 148

Early Stage Private Equity Portfolio Aggregator 148

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

That’s what every VC is telling their portfolio companies these days. In other words, they’re telling companies that, in order to get next round funding, they’re somehow supposed to stay the same fast growers they were before the tech downturn, but just do that longer and get to higher aggregate revenue and performance numbers.

Lean 166

Lean Aggregator Portfolio Revenue 166

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Between the worse data aggregation method and the much higher amount of work Wesabe made you do, it was far easier to have a good experience on Mint , and that good experience came far more quickly. Finances were just one part of the story. Company: Home Portfolio. Post-Mortem Title : Why Wesabe Lost to Mint. Cancel reply [.].

Software Review 79

Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

View from Seed

DECEMBER 11, 2019

But even at the Partner-level, the amount of transition in Venture Capital is much more than you perhaps would expect… especially in a business which should have a long term orientation with portfolio investment-hold periods and Partnerships lasting more than a decade. So why is there so much turnover in Venture Capital?

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Venture Capital Cap Table Partner LP 204

Cracking the Code

JANUARY 28, 2008

Wize provides consumers with a unique way to leverage the online wisdom by aggregating the opinions of millions of users and by letting people ask questions about a specific product or need to the Wize community. Portfolio. (3). Yahoo Finance. We decided to fund Wize.com to answer this question. anecdotes. (13). internet. (6).

Software Review 48

Software Review Technical Review Los Angeles Europe 48

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

At Risk – Usually starts with a firm beginning to see challenges in large portions of its portfolio, or in keeping the partnership together, or in the viability of the firm’s core strategy as broader markets start to shift (e.g. Well first it’s worth understanding the distinct phases of exactly how a VC firm dies.

LP 154

LP Portfolio Venture Capital IRR 154

The Equity Kicker

MAY 15, 2012

This list reads like a checklist of attributes for a great company generally (I’m mentally checking my portfolio against it now….). Here are some of the highlights: they had a ‘fundamental understanding’ of their product and why people use it. they have a team of great people and a unique culture. The Quora post has much more colour.

Viral 108

Viral Framework Aggregator Retention 108

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.

IPO 40

IPO Term Sheet Silicon Valley Valuation 40

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Together, CMRR, Cashflow, Churn, CAC, and CLTV make up the “5 C’s of SaaS Finance. As a private company, you have a VERY high cost of capital (well above 10%), whether you raise venture capital, angel money, friends and family investments, bank financing, or all of the above. Portfolio. (3). Philippe Botteri.

Software Review 48

Software Review North America Europe Metrics 48

www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Peter Cohen www.saasmarketingstrategy.com David Skok Peter, this is a great point, and one which has led to many long discussions with my portfolio companies. aggregate pipeline created in a given week) could be altered reflexively by their measurement -- a sort of Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle for high-velocity sales. Great stuff!

Metrics 55

Metrics Design Entrepreneur Startup 55

David Teten

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

At my firm, ff Venture Capital, we’re trying our part to rethink how the industry works, and also actively looking for opportunities to invest in companies creatively disrupting this sector, e.g., our portfolio companies Addepar and Indiegogo. In aggregate, angels are significant investors.

Management 114

Management Pre-Money Valuation Venture Capital New Hampshire 114

Hunter Walker

AUGUST 26, 2022

I’m an Ashley Mayer superfan so beyond the affinity, have been fortunate enough to also bring her into Homebrew as an advisor to our portfolio companies, and invest in Coalition , a venture firm she founded along with three other amazing female operators. We had overlapping circles and then became friends.

IPO 116

IPO Cofounder Early Stage San Francisco 116

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

K9 Ventures

MAY 14, 2011

He or she doesn’t have a “day-job” but spends all of his or her time in evaluating new investment opportunities or working with portfolio companies. <$50K in aggregate. The Series A is now the third round of financing for a company, but the nomenclature hasn’t been changed. Lots, 20-100. 1-2 per partner. Individual.

Preferred Stock 125

Preferred Stock Seed Stage Incubator Accredited Investor 125

Occam's Razor

MAY 19, 2014

And if you can pass that barrier (with, say, dimension widening using universal analytics), it is very hard to find this data inside the company (Finance department?), at a level of aggregation or granularity you need, and send it into your digital analytics tools. The whole thing is so painful.

Metrics 160

Metrics Analytics SEC Acquisition 160

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. You can't.

Search 103

Search PPC Matching Analytics 103

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2019

My professional areas of interest cover Customer Service, User Experience and Finance, though here on Occam’s Razor my focus is on influencing incredible Marketing through the use of innovative Analytics. Each chosen obsession is very much in the spirit of my beloved principle of the aggregation of marginal gains.

Analytics 89

Analytics Marketing Algorithm Campaign 89

Seeing Both Sides

JUNE 26, 2009

In almost every board meeting with portfolio companies and other entrepreneurs who are raising money, I'm hearing the same refrain: "The VCs are about to shut down for the summer". And even when I'm on vacation at the end of August, if there's a board meeting, a financing, or a crisis, I'm available to my CEOs.

Due Diligence 32

Due Diligence Term Sheet Entrepreneur Aggregator 32

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The individual is ignoring varied influence across product portfolios, seasonality, diminishing returns, changes in the audience, and a million other things. One of my solutions is to send an email out to Finance, Logistics, Customer Support, a wide diversity of employees. Because: All data in aggregate is crap. What can I say.

Analytics 103

Analytics Programming Global Campaign 103

Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 4, 2020

I first met Joe when he was working as a General Partner for Entrepreneur First , a Greylock -backed early stage tech fund which has gone on to raise and run $200 million in capital for start-ups, creating a global portfolio with an aggregate value of more than $2 billion.

United States 28

United States Silicon Valley San Francisco Artificial Inteligence 28

www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Coats says the VC firm spent more than six years and invested millions of dollars to compile a database of key variables from more than 60,000 venture financing deals covering roughly 98 percent of all U.S. venture investments since 1987.

San Diego 40

San Diego Venture Capital Technical Review San Francisco 40

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

easy business finance software. YCombinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents. Y Combinator : They provide a series of AA equity financing documents that are written with simpler words so start-up companies will have an easier starting point. Startup Threads. Videos/presentations. SlideShare. Haiku Deck. GoAnimate *.

Software Review 53

Software Review Technical Review Israel Startup 53

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. Those categories represent roughly 84% of all portfolio companies. Think Again.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Sweat Equity Valuation 62