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Even for later-stage companies with predictable financials, the lack of liquidity, audited financials, and standardized metrics creates real challenges to scaling quantitative investing. Relationship Science makes it easier to understand and map socialnetworks into potential limited partners. Pitchbot.vc
To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. . Tim Friedman, Founder, PE Stack , said, “If I could offer one piece of advice to today’s managers, it would be to take the time to understand the demands of the modern institutional LP. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies.
He says they are just as selective on seed investments as they are in laterstage deals. Finally, I do want to mention that Mike was the founder of DogPatch Labs , which has facilities in Cambridge, New York and San Francisco. -Also offers premium ad campaigns to publishers by tracking reader intent, behavior, and demographics.
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Laterstage companies have the reverse situation. Josh Miller, co-founder of Branch has a good post up on Medium today which examines what we should look for in early stage companies in a bit more detail. Fab started as socialnetwork. They have released products to a market and have built a brand.
Socialnetworking finally came of age connected the planet and leading to enormous wealth creation for Facebook employees and investors. So the multiples paid by publics matter and when they drop, the late-stage markets drop, too. Many founders don’t understand why inside rounds are so difficult. Even Sequoia.
I invested in LA-based Gogii , one of the fastest growing, most exciting mobile socialnetworking companies you’ve never heard of and maker of a product called textPlus. Gogii came in my office in 2009 with three of the most talented founders I had seen. This is a post I’ve been dying to write for 18 months.
But at a macro level, widespread failure this early is far less painful than if it came at laterstages. “Founders don’t think their problems are due to trends. And in fact, overall trends are a second-order effect for founders.” Sarah Lacy is the founder and editor-in-chief of PandoDaily.
This meant hiring someone who had experience with much bigger organizations, the idea being that their experience would come in handy at a laterstage. The Darwinian competition is so fierce that your organization needs to be all-in on the current stage of scaling. In today’s startup world, this rule no longer applies.
Been there Done that This is very depressing for all future founders, or even currently early stagefounders. A little piece of advice for future founders: find something that turns revenue quick, profitable and cash flow positive quick and forget about fantasy businesses that take a decade to turn profitable like twitter!
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