Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

In the investment community, these leadership elements are often called “goodwill.” In a new book, “ The Leadership Capital Index ,” Dave Ulrich, a best-selling author, business consultant, and business school professor, provides some real insights and metrics on what makes up the elements of goodwill in the minds of top valuation experts.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

billion valuation) to invest in the Metaverse and build the future of digital entertainment Epic owns Fortnite, one of the most popular multiplayer games, enabling users to interact with each other online in an immersive way to play, socialise, attend to virtual concerts. For that, Yuga labs partnered with London based Improbable.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Build Unique Networks Emerging managers create their own communities instead of relying on established circles. Many funds that deployed large amounts at high valuations at the peak of the market in 2021, had a reckoning with their portfolio companies either adjusting their prices downwards or shutting down. Riches in Niches.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 13, 2020

If things are going great, you still may get a lower valuation or smaller round. You’re spending much of your time selling: the vision to employees, the opportunity to investors, the story to the press, the offering to the customers, the relationship to partners. How does this harm occur? Yes and No.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 15, 2020

New talk of capital efficiency is gratifying, but there was another lesson from pre-COVID-19 valuation struggles. Venture capitalists and early-stage investors have told all of us, founders are critical to a startup’s valuation. Remember Morality Impacts Valuation appeared first on ReadWrite. Morality matters. Bank on it.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

As a person who spends much time thinking about the venture capital & startup community and who has seen good times & bad times across many economic cycles the article is well written. After all, growth equals high valuations and loads of venture capital! I worry that many people will read this post and get the wrong message.

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View from Seed

APRIL 5, 2016

This is a story from the Traction community. Find a community of people that will support you,” Burger said. “It The best community is made up of supportive people trying to do the same thing. Likewise, true grit is defined by so much more than company growth and valuations. How to Land the Perfect Startup Job.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

As well as how to work with pre and post-money valuations. Wouldn’t you like more loyalty and trust from your investors, board members and business partners? Generous is not a word often associated with talking about negotiations between startup entrepreneurs and their investors. Generosity is nowhere on their radar.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 24, 2023

We have previously made the case that professional investors demand more in the form of restrictive covenants and lower valuations. Each of these companies needed more cash than professional angel investors were willing or able to provide, and we turned to the venture community for larger investments.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. Capacity Capital, Greater Colorado Venture Fund, Indie.VC, Reformation Partners, UP Fund, Versatile VC. Yes, via conversion rights at a valuation cap. Of the Inc.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2021

It’s enough to see the rapid adoption of new social platforms from Signal in messaging to Clubhouse’s $1 billion valuation in less than a year. Products that were previously not inherently social, will embrace community, stories and sharing to increase stickiness and drive revenue.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 27, 2021

So much so, there’s a “remote work tools” category at this year’s Golden Kitty Awards , annually celebrating ProductHunt’s products, makers, and community members. As teams become increasingly distributed, video communication is important for both internal alignment and external business development.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2023

The first step is to collect data on how businesses are affecting their communities and the environment. Regarding trade financing, many banking partners have only begun their digital journey. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community. From there, you can work to improve reporting and accountability.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

My job as a VC isn’t to beat myself up or any other partner up for the one deal we didn’t do. We felt proud to be the lead investor in Maker Studios at a sub $5 million valuation. Snapchat truly built an amazing product and an amazing community and anybody who knows me knows that I’m very active on it.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

How to Scale Unicorns With Partner David Zhang, TVC. Joining us for this episode is our partner David Zhang, Partner at TCV (( Technology Crossover Ventures ). I’m a partner at TCV, which we founded in 1996. It’s almost like the venture community is almost like an influencer bubble. . David Zhang.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Many Asian entrepreneurs tell me that they want to raise funds from Silicon Valley firms because they perceive the valuations to be higher. As I touched on before, China and India have the most mature VC communities. Valuations are based more on typical later-stage type of metrics. Finally, don’t over-optimize on valuation.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Mitul’s passion to excel and customer focus have been built into the core values and mission of Citius Partners. They provide a hands-on transformation and revenue growth partner for B2B technology companies. How Citius Partners helps their clients. Giving back to the community. Key Career Highlights.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

In fact, their affiliate partners dissuaded them from doing so. billion valuation. They only recently raised $30 million at around a $300 million valuation and THAT raised eyebrows. The question will be “at what price?&# And for investors, “at what valuation did they get in?&#. $10 OTHER STUFF.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

The terms and valuation for both offers were comparable and when the team debated which path to choose, we all agreed both firms would have made good partners. round which closed in November 2003, and the pre-money valuation between $10 million and $15 million. It was a pretty good valuation for the time. It was a $4.7M

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 3, 2023

My experience with early valuations by founders for friends… I’ve arrived at a significant number of companies that were looking for additional growth capital after a “friends and family” round and had to “clean up” the cap table more than a few times over the years. It is most often a win-win for both you and the strategic partner.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2021

Kent Bennett from Bessemer Venture Partners spoke to this initial slow down: “ We couldn’t do anything until we understood the new normal. Despite the sustained climate of uncertainty, valuations continued to climb and VC exit values reached their second highest total ever in Q3. billion in 148 funds for the first half of 2020.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 10, 2022

We’re running our new and improved accelerator program back, we’re doubling our offering and raising the valuation cap (hello $400K) , and we’d love for you and your team to apply. We had the ability to work with all of the partners, which proved to be a very helpful opportunity” – Victor, Allay Health.

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Austin Startup

JULY 18, 2018

It leads to better products, better strategy, better marketing, bigger valuations and faster growth. Diverse in this context means “not a white male,” members are coworkers in our community and investments are Accelerator startups. Do you have ideas about how we can make our community more diverse and inclusive?

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 16, 2012

Blablacar is one such example of innovation: with a fast growing community of 1.6m Zimride , Ridejoy ), they have not yet seen the explosive growth that the service has observed in Europe with more than 1 Billion miles shared by the community and more than 8m passengers transported ! Philippe Botteri Accel Partners London, UK My Bio.

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This is going to be BIG.

OCTOBER 12, 2020

That leaves me out raising with two funds under my belt and no big exit and no unicorn valuations. One just got a seed term sheet for twice the valuation I put in at in the pre-seed and the other is doing $200k/month in revenue. I built communities, ran 100’s of events, and met thousands and thousands of amazing people along the way.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

My colleagues Sebastian Soler , Steven Greenberg and I recently launched a new online community, PEVCTech.com , exclusively for PE/VC investors; engineers who work at PE/VC funds; and other technologists who specialize in working on this problem. Greylock Partners. You can register for the survey here. VC Firm. $ Tech % of workforce.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Her background includes senior roles in both the banking and tech sectors, and she has launched four data businesses—including her current firm, New Frontier Data , which boasts a $20 million valuation and has received $5 million in funding. Giadha Aguirre de Carcer via Her Agenda. Stitch Fix CEO Katrina Lake, via the Los Angeles Times.

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David Teten

AUGUST 20, 2019

John Borchers, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Decathlon Capital , reports that “37% of our portfolio companies would be considered ‘impact’ qualified companies. Feenix Partners reports that “35% of our portfolio companies have either a female or minority (non-Caucasian) CEO or Owner.” . Realistic projections.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2010

My job doesn’t involve the daily grind of customer complaints, product outages, business partner / channel problems, hiring / firing, etc. I still like spending time with our teams – at GRP Partners we have a great team – but I don’t have large numbers of people to be responsible for. We travel together.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

At what valuation? It is such a small community that it is hard to raise money by stealth. So if two investors even go so far as to agree to fix prices, which is issue 1, the company should say no thanks to that valuation and keep shopping for other lenders, of which there are many, to get a better price. Convertible or equity?

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Gust

DECEMBER 21, 2011

It hosts an environment which many other communities have attempted to emulate, although they haven’t and won’t. Many other communities are entrepreneur-friendly and, by any measure, have the tools in place to spawn new high growth companies. The Valley has been a unique place for over half a century.

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www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

When determining the value of the sweat equity provided by an employee or potential co-founder, first assess these three characteristics of the person in question: Commitment: Is he or she committed to being a founding partner for the long haul? Market value doesn't equal the sum of sweat equity invested by you and your partners.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

If you’re a venture capitalist … you have limited partners that give you money to invest on their behalf, and you’re responsible for giving them outsize returns. As an entrepreneur, you’re always fighting that external war whether that’s with partners or with investors. Nayeem : (Nods.) You have your team.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Look for community supporters and ask around about space. Be realistic about your valuation. You may have heard a valuation should be doubled because investors will cut it in half. The more other-focused you are, the more people will realize you are not an automaton, but an interconnected part of their community.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2019

Even huge valuation increases will evaporate overnight when profitability is nowhere in sight, and you run out of money. It’s time to build relationships with advisors, be visible in industry forums, and be a community leader. Seek out strategic partners to expedite business growth.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

Collectively they have $850M in capital in their most recent funds: [link] Both Silverton Partners and LiveOak Venture Partners have filed regulatory documents associated with new fundraising efforts in 2017 so we should all look forward to announcements from them on successfully raising new funds.

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Cracking the Code

AUGUST 3, 2011

Let me show other source that may be good for community. Philippe Botteri Accel Partners London, UK My Bio. Detailed SaaS Spreadsheet (Valuation and CAC benchmark). SaaS 13 Index Valuation. Bessemer Venture Partners Expands BVP VII Fund. It is very useful. Pls try to keep posting. Post a Comment. Newer Post.

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