Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

Once you have some traction, you can approach venture capital organizations , with funding amounts of $1-10 million for the real rollout, often referred to as the “A-round,” or first institutional funding. This normally means more than 30 employees, and more than $1 million in revenue. Growth and exit stage.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

I’ve written on the expert network industry a fair amount in the past: see How to Earn More Consulting Revenue from Expert Networks and How Executives Can Work with Private Equity and Venture Capital Portfolio Companies. So GLG started connecting our clients directly to the smartest people on any given topic. It started in healthcare.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2012

Once you have some traction, you can approach venture capital organizations , with funding amounts of $1-10 million for the real rollout, often referred to as the “A-round,” or first institutional funding. This normally means more then 30 employees, and more then $1 million in revenue. Growth and exit stage.

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Incubator Startup Exit Strategy Institutional Investors 237

Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2011

Long before others, they saw that these applications could have hundreds of millions of users with “off the chart&# revenue and profits. The awareness phase is where other later-stage investors start to notice the momentum, bringing additional money in and pushing prices higher. We have just entered the mania phase.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

The final piece of my four-part guide to expanding a business into Asia is tailored more towards local startups and a big issue that affects many of them: raising funding from investors. Asia has far fewer VC firms and institutional investors, each of which invests a far smaller amount of capital. Thus, VCs have the upper hand.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Now consider this scenario: That same new hire quit her old job but demands the same $10,000/mo from you. The angel will of course demand Q% of your company for this extremely risky loan, but how do you compute Q? This is the key, because Q — what an institutional investor would accept — is a well-understood system.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 13, 2011

Once you have some traction, you can approach venture capital organizations , with funding amounts of $1-10 million for the real rollout, often referred to as the “A-round,” or first institutional funding. This normally means more then 30 employees, and more then $1 million in revenue. Growth and exit stage.

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Incubator Startup Exit Strategy Institutional Investors 230

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 24, 2012

Venture capitalists are raising money from other investors, institutional investors who expect certain returns from us. The later the round, the higher the letter in the alphabet, the more the expectation of real revenue, real customers, real usage, real traction. And to get those returns, we need very big wins.

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Silicon Valley Software Review Internet Technical Review 204

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Satisfying LP demands and streamlining the valuation process are primary drivers in those clients’ adoption of Ipreo’s portfolio monitoring and valuation solutions, iLEVEL, iVAL, and Qval. . Kushim , Totem , and VisibleVC focus on serving this need among VCs.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

JUNE 11, 2021

Stock markets are a common platform where individual and institutional investors come together to buy and sell shares. The share price is determined by supply and demand in the market based on the buying and selling stocks. Enthusiastic asset use – The ratio of revenue earned for each dollar of each asset the company owns.

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Ben's Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Have bankers simply become even more evil in 2020, deliberately diverting more money from a company’s coffers to line the pockets of the buy-side institutional investors who subscribe to IPO shares? The laws of supply and demand, and marginal pricing, withstand the test of time. The tl;dr: It’s Economics 101.

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Pascal's View

MARCH 9, 2010

Susan Mangiero , CEO of Investment Governance’s Fiduciary X , asked me the following: Question: At a time when transparency is so important to institutional investors, how can fiduciaries reconcile that there is limited information available with a private company? Share and Enjoy:

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Pascal's View

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Clovis Oncology is set to price a $160 million offering, despite having a whopping $0 in revenue. Also on the docket is Lashou Group, which only reports $16 million in revenue for the first nine months of 2011. Today, the threshold for liquidity demanded by institutional investors requires $100mm plus for an IPO.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

Small” IPOs — companies with less than $50m in annual revenue at the time of IPO – have declined from more than 50% of all IPOs in the 1980-2000 timeframe to about 25% of IPOs from 2001-2016; Companies are staying private much longer — the median time to IPO from founding hovered around 6.5 Time Period IPO Pop* 1980-1989 6.1%

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

On March 26, SoFi announced that “it will be offering its members (at least those with $3K in their account) the ability to invest in IPOs for companies going public, an investment opportunity that has traditionally been reserved for large institutional investors or ultra-high-net-worth individuals.” I kid you not —100% true.

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