Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

But this mania to not miss out on the next big thing is driving some investors to pay growth-equity prices for traditional market risk (as in, they’re paying up before it is clear there is product / market fit). And so on down then line. New investors hate down rounds. If you are interested the Vimeo is here.

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Saudi Arabia Valuation IPO Technical Review 309

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Before product-market fit… just care about speed of iteration according to your customer feedback. So in terms of hiring, get people that can help you build the product faster… anything that minimizes the time between observing a need or a problem, and the execution or the fix for it.” Need for Speed, indeed.

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Founder Startup Valuation Pre-Money Valuation 187

thebarefootvc

AUGUST 26, 2015

After a tumultuous week in global markets, today the US stock market ended higher on the session. As someone who invested through the 2001 and 2008 crashes I can assure you that down rounds and fire sales are not fun for anyone involved. and the Nasdaq (which includes Apple, Google, Intel and other tech stalwarts) gained 4.2%.

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Marketing Investment Bankers Valuation China 40

thebarefootvc

AUGUST 26, 2015

After a tumultuous week in global markets, today the US stock market ended higher on the session. As someone who invested through the 2001 and 2008 crashes I can assure you that down rounds and fire sales are not fun for anyone involved. and the Nasdaq (which includes Apple, Google, Intel and other tech stalwarts) gained 4.2%.

Marketing 40

Marketing Investment Bankers Valuation China 40

thebarefootvc

JULY 26, 2015

After a tumultuous week in global markets, today the US stock market ended higher on the session. As someone who invested through the 2001 and 2008 crashes I can assure you that down rounds and fire sales are not fun for anyone involved. and the Nasdaq (which includes Apple, Google, Intel and other tech stalwarts) gained 4.2%.

Marketing 40

Marketing Investment Bankers Valuation China 40

VC Cafe

JUNE 10, 2022

With over 1,000 global unicorns (and about 1.5 new unicorns created each day), startups may find themselves raising down rounds as they struggle to justify previous valuations. On a related note, this new report by OpenView on is full of benchmarks and examples of efficient PLG (product led growth).

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Valuation Marketing Venture Capital 151

Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Alexia Tsotsis: Since people like me (millennials) are putting pressure on our IT departments to buy products that we can actually use and aren’t blinded by, what do you think the enterprise space will look like in the next five years? Marc Andreessen: Yeah. So that’s how it started. It became very hard to get businesses to adopt new stuff.

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Software Review Startup Venture Capital Stock 22