Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 4, 2014

For example, if you have a proven product, real revenue, a big potential market, and are ready to scale up the business, every investor will be interested. On the other hand, if you are a new entrepreneur, still in the idea stage, professional investors will only tell you to come back later when you have traction (customers and revenue).

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2016

For example, if you have a proven product, real revenue, a big potential market, and are ready to scale up the business, every investor will be interested. On the other hand, if you are a new entrepreneur, still in the idea stage, professional investors will only tell you to come back later when you have traction (customers and revenue).

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Matching Angel Investor Intellectual Property Investment Bankers 120

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

At this stage, your startup better be selling a commercial offering, have price and cost validated, with significant customer sales and a real revenue stream. This normally means more then 30 employees, and more then $1 million in revenue. Lesser amounts remain in the angel realm. Growth stage. Exit stage.

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Investment Bankers Venture Capital Startup Initial Public Offering 241

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

There’s the example of one of my clients, a highly successful investment banker, who told me that nearly one-quarter of all his lifetime revenue had come through one law firm partner he had developed a close relationship with early in his career. Follow the relationship recipe.

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Artificial Inteligence Investment Bankers United States Vesting 182

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2010

At this stage, your startup better be selling a commercial offering, have price and cost validated, with significant customer sales and a real revenue stream. This normally means more then 30 employees, and more then $1 million in revenue. Lesser amounts remain in the angel realm. Growth stage. Exit stage.

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Investment Bankers Venture Capital Startup Initial Public Offering 231

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

What is the mix of revenue between ads, subscriptions, digital downloads & ecommerce. My favorite quote of the show, “Gregg, what’s the mix of revenue types?&# JibJab doesn’t do ad revenue at all. Gregg founded the company with an equal partner – his brother Evan.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

At this stage, your startup better be selling a commercial offering, have price and cost validated, with significant customer sales and a real revenue stream. This normally means more then 30 employees, and more then $1 million in revenue. Lesser amounts remain in the angel realm. Growth stage. Exit stage.

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Venture Capital Investment Bankers Angel Investor Initial Public Offering 171

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

It looks as though you’ve built a very interesting business, and I’d love to spend some time getting a better understanding of your future plans for the company and if there is an opportunity to partner with [My Firm]. It's big, well known & we've invested in all of these really cool companies].

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Attaining $100,000 in monthly recurring revenue and securing a business partner in the United States are major goals. If I had not accepted this amazing challenge, I would still be working as an investment banker in London. What is your top goal for Betmarkets for 2020?

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Attaining $100,000 in monthly recurring revenue and securing a business partner in the United States are major goals. If I had not accepted this amazing challenge, I would still be working as an investment banker in London. What is your top goal for Betmarkets for 2020?

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Portugal Investment Bankers United States Cofounder 62

The Equity Kicker

JULY 26, 2012

The business is still growing – revenues were up 19% to $332m for the quarter – but losses widened and the company slashed its growth targets. This is a similar story to GroupOn (share price off 74% since it’s November 2011 IPO) and even Facebook (share price off 26% since its May IPO).

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

While working on my most recent startup, Navon Partners , we were fortunate to have Raul Trevino , a star former Citi investment banker and Columbia MBA, interning with us. Like me, he had the pleasure/pain of being trained as an investment banking analyst. Download the Startup Options Valuation model here.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

To answer these questions, we built a database of 112 Israeli companies founded between 1996 and 2013 that have met or exceeded $20 million in revenue. According to Izhar Shay, a general partner at Canaan Partners, “The investment community has matured to recognize they need to plan for scale. Think Bigger.

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 8, 2015

My partner and I were very motivated to sell. Other purchases are simply to generate revenue – allowing the buyer to streamline processes and cut costs by consolidating. Get an investment banker or a business broker to handle the sale with you. I made big bucks off that first deal. Find out what your buyer wants.

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Intellectual Property Investment Bankers Exit Strategy Sales 60

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 21, 2014

You’ll be seen by clients as a trusted partner rather than an expense to be managed. There’s the story of an investment banker who arrives at his client’s office in the middle of a large deal. But they won’t cut an investment that’s proven to help grow revenues or increase profits.

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BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 17, 2006

On the book is Thomas Weisel Partners, William Blair, Needham, Pacific Crest, and Wachovia. From April 2001 through June 30, 2006, we achieved 21 consecutive quarters of revenue growth. In fact, during the last 3 fiscal years for the company, it did $6.4mm, $10mm, and then $15mm in revenue. million, $0.9 million and $1.8

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

By that time investment bankers were on a roll privatizing assets as far flung as Chilean Electricity Distribution Rights, Montreal’s container port, parking meters in Chicago, sections of the Pennsylvania turnpike, the London City airport, and (the proposed) CA & FL Lottery systems. Ironically, given the U.S.’s Capital Solutions.

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The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 24, 2016

The cue for this post was Harry Stebbing’s 20MinuteVC interview with David Pakman , the partner at Venrock who led the Series A and Series B rounds at Dollar Shave Club and recently had his faith justified with a $1bn exit to Unilever. We are happy investing in sectors where we see opportunity, even if others don’t.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 31, 2020

Whether it’s Yotta encouraging emergency savings accounts, Dave.com providing overdraft protection, or Stash enabling broad participation in public market investing, I believe that the private sector could be an inflection point for the country’s financial health – and that fintechs will lead the way.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

Editor’s Note: This testimony was delivered by a16z managing partner Scott Kupor to the U.S. By way of background, I am the Managing Partner for Andreessen Horowitz, a $16.5 billion multi-stage venture capital firm focused on IT-related investments… I also serve on various investment committees, including for the St.

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