Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

How They Make Money: Majority of Kayak’s revenue actually comes from advertising on their site (55%), not lead generation or referral fees to travel suppliers as you might think (more on this below). Financial Snapshot: 2010 Revenue: $170 million. Revenue growth: 51% YoY (2010), 1% YoY (2009), 131% YoY (2008).

Pre-Money Valuation 113

Pre-Money Valuation Liquidation Preference Dividend Common Stock 113

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

Success often comes from doing a few things extraordinarily well and noticeably better than the competition and is measured in customer feedback, product engagement, growth in usage and ultimately in revenue growth. They’re doing how much in SaaS revenue? I offer the same advice for many of my friends who are newer VCs.

Software Review 150

Software Review Turkey Portfolio Syndicate 150

David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. More and more startups are pursuing Revenue-Based VCs , but “RBI” doesn’t fit everyone. Flexible VC 101: Equity Meets Revenue Share. His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. Of the Inc. 5000 companies, only 6.5%

Cofounder 78

Cofounder Technical Review Equity Dividend 78

K9 Ventures

APRIL 27, 2011

I helped introduce the company to various angels and lead the effort to form a syndicate for their fund-raising round. Modista had only had modest revenue to date (~5K) and had by no means gotten to the point where it was having an impact on the revenues of Like.com.

Software Review 134

Software Review Technical Review IP Finance 134

Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Luckily I didn’t have to – a friend ended up texting me and my business partner, suggesting the name Codal. My business partner, Adam Hale, and I were both in Fort Wayne, Indiana when the company was founded. It’s code and portal combined, and it just took someone close to us to. understand what we were going for.

Naming 154

Naming CPA Entrepreneur Software Review 154

Brandanew

APRIL 22, 2016

As a Content Marketer, your content piece can be syndicated across all these top publisher sites, for a very nominal Cost-per-Click thereby increasing the reach of your post. It has signed some big names like Forbes, Newsweek, and Heavy.com onto its roster of publisher partners where content can be recommended. Content.ad. StackAdapt.

Advertising 100

Advertising Distribution Marketing New York City 100

View from Seed

APRIL 30, 2015

Use good judgment, talk to your co-founders/investors/lawyers, and partner with a bank that values transparency and relationships such as SVB.]. And it’s that important because all companies will go through good times and tough times, and we’ll want to make sure we’ve got the right partner on the other side. Traction and revenue?

Term Sheet 120

Term Sheet Equity Startup Seed Stage 120

Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

More connections means more business, more investors, more revenue, and more growth. We’ll be bringing other entrepreneurs, mentors, investors and corporate partners with us. We’re fortunate to work with partners such as Booz Allen Hamilton, Daimler, Google, Merck, Walmart and The U.S. Department of Defense.

Texas 97

Texas San Antonio Houston Dallas 97

mashable.com

MAY 24, 2011

Mobile commerce revenues may still pale in comparison to their ecommerce brothers, but we’re already seeing signs of mobile commerce’s potential. While commercial software houses have the luxury of targeting a specific platform for a revenue-generating commercial app, business developers have to satisfy business requirements.

Mobile 90

Mobile Web Social Media Software Review 90

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 6, 2024

Josh Elledge is a keynote speaker, writes a syndicated newspaper column to 1.1 You could choose our system to move from vendor to trusted advisor, attract only ideal clients, and confidently present your strategies to build monthly recurring revenue. That's what I write my syndicated newspaper column about. 08:28): Who are they?

Lead Generation 91

Lead Generation Networking PR B2B 91

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Include screenshots of your product , a video walk-through and one or two charts that display traction or revenue. Thanks to Mashable’s Supporting Event Partners. Global Syndication Partners. How many have been active in the past 30 days? What is your viral coefficient? Don’t focus on press. 3 Comments.

Social Media 80

Social Media Startup Angel Investor RSS 80

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

If you’re working with an open source project, for example, it’s important that you have a definitive business model to drive revenue — though not at the cost of alienating your community of core contributors. Also consider an area for its potential business partners (software integrators, resellers, etc.) All Rights Reserved.

France 77

France Marketing Social Media Startup 77

Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Mass Relevance today announced that it has been selected by Twitter (blog post) as the first curation partner officially licensed to re-syndicate Twitter content. Through this partnership, companies will be able to move beyond engagement and create new revenue streams around curated and integrated experiences into TV, [.].

Syndicate 85

Syndicate Syndication Partner Naming 85

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2021

Groups of angels may syndicate multiple individual amounts, but if your total request exceeds $1 million, you need to focus on the venture capital alternatives. To be fundable, fifth year revenue projections need to be in the $20-$100 million range. Look to grants and strategic partners for seed funding.

Search 317

Search Accredited Investor Angel Investor Venture Capital 317

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 15, 2022

4:32] Is that was that the initial vision was to just make it easier to get those shows syndicated? [5:48] Is that, was that the initial vision was to just make it easier to get those shows syndicated. [2:54] What does the podcast media company look like today, and what was your idea for starting it? [4:32] Now there's Patreon.

Audio 85

Audio SMS Technical Review Advertising 85

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

So, lots of content combined with an engaged audience (contributing and participating in consumption), driving great branding and real world revenue. The beauty brands are particularly amazing at partnering with the power house beauty community to create and in evangelism efforts. When I have a choice, I now buy Prudential.

Analytics 151

Analytics Marketing Audience Channel 151

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But in business, you want a lot of partners. In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers. See Bessemer Venture Partners’ A comprehensive guide to security for startups. Cobalt for General Partners helps GPs to optimize their fundraising strategy. 1) Manage the firm

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Groups of angels may syndicate multiple individual amounts, but if your total request exceeds $1 million, you need to focus on the venture capital alternatives. To be fundable, fifth year revenue projections need to be in the $20-$100 million range. Look to grants and strategic partners for seed funding.

Accredited Investor 265

Accredited Investor Venture Capital Syndicate Syndication 265

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

PEVCTech is partnering with Blue Future Partners to run the first large-scale survey of VCs’ technology stack. Johann Kratzer of Blue Future Partners , a fund of funds, observed, “The majority of the hundreds of funds we’ve diligenced rely predominantly on their relationships to source deals. Greylock Partners.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

Genuine VC

MAY 29, 2014

Yet even today, whether or not to take a (relatively) small check in a seed round syndicate from a multi-hundred million or even billion dollar fund is still a decision which takes quite a bit of consideration and sometimes consternation. So there is an element of (positive) selection bias in the larger VC syndicate cohort companies.

Syndicate 166

Syndicate Syndication Seed Stage Valuation 166

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

We are also seeing more investors try to be a part of syndicated A rounds for companies that are raising $5M or more and are really not what most would consider “seed” stage. As the venture capital industry has evolved, more and more seed investors are passing on traditionally “seed stage” startups because there isn’t enough traction.

North America 36

North America Seed Stage Early Stage Lead Investor 36

SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

From Microsoft she went on to Netscape, where she was responsible for marketing of the Netscape Browser, and then LoudCloud, and now I’m happy to say she’s been my partner at SVPG for over a decade, and she also teaches marketing at UC Berkeley. I’m sure all of you have heard of Google’s AdWords.

Product 60

Product Technical Review Software Review Engineer 60

Pascal's View

JULY 9, 2017

In contrast, there is limited benefit for being the 2 nd investor or the 10 th investor joining the syndicate of a priced round, so it is common for investors to wait to see “who else is involved”. The CEO/founder often has leeway to influence or negotiate the cap value (especially when the headline cap is softened by a discount).

Post-Money Valuation 49

Post-Money Valuation Valuation Cap Table Covenant 49

Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Basically started as somebody of how do we take photos of cars and the pricing and descriptions of the cars, and put it all in one place, but then syndicate it. At what point did you feel like you outgrew your ability, you and your partners, I guess in this case, ability to actually run that company? Fast forward a couple years.

Kansas City 58

Kansas City CTO Hire Las Vegas Software Development 58

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2015

DataSift was never built on a single platform and never desired or expected to be Twitter’s re-syndication provider as its sole business. Never mind that Twitter in writing specifically asked us to build this re-syndication product with them and that every step of the way encouraged us to build out the service. billion people.

Syndicate 150

Syndicate Syndication Semantic Artificial Inteligence 150

K9 Ventures

JULY 19, 2012

Several of the portfolio companies have gone on to do their Series A (HighlightCam, Zimride, Occipital), Series B (CrowdFlower, DNAnexus) and Series C (Twilio, Lytro) rounds led by top tier venture firms, and the seed-stage companies all continue to track well on building product, team, and/or, revenue (imagine that!).

Technology 132

Technology Seed Stage San Francisco Limited Partner 132

K9 Ventures

JULY 19, 2012

Several of the portfolio companies have gone on to do their Series A (HighlightCam, Zimride, Occipital), Series B (CrowdFlower, DNAnexus) and Series C (Twilio, Lytro) rounds led by top tier venture firms, and the seed-stage companies all continue to track well on building product, team, and/or, revenue (imagine that!).

Technology 132

Technology Seed Stage San Francisco Limited Partner 132

www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

There never has to be atime when you have no revenues. Some angel investors join together in syndicates. The fund managers, who are called"general partners," get about 2% of the fund annually as a managementfee, plus about 20% of the funds gains. Not all the people who work at VC firms are partners.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Startup Software Review Angel Investor 76

Agile VC

MAY 23, 2012

E-commerce accounts for the vast majority of LL Bean’s revenue today ( it crossed 50% in 2010 though was as low as 15% in 2000 ), but because LL Bean is over a hundred years old and started as catalog & physical store retailer we typically don’t refer to it as an internet company. What’s Your Favorite Future? Previous Entries.

Internet 182

Internet Silicon Valley IPO Seed Stage 182

Feld Thoughts

MAY 8, 2017

As more hardware companies start paying attention to revenue attach, following the lead of companies like Dropbox, Ring, and Peloton, there’s an obvious place for Sonos to do this. Or live music that is syndicated from a different partner. Give me a free month of a service I haven’t yet activated.

Disintermediation 115

Disintermediation Syndicate Syndication Curation 115

This is going to be BIG.

MAY 5, 2023

I’ll also continue to work within the NYC tech community—now thriving at a level I could hardly have imagined when I first got the pitch deck for USV’s first fund as a Limited Partner at the GM pension fund. In other words, there’s still lots of work left to do here and the lights will stay on until the last investment wraps up.

Later Stage 218

Later Stage Venture Capital Term Sheet Limited Partner 218

View from Seed

JUNE 16, 2015

Our investment size may differ slightly from one company to the next, but it tends to be driven entirely by situation-specific factors (needs of the company, syndicate composition, anticipated reserves, etc) … and not based on our belief. For ecommerce: >$500K revenue/month. For SaaS: At least $100K in MRR.

Boston 120

Boston Syndicate Syndication eCommerce 120

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

A company that in time can generate $100M+ in revenue and have an enterprise value measured in the hundreds of millions or more (what some VCs refer to as a “venture scale” outcome). My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 4 days ago Search. Simply put… startups that have golazo potential. Previous Entries.

South Korea 124

South Korea Seed Stage Silicon Valley Syndicate 124

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2015

If you post on industry sites, or get syndicated to popular sites, your scores and visibility will go up even more. Blogs are a great way for potential business partners to find each other, and build a social media relationship before getting into the hard negotiations of who gets how much. Let that ideal co-founder find you.

Startup 120

Startup Social Media Syndicate Syndication 120

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

Groups of angels may syndicate multiple individual amounts, but if your total request exceeds $1 million, you need to focus on the venture capital alternatives. To be fundable, fifth year revenue projections need to be in the $20-$100 million range. Look to grants and strategic partners for seed funding.

Angel Investor 120

Angel Investor Accredited Investor Venture Capital Startup 120

Agile VC

AUGUST 12, 2011

The simple answer is “be able to convince a partnership of smart investors that your startup has a good probability of being a $100M+ revenue company within 5ish years.” Whether it’s customers, revenue, user acquisition, investors are more likely to be convinced when your startup has a good near past (last 3-4mo) trajectory.

Seed Stage 113

Seed Stage Silicon Valley B2B Acquisition 113

Agile VC

AUGUST 22, 2011

Even Amazon isn’t a platform… yes they have AWS but it accounts for <3% of their revenue and isn’t terribly profitable given the capex & opex currently going into growing it. My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 5 days ago Search. There’s lots of incredible companies that aren’t platforms.

Silicon Valley 113

Silicon Valley Seed Stage Startup Syndicate 113