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Ed Zimmerman: The Growing Scarcity of Series B Venture Rounds

WSJ - The Accelerators

ED ZIMMERMAN : The funnel for venture funding isn’t cylindrical — it’s shape follows a more Darwinian conical path, as many seed stage companies march into the cone’s wide entrance and far fewer make it to the cone’s narrow end.

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Second-Class Investor Citizens: Facebook’s IPO and Dual-Class Equity Structures

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By contrast, venture capital and angel investments normally take the form of Preferred Stock with rights and preferences set forth in the company’s Certificate of Incorporation and other governance documents. Options and warrants, when issued, are also typically exercisable for shares of Common Stock.

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The Innovator's Solution for SaaS Startups - The Flywheel SaaS Company

Tomasz Tunguz

In the Innovator’s Dilemma for SaaS Startups , I outlined the path of many software companies, which disrupt incumbents by first serving the small-to-medium business and then move up-market by transitioning to serve larger enterprises with outbound sales teams. Additionally, this flywheel model is incredibly capital efficient.

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