2004 financing strategy 
This is going to be BIG.
MAY 9, 2022
I’ve been asked by portfolio companies and plenty of others about how they should be changing their strategy given the stock market pullback and what they’ve been hearing on “VC twitter”. It was super hard to get any kind of financing before, and it will remain so. The incentive is too strong. You should be all good. 9’s and 10’s only!
Gust
NOVEMBER 4, 2011
Entrepreneurs and investors who have spent any time dealing with convertible debt seed financing transactions are likely to have encountered the subject of valuation caps. The cap is irrelevant if the next equity financing is at a valuation below the cap amount.) Part of the deal was bringing in a new CEO, Richard Rosenblatt.
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David Teten VC
MARCH 5, 2021
Of course, one could rebut that by saying traditional VC is all about investing in outliers: Seth Levine analyzed data from Correlation Ventures (21,000 financings from 2004-2013) and writes that “a full 65% of financings fail to return 1x capital. Hope is not a strategy. According to Pitchbook data , only 21.6%
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 26, 2021
Seth Levine analyzed data from Correlation Ventures (21,000 financings from 2004-2013) and writes that “a full 65% of financings fail to return 1x capital. Hope is not a strategy. firms have launched an inaugural Revenue-Based Finance fund. In VC, 100x investment opportunities only come along once every few years.
TechCrunch
MAY 26, 2022
Wale Ayeni , one of Africa’s well-known investors, has a new role as the head of Helios Digital Ventures, the venture capital strategy of private equity firm Helios Investment Partners, TechCrunch has learned. This market downturn also affects startups, big and small, as their finances and valuations take a beating.
David Teten VC
MARCH 5, 2021
Of course, one could rebut that by saying traditional VC is all about investing in outliers: Seth Levine analyzed data from Correlation Ventures (21,000 financings from 2004-2013) and writes that “a full 65% of financings fail to return 1x capital. Hope is not a strategy. According to Pitchbook data , only 21.6%
Tomasz Tunguz
APRIL 24, 2017
After last week’s post, Is There a No Man’s Land in SaaS ACVs , a founder asked me to highlight some of the go to market strategies in different segments. Founded in 2004, Fleetmatics employs about 1150 employees. Fleetmatics financed its growth early on by generating cash. ” How did they do it?
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