Should I Jump On That Bandwagon? (Angel Investing)
The Seraf Compass
APRIL 24, 2024
The toughest moment in a new angel’s investing career: a very large round has lots of momentum – it has been expanded and is still over-subscribed.
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Valuations 101: The Risk Factor Summation Method
Gust
NOVEMBER 15, 2011
The Risk Factor Summation Method the fifth methodology for estimating the pre-money valuation of pre-revenue companies we have described in recent posts. The Risk Factor Summation Method, described by the Ohio TechAngels, considers a much broader set of factors in determining the pre-money valuation of pre-revenue companies.
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Finding Founder-Market-Geography Fit
Revolution
NOVEMBER 28, 2023
Talent Pool : Proximity to top educational institutions like Ohio State University provides a steady flow of skilled labor specialized in actuarial sciences, risk management, and other insurance-related fields. Founder-market-geography fit is one of those factors.
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The Great Acceleration of the Rise of the Rest (Part II): Does your City have a Moat?
Revolution
FEBRUARY 17, 2021
Let’s use Morningstar’s 5 Factors as a framework. Morningstar outlines these five factors of a company’s moat: the network effect, intangible assets, cost advantage, switching costs, and efficient scale. Here’s how I think about those five factors in the context of startup hubs, if we continue to think of cities like startups.
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How to Package and Price Embedded Analytics
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It Depends: Why the right fundraising strategy for your startup is never a straight answer.
This is going to be BIG.
AUGUST 30, 2020
Even a particular attribute like revenue has several factors to it, like growth, concentration and whether or not that revenue is a subscription for SaaS, one time purchases, or consulting. In those industries, there are lots of seemingly great products that die because the team lacks the expertise to break into the market.
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Postmortem of Launch413
Paul G. Silva
OCTOBER 6, 2022
For all five years of our life, lack of dealflow was our biggest risk. That isn’t fair-market value, let-alone a risk-adjusted premium for getting paid “maybe possibly someday.” ” We were off by a factor of 10. If it had been a factor of 2, we could have made it work. What Went Wrong.
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4 questions to ask before building a computer vision model
TechCrunch
MAY 27, 2022
However, before founders begin building AI systems, they should think carefully about their risk appetite, data management practices and strategies for future-proofing their AI stack. Below are four factors that founders should consider when deciding to build computer vision models. Perform a thorough risk assessment.
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Bigger Isn?t Always Better: 4 Benefits of Staying Small
Entrepreneurs' Organization
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
Business success is not the only factor in leading a satisfying life — not by a long shot! A broken marriage, not coaching my kids, financial risk or even a pretty solid income but less or no independence? Consider these smaller-time benefits as you determine your growth strategy: 1. Not worth it.”
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Navigating the Deep Waters of Venture Capital: An Interview with Vadim Shpak, from Vickers Venture Partners
AsiaTechDaily
NOVEMBER 3, 2023
Appetite for Risk: An inherent appetite for risk enables him to explore ventures with great potential. ” He also shares his approach to risk evaluation and key factors to consider when determining the risk-reward profile of an investment, providing a glimpse into the strategy that Vickers Venture Partners employs.
Finding your startup’s valuation: 5 factors to consider
TechCrunch
MAY 11, 2022
5 factors to consider. I ended the meeting soon afterward, because the factors they used to arrive at the valuation had no basis in reality. This means investors have to gauge other factors that aren’t so easily measured. More posts by this contributor. Does your startup have enough runway? “What is your valuation?”
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How to Accelerate Valuation Growth in Services Businesses
Paul G. Silva
JUNE 30, 2022
These factors keep exit multiples for service businesses low, often ten times lower than comparably-sized software companies. Some companies create innovation divisions… only to discover that the high-risk approach needed there is incompatible with the company’s failure-averse culture.
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SunFi aims to be the fastest way for Nigerians to find, finance and manage solar
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 3, 2023
The self-described energy financial tech platform received backing from lead investors Nairobi-based Factor[e] and SCM Capital Asset Management and participating investors such as Voltron Capital, Norrsken Impact Accelerator, Ventures Platform and Sovereign Capital.
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Outclassed: The Battle for Therapeutic Market Share
Andreessen Horowitz
NOVEMBER 16, 2023
Best” will become increasingly subjective, but here are some of the factors that can determine a new modality’s position on the commercial battlefield: Affordability, accessibility, convenience Drug affordability and access is a moral and economic imperative. Convenience and price point are big factors.
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The 5 Things Investors Really Care About When Reviewing Your Business Plan
StartupNation
JULY 25, 2021
By gaining traction, you reduce risk for yourself and for investors. As you can see, the latter company has already removed multiple risk factors to the investor and is thus much more likely to receive funding. Unique success factors. Traction, as just mentioned, is clearly a unique success factor.
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How to Accept Challenges and Thrive Alongside Business Risk
Entrepreneurs' Organization
JULY 26, 2019
Accepting risk as part of entrepreneurship took time. But accepting risk as an inevitable part of starting a business is key to your success as an entrepreneur. Here are the three steps to moving forward while factoring in that element of risk: 1. Know that uncertainty is different from risk. Embrace risk.
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Workforce Development Can Strengthen Cybersecurity
StartupNation
NOVEMBER 7, 2021
Thus, you should develop awareness campaigns designed to alert all users in the company to potential security risks. Now that you know the importance of workforce development , you need to keep your workplace safe online to minimize risks and improve your organization’s cybersecurity defense. Opt for two-factor authentication.
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What Happened In 2022
A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC
DECEMBER 31, 2022
There have been a number of other factors at work, like a war in Europe, that made things even worse, but it is my view that most of what happened in 2022 was entirely predictable, expected, and necessary. There was fraud, mismanagement, irresponsible risk-taking, and more, at play in the web3 sector. Well, it happened in 2022.
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DigiSure, the mobility insurance platform with high-tech screening, comes out of stealth with $13.1M raise
TechCrunch
AUGUST 19, 2021
DigiSure, a digital insurance company that caters to modern mobility form factors like peer-to-peer marketplaces, is officially coming out of stealth to announce a $13.1 “We’re basically constructing a composite risk profile on that user and building a profile on that user over time,” said Shim.
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How to Create a Fundable Business Plan
StartupNation
JANUARY 4, 2021
Detail your unique success factors. Think about every aspect of your business in identifying your unique success factors. Detailing your unique success factors gives investors and lenders increased comfort that you’ll be successful, and that they’ll get a return on their investment. Let’s go back to the mobile app example.
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Marco Financial raises $82M in debt, equity seed round to support small Latin American exporters
TechCrunch
JULY 13, 2021
It’s a gap Marco Financial is looking to bridge through its tech-enabled risk assessment platform that can provide better insight on who should receive loans. Banks don’t like risk, which means businesses spend most of their time trying to get financing rather than increasing sales,” Spradling told TechCrunch.
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Automation helps founders avoid the basis point yield trap
TechCrunch
MAY 1, 2023
This effort also carries unnecessary risks: As we have seen in recent months, market conditions could shift dramatically, exposing your asset holdings to significant downside almost overnight, even with a provider you have painstakingly vetted.
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Plaid names former Meta exec as its new payments head
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
In other words, Plaid has its services for clients that range from account verification to risk assessment and processing. We wanted to use intelligent data signals to be able to identify low-risk ACH funding events that can clear immediately,” he said. “By We currently de-risk nearly 3 million transactions valued at nearly $1.5
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VC deal activity fell in 2022, signaling tough times ahead
TechCrunch
JANUARY 6, 2023
. “Public exits of VC-backed companies have slowed to almost nonexistent levels, with just 14 public listings occurring in Q4, demonstrating how drastically institutional-investor appetite has been affected by rising interest rates and volatile macroeconomic factors,” the authors of the PitchBook report wrote. Why the instability?
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Not Taking Risks Is the Riskiest Career Move of All
Entrepreneurs' Organization
MARCH 3, 2019
By Mayke Nagtegaal, former speed skater with the Royal Dutch Skaters Association, current COO of MessageBird and an eternal risk-taker. Skating the razor-thin edge between risk and reward is something I’ve learned over the course of my career. Women and Risk. Five Factors to Consider Before Your Next Career Change.
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5 areas where VCs can play an outsized role in addressing climate change
TechCrunch
JANUARY 20, 2022
So where precisely do VCs factor into global efforts to address climate change? Backing and de-risking proven climate technologies. Venture capital has a vital role to play in de-risking climate technologies, which can help bring costs down, accelerate adoption rates and transform markets to enable a decarbonized future.
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Tech Tools for Building Employee Retention
Entrepreneurs' Organization
SEPTEMBER 6, 2018
Successful employee retention depends a great deal on identifying and addressing the factors that contribute to their satisfaction and engagement. As an employer, how do you deal with these factors efficiently and effectively? An employee may fail to fit into a role either due to technical or cultural factors.
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Cyber security in a work-from-home world
Innovation 2 Enterprise
OCTOBER 4, 2020
But we need to mitigate the new risks, too.”. Another complicating factor of that new endpoint is the explosion of the Internet of Things (IoT). Cyber security is not a problem to solve, it is risk to manage,” Dr. Dawkins said. “The really surprising thing is how fragile society is and how resilient we can be. Not anymore.
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5 investors discuss what’s in store for venture debt following SVB’s collapse
TechCrunch
MAY 17, 2023
“With the fall of industry stalwarts like SVB and FRB, we suspect access to venture debt to be harder to come by and more expensive, as partners historically considered as “fringe” are not as flexible around factors like scale, or impose stricter covenants. Even if that risk seems remote, it’s always good to be prepared.
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Axio lands $23M to help companies quantify cyber risk
TechCrunch
AUGUST 4, 2022
Axio , a platform for cybersecurity risk evaluation, today announced the closure of a $23 million Series B round led by Temasek’s ISTARI, with participation from investors NFP Ventures, IA Capital Group and former BP CEO Bob Dudley. Department of Energy. Earlier this year, the U.S.
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Cowbell raises $100M to build out its AI-based cyber insurance platform for SMBs
TechCrunch
MARCH 15, 2022
Cybercrime is on the rise, and today an insurance startup that’s built an artificial intelligence-based platform to help manage the risks from that is announcing a big round of funding to meet the opportunity. This in turn goes into a wider algorithmic evaluation platform that he referred to as Cowbell Factors.
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Intenseye secures record-breaking $64M Series B to advance its mission of transforming workplace safety with AI
American Entrepreneurship
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
By equipping us with real-time insight into leading indicators, the platform helps us drive proactive improvements that mitigate risks facing our frontline teams.” Intenseye is a key ally in advancing these endeavors. For more information on Intenseye’s AI-powered workplace safety solutions, visit www.intenseye.com/.
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The Seraf Method to Valuing Startups: Valuation Look-Up Table
The Seraf Compass
JULY 5, 2023
As the Berkus, Payne and Risk Factor Methods illustrate, you have to start somewhere. For the final step of the Seraf Method for valuing early stage companies, we bring it all together and apply our adjustments to a valuation starting point.
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Hidden in plain sight: 5 red flags for investors
TechCrunch
MAY 9, 2023
By staying vigilant and knowing what to look for, you can make informed decisions and stay away from opportunities that you determine aren’t worth the risk. An out-of-balance team A key factor when you’re considering an investment is whether business expertise and technical know-how of the founding team are in balance.
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Beat the clock: 6 smart ways startups can use lawyers effectively
TechCrunch
AUGUST 7, 2023
Structure depends on various factors: the nature of the business, its growth potential, funding requirements, liability considerations, and tax implications. This includes all associated risks. Not everything you do requires a lawyer: You simply need to know when to engage your attorney, how much to spend, and when to do it yourself.
VCs who want better outcomes should use data to reduce founder team risk
TechCrunch
DECEMBER 3, 2020
Instinct matters, but a team is too big a risk to leave to intuition. The technology also evaluates the company, market opportunity, timing and other factors, but since most investors aren’t taking a structured, data-backed approach to analyzing teams, let’s focus on that.). I will use myself as an example.
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4 signs to look for when evaluating ESG investments
TechCrunch
FEBRUARY 7, 2022
Bruce Dahlgren is CEO of MetricStream , a risk management (IRM) and governance, risk and compliance (GRC) company. Investors need to start thinking about ESG risk in the same way they consider investment risk, as a first step. Interestingly, we have seen this same paradigm play out in the broader risk management sector.
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Prewave pulls in $20M as supply chain tech investments remain on VC radars
TechCrunch
MAY 8, 2023
Risk factors Prewave founders Harald Nitschinger and Lisa Smith Image Credits : Prewave Founded out of Vienna in 2017 by Harald Nitschinger and Lisa Smith, Prewave touts itself as a holistic supply chain risk platform that spans “every phase of the risk lifecycle,” through identifying, analyzing, mitigating, and reporting these risks.
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Investors prefer debt over equity (but not venture debt)
TechCrunch
APRIL 18, 2023
It’s rare to see so many tectonic shifts happening in real time: High interest rates, declining equity values, SVB and other banks failing with a continued contagion risk and a recession looming. Simply put, equity risk premiums (ERPs) have broken down well below the ranges that were established since 2008.
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Superscript, a bespoke insurance provider for SMEs, raises $54 million
TechCrunch
JANUARY 9, 2023
This is targeted at tech businesses with complex risks that are more difficult to insure such as medical malpractice or professional indemnity, with customers including London-based fintech unicorn Paddle. The underwriting factor. It’s all about providing bespoke coverage for the types of risks that SMEs specifically need.
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Planning on Starting up in the New Year? Here’s What You Can Learn from the Resilient Entrepreneurs of 2020
StartupNation
DECEMBER 16, 2020
Entrepreneurship has always meant taking risks, and the risks are worth the rewards. As you enter the world of entrepreneurship, your ability to pivot may ultimately be a key factor in what helps you sink or swim. A certain sentiment rang true this year, despite its many challenges: now is the best time to start a business.
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Hopae Inc.’s Furo: Pioneering Digital Identity Solutions for EU Compliance and Cost-Effective Authentication
AsiaTechDaily
NOVEMBER 23, 2023
A key distinguishing factor for Furo lies in its affordability, providing a cost-effective alternative for companies seeking to establish their digital identity infrastructure. These regulations necessitate robust identity management systems to protect user data and ensure privacy.
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Certainty Of Close
A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC
JULY 28, 2019
The answer to that is that they are the most important factor of all when raising capital. Otherwise you are taking on risks that can and will blow up in your face. Both conversations on Friday ended in a discussion about people and how important they are in all of this.
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Waterplan tracks water risks and sustainable solutions for climate-conscious companies
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 3, 2021
They realized that although there was a lot of action, data and planning around carbon emissions, comparatively little was being done around water risk, since it has yet to become as visible of a threat. They started the company and took it through Y Combinator’s Summer 2021 cohort. “We need to make this a conscious effort.”
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