Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

If you don’t know Montgomery & Co it is one of the premier technology & media focused investment banks in the country (and as Michael corrected me they also have a strong Healthcare / Med tech practice). Should you use investment banks to raise venture capital? 1 party = low price. This is often in the 5-7% range.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

When venture capitalists scale back investing activities it can be very swift and leave many companies that are in the process of fund raising hung out to dry. This should not be confused with raising too much money as many companies did in 2006-08. The best MBA class I took was an investment strategy class. Short answer – yes.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 22, 2010

When I went to raise money in 2006 I thought I knew every term in a term sheet but somehow I still got a bit duped by the option pool shuffle. Investors will always want to get their money out of the company before founders, which in the case where the company is sold for a low price is fair. Note that it might be even less than $1.6m

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Venture Capital Pricing Startup Funding 405

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2019

You may no longer have the option of investing all earnings into growth, or servicing your special corporate cause. Even the New York Stock Exchange did one with the acquisition of Archipelago Holdings via a "double dummy" merger way back in 2006 in a $10 billion deal to create the NYSE Group. Yet reverse mergers are not all bad.

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Summary Startup Entrepreneur Funding 121

InfoChachkie

JULY 28, 2015

Even the eccentric King of Pop communicated the price he was willing to pay for Neverland. Our response was that there was no “price” as our company was not for sale. We then turned Citrix’s question around, saying, “You knocked on our door with an intent to buy so you obviously have some idea of the price you are willing to pay.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

VC’s don’t invest 100% of their own money. They raise money from institutions who want to have some allocation of their investment dollars in a category known as “alternatives,&# which is supposed to mean higher risk, higher returns. And funds also have investments from the partners of the firm.

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Venture Capital Funding Invest GRP Partners 269

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

I will argue that LPs who invest in VC funds will also need to adjust a bit as well. They knew the venture math that if only 50 companies / year are sold North of $100 million the entry price for their investments mattered. These funds were active back in 2006 when I was raising money for my second company.

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Venture Capital Software Capital Startup 334

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

And the broader question of whether VC’s will continue to invest in the Twitter ecosystem. Current round: $3.35mm in Series A by TomorrowVentures (Eric Schmidt’s personal investment vehicle), Saban Ventures, Founder Collective, SK Telecom Ventures. Estimated 15mm downloads to date. LibreDigital. Orchard for e-Books”. MetaMarkets.

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Venture Capital Startup Design S3 214

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2019

You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1 million each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. Identify the total investment required for profitability. A very common mistake of early stage startups is to request a small investment to get started.

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Snapchat Startup Course Yahoo 74

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

After all, I am no stranger to the publicly expressing the frustrations of dealing with the downside of this industry as I wrote about in 2006 when I was an entrepreneur. Most top tier VCs return about 3x invested capital and outlier funds (the best of a vintage) might return 6-8x. But VC is like congress. Because they know him or her.

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Venture Capital Entrepreneur Invest Funding 374

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 13, 2018

You may no longer have the option of investing all earnings into growth, or servicing your special corporate cause. Even the New York Stock Exchange did one with the acquisition of Archipelago Holdings via a "double dummy" merger way back in 2006 in a $10 billion deal to create the NYSE Group. Marty Zwilling.

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Summary Startup Entrepreneur Funding 79

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2015

You may no longer have the option of investing all earnings into growth, or servicing your special corporate cause. Even the New York Stock Exchange did one with the acquisition of Archipelago Holdings via a "double dummy" merger in 2006 in a $10 billion deal to create the NYSE Group. Yet reverse mergers are not all bad.

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Funding Summary Startup Entrepreneur 102

InfoChachkie

JULY 11, 2011

By combining our equity investment with a tranche of venture debt, the company has avoided a larger equity round, which would have significantly diluted the Founders’ ownership share. Dollar Blend – Many venture debt lenders require that their funds be accompanied by an equity investment, generally from legitimate venture capitalists.

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Equity Startup Invest Funding 235

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2013

You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1 million each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. Identify the total investment required for profitability. A very common mistake of early stage startups is to request a small investment to get started.

Startup 96

Startup Course Yahoo Funding 96

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2017

You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1 million each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. Identify the total investment required for profitability. A very common mistake of early stage startups is to request a small investment to get started.

Snapchat 55

Snapchat Startup Course Yahoo 55

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

He eventually applied his lessons learned in these experiences when he founded Zag, a company that helps consumers buy cars over the Internet at pre-negotiated prices with nearly 4,000 dealers across the country [disclosure: my firm GRP Partners is an investor in Zag]. Investing much of new cash to build presence in Android platform.

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Zag Truecar Venture Capital CarsDirect 248

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 3, 2014

You may no longer have the option of investing all earnings into growth, or servicing your special corporate cause. Even the New York Stock Exchange did one with the acquisition of Archipelago Holdings via a "double dummy" merger in 2006 in a $10 billion deal to create the NYSE Group. Yet reverse mergers are not all bad.

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Funding Startup Entrepreneur Summary 98

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

There’s no doubt (at least anecdotally) that the pace of VC investments in early-stage technology companies has picked up in the past few months. I hear from several sources that Sequoia is very active in the market aggressively chasing several deals and even driving up prices on some early-stage deals. billion.

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Venture Capital Marketing Startup Social Network 255

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2010

You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1M each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. Identify the total investment required for profitability. A very common mistake of early stage startups is to request a small investment to get started. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Course Invest Yahoo 91

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Founded in 2006, Demand Media is headquartered in Santa Monica, CA with offices in Bellevue, WA, Austin, TX, New York, NY and London, UK. Tech Coast Angels is ever-mindful that some of the world’s greatest companies began with angel investments and we take our commitment to that tradition seriously. Price: FREE. to 11:00 p.m.

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Technical Review Software Review Santa Monica Tech Coast Angels 58

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2011

You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1M each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. Identify the total investment required for profitability. A very common mistake of early stage startups is to request a small investment to get started.

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Startup Course Yahoo Invest 97

socalTECH

DECEMBER 19, 2011

We thought it would be interesting to hear about why KidZui is investing in original content, so we spoke with Cliff Boro , KidZui's CEO. Our goal, from the outset, since 2006 when we put the company together, was to bring together the extraordinary content on the Internet, whether that is a website, games, or videos for kids.

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Content Startup Web Technical Review 165

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

This Panel is filled with investing super stars who will be going over must have content for all the startups and entrepreneurs out there. Investment trends in startups that are about or related to social media. They make it easy to collect investment funds, track ownership, and provide targeted updates to investors.

Social Media 71

Social Media Technical Review Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 71

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

I first attended SxSW in 2006, and was blown away. Name Your Price: Influencing Customer's Purchasing Decisions. Understanding the effect of perceived discounts, multiple product levels, price anchoring, and other. Entrepreneurism / Monetization economics, human behaviour, pricing. . Gareth Knight, Technovated.

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Guide Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur 69

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Once the product features (and thus the user flows) are sufficiently mature to invest in this area, then it makes sense to formalize out the reports. I generally invest zero time into cute visualizations and graphs, and prefer to read the key numbers. Pricing and revenue? December 2006 (17). November 2006 (19).

Startup 29

Startup IP Email Report 29

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

. - We spoke about the changes to an “accredited investor&# proposed by Chris Dodd – This would be bad for angel investing. We discussed in the video why they don’t price this money but give it as convertible debt) they don’t make announcements to the market. Founded in 2006 by Aaron Finn. Short answer: no.

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Venture Capital Startup Advertising Redpoint 285

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

We were trying to optimize around a few criteria: price, size of round, number of syndicate partners and, of course, terms. My co-founder and other management team members wanted us to hold off and see whether we could get the deal done at a higher price. I offered a second time to fund and even increased price a little bit.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Technical Advisors 301

Frank Addante

JUNE 10, 2007

► August (1) Invest in Transparency & Active Communication ► July (1) The Fear of Success ► May (2) Optimized for Speed = 30% Waste Happy 1st Birthday Rubicon Project! ► 2006 (20) ► December (2) Just Say What it Is 12 Proven Guidelines for Rapid Product Development. ► October (1) New Video!

Startup 40

Startup Technical Review Software Review Advertising 40

Frank Addante

JUNE 13, 2006

► August (1) Invest in Transparency & Active Communication ► July (1) The Fear of Success ► May (2) Optimized for Speed = 30% Waste Happy 1st Birthday Rubicon Project! ▼ 2006 (20) ► December (2) Just Say What it Is 12 Proven Guidelines for Rapid Product Development. ► October (1) New Video!

Startup 40

Startup Outsource Development Product Advertising 40

Frank Addante

MAY 12, 2007

► August (1) Invest in Transparency & Active Communication ► July (1) The Fear of Success ► May (2) Optimized for Speed = 30% Waste Happy 1st Birthday Rubicon Project! ► 2006 (20) ► December (2) Just Say What it Is 12 Proven Guidelines for Rapid Product Development. ► October (1) New Video!

Outsource Development 40

Outsource Development Outsource Software Review Startup 40

Frank Addante

MAY 15, 2006

► August (1) Invest in Transparency & Active Communication ► July (1) The Fear of Success ► May (2) Optimized for Speed = 30% Waste Happy 1st Birthday Rubicon Project! ▼ 2006 (20) ► December (2) Just Say What it Is 12 Proven Guidelines for Rapid Product Development. ► October (1) New Video!

Advertising 40

Advertising Startup Chief Technology Officer Technical Review 40

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Fox bought MySpace for $580 million and then did a deal with Google worth more than the purchase price to serve up ads. MySpace would liked to have owned YouTube but didn’t have the public stock valuation to purchase them at the price that Google did. For a nanosecond Rupert Murdoch seemed like the smartest guy on the Internet.

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Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2010

Today’s post is about my investment thesis. My investment philosophy is to back the best possible entrepreneurs I can. But when I’m looking to invest the dollars that my Limited Partners have entrusted my firm with I’m going with my view. He invested $8 million in a company in the computer networking space.

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Entrepreneur GRP Partners Venture Capital Invest 321

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

You might sell one of two of your widgets for $1 million each, entering profitability immediately, but then die because you can’t grow sales at that price. Identify the total investment required for profitability. A very common mistake of early stage startups is to request a small investment to get started.

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Startup Course Yahoo Invest 93