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Fundraising Basics: How to Understand and Negotiate a Term Sheet with Caroline Cherkassky and Kelly Laffey

SoCal Tech Calendar

Tuesday, July 23, 2019 -- Fundraising Basics: How to Understand and Negotiate a Term Sheet with Caroline Cherkassky and Kelly Laffey.

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Preccelerator Workshop: Term Sheets w/ Caroline Cherkassky and Kelly Laffey

SoCal Tech Calendar

Tuesday, December 17, 2019 -- Preccelerator Workshop: Term Sheets w/ Caroline Cherkassky and Kelly Laffey.

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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

In those years I learned to properly build product, price products, sell products and serve customers. Raising capital remained difficult but possible and valuations were tied to underlying performance metrics and everybody accepted the the ultimate exit — whether through M&A or IPO — would also be based on some level of rational pricing.

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5 Startup Funding Models That Depend On The Consumer

Startup Professionals Musings

According to a classic article on Thrinacia , there were over 600 crowdfunding platforms in existence then, estimated to add more than $89 billion to the economy at a compound growth rate of 17% from 2019 to today. With this model, a startup pre-sells their product early, at a cheaper price, in exchange for a pledge. In the U.S.,

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Startups Weekly: VCs are drunk on beverage startups

TechCrunch LA

Haus, like any good consumer startup in 2019, is shipped directly to your door. — Kate Clark (@KateClarkTweets) May 21, 2019. I almost skipped IPO corner this week because no big-name companies dropped or amended their S-1s or completed a highly anticipated IPO, as has been the case basically every week of 2019.

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Shareholders approve Bird-SPAC merger, stock promptly falls

TechCrunch LA

That’s precisely what the company will be worth in light of Switchback II’s share price declines, but the number could be lower than the headline figure from early merger disclosures. For example, Bird had gross margins that were negative in 2018, 2019 and 2020. billion for Bird when it began to trade.

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Starship Technologies picks up €50M from the EU’s investment arm to expand its fleet of autonomous delivery robots

TechCrunch LA

Starship Technologies is describing this as a “quasi-equity facility”, meaning there is a venture loan involved in the mix. Prices for the service can vary by city and location, but as an example a service that it provides to grocery chain Coop in Milton Keynes is made for a flat fee of 99 pence.

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