Remove Competition Remove Seed Funding Remove Snapchat Remove Social Network
article thumbnail

The Changing Structure of the VC Industry

Both Sides of the Table

The VC market has right-sized (returned back to mid 90′s levels & less competition). Lower costs to start a business (95% reduction), many more companies created & funded by angels / seed. But it still takes VC to scale a business (thus large capital into industry winners like Uber, Airbnb, SnapChat, etc).

article thumbnail

What Most People Don’t Understand About How Startup Companies are Valued

Both Sides of the Table

Valuing any company can be difficult because it requires a degree of forecasting future growth & competition and ultimately the profits of the organization. Back then Michael Arrington accused some of Silicon Valley’s top seed funds of “colluding” by meeting secretly to talk down the valuation of startups.

Startup 150