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The changing role of VCs & Angels in Consumer Internet Companies |
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Internet ·
Dec 16, 2009
Bill Burnham has published a really great piece on the consumer internet market and the role of VCs & Angels.
Go read the whole post
Key Excerpts:
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VCs increasingly perceive the market success of Consumer Startups to be almost a Random Walk. A few years ago, if you told VCs that Twitter would do a financing at $1BN pre, almost all of them would have laughed heartily at the thought. Same thing if you had told them that Friendster, a Kleiner & Sequoia deal with an A-list management team would be schooled by an east coast (East Coast!) knock-off run by a ...
Links & Resources on Business Plans & Pitching- Venturehacks, Guy Kawasaki , Brad Feld etc... |
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Venture Capital ·
Oct 20, 2009
I get an email about once a month asking me for "business plan templates" or input on thier deck. I often send them the same links over and over again on pitching and business plans. So, I thought, I will just consolidate the links in one page and send this link next time anybody asks me for my thoughts.
I get an email about once a month asking me for "business plan templates" or input on thier deck. I often send them the same links over and over again on pitching and business plans. So, I thought, I will just consolidate the links in one page and send this link next time anybody asks me for my thoughts.
- VentureHacks - If you are going to do a startup, read all the archives , print it out and put it under your pillow before going to sleep. All the advise is absolutely essential and helps in the pitching, fund raising process and ...
Is Twitter Worth a $1 Billion? Can They Generate $300M in Revenue in 5 Years? |
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Internet ·
Sep 25, 2009
TechCrunch first reported about Twitter closing in on funding at a billion dollar valuation. Wall Street Journal confirmed the news that it was indeed raising $100M at a billion dollar valuation.
As is normally the case, whenever a big deal happens about an Internet Startup (see Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube etc...), there is a huge outcry about bubble, valuations, hot air etc...
For example, one of my favorite companies, whose book really laid the foundation of my philosphy for operating an internet service, released a mock press release making fun of billion dollar valuations. While 37 Signals has been talking about ...
TechCrunch first reported about Twitter closing in on funding at a billion dollar valuation. Wall Street Journal confirmed the news that it was indeed raising $100M at a billion dollar valuation.
As is normally the case, whenever a big deal happens about an Internet Startup (see Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube etc...), there is a huge outcry about bubble, valuations, hot air etc...
For example, one of my favorite companies, whose book really laid the foundation of my philosphy for operating an internet service, released a mock press release making fun of billion dollar valuations. While 37 Signals has been talking about ...
Two More Indian Early Stage and Seed VC Funds- Song Advisors and Epiphany |
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India ·
Sep 08, 2009
There has been a lot of talk about how the gap in Indian VC investments is not really in the Series A stage (i.e. $2-5M range) but in the seed range i.e. in the $250k-$1M range.
There have been quite a few Venture Capital funds operating in India with this model including Ojas Ventures , SeedFund , Erasmic (Now Accel) , VenturEast, FootPrint Ventures , Singularity Ventures and a few more.
Now we have two more, one of which I had heard about before, Song Advisors (backed by Google, Soros and Omidyar Network and also advised by my friend Reuben Abraham ...
Standardization of Venture Capital Term Sheets |
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Start Ups ·
Venture Capital ·
Aug 17, 2009
A lot of discussion over the past few days on VC Term Sheets and standardization to enable quick closing and lower legal costs. Good news is that its all moving in the right direction which is great for enterpreneurs like me.
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"In venture capital, tranching refers to investments where portions of the money are released over time when certain pre-negotiated milestones are hit. Usually it will all be part of one Series of investment, so a company might raise, say, $5M in the Series A but actually ...