The Venture Capital Funnel: Your Chances Of Raising Follow-Ons, Exiting, And Becoming A Unicorn

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Once you take venture capital, what can you expect? Below is what the data says life will look like.

Baguete

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Há pouco mais de um mês no comando do Ministério de Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação, Celso Pansera afirmou nesta sexta-feira, 27, que se comprometerá a manter vivo o programa Startup Brasil, iniciativa que não abriu novas turmas em 2015.

The Boulder Startup Lawyers of LaszloLaw Discuss Drag-Along Rights and Tag-Along Rights in an Operating or Shareholder Agreement.

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Operating agreements and shareholder agreements typically include provisions that control in the event that an interest in a company is being sold to a third party.

Quantifying the VC life (and my inbox)

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The comment has been sitting with me for some weeks, so I figured I would try to use some proper data to validate his comment on the VC lifestyle and hopefully provide some ideas for entrepreneurs on how to rise above the noise.

6WunderKinder’s exit is a Triple Wake Up Call

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Today is an important day for the European technology landscape. As my friend Amir Mizroch reported in the WSJ, 6Wunderkinder GmbH (maker of WunderList) was acquired by Microsoft for a price rumored to be between $100M and $200M.

How Ever-Higher Valuations Lead Unicorns Into A Cycle Of Private Capital Dependency

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Unicorns and dragons have become so ubiquitous that some argue investing in these companies is the only way for VCs to survive. This phenomenon makes for excellent entertainment, and for some either incredibly lucky or prophetic investors, there are billions of dollars to be made.

The Metrics Every Entrepreneur Should Know by Heart

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Most startup investors look for entrepreneurs who know their business inside and out. Historical financials are rarely a good predictor of future startup success, but entrepreneurs’ understanding of their financials and key metrics can be.

Startup Lawyer | Startup Law Glossary

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-#- 1X25102(f)25102(o)409A409A Report4 Years with a One Year Cliff83b Election -A- Accelerated VestingAcceleration ClauseAcceleratorAccredited InvestorAcquisitionAdministratorAdvisory BoardAlternative Minimum Tax (AMT)Amended and Restated Articles of IncorporationAmortizationAnalystAngel Fi

Employee Equity: Dilution

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Last week I kicked off my MBA Mondays series on Employee Equity. Today I am going to talk about one of the most important things you need to understand about employee equity; it is likely to be diluted over time. When you start a company, you and your founders own 100% of the company.

Bad Notes on Venture Capital

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This week. On the phone … Me: So, you raised venture capital? Him: Yeah. We raised a seed round. About $1 million. Me: At what price? Him: It wasn’t priced. We raised a convertible note. Me: With a cap? Him: Yes, $8 million. Me: Ah. I see. So you did raise with a price.

A tributação do ágio nas limitadas – Estadão

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Boa parte das operações de investimento em startups são feitas por meio de empréstimo conversível (convertible note), em vez de participação direta no capital.

16 Common Questions About Fundraising

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For most companies, fundraising isn’t about $100-million rounds and “unicorns”. It’s often an anxiety-ridden, lonely, frustrating process filled with uncertainty and self doubt. Despite the stories out there, raising venture capital isn’t easy for most startups.

Three structuring options for reorganizing your Latin America startup in the U.S.

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You’ve built your operations in Latin America using funding from local friends and family and Angel investors and you are ready to raise a Series A round of financing (usually U.S.$1-3 million from institutional investors). First, congratulations.

DUMP THE ALPHABET ALREADY!

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Is it a seed? An A? A Seed 2? Praise be to Marc Andreessen’s tweet and Mark Suster’s reply on what a funding round is called. It’s confusing and misleading.

The #1 Metric for Startup Fundraising — Game of Startups — Medium

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Recently I attended a quintessential early stage startup event. Exactly when I entered the event space I realized I hadn’t attended one in a long time. The event concluded with an open Q&A of a well known seed V.C.

The 11 Risks VCs Evaluate

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Though the industry is called venture capital, the goal of a VC isn’t to maximize every risk. Instead, we try to understand all the risks a business might face and weigh those risks with the reward - the exit. Here are the major risks that I typically review when a startup pitches.

Raising a Seed Round – The Spreadsheet

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A deck of slides and a spreadsheet are usually sufficient to raise a seed round. The deck has received a lot of attention; there is a great variety of quality resources out there on how to go after it. Here, I’ll focus on the spreadsheet, which has mostly gone unnoticed.

500 Startups’ newly released fundraising documents will keep you from ‘getting screwed’

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Free things are great, and they’re even better when they save you, your startup, and your investors a boatload of money and drama. And lucky for you, startup accelerator program 500 Startups is releasing one of those magical gifts today.

What Seed Financing Is For – AVC

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Marc Andreessen posted a tweetstorm last week and he talked about how to think about seed financings and how they lead into Series A and Series B rounds. Feature request for Twitter: Please make it possible to permalink to and embed a tweetstorm. You can call this the @pmarca feature.