$40 billion app: What another $1 billion in the bank means for Uber George December 4, 2014 Funding, Uber Uber wants to be the world’s private driving service. Now the company is amassing the war chest to do it. The start-up closed a new $1.2 billion round of financing on Thursday, with investors valuing the...
Raising Money and Valuing your Startup (from A16Z) George October 1, 2014 Funding, Insights, Management A great listen about the best way to raise money - and the inextricably linked function of valuing your startup. And something that we will find helpful -- what you should do when things don't go to plan...
How to Raise Funding from A16Z George September 28, 2014 Funding I think there are some great thoughts in this piece from Andreessen Horowitz. It's best summarized by the following approach: Whenever you’re raising capital, think about constructing the round in such a...
Everything You Wanted to Know about Convertible Notes George August 31, 2014 Funding, Legal One of the most entrepreneur friendly ways to raise early stage financing for your startup is to raise what is called a Convertible Note. What is a Convertible Note? A convertible note is one way to raise...
Ben Horowitz and Marc Andreessen Explain Everything George August 26, 2014 Funding, Insights, Research This is a great two part podcast from the founders of famed VC firm Andreessen Horowitz (also known at A16Z). Around their firm they use the term “software eats the world” as a guide for how...
Most Active UK Technology Venture Capital Investors George August 11, 2014 Funding Of all VCs (Super Angel, VC, Corporate Venture Groups), the North West Fund (we aggregated all subsets of their funds for this analysis) was the most active in terms of unique UK-based tech companies invested...
All European Venture Capital and Angel Investors George July 23, 2014 Funding The Google Doc below is perhaps one of the most valuable for any European entrepreneur. It is a crowd-sourced list of the all European Venture Capital investors, as well as the Angel investors. Huge thanks...
10 Ways to Damage Your Startup George July 10, 2014 Funding Marc Andreessen just posted a great piece about the top 10 ways to damage your fast-growing tech startup. I can frankly say that I have personally been involved in at least a few of them. Here's my take on...
That’s one Uber Valuation: $18.2 billion George June 6, 2014 Billion Dollar Apps, ecommerce, Funding, Uber 1 Comment Uber Technologies Inc.'s whopping valuation of $18.2 billion is a bet by some of the world's top investors that the car-hailing smartphone app can grow by expanding world-wide and branching into new arenas,...
VCs pour almost $1 billion into mobile apps in Q1, 2014 George May 10, 2014 Facebook, Funding In Q1 2014, VCs poured $931M into 125 mobile deals according to the latest report from CB insights. Over the past three quarters alone, U.S.-based venture capital investments to mobile & telecom...
