Disrupt SF 2018 | Wall Street Financier: Notes from High Altitude© https://wallstreetdealmaker.com He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man. Thu, 03 Oct 2019 18:28:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://i0.wp.com/wallstreetdealmaker.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/pitbullgif.gif?fit=32%2C22&ssl=1 Disrupt SF 2018 | Wall Street Financier: Notes from High Altitude© https://wallstreetdealmaker.com 32 32 155119938 For you techies: Y Combinator TOP 101 Companies https://wallstreetdealmaker.com/2019/10/for-you-techies-y-combinator-top-101-companies/ https://wallstreetdealmaker.com/2019/10/for-you-techies-y-combinator-top-101-companies/#comments Thu, 03 Oct 2019 18:26:07 +0000 https://wallstreetdealmaker.com/?p=1844 While I’m at TechCrunch Disrupt 2019 in S.F. I don’t forget my techies readers who are not attending. 60%+ of this blog’s readership are people that work in technology: engineers, product developers, editors, etc. I thought it would be useful to link to Y Combinator’s top alumni company list of … Continue ReadingFor you techies: Y Combinator TOP 101 Companies

The post For you techies: Y Combinator TOP 101 Companies first appeared on Wall Street Financier: Notes from High Altitude©.]]> While I’m at TechCrunch Disrupt 2019 in S.F. I don’t forget my techies readers who are not attending.

60%+ of this blog’s readership are people that work in technology: engineers, product developers, editors, etc. I thought it would be useful to link to Y Combinator’s top alumni company list of all times (by valuation).

THE CUMULATIVE VALUATION OF THESE TOP COMPANIES is $155 Bn

102 Companies valued AT $150 MILLION+ each

JOBS CREATED : 55K+ (Source: YCombinator)

When you click on the link, besides the names and profiles of the listings, there’s a link to that company job webpage. So, if you’re looking for a job, apply. Good luck, readers !

I’m just going to list the first 20 on that list:

  1. Stripe
  2. Airbnb
  3. Cruise
  4. DoorDash
  5. Coinbase
  6. Instacart
  7. Dropbox
  8. Ginkgo Bioworks
  9. Gusto
  10.   Flexport
  11.   Rappi
  12.   Brex
  13.   Reddit
  14.   Gitlab
  15.   PagerDuty
  16.   Checkr
  17.   Segment
  18.   Docker
  19.   Scale
  20.   Faire
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The post How to pitch a VC first appeared on Wall Street Financier: Notes from High Altitude©.]]> A lot of my readers are entrepreneurs who want to know how to pitch their enterprises to venture capitalists.

I’ve seen dozens of pitches, some that are better, some that are not. David Rose’s TED 2007 video is still an excellent framework for what you need to do. (Don’t watch Shark Tank. That is not how investing works in the real world !

1. It always helps to look at examples of previously funded startups.

On the Piktochart Blog you can see 30 companies’ pitch decks, from Facebook in 2004 to Sequoia Capital’s.

2. There’s a practice mock-up that guides you through the most common concepts, called Pitchbot designed by angel investor and Gigster CEO Roger Dickey. Practice often !

Quote of the day: “When you take a risk for who you are you are betting for you, and when you don’t, you are betting against you.”-AK

Looking forward to Disrupt SF 2018 !


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