Wall Street Financier: Notes from High Altitude©
He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.
Pre-seed is the first outside investment entrepreneurs receive into their business after bootstapping and F&F (family and friends). Chris Corbishley, an Investor at Forward Partners, a UK VC fund, has good words of advice on structuring and negotiating those early investments. (link). Read that along with their pre-seed Term Sheet . …
Today I invite you to read this post by Courtney Rubin, How a Hot $100 Million Home Design Startup Collapsed Overnight, The untold story of how Homepolish’s extremely Instagrammable house of cards came tumbling down. There are a lot a cautionary red flags for you VCs and investors, and as …
There’s been some talk about Andreessen Horowitz returns lagging other prominent venture capitalists such as Sequoia, Benchmark and Founders Club. In response, Scott Kupor of A16Z published a rebuttal outlining valuation methods used in the industry. Kupor differentiates between the “marks” (quarterly snapshot of realized and unrealized gains ) from …
