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benjamin white

Do accelerators help startups? Here's what we found | VentureBeat | Entrepreneur | by S... - 0 views

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help startups entrepreneur

shared by benjamin white on 25 Feb 14 - No Cached
  • Our observations led us to the conclusion that accelerators need at least four years after a graduating class to determine their quality of results.
  • 21 percent exited and 25 percent out of business $162 million funding with $831 million in exits with an 5.1x return multiple Unrealized gains/losses 11 percent expected exits and 43 percent expected out of business $1.1 billion in funding with $13.4 billion in expected value with a 12.5x expected return multiple
  • Based on these historical results, we found that companies in accelerator graduating classes from before December 2009 returned 11.3x on capital invested. These are fantastic returns for entrepreneurs, VCs, and accelerators.
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  • Obviously this 11.3x figure factors in outsize returns from a few rock stars.  What happens we compare against accelerators that have more typical returns?
  • Of the 61 companies in this group, 20 percent exited or are expected to exit with a total return of 1.2x.
rduton

ZenPayroll raises YC's largest seed round from the Mt. Rushmore of Valley entrepreneurs - 1 views

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shared by rduton on 14 Dec 12 - No Cached
  • rduton on 14 Dec 12
     
    , ZenPayroll is taking on the enormous and incredibly complicated challenge of bringing payroll services into the modern era with an automated cloud solution
jlevinsohn

DNA - 3 views

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kb dna entrepreneurship

shared by jlevinsohn on 19 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • jlevinsohn on 19 Apr 13
     
    interesting infographic on what these guys deem the most predictive personality qualities for entrepreneurs. i was skeptical at first but after speaking with adeo the founder he seems like a thoughtful dude who has all applicants submit a thorough personality test
jlevinsohn

Fabrice Grinda: Musings of an Entrepreneur » And then there were a 100… - 0 views

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kb

shared by jlevinsohn on 28 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • Jose and I typically invest in a copy only if the original model has reached $100 million in revenues and is profitable or on the path to profitability. Increasingly companies that have just raised seed money are being copied.
  • We don’t take simultaneous business model and market risk
  • mostly investing in priced rounds with pre-money valuations between $1 and $3 million, has allowed us to be successful on the majority of our exits – even when they were for less than $10 million
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  • Human nature is such that we would spend too much time with the companies fairing badly (even though the worst that can happen is that the value of our investment goes from 1 to 0) and not enough with the ones doing well (even though their value can go from 1 to 10 or 100!).
  • Most studies suggest that angels with fewer than 10 investments lose money, while those with more than 10 investments make money
  • The corollary is that by not being based in the Valley and by being so disciplined, we have not had any huge hits. Had we been given the opportunity to invest in Facebook, Google, Youtube, Linkedin and Pinterest at seed, we would have probably passed. None of the companies in the portfolio are worth more than $1 billion. Only a few have the potential to reach $1 billion and none seem to have the potential to be worth $10 billion.
jlevinsohn

Amazon.com: The Lean Entrepreneur: How Visionaries Create Products, Innovate with New V... - 2 views

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leanstartup books

shared by jlevinsohn on 22 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • jlevinsohn on 22 Feb 13
     
    to be released feb 26th
Eliot Brockner

ModelsHotel : About ModelsHotel - 0 views

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accessclub

shared by Eliot Brockner on 11 May 12 - No Cached
  • Eliot Brockner on 11 May 12
     
    ModelsHotel is a boutique, by-referral-only network connecting the world of high end fashion. Membership is restricted to top agency-represented fashion models, established designers, photographers, stylists, agents, entrepreneurs, writers, and other trend-setting members of the global fashion community.
jlevinsohn

LinkedIn's Series B Pitch to Greylock: Pitch Advice for Entrepreneurs - 3 views

reidhoffman.org/linkedin-pitch-to-greylock

fundraising pitch

shared by jlevinsohn on 17 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • jlevinsohn on 17 Oct 13
     
    one of the best posts i've seen about pitching
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