Nassim Taleb’s anti-fragility concept in private equity situations
18 February, 2014
Private equity investors and lending banks are fond of subscription businesses because they provide more “stable and predictable” cash flow. I once worked on a buyout deal where the target company had two revenue streams. One stream was unit sales and the other stream was subscription sales with average one year duration. The subscription revenues where “obviously” of higher quality than the unit sales. And hence a higher valuation multiple…
VC software: platforms vs. discovery tools (the hunter vs. the hunted)
7 January, 2014
Recently I read a post by Li Jiang from Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm GSV Capital describing the venture capital ‘stack’ discussing software to…
The holidays are upon us which may involve awkward conversations with relatives who have completely different perspectives on life, politics, and business. If you are reading this, chances are…
Anyone who has worked in M&A at a bulge bracket investment bank for a while will have spent some of their blood, sweat and tears creating infamous pitch…
UPDATE as of 7 Dec 2013: the newsfeed as described below is now live, replacing the old dashboard. This week we are going to release a redesign of the dashboard. A single newsfeed will aggregate all important information in customised form. This one unified feed will show: Personalised recommendations of new companies and funds to track Public news about companies you are tracking Updates from founders of companies you are…
Seed capital funding sources: personal savings, friends & family
1 December, 2013
Last week Fundable came with a cool infographic about “Where startup funding really comes from” showing some interesting stats form the U.S.. Presumably the data is about seed capital and…
VCs still mostly use low-tech tools to manage their deal-flow
15 November, 2013
The dealroom.co presentation we gave at the NOAH Conference on November 13 can be viewed online here via Slideshare VC’s still mostly use low-tech tools to discover new companies…
Over 80% of companies on Dealroom.co are NOT fundraising
6 November, 2013
So you might wonder, what are these companies doing on Dealroom.co? They are just there passively gathering a growing group of tech investors who track the company to receive…
Naturally many people asked us how last week’s launch went. So here are some initial stats. Since Wednesday 23 October we saw 1,624 unique visitors, spending on average 4:47 minutes…
How to promote your fundraising campaign (for startups)
27 October, 2013
Are you a startup using Dealroom for fundraising? Then this article has some basic but important points about how to use Dealroom to your advantage. Make sure your company…