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...exit or on an early sale to a competitor, to a larger strategic, or even a sponsor back business, even if it's not the ultimate outcome that we had all hoped for. In some of these situations that aren't going as well, how do you think about trying to
...exit strategy pretty quickly. So just dialing back to those few areas, the folks helping in those cases are a combination of our investment team as well as our operating partners. We have just shy of 10 operating partners. And these are guys that for
They have the ability to take their money back. Then there's 50,000,000 left. They don't participate in that in some cases, or they might have participating preferred shares, which means they get their money back, then they get their percentage back.
The market's been doing backflips. Every time I look at it, it's either crashing or not. There's a ton of speculation about, you know, the tail end, the front end. Are they gonna cut rates? Are we gonna refinance? We're gonna put all that aside and j
...exit much at all but we had a successful investment going into 2011 and I just remember calling up the CEO of the business and just saying most of the management teams really start thinking about exits around this point in time. You're four or five y
...exit too. But also because our deals tend to be done directly with the start up employee, and I can talk at length about why companies actually prefer us to be working directly with their employees as opposed to with and through the companies, it goe
Four, the fund manager retires. Maybe you got a discretionary manager or the strategy experiences style drift. So if your S and P fund turns into a Bitcoin fund, There's legal or structural tax changes that have made the strategy less effective. Our
...of exits. And exits, of course, are super important for founders because if venture capitalists can give distributions to LPs, those LPs will invest in the next fund, and that next fund will invest in your startup. So here we go. Exactly. Yeah. So, f
...to ultimately exit? There's a couple of factors, Ted, that went into that. For one thing, we were getting close to the end of the continuation fund. I think we had two years left in the continuation fund. We had obviously developed a tremendous reput
...exit them very quickly. We wanna make two to five x, three to seven years, slap it into a fund, make two to two and a half x net funds, and not lose freaking money. Our loss ratios are very strong.
...exit? Of course. Yes. But it also marks the end of an era, an era where fintech narratives outpaced financial realities.
...exits were famous IPO stories. Today, IPO windows are narrow. Public market multiples are conservative. Strategic m and a is the dominant path. This doesn't mean fintechs fail. This means expectations have reset. Good businesses now aim for sustainab
Must be a better way to trade crypto. Must be a better way to find an apartment to rent or to go on vacation. Must be a better way to get a car. Must be a better way to get food to your house. So yeah. Alright, everybody. For For This Week in Startup
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