from acceleration to growth
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Industry Hour presented by Jessica Jabr
From Acceleration to Growth
Source http://www.startupcommons.org/startup-key-stages.html
1- ValidationDoes Our Solution Make Sense?- User Growth / Revenue- Attract additional resources: equity / revenue- Clear market validation (Product Market Fit)
How Can We Do This Better?- Process / Product Improvement
2- Scaling- Growing & measurable user base- And / Or market traction- Growing target market- (Maybe) Significant funding
*Can We Leverage Our Process for Fast Acquisition?
3- Growth*Can We Leverage Our Process for Fast Acquisition?
- Achieved growth- Expected continual growth- Acquiring resources easily- Founders exit or continue business as usual
Regional deals over the years
Funding / Raising MoneySeries A, B, C... = Indication of ticket size Regional ticket size range: 25K to 1.5M
Seed also varies from 2K to 25K
Avg. Investment Size by regional VCs
$1M $235K
$1.5M
$525K
$100K - $500K $500K - $2M
Regional Venture Capital Firms
4- Exit Strategies
I.IPOII.AcquisitionIII.Keep the business
I.IPO (initial public offering)First Sale of a company’s shares to the publicListing the shares on a stock exchange
II. Acquisitions
Japan's Cookpad acquired Lebanon's Shahiya for $13.5M
Rocket Internet's Food Group Eats Up Talabat For $170M
Highlights to look forMost investments are series A, Very few B,
Souq.com is CFollow up funding by VCs(MEVP raises its money from banks circular
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