| What Numbers Do VC's Look At? | January 16, 2002 |
Heidi Roizen
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Draper Fisher Jurvetson |
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Lecture |
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| Video 24 of 25 from this talk |
- 01:13Introduction: Mobius Venture Capital
- 01:08Investing Climate in 2002
- 03:08Why Be an Entrepreneur Now?
- 00:29Working with Venture Capitalists
- 01:37What Has Changed in Today's Investment Culture?
- 01:55An Attractive Team Has Youth AND Grey Hair
- 02:21Bootstrapping: Still a Great Way to Raise Money
- 01:10The Advantages of Profit
- 01:09Raising Venture Capital Today: Barbell Syndrome
- 02:12A Common Mistake: Treating VC money as Your Own
- 01:07Pay Back Time
- 02:46VC's Are Open For Business
- 03:41VC Startup Relationship
- 02:08Small and Large Funds
- 01:58Watching How People Handled the Downturn
- 00:48What Do the LP's Believe?
- 00:42Timing is Everything
- 02:27Why Take Venture Capital?
- 01:45Venture Capital vs. Corporate Funding
- 01:54The M&A Market
- 03:32Picking vs. Running
- 02:20Successful Teams and Ventures
- 01:08The Best Money: Customer Money
- 01:51What Numbers Do VC's Look At?
- 03:39Tips For a Good Pitch
Description
Roizen believes that in the VC business, most companies fail. Therefore, the rare successes of their portfolio companies has to be big. Often you hear 10X, i.e. you should see 10 times your capital coming back, she says. It is also calculated as dollars in, dollars out, or internaI rate of return (IRR). The Mobius fund today has an IRR of 90%. Roizen notes you will almost never hear a VC use IRR.
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