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A Visual Introduction to VC Financing (2015)

144 points by robbya 7y ago

wethebestcoder 7y ago
Do most VC companies provide training or mentorship like YC? What if you're a sole engineer with a good product and a patent but no idea how to turn that into a business. Do you even need venture capital if you're just selling one thing? I don't even know how to spend $1000.
- WrtCdEvrydy 7y ago
  > how to spend $1000 It's really funny because when building something, I will often look at overall cost as one of the main motivators for doing something for a personal business.
sytse 7y ago
We recently launched a simple stock option value calculator on our jobs pages https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/people-group/global-compensation/calculator/ https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/people-group/global-compen... that has a few scenarios. I love how this calculator gives a lot more variables to try. Maybe we should link to it.
faizshah 7y ago
I really like how the visualizations are animated based on scroll waypoints. What libraries have support for that?
- floatrock 7y ago
  Author here! (neat, didn't think I'd see it submitted it here again, glad the person who dug this up found it useful!) I made this four years ago as an experiment in D3 when the scroll-to-transition style was first getting popular (think nytimes and such). All of it is basically hand-rolled D3 transitions with lots of debugging around enter/exit state... haven't looked at D3 lately so not sure if it's any easier. Charting libraries are a dime a dozen now, but these days when I need some easy charting, I like the D3+React bindings from VictoryCharts https://formidable.com/open-source/victory/docs/victory-chart https://formidable.com/open-source/victory/docs/victory-char... Kinda hard to wrap your head around how they do transitions in react-eese, but well, so is raw D3...
- whytaka 7y ago
  https://d3js.org https://d3js.org
shadowmore 7y ago
Was just looking for a refresher on cap tables and the like, and being a visual learner, this is great. Another tool some might find useful, which I was introduced to during YC Startup School: http://growth.tlb.org http://growth.tlb.org Startup growth calculator that helps get a basic feel for funding requirements and runway length. Really helps when it's visualized like that.
TuringNYC 7y ago
@robbya - Really enjoyed your visualization, time-lined interactive visualations like these are great! Quick suggestion: You mention "Venture Makr" at the end but dont provide any way to capture my email and no way to be notified of Venture Makr's launch.
- robbya 7y ago
  I believe @floatrock is the author for this.

144 points by robbya 7y ago

Do most VC companies provide training or mentorship like YC? What if you're a sole engineer with a good product and a patent but no idea how to turn that into a business. Do you even need venture capital if you're just selling one thing? I don't even know how to spend $1000.

WrtCdEvrydy 7y ago
> how to spend $1000 It's really funny because when building something, I will often look at overall cost as one of the main motivators for doing something for a personal business.

sytse 7y ago

We recently launched a simple stock option value calculator on our jobs pages https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/people-group/global-compensation/calculator/ https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/people-group/global-compen... that has a few scenarios. I love how this calculator gives a lot more variables to try. Maybe we should link to it.

faizshah 7y ago

I really like how the visualizations are animated based on scroll waypoints. What libraries have support for that?

floatrock 7y ago
Author here! (neat, didn't think I'd see it submitted it here again, glad the person who dug this up found it useful!) I made this four years ago as an experiment in D3 when the scroll-to-transition style was first getting popular (think nytimes and such). All of it is basically hand-rolled D3 transitions with lots of debugging around enter/exit state... haven't looked at D3 lately so not sure if it's any easier. Charting libraries are a dime a dozen now, but these days when I need some easy charting, I like the D3+React bindings from VictoryCharts https://formidable.com/open-source/victory/docs/victory-chart https://formidable.com/open-source/victory/docs/victory-char... Kinda hard to wrap your head around how they do transitions in react-eese, but well, so is raw D3...
whytaka 7y ago
https://d3js.org https://d3js.org

shadowmore 7y ago

Was just looking for a refresher on cap tables and the like, and being a visual learner, this is great. Another tool some might find useful, which I was introduced to during YC Startup School: http://growth.tlb.org http://growth.tlb.org Startup growth calculator that helps get a basic feel for funding requirements and runway length. Really helps when it's visualized like that.

TuringNYC 7y ago

@robbya - Really enjoyed your visualization, time-lined interactive visualations like these are great! Quick suggestion: You mention "Venture Makr" at the end but dont provide any way to capture my email and no way to be notified of Venture Makr's launch.

robbya 7y ago
I believe @floatrock is the author for this.