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by asanwal 12y ago
The investor who has really done well with YC investments is actually Sequoia Capital. Have early-stage stakes in most of YCs "unicorns" http://www.cbinsights.com/blog/y-combinator-unicorns/
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by asanwal 12y ago
Yeah - our competitors don't seem to like us. Go figure :) Note: CEO of CB Insights
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by asanwal 12y ago
Ha. Our master plan is to get a Sequoia Capital portfolio company to copy us. Mu ha ha ha.
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by asanwal 12y ago
Anand, CEO of CB Insights here. Surprised to see this here again (prior discussion - http://cbi.vc/1DhMQT3 ), but if any questions, feel free to ask. I'm at a conference but will try to reply during breaks. If you'
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The best industries in tech if you want to exit right now(cbinsights.com)
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by asanwal 12y ago
I didn't post the original link. Honestly, I'd love for them to be stopped but this is the internet after all :) I, like you, am curious if YC condones this type of copying esp since the CEO admitted it on Twitter. But it's s
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by asanwal 12y ago
The CEO copied us. And admitted it. You seem to think that copying blatantly is fine. We'll agree to disagree.
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by asanwal 12y ago
The CEO of this company admits they used our design as "reference" to get something out the door quickly. Here's his tweets that admit this: http://cbi.vc/1u9KQu9
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by asanwal 12y ago
To be honest, I don't care :) And copying our work was good enough to get them into YC so guess mission accomplished. Hopefully YC doesn't condone this type of behavior. When the CEO and 11 other employees sign up for someone else
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by asanwal 12y ago
I know imitation is the sincerest form of flattery but Techlist's analytics capabilities have an uncanny resemblance to CB Insights. In addition, 12 folks from their team have signed up for our free trial since September including the
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by asanwal 12y ago
CB Insights (www.cbinsights.com/jobs) - New York, NY - fulltime We're a revenue funded (aka bootstrapped) SaaS company growing from 25 to 50 this year and are hiring across our engineering, research and biz dev teams. CB Insights
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Silicon Valley media coverage of Bitcoin has plummeted along with its price(cbinsights.com)
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2014 VC Year in Review: VC exceeds 2001 levels (110 page pdf)(cbinsights.com)
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YC's 10 most valuable alums are worth $32B(cbinsights.com)
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by asanwal 12y ago
$2M just to get started? If that is what one needs to just seed a company, then entrepreneurship has just become another career path with little risk (still get a decent salary) with a call option on some upside attached. The reality is tha
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by asanwal 12y ago
LP expectations are set by VCs. Reality is most VCs don't generate spectacular IRR (or any IRR at all) outside of the top 5%. Revenue-based financing to tech companies is one model that is quite interesting.
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by asanwal 12y ago
There are lots of tech companies that are real companies that generate revenue, cash flow, etc who've not taken outside capital. They're just not in TechCrunch. But for these tech companies, traditional banks are not good funding
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by asanwal 12y ago
CB Insights (www.cbinsights.com/jobs) - New York, NY - fulltime We're a revenue funded (aka bootstrapped) SaaS company growing from 25 to 50 this year and are hiring across our engineering, research and biz dev teams. CB Insights
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54 screwups of a startup CEO(cbinsights.com)
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by asanwal 12y ago
Totally unrelated but wanted to say that I love your comments on HN. Always insightful and straight to the point. Know your anonymous on HN but would love to hear your thoughts on emerging startup tech company funding models and which, if a
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by asanwal 12y ago
Ok. What makes it worth $50k? Know someone in this space but it's not clear what they'd actually get of value.
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by asanwal 12y ago
What are revenues? MRR/ARR?
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by asanwal 12y ago
There are a bunch. I know of a couple but don't know how good/bad they are so don't want to "recommend" anyone. But quick google search of revenue-based funding SaaS should turn them up. I've heard they genera
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by asanwal 12y ago
Great advice and solid post. Some data on how long companies typically wait between Seed and Series A rounds. The median is 349 days so raising for 18 months is smart. https://www.cbinsights.com/blog/days-between-fundi
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by asanwal 12y ago
$50M earnout just to founder/CEO if certain milestones are met. Is that size earnout typical in deals of this size? Curious.
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by asanwal 12y ago
NYC --- CB Insights (www.cbinsights.com) We're looking for many positions ( http://www.cbinsights.com/jobs ). A few are listed below: - Full Stack Dev - http://cbi.vc/1wQCbtc - Tech Industry Analyst - a
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by asanwal 12y ago
So this guy is single-handedly taking credit for establishing LA's tech scene aka Silicon Beach? I wonder what others in LA think. We work with a lot of economic dev groups and a hashtag has never come up in the top 100 things of impor
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by asanwal 12y ago
Good stuff. A few other suggestions perhaps in different verticals and some that fit within your current categories. Marketing - Inbound.org www.inbound.org - Growth Hackers www.growthhackers.com Research, VC, Startup Data - Dan Primack&#x
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by asanwal 12y ago
If you want the pdf, feel free to send me an email, and I'll send it to you. (email in profile) Note: I didn't downvote you.
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by asanwal 12y ago
We use an ESP to send the emails and sometimes, the PDF goes instantly and sometimes upto an hour. If you didn't receive for some reason, feel free to ping me directly. Email in profile.

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