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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