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This 3-letter acronym describes the selling of shares publicly and usually means a company has reached a milestone of success.
What is "IPO"?
The former CEO of Silicon Valley Bank who attended our class as a speaker on the subject of culture
Who is Ken Wilcox?
This ridesharing app was the focus of our case study on culture and leadership
What is Uber?
This type of investor typically comes before the Series A to help a company get off the ground.
What is "Seed or Angel"?
This classmate's family runs a handicrafts business in India.
Who is Musa Khan?
When a company sells to other companies, we refer to them as B2 _ ?
What is "B2B"?
These two CHATBOT founders split after learning they really don't trust each other?
Who are Ryan & Ben?
This company, mentioned frequently in class, is a B2B SaaS AI for accounting and bookkeeping.
This early stage short-form investment document was created by YCombinator.
What is a SAFE note?
This classmate is an amateur boxer.
Who is Eleonore Luquin?
This type of company provides software to customers on a subscription basis.
What is SaaS?
This investor uses structured data to make investments versus "gut feel"
Who is Jonathan Hsu from Tribe Capital ?
This startup originated in Africa for blood transfusion delivery via drones.
What is Zipline?
The exact name of the book written by Ken Wilcox that is required for this class
This classmate appeared on a televised weather forecast in France?
Who is Victor Chamfeuil?
This is the term used for the first institutional round of venture capital raised by early stage startups.
What is the "Series A?"
Anthony Zhang, was the speaker in our class about growth marketing from this wine investing company?
This file sharing company was the subject of our case study on building sales teams
What is Dropbox?
This is the 3 letter acronym for how tech companies measure how much it costs to get one new customer.
What is CAC?
This classmate broke their leg at a CAL football game.
Who is Angele Dutilleul?
Venture Capital investors get money from these types of investors to invest in portfolio companies.
Who are "Limited Partners"?
This venture capitalist spoke to us about seed investing and also worked at Silicon Valley Bank in China
Who is Ming Yeh?
This company provides auto retail software was acquired by Upstart in 2021
What is Prodigy?
This SaaS metric measures how much a company uses in cash for new generated revenue
What is Burn Multiple?
This classmate is on the CAL Rowing Team.
Who is Nathan Phelps?