Funding Scale and Growth: Beyond the Series B Round - Growth Hacking Unlocked

When you think about funding, there's a lot of stages as I mentioned last in the last lesson in this lesson we're talking about the later stage a series D, E, F, H, late stage, M and A, IPO, leveraged buyouts, secondary offering. RESOURCES & LINKS: ____________________________________________ Download the Assets mentioned in this course: https://neilpatel.com/training/ ____________________________________________ When you think about a lot of the large companies out there there's a lot of successful people who ended up making money through their startups, many cases, they raised money and then they ended up selling or they use leverage or took IPO, like you look at the GoPro guy, right? He went public, he's been on Shark Tank a few times. When you think about series A, B and C rounds that are typically smaller these days I'm seeing A rounds a lot of times around 10, 15 even 20 plus million dollars. In series A funding, investors are not just looking for great ideas. They're looking for traction. So you need to make sure that you have a money making business. And the average estimated capital raise for a series B round is 32 million and series C rounds typically are focused on scaling as well series B. Now with series D, E and F, you know people are like, alright, you got a real business, you're headed towards IPO, you want to expand before going public or selling and there's not a lot of companies that make it to series D, E and F. Just look at UI path. When UI path first started raising money, you know much lower rounds and then later on, the valuation started going high and at one point before they went public, people were like wait, their last private round may be higher than the valuation of when they're going public. Now, eventually it all sorted out and their investors did fine but that just shows you how much pent up demand there is. You all know that we work example as well in which we work at higher valuations in the private market than they did in