Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The agenda ( full agenda here ) includes the following discussions: DEIS in Corporate Governance & Board DEIS in Human Resources & Talent Acquisition DEIS in Procurement DEIS in Edge Technology Product Development & Corporate Innovation DEIS in Go To Market DEIS in Venture Capital & Investment DEIS in Impact.

Equity 123

Equity Cofounder Venture Capital .Net 123

VC Cafe

JUNE 19, 2020

“Because COVID is shaking our habits and beliefs it opens the door to discussion to whether we should change our whole system,” says veteran investor Sir Ronald Cohen, chairman of the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment and the man known as “the father of British venture capital” .

Venture Capital 174

Venture Capital Global South Africa 174

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2018

These organizations, like Y Combinator , are very popular these days, and are often associated with major universities, community development organizations, or even large companies. Solicit venture capital investors. They typically look for big opportunities, needing a couple of million dollars or more, with a proven team.

Entrepreneur 240

Entrepreneur Equity Small Business Administration SBA 240

David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance.

Revenue 60

Revenue Technical Review Software Review Equity 60

abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

David Goldhill, in his enlightening book Catastrophic Care , declared: “…a guiding principle of any reform should be to put the consumer, not the insurer or the government, at the center of the system. Some members of the “urgent care” community are intelligently rebranding their services as “convenient care.”

Customer 59

Customer Technical Review Venture Capital Software Review 59

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

We worked with the Chinese government to put U.S. When people say, "Well, who could've foreseen this," well, part of, I think, is we couldn’t have foreseen exactly how bad it's been because it was hard to foresee that our government would bungle this as badly as it did. experts inside the Chinese disease-response agency.

Government 60

Government Africa America Washington 60

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2014

These organizations, like Y Combinator , are very popular these days, and are often associated with major universities, community development organizations, or even large companies. Solicit venture capital investors. They typically look for big opportunities, needing a couple of million dollars or more, with a proven team.

Entrepreneur 283

Entrepreneur Startup Equity Small Business Administration 283

online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Create a profile for me in the Journal Community. Journal Community. Over the past two years, one of the most influential venture-capital firms has turned the usual rules of start-up investing on its head. in exchange for $70,000 in venture capital and a $30,000 loan from the early venture firm.

Silicon Valley 42

Silicon Valley Founder Software Review Technical Review 42

VC Adventure

APRIL 16, 2020

Thousands of small businesses are probably gone for good because of the failure of the federal government to act quickly enough. During the Great Recession of 2008 and shortly thereafter, the net number of new firms created in the United States was negative: More companies closed than were being started.

Small Business 110

Small Business SBA United States America 110

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

These organizations, like Y Combinator , are very popular these days, and are often associated with major universities, community development organizations, or even large companies. Solicit venture capital investors. They typically look for big opportunities, needing a couple of million dollars or more, with a proven team.

Equity 120

Equity Small Business Administration SBA Syndicate 120

The Equity Kicker

MARCH 21, 2017

Five of the six largest companies in the world today were venture backed startups and just about all net new job creation comes from young companies. What we need here is government intervention. What we need here is government intervention. There are structural reasons why we’ve ended up here.

San Francisco 90

San Francisco Cap Table Angel Investor Valuation 90

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Now let me clarify — NET is a dandy language. ” Don’t get me wrong: NET on your resume isn’t an instant showstopper. But just to clarify a couple points, 24-hours into the storm: Yes,NET developers are great at what they do. And at the time,NET was the best choice for those problems.

Java 107

Java PHP Software Review Coder 107

Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

Last Friday, June 21st I sent the following message out to our community of users, colleagues, friends and supporters. So, we worked to raise capital. By the by, women donors, I recommend diversifying some of your capital distributions to reap that ROI to keep doing good… (+ this is a whole ‘nother blog post…) Undeterred.

Silicon Valley 54

Silicon Valley Startup B2C Sweat Equity 54

Up and Running

OCTOBER 29, 2014

As an independent agency of the government, the SBA partners with both public and private organizations to deliver its services, including loans. Because loan guaranty requirements and practices are dependent on the US Government, changes to policies or economic conditions may change lending terms. Community Advantage Loans .

SBA 126

SBA Puerto Rico Virgin Islands Guam 126

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

While not obvious on the surface, there has been a fundamental sea-change in the investment community that has made the incremental Unicorn investment a substantially more dangerous and complicated practice. About this same point in time, the journalists that focus specifically on the venture capital industry noted something quite profound.

IPO 40

IPO Term Sheet Silicon Valley Valuation 40

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

This single number is the key to determine your level of sales and marketing investment and is very simple to calculate by looking at a quarterly GAAP P&L: you just have to divide the annualized net gross margin added during the quarter by the sales and marketing costs of the previous quarter. Philippe Botteri. Bessemer SaaS Law # 4.

Software Review 48

Software Review North America Europe Metrics 48

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2012

This from Kate Mitchell, the former chair of the National Venture Capital Association, and current Managing Director of Scale Venture Partners. Treasury Department assembled 17 leaders of the startup business investment community, under the auspices of its Access to Capital Conference. In March 2011, the U.S.

IPO 118

IPO SEC Silicon Valley Startup 118