Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

David Cohen is the founder and Managing Partner of Techstars, the #1 ranked internet startup accelerator in the world. As president of Y Combinator, the hugely successful seed-stage investor/accelerator, Sam Altman has a lot of knowledge to share. But, he also has great advice on growth strategies for early-stage companies.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 13, 2014

Investors in this category are usually operating executives who have spent their entire careers in a specific industry vertical, like internet travel, for example. Cons of an investment from a Super Angel include potential lack of “value-add” because his or her time is spread so thin amongst many portfolio companies. The Domain Angel.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 7, 2013

And the JOBS (Jumpstart Our Business Startups) Act, which should go into full effect by the end of 2013, will make it even more of a game-changer by opening the door for businesses to market ownership stakes in their ventures to people over the internet. Despite this, crowdfunding has a pretty big gap to fill.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

02:06] Can you share your experience starting with an early-stage company (Hubspot) that eventually went public? [07:11] I think the net of it is it went from HubSpot teaching a business model to follow to more of a partner program where you're reselling technology. But yeah, so they definitely made a bunch of changes.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

I have to say that it has netted far more than I would have thought. Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh.

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Technical Cofounder Southern California Los Angeles CTO Hire 150

Genuine VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

Addressing both of those issues can stem from the motivations as to why someone would want to put their hard-earned cash into a risky early-stage startup in the first place. Investors in this category are usually operating executives who have spent their entire careers in a specific industry vertical, like internet travel, for example.

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Angel Investor Syndicate Syndication Early Stage 257

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Two founders have spent $200K of personal and family funds over a one year period to start the company, get a prototype site up and running, and have already generated some “buzz” in the Internet community. So what magic can the founders use to justify a $4M valuation (or even the $1M valuation) at this early stage?

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Another advantage of the early stages is that most dont have to juggle too many competing priorities. If you dont have customers, a product, investors, or a board of directors, you can pretty much stay focused on just one thing at a time. Lo, my 1032 subscribers, who are you? ScienceDaily: Corporate culture is most important.

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The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 10, 2020

Nic Brisbourne is Managing Partner at Forward Partners, the UK’s leading early-stage VC, currently supporting the UK’s next generation of AI, e-commerce and marketplace businesses. I think we differ a little from the rest of the industry, though, particularly with our focus on early stage companies. Absolutely.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Two founders have spent $200K of personal and family funds over a one year period to start the company, get a prototype site up and running, and have already generated some “buzz” in the Internet community. So what magic can the founders use to justify a $4M valuation (or even the $1M valuation) at this early stage?

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

We all know it’s better to seek good advice and have a safety net before you need it. To learn some common legal pitfalls we’d all be better off avoiding, we asked nine founders from the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) what unexpected things they found themselves needing lawyers for in the early stages of their startups.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

The people who are the lifeblood of an early-stage startup are earlyvangelists. If youre just getting negativity from someone, they are more likely a internet troll - not an earlyvangelist. They just dont need another authority figure in their life. Dont confuse passion with volume. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

Two founders have spent $200K of personal and family funds over a one year period to start the company, get a prototype site up and running, and have already generated some “buzz” in the Internet community. So what magic can the founders use to justify a $4M valuation (or even the $1M valuation) at this early stage?

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Valuation Pre-Money Valuation NPV Intellectual Property 187

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Two founders have spent $200K of personal and family funds over a one year period to start the company, get a prototype site up and running, and have already generated some “buzz” in the Internet community. So what magic can the founders use to justify a $4M valuation (or even the $1M valuation) at this early stage?

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Genuine VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

Addressing both of those issues can stem from the motivations as to why someone would want to put their hard-earned cash into a risky early-stage startup in the first place. Investors in this category are usually operating executives who have spent their entire careers in a specific industry vertical, like internet travel, for example.

Angel Investor 128

Angel Investor Syndicate Syndication Early Stage 128

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Nearly all of the ones who''d been successful went through a natural process of customer development—what we call the “empathy” stage—followed by a tight focus on stickiness, then virality, then paid acquisition, and finally scaling. That''s why the most critical attribute of early-stage product development is the ability to learn quickly.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 30, 2012

There is still abundant money available for early stage investment, but many of the rules have changed, as well as the processes for accessing these resources. The great majority of investors who did invest in “idea stage” businesses, lost fortunes when the Internet “bubble” burst at the beginning of the last decade.

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Rob Go

NOVEMBER 6, 2011

Investors who have been in the early-stage investing game for some time know that markets come and go. Second: repurcussions of this series A crunch is overblown and net-net will probably be good for the startup ecosystem. Here are a couple sub-points to hopefully bring a bit of sense to this discussion.

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Seed Stage .Net Portfolio Valuation 49

Austin Startup

OCTOBER 10, 2017

In the early days of the current internet age, the center of Dallas venture capital was the Galleria area. Jackie Kimzey , one of the early Sevin Rosen general partners, is a fellow professor on the faculty of UT Dallas with me.) just under $6 billion, respectively. But, it wasn’t knocked out, with signs of re-emergence.

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Over 13 years ago, in March of 2000, I wrote a blog post titled “ The Most Powerful Internet Metric of All. ” The key thesis was this: if an Internet company could obsess about only one metric, it should be conversion. As such, it is time to pound the table again – conversion is by far the most powerful Internet metric of all.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Scyphers , Paul O'Brien , Net Jacobsson , Chris Carella , George Godula , Frank Yu , Jess Huang , Richard Chang , Jussi Laakkonen , Ramine Darabiha , Nicola Rohrseitz , Hiten Shah , Antone Johnson , Shane Mac , Eric Kerr , Guy Malachi , Adam Smith , Clement Li , David Hua , John Smith , Glen Hellman , Benjamin Alijagi? startupcto

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

A wide net from the start, and gradual elimination of weaker solutions, makes finding the best or better solutions more likely. As a result, Toyota may take more time early on to define the solutions, but can then move more quickly toward convergence and, ultimately, production than its point-based counterparts.

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Genuine VC

MARCH 3, 2008

A notable insight here occurs if we layer the do’er construct on top two other key internet trends - the deportalization of the web and the rise of online video – from which we can gleen some interesting areas for disruptive opportunity. Almost all of the video we watch online is in receiving mode.

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Genuine VC

MARCH 3, 2008

A notable insight here occurs if we layer the do’er construct on top two other key internet trends - the deportalization of the web and the rise of online video – from which we can gleen some interesting areas for disruptive opportunity. Almost all of the video we watch online is in receiving mode.

Web 100

Web Widget Philadelphia Social Network 100

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2011

These days, we all have to rely on a few trusted sources to digest and filter information, net out the relevant messages, and steer us with links to accurate details. But with the speed of the Internet, these have become as old-fashioned as museum curators. and books for entrepreneurs like “Think and Grow Rich.”

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The Internet quickly caught up and created multiple categories of in ‘ This Does Not Exist’ – from AI generated cats, landscapes, real estate, meme, etc. Music Open AI jukebox – a neural net that generates music, including rudimentary singing, as raw audio in a variety of genres and artist styles.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Audio Video 199

Ben's Blog

MAY 15, 2020

Finally, we’ll zoom out and assess the big picture: how various categories of company may be impacted long-term, how this crisis compares to 2008 (and what that means for early-stage founders), and the industries and business models that are now prime for growth. The data’s clear. Mobile isn’t growing on a fast rate.

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Founder Conversion Technical Review Cash Position 36

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 4, 2009

Thanks to those of you who were willing to fill out the survey, I learned my net promoter score (about 25) as well as some clear other segmentation insights: about 80% of you are founders of or work at a startup, you read many of the same other blogs, and many of you would like to engage with Lessons Learned in formats and venues beyond this blog.

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San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 68

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Meyler Capital is taking the analytical rigor of modern internet marketing and applying it to fund marketing. . Data companies focused on early-stage startups include Aingel , fundsUP , Preseries , PredictLeads , and Sploda. The Pocket Negotiator is very early-stage attempt to aid in the negotiating process itself.

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Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

He is also co-founder and Managing Partner of Deciens Capital, an early stage investment fund. If you aren’t doing things which are sufficiently crazy, you’ll never generate a 5x net fund. Most venture funds return at best 1x net over 10 years. Today, we are lucky to welcome Dan Kimerling of Deciens Capital.

Silicon Valley 88

Silicon Valley Venture Capital Cofounder Africa 88

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

The “Infrastructure Phase” of the Internet … Before we had an Internet startup explosion we needed infrastructure which spawned the original tech startup community in Silicon Valley. The “Three C’s” of the Internet … The infrastructure and web services phases of the Internet are built.

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Silicon Valley Kansas City Startup Venture Capital 390

David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

With a unique vision for starting and successfully managing innovative companies, he is the Managing Partner of Social Leverage, a holding company that invests in early stage web businesses. Michael was the lead research analyst for the IPOs of Internet companies like UUNET, Yahoo!, He joined Goldman Sachs & Co.

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Technical Review Technology North Carolina Switzerland 128

Startup Company Lawyer

MAY 26, 2012

The Internet has made it easier for individuals and organizations to raise money for charitable purposes, political campaigns, artists seeking support from fans and various other projects. Crowdfunding Prior to the JOBS Act. Crowdfunding is not a new concept. More than $500,000: Audited financial statements.

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SEC Securities and Exchange Commission Accredited Investor Private Placement 58

trada.com

APRIL 7, 2010

He noted that Chris Dixon ( @cdixon ) of Hunch tweeted, “New early-stage start up trend: get big quietly, so you don’t tip off potential competitors.&# They want to interact and in these days of public comments and no-introduction necessary internet bravado, they will simply send you an email.

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Rob Go

JANUARY 10, 2017

FYI – this is tuned towards an individual who is still in the relatively early stages of their career. This requires that you go one or two layers deeper than someone who is smart and has done a few hours of internet research. I have a somewhat standard response, but realized that I never put it into a blog post.

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Technical Review Due Diligence Deal Flow Early Stage 28

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

What all these teachers had in common were two things: they were technology early adopters that were willing to take a chance on a new software product, and they all had similar problems organizing their classes and students. Lo, my 1032 subscribers, who are you? ScienceDaily: Corporate culture is most important.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Share this: net c# development django java language php software Were often asked by entrepreneurs which language their startups should adopt when developing their technology. These are Java (from Sun),NET (from Microsoft), and three Open Source options: PHP, Python and Ruby. Java stands alone from the four others.

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