Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Instead the business press dumped on the founders for “selling out.” Many founders mentioned this as a reason not to incorporate or grow their companies in Finland. And what’s great for the mass of society – a government safety net verging on the ultimate nanny state – makes it impossible to fail.

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Finland Naming Russia Government 324

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

People are even talking about “decacorns" -- investable companies with net worth now exceeding $10 billion -- like Dropbox and Pinterest. Ron Conway , of SV Angels, and Reid Hoffman , LinkedIn's founder, are names often mentioned in this category. Sweat equity. Equity crowdfunding. Could your startup be the next one?

Software Review 120

Software Review Sweat Equity Accredited Investor Angel Investor 120

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2014

Entrepreneurs who require funding for their startup have long counted on self-accredited high net worth individuals (“angels”) to fill their needs, after friends and family, and before they qualify for institutional investments (“VCs”). All startups always need more money. They will need more money.

Angel Investor 278

Angel Investor Angel Groups Accredited Investor IRR 278

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 25, 2012

Yet, I find that startup founders often fixate on one or two sources, often to the detriment of their business. A startup incubator is a company, university, or other organization which provides resources for equity to nurture young companies, helping them to survive and grow during the startup period when they are most vulnerable.

Technical Review 257

Technical Review Bootstrapping Venture Capital Incubator 257

The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

I wrote the post below for Crowdcube , one of the UK’s leading equity crowdfuding sites. Both of these schemes use the tax code to make it more attractive for high-net-worth individuals to invest in startups. I could give lots of examples but perhaps the best is the way we work with solo-founders.

Early Stage 119

Early Stage Development Team Review Technical Review Software Review 119

David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

This structure offers some of the benefits of traditional equity VC, without some of the negatives of equity VC. I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. For background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control.

Revenue 60

Revenue Technical Review Software Review Equity 60

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Techventure 2011 – one of Asia’s topmost events for the venture capital community to engage with the latest technology entrepreneurs organized by Asiasons WFG and presented by National Research Foundation (NRF) and Singapore Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (SVCA) – will celebrate its 15th year on October 13 and 14.

Singapore 162

Singapore Private Equity Asia Venture Capital 162

Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

When I started Version One Ventures in 2012, every experienced VC shared the same rule of thumb: we had to return 3x net consistently to stay in business (i.e. 3x the invested capital net of fees over a period of about ten years for a net IRR in the low twenties). The chart below shows the numbers as of June 30, 2021. . .

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Venture Capital IRR Private Equity Seed Stage 201

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2013

Bootstrapping avoids all the cost, pain, and distractions of finding angels or VCs, and allows you to keep control and all your hard-earned equity for yourself. Most startup founders already do this, rather than take a salary, to improve their offering. Take little to no net profit. Reinvest gross profit. Act big, behave small.

Equity 241

Equity Bootstrapping Startup Merger 241

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2011

Yet, I find that startup founders often fixate on one or two sources, often to the detriment of their business. A startup incubator is a company, university, or other organization which provides resources for equity to nurture young companies, helping them to survive and grow during the startup period when they are most vulnerable.

Technical Review 233

Technical Review Bootstrapping Startup Venture Capital 233

Gust

APRIL 11, 2014

Let’s get right down to business: Dilution of founders’ and other early shareholders’ equity in startups is frequently a subject of intense interest and debate. Before, it might have net assets that are near zero. Expert commentators including David S. What’s wrong with this picture?

Dilution 162

Dilution Equity Pre-Money Valuation Prospectus 162

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2015

Entrepreneurs who require funding for their startup have long counted on self-accredited high net worth individuals (“angels”) to fill their needs, after friends and family, and before they qualify for institutional investments (“VCs”). All startups always need more money. They will need more money.

Angel Investor 120

Angel Investor Angel Groups Accredited Investor IRR 120

Gust

JUNE 17, 2012

Yet, I find that startup founders often fixate on one or two sources, often to the detriment of their business. A startup incubator is a company, university, or other organization which provides resources for equity to nurture young companies, helping them to survive and grow during the startup period when they are most vulnerable.

Technical Review 164

Technical Review Bootstrapping Venture Capital Incubator 164

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Metrics like Return on Net Assets, Return on Capital and Internal Rate of Return are the guiding stars of the board and CEO. Today billions of dollars that companies could have invested in innovation are sitting in the hands of private equity funds. Companies horde cash and squeeze the most revenue and margin from the money they use.

Private Equity 325

Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property 325

YoungUpstarts

MAY 27, 2013

Shanghai, China-based SeedAsia was officially launched in mid May as Asia’s first online equity funding platform for Asia-based technology startups. “We envision SeedAsia as a thoroughly mainstream investment platform for high technology startup companies based in Asia”, says SeedAsia co-founder Tom Russell.

Asia 147

Asia Equity Accredited Investor China 147

Berkonomics

AUGUST 3, 2023

Some businesses require very little capital and the founder can self-finance the enterprise and retain 100% of its ownership and control from ignition through liquidity event (startup through sale). Venture, private equity and more: Here we lump a large number of investor classes into one.

Private Equity 118

Private Equity Valuation Cap Table Accredited Investor 118

ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

Where lead generation casts a wide net, ABM uses a spear to target and catch the best fish. To return to our earlier analogy, it’s using a net to catch large schools of fish. As CXL founder Peep Laja notes in his CRO agency masterclass : “…it’s permission-based marketing. They’re coming to find you.

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Lead Generation Marketing Sales Cycle Campaign 94

YoungUpstarts

JULY 24, 2020

Apart from being an actress in the famous Keeping Up with the Kardashians reality TV show, Kylie Jenner is also an entrepreneur whose net worth is $I billion. billion net worth. The Ferd Company has investments in Nordic Stock Exchange and has handsome private equity. At the age of 30, Evan Spiel’s net worth of 2.4.

Private Equity 130

Private Equity Cofounder .Net Social Media 130

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 1, 2010

Yet, I find that startup founders often fixate on one or two sources, often to the detriment of their business. A startup incubator is a company, university, or other organization which provides resources for equity to nurture young companies, helping them to survive and grow during the startup period when they are most vulnerable.

Technical Review 149

Technical Review Bootstrapping Startup Venture Capital 149

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2019

To refresh your memory, angel investors are typically high net worth individuals, accredited by the SEC and willing to invest their own money in a high-potential startup for a share of the ownership. I think it’s great to have more options, but I still see each one having a place, so don’t be too quick to limit your alternatives.

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Non-disclosure Agreement Angel Investor Bootstrapping SEC 299

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

They are high net worth individuals who are also accredited investors. The requirement for accredited investors either $200,000 in annual income or over $1,000,000 net worth. Getting to meet the founders and investing early is a lot more fun than trading stocks at an online brokerage. Angel investors.

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Accredited Investor Angel Investor Initial Public Offering Due Diligence 90

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

They netted more on that deal than Fordham has in it's whole endowment (but still, go Rams!). You just don't wind up with $25 million to name a dorm unless you've gotten equity upside in something. Give them that and they'll decide on their own to be a founder. Support the student club ecosystem.

Incubator 118

Incubator .Net Cofounder Software Developers 118

David Teten

MAY 9, 2012

The National Association of Investment Companies (NAIC) is the trade association representing women and diverse private equity and venture firms. Founded in 1970, NAIC firms invest in venture (early stage/later stage) and private equity (growth/buyout/mezzanine/distressed/secondary funds). domestic market.

Venture Capital 154

Venture Capital Programming Accredited Investor New York 154

keen.io

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

For example: Don’t accept equity compensation (stock shares) without knowing the percentage of the company you’ll own. The founders had been dropping hints that they wanted me to join them. From there, I began googling things like “first employee startup equity” and “startup offer negotiation.” Paul Graham’s Equity Equation.

Salary 50

Salary Equity Startup San Francisco 50

David Teten

JANUARY 23, 2021

For ideas, see How Executives Can Work from Home with Private Equity and Venture Capital Funds. Yohei Nakajima, Founder of Untapped.vc , said, “Before pitching LPs and building my firm, I talked with over 50 people I knew to get feedback.” . Microcredentials for the Effective Venture Capital or Private Equity Investor.

Private Equity 78

Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Software Review 78

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Although some founders take venture capital in exchange for equity, that’s not the only way to do it. To learn more about the pros and cons of venture capital — and founders’ funding alternatives — I caught up with Mark McKee. Mark McKee : Most first-time founders I’ve met don’t, frankly. Why or why not?

Venture Capital 105

Venture Capital Equity SBA Finance 105

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

LP’s who invest in funds are typically university endowments, public & private pension funds, insurance companies, large corporations and very high net worth individuals called “family offices.&# To give you an indication of how bad, for example, university endowments are suffering check out this chart. VC will shrink.

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LP Technical Review Early Stage Silicon Valley 311

Hunter Walker

JULY 18, 2021

All in all it worked out fine, driven primary by some fortunate acquisitions to companies like Microsoft, Pinterest and Facebook, the latter two in pre-IPO equity which grew substantially prior to their public listings. I never really tracked IRR or net returns, but I did pay close attention to ‘lessons learned.’

Cap Table 140

Cap Table IRR Angel Investor IPO 140

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 1, 2013

Considering that the co-founders wasn’t too sure in 2011 when the incubator started if they could get enough quality raw startups in the Southeast Asia region to make the program work, this number seems astonishing. Other nations made up less than 1% of applications each.

Singapore 243

Singapore Programming Asia Incubator 243

Up and Running

APRIL 2, 2015

The need for collateral also means that most small business owners have to pledge personal assets, usually house equity, to get a business loan. This includes social security numbers, net worth, details on assets and liabilities such as your home, vehicles, investment accounts, credit card accounts, auto loans, mortgages, the whole thing.

Balance Sheet 60

Balance Sheet SBA Covenant Technical Review 60

Hippoland

JANUARY 4, 2017

Equity Traditionally, investors have invested in companies to receive equity, or shares in a company. Later, if you sell the whole company to Google at say $5 per share, I will earn $500k for a net gain of $400k. The concept of equity rounds (also called priced rounds) is very straightforward. The results are binary.

Convertible Security 48

Convertible Security Equity Security Silicon Valley 48

The Startup Magazine

MARCH 22, 2019

A business angel gives an entrepreneur money in exchange for a percentage of equity in his or her business. According to Entrepreneur , most angel investors must meet the Securities Exchange Commission’s definition of an accredited investor , which means they have a net worth of $1,000,000 or more and make at least $200,000 dollars a year.

Angel Investor 123

Angel Investor Venture Capital Accredited Investor Equity 123

Eric Friedman

JANUARY 23, 2022

Running accelerator programs, investing in startups, and working directly with founders is exactly what I want to be doing with my time. The best part is that I have had countless follow up conversations and DMs getting to know founders. What equity you give early stage advisors matters. My best caveat is that I am an N of 1.

Early Stage 78

Early Stage Equity .Net Vesting 78

Hunter Walker

JANUARY 10, 2018

Over the past 20 years in San Francisco I went from negative net-worth grad student to Silicon Valley “Middle Class” (the 2%) to running a venture fund that, if we do our job, will ultimately put me in the 1% or better (in California the average annual household income of the 1% is an astounding $1.4m+). I LOVE THIS!

Silicon Valley 195

Silicon Valley San Francisco Vesting .Net 195

Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Kayak was started here in my backyard of Boston… co-founder & CTO Paul English and the product/engineering team is based here in Concord MA. Co-founder & CEO Steve Hafner and the business team are based in Norwalk, CT. 2010 Net Income: $8 million. 2010 Operating Income: $16 million. Series A Preferred.

Pre-Money Valuation 113

Pre-Money Valuation Liquidation Preference Dividend Common Stock 113

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Bootstrapping avoids all the cost, pain, and distractions of finding angels or VCs, and allows you to keep control and all your hard-earned equity for yourself. Most startup founders already do this, rather than take a salary, to improve their offering. Take little to no net profit. Reinvest gross profit. Act big, behave small.

Bootstrapping 278

Bootstrapping Startup Merger Salary 278

Berkonomics

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Let’s take a few minutes to examine the kind of equity financing available to small or early stage businesses. In most cases, these applicants for equity funding must be rooted in technology to apply to this limited discussion. All angel groups will want to see the founders in person or by Zoom at sometime early in the process.

Equity 62

Equity Finance Liquidity Event Angel Groups 62