Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

According to the International Business Innovation Association ( InBIA ), there are over 2,200 of these locations worldwide, and new online versions springing up all over the place, like Founders Space in Silicon Valley. Direct seed funding, for a share of the equity, and introductions to investors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2019

This is another very popular website for raising equity or debt investments for startups. Since its founding in 2000, its members have invested over $800 million dollars in over 800 companies in technology, consumer products, healthcare/life sciences, real estate and other segments with high growth potential.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2014

Examples of some leaders in this space include Ron Conway in Silicon Valley and Brian Cohen , chairman of the New York Angels, who each may have over 500 startups in their portfolio. It’s the right way to get money without giving up too much equity or control of your business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2016

According to the National Business Incubator Association ( NBIA ), there are over 7,000 of these locations worldwide, and new online versions springing up all over the place, like Founders Space in Silicon Valley. Direct seed funding, for a share of the equity, and introductions to investors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

This is another very popular website for raising equity or debt investments for startups. Since its founding in 2000, its members have invested over $400 million in companies in technology, consumer products, healthcare/life sciences, real estate and other segments with high growth potential.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2017

This is another very popular website for raising equity or debt investments for startups. Since its founding in 2000, its members have invested over $800 million dollars in over 800 companies in technology, consumer products, healthcare/life sciences, real estate and other segments with high growth potential.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

Or, as my friend Marc Andreessen might say, Software Eats the Private Equity World. While a flood of new VCs came into existence during the late 90’s internet boom, many had difficulty raising new funds after the crashes of 2000-2001 and 2008 , and as a result significantly fewer fund managers exist now compared to a decade ago.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

5:01) Brian's thoughts on the human dimension to his approach and how that sets him apart in Silicon Valley. (6:06) 59:03) The need for creativity, intuition and compassion in Silicon Valley and business. (1:00:23) 59:03) The need for creativity, intuition and compassion in Silicon Valley and business. (1:00:23)

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2013

This is another very popular website for raising equity or debt investments for startups. Since its founding in 2000, its members have invested over $400 million in companies in technology, consumer products, healthcare/life sciences, real estate and other segments with high growth potential.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

When it comes to founders, Texas has jewelry mogul, Kendra Scott; Mavericks owner, Mark Cuban of Shark Tank; Whitney Wolfe Herd of Bumble; video game developer, John Carmack; Vista Equity Partners Founder, Robert Smith; Michael Dell of Dell Technologies; and now Elon Musk of SpaceX and Tesla! After more than eight years?—?they’ve

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The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 27, 2014

Recently I’ve been hearing a lot that there is a new bubble in Silicon Valley. Firstly growth in investment is far slower now than it was then, and secondly at $8bn per quarter total investments now are less than half the Q1 2000 peak. People are worried that it will burst and we will feel the effects over here.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 12, 2009

I liked the Friday, August 7 Wall Street Journal editorial, Washington vs. Silicon Valley , but it does not go far enough. Between 2001 and 2008 mergers and acquisitions (M&A) accounted for 87% of venture-backed company exits, up from an average of 44% in between 1992 and 2000.

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The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

At the same time we have seen the start-up ecosystems in New York, London and Berlin emerge as meaningful competitors to Silicon Valley. Those VCs were nearly all situated in Silicon Valley and most companies couldn’t get very far without going to them. It’s no coincidence that these two developments have come together.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

They’re looking to be paid properly in the context of the overall salary structure, including cash, benefits, and equity, and to be paid commensurate with performance. That will keep the Silicon Valley wags buzzing for some time to come. What will most upset them is what they perceive as unfair treatment.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Wintegra, founded in 2000, has 165 employees with the majority of its R&D development team located in Ra’anana, Israel, and Austin, Texas. iSkoot, founded in 2005, has an office in Silicon Valley and an R&D center, which employs half the company’s workforce, in Bet Shemesh, Israel.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2010

But there are also problems / risks: - the funding environment might change dramatically – there may never be a next round (see: March 2000, September 11, 2001 and September 2008). - I’ve even heard people repeat this bullsh*t Silicon Valley mantra about “failing fast&# which is horse puckey. add a buffer.

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finance.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 21, 2012

Term Sheet The latest on private equity, M&A, deals and movements — from Wall Street to Silicon Valley. Almost all of them would be characterized as venture capital, with a few exceptions for funds managed by The Blackstone Group ( BX ), Providence Equity Partners and Spectrum Equity Investors.

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Gust

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Valuable lessons learned from Andy’s personal experience venture investing in Silicon Valley. Fortunately there is now good data on angel returns in Silicon Valley and nationally, and while more research is certainly needed, the data suggest that angel investors can and often do make money.

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The Entrepreneurial Mind

JUNE 18, 2011

The explanation could be tied to the fact that the financial sector has sucked up so much talent that might have otherwise done something useful in Silicon Valley or in other entrepreneurial hubs. useful in Silicon Valley or in other entrepreneurial hubs." The credit crunch has exacerbated the problem.

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Altgate

APRIL 28, 2012

Since 2000, I’ve been collecting information about startups, including how much founders, their lieutenants, and their employees get paid. The big difference is in equity: Startup CEOs who are not founders get 6.2 times as much equity as the lowest-paid member of their team. But when it comes to pay, you need data.

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www.noamwasserman.com

MARCH 26, 2012

Since 2000, I’ve been collecting information about startups, including how much founders, their lieutenants, and their employees get paid. The big difference is in equity: Startup CEOs who are not founders get 6.2 times as much equity as the lowest-paid member of their team. But when it comes to pay, you need data.

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Sarah also points to the vast global wealth that has to get allocated somewhere as well as a small bump in long term average returns, now that the generally terrible performance of funds from the 2000-2002 time frame (after the tech bubble of the late 90s crashed) no longer factor in to 10 year returns.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Ideally you can pay them based + equity so that you’ll get their attention and focus on the project. I have 2 options: set up a new startup or share my idea with google (or maybe another big silicon valley’s company). How can we attract attention from investors and press in silicon valley without moving there?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 12, 2020

Maybe you want to set aside one percent of your equity for charity, or maybe you want to give some of your profits away, or maybe you want to create a nonprofit, or maybe you want to. When I was younger, when I first came to Silicon Valley and when I was at RISD, one of the companies that I admired, and that was one of many, was Apple.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 13, 2012

Valuable lessons learned from Andy’s personal experience venture investing in Silicon Valley. Fortunately there is now good data on angel returns in Silicon Valley and nationally, and while more research is certainly needed, the data suggest that angel investors can and often do make money.

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The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 24, 2012

As a result, commentators like Alan Patrick are asking whether we are seeing the end of Silicon Valley as we know it. The reality is that we have been dealing with a market failure to provide liquidity to investors in late-stage companies for most of the time since the internet bubble burst in March 2000. Here’s why.

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Business Plan Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2013

4) The Startup Conference - It is an annual conference that takes place in Silicon Valley. It is more of a social networking for raising equity. 3) Keiretsu Forum - Founded in 2000, it claims to be the largest angel investor network in the world. Similar to Startup Weekend, this is for growing as an entrepreneur.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 21, 2011

Capital Markets Advisory Partners cleaves the demand for pre-public VC-backed equities into two worlds: “Demand Pull (Buzz) and Supply Push (No Buzz) companies. For me Bubble will always be inexorably linked to what went down in 1999 and 2000 in the internet sector. It is intentional. I do not think we are in a Bubble per se.”.

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The Equity Kicker

MARCH 17, 2015

Over the last fifteen years that has become accepted best practice.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Bates: Josh, it reminds me of when I was doing web sites back in the day in 2000 and 1998 and instead of going and being able to buy a shopping cart you had to code the shopping cart from scratch. We’re building a True SaaS company in Boise, Idaho, not in Silicon Valley or not in New York. Are you going for private equity?

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 8, 2019

In 2000, she co-founded The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which has since grown into the world’s largest private charitable organization. Gender equity lifts everyone.”. While Melinda was writing about development efforts in Senegal, she could just as easily have been talking about Silicon Valley.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

Coupled with my participating preferred from 1999 and 2000 I had more than $55 million of liquidation preferences. I’m assuming this in Silicon Valley, LA or similar locations. In my first company I had to raise money in April 2001 or die. Basic needs vary by location and personal circumstances (e.g.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

declined Microsoft’s offer (summer 2000) to be the first enterprise software company with a.NET product (a Microsoft employee came back from a follow-up meeting with Allen and said “He reminds me of a lot of CEOs of companies that we’ve worked with… that have gone bankrupt.”). During this year they. Company: Go.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

We discussed NY vs. Silicon Valley and NY vs. Boston. Competition: Chegg (has raised $144 in debt and equity)—estimated by Steven Carpenter ( TechCrunch ) to be 10x more unique visitors than BookRenter (during peak book renting seasons) with nearly $140mm in revenues for 2010. We also discussed having distributed teams (e.g.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

I’d like to explain as best I can my opinion on what is going on because most of what I hear from entrepreneurs is not only wrong but is reminiscent of what I heard in 1997-2000. In the case of startups the “buyer” is the VC looking to part cash for “purchasing” equity in your startup. What hogwash.

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