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Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 20, 2016
Business credentials and functional coverage. Even if your product is a technological marvel, I look for balanced strength on the team in finance, marketing and operations. Investor focus is on facilitating the scaling of a startup, after you have proven the business model. Team members have investor relationships.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 22, 2011
Responses ranged from, “hey, they’re in a HUGE market&# to “it is an amazing company and their technology rocks.&# Or worse yet they may never get financed. Raise at “ the top end of normal &# but not so high that future financings in a corrected market become impossible. Have a cushion.
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K9 Ventures
SEPTEMBER 8, 2015
After the acquisition of SneakerLabs, he served as the Vice-President of Interactive Technologies for E.piphany. There are three forms in which a company can have something new and unique: 1) New technology (the most common form, examples are Twilio, Coin, Occipital). New Technology or New Market, meaning no “me too” ideas.
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 14, 2009
Posted on September 14, 2009 by steveblank Over the last 30 years Wall Street’s appetite for technology stocks have changed radically – swinging between unbridled enthusiasm to believing they’re all toxic. Large companies were acquiring technology startups just to get in the game at the same absurd prices.
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 19, 2009
I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. Distributed version control model – first in the industry like ours and we are filing patents. Page 4: Business Model. I look forward to the next phase of our business. Page 3: Competition. Page 5: Financials. Aren’t they tired of this ritual?
Scalable Startup
AUGUST 26, 2014
Drupal was launched in 2001, and Acquia started in 2007. Red Hat was one of the first of these types of companies bridging open source with big finance, leveraging Linux support into a profitable business, also leveraging the enterprise. They kind of invented this business model. Acquia, Inc.
ReadWriteStart
NOVEMBER 5, 2019
These results were obtained after the following rounds of financing of more than 1000 technology companies in the United States. Only 46% of these companies were able to raise enough for the second round of financing. Where you can turn when you need financing quickly. Having a good product but a wrong business model.
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