Hunter Walker

JANUARY 15, 2016

Hunter Walk: I know you started Dogster, one of the seminal early online communities, but I don’t know Dogster’s founding story. Ted Rheingold: In 2003 I owned and ran a web service business called OneMatchFire , and made a number of image sharing products for customers (or as side projects). How did the site come about?

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Me: Raising convertible notes as a seed round is one of the biggest disservices our industry has done to entrepreneurs since 2001-2003 when there were “full ratchets” and “multiple liquidation preferences” – the most hostile terms anybody found in term sheets 10 years ago. It’s like we need a finance 101 course for entrepreneurs.

Liquidation Preference 153

Liquidation Preference Valuation Term Sheet Stock 153

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Was Paul Graham right in his “high resolution” financing post? You rarely find full ratchets in early-stage deals any more. I thought we got rid of that s**t in 2003? Nobody I know accepts multiple liquidation preferences in early-stage deals. Some thoughts on raising angel money.

Ratchet 354

Ratchet Liquidation Preference Equity Stock 354

Professor VC

JUNE 6, 2008

Hvide analyzed 6,800 companies that started between 1996 and 2003 in Norway. Some conclusions were that the founders role is more important in the very early stage in the creation of the horse and as the visionary and as the company moves beyond this stage, becomes replaceable. This leaves a relatively small sample.

San Jose 28

San Jose Technical Review Norway Angel Investor 28

reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Friendster was at its height, strongly battling MySpace after raising its premium round from Benchmark and Kleiner in the fall of 2003. You may happen to emphasize the right points that pique an investor’s interest, but you shouldn’t leave your financing up to chance. Second, understand the broader financing climate.

Entrepreneur 111

Entrepreneur Revenue Viral Networking 111

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Or the founders have taken on a small amount of seed financing, just enough to get them into the market. If our aim was to raise financing and employ these people directly, we’d have burnt through $5-7 million before launch. There are a couple of good reasons a company should consider bootstrapping its market entry.

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Bootstrapping Offshore Startup EC2 41

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

So, please note the TAM Analysis is a vitally important aspect of building any financing strategy. He needs to generate enough profit so that he can grow organically and build his business systematically, and without expecting a lot of outside financing. Raymond is wondering why he cannot attract financing.

Marketing 52

Marketing Bootstrapping Incubator Angel Investor 52

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

So, please note the TAM Analysis is a vitally important aspect of building any financing strategy. He needs to generate enough profit so that he can grow organically and build his business systematically, and without expecting a lot of outside financing. Raymond is wondering why he cannot attract financing.

Marketing 52

Marketing Bootstrapping Incubator Angel Investor 52

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. He holds a Master of Science in Finance from the London Business School and a Bachelor of Arts from Tulane University.

Technical Review 128

Technical Review Technology North Carolina Switzerland 128

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. And trust me, if you’re early stage you DO want to meet Bryce. He’s awesome for early-stage entrepreneurs. Meet early. I’ve raised seed rounds and A-D rounds. Not so much.

Developer 366

Developer Silicon Valley PR Las Vegas 366

The Next Web

MARCH 2, 2014

This is a representation of 2003 – 2013. External constraints or the lacks of resources (finance, skills, business idea) are relative minor reasons. It teaches you just how mundane the everyday existence of an early-stage startup is. But it stifles those with the potential to be great entrepreneurs. It scares them to try.

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Europe South Korea San Francisco Portugal 163

Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Texas is well capitalized Silicon Valley has traditionally received a disproportionate share of private, early-stage funding compared to other geographies given its density of firms focused on these types of investments and the number of start-ups and private companies in the region.

Texas 90

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Scalable Startup

JULY 19, 2011

Great PR and finance firms, but not many startups. In 2003 Electronic Arts actually moved their headquarters from Silicon Valley to Playa Vista, an crazy move at the time, and accelerated their growth as a result. If you plop your company here, great things could happen. Houses were cheaper, you couldn’t get good engineers, etc.

California 20

California Southern California San Francisco Silicon Valley 20

David Teten

MARCH 12, 2012

The feature, titled “ Fitness Financed: Motion, Margin, Risk & Reward ,” offers an inside look into our office.). According to a 2003-2004 U.S. As investors in early-stage technology companies , we are particularly interested in some of the new technologies that have emerged that promote fitness, and we’ll promote their use.

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Product Portfolio Venture Capital Vesting 166

techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was. There has been no shortage of controversy and criticism around the convertible note, a popular investing vehicle that’s used by seed stage and angel investors. Ressi estimates that the debt note now accounts for over 50% of all angel and early stage deals.

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Equity San Francisco Technical Review Angel Investor 87

www.readwriteweb.com

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Photo credit: althecat See Also The Startup Financing Dating Game: Courting Potential Investors Be Prepared! Advice for Startups Entering the Mobile Sector Inside the Mind of an Early Stage Venture Capitalist Need Startup Office Space? Use Google Analytics to understand and track traffic sources and entrance and exit paths.

Entrepreneur 69

Entrepreneur Venture Capital San Francisco New Zealand 69

pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

This time around, there has been an explosion at the early stages, and the very late pre-IPO growth stages. “The real winners here are going to be the seed funds and early stage VCs that can write a $1 million to $2 million check,” says AngelList co-founder Naval Ravikant. Now it’s glutted.

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Technical Review Silicon Valley Incubator Syria 93