The Startup Magazine

JULY 7, 2020

In 2003, during his senior year in college, he founded Cilantro Fund Management with a starting fund of about $1 million raised from friends and family. In 2009, Tim started Investimonials, LLC, which was essentially a TripAdvisor for the finance industry. Entrepreneurial experience. In 2017, be donated $1M to Pencils of Promise.

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Stock LLC Portfolio Entrepreneur 103

Feld Thoughts

MARCH 12, 2014

Today, Rover announced that Menlo Ventures has led a new $12m round of financing. We loved the two founders, Michael Beaudoin and Rodney Rice, but knew very little about marketplace businesses or the home improvement category. My Investments dogs Financing madrona menlo ventures rover' Some get it; many don’t.

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Seattle Metrics Cofounder Finance 149

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

In 2003, the journey of the podcast began, and by 2007, “The Ricky Gervais Show” made headlines with a record-breaking audience 260,000 listeners. Featuring interviews with business owners and advice on everything from HR to finance, its somewhere both beginners and seasoned pros can find value.

Entrepreneur 101

Entrepreneur Hosting Community Audio 101

The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Holmes founded a company known as Theranos in 2003 when she was just 19 years old. Peter is the founder of Bay Street Capital Partners. Guss is 28 years old and he is the co-founder of Octane Lending. He started it in 2009 with 10 employees and sold it to Susino Umbrella in 2014. This sale turned him into a billionaire.

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Cofounder Venture Capital India Valuation 141

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 1, 2017

I found myself pushed into entrepreneurship after being laid off from a Marketing Director position with a San Diego based high tech company in 2003. Nichole MacDonald, founder of The Sash Bag secured multiple rounds of funding and advisors through the Hera Hub community. Have any success stories to share?

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San Diego Entrepreneur Marketing Technical Review 48

www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Sakti3 Founder Sastry to Step Down From U-M. Co-Founder and CEO, Wetpaint. Founder, DEKA Research and Development Corporation. On its website , the firm says, “We track everything from financing details, investors, board members, and management, to industry segments, business stages and exits.” Subscribe for Free.

San Diego 40

San Diego Venture Capital Technical Review San Francisco 40

Agile VC

JUNE 17, 2015

We started working nights and weekends in late 2002 when some of the founding team were wrapping up their prior day jobs and then everybody was full time on LinkedIn by January 2003. Additionally, a lot of people today work in startups or want to work in startups or want to be founders, which overall is a great thing.

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Startup Cofounder Seed Stage IPO 188

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.

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Liquidation Preference Valuation Term Sheet Stock 153

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 28, 2012

chief, came to the rescue in 2003 and helped turn the company around for the better. Google is one of the largest companies in the world and its founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, are some of the richest entrepreneurs to date. The organic grocer became an instant success and the founders’ hard work definitely paid off big.

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Bankruptcy Texas Naming Venture Capital 195

View from Seed

JUNE 17, 2015

We started working nights and weekends in late 2002 when some of the founding team were wrapping up their prior day jobs and then everybody was full time on LinkedIn by January 2003. Additionally, a lot of people today work in startups or want to work in startups or want to be founders, which overall is a great thing.

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Startup Cofounder Seed Stage IPO 120

YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2012

Lauren Bush at Under30CEO , April 21, 2011 : Lauren Bush, co-founder of FEED Projects, discusses how she applied her entrepreneurial skills to the nonprofit, social justice sector. Watch this video with the site’s founder and CEO where he talks about how he launched everything solo and wound up with an entire company built around one idea.

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Entrepreneur Cofounder Washington Bangladesh 231

Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Entrepreneurs and investors who have spent any time dealing with convertible debt seed financing transactions are likely to have encountered the subject of valuation caps. The cap is irrelevant if the next equity financing is at a valuation below the cap amount.) Part of the deal was bringing in a new CEO, Richard Rosenblatt.

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Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Merger Vesting 98

Agile VC

JUNE 17, 2015

We started working nights and weekends in late 2002 when some of the founding team were wrapping up their prior day jobs and then everybody was full time on LinkedIn by January 2003. Additionally, a lot of people today work in startups or want to work in startups or want to be founders, which overall is a great thing.

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Startup Cofounder Seed Stage IPO 100

Ben's Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2013

I was a founder/CEO during the period when cash seemed more like a serf than a king in 1999 and 2000. Still, when Marc Andreessen, my co-founder and chairman of the board, said we should start generating cash, something told me that he was right. Financing cash flow investors Kanye West Marc Andreessen'

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Cofounder Finance Internet Founder 78

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2019

By hosting all of this data in one financial dashboard, teams can have a central view of the finances of projects, along with the tools to make informed decisions that help them understand the financial performance of each field. Vadim Katcherovski is the Founder and CEO of Project Management software platform, Easy Projects.

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Artificial Inteligence Software Review Management Software Developers 168

David Teten

AUGUST 7, 2019

Likely signs of a Value investment: the company has challenges in filling out the round; the investors have more negotiating leverage than the founders during the closing process; the company has significantly better metrics (e.g. LTV / CAC, revenue growth, etc.) Requires less analysis. But VC is historically and consistently cyclical.

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Venture Capital Valuation Stock NDA 60

Professor VC

JUNE 6, 2008

It seems appropriate to have this discussion as Kent Desormeaux grabs Big Browns reins and goes after the Triple Crown tomorrow at Belmont.There is an age old debate in the venture business on whether it is better to bet on the horse (business/market) or the jockey (management team/founders). Do whatever you want with the founders".

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San Jose Technical Review Norway Angel Investor 28

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Was Paul Graham right in his “high resolution” financing post? In fact, most early investor work hard to help their startups get to the next level so it makes no sense for the angel investor and founders to be at odds. Convertible debt WITH a cap is stupid for founders. I thought we got rid of that s**t in 2003?

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Ratchet Liquidation Preference Equity Stock 354

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 11, 2019

She’s also a founding member of All Raise, a non-profit committed to improving diversity in both funders and founders. The first time was just for a couple years, from 2001-2003, before I went to grad school. That meant that if the change was starting on the founders side, then there had to be a change on the financing side.

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Founder Lean Venture Capital Cofounder 68

Ben's Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2013

I was a founder/CEO during the period when cash seemed more like a serf than a king in 1999 and 2000. Still, when Marc Andreessen, my co-founder and chairman of the board, said we should start generating cash, something told me that he was right. It was the era of “go big or go home.”

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Cofounder Internet Finance Founder 78

Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

3/31/2003: 44.6. Down rounds are bad and hit founders disproportionately hard, but they are not as bad as bankruptcy. Smart investors will want the founders and employees to be properly motivated post-financing, so there may be a way to a reasonable outcome for both you and your people. 3/29/1996: 22.3. 3/31/1997: 23.3.

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Down Round Marketing Preferred Stock Post-Money Valuation 78

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

But when done well it can really help get a company going fast, professionally and without the founders having to give up much (if any) equity - or bankrupting themselves. The founders may believe they are onto such a good idea that they don’t want to give up any equity. Either way, bootstrapping is a viable model.

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Bootstrapping Offshore Startup EC2 41

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I am the founder/coach of Never Settle Coaching, LLC a coaching business. For nearly 15 years I had analytical, numbers-driven jobs in finance and banking, working for some of the world’s largest banks. When I met my co-founder and partner, we inspired each other to take a chance and start our own business.

Entrepreneur 91

Entrepreneur LLC Cofounder Green 91

YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2015

No new business is worth starting in these times unless it can go global.” – Sir Richard Branson, founder, Virgin Group. Back in early 2003, a Dane named Janus Friis and a Swede named Niklas Zennström had an idea for a software application, and founded a business with the help of three Estonian software developers. 3] Varian, H.,

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Dominican Republic Global San Francisco Arizona 100

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 31, 2011

But this was 2003 when AdWords was new. If you listen to a sampling of the 600 Mixergy interviews, you’ll find a common thread to how all those illustrious founders got their first few customers: There is no pattern. But for every one of those, another founder has the opposite experience. I bought ads for $0.05/click

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Customer Software Review SEM Technical Review 279

Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

It seems like every day there is a new headline about an exceptional startup founder, investor, or corporate headquarters moving to Texas. Today, startup founders focus on the fundamental challenges of our time with energy, life sciences and industrial technologies dominating Houston’s tech scene. Joe Lonsdale. Drew Houston.

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Texas San Antonio Houston Dallas 90

David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Howard Lindzon is Co-Founder and CEO of StockTwits, a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information. Christopher Ahlberg is the CEO and Co-founder of Recorded Future. Nic Perkin is the President and Co-Founder of The Receivables Exchange. Since 2003, Rumson has helped clients invest over $1.0

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Technical Review Technology North Carolina Switzerland 128

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

Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

3/31/2003: 44.6 Down rounds are bad and hit founders disproportionately hard, but they are not as bad as bankruptcy. Smart investors will want the founders and employees to be properly motivated post-financing, so there may be a way to a reasonable outcome for both you and your people. One would be wrong: 3/31/1995: 21.0

Marketing 46

Marketing Preferred Stock Post-Money Valuation Down Round 46

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Mike is a no BS guy, has all the attributes I look for in a founder and says things like, openly shares knowledge and opines without a filter including this one, “whoever invented uncapped convertible debt should be spanked!&# This is an interview you’re not going to want to miss, I promise.

Semantic 302

Semantic Acquisition Valuation Angel Investor 302

Bryce Dot VC

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

So last year Eileen Lee, did this amazing study where she dug into data going back to 2003. I remember specifically one of the founders that we’d backed, when we kind of shook hands on our first investment said they were never going to raise anymore money and keep the team close and small. Four companies a year matter. We weren’t VCs.

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Venture Capital Valuation Los Angeles Chicago 40

SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

They had a couple experienced co-founders, including the now legendary Reed Hastings, but the problem was that they were stuck at about 300,000 customers. You can start with the typical concerns: The finance staff was very worried about the revenue consequences of moving from a license model to a subscription model.

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Product Technical Review Software Review Engineer 60

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.

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California Southern California San Francisco Silicon Valley 20

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. There are opportunities to get a feel for running a team, validating an idea, choosing co-founders. But it stifles those with the potential to be great entrepreneurs.

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Europe South Korea San Francisco Portugal 163

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. You need to build genuine relationships with these portfolio startup founders as well as trust with them and the rest will follow. It’s just a part of your ongoing activities as a founder. Always be fund raising.

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Developer Silicon Valley PR Las Vegas 366

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2010

In 2003 we started developing a martial arts motion sensing toy, a full three years before the Nintendo Wii changed the world of motion sensing. My co-founders decided startup life wasn't for them. Product Launch After some financing-related delays, the products went on sale in Europe and Asia in the summer of 2008.

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Continuous Deployment Technical Cofounder Cofounder San Francisco 164