Scalable Startup

AUGUST 26, 2014

It gained recognition during the 2004 presidential campaign when Howard Dean’s IT director decided to use it as a platform for community and campaigning. Angel Investor Drupal founder PHP Revenue Growth SaaS Scalability startup startup CEO venture Cash Flow CEOing leadership scalability tom nora venture capital'

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 11, 2019

” The Boston Red Sox won the 2004 World Series by adopting the same strategy. When you have cash flow on day one, you can reinvest, innovate, and grow — no more chasing additional angel investors for a Series B. Acquisition entrepreneurship is a model in the same vein. Research from McKinsey & Co.

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The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 21, 2015

I’m going to quote his definitions in full: 2004 definition. — In 2004 it took until Series C to scale your product because it took a lot of money. Jason Calacanis just published a good post on the changing definitions of Seed, Series A, and Series B investment. Pre-funding: You talk about your idea & write a business plan.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

Micro-VC: The Artist Formerly Known as “Super Angel” The “Micro-VC” funds (also known by the misnomer “Super Angel funds”), started as far back as the mid-90s with Ron Conway and earlier incarnations of his SV Angel fund.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 6, 2014

I was making plenty of money consulting and, while I was investing much of the money I made from the sale into new companies as an angel investor, the idea of living in Homer was attractive. When Amy and I talked about “what’s next” when I was 29.5

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Kodorra

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

It also makes it easier for angel investors to find good investment opportunities. Gust is probably the oldest living online platform that connects global startup founders with prospective investors. All a startup founder needs to do to get connected is to build a profile and share it with investors on the site.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 17, 2012

Smith School of Business and its Dingman Center Angels investor network. In the past year, members invested in eight regional companies, making 2011 the network’s most active year since its founding in 2004. Investments included Brazen Careerist, CirrusWorks, Nexercise, SevaCall, Spinnakr, Spotflux, Veenome, and YouEye.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

For example: “[MY COMPANY NAME] is an app that connects parents and family-friendly events, and we’re looking for angel investors interested in mobile B2C apps to close out our seed round. Jonathan has been heavily involved in startups and online marketing since 2004, a nd has advised hu ndreds of technology companies.

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Up and Running

APRIL 23, 2010

In 2004 Larry Kaplowitz and Luna Marcus spent $1.50 He’s now an angel investor, a member of our local Willamette Angel Conference, and both he and Luna are happily still very involved with the coconut bliss line of the merged company, but no longer in charge of the day-to-day business. It’s a simple story.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Now that I’m back full time in NYC, I decided to run for the Board of NY Tech Meetup, a dynamic community of 20,000 entrepreneurs, investors, developers, designers and people interested in tech. Founded in 2004, it has grown in leaps and bounds along with NYC’s tech sector.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

Barry is also an active angel investor with investments in a number of exciting start-ups, including Behind the Burner, ProFounder, RealDirect, Send-the-Trend, Slated, TapAd and Vator.tv. He serves as a Managing Partner of both funds. the 1990s. a 2005 book about new developments in Web 2.0

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2017

I started Penn Financial Group, a registered investment advisor, in 2004 to help the underserved demographic of investors find the high-end investment advice the large firms were not offering. Next, we get the perspective of Matthew McCall of Crowdvest , also a speaker on the ‘Working the Midwest’ panel.

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Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

Since the iControl system chronicles all meetings, I was able to find the automatic picture snapped from my first meeting with the founders, Reza Raji and Chris Stevens on April 22, 2004. I took a look back at our original financial model we presented to VCs in 2004. What does it take to be an Angel Investor?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

He is also an active angel investor in companies like Klout and Meetup. They sold in December 2007, but he started selling Quigo in 2004. As an angel investor, Mike stays away from uncapped convertible notes – says whoever invented them “ should be spanked ” and that he prefers to buy stock.

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Hippoland

JULY 24, 2018

To give you some perspective, my salary today is less than what I made at my first job out of college…in 2004. As it would turn out when you factor in all these costs, $200k actually doesn’t go far. You need to be willing to bootstrap for about 5-10 years. It can be done if you have a strong brand already.

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Hippoland

JULY 24, 2018

To give you some perspective, my salary today is less than what I made at my first job out of college…in 2004. As it would turn out when you factor in all these costs, $200k actually doesn’t go far. You need to be willing to bootstrap for about 5-10 years. It can be done if you have a strong brand already.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Joshua Baer is the co-founder and CEO of Otherinbox , a prolific angel investor and the director of Capital Factory , Austin’s seed-stage incubator. He founded SKYLIST in 1996 from his college dorm room at Carnegie Mellon, and created UnsubCentral in 2004. This list of top angel investors is a good start.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 8, 2019

A simple metric – when I registered my first company in 2004, the naming space was wide open. Josh Comrie is founder and CEO of AmbitAI and an active angel investor. There are more customers, resources and money than arguably any other time in history. There’s also more competition than ever before.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

His findings are based on data from more than 2,000 companies that received venture funding, generally at least $1 million, from 2004 through 2010. Mr. Dreymann moved his family from Israel in 2004 after co-founding Goodmail in Mountain View, Calif., "Were just getting more light on the entrepreneurial process," he says. Comcast Corp.,

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

A couple of friendly amendments: * Two commenters on a May 2004 blog post, Whither Trepia? Super Angel Investors – Who They Are, What They Invest In. And be careful: I agree with marketing consultant Jim Connolly, who feels that many small-business [.]. Joe McCarthy says: October 21, 2010 at. Startup Must Reads.

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techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. 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.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Otherwise, for those yet-another-facebook-type social web apps, just hire competent programmers and give them salary and perks that normal professionals expect, and not hope that their compulsion covers for your managerial incompetence and angel investor micromanaging idiocy. Fred Bosick. March 26, 2011 at 3:03 pm. [.]

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