Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Such was my recent meeting with Seth Sternberg, founder & CEO of Meebo. We then spoke about startups. Again, Seth: “One of the things I noticed when I looked around at startups is that often the founding teams hired people just like themselves. Startups shouldn’t be like this. And there you have it.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

If you’re a startup entrepreneur, you risk facing a competitive disadvantage if you wait too long to expand your operations. Clearly Define Your Business Model While this may sound like a trivial task, young startups often have an exciting and innovative product, but no real plan for monetizing it. in place before you expand.

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www.thisisgoingtobebig.com

OCTOBER 25, 2010

links » Attracting a CTO to your startup Wednesday, March 11, 2009 at 05:29AM by Charlie ODonnell Businesspeople ask me all the time how to find a technical partner for a startup. For a startup, if you are a businessperson, a) Do you already have money to start the businesses? So, what makes you worth 50%? (Or

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). VC & Startup Resources. Seed Startups. VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Hundreds of startups featured since 2005, will yours be next?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 14, 2010

If you want to raise venture capital more easily the advice could be quite practical and counter-intuitive. Many companies that are raising B or C venture capital rounds right now raised their initial money in 2005-2008. management, founders, angel investors) get any money. It is 2010. But pass they will.

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Altgate

JUNE 7, 2009

  I've been wondering how the previous list of entrepreneur bloggers I posted maps to Twitter so I redid the list (order is now by Twitter followers which is the number in parentheses).    80% of the bloggers on the list are on Twitter.    I suspect there's a "sunk cost" argument driving this. 

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Altgate

JUNE 1, 2009

  The criteria for inclusion on this list is rough but basically boils down to the primary author of the blog has to be a founder or C-level executive at an entrepreneurial organization and write relatively frequently about entrepreneurial stuff.    So with that in mind, I created a list of entrepreneur blogs. 

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

As I mentioned at the beginning of this series/ebook, over the years I’ve noticed that I tend to frequently share certain Lucky7 posts with entrepreneurs we’ve backed , team members at data.world, or other startup investors I know. Groups list on March 15, 2005. Still in business today and run by my co-founder.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 19, 2019

Andy Rachleff co-founded the venture capital firm Benchmark Capital in 1995. In 2005, he retired to focus on giving back, beginning by teaching technology entrepreneurship courses at Stanford, becoming a trustee at the University of Pennsylvania (which he attended undergrad), and funding cancer research with his wife.

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Silicon Valley Lean Venture Capital Pre-Money Valuation 159

Up and Running

AUGUST 1, 2017

While there’s a certain cachet that comes with being able to say you raised a round of funding for your startup, realize that it’s a lot of hard work to actually secure venture capital (VC) funding , and there are reasons you might not want to. Moseholm and his team never considered taking investment capital.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 10, 2017

After seeing the negative effects of dehydration, both me and my co-founder, Ming, decided that we want to spread knowledge about hydration and create a product that could help with this problem. This is a powerful advantage of being a Hong Kong-based startup – I can stay close to the manufacturing base and ensure quality.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Want to start a startup? March 2005 (This essay is derived from a talk at the Harvard ComputerSociety.) You need three things to create a successful startup: to start withgood people, to make something customers actually want, and to spendas little money as possible. A startup that does all three willprobably succeed.

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Up and Running

APRIL 1, 2015

David Daneshgar, Gregg Weisstein, and Farbod Shoraka, the founders of BloomNation.com. It’s like the plot of a Hollywood movie: Three best friends, with no prior business experience, decide to band together and form a startup business. The startup takes off, raising venture capital funds faster than you can say “storybook ending.”.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The timing is perfect, there is more than a little overlap with Vivek Wadhwa’s guest post on venture capital earlier today. Problem was, I seemed to suck at the whole startup thing. Rather, I didn’t have anyone around me familiar enough with startups to tell me that I was doing it all wrong.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 20, 2011

Below is a round up of noteworthy Israeli startup headlines. Tip VC Cafe and get your startup on the map by filling the form: [link]. Venture capital Rounds. Footbo has been running since 2007 and is led by co-founder and CEO Mani Honigstein – full article on Techcrunch. Footbo raises $2.5

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 15, 2012

Parker made a huge dent in the web as co-founder of Napster, then built Plaxo up to 20 million users. So what would have happened had Sean met Joshua Schachter in 2005--would Josh have still sold out early to Yahoo! Say what you will about either company, they got up to huge userbases and had audaciously big aspirations.

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Professor VC

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Co-founder Dustin Moscovitz is referred to as a programmer, but he is actually an operations guy. Several weeks after Zuckerberg and the team move to Palo Alto for the summer, co-founder Eduardo Saverin finally pays a visit. It was early in 2005 and the company was Facebook. October 18, 2010 2:41 PM. Newer Post.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 8, 2015

Last week LinkedIn reminded me that it’s been 9 years since I started VC Cafe (Dec 2005). I summarized the list of tools I used to collect information about startups in the Ultimate Startup Intelligence Tools List and also crowdsourced the list of tools on hackpad (which was since acquired by Dropbox).

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I’m inspired by the enthusiasm of the young, emerging startup ecosystem that is here. And I think about the “Seattle issue&# as a metaphor for startups and business in general. I was meeting with a first-time CEO of a very promising young startup recently and offering my advice on what his priorities should be.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

In brief, a cap acts to place a limit on the conversion price of a convertible note such that investors are guaranteed a minimum number of shares for their bridge loans if the startup does a priced equity round at a high pre-money valuation – “high” meaning above the cap, which is often a heavily negotiated term. (The

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

When she’s not working to create the best experience for each and every user, she spends her time scouring the web for juicy details about the startup world. Who says a bootstrapped startup can’t succeed? A lot of entrepreneurs think they need piles of money to make their startup a success, but that’s not always the case.

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Bootstrapping Startup Cofounder Salary 78

David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

We will discuss liquidity options appropriate for a wide range of people with private company stock, including private equity funds, venture capitalists, angels, founders, and employees with options. David Weild IV, formerly Vice Chairman of The NASDAQ Stock Market Mr. Weild is the founder of Capital Markets Advisory Partners.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

A similar pattern exists for venture capital funding: In 2020, just three regions — the Bay Area, New York, and Massachusetts — accounted for 70%+ of total venture funding in the U.S. Venture capital. Silicon Valley didn’t create venture capital, and venture capital didn’t create Silicon Valley.

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Silicon Valley Non-Compete San Francisco Government 36

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

If a company has reached a level of success, has been around for a few years and you believe the company has potential to break out into a much bigger company then you should let the founders take money off of the table. He’s been at it since 2005. I founded it in 2005 at the age of 37. It’s that simple.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. Nevertheless, if you share too much in your funding process or meet too many VCs expect a certain amount of your ideas to spread around the startup community. This is unintentional and inevitable.

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Eric Friedman

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Well, for starters I don’t believe there was the ubiquity of broadband that existed in 2004-2005. I believe that the first 10 people at any startup will make or break the Company. This is a contentious circle for some as some investors rely on the tenacity and vision of the founders over technical abilities.

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Technology Flash Early Stage Cofounder 60

Altgate

JUNE 9, 2010

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← CompStudy: Useful Resource For Entrepreneurs & VCs Alike Who is this Julian Assange guy anyway? I have to say that Tim Healy, co-founder and CEO of EnerNOC (NASDAQ: ENOC) rocked the house.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

It has many stylistic errors — and a few substantive ones, too — that I would now change having learned more, but I realized that it still provides useful insights for entrepreneurs and startup participants outside of the Greylock network, particularly across three areas of interest: how entrepreneurs should approach the pitch process.

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www.currentlyobsessed.com

MAY 28, 2010

Snapvine was my first experience being in the driver’s seat of the fund-raising process, and in the 3 years prior to our acquisition we raised over $10mm in venture capital. Read Terms that Hurt (Venture Hacks). their requested capital and a further 1.8 For example, liquidation prefs. Future value is key.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Roberts celebrates 10 years in venture capital this month. He began as part of Salt Lake Citys Wasatch Venture Fund (now Epic Ventures ), an affiliate of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, in March of 2001. Frankly, I just dont buy the notion that making an investment is akin to throwing a dart in the dark. startupcto

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Steve Blank

MAY 30, 2016

It follows the journeys of innovators sharing what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. I-Corps teaches scientists and engineers how to get their technical ideas out of the lab and into the marketplace using the Lean Startup processes. How the U.S.

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Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Washington Government 120

Altgate

JANUARY 27, 2009

"  Roger was co-founder of Monitor110 which raised $20+ million with an aim to create an information service valuable to investors.  Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Entrepreneurship and tagged entrepreneurship , Failure , startup.   Anyway, his presentation is embedded below and is worth a read.

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Altgate

DECEMBER 11, 2008

Have a founders agreement. If you can’t afford this then make very simple, clear, plain English, written, signed agreements with you “co-founders”. If you eject or lose a founder, document that previous agreements are null and void, and that they waive all rights to the company and the intellectual property. Good advice.

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Altgate

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Well, long story short, this feature allowed me to find this photo below of the solar car team from about 1991 which includes a young Larry Page, co-founder of Google (I’m in the bottom right in case you care!). Bookmark the permalink. ← Popular Posts Obama Speech on Clean Energy at MIT → Comments are closed.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 16, 2019

As detailed in a co-authored book , Brian Halligan, a recent MIT grad in 2005, observed startups failing with “‘tried-and-true’ marketing techniques that he had seen work throughout his career; techniques such as trade shows, telemarketing, e-mail blasting and advertising.”. An eponymous book (e.g.

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Professor VC

MARCH 11, 2013

The founding duo of SocialParent (Reza Raji and Gerry Gutt) were also co-founders of iControl Networks , where I was also an investor and part-time CFO. We used the DEMO conference in 2005 as the launch vehicle for iControl and got me thinking about how the seed funding landscape has changed in the past eight years.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

We’ve hung out periodically over the past few years and I have enjoyed debating many startup topics. In 2005 they realized that this business was going to evaporate over night with the introduction of YouTube. Working with a family member (Evan, the co-founder is his brother)? Yesterday’s show floored me.

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