Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

A fund size of $25 – $100 million in normally an “early stage&# fund that is likely to do seed investments and/or smaller A round investments. A fund size of $100 million – $200 million is likely to either be an A round investor or “stage agnostic&#. A lot will depend on how exits go in 2010/2011.

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Venture Capital Balance Sheet Early Stage Software Review 269

Austin Startup

MAY 11, 2017

Our unique approach to investing, coupled with a pioneering spirit, provides the vision to guide early stage growth companies beyond today and toward future success. We invest at the earliest stages in transformative companies that are leveraging technology to move our species forward. Fueled by Gayle Jobyrne and Kathryn Finney.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Seed Stage 48

Hunter Walker

JANUARY 15, 2016

Though I should point out was still doing client work for OneMatchFire until mid-2005 until the business could pay full salaries. From the middle to 2005 to early 2010 the business was break-even or better every quarter.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Startup Cofounder SMS 48

mashable.com

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Were seeing 3D printing start to take off, and were in the very early stages of this revolution. Topics: Business , e-commerce , retail , shopping , Startups. Founded in 2005, Mashable is headquartered in New York City with an office in San Francisco. ©2005-2013 Mashable, Inc. 3D Printing for Clothing.

eCommerce 108

eCommerce Technical Review San Francisco New York City 108

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

msuster looking for an inspired post on when an exclusivity deal (w/ major industry player) works (cons as well) for an early stage tech co. — As a startup this is often the one true source of strong leverage in a negotiation to: Get a better price, get a longer-term commitment, get PR commitments and so forth.

PR 150

PR Early Stage Software Naming 150

Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 26, 2021

He then went on to found his own business and run marketing for a number of early-stage startups. Kara Goldin is the founder and CEO of Hint Water, a flavored water brand founded in 2005. Ben Shapiro got his start at eBay, where he served as their manager of business development and SEO.

Marketing 91

Marketing Silicon Valley Cofounder Framework 91

Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). We tried to provide a framework for startups to think about what activities should be outsourced and why. What kind of startup outsources everything? To that I say baloney.

Software Review 65

Software Review Offshore Startup Boston 65

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 24, 2012

I wrote a blog post on how to work with lawyers at a startup nearly two-and-a-half years ago. If you don’t have much experience in working with law firms at a startup it’s a good primer. In that post I talked about how to select a law-firm for a startup. Startup-focused. It was very widely read.

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Los Angeles Early Stage DC Silicon Valley 299

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Robert has been working in software since 2005. Those higher costs make learning to write ads, manage campaigns, A/B test, and design landing pages a very expensive activity for an early stage, bootstrapping startup. (Powered by LaunchBit ). He is a Ph.D. dropout who spent time working for Google.

Campaign 272

Campaign Software Review Brazil Conversion 272

Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Salesforce.com is a startup with 76,000 subscribers (over 2.1M I also joke with Reid Hoffman that this was back in the days before he was “Reid” Reid’s an incredible entrepreneur, startup investor, and human being. Ok, now you have the context for early 2003.

Term Sheet 178

Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

The Next Web

MARCH 8, 2014

Jason Lemkin is the Managing Director at Storm Ventures , a venture capital firm focusing on early-stage enterprise and IT companies, including MobileIron , Marketo and GuideSpark. How can a $150 million fund be anything like a startup with just a few million in revenue? It certainly did to me when I was an entrepreneur.

Partner 138

Partner Burn Rate Early Stage IPO 138

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

These two trends had a major impact on the computing industry from 2000-2005 but the effects weren’t yet felt by the VC industry. That’s awesome for users of Salesforce.com or companies that want to cater to them but less awesome for pure startups that want independence and are really just looking for cloud infrastructure.

Venture Capital 334

Venture Capital Software PHP Open Source 334

K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

What everyone can agree on, though, is that there are definitely more seed and early stage funds now than ever before, and more people willing to give money to young companies looking to make it big. In late 2000, early 2001 I started my second company to test whether I can build a successful company again. That’s what K9 does.

San Francisco 48

San Francisco Early Stage Portfolio Software Engineering 48

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2015

If you are a 20-something tech entrepreneur you could be forgiven for thinking that seed-stage investors, Angellist Syndicates and widely available angel money always existed. Let me take you back just 10 years ago to 2005 in Silicon Valley where I returned after 11 years of living in Europe. Startup Lessons'

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Seed Stage Silicon Valley Syndicate Syndication 150

500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

It’s no coincidence we designed 500 Startups with these evolutions in mind, altho none of the required strategies have been easy to execute and we are still refining our approach. In short, we were a lot more geeky than the previous generation of fund managers , and we started blogging a lot about tech startups and best practices.

Silicon Valley 74

Silicon Valley Early Stage Venture Capital Valuation 74

Altgate

DECEMBER 17, 2009

" Well, there are basically three ways you can link pay to performance (in startups): Discretionary (i.e. it's up to the Board or CEO) One or more financial metrics Balanced scorecard For very early stage startups (e.g.  But today I got an interesting question the answer I wanted to share here.

Venture Capital 47

Venture Capital Metrics Startup Software Review 47

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Paul Kedrosky made the case for “naive optimism&# being an important part of startup success. I know that in late 2010 it’s not as popular to say this because we’re in the era of “super angels&# and feel-good startups. Let’s call these cards 1996-99, 2005-08 and 2010+. So where are we now?

Angel Investor 284

Angel Investor Early Stage Cap Table Deal Flow 284

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 9, 2016

This request includes anyone who has gone through a Techstars accelerator, done a Startup Weekend, participated in a Startup Week, receives Startup Digest, or has been a mentor or investor in any Techstars company or program. Or anyone else who has been positively motivated or influenced by Techstars in any way.

Matching 70

Matching Early Stage Global Leadership 70

Altgate

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Tips: $75 HOT All-Hands Team Meeting Board Management Tips For Startup CEOs Customer Support 2.0 Tips: $75 HOT All-Hands Team Meeting Board Management Tips For Startup CEOs Customer Support 2.0 Tips: $75 HOT All-Hands Team Meeting Board Management Tips For Startup CEOs Customer Support 2.0 Bookmark the permalink.

Term Sheet 39

Term Sheet Technical Review Michigan Liquidation Preference 39

Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

About a year ago David Cohen and I were having a beer together talking about ways to capture all the different things we’d learned about early stage entrepreneurship from running the TechStars program. The result is Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup. If you are interested, go grab a copy.

Early Stage 142

Early Stage Angel Investor Community Programming 142

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Paul Kedrosky made the case for “naive optimism&# being an important part of startup success. I know that in late 2010 it’s not as popular to say this because we’re in the era of “super angels&# and feel good startups. Let’s call these cards 1996-99 and 2005-08. Not everybody agreed. So where are we now?

Angel Investor 152

Angel Investor Cap Table Early Stage Deal Flow 152

Up and Running

DECEMBER 1, 2015

In 2005, David Choe was invited to paint a number of murals at Facebook’s HQ in Palo Alto. This type of stock is typically given to founders and early employees with the stock value is near zero. See Also: 10 Tips for Dealing With Startup Stock Options. If you have grand plans for your startup. When cash flow is poor.

Equity 60

Equity Employee Stock Options Vesting 60

VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2010

Q lipso, an Israeli startup funded by JVP (see previous VC Cafe post ), has announced the acquisition of the assets of Veoh , a user generated video site, on the virge of its declaration of bankruptcy. Several other Israeli startups operate in the same space, inclduing Oovoo, Seetoo and Watchitoo.

Bankruptcy 74

Bankruptcy Early Stage Merger Institutional Investors 74

Feld Thoughts

JULY 12, 2016

If we fund an early stage startup company today and it’s hugely successful, it’ll be coming into its own in 2025. ” The years 1995 through 2005, shown almost entirely in red ink, were “The Part Before That. That’s a good marker for many of the early stage companies I’m involved in.

Boston 70

Boston Cofounder Early Stage Founder 70

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

There’s no doubt (at least anecdotally) that the pace of VC investments in early-stage technology companies has picked up in the past few months. I hear from several sources that Sequoia is very active in the market aggressively chasing several deals and even driving up prices on some early-stage deals.

IPO 255

IPO Investment Bankers Venture Capital Marketing 255

Software By Rob

JANUARY 8, 2019

Two-and-a-half months ago Einar Vollset and I announced TinySeed , the first startup accelerator designed for bootstrappers. Hundreds and hundreds of tweets, re-tweets, likes, Hacker News upvotes, email responses…it was immediately obvious that there is pent up demand for this kind of alternative early-stage startup funding.

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Early Stage Valuation Seed Capital Revenue 46

genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Planning, Startups, Stories. Member since 01/2005. Before you agree to take equity in lieu of cash, you need to understand that any individual early stage start-up company equity is most likely going to be worthless. SF Chronicle: Ultralight startups: little capital, just computer. Small Business Blogs. Smart Mobs.

Equity 40

Equity Technical Review San Jose Stock 40

Eric Friedman

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

I have been working with a number of early stage teams going through various stages of fundraising and using this diagram to help explain my thoughts on some of the questions they will come up against. Well, for starters I don’t believe there was the ubiquity of broadband that existed in 2004-2005.

Technology 60

Technology Flash Early Stage Cofounder 60

Growthink Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

And when Under Armour went public in November 2005, the company raised $112.5 And finally, with alternative and creative funding, which is often a great option for early stage companies, you may not have to give up either equity or agree to future debt payments. The company, called Under Armour, is now a public company.

Maryland 102

Maryland Equity Early Stage Venture Capital 102

Up and Running

APRIL 1, 2015

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.”. This was our first stab at a legitimate startup,” says David. “In

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Startup Cofounder Chicago 60

The Equity Kicker

JULY 8, 2019

Capital is a commodity, a truism that the VC industry was largely able to ignore in the early days due to lack of capital in the market and scarcity of information for entrepreneurs. As the number of startups has exploded over the last 30-40 years best practices have been developed that can be shared from one early stage company to the next.

Portfolio 84

Portfolio LP Venture Capital Partner 84

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 26, 2012

For a technology startup company to launch an initial product and survive long enough to gauge its success, requires two-orders-of-magnitude less money today than at the start of the previous decade. Credit: Professor Jay Ritter, for testimony before the Senate Banking Committee. Two orders of magnitude. How old is Instagram?

IPO 115

IPO Stock San Francisco Lean 115

Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Originally created in the mid 1990’s to help with the imprecise problem of how to value early stage companies, especially those in technology, I developed what soon became known as “The Berkus Method” when published in the popular book, “Winning Angels” by Harvard’s Amis and Stevenson with my permission in 2001.

Valuation 48

Valuation North Carolina Oklahoma City Silicon Valley 48

Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

And since VC dollars tend to concentrate around high-tech R&D areas, it’s notable that more than 90% of the nation’s innovation-sector growth (2005-2017) is accounted for by just five metro areas — Boston, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, and San Diego. Private capital Seed, or very early-stage startup capital, is inherently local.

Silicon Valley 36

Silicon Valley Non-Compete San Francisco Government 36

Altgate

DECEMBER 16, 2010

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← More on Liquidation Preferences Happy Holidays → Where Do Tech VCs Invest? 11% of deals were Cleantech and most of those were early stage. Not sure how to explain that. Bookmark the permalink.

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Liquidation Preference Early Stage Venture Capital Later Stage 59

Austin Startup

JANUARY 14, 2011

Prior to joining the PetsMD, Mr. Calvoz served as General Manager of Picosa Investments, LLC (an early stage venture firm) and has served on the Board of Advisors of PetsMD since January 2010. 100, the list of outstanding and fast-moving startup companies from around the world. 2010 [link] program.

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Advisory Board Merger LLC Europe 63

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

I have been close to the tech & startup sectors for more than 20 years and I can’t think of a period in which I felt more optimistic about the innovation and value creation I see in front of us. The number of startups being created has increased by an order of magnitude. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin! Today’s Normalization.

Venture Capital 347

Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347