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Working for Equity Instead of Cash

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Member since 01/2005. Working for Equity Instead of Cash. has an article on service firms waiving their fees and instead taking equity in their clients. Interest in this waned when the Internet bust resulted in most tech start-up equity becoming worthless, but it seems to be coming back. Blog powered by TypePad.

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

Both Sides of the Table

But this mania to not miss out on the next big thing is driving some investors to pay growth-equity prices for traditional market risk (as in, they’re paying up before it is clear there is product / market fit). Or worse yet they may never get financed. If you are interested the Vimeo is here. And well they should be.

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Lean Startup Conference Speaker Andy Rachleff on his 35 years in Silicon Valley, Wealthfront and telling stories

Startup Lessons Learned

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. Andy and I will be having a fireside chat at this year’s Lean Startup Conference in October.

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How to Raise Money – It’s a Journey Not An Event

Steve Blank

And thanks to Ann Miura-Ko of Floodgate (my first Lean LaunchPad co-instructor) for her suggestions. Btw, the definition of each startup financing stage has changed in the last decade. What was a Series A round in 2005 is now a pre-seed or seed round. Step 3: The Series A – you raise $5-$10M. Step 5: Series, C, D….

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Startup Resources

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Hundreds of startups featured since 2005, will yours be next? Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Part 3- Lean Cust. Steve Blank’s Lean Startup Resources. Lean Startup Circle â?? Lean project management. easy business finance software. Seed Startups.

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@altgate » Blog Archive » Outsourcing For Startups

Altgate

For example, you can barter for a service or you can negotiate payment terms or even equity for service. … Tom Eisenmann Furqan: Does outsourcing engineering work well when following a lean approach with lots of iterative learning? To that I say baloney. Even without cash you have many ways to outsource.

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Applied Venture and the inexorable rise of value-add VC

The Equity Kicker

This is what brings us to the second big difference: the cost of Applied Venture is too large to finance from a standard VC management fee. . Different funds finance the cost of these teams with a differing weighting of asking portfolio companies to pay for services, larger than normal management fees, and reduced compensation for partners.