ReadWriteStart

APRIL 14, 2011

a group of entrepreneurs from TiE Chennai gathered at the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M) Research Park campus, and we spent the next four hours discussing strategy and tactics of early-stage entrepreneurship. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. At 11 a.m.,

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The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 14, 2016

Whilst valuations in the UK at the very early stages at which Forward Partners invests haven’t moved much (yet) friends here who invest at later stages are telling me stories of companies slashing their expectations by 40-50%. I think it’s unlikely we will crash as hard as did in 2000 or 2008.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, November 17, 2008 The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: part one Ive written before about some of the advantages startups have when they are very small, like the benefits of having a pathetically small number of customers. We try to take advantage of that phenomenon twice if possible.

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Media Fragmentation and the Growth of Small Publishers » April 07, 2008. 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. Posted by Steve on April 07, 2008 at 12:57 AM | Permalink. Cloud Services.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

The companies I spoke to all agreed that the community there was extremely supportive, especially in the critical ulta-early-stage. Then, create an encouraging environment for early-stage companies. Provide early seed capital, and be the ones to make those introductions. And do your customer development.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 14, 2008 How to listen to customers, and not just the loud people Frequency is more important than talking to the "right" customers, especially early on. In the very early days, the trick is to find anyone at all who can understand you when you are talking about your product.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 14, 2014

I hope you will enjoy the read Simple CAC ratio As many companies are finalizing their 2014 financial plan ( feel free to use the Accel template ), I thought it could be a good time to write a short post on the CAC ratio - a simple metric that I defined in a blog post in 2008 (time flies!) I think it depends on the stage of the company.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2009

Unfortunately, they are disinterested in doing the hard work to help early stage entrepreneurs and companies. My 2008 revenues were over $100k on a 35k inventory. That fostering and encourage entrepreneurs to bring companies and products to market is a great source of innovation, job creation, etc. They just havd faith in me.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 30, 2009

A discounted price is available for early stage entrepreneurs and students. The event will include a talk from Eric on The Lean Startup over dinner, followed by moderated table discussion and then final Q&A with Eric. Tickets are available now and include dinner. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

In an early-stage startup especially, revenue is not an important goal in and of itself. Let’s start with a simple question: why do early-stage startups want revenue? If youre still very early stage, then you need to know what a true early adopter looks like. But all things are never equal.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

We spent the first 45 minutes or so talking about industry trends (in this order): The history and background of True Ventures, one of my favorite early-stage VC’s (and the one with whom Om is a venture partner). Founded in November 2008 by Jack Moffitt and Patrick Mahoney; CEO is Gerry Campbell (ex-AOL, ex-Reuters/OpenCalais).

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2009

In fact, early stage companies shouldnt be able to get time from anyone else - who else would be crazy enough to try an truly innovative new product? christinelu : if youre building a disruptive innovation.the only people who you want to talk to are early adopters. Brilliant insight. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 21, 2011

Today, Andrew Rachmell from Boca Raton, Florida, discussed peerbackers , a crowdsourced fund raising platform to help very early stage entrepreneurs raise small denomination funding ($50, $100) from friends, family, and peers to help finance the prototype development phase with about $25,000 in seed financing. peerbackers.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

To be fair, the Day 1 categories were primarily infrastructure companies (Enterprise, Cloud and Mobile). ► 2008. (14). I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases. ► May. (1). ► March. (1).

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Industry change allows the entry of newer players at earlier stages – It doesn’t take as much money to launch a startup anymore. You have an open source stack, cloud services for storage, processing & management and APIs for just about anything you want. We all know that. We picked up activity aggressively in 2009.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

One way to conceive of our goal in an early-stage venture is to incrementally “fill in the blanks&# for the business model that we think will one day power our startup. In other words, we want to use the spreadsheet to quantify our progress using the most important unit: validated learning about customers.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Today, he sees the opportunity to do a cloud capacity planning company. I started doing my free Online Strategy Roundtables for entrepreneurs in the fall of 2008. Next David Sarna with Hendon, Stamford Hill & Co. presented Bokér/1 - perhaps the most compelling of today's presenters. Now is not the time to expand.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. LP contributions to VC firms shrunk from 2000 and by 2005-2008 had stabilized to around $30 billion per year. We have lower costs to create companies – leading to more early stage innovation.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

But in the early stages of a startup you are still trying to hone in on what exactly the problem is. There is no iteration in the process, in fact the SBCE serves to remove iterations (rework). I guess the crux of the problem is SBCE gives you a quicker path to a better solution of a known problem.

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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. 7mm in Series C; last round was in 2008; total $24mm raised – Investor: Bessemer (Byron Deeter)(lead); previous investor included Index Ventures, did not participate – Read more: TechCrunch , peHUB.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 17, 2010

Three premier early-stage venture investors have joined forces to sponsor the event: Baseline , Floodgate , and First Round Capital. Three premier early-stage venture investors have joined forces to sponsor the event: Baseline , Floodgate , and First Round Capital. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 4, 2009

This is important, especially if you are a very early stage company. Ill mention one last thing about knowing what channels of communication your customers engage with. It also gives you insight into their language. Combining agile development with customer developm. Don't launch Lo, my 2295 subscribers, who are you?

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, November 19, 2008 Lo, my 1032 subscribers, who are you? What all these teachers had in common were two things: they were technology early adopters that were willing to take a chance on a new software product, and they all had similar problems organizing their classes and students.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Friday, October 10, 2008. The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008 Release. 1st 2008 with a base value of 100.00 Cloud Computing. (1). Unveilling of the Bessemer's 10 laws of Cloud Comp.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Today, he sees the opportunity to do a cloud capacity planning company. I started doing my free Online Strategy Roundtables for entrepreneurs in the fall of 2008. Bokér/1 Next David Sarna with Hendon, Stamford Hill & Co. presented Bokér/1 - perhaps the most compelling of todays presenters.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Today, he sees the opportunity to do a cloud capacity planning company. I started doing my free Online Strategy Roundtables for entrepreneurs in the fall of 2008. Bokér/1 Next David Sarna with Hendon, Stamford Hill & Co. presented Bokér/1 - perhaps the most compelling of todays presenters.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

I liked the flattering Venture Hacks commentary so much Ill just quote it: Many founders believe that early stage startups are endeavors of execution. He believes that many early stage startups are labors of learning. The customer is known, the product is known, and all we have to do is act. Expo (and a call for he.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 12, 2009

However, this financial bar has had the effect of excluding one segment of potential customers that Id really like to see there - early stage entrepreneurs who have all the intelligence and vision of their later stage counterparts, but simply cannot afford the cash flow to attend. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, March 13, 2009 Dont launch Heres a common question I get from startups, especially in the early stages: when should we launch? This is the usual reason given for a marketing launch, but for most early stage startups, its a failure. My answer is almost always the same: dont.

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thebarefootvc

JULY 13, 2016

We are now in the early stages of another major technological development called the blockchain. Once every 20 years or so, new technology comes to market that has the potential to change how we communicate, how we do business, and pushes the boundaries of everything we thought was possible.

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thebarefootvc

APRIL 13, 2016

We are now in the early stages of another major technological development called the blockchain. Once every 20 years or so, new technology comes to market that has the potential to change how we communicate, how we do business, and pushes the boundaries of everything we thought was possible.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 20, 2009

For short stories - I think it is always good to introduce some practical problem (you might have heard from entrepreneur at early stage) and how the lean startup method helped solved that. August 20, 2009 6:44 AM Prashant Sachdev said. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

The point is their opinions werent clouded by any vested interest or lengthy analysis. ► 2008. (14). I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases. Turns out they were right and the statue was fake.

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dondodge.typepad.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Entrepreneurs face some pretty tough questions at a very early stage. How much equity should I grant to early employees? Dont worry about giving up too much equity at an early stage. Posted by: Jake Kennedy | April 16, 2008 at 01:36 PM Verify your Comment Previewing your Comment Posted by: | This is only a preview.

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blog.adaptiveblue.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Fast forward to almost 2008 and those days are gone. EC2 - The Elastic Compute Cloud Service EC2 is essentially a grid in the box. For early stage startups it maybe a challenge to recruit a dedicated sys admin, but any good hosting company would be happy to carry this function for you, likely, for additional payment.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

We were focused on revenue, but we didnt understand that revenue is not important for its own sake in an early stage company. (You can even see the humiliating evidence of my smug incompetence in this absurd article from 1999.) Instead, we should have thought of it as an indication of validated learning.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Java is a great language for enterprises and is commonly used by many big dotcoms, banks and airlines, but its relatively slow development pace and higher barrier to entry make it inappropriate for most early-stage businesses. PHP is a widely-used Open Source web scripting language.

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