Altgate

DECEMBER 15, 2010

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← No one wants to tell you your baby is ugly More on Liquidation Preferences → Pre-Money Valuation vs Number of Founders Posted on December 15, 2010 by admin Here’s a chart of the day worth sharing.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

It might appear that origination is becoming much easier because of new tools like AngelList and the SEC moving toward adoption of rules that will allow equity based crowdfunding. But in practice, these phenomena create a tremendous volume of startups, which investors then have to filter. 2008) [iv]. Angel groups using Gust.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Equity 114

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Another topic we debated early in the program was “lean startup” vs. “ fat startup ” where we both took the obvious hedge and said “it depends.” But truthfully both Dana and I are more aligned with the lean startup principles and believe you only go FAT when you’ve really proved out your product / market fit.

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Partner New York City Cofounder Syndicate 240

Altgate

AUGUST 25, 2012

Re-posted from post co-authored with Prof. —————– Dead equity — equity held by employees and founders no longer working at the company — is a large and growing problem. Choe opted to forgo a cash payment “in the thousands” for the equity equivalent at the time.

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David Teten

AUGUST 6, 2013

A few weeks ago, I had my first-ever opportunity to visit the Miami startup ecosystem. I was visiting as part of Terrapinn Private Equity World, a leading private equity conference for the Latin American technology community. Miami is one of the fastest growing new startup hubs in the US.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

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. The following was available: “I kept hearing about startups that raised VC funding, but which hadn’t filed Form Ds (nor issued a press release). They also avoid Reg D.

Stealth 285

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Just look at the disruptive challenges that businesses face today– globalization, China as a manufacturer, China as a consumer, the Internet, and a steady stream of new startups. Perhaps that’s because where established companies might see risks or threats, startups see opportunity. We legalized robbing the corporate treasury.

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Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property 325

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

While private equity has a history in the U.S. that dates back over a century , the “boom or bust” period of the 1980s to early 1990s is considered the period that marks the rise in private equity and venture capital funding as we know it today. According to Fortune , in 2006, female founders were involved in only 2.95

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Venture Capital Lean Cofounder Technical Review 82

Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Kayak was started here in my backyard of Boston… co-founder & CTO Paul English and the product/engineering team is based here in Concord MA. Co-founder & CEO Steve Hafner and the business team are based in Norwalk, CT. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

The global financial crisis started in 2007 and it went on for much of 2008. He started enjoying success in 2008 when Inc. The name of this startup was Flipkart and they started it with $6,500. Peter is the founder of Bay Street Capital Partners. Guss is 28 years old and he is the co-founder of Octane Lending.

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Cofounder Venture Capital India Valuation 142

Gust

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Individual accredited investors in typical angel deals put personal capital at risk for an equity share of growth-oriented, start-up companies. For this round of investment, the angels collectively purchase 20-40% of the equity of the company and are seeking a return on investment of 20-30X in a period of five to eight years.

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Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Intellectual Property Technical Review 146

View from Seed

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Like many things in life, the VC/startup ecosystem is one of cycles. But let’s look back at the last decade in VC-backed startups… it’s easy to forget how predominant mindsets change throughout the cycle. Good Times” presentation (Oct 2008). VC funding for startups is drying up quickly. 2009-2011: Retrenchment.

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IPO Early Stage Cofounder B2C 202

www.metamorphblog.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Home About Contact Home About Contact The Metamorphosis Becoming an Entrepreneur, by Matt Mireles Startup Lessons for the Proto-Founder I started SpeakerText in October 2008 during the financial apocalypse. You need a Co-Founder, not an Engineering Bitch. Date for a bit, then split the equity.

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Founder Startup Cofounder Vesting 51

Austin Startup

AUGUST 9, 2021

It is the first senior appointment to Chargify’s C-suite level team since it was first announced in April 2021 that Battery Ventures led a combined majority growth-equity investment of more than $150 million in Chargify and SaaSOptics. To learn more about Chargify, visit www.chargify.com.

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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. Founders however are asked to take low salaries and never really get back the time they worked for free.

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Founder Liquidation Preference Term Sheet Participating Preferred 329

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. Still in business today and run by my co-founder. 2008 Harvard Business Review.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time. Update – As a followup, we analyzed all of these startup failure post-mortems to identify the top 20 reasons for startup failure. Also worth a read after you review these startup failure post-mortems. Post-Mortem Title : How My Startup Failed.

Software Review 79

Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

The Next Web

JANUARY 28, 2014

As the trees parted ways, attendees tumbled out into the grassy pastures of Kalu Yala , a sustainable village that talks about itself in the language of startups and entrepreneurship as if it were a software product, making it the perfect home for the very first TEDx Adventure event. “We Photo by Nate Mook. Photo by Ramy Nassar.

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Panama Cofounder Startup America 166

venturehacks.com

MARCH 21, 2008

Venture Hacks Good advice for startups. Products Archives @venturehacks Books AngelList About RSS Everything you ever wanted to know about advisors, Part 2 by Nivi on February 27th, 2008 Here are more frequently asked questions about advisors. Finally, there is a beauty to paying in equity rather than an equivalent amount of cash.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, May 14, 2009 The Lean Startup Workshop - now an OReilly Master Class My rate of posting has been much lower lately, and this is mostly due to preparations for the upcoming Lean Startup Workshop on May 29. I joined a financial services tech startup in 1999. You can click here to learn more.

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Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment Software Review 60

The Startup Magazine

MAY 4, 2017

The perfect startup pitch helps entrepreneurs separate their companies from a growing amount of competition. Startup activity in the United States increased in 2016, continuing an upward trend that began in 2015 , according to the Kauffman Foundation. How to Make a Startup Pitch. Design is critical to a startup pitch.

Silicon Valley 62

Silicon Valley Startup Maryland Angel Investor 62

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Like many things in life, the VC/startup ecosystem is one of cycles. But let’s look back at the last decade in VC-backed startups… it’s easy to forget how predominant mindsets change throughout the cycle. Good Times” presentation (Oct 2008). VC funding for startups is drying up quickly. Reading Time: 5 minutes.

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IPO Early Stage Cofounder B2C 100

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

For startups (and other innovators ), that’s a decisive advantage. There’s been a lot of hand-wringing about gender equity in the high-tech and entrepreneurship worlds lately. The work itself, especially in startups, depends primarily on intelligence, communication, creativity and empathy. This is a good thing. (I

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 19, 2019

Andy Rachleff co-founded the venture capital firm Benchmark Capital in 1995. Then in 2008, he had a revelation from his experience on the Penn endowment board about how to democratize investing advice and “accidentally” founded a new company to do it. He’s currently the CEO of the company. I’m sure you have unique perspective on that.

Silicon Valley 159

Silicon Valley Lean Venture Capital Pre-Money Valuation 159

www.instigatorblog.com

MARCH 2, 2010

Home About Contact My thoughts & lessons learned on startups, entrepreneurship, marketing and other stuff. The Importance of Advisory Boards for Startup CEOs Tweet When a startup receives financing it will need to setup a Board of Directors. The Board probably existed beforehand, but was made up only of the founders.

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Advisory Board Startup Cofounder Equity 40

Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 14, 2010

After the recent announcement of the Series Seed Financing documents by Marc Andreesen, Brad Feld points out that there are now four sets of “open source&# equity seed financing documents: TechStars Model Seed Funding Documents (by Cooley). Y Combinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents (by WSGR). under $500K).

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Finance Software Review Term Sheet Liquidation Preference 70

View from Seed

JANUARY 26, 2016

It’s become increasingly common for startups to raise several seed rounds, and this has led to a bifurcation in the seed stage between what are known as “pre-seed” (or “genesis”) and institutional seed rounds. So, between 2008 and 2013, the early-stage landscape looked more like the middle segment of the chart.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

I continue to collect great content that is the intersection of startups, products, online and technology. Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap

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Technical Review Technology Product CTO Hire 175

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

” “Mark has a vested interest in talking down valuations of startups.” Most prefer not to say this publicly for two reasons: 1) they have an entire portfolio of startups, many of whom are raising capital and 2) they prefer not to be attacked publicly or seem “anti entrepreneur.” goes into a startup.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

I previously lived in Israel for 3 years and was CEO of an Israeli startup. & Founder Institute UAE Abu Dhabi Virtual 2020. Pre-seed startups (all vertical) are welcome to register to world’s largest pre-seed startup accelerator, the Founder Institute Final Admissions Deadline: October 04. Apply here.

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UAE United Arab Emirates Technology 60

Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

The ultimate goal is that a successful marketplace startup grows into a big company. This is why it was so great to hear from Indiegogo co-founder Slava Rubin on how Indiegogo grew by 1) expanding into different verticals and 2) expanding into different products. Don’t spread across verticals too fast.

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San Francisco Vertical Equity Cofounder 60

Altgate

MAY 24, 2012

Mark Zuckerberg and his executive team have been extremely successful at retaining equity in their company. But how well do most other founders do? Even as Facebook prepares to go public, Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO, still owns 28% of his company. Insiders in the typical startup own only 63% after round one.

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Pre-Money Valuation Cofounder Dilution Valuation 43

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. Also, be sure to include vesting for all founders. Labels: equity , Facebook.

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Social Network Networking Software Review San Jose 28

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, October 5, 2010 The Lean Startup Bundle People often ask me if they can buy "Lean Startup in a box" from me. Startups run into this problem all the time: not every possible way of making money is equally useful. People want to get started with Lean Startup but arent exactly how.

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Lean San Francisco Startup Continuous Deployment 153

The Next Web

MAY 7, 2013

Here, the 40-person Summit Series team, led by co-founders Elliott Bisnow, Brett Leve, Jeff Rosenthal and Jeremy Schwartz, is anything but “settling down.” They connected Founders Fund to Spotify, which catalyzed the music service’s North American launch. There are no streetlights or stop lights in town.

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Utah Congo Cofounder Incubator 168

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Surphace is a reincarnation of Sphere, a startup founded by Martin Remy and Steve Nieker in 2006 as a related content plugin and was later acquired by AOL in April 2008 for a rumored sum of $25 million. Co-founder Tony Conrad left AOL in 2009 , but has since come back as part of the About.me acquisition late last year.

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Widget Acquisition Europe Cofounder 100

Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

While many travel industry leaders chose to “go dark,” as Airbnb CEO and co-founder Brian Chesky put it , while they decided how to navigate next steps, Chesky took a different approach: He got candid. Today, we are thrilled to have Airbnb CEO and co-founder Brian Chesky with us. Not that we should have more committees.

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Silicon Valley Hosting Rhode Island Design 69