ReadWriteStart
OCTOBER 7, 2010
Bottom line, early stage equity is very, very expensive. As a thumb rule, try to get enough validation so that you can get to at least a $2 million pre-money valuation before raising equity capital. That is debt financing that converts into equity at the Series A valuation once the price for that is set. (I
Steve Blank
MARCH 31, 2014
Since the financial crisis of 2008, policy makers have kept interest rates at near zero, flooding the market with cheap money in an attempt to restart growth. Today billions of dollars that companies could have invested in innovation are sitting in the hands of private equity funds. We legalized robbing the corporate treasury.
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ReadWriteStart
SEPTEMBER 10, 2010
Whether it is credit or equity, funding is very, very tight. Because customer financing equals revenue, not equity. I started doing my free Online Strategy Roundtables for entrepreneurs in the fall of 2008. All three of today's roundtable companies will soon be featured on Incubation Radar.
ReadWriteStart
APRIL 7, 2011
At this week's One Million by One Million roundtable, we announced a very important partnership with MAD Incubator, Malaysia for entrepreneurship development in the region. This is our first major partnership with an incubator whereby MAD will adopt the 1M/1M methodology to foster Silicon Valley-style technopreneurship in Malaysia.
The Startup Magazine
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
Employee ownership gives these entrepreneurs this autonomy as well as equity in the startup! Google Maps was introduced to us all in 2008, with Google Earth and Street View added a few years later. Innovation Centers. Now it’s one of the most used social media sites in the world. The Startup Scene in 2022?
David Teten
SEPTEMBER 5, 2014
This is particularly true in New York, where their traditional financial services industry client base has sustained significant damage since the 2008 financial crisis. Like many established finance & media companies, GLG knows that the tech startup sector is a growing part of the economy.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 28, 2010
Wildfire was one of the darlings of the fbFund incubator program. Summit is a hugely respected firm in Silicon Valley and a long-term “institution&# but they’re better known as more of a “private equity&# investor meaning that they do later stage investments in much larger companies that are profitable.
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