Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 6, 2021

In reality, too many choices actually dilutes customer interest in your existing market, and makes your job of production, marketing, and support much more complex. Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 12/22/2020. Fight the urge do more things, to attract more customers in a broader market.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

For context, seed-stage pre-money valuations are up 24% from H1 2020 to H1 2021. Seed investors are being compensated for the risk because later-stage investors are paying higher prices, and diluting early-stage investors less. Early-stage valuations are up 70%, and late-stage valuations are up 103% (source Pitchbook ).

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

For context, seed-stage pre-money valuations are up 24% from H1 2020 to H1 2021. Seed investors are being compensated for the risk because later-stage investors are paying higher prices, and diluting early-stage investors less. Early-stage valuations are up 70%, and late-stage valuations are up 103% (source Pitchbook ).

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

You can get cash without diluting your ownership in the company. Her Entrepreneur Journeys book series, Entrepreneur Journeys , Bootstrapping: Weapon Of Mass Reconstruction , Positioning: How To Test, Validate, and Bring Your Idea To Market Innovation: Need Of The Hour , as well as Vision India 2020 , are all available from Amazon.

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Transformify

JULY 23, 2018

To boost innovation and SME sector growth, the EU Commission has launched the SME Instrument of the Horizon 2020 program – the largest non-dilutive fund in the world. EUR 3 billion are available to fund a maximum of 7,500 startups by 2020! Why non-dilutive? It is a grant, not an equity funding.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

For context, seed-stage pre-money valuations are up 24% from H1 2020 to H1 2021. Seed investors are being compensated for the risk because later-stage investors are paying higher prices, and diluting early-stage investors less. Early-stage valuations are up 70%, and late-stage valuations are up 103% (source Pitchbook ).

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

This is a summary of: Revenue-Based financing: State of the Industry 2020. Capacity Capital , based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, was launched in 2020 with a primary focus on the Southeast. —– UP Fund is a rolling venture fund launched in Q4 2020, and part of global SaaS accelerator Upekkha, based in India.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2019

This can be tricky and you could end up with a confusing or diluted message. According to Maryville University , digital marketing spend is expected to rise to $335 billion by 2020. When you cover a broad spectrum of services, marketing your agency becomes more complicated. This works especially well online.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Pre-seed rounds accounted for 14% of all seed stage deals in 2023, up from just 5% in 2020 according to Pitchbook data and I predict it will be even higher in 2024. While the answers are somewhat semantic, the pre-seed funding round is making a comeback in 2024 startup financing.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

trillion in 2020. In 2019 and 2020, we saw hundreds of millions of dollars in non-dilutive funding go to Texas startups, most of which had never worked with the government before. According to Pitchbook , Texas had more than 550 deals reported in 2020 and $4.66 Twenty four are in Dallas and 22 are in Houston.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 17, 2020

The management teams of both companies may want to be valued at 15x 2020 revenue — in other words, both companies would be worth $300 million. Ignoring dilution and balance sheet changes, Company Awesome would have made investors ~13x, while Company Good would only have returned ~2x.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Several years ago, Gartner predicted that, by 2020, businesses would manage 85% of customer interactions without involving a person. IBM predicts that phone-based customer service will exist solely as a backup option by 2020.). Not all experiments have been successful. When chatbots work—and when they don’t.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

Obviously, the challenges of 2020 were next level. How did the foundation of being a design-led company help you respond to the crises of 2020? That probably saved a huge amount of dilution, rather than doing a down round at between $15 billion to $18 billion. Because it’s like an asteroid hit the entire travel industry.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

Obviously, the challenges of 2020 were next level. How did the foundation of being a design-led company help you respond to the crises of 2020? That probably saved a huge amount of dilution, rather than doing a down round at between $15 billion to $18 billion. Because it’s like an asteroid hit the entire travel industry.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

With the benefit of increasing IPOs in the last few years, we are starting to see better growth: In 2020, there were close to 500 IPOs in the U.S., billion, more than was raised in the entirety of 2020, an admittedly banner year for SPACs. double the rate of the prior year, 103 of those being venture-backed companies.

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Life Beyond Code

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

One Million by One Million is a global initiative that aims to nurture a million entrepreneurs reach a million dollars each in annual revenue and beyond by 2020, thereby creating a trillion dollars in global GDP and ten million jobs. 1M/1M Program has a bold mission. Of 1M/1M he says, “The value of your program is amazing.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 20, 2018

While questions linger from the 2016 election, attention is focused on this fall’s mid-term elections and the looming 2020 presidential campaign. This panel of experts discussed how has this gerrymandering affected politics today, and how can we work to stop it in 2020? and complicated. God Save Texas: The Lone Star State and America.

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