Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2020

Government grants and industry partners are you best bet here, but Angel investors might give you $250,000 to $1 million, if you have the right business case and credentials. At this point, most Angel investors and a few early-stage VCs will be happy to talk, assuming you have the business model validated, and a large opportunity.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. Similar to the explosion of seed funds in the past decade, we (and some limited partners too ) believe these Flexible VCs are on the forefront of what will become a major segment of the venture ecosystem. FLEXIBLE VC VS. OTHER VENTURE CAPITAL MODELS.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

Scott Kupor is the managing partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he’s responsible for all operational aspects of running the firm. It’s meant to support and grow a business until an “exit” in the form of an IPO, a merger or acquisition, or in less than ideal scenarios, a company shutdown. No need to name names.

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2017

In describing the competitive landscape, show how your business model creates competitive advantages, and – more importantly – defensible barriers to entry. how it will work, the financial terms, the types of customer leads expected from each partner, etc.). The most common exits are IPOs or acquisitions.

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Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2010

The collapse of the IPO market and dysfunctional math in the venture capital community has stacked the odds against you. VC’s invested their limited partners’ “risk capital” in a portfolio of startups in exchange for illiquid stock. Startup lifecycle in an IPO Market. Netscape’s 1995 IPO changed the rules.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

HomeAway is another one of our five tech IPOs in the last five years. the business was the same and through acquisitions it became to be worth $1.33 It had a gut-wrenching pivot as the first business model didn’t work and today is thriving with its new one. Our pivot wasn’t a business model pivot?—?it

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2018

Government grants and industry partners are you best bet here, but Angel investors might give you $250,000 to $1 million, if you have the right business case and credentials. At this point, most Angel investors and a few early-stage VCs will be happy to talk, assuming you have the business model validated, and a large opportunity.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 2, 2019

Speak with potential customers, speak with industry experts, speak with potential partners?—?validate The second post was sent to me by Mitchell Green, the founder and CEO of Lead Edge Capital , who led our last round of funding at Bazaarvoice prior to our IPO. I served as Chairman leading up to the acquisition.]

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Up and Running

JUNE 16, 2014

They are not there to run your business unless that’s part of the agreement. That’s what you’re supposed to be doing and what your partners and employees are supposed to help with. Make no mistake, you will need to have a business model or a business plan that shows just where you sit in relation to your competitors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 4, 2014

Government grants and industry partners are you best bet here, but Angel investors might give you $250,000 to $1 million, if you have the right business case and credentials. At this point, most Angel investors and a few early-stage VCs will be happy to talk, assuming you have the business model validated, and a large opportunity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

How does your business model make money? Good causes such as feeding the world’s hungry may help your marketing but may not sustain a business. The business model has to clearly define who is your customer, market penetration expected, how much customers pay versus total costs and the investment required to sustain cash flow.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 30, 2017

What is your business model? Social enterprises have unique challenges when building a business model. Social enterprises need a business model that demonstrates value while remaining true to a social mission. Social entrepreneurs need to know what is at the heart of what they are trying to achieve.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

Fairchild Semiconductor became the progenitor of a flood of Silicon Valley chip companies and at the same time the adoption of the limited partnership as the model for Venture Firms gave VC’s their own profitable business model. In 1980 Genentech became the first IPO of a venture funded biotech company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2016

Government grants and industry partners are you best bet here, but Angel investors might give you $250,000 to $1 million, if you have the right business case and credentials. At this point, most Angel investors and a few early-stage VCs will be happy to talk, assuming you have the business model validated, and a large opportunity.

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View from Seed

APRIL 23, 2015

I believe this to be 100% true, and I know every partner at NextView feels the same way. Their business models are, in many cases, focused on outlier exits within the portfolio. This is doing right by both your company and your customers. This is important partly because of the very nature of pitching VCs.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 13, 2021

The Greylock general partner and the host of The 20 Minute VC pick back up from a December 2020 episode of the popular podcast , during which Hoffman discusses his wide-ranging career and key lessons learned. If you’re a regular listener, you’ll know that Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman joined me on my show in November.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, December 14, 2009 Business ecology and the four customer currencies Lately, I’ve been rethinking the concept of “business model&# for startups, in favor of something I call “business ecology.&# Constructing a working business model is a form of ecosystem design.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Save Asia for post-IPO Single instance, multi-tenant, single datacenter - Have only one version of the code in production. You validated our business model and added huge value to our efforts. Only after reaching $1M in CMRR should you consider hiring European sales and services execs behind customer demand. Michael Kassing.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

The company raised $45 million in venture capital from firms including DCM, Emergence Capital Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners, and built partnerships with AOL Inc., In early 2011 an acquisition by a Fortune 500 company fell apart. David Cowan of Bessemer Venture Partners has stuck with Mr. Dreymann. Comcast Corp.,

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Professor VC

DECEMBER 8, 2015

one company running out of cash and another with cash but searching for a business model). I think we will see more of these in 2016 and beyond as IPOs are still far and few between and unicorns struggle to justify their stratospheric valuations. At the IPO, Musk held a 14.2% Hope that changes in 2016.

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Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

And going even further back there have been a few random ones have been built before like Salesforce.com and e-tailer RedEnvelope (IPO’d in 2003 though now defunct as a company). If my memory serves me, <10% of our pre-IPO employees at PayPal lived in SF and literally 1 of the first 40-50 folks at LinkedIn were city-dwellers.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

great web customer acquisition tutorials. Mark Suster GRP Partners Advice. Philippe Botteri, Bessemer Venture Partners. In other words they are entrepreneurs that help others like them succeed in their new business. The British Library is a one-stop-shop for business start-up information. business planning.

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

There is an inherent conflict in a consultant’s business model and the needs of a startup. Basing a consultant’s compensation on the incremental revenue they generate is a great example of a deal that is on The Fringe (for other creative approaches to partnering, see Agreements on The Fringe). Get A Company on The Fringe.

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Austin Startup

MAY 3, 2017

The term was coined in 2013 by Cowboy Ventures ’ Partner Aileen Lee and let’s be honest, at least in my head cowboys go together with Silicon Valley about as well as oil and water so I’m betting Palo Alto based Cowboy Ventures had a little of Texas on their minds. Validate that potential partners are indeed potential partners.

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Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Raising capital is a core part of building a valuable business. Whether you are raising a $250K seed round or navigating a $100M IPO, the capital markets - in all of its various forms - are a fundamental constituent in the business-building journey.

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infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Our name was so disconnected from our business model that we were in the midst of a protracted and expensive name change initiative (along with a small army of consultants), at the time we sold Expertcity to Citrix. He is also a Co-Founder of RevUpNet , a performance-based online marketing agency. John is a CPA and holds an M.B.A.

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Seeing Both Sides

JANUARY 13, 2015

Business Model: running a lot of experiments - pricing, packaging, value proposition. Business Model: Time to get some channel and business partners on board, because adding revenue by adding sales and marketing dollars is going to be expensive - no matter what the early LTV vs. CAC data shows.

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Startup Company Lawyer

MAY 26, 2012

First, crowdfunding involving the sale of securities triggers the prohibitively expensive registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as generally no exemptions are available in many crowdfunding models. Some companies utilize pure donation models. Seventh, companies will need to choose intermediaries carefully.

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