Reid Hoffman

MARCH 23, 2021

For example, if you haven’t achieved product-market fit, instrumenting every aspect of customer acquisition is overkill. I’ve seen entrepreneurs make the mistake of focusing all their efforts on customer acquisition when they also needed to fix a leaky funnel or customer churn. Just track metrics that help you improve the product.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

At this stage, your startup better be selling a commercial offering, have price and cost validated, with significant customer sales and a real revenue stream. This is the final stage of investment in venture opportunities, and is the point where investors expect to see the return and gain from the original investment.

Investment Bankers 241

Investment Bankers Venture Capital Startup Initial Public Offering 241

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2011

They don’t realize that this option would likely be their worst nightmare, since it costs millions for the road show, usually dilutes your equity to a tiny fraction, and takes away all your entrepreneurial control. Expensive new IT systems, consultants, and investment bankers are usually required.

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Exit Strategy IPO Investment Bankers Entrepreneur 235

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2010

At this stage, your startup better be selling a commercial offering, have price and cost validated, with significant customer sales and a real revenue stream. This is the final stage of investment in venture opportunities, and is the point where investors expect to see the return and gain from the original investment.

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Investment Bankers Venture Capital Startup Initial Public Offering 231

Gust

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

At this stage, your startup better be selling a commercial offering, have price and cost validated, with significant customer sales and a real revenue stream. This is the final stage of investment in venture opportunities, and is the point where investors expect to see the return and gain from the original investment.

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Venture Capital Investment Bankers Angel Investor Initial Public Offering 171

Scott Edward Walker

APRIL 16, 2014

Indeed, this is the first of many transaction documents that will need to be negotiated, with the letter of intent and the acquisition agreement to follow. This is the time-frame when the seller (or his investment banker) should be creating a competitive environment, and potential buyers/bidders should be played off of each other.

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Non-disclosure Agreement Acquisition New York City Non-Compete 101

Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 8, 2015

Some purchases are strategic acquisitions – your office cleaning company (with its client list and equipment) is attractive to a home cleaning business looking to expand. Other purchases are simply to generate revenue – allowing the buyer to streamline processes and cut costs by consolidating. Find out what your buyer wants.

Intellectual Property 60

Intellectual Property Investment Bankers Exit Strategy Sales 60

Feld Thoughts

JULY 7, 2010

As I’ve written before, software patents amount to an innovation tax, transferring wealth from people who build things and make stuff to investment bankers, hedge funders, and, most of all, patent prosecutors and litigators. The tax situation and cost of living in, say, South America, is much better than in the U.S.

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Software IP South America Investment Bankers 132

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 21, 2014

The acquisition of hundreds of social media contacts and endless but superficial networking have replaced the cultivation of deep, meaningful relationships with clients, colleagues, and even with friends and family. There’s the story of an investment banker who arrives at his client’s office in the middle of a large deal.

Investment Bankers 145

Investment Bankers Social Media Networking Lean 145

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Derek Manuge, CEO, says that “Corl evaluates startups by assessing the risk-adjusted return of an investment based on over 500 metrics across financial (300+), banking (75+), payment (75+), marketing (25+), and team information (25+). Capital has built a free online tool for founders to calculate their cost of capital. 10) Report.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Second,) we learned that 3D was very effective in doing so…, but why hasn’t it become mainstream yet? … (The reason was) because it wasn’t cost effective. Out of college, he briefly worked as an investment banker in New York, but before long heard the siren song from Silicon Valley. I was 22, 23 at that time.

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Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Cofounder Investment Bankers 120

Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

With entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, attorneys, and investment bankers from over 18 countries represented - from places as far afield as Switzerland, Singapore, and Spain (and Santa Monica and Silicon Valley!) - it was a truly international gathering. How concentrated is this phenomenon?

Silicon Valley 79

Silicon Valley IPO Los Angeles San Francisco 79

Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

Prior to joining Andreessen Horowitz, I held several executive positions in a publicly-traded software company and was previous to that an investment banker. The de-SPAC process is essentially the process that occurs after a SPAC has agreed to terms with an acquisition target where the two entities are fully merged.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 31, 2020

Whether it’s Yotta encouraging emergency savings accounts, Dave.com providing overdraft protection, or Stash enabling broad participation in public market investing, I believe that the private sector could be an inflection point for the country’s financial health – and that fintechs will lead the way.

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