Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2022

For early-stage startups, the goodwill component can easily exceed the size of all the financial elements together, or can just as easily mark a company with good financials as not investable. In the investment community, these leadership elements are often called “goodwill.” Strategic proficiency.

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Technical Review Due Diligence Valuation Leadership 323

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2020

For early-stage startups, the goodwill component can easily exceed the size of all the financial elements together, or can just as easily mark a company with good financials as not investable. In the investment community, these leadership elements are often called “goodwill.” Strategic proficiency.

Valuation 311

Valuation Technical Review Due Diligence Leadership 311

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

For early-stage startups, the goodwill component can easily exceed the size of all the financial elements together, or can just as easily mark a company with good financials as not investable. In the investment community, these leadership elements are often called “goodwill.” Strategic proficiency.

Leadership 120

Leadership Technical Review Due Diligence Valuation 120

Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

In another we decended into a debate about our 5 year forecasts (I built the models so fielded most of these questions), and it became clear they probably weren’t the best fit for our Series A round (this group is no longer in the early-stage VC business). And a third firm “pressure tested” (i.e. link] dazhi chen.

Term Sheet 178

Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Unfortunately in early stage startups the drive for financing hijacks the corporate DNA and becomes the raison d’etre of the company. What are Early Stage VC’s Really Asking? They will realize that you have built a startup that’s agile, resilient and customer-centric. Did the VC’s like your team ?

Customer Development 266

Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 266

www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

This was actually a great piece of advice, because ideas change and evolve in the early stages of the startup, it’s about the other person not the idea as much. The Alchemist Series: Customer Development and Metrics. Pitch 2009 is a unique startup competition open to early-stage ventures globally. Santa Clara, CA.

Cofounder 47

Cofounder Technical Review San Francisco Founder 47

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Startup Metrics for Pirates â?? SaaS Metrics Tutorial â?? Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. Agile project management. agile product management. agile product management and Scrum tool.

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Software Review Technical Review Startup 53