www.mint.com

MARCH 9, 2010

However, a perfectly acceptable—and perhaps even better—answer is that there are no investors other than the founders, and the plan is to bootstrap the company as long as possible. If there are outside investors, they are likely to be on the board. Check out the personal finance topic by clicking here. That’s cool.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 11, 2017

by Karla Friede, CEO, co-founder, and member of the Board of Directors at Nvoicepay. Earlier this month, my co-founders and I raised our sixth round of venture capital funding for Nvoicepay. Do not waste your time with investors outside of, or even adjacent to your target market. Target firms with female partners.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Scayl -A slick way to email huge files, including HD Video. What does it take to be an Angel Investor? I am an active angel investor and on the board of Sand Hill Angels. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. TuneUp - iTunes plug-in that cleans up your music library. ► July. (1).

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Up and Running

AUGUST 1, 2017

What a lot of startup founders don’t realize is that when you take on VC funding, you also take on business partners. Your startup might be chugging along nicely, and then one day an investor comes to you and offers to give you a round of funding (this fairy tale scenario is unlikely, but still possible, especially as your success increases).

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The Startup Lawyer

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

But before your startup signs up and cashes that $[XX,000] check, your startup’s co-founders should sit down and evaluate the incubator’s offer. Most incubators take common stock and sit “side-by-side&# with the founders, but some may want some (weak) preferred stock and/or dilution protection.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio form a massive startup Megalopolis that is attracting top talent, impact-focused investors, and the most innovative companies in the world. Startups and investors should treat Texas like one big city. Joe Lonsdale. Drew Houston. Jim Breyer. Charles Schwab. Hewlett Packard. Who’s next?

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Growthink Blog

JULY 2, 2010

Last week, Vringo, a video ringtone company raised $9.2 It didn’t raise the money from venture capitalists, angel investors, or any of the usual suspects. Which is particularly surprising since Vringo’s CEO and co-founder, Jon Medved, was formerly a venture capitalist himself. So what did Vringo do instead?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

In addition to the P2P deals covered below, on the show we also talked about some of my favorite financing startups ( Wonga in the UK run by Errol Damelin , who is a superstar) and Affordit.com run by serial (and I mean serial!) entrepreneur Wil Schroter (I am an angel investor in Affordit). 5.0mm in Series B.

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www.drowningamerican.com

JUNE 22, 2012

Well, I made a 15 minute video presentation about it, and sent it to him. I don’t have a technical co-founder on my team but am apt in graphics design and have a lot of ideas bursting out of my head. To get traction, won’t I need the finances to market it? We’ll have to see how this one goes.

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Professor VC

DECEMBER 26, 2012

For those readers not already familiar with this concept, it refers to the bottleneck for Series A financing created by the increasing number of seed financings and constant number of Series A financings. in seed financing? Investors know (or damn well should) the risk they are taking in making seed investments.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us. Before I get into the details for founders, let me talk about options-hungry employees. Paul Graham kicked it off by noting that all the financings in the recent YC batch were converts. Dying at 70? Why do startups?

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. And I tried to evaluate the idea and figure out: What did the founder really need here? Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? Finance, IT, Legal).

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

“If you can fix a problem for someone and do it better, quicker, and/or cheaper than your competitor, you’re off to a good start.” – Gabriel Kuperman, founder and CEO of CuePin. We created UpKeep to fill this void—a cloud-based solution that was affordable for any size business.” – Ryan Chan, founder of UpKeep. Wireframes.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Mike is a no BS guy, has all the attributes I look for in a founder and says things like, openly shares knowledge and opines without a filter including this one, “whoever invented uncapped convertible debt should be spanked!&# He is also an active angel investor in companies like Klout and Meetup.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

But you have, perhaps, heard less specific discussions on what angel investors are looking for. Well, some angel investors are looking for exactly the same thing as what VCs are looking for. Nicola Corzine of the Band of Angels Acorn Fund discusses this at length in our interview with her.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

But you have, perhaps, heard less specific discussions on what angel investors are looking for. Well, some angel investors are looking for exactly the same thing as what VCs are looking for. Nicola Corzine of the Band of Angels Acorn Fund discusses this at length in our interview with her.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

(To see the video above, please click the image, and then click on the Play button.). Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. .

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Search for: Videos. Whats is the best way to find a co-founder for your startup? However, one of my co-founders doesn’t seem to be as motivated as the rest of us. Also how affective are clean, well executed promo videos? As for videos, don’t know – I’ve never created one. Maple Butter.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Top Stories Photo & Video Galleries Top Lists Trending Topics Twitter YouTube Facebook iPhone Google Video More Topics. For example, angel funding is more prevalent in the United States than in Europe. Also make sure to research which type of investors fit your business. People Recommended Mashable Staff More people.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Top Stories Photo & Video Galleries Top Lists Trending Topics Twitter YouTube Facebook iPhone Google Video More Topics. Facebook Co-Founder’s Startup Asana Launches Publicly. AngelList is an online community that matches startups with investors to streamline the fundraising process. Trending Stories.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

When a co-founder walks out of a company — as was the case for me — you’ve already been dealt a heavy blow. Don’t exacerbate the issue by needing to figure out how to deal with a large equity deadweight on your hands (investors won’t like that the #2 stakeholder is absent, even estranged, from your company). Company : BricaBox.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., Mr. Dreymann moved his family from Israel in 2004 after co-founding Goodmail in Mountain View, Calif., How well a failed entrepreneur has managed his company, and how well he worked with his previous investors, makes a difference in his ability to persuade U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

I was hanging out the other day with my buddy Jody Sherman, founder & CEO of EcoMom. I was an angel investor in his company, made a bunch of calls on his behalf and then I personally sent it out on AngelList. We talk about all of this in the video. Through this process he raised $2 million.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

This dynamic births serial entrepreneurs and motivates angels and venture capitalists to pull their friends into investment deals. For the first-time entrepreneur or founder looking for seed stage funding, this circle can be especially difficult to penetrate.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 20, 2011

Footbo has been running since 2007 and is led by co-founder and CEO Mani Honigstein – full article on Techcrunch. The company was founded in 2009 by Uzi Shmilovici raised the funding from OCA Ventures , I2A Fund and angel investors. million in its third financing round led by Pitango Venture Capital.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Most were on paper and video; 20 were invited to pitch in person. Startup Culture Lessons From Mad Men - OnStartups , July 26, 2010 The following is a guest post by Brian Halligan who is my co-founder and CEO at HubSpot (which means he gets to do most of the really hard work). graph consists of a set of nodes connected by edges.

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www.readwriteweb.com

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Photo credit: althecat See Also The Startup Financing Dating Game: Courting Potential Investors Be Prepared! Posted by: Heather Plude | February 21, 2010 7:19 AM @John Yeng Kevin Rose is an angel investor, serial entrepreneur and the Founder of Digg and WeFollow. Invest in Advisors. my favorite.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Poplytics – online surveys and analytics AskYourTargetMarket – market research surveys SurveyMonkey - granddaddy of on-line surveys Amazon Mechanical Turk – you can set up a question and get answers PickFu – A/B testing $5 for 50 opinions Collaboration Dropbox – store, sync, and, share files online.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

.” Hackernews list of “Tools of the Trade” for startups - includes over 150 SaaS tools used by startups, and over 150 comments with interesting insights from founders. Videos/presentations. Use us to power any video chat applications (talkshow, education apps, collaboration, etc). Google Keywords. Wordtracker.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

I’ve been hearing about the so-called Series A Crunch for at least six months, and in recent weeks, I’ve spoken with more than 20 venture capitalists, angel investors, incubator heads, lawyers, and other necessary cogs in the ecosystem trying to get some details about it. Pando Daily. PandoMonthly. PandoDigest.

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