Up and Running

AUGUST 30, 2021

Angel investors, venture capital firms, accelerators, and (maybe) the newer equity crowdfunding will look to see if you have previous experience in startups. More often than not, whatever it is you are building will require a complementary skill set, whether that’s business/finance, sales/marketing, or design/engineering.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2017

I still have to tell some entrepreneurs that even with the best idea, they have to move to Silicon Valley to find the investors they need, or they need to move to the U.S. Also, investors from the super-hubs (Silicon Valley, New York, or Boston), won’t assume anyone outside their domain has the savvy and resources to make it happen.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2013

I still have to tell some entrepreneurs that even with the best idea, they have to move to Silicon Valley to find the investors they need, or they need to move to the U.S. Also, investors from the super-hubs (Silicon Valley, New York, or Boston), won’t assume anyone outside their domain has the savvy and resources to make it happen.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2014

Exchanging your services for services is possible with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people. In reality, the financing valley of death tests the commitment, determination, and problem solving ability of every entrepreneur. Joint venture with distributor or beneficiary.

Entrepreneur 283

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2017

Exchanging your services for services is possible with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people. In reality, the financing valley of death tests the commitment, determination, and problem solving ability of every entrepreneur. Joint venture with distributor or beneficiary.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 20, 2016

Thus the top priority of every entrepreneur who wants funding should be to build and highlight their “dream team” of co-founders, executives and advisers, to attract the biggest and best investors. Solo entrepreneurs rarely find an investor. Team members have investor relationships. Relish the challenges of problem solving.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Exchanging your services for services is possible with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people. In reality, the financing valley of death tests the commitment, determination, and problem solving ability of every entrepreneur. Joint venture with distributor or beneficiary.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2018

Exchanging your services for services is possible with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people. In reality, the financing valley of death tests the commitment, determination, and problem solving ability of every entrepreneur. Joint venture with distributor or beneficiary.

Intellectual Property 134

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2015

I still have to tell some entrepreneurs that even with the best idea, they have to move to Silicon Valley to find the investors they need, or they need to move to the U.S. Also, investors from the super-hubs (Silicon Valley, New York, or Boston), won’t assume anyone outside their domain has the savvy and resources to make it happen.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 6, 2012

Boasting resources for life sciences, bio-tech, medical devices, photonics, clean energy, and engineering, BU can help to incubate businesses in just about any physical technology. Engineering Translational Technology Center. Syracuse Student Sandbox. Current participants include Craftistas, CrowdRouser, and Flat Shoes Tattoos.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2015

Exchanging your services for services is possible with legal counsel, accountants, engineers, and even sales people. In reality, the financing valley of death tests the commitment, determination, and problem solving ability of every entrepreneur. Joint venture with distributor or beneficiary.

Entrepreneur 120

Entrepreneur Intellectual Property Technical Review Incubator 120

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

In this period (less than 2 years) he has brought on incredibly talented senior execs is sales, marketing, product management, client services, finance, vp engineering and more. In addition to helping manage the board Chris also helps represent the interests of the angel investors / common stock holders.

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Gust

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

However, there is actually much more to Gust than is apparent on the surface, or even from the viewpoint of a current user (either entrepreneur or investor). As I’ve discussed elsewhere, Gust’s long-term goal is to serve as the infrastructure platform for the entire global, early stage finance industry.

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View from Seed

MARCH 24, 2021

Understanding Different Types of Angel Investors “The Foolish Angel: Often bucketed with others above into a “Friends, Family, and Fools” category, I think that the truly naïve, blind, supporter-type angel deserves his own category.” ” (David Beisel). ” (David Beisel). ” (Melody Koh).

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

There was a lot of consumer internet activity again…resurgence of things, but it was still mysterious, venture capital was still kind of closed, 1st time entrepreneurs had a lot of questions that were unanswered, and there was still some sort of hand waiving around all the financing stuff and so we took it on….”. That is a personality type.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2017

Although we were studying finance, we were always more interested in tech. Before graduating, I decided to forgo the finance path and instead dove into engineering and later sales and product management roles at VersaSuite (health IT) in Austin. But we never lost the finance bug. We were infatuated with tech.

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Austin Startup

MAY 2, 2017

Catapulting Deep Learning Discoveries As an active angel investor and advisor, I derive huge energy from the startup journey. Today, May 2nd, two years from the day I invested in the angel round, the company announces Series A financing with major institutional support and launches Bitfusion Flex in beta.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2019

Engineering Serendipity Making real connections starts with having the right people in the room. We start by doing our homework and researching all of the most interesting people and companies coming from all over the world and add in all of the local entrepreneurs and investors that we know. Serendipity is what SXSW is all about.

Silicon Valley 50

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Here’s the punchline: if you run your company as if you have closed a VC equity financing round even though you actually closed a convertible debt round, you’ll be in much better shape when it comes time to raise your Series A financing. Investors are dismayed that there are no real customers yet.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 20, 2011

I’d also encourage every VC and angel investor to read it. Gnip Is Hiring : Sales people and engineers in Boulder. The Fiction of 20% : This is a classic post from Fred Wilson that came up over the weekend in the midst of a negotiation on a deal I’m working on. Every entrepreneur should read it.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. Not Boston focused, but definitely follow his reports of PE and VC financings and the state of the venture market. @danprimack. Andy Payne – OpenMarket, Fansnap, angel investor ( blog , @payne92 ). Entrepreneurial Development Firms. Ruby specialists.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 7, 2010

That is debt financing that converts into equity at the Series A valuation once the price for that is set. (I I believe Jeff Clavier and many other seed investors are in agreement with me on this issue.) But the right funding strategy for her is $900,000-$1 million, potentially from angel investors or small funds.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

C-Corp largely because (i) VCs have historically favored C-Corps for nuanced tax and other reasons, and (ii) virtually all of the standardized legal infrastructure around startup finance and equity compensation assumes a C-Corp. However, times are changing. It requires real financial, tax, legal, etc.

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Diego Basch

MARCH 14, 2013

Whether I like it or not I’m an angel investor , even though I prefer a different label. I prefer investing in health, transportation, education, and (under some very specific circumstances) finance. I don’t want to picture myself as a has-been who doesn’t have the fire to build another company.

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San Francisco Startup Silicon Valley Seed Stage 55

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. Not Boston focused, but definitely follow his reports of PE and VC financings and the state of the venture market. @danprimack. Bill Warner – Avid, Techstars, Angel investor (@billwarner). Terrible Labs – Ruby on Rails, Web and Mobile. Places to Hang.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2010

Often when startups who have raised venture capital need another round of financing they will turn to their existing investors to give them money before raising from outsiders. a loan) that is later converted to equity at the time of the next financing. They might not replace an engineer or two that quits.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

But Quora boasts active participation from entrepreneurs, engineers, investors, designers, journalists and so on, so that the quality of the responses are quite high. Who better to answer than the company's engineering lead. What are the top qualities to look for in angel investors?

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Steve Blank

JULY 1, 2014

Other than “I’ll know it when I see it”, there’s no formal way for an investor to assess project maturity or quantify risks. Other than measuring engineering progress, there’s no standard language to communicate progress. What’s been missing for everyone is: a common language for investors to communicate objectives to startups.

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Sacramento Framework Customer Development Lean 308

500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

Micro-VC: The Artist Formerly Known as “Super Angel” The “Micro-VC” funds (also known by the misnomer “Super Angel funds”), started as far back as the mid-90s with Ron Conway and earlier incarnations of his SV Angel fund. They are operators, through and through.

Silicon Valley 74

Silicon Valley Early Stage Venture Capital Valuation 74

David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

Everyone wanted to work in finance. Specialized alumni tech networks : Accelerate Yale (which had merged into it YaleFintech and Yale Tech), Yale Science & Engineering Association. Educate more alumni angel investors. “CEO is the new Analyst.”. Everyone wants to work in tech startups.

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www.mint.com

MARCH 9, 2010

Has anyone in the engineering team actually shipped a product? I worry about everything: money, sales, engineering, support, and recruiting. Check out the personal finance topic by clicking here. But you should beware of boards that are only the founders and their family and friends. You may think I’m kidding.

Software Review 68

Software Review Startup Post-Money Valuation Technical Review 68

Up and Running

JULY 1, 2015

All these requirements need to be financed. There are other alternative ways to jumpstart your business engine. Many entrepreneurs use bootstrapping, which means financing your company by scraping together funds in unconventional ways. These outside investors will either be angel investors or venture capitalists.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

He argued that software engineers don’t finish what they start, and that you’re better off paying a technical person than partnering with one. He picked engineers who were technically-driven but not entrepreneurially-driven. He picked engineers who weren’t comfortable taking risks as great as he wanted to take.

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Professor VC

MARCH 10, 2009

His latest venture, Bharosa, was sold to Oracle for a 6X multiple in 3 years to his angel investors, a sweet close to triple digit IRR. His goal in building the company was to spend 3 years building value and find a good home for the engineers and product. What does it take to be an Angel Investor? ► July. (1).

Bootstrapping 28

Bootstrapping San Jose Silicon Valley Software Review 28

www.informationarbitrage.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

It is gently laying the foundation for a subsequent financing, helping the CTO set sensible milestones to be achieved that can demonstrate execution skill and release cycle management. And if this business partnership doesn't work out, the CTO / Founder, the engine of value for the company, is stuck in a bad, bad place.

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Up and Running

APRIL 4, 2022

For instance, putting your physical address on the contact page is a good way to rank in search engine results when someone conducts a regional search. Friends and family are a common source of financing too. If you’re in more of a startup environment, angel investors and venture capitalists may be your best option.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

Yet while we’ve reinvented how startups build their companies , startup investors are still having board meetings like it’s the 19 th century. 3) An experienced board brings an extensive network of customers, partners, help in recruiting, follow-on financing, etc. 1) It’s an obligation that came with the check. The Wrong Metrics.

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