Hippoland

AUGUST 21, 2016

Portfolio founder: There’s an investor who wants to invest about $500k. Portfolio founder: That’s the problem. I want “value-add” investors in my round. This especially happens when founders start getting a lot of inbound requests from investors to meet, so they think that they have a lot of investor options.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 14, 2013

Amsterdam-based startup accelerator Rockstart last year launched a program to find and support ten teams of startup founders in Europe. It recently announced the results of its incubator program – and the results look promising.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 2, 2016

Unfortunately, as a startup advisor and angel investor, I’ve seen too many ventures with great potential get destroyed or set back by legal and other shortcuts that should never have been allowed to happen. A co-founder who loses interest and backs out early will likely be back to claim his half after you reach unicorn status.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 10, 2015

As an advisor to entrepreneurs and active angel investor, I often get questions about the realism of the Shark Tank TV series, compared to professional investor negotiations. The simple answer is that with all the staging of TV lights and billionaire investors, it’s nothing like Silicon Valley.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

” If you launch a fizzy water product you may think your competitors are Badoit and San Pelligrino but a substitute product might be flat water like Propel or cold green tea. Read plenty of “what went wrong” eulogies by founders and see what you can learn. In economics this is known as a “substitute product.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2012

If your startup desperately needs an investor, you may not care if the investor is a so-called “angel” investor, or a venture capitalist (VC). Founder network. In contrast, if your best friend's father is the CEO of a Fortune 1000 company, you might readily find a valuable set of angels. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

If your startup desperately needs an investor, you may not care if the investor is a so-called “angel” investor, or a venture capitalist (VC). Founder network. In contrast, if your best friend's father is the CEO of a Fortune 1000 company, you might readily find a valuable set of angels. Marty Zwilling.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Bush and Park remembered the advice one of their early angel investors had given them: "Get close enough to your customer to understand what they really want. A remarkable entrepreneurial story, similar to TripAdvisor and Akamai, where the founder (or near-founder in the case of Akamai's Paul Sagan) lead the business over many years.

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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. These days revenue is the best source of capital. That’s cool. You rock Guy.

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Software Review Startup Post-Money Valuation Technical Review 68

Up and Running

AUGUST 13, 2010

Consider this one: a cool, fun-to-drive electric car, cheaper than most new cars, started by a young-ish former tech game company president with one successful exit behind him, in a very green-friendly Oregon university town, with a high-powered team including MIT whiz, finance veteran, and auto industry veterans.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 12, 2010

Some of the speakers are: - Jim Buckle, CFO, LoveFilm; - William Kendall, ex-CEO, Green & Blacks; - Paul Excel, Chief Customer Innovation Officer, BT. - Dan Turner, Co-Founder & Director, ByBox. - Emma Loisel, Angel Investor. - Rafael Offer, Former Lead of Diageo’s Venture Business. - Faisal Galaria, (..)

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2008

I started thinking about this yesterday when Jeff Fluhr, founder of Stub Hub spoke at my San Jose State class. I liked the founders and considered making a personal investment, but ended up passing. What does it take to be an Angel Investor? I am an active angel investor and on the board of Sand Hill Angels.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Dan is an entrepreneur, and angel investor and became a highly sought-after coach in the SaaS industry and founder of SaaS academy after exiting three technology companies within a ten-year period. He's an entrepreneur, angel investor and became a highly sought after coach in the SaaS industry.

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Scalable Startup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

We miss you and look forward to seeing you soon.The NM Green Chamber of Commerce wants a ‘buy local’ app. . > * **@tomnora* < [link] >* |. > > *@cowlow< [link] > > * | *LinkedIn < [link] >* *. Tom,Thanks for the thoughtful note. Does such a thing already exist?Would

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Ralph Mack, Julie Allegro, and other prominent angel investors, and I’ve also agreed to be the CEO’s primary mentor. As the founder, that was more of my personality at that time, having grown up as a programmer. Brant Barton, my co-founder, also played a major role as did Sam Decker, our founding CMO.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Now the bad news: some venture capitallists have a bias against startups with an explicit positive social impact, on the grounds that they have a smaller addressable market, and that the founders are not sufficiently focused on creating shareholder wealth. J.M.Kaplan Innovation Prize. “The Bloomberg New Economy Forum Solutions.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

UbiQD Founder and CEO Hunter McDaniel, PhD, explained more about how UbiGro works. We can make green, yellow, orange, red, and everything in between, simply by changing the size of these particles. I pitched at ArcView (cannabis investor network) recently in Santa Monica. What is your competitive advantage?

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venturebeat.com

JULY 12, 2012

The Bing Fund, Microsoft’s newest incubator, to be headed by VoodooPC founder Rahul Sood. ” “I think the number one reason I love Microsoft is we have a living founder and chairman who’s dedicated his life to making the world better,” Sood said. 3 days ago. 4 days ago. From $1.5B Editor’s picks.

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Up and Running

APRIL 5, 2017

One of these fields is green energy. Recently, Bill Gates established a $1 billion dollar fund called Breakthrough Energy Ventures , expressly for the purpose of investing in green energy startups. This high profile fund is exciting because it means the solution to green energy is simply not there yet.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

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. Visa can make an amazing investor, just be sure to ask for money when you don’t need it. investors like great companies, that’s really the filter. you can hire for those.

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Genuine VC

JANUARY 29, 2008

As I noted in my post last fall about “ Seven Coming Digital Uber-trends which Are Ripe for Startup Opportunities ,” consumers have an progressively heightened awareness around living green, and the web provides a natural vehicle for connecting people to resources and services which lessen impact of individuals on environment.

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Genuine VC

JANUARY 29, 2008

As I noted in my post last fall about “ Seven Coming Digital Uber-trends which Are Ripe for Startup Opportunities ,” consumers have an progressively heightened awareness around living green, and the web provides a natural vehicle for connecting people to resources and services which lessen impact of individuals on environment.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. In later posts I’m going to get into more detail on specific topics like hiring, raising money, what types of ideas have the potential to get big, finding your founders, and the like.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Otherwise, for those yet-another-facebook-type social web apps, just hire competent programmers and give them salary and perks that normal professionals expect, and not hope that their compulsion covers for your managerial incompetence and angel investor micromanaging idiocy. Fred Bosick. March 26, 2011 at 3:03 pm. [.]

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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. Founders Institute Plain Preferred Term Sheet â?? List of Angel/SuperAngel Investors for entrepreneurs. Venture Hacks Angel List â??

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