The Next Web

JANUARY 27, 2013

There will inevitably be delays as the SEC works to implement a new framework to support this legislation, but it would be wise for entrepreneurs to start comparing equity crowdfunding with their alternative options now. Let’s take a look at what equity crowdfunding looks like when compared to the traditional capital raising process.

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Steve Blank

JULY 1, 2014

While the posts were theory I was a bit surprised when John Selep , an early-stage investor, approached me and said he was actually using the Investment Readiness Level (IRL) in practice. Since I began incorporating the Investment Readiness Level framework I’ve made three observations. Here’s John’s story. But the ‘ah-hah!’

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

This 4-part story takes stock of the Austin ecosystem based on the 4Cs framework — culture, capital , customers , and competencies. My previous posts on why early stage companies should move to Silicon Valley focused on the 3C framework comprising customers , capital , and competencies. Should Early Stage Startups Move to Austin?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

I hope I straddled people’s points of view well enough not to have offended anybody while adding a framework for how I think about the service. That way you can have the best of a fund that has deeper pockets and angels so you can have more people helping. What about “angel&# investors? Domain knowledge.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2019

For more information, visit atxstartupcrawl.com SXSW Pitch (formerly SXSW Accelerator) SXSW Pitch is the official SXSW platform to allow early stage technology startups to pitch their product and/or services to industry technology experts, high profiled media personnel, and Venture Capitalists / Angel Investors.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

This 4-part story, however, explores the Austin ecosystem based on the 4Cs framework —  culture , capital, customers , and competencies. Consequently, the city has now built up a respectable pool of angel investors that have not only the cash, but also the scars, wits, and friends to lift you off.

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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. This is John Jantsch.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Gary Vaynerchuk: Personal branding master and creator of Wine Library TV, Gary Vaynerchuk is also an angel investor with an expanding portfolio of companies. Paige Craig: Adrenaline-junkie Paige Craig is a former marine and intelligence consultant who’s now a prolific angel investor and startup advisor based out of Los Angeles.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Understand the feedback as it will help you create a functional framework for the product. A builder utilises a framework to make sure that a building will be constructed appropriately. In a conventional format, startups pitch their idea to crowdfunding firms like Angel investors. Build a Sound Business Plan.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 17, 2015

Entrepreneurship: While entrepreneurship classes can sometimes feel outdated and contrived, they can be useful in terms of developing a framework to evaluate the quality of an idea, and then laying out a roadmap to build a business around that idea. This can be particularly important for founders with “non-traditional” career backgrounds.

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2015

In addition, he is the founding chair and active member of TiE Angels , one of the most active Angel investor groups in the Valley with 140 members and 26 investments in the last three years, mostly in the B2B space. He expected to give me this framework – amiable, rational… I said, ‘He was an a **e.’ ”.

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

Well of course we’re focusing on this and that, and you can take a lot of times with frameworks or whatever, I say that doesn’t matter. I’m not going to read this to you, but swat, core competence and et cetera, these are ideas and the goal is focus and I really don’t care what framework.

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JANUARY 9, 2014

Simon Sinek’s Golden Circle framework “People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it” Simon Sinek If your customers believe in your mission, then they’ll warm to you and listen to what you offer and how. He points out that most buying decisions are based on emotion, rather than logic. This is where the Golden Circle comes in.

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View from Seed

APRIL 8, 2020

Currently, he is an advisor, board member and angel investor. After talking to your champion, you should have a good understanding of the decision-making framework they’re working with. Stevens has held roles across verticals such as head of sales, marketing, product, and professional services at five startups over twenty years.

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OnlyOnce

JULY 9, 2013

Chapter 20: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Financing…Equity Investors, Venture Capitalists, Angel Investors, Strategic Investors, Debt, Convertible Debt, Venture Debt, Bank Loans, Personal Debt, Bootstrapping, Customer Financing, Your Own Cash Flow. Chapter 27: Have You Learned Your Lesson?

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

A Lean Startup methodology offers entrepreneurs a framework to focus on what’s important: Business Model Discovery. The Investment Readiness Level (IRL) The collective wisdom of venture investors (including angel investors, and venture capitalists) over the past decades has been mostly subjective.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Here’s a simple framework for how to come up with those numbers. This is the key, because Q — what an institutional investor would accept — is a well-understood system. So what kind of return does an angel investor need to make on their $84,000? What about $Y/mo?&#

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

net is the only framework in which you can build an app for all the major mobile operating systems (iphone, android, wp7). First of all,NET is a “framework”, not a “language” as you have said in your post. They use the MVC framework, which gets almost entirely out of your way. net implementation.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 31, 2016

Manage to those metrics and use that as a framework to communicate. He’s formed multiple venture capital funds, founded angel groups, and is an angel investor. Your Board can be a remarkable source of contacts and expertise. Learn how to work with them. Set out goals and metrics for your business.

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Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 25, 2017

Ruling Out Rather Than Ruling In – Jerry Neumann (angel investor). He uses frameworks kinda like we do — not to prevent exceptions but to know when he’s making them. And they’re not about making a CEO jump through hoops and burn a week of productivity prepping for a presentation.

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 18, 2013

Angel investor Allen Morgan (@allenmorgan) summed it up in a recent Tweet : “It’s a power law relationship: for entrepreneurs, >90% of the advice worth heeding comes from <10% of the advice givers.” Then, you can weigh each bit of advice within the framework of your own convictions.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

interactions, widgets, effects Django – high-level Python framework Cappuccino – open source framework for app development Kodingen – cloud development environment, code editor, hosting service, collaboration platform. What about Django [link] as Web Development Framework?

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Brooklyn Bridge Ventures became the largest investor in Editorially last fall and I couldn’t be more excited to finally be able to tell you about it. The round includes Lerer Ventures, who participated with the same level of support, Betaworks and a host of experienced angel investors from the design and creative community.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Christie is director of New Media Ventures , the first national network of angel investors supporting media and tech startups that disrupt politics and catalyze progressive change. We asked Christie to give a sense of how she sees the relationship between Lean Impact and Lean Startup.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 2, 2011

This approach offers VC’s and Angels a semi-formal framework for measuring progress and offering their guidance in the “search”? When the boardroom is bits, angel-funded startups can get experienced advice – independent of geography. An angel investor or VC can multiply their reach and/or depth. 4) Geography.

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David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

Educate more alumni angel investors. At Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of NY , we’ve seen enormous appetite for angel education among high net worths and family offices. A Guiding Framework for Entrepreneurial Universities. Entrepreneurship the Princeton Way. The Innovative and Entrepreneurial University.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Express : Express is built on NodeJS framework. Web frameworks. Zend Framework (PHP). open source framework for Ruby. a PHP open source framework. high-level Python framework. open source framework for app development. preselect/add JavaScript frameworks and test your code. Did I mention itâ??s

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

This type of framework is useful for: Internal consistency in how you think about the product and the needs it solves for customers. As angel investor and writer, Lenny Rachitsy shared in an excellent tweetstorm: 4/ For many people, positioning was taught to them in school using "The Positioning Statement."

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Investors are also mining for leads such sources as: – product crowdfunding sites ( Indiegogo *); – tech communities ( Producthunt ); – angel group platforms ( Gust ); – expert networks (e.g., – angel investor networks ( AngelList , FundersClub , OurCrowd , Republic *, SeedInvest ). .

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

He hands you your driver’s license which you’d just shown to security and suddenly you realize this person is one of the biggest angel investors in the universe. The Ciceronian outline, a framework for putting your pitch in order, comes from the man’s deep understanding of human nature.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 4, 2019

What I’ve learned from my experiences as a four-time entrepreneur and an angel investor in more than thirty startups is that while it often looks as if world-altering business opportunities emerge by accident, they can, in fact, be discovered and scaled in a methodical way. Tell us your story. Why did you start your business?

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VC Cafe

JUNE 27, 2012

“The Digital Innovation Charter “ - this is a crowdsourcing initiative to set a a new framework programme for research and innovation in the EU. If we want to inspire young people to get into startups, they need to have good role models to aspire to. The pillars of the Charter so far are: 1.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 15, 2011

This approach offers VCs and angels a semi-formal framework for measuring progress and offering their guidance in the "search"? Geography : When the boardroom is bits, angel-funded startups can get experienced advice - independent of geography. An angel investor or VC can multiply their reach and/or depth.

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www.drowningamerican.com

JUNE 22, 2012

Advocate for the appropriate use of SAAS, design patterns, frameworks, SOA, ORM, and MVC. Do you think angel investors are interested in start ups without traction, or would the project need some sort of “social proof” first before anyone puts their confidence in your start up?

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onstartups.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Combating the Innovators Dilemma – HubSpot’s Experiments Framework (3 weeks ago). Raising Money On AngelList: 21 Tips From Two Active Angels (1 month ago). Raising Money On AngelList: 21 Tips From Two Active Angels (1 month ago). 5 Reasons An Angel Investor Will Walk From Your Deal (1 month ago). Article Index].

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viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

In many ways, good technical co-founders and angel investors are looking for the same thing. You don’t know anyone, you don’t have experience, you don’t have traction and you don’t have investors. More important that you learn Django or whatever advanced web framework your team will be using.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

It could mean an operating system, or aprogramming language, or a "framework" built on top of a programminglanguage. We investsmall amounts of our own, like angel investors. [ Fortunately for PayPal they switched CEOs instead. Platform is a vague word. 6 ]Since people sometimes call us VCs, I should add that werenot.

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