Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2019

The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capitalists) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than the more risky research and development efforts. Leave the world of new computer chips and new drugs to the big companies, and people with deep pockets.

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Intellectual Property Technical Review Startup Incubator 219

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Every new startup I know dreams of being funded by an angel investor. Get your Internet domain name and website. In today’s world, if you don’t have a web site up and running, you will not be perceived as a real company. Build an investor presentation and summary. Build a prototype product. Marty Zwilling.

Angel Investor 224

Angel Investor Intellectual Property Technical Review Elevator Pitch 224

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Every new startup I know dreams of being funded by an angel investor. Get your Internet domain name and website. In today’s world, if you don’t have a web site up and running, you will not be perceived as a real company. Build an investor presentation and summary. Build a prototype product.

Intellectual Property 249

Intellectual Property Angel Investor Technical Review Elevator Pitch 249

Gust

DECEMBER 16, 2012

ABC Shark Tank Angels via Elite Daily. Every new startup I know dreams of being funded early by one of the 318,000 active Angel investors in the USA alone. Get your Internet domain name and website. In today’s world, if you don’t have a web site up and running, you will not be perceived as a real company.

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Angel Investor Intellectual Property Elevator Pitch Angel Groups 179

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2014

The problem is that professional investors (Angels and Venture Capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than the more risky research and development efforts. Leave the world of new computer chips and new drugs to the big companies, and people with deep pockets.

Entrepreneur 283

Entrepreneur Intellectual Property Technical Review Incubator 283

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2017

The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capitalists) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than the more risky research and development efforts. Leave the world of new computer chips and new drugs to the big companies, and people with deep pockets.

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Product Development Cost Developer Product 177

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

The problem is that professional investors (Angels and Venture Capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than the more risky research and development efforts. Leave the world of new computer chips and new drugs to the big companies, and people with deep pockets.

Intellectual Property 309

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2018

The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than early projections and product development. Leave the world of new computer chips and new drugs to the big companies, and people with deep pockets. Apply for contests and business grants.

Intellectual Property 134

Intellectual Property Technical Review Startup Incubator 134

Up and Running

AUGUST 18, 2014

When I hear the word ‘startup’, my mind immediately begins playing a reel of a bunch of twenty-something year old web developers, huddled together in a retro office somewhere in the SF Bay Area. “Startups looking for angel investors or venture capital (VC) absolutely need an exit strategy because investors require it.

Small Business 154

Small Business Exit Strategy Cofounder Angel Investor 154

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2016

Even big companies I know find it hard to keep their in-house programmers up to speed on the latest technologies, including mobile devices, the latest Web technologies, and multi-tenant applications in the Cloud. Many of these new entrepreneurs come to me looking for an angel investor or crowdfunding, which will never happen.

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Entrepreneur Angel Investor Social Media LLC 120

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2011

But with the speed of the Internet, these have become as old-fashioned as museum curators. These are both experienced entrepreneurs and angel investors. VentureHacks also created AngelList, a mailing list of prominent business angels that facilitates entrepreneur fundraising. Both Sides of the Table , by Mark Suster.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2023

To get started, go to the International Business Innovation Association web site, and use the search tool provided to see what’s available in your area. That’s about the same ratio that angel investors claim. According to some recent feedback, YCombinator takes roughly 3 percent of applicants who apply to each batch cycle.

Incubator 231

Incubator Silicon Valley North America Small Business Administration 231

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2015

Even big companies I know find it hard to keep their in-house programmers up to speed on the latest technologies, including mobile devices, the latest Web technologies, and multi-tenant applications in the Cloud. Many of these new entrepreneurs come to me looking for an angel investor or crowdfunding, which will never happen.

Entrepreneur 120

Entrepreneur Angel Investor Social Media LLC 120

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 A deep dive into the Foundry Group investment philosophy including an interesting discussion of their investing Themes. “… our lens is: Internet Software Companies anywhere in the U.S. If you are outside internet software we are not going to invest. was starting.

Technical Review 288

Technical Review Venture Capital Silicon Valley Software Review 288

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

To get started, go to the International Business Innovation Association web site, and use the lookup tool provided to see what’s available in your area. That’s about the same ratio that angel investors claim. According to some recent feedback, YCombinator takes roughly 3 percent of applicants who apply to each batch cycle.

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Incubator Silicon Valley North America Startup 398

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2015

The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than the more risky research and development efforts. Leave the world of new computer chips and new drugs to the big companies, and people with deep pockets.

Entrepreneur 120

Entrepreneur Intellectual Property Technical Review Incubator 120

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2022

Most Internet businesses should show profitability in two years, while new medicines may take ten years to pass FDA and other safety tests. Investors will look at competitors in your industry for the norms. Facebook is indeed the largest growth site on the web, with almost three billion user accounts, all free.

Revenue 297

Revenue Widget Angel Investor Early Stage 297

View from Seed

AUGUST 26, 2015

And although this is written for angel investors, I think entrepreneurs can only benefit by increasing their knowledge around these investors and hope you’ll continue reading if that’s you. Paul Graham on how to be an angel investor. I’ll also include a few links below with some other perspectives. Other thoughts?

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Angel Investor Software Review Silicon Valley 120

View from Seed

AUGUST 26, 2015

And although this is written for angel investors, I think entrepreneurs can only benefit by increasing their knowledge around these investors and hope you’ll continue reading if that’s you. Paul Graham on how to be an angel investor. I’ll also include a few links below with some other perspectives. Other thoughts?

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Angel Investor Software Review Silicon Valley 120

SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

How-to learn about angel/vc term sheets - Gabriel Weinberg , June 28, 2010 I think every startup entrepreneur (and angel investor) should have a good understanding of financing term sheets. It sounds like Angel Boot Camp rocked. You can follow us all on twitter via the new hacker-angels list. Delegate and automate.

Cofounder 175

Cofounder Technical Cofounder Term Sheet Startup 175

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

SaaS 101: 7 Simple Lessons From Inside HubSpot - OnStartups , July 19, 2010 It’s been a little over 4 years since I officially launched my internet marketing software company , HubSpot. Computer scientists call the study of graphs “ network theory ,&# but on the web the word “network&# is used to refer to the websites themselves).

Software Review 217

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Technical Review 217

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

One of the great joys of doing the web series This Week in VC every week is that I get to spend time with great people debating the issues of our day including how our industry is evolving as well as insights into how companies got started, got their initial traction and dealt with adversities. Oh, yeah. Positive feedback feeds the idea.

Connecticut 286

Connecticut Cofounder Silicon Valley Web 286

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Build a web presence. Find partners or investors. basic infrastructural costs like phone and internet service, invoicing software, etc…. Build a web presence. To learn more about great website design, check out Grow Your Small Business With These 7 Website Design Best Practices and 7 Modern Web Design Trends for 2019.

Angel Investor 85

Angel Investor Small Business Business Plan Intellectual Property 85

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

“Yes&# was given to me by one of my favorite angel investor / seed VC’s to work with – John Greathouse of Rincon Venture Partners and author of the blog InfoChachkie that you should check out because it is filled with great info from a guy who has been a very successful operator. I see all the deals come together.

Silicon Valley 293

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

The dinner parties now are filled with self-righteous angel investors bragging about how many deals they are in on. The best angels will do very well just at the best real estate investors did well in good times and bad. I continue to be excited about the Mobile Web (as distinct from the Mobile App).

Florida 299

Florida Technical Review San Antonio Los Angeles 299

Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

Consumer Internet investing seems to have split off from traditional Venture Capital, and is creating a new category of VC’s: Lean VC’s. The Rise of the “Lean VC’s” – Consumer Internet Gets Funded. For a few reasons, I’ve been struggling to make sense of all the noise happening in what others have called the Super Angel arena.

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Lean Internet Silicon Valley Venture Capital 262

Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

You can find a lot of great videos, blogs and books on the Internet, but there is still no replacement for direct one-on-one mentoring. The Internet is full of great videos and blogs. We all use the same Internet. This number will double by the end of 2018 as we invite new mentors from Dallas, Houston and San Antonio.

Texas 97

Texas San Antonio Houston Dallas 97

Up and Running

APRIL 11, 2012

Investors know that among successful giants, like Facebook, Google and Internet Explorer, none were first to market. In case you don’t know gust.com , it’s a web platform for entrepreneurs and angel investors to meet and share information. Don’t overemphasize the importance of “first to market.”

Business Plan 85

Business Plan Elevator Pitch Technical Review Due Diligence 85

Version One Ventures

JULY 29, 2021

The Series A is led by Accel, with participation from Point Nine Capital (who led their seed), Version One, and angel investors. . We believe that decentralized applications (dApps) are the future of the Internet, but it’s still too hard to develop blockchain applications. By making Web 3.0 development as easy as Web 2.0,

Serbia 78

Serbia Due Diligence Developer Angel Investor 78

crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Angel Investors Do Make Money, Data Shows 2.5x Dark Social: We Have the Whole History of the Web Wrong | The Atlantic - [link]. ” – [link].

Social Media 93

Social Media Small Business Design Media 93

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

The Principle of Contrast in Web Design – [link]. 20 Examples of using the Color Orange in Web Design – [link]. Showcase Of Web Design In Germany - [link]. Writing for the Web: The Right Strategy - [link]. Writing for the Web: The Right Strategy - [link]. Fresh Examples of Web 2.0

Social Media 92

Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

To get started, go to the International Business Innovation Association web site, and use the lookup tool provided to see what’s available in your area. That’s about the same ratio that angel investors claim. According to some recent feedback, YCombinator takes roughly 3 percent of applicants who apply to each batch cycle.

Incubator 218

Incubator Silicon Valley North America Small Business Administration 218

Transformify

OCTOBER 15, 2019

We use freelancers in several different areas in our business ranging from copywriting and creative to web development and even legal services. In my opinion, the trend of remote working will continue to grow, the internet brings people together and means physical location is less important than ever. About the author.

Demand 49

Demand Hiring Angel Investor Security 49

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. On November 28, 2012. November 29, 2012.

Technical Review 93

Technical Review Silicon Valley Incubator Syria 93

Scalable Startup

JULY 20, 2013

But more importantly, the labor of moving software around by humans and physical media and even the Internet has been taken down to almost zero. SaaS is the culmination of over 20 years of changes from ASPs, client-server, the web, higher speeds, always on, mobile 2.0, It vastly reduces computer waste. You know it will happen. >

Mobile 22

Mobile Hawaii Angel Investor Early Stage 22

YoungUpstarts

JULY 1, 2019

Besides, considering that it is entirely web-based, Forex trading is accessible to everybody. All you need is a steady internet connection and a good demo account. Angel Investors. Getting an angel investor on board is a good way to find the money you need. You have to pick a reliable, regulated one.

Finance 127

Finance Angel Investor Offshore Equity 127

The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

We boast the world’s second highest fixed broadband Internet subscription rate only an inch behind Sweden. Ninety-four percent of households are equipped with a computer and have Internet access (the others are still playing 8-bit Nintendo). The Next Web and the Next Women) and several government backed initiatives.

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