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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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 21, 2014

Continuing into 2014, there will likely be a shift in the role of the investor into a more hands-on player in businesses. More non-professional investors will become angel investors and entrepreneurs will benefit from their domain expertise. In 2013 the funding landscape changed with the JOBS act.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Olin College Foundry Program. link] – Not a meetup, but a great mentorship program started by serial CTO Sean Lindsay. Startup Institute – Practical training program to prepare you to join a startup. Lean Startup Circle Boston – Meetup dedicated to the lean startup and customer development methodology.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2012

If you are new to the entrepreneurial world of startups, you are likely confused by the terminology of seed-stage, lean startups, micro-VCs, and Super Angels. Don’t be embarrassed, since even professional investors are often confused these days by the new terms, as well as old terms used with new meanings. Lean startup.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 29, 2012

Crowdfunding] investors are not as sophisticated as professional venture and angel investors. It’s important to know upfront who you can call on for support, because you’re going to need to lean on your backers, partners, and friends and family. It comes down to a sales pitch.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2011

If you are new to the entrepreneurial world of startups, you are likely confused by the terminology of seed-stage, lean startups, micro-VCs, and Super Angels. Don’t be embarrassed, since even professional investors are often confused these days by the new terms, as well as old terms used with new meanings. Lean startup.

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Gust

JULY 8, 2012

If you are new to the entrepreneurial world of startups, you are likely confused by the terminology of seed-stage, lean startups, micro-VCs, and Super Angels. Don’t be embarrassed, since even professional investors are often confused these days by the new terms, as well as old terms used with new meanings. Lean startup.

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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. Why bother with all the extra costs, people, programs, etc?

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Silicon Valley Early Stage Venture Capital Valuation 74

Up and Running

JANUARY 17, 2018

February: Put together a Lean Plan : a quick, one-page business plan. In other cases, however, this list may be a lot longer to include: software programs, high-tech tools, and more likely, money. If this is the route you’ll take, do a bandwidth check and create a rough timeline to help you stay on track.

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Up and Running

APRIL 4, 2022

These are typically grant programs that cater to specific demographics such as minorities, veterans, etc. If you’re in more of a startup environment, angel investors and venture capitalists may be your best option. In the initial stages of executing your business idea, it’s best to stay lean and avoid unnecessary expenses.

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Up and Running

MARCH 30, 2015

Here’s how I sort through these different terms, in the context of angel investment, business planning, and business plan competitions. When I say pitch or business pitch I mean the short presentation startup founders make for angel investors or venture capitalists. The business pitch. appeared first on Bplans Blog.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

David Lerner is an entrepreneur, angel investor and director of entrepreneurship at Columbia University. The program examines the DNA of entrepreneurs: what makes them tick, how they came up with their ideas; and explore the habits that make them successful, and the highs, lows and pivots that pushed them forward. Dave Lerner.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 29, 2018

So I’ve got some familiarity with this territory, and here is my take on your five-step program to entrepreneurial freedom. But as you can read from this Acton MBA in Entrepreneurship post (I love that this program is in Austin, BTW), you need to think about “the number”. And he’s also taught me a lot.

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www.mattbartus.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Sometimes the consultant has a reasonable basis to think this, since lean startups are programmed to get things for free and may call on the consultant from time to time for free advice. Angel Investors. Share this: Facebook Email Reddit StumbleUpon. « Previous Post Next Post » john. Categories. Employment.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 2, 2011

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. It also provides visibility for a deep look at their data over time and facilitates delivery of feedback and advice. 4) Geography. We Ran the Experiment.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 28, 2014

Tim tells me that before joining the MBA program, he has never had experience owning or running a business. The program was an opportunity learn to do this but also to get to know people and teachers. It’s an approach that is advocated today as part of the Lean Startup Methodology. Begin with the simplest form of your product.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 15, 2011

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. It also provides visibility for a deep look at their data over time and facilitates delivery of feedback and advice. We Ran the Experiment.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 10, 2011

We still have some collective scar tissue: the idea conjures up the hordes of dot-com hopefuls that descended on VC’s and angel investors with little more than a business plan. One tweet read, “well, if HBS is investing in the lean startup we know it has jumped the shark.” The class debuts in a few weeks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2011

These are both experienced entrepreneurs and angel investors. VentureHacks also created AngelList, a mailing list of prominent business angels that facilitates entrepreneur fundraising. He definitely has experience on both sides of the ‘entrepreneur versus investor’ table. Both Sides of the Table , by Mark Suster.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

Certainly using techniques such as customer development (www.custdev.com) and lean startup (minimum viable product) can help go a long way to giving the tech co-founder some early payback in terms of whether there will be any traction in the idea and reduce their inital involvment to get to prototype stage.

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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. Teams use the Lean Startup toolkit: the Business Model Canvas + Customer Development process + Agile Engineering. As simple as it is, the TRL is used to manage funding and go/no decisions for complex programs worldwide.

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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. In a way it did this, but the opportunities didn't really come until nearly 3 months into the program.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 27, 2013

Four books helped me out a lot over the last few years: Four Steps to the Epiphany by Steve Blank, Running Lean by Ash Maurya, The Four Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferris and Rework by Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson. I believe that picking up programming should be to acquaint yourself with the particular challenges of engineering.

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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. In other words, these are angels looking for billion dollar opportunities as well. Now is not the time to expand.

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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. In other words, these are angels looking for billion dollar opportunities as well. Now is not the time to expand.

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Marketing Bootstrapping Incubator Angel Investor 52

The Next Web

JANUARY 16, 2014

Having raised a $35m Series A round from Accel Partners and angel investors behind ebay, Flickr and Squarespace to expand their global presence (which now include offices in San Francisco, Berlin, Paris and Rio), 99designs remain the darlings of the Aussie startup scene and one to watch. Hub Australia. York Butter Factory.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Passive income can be handy for bolstering your bottom line and an important safety net for lean seasons. Angel Investors and Venture Capitalists. Angel investors and venture capitalists provide a more traditional route to raise funds for your new consulting business. What : To generate a lead exchange program.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

Angel Investors. Women’s Capital Connection: Changing The Face Of Angel Investing (Women Angel Investors). Come celebrate with us at this joint program organized by BayBrazil, GABA, and SVForum Tech Women. Related articles from Women 2.0 « Help Crowdfund a Multiplayer iOS Game for Girls.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

Will you only brew ales, or will you also make space for lagers, a barrel-aging program, and so on? Some cities, such as Portland, Oregon also have what Patrick calls “beer angels”—private angel investors who understand the beer business and invest in select breweries and cideries.

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Oregon Jordan Software Review Distribution 24

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

How to stay lean and iterate quickly while you’re building a two sided marketplace, especially when “network effect” and “critical mass” are the two main focuses? I’m learning how to program. Has anyone found a referral program system that works great to generate new customers?

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

I’ve pitched in taxi cabs, I’ve pitched on street corners, in board rooms, on stage in front of 400 angel investors. The opportunity when I got to pitch on stage in front of 400 angel investors was for the largest angel investor conference in the Pacific northwest called Angel Oregon, and we competed with 60 other companies.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 8, 2019

President Gordon Daugherty, Senior Vice President Corporate Innovation Chris Gillan, Vice President Accelerator and Fund Partner Bryan Chambers, and Vice President Programming & Events Abba Binns Gordon Daugherty has been promoted to President of Capital Factory. Abba Binns has been promoted to Vice President Programming and Events.

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Austin Startup

MAY 3, 2017

Let me first be clear that though I’ll be making some incredibly obvious references to the University of Texas and the great Longhorn Startup program, this is not about the University of Texas nor the Longhorn Startup program. was not as attractive. Marketing is the distinguishing, unique function of the business.” too obvious?)

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

bfliris So it sounds like with Meebo (your claim to fame) you were passionate about the idea but had no programming skill, partnered with two people that had strong programming ability and did very little to assist them in creating a succesful application. I have had a programming job and tried to do side projects after work/ weekends.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

If you are an entrepreneur seeking funding, try our free Funding Recommendation Engine to identify a list of angels, venture capital and state grant programs that best match your business. Hiring is hard, and without proper experience, we should have leaned more heavily on our investors to help us with this decision.

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Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Ampex’s first customer was Bing Crosby who wanted to record his radio programs for rebroadcast (and had exclusive distribution rights.) Five years later Dennis and a small group of angel investors who called themselves “The Group” started investing in new electronics companies being formed in the valley south of San Francisco.

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Up and Running

JULY 3, 2015

Check out Tim Berry’s book, Lean Business Planning , coming soon. It should have an understanding that some of the components within that larger plan are experiments and the results of those experiments will drive the further stages of those either marketing programs or business models or customer segments. – (9:47).

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