Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 5, 2018

If you are not in that rare category of known and proven entrepreneurs, you should avoid the following list of my top ten turnoffs that I have personally experienced as an angel investor. Teasing or spamming an investor is not the way to his pocketbook. Passion is necessary but not sufficient to get their attention.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2021

Here is my outline of key deliverables that could convince me that you are a cut above the “average” entrepreneur that approaches me with nothing but a dream and a prayer: Personal video introduction with elevator pitch. Investors will expect it for due diligence. Successful startups are all about the right people with the right stuff.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

The primary source of your funds should be your paying customers, i.e., your business should generate enough revenues and profits to fund the growth and expansion. These usually play a role in the very early stage of your business, primarily pre-revenue. Equity investors. The third source of funding is from equity investors.

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Up and Running

MAY 28, 2015

I’m in my seventh year now as a leader and an angel investment group where we just announced an investment last Thursday, and I’m very familiar with how this works for angel investors. Tell your angel investors a story about need. Depending on who the investors are, some want more, some want less.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 1, 2010

HTML5 video markup, compatibility and playback - Niall Kennedy's Weblog , February 8, 2010 The emerging HTML 5 specification lifts video playback out of the generic element and into specialized handlers. This post looks at the implementation details of HTML 5 video. How Unique Is A Unique Visitor? -

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Growthink Blog

MARCH 11, 2012

These other entrepreneurs can provide funding to you as "angel investors." They can introduce you to other angel investors they know. One of the key points I want to stress here is the answer to the question I get all the time: where do I go to find angel investors? This video explains more.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

I explain in the video what happened in my first company (e.g. In the video I also covered why you shouldn’t raise too much money too early in your company’s existence. Minutes 11-16 in the video. << And I talked a lot about persistence in the video. This is wrong. I eventually needed more money.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 8, 2015

If you are not in that rare category of known and proven entrepreneurs, you should avoid the following list of my top ten turnoffs that I have personally experienced as an angel investor. Teasing or spamming an investor is not the way to his pocketbook. Passion is necessary but not sufficient to get their attention.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Most entrepreneurs are not looking to launch a startup, pitch to angel investors or financial institutions, and land multiple rounds of capital. You can be increasing revenue, growing sales, and maybe even cutting costs. Consider financing early. Funding may not be the first thing that comes to mind when starting a business.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 13, 2012

Getting funding from angel investors is the same way. Because the most important time you spend influencing potential investors is done long before you present to them, even long before you even contact them; it's done when you prepare your company for funding. So how do you prepare? Here they are below.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

It turns out that to build a successful company you ultimately need this strange thing called “revenue” that people don’t just hand you: You need to earn it. And there’s this other thing called “gross margin,” which shows the quality of your revenue. How much ad revenue does TripAdvisor make?

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Up and Running

APRIL 11, 2012

He defines the elevator pitch, video pitch, executive summary, PowerPoint presentation, and business plan as different forms. And I like his summary: Imagine a fishing analogy: The elevator and video pitches are lures – used to attract investors. After pitching, give those investors a copy of your executive summary.

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

When a client asks us to produce a branded video, web film, or create an application or design for their business, we hire the necessary talent for that specific gig. For example, one week a client may ask us to produce a branded video campaign; while another client, the next week might ask us to create an Augmented Reality (AR) application.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Here the focus is on Pink Stuff, a British cleaning paste, which was #CleanTok mainstreamed to a quadrupling of revenue ($125m annually) and distribution to 55 countries. Many times we’ll never know, but the random products that end up popping because of a TikTok trend are always pretty fascinating anthropological stories.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 28, 2021

Consider this: Jack Conte , Patreon’s CEO summarised it beautifully in the video below (or on this blog post if you prefer reading) by breaking down the evolution of the creator economy. The sum is equivalent to the combined annual revenue of Snap and Twitter for 2020. Billion in 2020. Not everyone is happy , it seems.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

I sometimes wish I’d had a video camera with me to create a funny compilation of all the bloopers—something I might have shared with entrepreneurs on how not to deliver a great investor pitch. I have a vivid memory of bombing a pitch that I was delivering to a group of angel investors in Seattle. get to revenue, b.)

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! See the video above. Then Act - [link].

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2018

Here is my outline of key deliverables that could convince me that you are a cut above the “average” entrepreneur that approaches me with nothing but a dream and a prayer: Personal video introduction with elevator pitch. Investors will expect it for due diligence. Successful startups are all about the right people with the right stuff.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2014

Here is my outline of some key activities that could convince me you are a cut above the “average” entrepreneur that approaches me with nothing but a dream and a prayer: Personal video introduction with elevator pitch. Investors will expect it for due diligence. Successful startups are all about the right people with the right stuff.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 24, 2014

You can double that number if you add the amount of money put up by Angel Investors. Angel Investors, VCs and entrepreneurs agree that the success rate for startup companies is dismal. Scalable technology is often the only way that startups will be able to reach profitability and grow revenue.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

For example, one angel investor reportedly invested in several hundred social networking ventures employing this philosophy. Eric -- I was very impressed by your two part video series, which rarely occurs these days. Otherwise it's a great idea. You've done an excellent job refining the process and message. Expo SF (May.

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techcrunch.com

AUGUST 12, 2012

She attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA, majoring in Writing and Art, and moved to New York City shortly after graduation to work in the Media industry. After four years of living in New York and attending courses at New York University, she returned to Los Angeles in. Enterprise. Smartphones. Headphones.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2014

But if you want to build a scalable startup you need to be asking how you can you get enough customers/users/payers to build a business that can grow revenues past several $100M/year. And as good as the Australian angel investors have been, there still is dearth of serious follow-on funding in Australia.

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David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

For instance, Columbia has launched a variety of explicitly interdisciplinary centers in recent years, including the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute , Columbia Data Science Institute ; the Brown Institute for Media Innovation ; or cross-school courses such as Columbia Business and Engineering’s Research to Revenue course.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2015

Here is my outline of key deliverables that could convince me that you are a cut above the “average” entrepreneur that approaches me with nothing but a dream and a prayer: Personal video introduction with elevator pitch. Investors will expect it for due diligence. Successful startups are all about the right people with the right stuff.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Self-funding your invention in the early stages can allow you to retain complete control of your intellectual property, decision-making, and any initial revenue. You should ensure that your intellectual property is protected and ownership is clarified before entering into an agreement with corporate investors. Network funding.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 7, 2015

I originally invested in Harmonix as an angel investor in 1995. MTV decided to get out of the video game business in 2010 and sold the company back to the founders (Alex and Eran) and a small investor group. It’s rise was well chronicled in this awesome Inc. Magazine long form story titled Just Play.

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

In the years that followed, Clay grew Iams from a mere $100,000 in revenues to $900 million and sold it to Procter & Gamble for $2.3 But in this case, I'm glad Clay suggested we conduct the interview via video. Clay is an investor in Oovoo which is the video technology we used. There were two reasons for this.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Since most companies have little to no revenue, who else has already invested in the deal is heavily weighted to prove value. s and Angels such as Jason Calacanis and Dave McClure responded to Roberts and took the opposite stance - McClure and his fund 500startups have done 20-plus deals directly from AngelList and they greatly prefer the ?

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Although the first competition can be considered a success – it saw some 1,378 new stores created and US$3,543,191 in total revenue – Shopify founder and CEO Tobi Lütke realized that it was also important to assist startup entrepreneurs in other areas. Without Shopify , there’s no way we would be where we are today.”.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 12, 2015

To find out how, watch the video above, or check out the transcript below. What is revenue going to look like? I want to have enough revenue to hire a manager. Once your business is up and running, LivePlan’s Scoreboard feature helps to track your progress so you can make better business decisions. Good morning.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Here is a 60-second tour of IM Creator: IM Creator is bootstrapped with $250k from the founder Jonathan Saragossi, and a few unknown angel investors. Jimdo – unknown amount of angel funding, over 4 million websites created. million, has revenues of over $2 million a year. Squarespace – raised $38.5

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www.mint.com

MARCH 9, 2010

If the answer to the question centers around “We will achieve revenue soon so our net will improve and give us more runway,” it means the company is in trouble because no product ever ships on time nor achieves the company’s “conservative forecast.” These days revenue is the best source of capital. Who is on your board of directors?

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Growthink Blog

MAY 10, 2012

Put everything else on your "wish list" to buy with revenues from sales or additional financing. Stage #2: Seed Funding Seed funding (also called seed capital) typically ranges from $100,000 to $500,000 and is often provided by angel investors, and is usually structured as convertible notes or common stock. read more.

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Growthink Blog

JULY 2, 2010

Last week, Vringo, a video ringtone company raised $9.2 That’s a lot of money, particularly considering that Vringo only generated $20,000 in revenues last year. It didn’t raise the money from venture capitalists, angel investors, or any of the usual suspects. What’s most interesting is how Vringo raised the money.

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Interestingly, "referrals" is also a top way to find new investors. For example, having a consultant or lawyer introduce you to an angel investor or venture capitalist is a great way to get in the door to present your opportunity. However, many entrepreneurs feel they don't have connections that can refer them to investors.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 1, 2017

In 2005, Claus Moseholm co-founded GoViral, a Danish company which specializes in harnessing the internet to promote advertisers’ videos and make them go viral. A venture capitalist is in the business to generate more revenue streams, but as an owner, you may have other agendas. A solid customer base puts you in the driver’s seat.

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