Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

It’s helpful to think of startups as proceeding through several stages, which I have defined some time ago from a funding perspective. The alternative is to work with an innovation institute to evaluate your technology, or hire a consultant. The challenge is finding and using qualified affordable support organizations for each stage.

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Incubator Startup Exit Strategy Institutional Investors 120

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2012

It’s helpful to think of startups as proceeding through several stages, which I have defined before from a funding perspective. The alternative is to work with an innovation institute to evaluate your technology, or hire a consultant. The challenge is finding and using qualified affordable support organizations for each stage.

Incubator 237

Incubator Startup Exit Strategy Institutional Investors 237

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Even when your startup is a one-man show, you will soon find that you are “out of control,” unless you start organizing and writing down how and when key things need to get done. Here are eight key business tasks that relate to almost every startup, generally prioritized by criticality. Funding process.

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Startup Institutional Investors Angel Investor Bootstrapping 255

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 13, 2011

It’s helpful to think of startups as proceeding through several stages, which I have defined before from a funding perspective. The alternative is to work with an innovation institute to evaluate your technology, or hire a consultant. The challenge is finding and using qualified affordable support organizations for each stage.

Incubator 230

Incubator Startup Exit Strategy Institutional Investors 230

Berkonomics

AUGUST 3, 2023

Some businesses require very little capital and the founder can self-finance the enterprise and retain 100% of its ownership and control from ignition through liquidity event (startup through sale). It might be useful to list some of the ways in which you can raise money for growth with and without outside investors.

Private Equity 118

Private Equity Valuation Cap Table Accredited Investor 118

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2010

Even when your startup is a one-man show, you will soon find that you are “out of control,” unless you start organizing and writing down how and when key things need to get done. Here are eight key business tasks that relate to almost every startup, generally prioritized by criticality. Funding process. What is your business objective?

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Startup Institutional Investors Angel Investor Bootstrapping 239

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 9, 2018

In their passion to succeed, too many entrepreneurs treat friends and family investments as “low-hanging” fruit, only to find out later, after a stumble, that the pain of lost relationships is greater than the loss of their beloved startup. In the interim, there is no market for the shares, and no dividends or interest.

Cram Down 148

Cram Down Angel Investor Equity Dividend 148

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2014

In their passion to succeed, too many entrepreneurs treat friends and family investments as “low-hanging” fruit, only to find out later, after a stumble, that the pain of lost relationships is greater than the loss of their beloved startup. In the interim, there is no market for the shares, and no dividends or interest.

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Founder Cram Down Angel Investor Equity 254

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2013

It’s helpful to think of startups as proceeding through several stages, which I have defined before from a funding perspective. The alternative is to work with an innovation institute to evaluate your technology, or hire a consultant. The challenge is finding and using qualified affordable support organizations for each stage.

Incubator 256

Incubator Entrepreneur Exit Strategy Institutional Investors 256

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2013

In their passion to succeed, too many entrepreneurs treat friends and family investments as “low-hanging” fruit, only to find out later, after a stumble, that the pain of lost relationships is greater than the loss of their beloved startup. entrepreneurs friends and family fools startups investors business' Marty Zwilling.

Cram Down 230

Cram Down Angel Investor Equity Dividend 230

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2013

Even when your startup is a one-man show and lots of fun, a “business” needs some discipline and controls to keep it from being defined as a hobby by investors, and assure some financial return. Here are eight key business tasks that relate to almost every startup, generally prioritized by criticality. Funding process.

Institutional Investors 230

Institutional Investors Angel Investor Bootstrapping Database 230

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

In their passion to succeed, too many entrepreneurs treat friends and family investments as “low-hanging” fruit, only to find out later, after a stumble, that the pain of lost relationships is greater than the loss of their beloved startup. In the interim, there is no market for the shares, and no dividends or interest.

Cram Down 120

Cram Down Angel Investor Equity Dividend 120

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

It’s among the most-asked questions on startup forums, and an issue we’re dealing with right now at WPEngine as we bring on new employees: How do you decide how much equity (shares) to give a new employee or partner? Hard to know, but an important question for a bootstrap startup to answer! What about $Y/mo?&#

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Equity Salary Hiring Institutional Investors 276

Berkonomics

JUNE 8, 2017

Some businesses require very little capital and the founder can self-finance the enterprise and retain 100% of its ownership and control from ignition through liquidity event (startup through sale). It might be useful to list some of the ways in which you can raise money for growth with and without outside investors.

Private Equity 106

Private Equity Valuation Cap Table Accredited Investor 106

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Some founders are able to skip an institutional seed round and go straight to a multi-million dollar A-round where a larger VC puts in the lion’s share of the capital. Non-institutional Leads. The institutions walked, but the round got done. In a market like this, success and market leadership are very fleeting.

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Cram Down Institutional Investors Dilution Seed Stage 66