Hippoland

MAY 16, 2018

Here’s what’s happening in the equity world (from my perspective): 1) Token sales in the crypto-world do affect “equity” raises. (I A number of companies that would have done a token sale a few months ago are now doing equity rounds instead. Part of this is driven by how the SEC is thinking about regulations in this space.

Seed Stage 48

Seed Stage Valuation Convertible Security Equity 48

www.mint.com

MARCH 9, 2010

However, a perfectly acceptable—and perhaps even better—answer is that there are no investors other than the founders, and the plan is to bootstrap the company as long as possible. I worry about everything: money, sales, engineering, support, and recruiting. No customers no sales, no startup. Who is on your board of directors?

Software Review 68

Software Review Startup Post-Money Valuation Technical Review 68

David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

Prasanna Krishnamoorthy, Managing Partner, Upekkha Value SaaS Accelerator, said, “We are the first fund which combines an Angel List rolling fund structure for making LP access widely available, while using the variable VC model of giving founders the option to buy back their equity at a later stage, ensuring founder optionality.

Equity 78

Equity Revenue Cofounder Colorado 78

Berkonomics

JANUARY 20, 2010

Some businesses require very little capital and the founder is able to self-finance the enterprise and retain 100% of its ownership and control from ignition through liquidity event (startup through sale). For you who fit that description, nice work. There is a lot to say about retaining control.

Private Equity 69

Private Equity Valuation Cap Table Accredited Investor 69

This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 26, 2011

The thing you need to be careful of, however, is only paying attention to big trends, because you never know when you're thinking big data and you miss the awesome direct sales jewelry company. Credit cards "just work" and peer to peer transactions just aren't big enough to bootstrap a network. What will Facebook do to things?

Technology 116

Technology Valuation Community Restful 116

Small Business Force

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

In early stage companies (and even some later stage or mature ones), there is no one area where most entrepreneurs and small business owners are lacking in just basic fundamentals, than in dealing with their company's finances and financial management. If it was a distribution business, shipping costs were critical.

Finance 37

Finance Management Forecast Entrepreneur 37

Altgate

MARCH 8, 2009

There are three types of venture investing (early stage, “growth&# stage and later stage. Early stage means the first real investors in a startup when the team could be as small as 5-10 people. So in the current collapse, the later stage investors will fare the best, or should I say least worst.

Later Stage 34

Later Stage Early Stage Venture Capital Portfolio 34

Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

and * on a bootstrapped budget* : We first engaged in customer surveys and validated a huge problem?—?several If you can bootstrap your business, it’s not a true venture-backed business. Bootstrapping is AMAZING! At the same time, it became clear that bootstrapping further was not an option our team could pursue.

Silicon Valley 54

Silicon Valley Startup B2C Sweat Equity 54

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. Jones This is roughly how I bootstrapped my current startup (just raised a decent series B so things seem to be on the right track). link] Sunday links: « Colin J.

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

David Teten

JANUARY 13, 2015

That sales process is harder when strangers are biased against people like you. One of the reasons I wrote a book about online networks a decade ago was that I saw their power to make sales more efficient, particularly for people who were not a priori in the right networks. For early-stage founders, I suggest AngelList and Crunchbase.

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Advisory Board Greece Cofounder 60

techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

The only option at the moment for smaller ideas is to go seed / angel funding, or try to bootstrap it. In these more mature funds, the money remaining to be invested is more likely to go to later stage companies that are more likely to yield earlier returns, so the money comes back before the fund closes.

Venture Capital 62

Venture Capital Technical Review Sweat Equity Valuation 62