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What Is Venture Debt and How Should Startups Use It?

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Below, we talk to Glen Mello , Managing Director of Silicon Valley Bank’s accelerator team in Boston. Especially in the early stages, so much about the company may change in how they think about product or go-to-market — and change multiple times — before raising an institutional round. Traction and revenue?

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Why Startups Should Raise Money at the Top End of Normal

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Early-stage investors in technology startups are only looking for growth-oriented companies that can achieve an “exit&# someday – either via selling your company to a larger company or via an IPO. million post-money valuation with no revenue. It was early 2000. I raised my A round at a $31.5 That was market.

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How much equity for investors and employees?

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Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing Thoughts on business and technology Home Archives Profile Subscribe About Me « Boston VCs gets first look at Y Combinator Demo Day | Main | Digg-nation is HUGE! Entrepreneurs face some pretty tough questions at a very early stage. Dont worry about giving up too much equity at an early stage.

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VC Board Management Best Practices: 5 Early Warning Signs of Trouble

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The most important startup centers are Silicon Valley, metropolitan Boston, Seattle and Austin and, increasingly, northern Virginia. Among the reasons for the differences of approach to managing CEO change among venture investors is that early-stage players often forge a strong personal, as well as business relationship, with the CEO.

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How to Fund a Startup

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There never has to be atime when you have no revenues. So if youre going to sell cheap stockto eminent angels, do it early, when its natural for the companyto have a low valuation. In Boston thebiggest is the CommonAngels. Whatkind of anti-dilution protection do they want? The problems are different in the early stages.