Austin Startup

JANUARY 25, 2020

I remember enjoying reading his book “ Delivering Happiness ,” the story behind how he led Zappos and drove it to a billion dollars in revenue before Amazon bought it. Having just moved to Austin from Boston, she thought adding African car sales could help, maybe thinking Africans looking for used cars can use it to find car deals.

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View from Seed

JUNE 16, 2015

Editor’s note: Local tech media company BostInno (a division of the American City Business Journals) hosts an annual Boston State of Innovation conference. I was recently asked to sit on panel with my fellow VC peers and some top entrepreneurs from the Boston tech community. For ecommerce: >$500K revenue/month.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 13, 2012

He is on the board of the Angel Resource Institute, and is a partner with Montlake Capital (a late stage growth capital fund) and with Revenue Capital Management (a royalty based lender). Conventional wisdom dictated that they made reckless investments in very early-stage ventures mostly doomed to fail. and the U.K.,

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Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

What are the implications for other late-stage private companies thinking of making the transition to public markets in the near to midterm future? What’s the impact for early-stage startups? As of this week, here’s a sample of multiples: LinkedIn – 16x+ trailing revenue. trailing revenue.

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Rob Go

JANUARY 7, 2013

Amidst the mass of new initiatives, new firms, new strategies, etc that constantly pop up in the early stage investing landscape, it’s helpful to have a clear articulation of what VC’s are focused on and how they see the world. We focus on investing in seed stage companies. Stage: Pre Product: 12.

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View from Seed

MAY 27, 2015

But we noticed that while the information in these podcasts is interesting, many are often far removed from the actual day-to-day challenges of very early stage founders that are just trying to go from nothing to something. Using some brute force tactics to get early growth isn’t scalable over time, even if they work early on.

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dondodge.typepad.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

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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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

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. Angels and even VC firms occasionally do this, but they alsoinvest at later stages.

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Rob Go

MAY 27, 2015

But we noticed that while the information in these podcasts is interesting, many are often far removed from the actual day-to-day challenges of very early stage founders that are just trying to go from nothing to something. Using some brute force tactics to get early growth isn’t scalable over time, even if they work early on.

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Rob Go

MAY 27, 2015

But we noticed that while the information in these podcasts is interesting, many are often far removed from the actual day-to-day challenges of very early stage founders that are just trying to go from nothing to something. Using some brute force tactics to get early growth isn’t scalable over time, even if they work early on.

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Cofounder Early Stage Non-Compete Silicon Valley 28

Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

To answer these questions, we built a database of 112 Israeli companies founded between 1996 and 2013 that have met or exceeded $20 million in revenue. Understanding the market and establishing product/market fit is a critical seed-stage milestone. What are the challenges and lessons of scaling up? Partner with Foreign VCs.

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