David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

More and more startups are pursuing Revenue-Based VCs , but “RBI” doesn’t fit everyone. From RBI, Flexible VCs borrow the ability to reap meaningful returns without demanding founders build for an exit. Santa Clara University shares their demand dividend structure. . Typical business stage. Typical business model.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2010

A lot of entrepreneurs think that their startup is the next big thing when in reality they’re just building a small business. How can you tell if your startup has the potential to be the next Google, Intel or Facebook? A first order filter is whether the founders are aiming for a scalable startup. The Scalable Startup.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 1, 2020

So here’s a five-day playbook to help CEOs of cash-flow negative startups, or ones about to go negative, assess the new normal and respond with speed and urgency. For companies burning cash, such as startups, how much cash do you have? For startups: source of VC money? Some VC’s are walking away from signed term sheets.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

Some great content around the intersection of startups and being a Startup CTO in June this year. This continues my series of posts: Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March There was some really great content in June. It shows a lack of interest.

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Startups ›. View More in Startups ›. VP of Strategic and Emerging Business Development, Microsoft. By the same token, Coats could find no correlation between the hot deals (where investor demand was highest) and the hot outcomes. View More in Life Sciences ›. View More in Mobile ›. President and CEO, Complete Genomics.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 7, 2020

Product-market fit describes how well your business’s product and your target market’s demand for your solution are aligned. We ended up receiving a $5m term sheet from investors, dozens of government customers from all across the western United States, and several offers to acquire us for 10x the initial investment.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Unfortunately in early stage startups the drive for financing hijacks the corporate DNA and becomes the raison d’etre of the company. Chasing funding versus chasing customers and a repeatable and scalable business model, is one reason startups fail. The goal of their startup in this stage becomes “getting funded.”

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

See Bessemer Venture Partners’ A comprehensive guide to security for startups. Tim Friedman, Founder, PE Stack , said, “If I could offer one piece of advice to today’s managers, it would be to take the time to understand the demands of the modern institutional LP. 2) Market . 3) Raise capital. An example of a tech-enabled VC is Corl.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 22, 2018

It's difficult to assess whether the reason why a black female isn't getting funded is because of a problem with her business model or whether it's because she isn't getting taken seriously because of who she is. I offered a term sheet to lead a $1.6mm financing. That doesn't happen too often and that needs to change.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

.” “Mark has a vested interest in talking down valuations of startups.” When I was an entrepreneur there was no public information about how term sheets worked or how investors thought. In 2015 in the US there were $77 billion written into startup tech companies. goes into a startup. What hogwash.

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Up and Running

MARCH 29, 2017

million for the SaaS startup I founded because sometimes we see success coming out of the blue, when really that person benefited from a broad network of support. At the same time, I was starting to realize that both the elegance of cloud-based software and the business models it enabled were what really got me excited.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Useful blogs and links for startups Click Here ————– 2.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). VC & Startup Resources. Seed Startups. VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Hundreds of startups featured since 2005, will yours be next? About VC Cafe.

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