Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2015

I challenge any entrepreneur, for example, to define the difference between "seed-stage" and "early-stage" financing. Asking for early-stage money before you have customers and revenue will likely kill your credibility with real investors. Business accelerator funding.

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Up and Running

JUNE 14, 2010

One thing that came up repeatedly, then, was the impact of steeply declining web development costs on professional investment. And the beneath-the-surface rumblings were about how it was screwing up the venture capital business model. This was a problem for a few, and an opportunity for many.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Find a major customer, or a complimentary business, who sees such value in your idea that they are willing to give you an advance on royalty payments to complete your development. Variations on this theme include early licensing or white-labeling agreements. Join a startup incubator or accelerator. Fund your startup yourself.

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View from Seed

APRIL 30, 2015

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. If we don’t have a prior relationship, we’ll really want to try to develop that because it’s such a relationship play.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2014

Find a major customer, or a complimentary business, who sees such value in your idea that they are willing to give you an advance on royalty payments to complete your development. Variations on this theme include early licensing or white-labeling agreements. Join a startup incubator or accelerator. Fund your startup yourself.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

Groups of angels may syndicate multiple individual amounts, but if your total request exceeds $1 million, you need to focus on the venture capital alternatives. Make sure these cover your business model and exit strategy, so the angels see how both of you will make a reasonable return.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

Find a major customer, or a complimentary business, who sees such value in your idea that they are willing to give you an advance on royalty payments to complete your development. Variations on this theme include early licensing or white-labeling agreements. Join a startup incubator or accelerator. Fund your startup yourself.

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Professor VC

APRIL 1, 2010

It had a good mix of viewpoints with east ( James Geshwiler, Common Angels ) and west coast (yours truly) angels, early stage venture capitalist ( Jason Mendelson, Foundry Group ), and a couple of attorneys ( Dan Hansen and Mario Rosati ). It is obviously too late to dial-in to the call, but you can still order a CD of the session.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

This provides us more time to develop meaningful relationships with prospects and customers. Data companies focused on early-stage startups include Aingel , fundsUP , Preseries , PredictLeads , and Sploda. Tribe Capital has developed A Quantitative Approach to Product Market Fit. . 3) Raise capital.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

One of my comments was that we would likely see more institutionalization of angel groups and syndication of deals among groups. While currently free to angel groups, their business model revolves around aggregating the angel investment data. My facebook can beat up your facebook.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MARCH 18, 2023

VCs typically invest in startups at the seed or early growth stage. They may help with product development, market research, or even setting up a management team. They Provide Business Expertise Venture capitalists provide business expertise to startups by guiding them from ideas to profitable companies.

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Tim Keane

APRIL 12, 2006

What development stage is your primary business focus? Where along the journey of seed-early-growth does the group like to invest? (Is If the investors ideal size is smaller than your need, you ought to ask about syndication. Fewer investors will take common stock in early stage transactions.

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Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

I took a look back at our original financial model we presented to VCs in 2004. The business model (OEM through broadband and home security companies for mass distribution) if not specific product functionality has remained largely the same. offering to invest $75K if we could find another $250K by September 30, 2005.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

Whether you buy this or not for public equities, the market for early stage private companies has always been wildly inefficient. I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Clearly Define Your Business Model While this may sound like a trivial task, young startups often have an exciting and innovative product, but no real plan for monetizing it. It’s critical to establish this component of your business before thinking seriously about growth. in place before you expand. All Rights Reserved.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Today I’m announcing that GRP Partners is doubling down on the Twitter ecosystem by investing in DataSift , a company who provides a real-time data platform and tools to third-party developers and corporations. DataSift is one of only two companies today that has the rights to re-syndicate the way it does.

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