Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2014

Here is my list of the ten most common sources of funding today, in reverse priority sequence, with some rules of thumb to channel your focus: 10. Negotiate an advance from a strategic partner or customer. Solicit venture capital investors. Seek a bank loan or credit-card line-of-credit. Request a small business grant.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

Consumer Internet investing seems to have split off from traditional Venture Capital, and is creating a new category of VC’s: Lean VC’s. Electron-based Venture Capital. When I first came to Silicon Valley the world of Venture Capital looked pretty simple. Here’s why.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

In addition to Stanford I also teach at Columbia, and at these research universities – Stanford, Columbia, Berkeley, and others – they all now have an internal incubator, they have maker spaces, they have their own venture funds, they connect to the community, they connect to venture capital. It’s a big idea.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Are they running from high prices, high taxes, dysfunctional government, and wildfires? All of the investors, all of the big companies, all of the government groups?—?they These are all potential customers and strategic partners for startups. Tens of thousands visit Austin every year for the Austin City Limits Music Festival.

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 8, 2019

When I started in venture capital in the late 1990s VCs were regularly lambasted for taking long summer holidays and spending too much time on the golf course. Most investors thought of their job as picking good companies and making sure governance was strong. Low handicaps weren’t good! Building platforms.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

Here is my list of the ten most common sources of funding today, in reverse priority sequence, with some rules of thumb to channel your focus: Seek a bank loan or credit-card line-of-credit. Negotiate an advance from a strategic partner or customer. Solicit venture capital investors. Request a small business grant.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 4, 2019

In the same way an MBA program teaches a form of management for administering and growing existing businesses, entrepreneurship and venture capital are, together, a form of management for discovering and building new businesses. And this is crucial: enterprises need both. It is the toolkit of the New to Big machine.

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Steve Blank

MAY 16, 2016

This week teams figured out how to measure mission achievement and success, and our advanced lectures were on activities, resources and partners. Why Innovation in Government Is Hard. In companies this would be product line extensions, more efficient supply chain, new distribution channels. See all the H4D posts here.

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Babbling VC

APRIL 3, 2011

It's kind of funny that the majority of people coming to me are obviously looking to raise venture capital and don't have this discussion with me. I have no idea whether any other VC would so openly say this but if you can avoid taking venture capital, do so at all costs. Venture capital screws everything up.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

They are your sparring partners. Marketing channels have changed. I was reminded about the role of a VC last week when my partner Kara Nortman (<—- yes, of course you should follower her! In preparation for her reentry into VC she spoke with many mentors of hers for advice on venture capital.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Prior to co-founding Foundry, he co-founded Mobius Venture Capital and is also a co-founder of Techstars. Co-founder of Foundry Mo's venture capital and tech stars, but he's also the author of a number of books, including one we're gonna talk about today. Brad has been an early-stage investor and entrepreneur since 1987.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2013

If you don’t have scale as a goal then you shouldn’t be raising money from angel or venture investors, you should be getting a commercial or government small business loan.). • Search. Who are the partners? These sources are a lot more forgiving of iterations and pivots than later-stage venture-capital funds.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2009

To an entrepreneur, being asked to join a venture firm with an Entrepreneur-in-Residence title means you have been tapped on the shoulder by the VC gods. The CDROM content business in the early 1990’s was one of the many of the long line of venture capital fads. We understood none of this. More detail in future posts.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 9, 2019

With Whole Foods, Sweet Leaf Tea, Deep Eddy Vodka, Siete Foods, Waterloo, Outdoor Voices, Tiff’s Treats, P Terry’s, Veggie Noodles, and so many other success stories there is now a robust ecosystem of experienced entrepreneurs, angel investors, support organizations, distribution channels, and professional investors.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 2, 2023

On a global level, venture financing of private companies dropped 33% year over year, from a record $733B in 2021 to $490B in 2022. 2022 in Israeli tech and venture. Israeli venture funding dropped 40% compared to 2021, from $28.7 billion according to the 2022 Israel high tech ecosystem report by Viola Ventures.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2013

If you don’t have scale as a goal then you shouldn’t be raising money from angel or venture investors, you should be getting a commercial or government small business loan.). • Search. Who are the partners? These sources are a lot more forgiving of iterations and pivots than later-stage venture-capital funds.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2022

In 2021 venture capital funds invested over $2 billion in 90+ Quantum technology companies. Quantum Cryptography/Quantum Key Distribution can distribute keys between authorized partners connected by a quantum channel and a classical authenticated channel. Quantum Cryptography/Quantum Key Distribution.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 19, 2021

The structural role of a board of directors is corporate governance, specifically, making sure that the company is managed in accordance with the interest of the shareholders (and if liabilities exceed assets, the interest of debtholders), and in compliance with applicable laws and regulations. WHAT DOES A BOARD OF DIRECTORS DO?

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

As a private company, you have a VERY high cost of capital (well above 10%), whether you raise venture capital, angel money, friends and family investments, bank financing, or all of the above. In addition, although compensating sales reps for cash flow may seem a bit unusual, it’s actually very logical. Philippe Botteri.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

Huston-Tillotson (@HustonTillotson) | Twitter Eugene Sepulveda CEO, Entrepreneurs Foundation Director, Capital Factory Sr. Advisor, Austin Mayor Steve Adler Eugene has long operated at the intersection of business, government & nonprofits, locally and nationally. Joe Beard joined Perot Jain as a Partner in 2015.

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Hunter Walker

JULY 29, 2017

When I freed up time, I asked the partners if I could start attending the trading classes even though I hadn’t been hired into that role, and that’s how I became a trader. So I switched careers into venture capital because I wanted to learn the ways of valuing private companies. This was before the Facebook IPO.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 27, 2022

Venture capital firms poured more than $32 billion into digital-asset startups last year and there’s plenty more dry powder out there: Haun Ventures – $1.5 In this post, I wanted to touch on some of these challenges from our vantage point as investors at Remagine Ventures.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

The New York Times revealed that Uber had been using a feature that showed people it suspected to be government officials a fake version of the app that would deny them a ride when in areas where Uber was illegal. Maybe he’s just nicer in Slack channels? It makes me want to quit venture capital entirely. I have my doubts.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 10, 2017

It was at this point that I decided to start Success Partners Australia, a sales training and consulting company. Thanks Ben Lai, Success Partners ! #5 We are working with a dozen partner organisations including non-profits and government agencies. 5 – Fill a Gap in the Marketplace. 24 – Gap in the Market.

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Steve Blank

MAY 30, 2016

government has embraced Lean methodologies to reinvigorate its innovation efforts was the focus of the latest episode of my SiriusXM radio show, Entrepreneurs are Everywhere. The show airs on SiriusXM Channel 111 (weekly Thursdays at 1 pm Pacific, 4 pm Eastern). How the U.S. If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 13, 2021

The Greylock general partner and the host of The 20 Minute VC pick back up from a December 2020 episode of the popular podcast , during which Hoffman discusses his wide-ranging career and key lessons learned. If you’re a regular listener, you’ll know that Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman joined me on my show in November.

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