Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2020

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. Solicit venture capital investors. Request a small business grant.

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Pascal's View

MARCH 18, 2010

This is the ninth in our series of ten frequently asked questions from investors in venture capital partnerships. Susan Mangiero , CEO of Investment Governance’s Fiduciary X , asked me the following: Question: Do you think than anemic IPO market will remain a deterrent to VC investing? Yes I do. Share and Enjoy:

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Up and Running

MARCH 9, 2016

As local governments work to transform their regulatory environments into ones that promote and nurture the establishment and growth of small businesses, it’s becoming easier to measure and rank their efforts. Luckily, I’ve done the research for you and picked out the top small business-friendly cities in the United States.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2018

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. Solicit venture capital investors. Request a small business grant.

Entrepreneur 240

Entrepreneur Equity Small Business Administration SBA 240

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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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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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 15, 2017

We had to estimate hardware costs at various volume levels, distribution channel discounts, competitive pressures from Imsai and a few others, and then decide to go to market with a strong conviction in our pricing strategy. Heck, there was no venture capital in Dixie in that era. There was no thought of enterprise value.

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Technical Review Software Review Nevada Silicon Valley 48

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. Solicit venture capital investors. These are government funds allocated to support new technologies and important causes, like education, medicine, and social needs.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 23, 2010

So the New York City government has decided it needs a little social media savvy—you now, since that newfangled Twitter thing came out, they feel like they need to be jumping on board with technology as an early adopter. That’s what’s going to be hard to bring NYC government into “2.0”

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Social Media Government New York City Media 94

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 In fact, the Houston city government ranks number onein the country in renewable energy use. What’s bringing them here? Count all of the people you know!

Texas 90

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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. Solicit venture capital investors. Request a small business grant.

Equity 120

Equity Small Business Administration SBA Syndicate 120

Up and Running

JULY 16, 2015

In this guide, we’ll take a look at the traditional business finance channels like banks and mainstream lenders, as well as the various types of alternative financing available to help you find the best funding options for your business. Traditional channels. at present are ezbob, iwoca, Boost Capital, and Fleximize.

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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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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!

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 7, 2010

And for those of you who have forgotten Sawyer’s background, he’s a patent attorney that is channeling his opinion through me. If you think that bankers and lawyers drive innovation, this is a “good thing”; otherwise, this is an utterly disastrous government-sanctioned redistribution of wealth that discourages software innovation.

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Software IP South America Investment Bankers 132

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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Steve Blank

MAY 16, 2016

Why Innovation in Government Is Hard. In companies this would be product line extensions, more efficient supply chain, new distribution channels. Examples are a company-owned manufacturing facility, big data or machine learning engineers, DOD proposal writers, venture capital, etc. See all the H4D posts here.

San Diego 145

San Diego Metrics Indonesia Silicon Valley 145

ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

They will now be leveraging the 1M/1M-Persistent channel to go to market in the United States. No investment is possible without that validation, whether it is government grants (and there is quite a bit of that available for clean energy projects) or angel or venture capital.

Entrepreneur 114

Entrepreneur India Silicon Valley Massachusetts 114

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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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

Marketing channels have changed. In preparation for her reentry into VC she spoke with many mentors of hers for advice on venture capital. Of course the taxi lobby and its cozy relationship with local government will never let a business like Uber exist! Each situation you face is different and unique.

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China Venture Capital Framework Partner 150

This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 2, 2013

They stayed in constant contact with key customers and built up a network of "friendlies" that could give them back channel feedback on what would appeal and what wouldn't. This helped them hone their offering.

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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. These types of startups are better suited to raising money from friends, family, commercial and government small business loans, etc.

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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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Silicon Valley Technical Review RSS Software Review 120

David Teten

JUNE 6, 2011

. “Everyone is bringing them in nowadays” BROWN: Mobile is a delivery channel for capability. The trick is delivering business insights over this channel: use social networks to support relationship management. LYONS: How do you grow the customer relationship thru these channels? Ask the senator who was on TV.

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Fractional CTO CTO CTO Hire Azure 122

VC Cafe

JANUARY 2, 2023

In addition to investments, the Israeli tech sector found itself getting more politically involved as the new government led by Prime Minister Netanyahu (who holds the PM for the sixth time) was sworn in. The case for US venture capital outperformance ( source ). Sector funding distribution according to Greenfield Partners.

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VC Cafe

MAY 22, 2011

Our customers include the world’s most demanding government and security organizations, urban authorities and law enforcement organizations. Not just for airplanes:Intelligent bot recognition heuristics, effective against zero-day threats. 4) 3i-MIND. It takes just a second – literally. All you need is an iPhone and regular TV.

Startup 111

Startup Affiliate Social Network Database 111

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. These types of startups are better suited to raising money from friends, family, commercial and government small business loans, etc.

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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. Over a $1 billion of it going to Quantum computing companies.

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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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Pascal's View

MAY 13, 2011

Amount of venture capital raised has exploded. This enabled consolidation among the brokerage houses and banks, which led to the loss of multiple distribution channels for securities and reduced the ability for small players to survive. i. Pre bubble period 1991-1996 totals $28 billion. cents or 6.25

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VC Cafe

JUNE 1, 2011

In terms of access to venture capital, Israel was rated 2nd in the world. Taiyo has one of the most comprehensive generic product portfolios in the Japanese market and has a strong presence in all major distribution channels in Japan. ISRAELI UNEMPLOYMENT DROPS TO 5.8%.

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Switzerland Japan Technical Review 79

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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Software Review North America Europe Metrics 48

This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 28, 2011

When the industry failed to hold up it’s end of that bargain—instead shoving crappy one-hit wonders down the channel—it was only a matter of time before technology enabled consumers to go around them, and the industry collapsed. Governments are getting online and making every piece of data they have into a feed.

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Libya Syria Covenant New Jersey 150

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.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

You succeed in convincing one company and a government to adopt computers and learn to code much faster than their competitors /adversaries. These technologies will transform businesses and government agencies. Today, 100s of billions of dollars in private capital have been invested in 1,000s of AI startups. Carpe Diem.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

the wave of semiconductor startups in the 1960’s/70’s, the emergence of venture capital as a professional industry, the personal computer revolution in 1980’s, the rise of the Internet in the 1990’s and finally. The New Structure of the Venture Capital industry. The Democratization of Entrepreneurship.

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