View from Seed

APRIL 21, 2015

On the heels of our research on HBS entrepreneurs , NextView’s Dimitri Dadiomov (HBS ’15) interviewed several top founders on the early stages of their companies. On Launching and Finding Early Traction. Anthemos Georgiades , Co-Founder and CEO, Zumper (Real-time home and apartment rental platform; $8.2

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 14, 2022

While certain aspects of setting up a startup can be exhilarating, especially in the early stages of the business, there are also plenty of bumps along the road, big and small. Startups that are named after their founders sometimes do not succeed. The life of an entrepreneur can be exciting and filled with ups and downs.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 23, 2019

by Caroline Pegden, co-founder of TempaGoGo. Early-stage startups might want to consider local opportunities first before plunging into national awards! You have the Startup Awards, the Family Business Awards, even the Security & Fire Excellence Awards (which has sold out every year since 2014!).

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 12, 2011

He and I once took different sides of an debate about whether “VC signaling&# in early-stage deals is a serious problem or not. This week I sat down with Chris Dixon, co-founder / CEO of Hunch and Partner at Founder Collective in the most recent installment of This Week in Venture Capital.

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View from Seed

JULY 13, 2022

Founders: Carolina Nucamendi & Brenna Curran. There’s a new set of real-time payments protocols which Waiver is making more broadly available to bring fast, secure, and cost-effective payments to a range of applications.” Get to know the founders. RH: Founders, please introduce yourselves. Company: Waivr.

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Genuine VC

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

When Chad Pytel introduced me to Bryan Helmkamp , CEO/Co-founder of Code Climate , I knew that I had to pay attention. Chad is the CEO of thoughtbot, a consulting firm that makes web + mobile apps for early-stage startups. It essentially gives developers another set of eyes on every commit.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

Brunner (@heatherjbrunner) | Twitter Preston James Co-founder & CEO DivInc Preston is at the center of everything Diversity & Inclusion in Austin. An early Human Rights Campaign board member and longtime Austin LGBTQ leader, Eugene co-chaired President Obama’s & the DNC’s LGBTQ Leadership Council.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

Thanks to all of the amazing founders, advisors, co-investors, corporate partners, and others that helped make 2018 an amazing year. To that point, we are most excited when our founders are able to go from slide deck to product-market fit and Series A and beyond. We are truly grateful for your support. First check to Series A?—?congrats

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Greycroft is an early-stage VC. Founded in November 2007 in New York City by Alexis Maybank and Kevin Ryan (co-founder of DoubleClick); CEO is Susan Lyne (ex-CEO Marta Stewart Living Omnimedia) Revenue estimates: $50mm in 2008; $170mm in 2009 (versus budget of $150mm); $450mm forecasted for 2010. Time will tell.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 14, 2016

by Keith Smith, co-founder and CEO of Payability. Sure, VC cash can boost your business to new heights, but it also reduces your equity in the company, forces you to focus on company valuation, and provides a false sense of financial security. Pebble’s goal was $500,000; it crowdfunded well over $20 million.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 6, 2018

2017 was another year of growing, learning, investing and partnering with amazing founders. Once again, we are grateful to have the opportunity to work with so many amazing founders, advisors, co-investors, and other collaborators to bring the boldstart family together. 2017 Recap. 2 exits including yhat (sold to Alteryx?—?AYX

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

What most founders don’t realize is: Every stage of a startup requires a different set of metrics and milestones and founder skills. Knowing these will help a founder position her pitch to get investors’ attention. Founders need to keep their eye on the prize — not just the next funding round. Business Model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2022

Some entrepreneurs, like Paul Graham , co-founder of Y-Combinator, and Dave McClure , founder of 500 Startups, mask their focus on multiple startups by running an incubator or accelerator, and providing seed funding for a number of individual efforts. Multiply the pay-back.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Panel 1 – How Social Investing is Disrupting Traditional Investing in Public Securities. Howard Lindzon is Co-Founder and CEO of StockTwits, a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information. He joined Goldman Sachs & Co.

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Transformify

APRIL 15, 2016

I met Innocent Moranga, the founder of the Founder Magazine , at a round table peer group at CEOWorld. All this inspired Innocent Moranga to found the Founder Magazine. The next step would be to secure funding. Mbwana Alliy Founder and Managing Partner at Savannah Fund. Patricia Jumi Co-Founder at The Growth Hub.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 13, 2019

And while that figure is promising, early-stage SaaS companies need a ton of growth to survive. There is a natural progression regarding when and where to focus on optimizing each of these metrics—that is, at which stage of a SaaS offering’s customer adoption life cycle. Don’t focus on metrics like MRR too early on.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 17, 2021

Last September (2020), six months after the 1st lockdown, my co-founder Vladimir Blagojevic and I decided to run market research to figure out what challenges B2B companies face and how they solve them. And while this was a good start, a significant position of these companies were early-stage startups. Let’s dive in.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 31, 2021

For example, if organic traffic is a priority for you, include a statement like this: From an SEO perspective, our primary goal in the early stages of this content strategy is to focus on low-volume, high-buyer intent keywords and queries related to specific pain points. This sets the intention for your early-stage priorities.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. . Small investment firms often have interns and entrepreneurs in residence passing through, each of which is a security risk. See Bessemer Venture Partners’ A comprehensive guide to security for startups. 1) Manage the firm . 2) Market .

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2017

2) Security — we store all private keys in cold storage on air gapped computers. He co-founded the first angel investor group in the Bitcoin space, BitAngels , in 2013, which grew to over 500 members globally. We invest in protocols that meet our quantitative and qualitative metrics. 3) Rebalancing — we rebalance portfolios monthly.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

However, the ease with which she was able to secure venture funding was contingent on her ability to overcome what, in the VC world, is often an insurmountable barrier: the fact that she is a woman, and a woman of color, no less. According to Fortune , in 2006, female founders were involved in only 2.95 33 billion in venture funding.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance. For background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. Decathlon Capital.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2021

Department of Defense is coming to grips with the idea that the technologies it needs to keep the country safe and secure are no longer exclusively owned by the military or its prime contractors. Jeff Decker is a co-instructor of the Hacking for Defense class and the Stanford program director. billion in early funding.

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Austin Startup

JULY 22, 2021

Any software, hardware, or CPG startup in Texas with a female founder or co-founder can apply to participate. According to Pitchbook, Capital Factory has been the most active, early-stage investor in Texas since 2010. Female Founders! Who Can Apply? million Series A round.

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David Teten

AUGUST 29, 2012

a pitch event featuring ten early stage tech startups, Tuesday night , September 4 at Microsoft’s midtown office at 1290 Avenue of the Americas. Simply and securely share your data. Arkad enables companies to simply and securely share their financial and operating information with those who need to know. geekli.st.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

This is the home of Jason Cohen, software startup founder, bootstrapper, investor, and mentor. His blog is full of personal stories, gentle advice, and guidance that will be useful to any startup founder. David Cohen is the founder and Managing Partner of Techstars, the #1 ranked internet startup accelerator in the world.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

In venture capital in particular, early-stage companies are often operating in frontier industries, where the rules are unpredictable and conventional analytic frameworks may be misleading. Signal is a fundraising tool for founders run by NFX Guild, which identifies the most relevant VCs for you. . Pitchbot.vc

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

Dan is the co-founder of Standard Treasury, a Y Combinator backed company. He is also co-founder and Managing Partner of Deciens Capital, an early stage investment fund. How do you get to that point if you have that kind of a view of the world, of founders, and of this space? On Sushi and VC.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 26, 2013

Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Christian Reber, CEO and co-founder of Berlin-based 6Wunderkinder. Wunderlist is the first business I secured the interest of experienced investors, including Atomico , Earlybird and T-Venture. Before you start talking to large VCs, find some early stage investors.

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View from Seed

MAY 29, 2019

Early seed funds and super-angels typically wrote $250-$500K checks, and rounds of $2–3M would be composed of 3–4 funds collaborating together along with a handful of angels. These funds would regularly share deal flow with one another and could share the work in supporting founders and helping to push the company forward.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 28, 2021

David Raab Founder at CDP Institute. While early-stage companies may not see an immediate need for using a CDP, setting the groundwork before reaching accelerated growth can save time and frustration down the line. Michael Katz the cofounder and CEO of mParticle. Use cases for CDP’s. Avoid Data Silos.

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 9, 2018

In their quest for sustainable growth, the elusive dream for most first time founders is that first funding. This can either come from the founder(s) own bank account or from outside investors. At this stage you’re essentially selling yourself and your cofounders. One of the easiest mistake to fix is timing.

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www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Technology Technology Home Online Business Tools Security Phones & Mobile Gadgets Tech Tips Technology The Future of Facebook -- Streaming Live Now. Sweat equity is just one component of early-stage valuation. This is the typical way that a founder determines sweat equity: foregone wages.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2012

Or riding a crazy party bus and sitting next to Aaron Batalion the co-founder & CTO of Living Social. As a founder you end up having to deal with a lot of sensitive information & discussions. They were lulled into a false sense of security by my gray hair. Nom nom nom. Office Space. The Haimish factor.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2019

Large-scale user data breaches such as the Cambridge Analytica scandal have demonstrated the importance of adequate user data security — user data is now sold openly to create intrusive targeted advertising campaigns, and often falls into the wrong hands. Data privacy is becoming increasingly important. Advanced Blockchain AG.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

airports, less-intrusive airport security); functional legal system (tort reform); logical immigration reform; comprehensible regulation ; and a functional tax system (tax simplification). I am now talking with some affinity groups in these domains about co-organizing such pitch nights under the umbrella of HBS Angels.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2019

Some entrepreneurs, like Paul Graham , co-founder of Y-Combinator, and Dave McClure , founder of 500 Startups, mask their focus on multiple startups by running an incubator or accelerator, and providing seed funding for a number of individual efforts. Multiply the pay-back.

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