mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

All of this is according to Paul Graham, co-founder of the early-stage investment fund Ycombinator. The result is that many venture capital firms are now making smaller angel investments in an attempt to get close with startup founders that are likely to raise bigger funding rounds later on.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

All of this is according to Paul Graham, co-founder of the early-stage investment fund Ycombinator. The result is that many venture capital firms are now making smaller angel investments in an attempt to get close with startup founders that are likely to raise bigger funding rounds later on.

Angel Investor 83

Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review 83

David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

As a globally focused LP in early stage VC funds, we at Blue Future Partners have observed a growing trend of firms investing substantially in software tools, whether developing proprietary solutions or adopting off the shelf tools. But what tools are they using themselves to automate their own processes?

Early Stage 60

Early Stage Technical Review Software Review Venture Capital 60

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

Seed investors are aplenty and of course they need downstream money to fuel their early-stage bets. Web Summit. But they are also a tax on your time with portfolio companies, looking for new investments, running your shop and honestly they are a tax on your family life. Co-founder discontent. Motives matter.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Another advantage of the early stages is that most dont have to juggle too many competing priorities. Managers in this area have to take a portfolio approach, promoting ideas that work and might make good candidates for further investment. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May. . Expo SF (May.

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San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 88

Steve Blank

AUGUST 8, 2016

Values – who and what founders and customers hold dear – were the focus on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show. The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Lane Merrifield.

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Cofounder New York City Entrepreneur New York 145

Hunter Walker

JANUARY 15, 2016

Hunter Walk: I know you started Dogster, one of the seminal early online communities, but I don’t know Dogster’s founding story. Ted Rheingold: In 2003 I owned and ran a web service business called OneMatchFire , and made a number of image sharing products for customers (or as side projects). How did the site come about?

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View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2018

When we create new platform initiatives, our team tries to think about how we can be the most impactful with our portfolio companies. Today, we’re thrilled to announce a new program that we hope will help our portfolio companies with two of these bullets. Pierre Valade, Co-Founder of Sunrise & Mobile Designer at Microsoft.

Operations 176

Operations Cofounder Technical Review Angel Investor 176

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

When he entered the industry he caught the tail end of the dot com bubble and then was immediately thrust into a 3-year period of “triage&# where VC’s had to deal with problems in portfolio companies. Founded 2007 in Boulder, CO. Founded by Shervin Pishevar (COO of Webs). This lasted from about 2001-2004.

San Francisco 230

San Francisco Los Angeles Cofounder SMS 230

Steve Blank

AUGUST 8, 2016

Values – who and what founders and customers hold dear – were the focus on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show. The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Lane Merrifield.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 31, 2012

Kima Ventures , the French early-stage investment firm that wears the “most active angel investor in the world” badge it received from Business Insider last year with pride, is poised to let startups worldwide know it is just getting started.

Angel Investor 116

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

We spent the first 45 minutes or so talking about industry trends (in this order): The history and background of True Ventures, one of my favorite early-stage VC’s (and the one with whom Om is a venture partner). Online service offering privacy certification for web sites. This is astounding and myopic in my view.

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Venture Capital Non-Compete Vertical Europe 225

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 23, 2011

Being an entrepreneur isn’t exactly rocket science, but in the case BlogFrog ‘s co-founder Rustin Banks, he literally is one. The 30-year old rocket scientist – he literally designed next-generation imaging systems for satellites – left the aerospace industry in 2009 to be a web entrepreneur.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

You could argue that choosing the name “first round” paints them into a corner in case they want to ever do a late stage fund, but I suspect they named it FRC precisely because they wanted to excel at early-stage investing. I know that I call them often to co-invest.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 17, 2010

Three premier early-stage venture investors have joined forces to sponsor the event: Baseline , Floodgate , and First Round Capital. Three premier early-stage venture investors have joined forces to sponsor the event: Baseline , Floodgate , and First Round Capital. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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San Francisco Romania Cleveland South Africa 107

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. We put (these inventions and patents) out on the web or we contact companies etc. Here’s the description, is that what you mean by market?

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Government Entrepreneur Intellectual Property Silicon Valley 120

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Last night at the NY Tech Meetup, John Britton of our portfolio company Twilio showed how it is done. He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us. What Apple proved, and what I suspect is the issue with web content, is that monetization was a product problem.

Startup 191

Startup CTO Hire Cofounder Venture Capital 191

David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Howard Lindzon is Co-Founder and CEO of StockTwits, a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information. With a unique vision for starting and successfully managing innovative companies, he is the Managing Partner of Social Leverage, a holding company that invests in early stage web businesses.

Technical Review 128

Technical Review Technology North Carolina Switzerland 128

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Cincinnati, like many startup communities in the US over the past 5 years, has revitalized important regions in its urban core, created accelerators, built co-working facilities, pooled together angel capital, attracted VCs, involved educational institutions and solicited the help of important corporations in a more cohesive ecosystem.

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Silicon Valley Kansas City Startup Venture Capital 390

Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2021

And Jennifer is now my co-instructor in the Stanford Lean LaunchPad class.). Note that if you’re familiar with the business model canvas, Steps 1-4 below are equivalent to a visual map of the choices a founder makes as they develop a business model canvas. The MVP Tree. Step 5 and 6 leads you to selecting the right MVPs.).

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

These are areas that may be gaps in the portfolio of large companies, and are perfect for M&A deals in three to five years after building enough validation and $10-$20 million in revenue. methodologies - in other words, dont invest in travel and in-person sales, but try to close as many deals as possible by phone and the Web. (On

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

These are areas that may be gaps in the portfolio of large companies, and are perfect for M&A deals in three to five years after building enough validation and $10-$20 million in revenue. methodologies - in other words, dont invest in travel and in-person sales, but try to close as many deals as possible by phone and the Web. (On

Marketing 52

Marketing Bootstrapping Incubator Angel Investor 52

firstround.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Today, he’s the co-founder and CTO of Artillery , bringing console-quality gaming to the web browser. And even though I was the tech guy surrounded by capable business-focused co-founders, I knew that building a successful company was going to start with a lot more than a command line. Author: Ian Langworth.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

You may know him as the founder of Soylent, the nutrition company he started in his kitchen and scaled nationwide. Many of you will know Robert as the founder of Soylent, which he started out of his kitchen and then grew into a nationwide phenomenon. Portfolio theory construction, alpha and beta into the science process.

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Technical Review Software Review Finance Technology 68

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 18, 2011

I always try hard to make this blog a place where you can learn lessons rather than an advertisement for portfolio companies. I first met the founder of Pose, Dustin Rosen , when he was a junior person with an LA-based venture capital firm called The Mail Room Fund. My first two calls were to True Ventures & Founder Collective.

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Term Sheet Mobile Cofounder Early Stage 303

Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 19, 2021

Signing an office lease might not seem like a board-level decision, but with early-stage startups, that lease might very well be a financial liability that significantly exceeds the company’s total cash in the bank. At this stage, you need a true founder who fervently believes they’re going to make the company successful.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

For the past eight months, Jen Mccabe has been leading Nimbus, the hardware investment portfolio for Tony Hsieh’s Vegas Tech Fund. Mccabe, a Y Combinator alumnus from her previous startup Contagion Health, said her time at Romotive made her realize the need for better early-stage investor resources for startups working on hardware projects.

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Early Stage Startup Cofounder Incubator 133

Haystack

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

There are countless posts flying around the web now about “How to build a startup.” ” Another co-founder of a multibillion-dollar fund told me what it was like when, 10 years ago, most of their LPs abandoned them, and how they built the firm back up brick by brick.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

It’s like anything for which there is a — any piece of installed software for which there’s a web or a cloud equivalent, I think is in real trouble, and I think that’s just now becoming clear. Alexia Tsotsis: Let’s see, what about other companies that aren’t in your portfolio? Marc Andreessen: Yeah, exactly! Exactly right!

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Software Review Startup Venture Capital Stock 22

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

The Small Business Tips Series is supported by Bantam Live , a web-based collaboration workspace with “Social CRM&# for small business teams. The web and technology bubble has a lot in common with the rest of the business world in that there are essentially two disparate groups — the haves and the have nots.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

I am the Founder of Sonjara, Inc – a woman owned small business in Northern Virginia. After years working in fashion PR/Marketing in NYC and Milan, and then as a co-founder/owner of a Brooklyn-based rock ’n’ roll play space for kids under 5, I found myself becoming overly excited about my friends starting new businesses.

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The Startup Lawyer

JANUARY 6, 2011

Founder and Partner at AOL Ventures , a few weeks ago. Sure – AOL Ventures is the VC arm of AOL , focused on early stage investing in consumer internet businesses. What stage of startups are you looking at and what do you look for initially? Do you look at portfolio companies as future acquisition targets?

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Early Stage LP Later Stage Balance Sheet 58

The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

David Arnoux is Head of Growth and co-founder of Twoodo. It is popular knowledge that early-stage SaaS startups are not the sought-after fodder of top tech journalists. Learn how to hashtag – use this guide from us on The Next Web. Six months ago, we went from five daily sign-ups to 25.

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Social Media Channel Technical Review Media 127

techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Researchers divided the portfolio companies into six stages and startups are still operating a loss in each of the first four. Those categories represent roughly 84% of all portfolio companies. Been there Done that This is very depressing for all future founders, or even currently early stage founders.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Sweat Equity Valuation 62

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. ” Hackernews list of “Tools of the Trade” for startups - includes over 150 SaaS tools used by startups, and over 150 comments with interesting insights from founders. Amazon Web Services. Web Tools: Hereâ??s Seed Startups.

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