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. YouTubes Musicians Wanted Program Go.

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Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review 84

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. YouTubes Musicians Wanted Program Go.

Angel Investor 83

Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review 83

View from Seed

JANUARY 28, 2016

When we talk about seeds, we mean your first outside round of financing at the earliest stages of your business. In my prior post, I talked about the rise of the pre-seed and a more nuanced definition of a pre-seed based on milestones, not financing labels. At NextView, we pride ourselves as being a “one-product company.”

Cofounder 120

Cofounder Finance Founder Syndicate 120

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Finance | Tuesdays. Financing a Small Business. Financing A Small Business. Personal Finance. Before Roving Software could receive its first round of financing from professional investors, in early 1999, he had to put all the stock arrangements in writing. Start-up | Mondays. Technology | Thursdays. Franchises.

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Fractional CTO Equity Iowa Technical Cofounder 40

www.mint.com

MARCH 9, 2010

What is the post-money valuation of your last round? Post-money valuation” is the value of the company after the last round of money was put in (again, lines of credit and promises don’t count). But you should beware of boards that are only the founders and their family and friends. Who is on your board of directors?

Software Review 68

Software Review Startup Post-Money Valuation Technical Review 68

The Startup Lawyer

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

But before your startup signs up and cashes that $[XX,000] check, your startup’s co-founders should sit down and evaluate the incubator’s offer. The following are some issues to consider and actions to take before accepting an incubator’s offer: (1) Calculate Valuation and Determine Value.

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Incubator Pre-Money Valuation Option Pool Advisory Board 105

Hunter Walker

JUNE 7, 2016

These people are true founders and entrepreneurs just like any venture backed company. BS: We are using a number of different software programs to help facilitate and streamline our business. HW: How have you financed your business to date? BS: As co-founders, Suzanne and I are equal business partners 50/50.

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Caching DC Social Media Finance 70

Hunter Walker

JUNE 7, 2016

These people are true founders and entrepreneurs just like any venture backed company. BS: We are using a number of different software programs to help facilitate and streamline our business. HW: How have you financed your business to date? BS: As co-founders, Suzanne and I are equal business partners 50/50.

Caching 48

Caching DC Social Media Finance 48

Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

As I discussed last week in the Greymatter podcast with my friend and Blitzscaling co-author Chris Yeh , I believe that a knowledge of philosophy is actually a great asset for entrepreneurs. TOP DRAWBACKS OF AN MBA PROGRAM. Like many first time founders, I ran over that landmine. Not Prioritizing Action.

Silicon Valley 69

Silicon Valley Venture Capital Balance Sheet Cofounder 69

Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

As I discussed last week in the Greymatter podcast with my friend and Blitzscaling co-author Chris Yeh , I believe that a knowledge of philosophy is actually a great asset for entrepreneurs. TOP DRAWBACKS OF AN MBA PROGRAM. Like many first time founders, I ran over that landmine. Not Prioritizing Action.

Silicon Valley 69

Silicon Valley Venture Capital Balance Sheet Cofounder 69

This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 26, 2011

I've been experiencing a lot of crashing on my Galaxy S lately, and the number of running programs that I didn't turn on is getting ridiculous--slowing my memory to a crawl. Open and free seems nice until stuff stops working. Credit cards "just work" and peer to peer transactions just aren't big enough to bootstrap a network.

Technology 116

Technology Valuation Community Restful 116

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

Revolution is a “stage agnostic&# fund (means they invest early or late) funded entirely by Steve Case , the founder of AOL and co-founded by two other individuals, Tige Savage (yes, pronounced like the golfer, minus the “r&# ) and Donn Davis. And we also talked about what it’s like to work with Steve Case.

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Cofounder Merger Founder Venture Capital 277

Hearpreneur

AUGUST 18, 2017

I worked as a public television editor while in highschool, and in college worked two different jobs in finance while I started to develop Waiakea. Then when I was in the Entrepreneur program at USC, I saw an opportunity in the beverage and premium bottled water world. I also did a lot of volunteering.

Hawaii 48

Hawaii Fiji Africa Cofounder 48

Rob Go

JANUARY 28, 2016

When we talk about seeds, we mean your first outside round of financing at the earliest stages of your business. In my prior post, I talked about the rise of the pre-seed and a more nuanced definition of a pre-seed based on milestones, not financing labels. At NextView, we pride ourselves as being a “one-product company.”

Cofounder 28

Cofounder Finance Founder Syndicate 28

Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

In this two-part guide to starting a brewery, we’re going to talk with brewers who’ve been there-done-that, and we’ll get insights from experts in supporting industries such as insurance and finance, as well as discuss regulatory issues. In part two, we’ll discuss finances, insurance, and regulations for breweries.

Oregon 60

Oregon Jordan SBA Cofounder 60

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

So, please note the TAM Analysis is a vitally important aspect of building any financing strategy. He needs to generate enough profit so that he can grow organically and build his business systematically, and without expecting a lot of outside financing. Raymond is wondering why he cannot attract financing.

Marketing 52

Marketing Bootstrapping Incubator Angel Investor 52

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

So, please note the TAM Analysis is a vitally important aspect of building any financing strategy. He needs to generate enough profit so that he can grow organically and build his business systematically, and without expecting a lot of outside financing. Raymond is wondering why he cannot attract financing.

Marketing 52

Marketing Bootstrapping Incubator Angel Investor 52

Hearpreneur

JULY 28, 2019

Taking virtual reality away from game-based play and incorporating real-world elements that fit into training programs is one use of VR that we’re really excited to see take off. Thanks to William Griggs, Virtual Reality Rental Co. ! #2- 10- Skills-based learning programs online. 2- Artificial intelligence and automation.

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Technical Review Technology Artificial Inteligence Entrepreneur 50

Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

In this guide to starting a brewery, we’re going to talk with brewers who’ve been-there-done-that, and we’ll get insights from experts in supporting industries such as insurance and finance, as well as discuss regulatory issues. Watch your finances. The ColdFire Brewing team meets to plan marketing.

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Oregon Jordan Software Review Distribution 24

Hunter Walker

JANUARY 3, 2020

On the positive front, I did encounter more founders making early exercise available to their teams and much less resistance overall to the idea of a 10-15% pool (perhaps because valuations continued to increase so founders themselves were taking less dilution in financings). Did you see anything interesting in 2019?

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Equity Employee Dividend Cofounder 56

www.currentlyobsessed.com

MAY 28, 2010

Valuation is an important aspect of VC deal terms, and a major determinant of your ultimate outcome. I unexpectedly found that it was more helpful to think about the company valuation as an output variable in the fund-raising equation. The net effect was more money raised, higher valuation and the same percentage of equity sold.

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Valuation Channel Pre-Money Valuation Term Sheet 42

Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 19, 2021

I’ve encountered many of the different ways boards can interact under different circumstances, whether it’s problem executives, problem investors, CEO misbehavior, financing issues, business crises and more. At this stage, you need a true founder who fervently believes they’re going to make the company successful. No, no, no.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Although there are hundreds of accelerators to choose from, you’ll be competing against thousands of other applicants all vying for the chance to learn from one of these life-changing mentoring programs. Be realistic with your valuation. If you’re asked to give a valuation for your startup, be honest. Don’t pitch via Skype.

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Startup Cofounder Valuation Dilution 153

Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

This post was co-authored with Omri Stern and originally appeared in Harvard Business Review. Only a handful of so-called unicorns — companies that have achieved a valuation of over $1 billion in the last 10 years — come from Israel, and only one Israeli firm, Teva, ranks in the world’s 500 largest companies by market capitalization.

Cofounder 20

Cofounder Technical Review United States 20

venturehacks.com

MARCH 21, 2008

Most of their companies would probably give 6% of their shares to YC for free, just to participate in the program. And that wouldn’t make any sense—our valuation already takes the investor’s value-add into account.&# We’re founders (Epinions), investors (Twitter), students (life), and advisors (billions). Learn more.

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Advisory Board Cap Table Vesting Equity 44

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

Government programs led to the law of “unintended consequences”: Our housing slump now is continuing well beyond where many people had hoped it would be by now. VC funding is definitely back from the constipation that was 2009 replete with frothy valuations chasing dreams of the next Facebook, Groupon or Zynga.

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Entrepreneur Technical Review Balance Sheet Government 298

Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Bates: Good morning and welcome to our CEO panel, “How to Fine-Tune Your Small Business Finances From Funding to Growth” which I think is the direction that we would all like to be going. I’m here with some really phenomenal CEOs who are going to talk to us today about small business finances from funding to growth.

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Small Business Finance Forecast Metrics 95

abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

While giving away $5 or perhaps a “chance” at $5K in a sweepstakes is somewhat interesting, what if I told you about a marketing program where each and every customer would get THOUSANDS of dollars, or TENS OF THOUSANDS, or HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS, or maybe even MILLIONS of dollars, all in a single one day event? Damn straight it would.

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IPO Customer Matching Silicon Valley 82

www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Team Configuration 500 Startups Guerilla Marketing Organizations Entrepreneurship Startup Founders & Entrepreneurs Startups Startup Incubators and Seed Programs Seedcamp Y Combinator TechStars Lean Startups What is the perfect startup team?

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Technical Review Startup CTO Hire Cofounder 51

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

automatic links to generated images Rietveld - asynchronous code reviews on changesets Tech*if*er0*urs – blog on roadmap for learning rails Best free programming books Project Management Basecamp - web-based project management and collaboration tool. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams.

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Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

.” 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. easy business finance software. YCombinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents. Founders Institute Plain Preferred Term Sheet â??

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Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Firms like Accel and Greylock and Menlo Ventures announced discovery or seed funds, while other firms like Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz pioneered stealthy scout programs to give entrepreneurs their money, whether they knew it or not. “Founders don’t think their problems are due to trends. Now it’s glutted.

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Technical Review Silicon Valley Incubator Syria 93