The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Arif Bhalwani is the co-founder and CEO of Third Eye Capital (TEC) in Toronto, Canada. We engage intimately with businesses and their assets, understanding their operations, aspirations, and the hurdles they face. Simultaneously, we conducted a thorough operational review to identify inefficiencies and areas for cost reduction.

Technical Review 134

Technical Review Due Diligence Bankruptcy Intellectual Property 134

VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

Tim Sweeney, the founder and CEO of Epic is a long term visionary of our online future and the Metaverse. Tim Sweeney, Epic Games’ founder and CEO. monthly active end-users who are engaging with content created or operated by Unity solutions in 2020. In April 2022, the company announced it has raised $2 billion (at $31.5

IP 206

IP Cofounder Valuation Acquisition 206

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2017

I read commentary or Twitter or blogs and realize that there are also strongly held convictions that there are these evil VCs who do terrible things to mostly altruistic founders. But unlike the popular press reporting of this conflict — 80% of the time it is founder-to-founder conflict and not investor-to-founder conflict.

Cofounder 217

Cofounder Stock Options Equity Technical Review 217

YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2011

The report was co-authored by Berkeley and Stanford faculty members along with other contributors including Steve Blank , the Sandbox Network and blackbox teams. Founders that learn are more successful. Investors who provide hands-on help have little or no effect on the company’s operational performance.

Silicon Valley 230

Silicon Valley Cofounder Technical Cofounder Startup 230

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Jeff Katzenberg has a great track record – head of the studio at Paramount, chairman of Disney Studios, co-founder of DreamWorks and now chairman of NewTV. Lean was designed to inform the founders’ vision while they operated frugally at speed. ” Fire, Ready, Aim. He just hired Meg Whitman. The result?

Lean 335

Lean Burn Rate Startup IPO 335

David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. From RBI, Flexible VCs borrow the ability to reap meaningful returns without demanding founders build for an exit. By tying payments to actual revenues, founders and investors remain aligned around the company’s real-time performance, good or bad.

Cofounder 78

Cofounder Technical Review Equity Dividend 78

VC Adventure

JUNE 14, 2022

Certainly from the venture perspective, VCs (Foundry included) pitch themselves to companies, co-investors, and LPs as more than just capital. Most founders don’t feel they are getting value from their investors, even in areas like follow on rounds where they would hope to see specialized experience. The answer may surprise you.

Technical Review 150

Technical Review Due Diligence Portfolio Venture Capital 150

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

by Alejandro Cremades , cofounder of Panthera Advisors and author of “ The Art of Startup Fundraising: Pitching Investors, Negotiating the Deal, and Everything Else Entrepreneurs Need to Know “ Why should entrepreneurs intentionally be generous when negotiating with investors? Generosity is nowhere on their radar.

Technical Cofounder 127

Technical Cofounder Entrepreneur Cofounder Post-Money Valuation 127

Small Business Force

AUGUST 31, 2013

Picking a partner or co-founder isn't like finding a new friend. I came to find that they had differing ideas about timing, valuation, to whom they should sell and how long or whether they would stay with the company. Picking the right partner or co-founder for your business can portend whether that business succeeds or not.

Cofounder 40

Cofounder Partner Technical Review Founder 40

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

But founders need to know how to ask for their advice and when to ignore it. Startup Insights From Paul English, Co-Founder of Kayak - OnStartups , May 10, 2010 I’m just wrapping up several weeks of attending conferences across both coasts. Why Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers. was having coffee with a friend who teaches at the U.C.

Fractional CTO 248

Fractional CTO Startup Venture Capital Cofounder 248

Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Kayak was started here in my backyard of Boston… co-founder & CTO Paul English and the product/engineering team is based here in Concord MA. Co-founder & CEO Steve Hafner and the business team are based in Norwalk, CT. 2010 Operating Income: $16 million. Pre-money valuation was approx.

Pre-Money Valuation 113

Pre-Money Valuation Liquidation Preference Dividend Common Stock 113

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

They have totally changed the way you run a VC firm, investing heavily in systems & events for their founders that are pushing the boundaries of the way our industry works. Howard Morgan earned a PhD in Operations Research/Computer Science in 1968. If you read this blog often you'll know that I'm a huge fan of First Round Capital.

Pre-Money Valuation 284

Pre-Money Valuation Technical Review Cofounder Cram Down 284

Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2011

The email continued, &# The problem I’m working on is that many founders are either making uninformed decisions or inefficiently learning the new skills they need. The solution I’m exploring is a just in time learning methodology that accelerates founders’ learning curve by aggregating relevant content, peers and mentors.&#.

Technical Cofounder 333

Technical Cofounder Early Stage Startup Silicon Valley 333

The Startup Magazine

JUNE 1, 2023

By Daniel Sokolovksy, Co-Founder and CEO, WARP and Troy Lester, Co-Founder and CRO, WARP The dissolution of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) was more than just a bank collapse, it was a reality check for both startups and the VCs that fund them. As a founder, ask yourself – does your business actually warrant VC funding?

Early Stage 112

Early Stage Los Angeles Silicon Valley Cofounder 112

Hunter Walker

JANUARY 5, 2014

Meeting new founders while collaborating, recruiting, analyzing, doing whatever it takes, to help our current founders build strong companies. ” That means the founders are currently fundraising and we are at some stage of mutually getting to know each other. Doing what excites me and gives energy.

Software Review 102

Software Review Balance Sheet Cofounder Technical Review 102

Hunter Walker

JANUARY 10, 2022

I love working with great people and as a venture capitalist, am fortunate the number of founders I’m impressed by far exceeds our investment capacity. Here’s an example of a founder that I’ve known for a while who recently raised a seed round with different firms than ours. fundraise came about & why it didn’t include me (yet).

Cofounder 89

Cofounder Founder Acquisition Startup 89

View from Seed

JUNE 10, 2020

of teams’ online pitch decks and recorded videos, as well as loved the dozens of second-round video conversations which we had with Founders working on quite compelling startups. Many of these Founders we wouldn’t have had an opportunity to connect with if we hadn’t launched this program.

Cofounder 177

Cofounder Syndicate Syndication Alabama 177

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

I don’t know how it operates behind closed doors. Her background includes senior roles in both the banking and tech sectors, and she has launched four data businesses—including her current firm, New Frontier Data , which boasts a $20 million valuation and has received $5 million in funding. And if I tried to find out?

Venture Capital 82

Venture Capital Lean Cofounder Technical Review 82

David Cohen

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

The three founders (Isaac, Tim, and Jose) were based in the Los Angeles area when they moved the company to Boulder for the Techstars Boulder Accelerator in 2009. It was originally called Romotive, and I still remember founder Keller Rinaudo just crushing it at demo day that year. These are sorted by the year that we funded them.

San Antonio 171

San Antonio New York City Seattle Los Angeles 171

www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Answers Ask Entrepreneur Home Business Operations Business Opportunities Sales & Marketing Advertising & PR Finance & Accounting Franchises Home Business Human Resources Internet/E-Commerce Legal Issues Starting Up Technology Most Recent Answers How Can I Streamline My E-Commerce Operation? In fact, it could be worth much more.

Sweat Equity 55

Sweat Equity Equity Fractional CTO CTO 55

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

As a testament to the growing power of “the creator economy,” visual content creation app development startup Lightricks has secured an impressive $130 million investment round, at a valuation of $1.8 Audiences constantly consume information through the different content channels daily.

Private Equity 144

Private Equity Developer Venture Capital Merger 144

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Why do these founders get to stay around? Because the balance of power has dramatically shifted from investors to founders. VCs competing for unicorn investments have given founders control of the board. A pre-IPO board usually had two founders, two VCs and one “independent” member. Technology Cycles Measured in Years.

Founder 245

Founder Technical Review CTO Hire IPO 245

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 5, 2019

by Dan Abatte, co-founder of 81-c. Are you fresh out of Y Combinator with $1 million in funding at a $10 million valuation? If you operate a business in a boring industry, it only means you have more room to be unique and make noise. Making it” is relative. You must be the man (or woman)!

Valuation 162

Valuation Cofounder Metrics SEC 162

BeyondVC

JANUARY 5, 2022

We are truly to our founders, limited partners, co-investors, and friends for another year of growth and learning. boldstart kicked off 2021 by announcing the closing of $230M of funds, $155M fund V and $75M opportunities ii, to continue supporting developer first & SaaS founders from Day 1 to scale( ).

Stealth 78

Stealth Cofounder SQL Open Source 78

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

In fact, it was only 7 years ago that Apple shipped its first iPhone and Google introduced its Android operating system. Look at the valuations of companies like Tesla, Illumina, and Twitter. The companies that can show “startup-like” growth rates of 50% plus per year will get stratospheric market valuations. Apple owned 0%.

Private Equity 325

Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property 325

Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 25, 2015

Jack Tankersley, a long time mentor of mine, co-founder of Centennial Funds, and co-founder of Meritage Funds, wrote me a very long response. He was a former Wall Street analyst with no operating or investment experience, who became a VC by teaming up with operator LJ Sevin.

Venture Capital 70

Venture Capital SBIC Technical Review Silicon Valley 70

Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Over the last few years, the start-up market has focused almost exclusively on hyper-growth, quick valuation increases, raising large amounts of capital, and trying to take companies public in a premature way (SPACs). Portfolio company Jobber is an operations management platform for small home service businesses (e.g.

Cofounder 95

Cofounder Portfolio Valuation Revenue 95

Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 2, 2014

One of my favorite aspects of the tech industry is that behind the noise, the tweets, the press headlines, there’s a depth of operator-founders who build amazing, lasting and valuable companies. For some reason I have always been turned off by the self-promotion founders do in an effort to get coverage. RF : I hope so!

Entrepreneur 132

Entrepreneur Angel Investor Cofounder Founder 132

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 are using AngelMob.co

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Did you know that the physics involved in flippings cats also allow us to operate space telescopes? The Founders Lie About Comfort Zones – [link]. Investors Need to Lose Their Egos and Founders Need to Gain Some Confidence – [link]. 10 adjustments to make when working for a Big Co. Dave McClure – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Central African Republic Design 100

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 29, 2018

Since I first wrote about the Golden Age in 2014, valuations for tech companies have only increased?—?rather If I was an aspiring entrepreneur, I would take a vacation during RISE week and attend as many sessions as I could (author’s update note: sadly, RISE is no longer operational). rather dramatically. in the long-run, I say!?—?success

Cofounder 48

Cofounder Austin Technical Review Advisory Board 48

Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Entrepreneurs and investors who have spent any time dealing with convertible debt seed financing transactions are likely to have encountered the subject of valuation caps. Valuation caps can come into play in settings other than seed-stage convertible note financing rounds. Read on for a fuller explanation.

Valuation 98

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Merger Vesting 98

www.avc.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

To be clear, these are hires we are talking about, not co-founders. Co-founders are an entirely different discussion and I am not talking about them in this post. Once you have assembled a core team that is operating the business, you need to move from art to science in terms of granting employee equity.

Equity 64

Equity Employee CTO Hire Fractional CTO 64

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

How can either of you confidently give a valuation of a business that doesn’t make money? According to Devon Fanfair, co-founder of startup studio Devland , “building companies that demonstrate enterprise value is the best path for new builders because they generate revenue with very little investment.

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Startup Revenue Cofounder Angel Investor 130

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 3, 2015

By Al Fialkovich, Managing Director, Founder and Co-Owner of Transworld Business Advisors of Denver. It has been a national conversation in recent years and no one can argue that the impending baby boomer’s retirement will affect how business markets operate currently. Thinking of selling your business in the next five years?

Denver 100

Denver Cofounder Merger Colorado 100

Gust

OCTOBER 20, 2011

In 2011, the valuation of pre-revenue, start-up companies is typically in the range of $1.5–$2.5 Angels typically invest in companies operating in industry sectors with which they are familiar. Scorecard Valuation Methodology. As can be seen the average (mean) pre-money valuation for recent pre-revenue deals is $2.1

Valuation 146

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Intellectual Property Technical Review 146

Ben's Blog

AUGUST 17, 2020

When speaking with founders and private growth investors, we hear countless references to “multiples paid” on current or near-term revenue; both obsess over this because a higher multiple translates to a higher valuation. It starts with the complexity involved in valuing companies in general.

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Valuation Balance Sheet Cofounder Forecast 36