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. Startup America , an Obama administration initiative headed up by Steve Case. -

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Up and Running

AUGUST 19, 2014

An angel investor is a high net worth individual who invests their own money into startup companies in the hopes of gaining a return on their money. I have pitched to hundreds of angel investors over the years as a result of co-founding two tech companies and raising just shy of $1M in angel capital. Tweet This Tip. “I’m

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

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. According to Fortune , in 2006, female founders were involved in only 2.95

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Many assume it was a cakewalk, based on the success LinkedIn has enjoyed over time and the current stature of our founder/CEO Reid Hoffman (now Chairman). Salesforce.com is a startup with 76,000 subscribers (over 2.1M How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. How To Think About The Future.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 7, 2012

The founders were very sympathetic; a man, laid off from his job, and his very pregnant wife, who sold their house and investing $150k into the business and are working hard to make a go of it. At this point, the very pregnant cofounder was weeping. But in the end Robert came back in to join Lori. Daymond offered to be an advisor.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

A fortnight ago, Boris interviewed Reed Hastings on his business lessons and experience, but now I’m shaking it up with a look at a 26-year-old founder who is disrupting the mobile and social networking spaces: Kik CEO and founder Ted Livingston. From all-time high to all-time low.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 29, 2012

I’m posting my analysis of the most interesting story of Shark Tank season 4 episode 7 over there, and reviewing the rest of the pitches here. The company sought to raise $125,000 for 25% of the comapny, implying a $375,000 pre money valuation. The entrepreneurs dithered for a moment at the valuation.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Want to start a startup? You need three things to create a successful startup: to start withgood people, to make something customers actually want, and to spendas little money as possible. Most startups that fail do it becausethey fail at one of these. Most startups that fail do it becausethey fail at one of these.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 19, 2021

True, many boards are dysfunctional, but when you build a great startup board, it will be a powerful tool that can help the CEO make the company successful. This essay, which is based on Part 1 of a two-part episode of the Greymatter Podcast, will cover the fundamentals of building great startup boards.

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betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

This past week while I was in Tokyo for meetings with potential partners for Fab, I was invited to participate in a panel discussion on startups. All the rest is noise. When we pivoted from fabulis to Fab, we pivoted towards building a business around the unique tastemaker talents of one of our founders, Bradford Shellhammer.

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Austin Startup

JULY 22, 2021

On October 4th, five technology startup finalists will pitch to a panel of advisors and judges made up of successful investors, entrepreneurs, and industry leaders. Any software, hardware, or CPG startup in Texas with a female founder or co-founder can apply to participate. Startups, submit your application now!

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

We expanded to Houston, San Francisco, New York, and Los Angeles within months, and we were generally doing all the things and seeing all the things that a startup needed to do and see in order to feel good about VC funding prospects. I never did find a VC to lead a round of funding for Localeur, but two things happened by the end of 2015.

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Altgate

JUNE 25, 2012

Re-posted from post co-authored with Prof. —————– Dead equity — equity held by employees and founders no longer working at the company — is a large and growing problem. Dead equity has always been a significant issue for startups. Noam Wasserman on Inc.

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Up and Running

JUNE 14, 2017

In both scenarios, it seems that startup venture initiation and idea validation are strictly dependent on the app. To determine the viability of an app or startup idea without building out the full solution, entrepreneurs should: Test potential buyers’ real buying intentions by monitoring their willingness to pay for a beta version.

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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.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

As I mentioned at the beginning of this series/ebook, over the years I’ve noticed that I tend to frequently share certain Lucky7 posts with entrepreneurs we’ve backed , team members at data.world, or other startup investors I know. The rest of the entrepreneur interviews Pat does are very worthwhile listens also. 16 and 23, 2013.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 11, 2010

I recently wrote a blog post about why I believe that startup teams in close proximity perform better. I’m surprised how few people talk about valuations, term sheet terms, how much to pay recruiters, etc. Uh, I guess he won’t be co-sponsoring a technology lab in LA with me then?

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Altgate

AUGUST 25, 2012

Re-posted from post co-authored with Prof. —————– Dead equity — equity held by employees and founders no longer working at the company — is a large and growing problem. Dead equity has always been a significant issue for startups. Noam Wasserman on Inc.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 21, 2016

“Many Unicorn founders and CEOs have never experienced a difficult fundraising environment — they have only known success. The “Many Unicorn founders …” quote is the first of four emotional biases that Bill calls out. Fred Wilson’s daily post referred to the article in Don’t Kick The Can Down The Road.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Accelerators are often exciting, collaborative and deeply rewarding incubators that help you to grow your startup, develop a product or idea, and find follow-on investors. If you’ve never part of a startup before, sometimes taking the first steps are the hardest of all. I highly recommend that startups do one of those,” Jenner says.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2011

Y Combinator is already known as one of the most successful startup incubators in the tech industry. According to co-founder Paul Graham, very successful. The combined value of the top 21 startups that have graduated from the program is $4.7 But just how successful is YC? Getting funded is not success.

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Steve Blank

MAY 13, 2010

Consultants can help startups leverage their limited resources. But startups can shoot themselves in the foot when founders use consultants at the wrong time or in the wrong way. A friend of mine asked me to chat with a startup he’d invested in. The rest of his story was mostly a blur. Here’s why.

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David Teten

AUGUST 6, 2015

I also spoke with Michael Hutchens , CEO & Cofounder of BPM Global , which helps organizations more efficiently build and maintain financial models. financial statement summaries, valuation analysis, ratio analysis, etc.) 11) Separate out your model output. once a model has been finalized. 12) Design for printing.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 26, 2016

To ensure you receive the rest, subscribe here. It’s become increasingly common for startups to raise several seed rounds, and this has led to a bifurcation in the seed stage between what are known as “pre-seed” (or “genesis”) and institutional seed rounds. FWIW, that is not how we operate.).

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Incubators, too, helped flood the markets with even more startups, and AngelList played its part too. A name like 500 Startups says it all. Multiply that by literally a couple thousand, and that’s what 2013 is going to look like in Silicon Valley, and to a lesser degree some other startup ecosystems.

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venturehacks.com

MARCH 21, 2008

Venture Hacks Good advice for startups. See Part 1 for the rest. And that wouldn’t make any sense—our valuation already takes the investor’s value-add into account.&# Reply Trackback responses to this post Advisory Board Compensation for your Startup : Texas Startup Blog - Nov 3, 2008 [.] Learn more.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 14, 2013

This is a guest post by Wade Foster , co-founder and CEO of Zapier, which originally appeared on his blog. But since I’m relatively fresh off of the experience I get asked by first-time founders how they should go about raising money for their startup. Usually those aren’t first-time founders though.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 10, 2017

The Institute includes a co-working space and accelerator (the Blackstone LaunchPad at UT Dallas), an incubator, a training group, a seed fund, and much more — all working together under the unifying, umbrella theme of entrepreneurship. (For I’m also executive director of the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

I have been involved in startups since I graduated from college in 1996. My founders and I started the company about three years ago. My background with entrepreneurialism is this is my sixth startup. I’m the CEO of Executive Speaking Success and I’m a long-time entrepreneur. Bates: Fantastic. Thank you Sabrina.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 29, 2017

I’m a big believer of lean startup. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest. This is my favorite business quote because it removes all external factors and focuses on the most important one for launching a business — the founder. The company’s success is a determinant of the founder.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 26, 2011

There are a lot of things I love about my Android phone--like the easy integration into the rest of my Google life. I think you'll see a lot of focus on companies like Tumblr, Twitter, Foursquare and Pinterest--services that haven't really established a business model yet to justify their sky high valuations.

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betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

The CEO of a startup must, must, must be the product manager. All the rest is noise. ” This is someone who has done it before — raised money, done deals, worked with startups. Co-locate as best possible but be willing to travel to remote offices to make multiple offices work. Be technical.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 18, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Before: After: And thenI ran into a Mixergy interview where 37signals founder, Jason Fried, talks about their free plan (6:00 into the interview): “… The majority of the revenues for our products come from people who sign up for the paid versions upfront.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 14, 2012

But this constraint is at odds with the founders vision. Rumor has it that Zulily is raising capital at a valuation in the $1bn range right now. The company had done $125k in sales in nine months, not enough to justify the valuation that they were seeking. And most startups go south. WIRED WAFFLES. Lori matched his offer.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2010

Second, more damning is the “signaling problem.&# This means that if a VC invests in your seed round and does not participate in a future round the next round investor will think to himself, “well, if Big VC Co. You were a VP at a company that sold for $200 million making the founder very wealthy. is now a VC.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Legendary venture investor and General Partner at Austin Ventures John Thornton told us, “Social content has tremendous potential to drive a new level of consumer engagement on media, entertainment and retail properties – but the market needs a startup with expertise in both social and enterprise tech in order turn the promise into reality.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 12, 2020

This is true not just for startups, but for so many of the institutions that govern society. And this is true not just of startups, but of so many of the institutions that govern society. And what's your vision for what this new community of founders and leaders might build when we get to the new normal? What are your values?

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