Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

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. Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US.

Partner 240

Partner New York City Cofounder Syndicate 240

Up and Running

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Sometimes it can help to hear from small business founders who were able to breathe life into their business idea and make it go. These four founders shared their success stories with our LivePlan team over the past year. Allison Reitz with one of Good Elephant’s community yoga classes. Bruce Carr founder of Web Ninja.

Small Business 112

Small Business Founder Metrics Forecast 112

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2016

There is an old saying in the startup investor community, “Smart investors invest in the team, not the idea.” Who would have forecast that entrepreneur Gary Ross Dahl would make millions by starting a “ pet rock ” business way back in 1975? Giving the wrong people money doesn’t help at the idea level. Focus on customer needs.

Technical Review 134

Technical Review Intellectual Property Due Diligence Angel Investor 134

David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. 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

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 12, 2010

Listening to first-time entrepreneurs talk about their competitive advantages is as predictably invalid as the local weatherman's 10-day forecast. Well 80% of the folks I meet tell me they're way better than average at SEO, Twitter, and "building communities" whateverthehell that means. We're better at SEO and social media.

Intellectual Property 319

Intellectual Property Bootstrapping Software Review Open Source 319

Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

One of the best ways to promote your business and increase its name recognition is by joining business organizations and/or communities or associations. You can also find financial forecast discussions between the experts analyzing the pros and cons precisely. For me, that’s where professional communities come in.

Community 96

Community Architecture Entrepreneur Networking 96

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Jason is a Co-founder of Thriveal, a firm that helps entrepreneurial CPA firms connect, learn and grow. Does that muddy up the forecasting, the models, or the accounting? [12:31] He's a co-founder of Thriveal firm that helps entrepreneurial CPA firms connect, learn and grow. Marketing Podcast with Jason Blumer.

CPA 71

CPA Technical Review Revenue Forecast 71

Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

This is the home of Jason Cohen, software startup founder, bootstrapper, investor, and mentor. Jason does an excellent job explaining the math behind more complex subscription forecasting, but also touches on topics like marketing and company culture. As co-founder of Y Combinator and co-founder of the Viaweb which sold to Yahoo!

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Venture Capital Technical Review Silicon Valley Cofounder 60

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

In the mid-1990s, a good friend of mine, Gene Kim (founder of Tripwire and author of When IT Fails: A Business Novel ) and I were in graduate school together in the Computer Science program at the University of Arizona. But it’s hard to say, even with hindsight, that we could have predicted Wikipedia, let alone forecast when it would occur.

Artificial Inteligence 182

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Bandwidth Software Review 182

View from Seed

JANUARY 10, 2022

We’ve also proven that giving new, underrepresented, and geographically diverse founders a dedicated, hands-on chance leads to follow-on funding and additional accelerator success across the board. What happens when you give new, underrepresented, and geographically diverse founders a real chance during a time of economic uncertainty? .

San Diego 156

San Diego San Francisco Alabama Valuation 156

Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

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). Yes… he was a very successful PayPal exec and previously co-founder & VP Product of SocialNet. We’re a how-to site and community for small business on marketing. .

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Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

Up and Running

JULY 1, 2019

Want to get expert advice from top SaaS founders? Start by listening to this episode to learn how Christian Owens, founder of Paddle , went from failure to $10 million ARR. Communities and networking. SaaStr is one of the largest communities in business software. Want to get involved with a kick “SaaS” community ?

Startup 109

Startup Cofounder Hosting Community 109

Up and Running

MAY 20, 2014

There is a tendency in the start-up community to be skeptical towards MBAs. While data science is still a nascent field, knowing basic calculus and statistics and learning how they are applied to modeling and forecasting changed the way I think about customers.

Entrepreneur 88

Entrepreneur Advisory Board Silicon Valley New York 88

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Two founders have spent $200K of personal and family funds over a one year period to start the company, get a prototype site up and running, and have already generated some “buzz” in the Internet community. On the other hand, if the pre-money valuation is $4M, the founders ownership remains at a healthy 80% level.

Valuation 270

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation NPV Intellectual Property 270

www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Franchises Franchises Home Franchise 500 Home-Based Low Cost Top New Fast Growing Top Global Biz Opportunities Franchises for Sale Franchises A Bright Forecast for a Solar Panel Installation Franchise. This is the typical way that a founder determines sweat equity: foregone wages. Here are some tools for tackling the challenge.

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Sweat Equity Equity Fractional CTO CTO 55

OnlyOnce

JUNE 9, 2022

” So I was intrigued when I saw a new way of doing all-hands meetings published by my friend Daniel Odio (DROdio) on his founder community called FounderCulture. Sometimes other founders write these. I call it “plagiarizing with pride.” You can see the original post here. Weekly felt too much.

Cofounder 62

Cofounder Hosting Forecast Early Stage 62

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Two founders have spent $200K of personal and family funds over a one year period to start the company, get a prototype site up and running, and have already generated some “buzz” in the Internet community. On the other hand, if the pre-money valuation is $4M, the founders ownership remains at a healthy 80% level.

Pre-Money Valuation 246

Pre-Money Valuation Valuation NPV Intellectual Property 246

Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

I strongly believe that the first few hires of a startup should belong to the growth department, whether they’re marketers, community managers, or salespeople (selling your product is the best way to learn how to improve it). Jun-15: Community Manager (growth team). 1x hacker in charge of product/development. Lean marketing.

Revenue 60

Revenue Acquisition Channel Campaign 60

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2011

It’s a well-accepted axiom in the investor community that entrepreneurs learn more from their failures than their successes. Don’t under-forecast cash needs. Thus a well-explained startup failure often can actually improve your odds of funding in the next go-round. Make the company fit the people, rather than vice versa.

Forecast 241

Forecast Startup Hiring Leadership 241

Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

“If you can fix a problem for someone and do it better, quicker, and/or cheaper than your competitor, you’re off to a good start.” – Gabriel Kuperman, founder and CEO of CuePin. We created UpKeep to fill this void—a cloud-based solution that was affordable for any size business.” – Ryan Chan, founder of UpKeep.

Software Review 74

Software Review Software Delaware Forecast 74

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

My colleagues Sebastian Soler , Steven Greenberg and I recently launched a new online community, PEVCTech.com , exclusively for PE/VC investors; engineers who work at PE/VC funds; and other technologists who specialize in working on this problem. to motivate their angel community to support their startups. Pitchbot.vc

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

Eric Friedman

JANUARY 23, 2022

Running accelerator programs, investing in startups, and working directly with founders is exactly what I want to be doing with my time. The best part is that I have had countless follow up conversations and DMs getting to know founders. I love to look at founder calendars to calibrate how important hiring is to them.

Early Stage 78

Early Stage Equity .Net Vesting 78

Gust

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

Two founders have spent $200K of personal and family funds over a one year period to start the company, get a prototype site up and running, and have already generated some “buzz” in the Internet community. On the other hand, if the pre-money valuation is $4M, the founders ownership remains at a healthy 80% level.

Valuation 187

Valuation Pre-Money Valuation NPV Intellectual Property 187

Up and Running

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Our LivePlan customers are entrepreneurs, our founder and staff have run and sold companies, the Bplans readers are aspiring entrepreneurs (or actual entrepreneurs), and as I sell my own handmade jewelry, I like to think I have a very small claim to the title. At Palo Alto Software, I am surrounded by entrepreneurs. Maybe you’re the same way.

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Curation Lean Software Review Finder 60

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Two founders have spent $200K of personal and family funds over a one year period to start the company, get a prototype site up and running, and have already generated some “buzz” in the Internet community. On the other hand, if the pre-money valuation is $4M, the founders ownership remains at a healthy 80% level.

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Valuation Pre-Money Valuation NPV Startup 234

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 4, 2012

With everyone and his brother now founding a startup, the smartest entrepreneurial play could be to set up a crowdfunding site to provide those founders with their essential tool: money. Any crowdfunding site that can grab even a small piece of it will make its founders wealthy. The smart people were selling picks and shovels.

SEC 143

SEC Equity Aggregator Forecast 143

Up and Running

JANUARY 18, 2021

The first thing most eCommerce companies did in February of 2020 was to smash their crystal balls and toss out demand forecasts because the world was shaping up to be like nothing we’ve seen before. That uncertainty still exists, but we can now turn to it to see patterns and set some expectations for 2021.

eCommerce 150

eCommerce B2B Forecast Demand 150

Austin Startup

MARCH 29, 2018

Where were all the forecasters? Latinitas staff with Curly from Pero Like The founder of the colonialism combatant news feed Latina Rebels, Prisca Dorcas, put it best: “I get called out. There were panels devoted just to these dialogues, but what was missing was not on the schedule or the roster of speaker, but in the audiences.

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Panama Los Angeles Miami Cofounder 48

Up and Running

AUGUST 21, 2017

Historically, while unicorn startups rightfully garner a lot of media attention and interest throughout the venture capital (VC) community, smart investors have spread their money around among a large number of startups, both large and small. Of that number, only 98 are currently considered unicorns. But is that still the case?

Silicon Valley 86

Silicon Valley Venture Capital Valuation Later Stage 86

David Teten

AUGUST 7, 2019

In VC, this means you identify companies that are not yet highly visible to the VC community; analyze them; persuade the company to sell you on the privilege of accepting your capital; then work to make them Momentum. If the Founder continues to be weak at follow-on financing, that “value trap” can hinder their continued growth. .

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Venture Capital Valuation Stock NDA 60

Up and Running

MARCH 2, 2015

A street view in Bali, Indonesia, where the founders of Indosole were inspired to start their social enterprise. The horror of the pollution there troubled the two co-founders, and they created a solution in the form of stylish, funky sandals made from repurposed Indonesian motorcycle tires. Photo via: Iryna Rasko.

Indonesia 60

Indonesia Cofounder Forecast Government 60

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 7, 2010

As consumer technology companies begin to get off the ground and make forecasts, there is the inevitable user adoption hockey stick that rockets the local user count to ridiculous heights with no market budget but significant “viral effects&# and “social media.&# com) and Chicago (Do312.com),

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Hockey Stick Houston Austin Chicago 66

thinkspace.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

How to Divide Equity to Startup Founders, Advisors, and Employees. The part that I’d like to zero in on is when you’ve got a high growth company what are some of the best practices out there to distribute equity to the founders, advisors, and employees? Equity for Founders. Should founders have anti-dilution rights?

Equity 62

Equity Employee Founder CTO Hire 62

Up and Running

AUGUST 21, 2014

As you guys go out and are pitching investors, have gotten some investor money, as you guys really go out there talking to the investment community, whether it’s angel investors, whether it’s larger VC funds and VC firms, it’s going to get you a lot further if you can focus in on data. Which one has the lowest direct cost?

Metrics 84

Metrics Startup Churn Rate Forecast 84

VC Cafe

MAY 28, 2020

Indeed, some AR/VR startup founders are especially optimistic. There’s a big opportunity here, because everyone is shopping from home during COVID-19,” Evan Gappelberg, the founder and CEO of NexTech AR Solutions, told Haaretz newspaper. This is the time to build. EchoAR works with developers to deliver 3D content in the cloud.

Technical Review 164

Technical Review Cloud Forecast 164

Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

We added a podcast to our blogging community and we wanted to hear from entrepreneurs some of their favorite business or entrepreneurial podcast. #1- 1- The Forecast Podcast. The host is a founder of Dent Global, a business growth accelerator. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community. Photo Credit: Reuben Swartz.

Entrepreneur 75

Entrepreneur Hosting Cofounder Forecast 75

The Next Web

AUGUST 19, 2013

He is the co-­founder and CEO of Quote Roller and PandaDoc. However, figuring out the way your startup should make money could be challenging, especially for us left­-brained founders. Inbound marketing is not easy, and it’s hard to forecast without trying it for a few months first. Inbound marketing has some downsides.

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Belarus Viral Channel Startup 137