Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

He’ll be speaking at this year’s Lean Startup Conference , and also has a new book (for which I very happily wrote a short foreword) coming out next month: Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It. First, the introduction of seed money as an institutional form of capital.

Lean 108

Lean Venture Capital Conversion IPO 108

Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

This post assumes that, for a company’s early seed round, they’ve decided to use convertible notes or SAFEs; because the majority of startups do. SAFEs and Notes are optimized for speed and simplicity, with a cost of future uncertainty and dilution. They have their downsides, which are discussed in some of the above links.

Valuation 48

Valuation Dilution Silicon Valley Seed Stage 48

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The project was so low cost they did not even want to bother with it. Also if one has a portal that is massive in ideas such as Yahoo, Facebook, Google, Twitter, and YouTube combined like my own without third party back ends it cost a pretty penny to build a custom one if one did not know about clones etc. All what you said is so true.

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

” In off the record conversations, many angels have expressed the urgency of self-discipline. If you are raising a seed round now, there are a few things you can do to protect yourself. There are still the same debates on whether or not you should take seed money from VCs. Entrepreneurs are survivors by nature.

Technical Review 93

Technical Review Silicon Valley Incubator Syria 93