YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 28, 2015

This article highlights their advice on issues ranging from financing to patent trolls: While startups may believe lawyers are too costly, working with one early on avoids potentially serious problems later. Startups need to understand how to manage the seed money they receive from investors and VCs. Convertible Securities.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 20, 2022

There’s a common expectation among entrepreneurs that seed money from family is great – letting close relatives in at the ground floor. When the business failed, the cousin sued his own relative, me, my wife (who didn’t even know the names of the players), and even my family trust (an estate planning vehicle with no separate assets.)

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 15, 2015

There’s a common expectation among entrepreneurs that seed money from family is great – letting close relatives in at the ground floor. When the business failed, the cousin sued his own relative, me, my wife (who didn’t even know the names of the players), and even my family trust (an estate planning vehicle with no separate assets.)

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

The goal of model building is to prove that if you take all the baby steps in the right order, and you test out pricing and cost assumptions as best you can along the way, and you keep listening to potential customers as you progress, then you develop reasonable confidence that success is mathematically possible.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

Learning everything you can about VC first is important for that reason, but also to ensure it’s the right form of financing for your business. In fact, it’s quite the opposite - making sure you have the same goals as your financing partner is probably the best thing you can do as an entrepreneur to maximize your chances for success.

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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. A name like 500 Startups says it all. Entrepreneurs are survivors by nature.

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