Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2013

It won’t work, it costs time and money, and hurts your credibility when you need them later. The alternative is to work with an innovation institute to evaluate your technology, or hire a consultant. They are not trying to make money, but simply to recoup their costs over time. Early or embryonic stage.

Incubator 256

Incubator Entrepreneur Exit Strategy Institutional Investors 256

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2014

Unless you are bootstrapping everything, you need to have a clear plan on what networking and documents are required to get to friends and family, Angel investors, and institutional investors. Leverage information technology. Here is another often overlooked area of process that kills many startups, both in cost and time.

Startup 268

Startup Institutional Investors Angel Investor Bootstrapping 268

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

This article will focus on the impact of hospitals in that equation, specifically those public health system owned and controlled by local Governments. [2]. Further into their lifecycle, though, they found themselves beholden to certain financial and governance handicaps. Hospital System Roots. Unions often cast an outsized presence.

Private Equity 164

Private Equity New York City Chicago Investment Bankers 164

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

It won’t work, it costs time and money, and hurts your credibility when you need them later. The alternative is to work with an innovation institute to evaluate your technology, or hire a consultant. They are not trying to make money, but simply to recoup their costs over time. Early or embryonic stage.

Incubator 120

Incubator Startup Exit Strategy Institutional Investors 120

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2012

It won’t work, it costs time and money, and hurts your credibility for when you need them later. The alternative is to work with an innovation institute to evaluate your technology, or hire a consultant. They are not trying to make money, but simply to recoup their costs over time. Early or embryonic stage.

Incubator 237

Incubator Startup Exit Strategy Institutional Investors 237

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2013

Unless you are bootstrapping everything, you need to have a clear plan on what networking and documents are required to get to friends and family, Angel investors, and institutional investors. Leverage information technology. Here is another often overlooked area of process that kills many startups, both in cost and time.

Institutional Investors 230

Institutional Investors Angel Investor Bootstrapping Database 230

View from Seed

OCTOBER 29, 2014

For public sector roles, such as government employees, teachers, and firefighters, DB pension funds are still the norm, and many public pension funds still invest in VC funds (though some of these are very large entities, making scale an issue, which I’ll discuss more below). The first is a staff constraint.

LP 335

LP Private Equity Institutional Investors Venture Capital 335

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 13, 2011

It won’t work, it costs time and money, and hurts your credibility for when you need them later. The alternative is to work with an innovation institute to evaluate your technology, or hire a consultant. They are not trying to make money, but simply to recoup their costs over time. Early or embryonic stage.

Incubator 230

Incubator Startup Exit Strategy Institutional Investors 230

Agile VC

OCTOBER 29, 2014

For public sector roles, such as government employees, teachers, and firefighters, DB pension funds are still the norm, and many public pension funds still invest in VC funds (though some of these are very large entities, making scale an issue, which I’ll discuss more below). The first is a staff constraint.

Venture Capital 279

Venture Capital LP Private Equity Institutional Investors 279

Pascal's View

AUGUST 12, 2009

economy: “… Sarbanes-Oxley compliance costs, Eliot-Spitzer’s stock analyst settlement and the economic downturn have created an historic drought in venture-backed companies going public. . Investors take risk in order to reap rewards. Share and Enjoy:

IPO 28

IPO Silicon Valley Merger Sweat Equity 28

Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 12, 2009

C corps, LLCs, and S corps differ significantly in the areas of taxation, ownership, fundraising, governance and structure, and employee compensation. Almost all technology startup companies that I work with are C corps. Such inflexible features are typically unattractive to venture investors. Governance/Structure.

LLC 61

LLC Stock Options Preferred Stock Stock 61

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Stanford and MIT were building on the technology breakthroughs of World War II and graduating a generation of engineers into a consumer and cold war economy that seemed limitless. These technology startups had no risk capital – just customers/purchase orders from government/military/intelligence agencies.

Silicon Valley 174

Silicon Valley Securities and Exchange Commission Venture Capital RSS 174