Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2016

One of the biggest myths I have found in the entrepreneur community is that every startup needs one or more outside investors for credibility and success, and perhaps is even entitled to at least one. By using a service such as Onevest , you can also place your startup in the right shop window and let investors come to you.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

And in the tradition of great startups, on the way out Perry took 6 of his best managers with him. In five years, ESL went from a plucky startup to the market leader in Sigint and telemetry intercepts. In 1964, Bill Perry, the head of the lab, frustrated with GTE’s management, quit (GTE, a phone company had bought Sylvania in 1959.)

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 6, 2018

We were first check leads in 8 founding teams including Wallaroo Labs , MState (fka hyperfab ), blockdaemon , and 5 in stealth. There will be more deep enterprise tech startups founded, funded, launched, and scaled out of NYC in 2018. 2 exits including yhat (sold to Alteryx? Previously posted on Medium.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 31, 2016

by Brent Freeman , co-founder and president of Stealth Venture Labs. Startups that successfully scale understand they can’t just throw warm bodies at their problems — they often need to recreate processes that got them to where they are today. Despite what many entrepreneurs may think, know this: Not all growth is good growth.

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BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

This includes thinking through what milestones the startups will need to hit to make them attractive for an A round and ensuring there is real plan with enough cash (typically 18 mos) and runway to get there. we are really investing in companies that can scale rapidly with zero to limited to market costs.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 17, 2017

Although the full content of our upcoming accelerator/incubator, Sputnik ATX, is still in stealth mode, I’d like to share a quick rule you should apply to any business idea that you want to pursue. Switching costs are what economists call any expense related to stopping the use of one product and service, and beginning to use another.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

Although the full content of our upcoming accelerator/incubator, Sputnik ATX, is still in stealth mode, I’d like to share a quick rule you should apply to any business idea that you want to pursue. Switching costs are what economists call any expense related to stopping the use of one product and service, and beginning to use another.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Great content again in September that meets at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. Chris Dixon , September 12, 2010 My most useful career experience was about eight years ago when I was trying to break into the world of VC-backed startups. Why You Should Write. Your service: the game.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Don’t take my word for it – in the roundup of venture capital predictions for 2017 , I found it to be the top recurring theme. Many large companies will be built (Michael Wolfe, Point Nine Capital). In 2016 alone, 300+ “machine intelligence” (AI + ML) startups in Europe raised over €1.4

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David Teten

MARCH 12, 2012

Fitness/life guru Tim Ferriss just posted my guest article on ff Venture Capital ‘s approach to building a fitness office. UPDATE: ff Venture Capital was recently profiled in The Roger, an online magazine that profiles creative workspaces. Many of the design changes we have implemented cost little or nothing.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

The Future of Startups 2013-2017, beginning of a series. Marc Andreesen gave a great interview about a year agi about “The Future of the Enterprise” and where the next startups will be playing – Hadoop, Big Data, BYOD, etc. Some of these next big startups are in L.A., Security, Cloud, NoSQL databases, etc.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 22, 2021

When is the right time for a startup to bring on marketing? We asked Hila Shitrit Nissim*, an experienced CMO, to share her perspective on marketing in Israeli startups. Hila spent 12 years as the VP Marketing for Israeli venture capital fund Viola before embarking on an independent CMO career for startups.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Fred Wilson warns that it is starting to feel like a bubble again, with VCs writing $5 and $10 million dollar checks with very little due diligence, sometimes showing up to a first meeting with a term sheet… Israeli startup headlines for Nov 15, 2010. Other venture capital links. Funding news. venturebeat ].

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Fred Wilson warns that it is starting to feel like a bubble again, with VCs writing $5 and $10 million dollar checks with very little due diligence, sometimes showing up to a first meeting with a term sheet… Israeli startup headlines for Nov 15, 2010. Other venture capital links. Funding news. venturebeat ].

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Fred Wilson warns that it is starting to feel like a bubble again, with VCs writing $5 and $10 million dollar checks with very little due diligence, sometimes showing up to a first meeting with a term sheet… Israeli startup headlines for Nov 15, 2010. Other venture capital links. Funding news. venturebeat ].

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Fred Wilson warns that it is starting to feel like a bubble again, with VCs writing $5 and $10 million dollar checks with very little due diligence, sometimes showing up to a first meeting with a term sheet… Israeli startup headlines for Nov 15, 2010. Other venture capital links. Funding news. venturebeat ].

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VC Cafe

APRIL 26, 2023

It’s a global phenomenon, but to be successful in AI, startup hubs require a density of AI engineers, access to data and compute power and access to capital. But it’s not only the AI startups that are active in the generative AI space. We published the first version of the landscape in February 2023 , which included 40 startups.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 17, 2023

OpenAI recognised this as well and was quick to launch the OpenAI startup fund , a $100M corporate fund (with participation from Microsoft, the main backer of OpenAI and soon to be owner of 49% of it). On the one hand, it’s called venture, or risk capital for a reason and venture investors should take risks.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

Today, 100s of billions of dollars in private capital have been invested in 1,000s of AI startups. GPT-3 uses 175 billion parameters and was trained on a cluster with 1,024 Nvidia A100 GPUs that cost ~$25 million! Older AI chips incur huge energy consumption costs that quickly balloon to unaffordable levels. Example here.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

You raised four rounds within 18 months, waiting until your third round before coming out of stealth mode. We could now hire faster, spend more on growth, and maintain the costs we want to maintain. I realised through PayPal and my first startup the impact you can have on people’s lives when you make money better.

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