Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2012

A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CFO) and a product lead (CTO). For a business, you must define the absolute minimum features you need to satisfy the customer problem, and test it in the market. Build qualified advisory board. Register some intellectual property.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Continuing my series of posts that I’ve been collecting that live at the intersection of Startups and being a Startup CTO : Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March here are the top posts from May 2010. It is to out friend. Enjoyed this post? Putting customers first. Disruptive.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Uber , Zenefits , Tanium , Lending Club CEOs of companies with billion dollar market caps have been in the news – and not in a good way. — Unremarked and unheralded, the balance of power between startup CEOs and their investors has radically changed: IPOs/M&A without a profit (or at times revenue) have become the norm. .

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2011

A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CFO) and a product lead (CTO). For a business, you must define the absolute minimum features you need to satisfy the customer problem, and test it in the market. Build qualified advisory board. Register some intellectual property.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

The Valley has obsessed with a quick up-and-to-right momentum story because we were thought to live in “winner take most” markets. But markets have changed and I think investors, founders and experienced executives who want to join later-stage startups can all benefit from playing the long game. It literally drove FOMO.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CFO) and a product lead (CTO). For a business, you must define the absolute minimum features you need to satisfy the customer problem, and test it in the market. Build qualified advisory board. Register some intellectual property.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 7, 2013

That’s what a couple of my friends – engineers at Google and Bloomberg who have been following the rise of startup culture with intrigue – told me recently. They were referring to non-founder engineers, most commonly the first hire for technology businesses. Every time a startup raises capital, all common shareholders are diluted.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Because of this, I've always tried to stay up-to-speed on how early-stage investors look at valuation of companies. Bill Payne is an expert on how early-stage investors should look at valuation. He just post: Establishing the Pre-money Valuation of Pre-revenue Startups. Size of target market $100M is okay.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2010

A CEO who has “been there and done that” is traction, especially if teamed with a financial lead (CIO) and a product lead (CTO). For a business, you must define the absolute minimum features you need to satisfy the customer problem, and test it in the market. Build qualified advisory board. Register some intellectual property.

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www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Entrepreneur Homepage Startups Starting a Business Home How-To Guides Startup Basics Business Ideas Business Planning Startup Financing Success Stories Home-Based Business Starting a Business Play Video How to Take a New Product from Just an Idea to a Business (Video). Startup Basics Does College Matter for Entrepreneurs?

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Last week ZipCar began trading and has a market cap of about $1 billion. Kayak was started here in my backyard of Boston… co-founder & CTO Paul English and the product/engineering team is based here in Concord MA. Post-money valuation probably no higher than $12M (2).

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Kik, for those of you who don’t know of it, has its core user base in the US, and markets itself as a universal messaging service that doesn’t require a phone number for registration. Both Spark and RRE agreed to split the round, but at the slightly lower figure of $8 million and with a lower valuation for Kik.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. He previously founded N&N Investments LLC, a real estate investment holding company; and is a program leader and fellow of the Startup Leadership Program. .

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2011

And we’re here with Dan Martell , who like any great startup founder is wearing his company t-shirt for Flowtown. “Maybe,&# says Naval, “Certainly valuations are creepy up quickly in all stages of deals. It was a bunch of members of the Austin Startup Factory mixed with some out-of-towners like myself.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Her background includes senior roles in both the banking and tech sectors, and she has launched four data businesses—including her current firm, New Frontier Data , which boasts a $20 million valuation and has received $5 million in funding. A study via Dow Jones entitled “ Women at the Wheel: Do Female Executives Drive Startup Success?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Master of 500 Hats: Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp 2008, London) This presentation should be required reading for anyone creating a startup with an online service component. In my opinion, every startup needs to "pick a major" among these three drivers of growth. Choose one. The AARRR model (hence pirates, get it?)

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thinkspace.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Marketing Intern. Office Space. Virtual Office. How to Divide Equity to Startup Founders, Advisors, and Employees. Are there principles that you live by that you’ve implemented in your startup that have worked really well? Your blog post does a great job of helping startup founders know a bit.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Team Configuration 500 Startups Guerilla Marketing Organizations Entrepreneurship Startup Founders & Entrepreneurs Startups Startup Incubators and Seed Programs Seedcamp Y Combinator TechStars Lean Startups What is the perfect startup team?

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www.avc.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

This is NOT your 409a valuation (we call that "fair value"). This "best value" can be the valuation on the last round of financing. Or it can be a public market comp analysis. The third bracket are employees who are in the key functions like engineering, product, marketing, etc.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Accelerators are often exciting, collaborative and deeply rewarding incubators that help you to grow your startup, develop a product or idea, and find follow-on investors. If you’ve never part of a startup before, sometimes taking the first steps are the hardest of all. I highly recommend that startups do one of those,” Jenner says.

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Scalable Startup

AUGUST 26, 2014

As further market proof of the power of Drupal in the enterprise, Acquia has received about $100 million in funding in the past 3 months, which puts its valuation at over $1 billion. It was a startup that launched with funding from day one and has never looked back. more info on the funding round from @thewhir [link].

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Sales & Marketing | Wednesdays. Advisor. ); STARTUP. SALES & MARKETING. Online Marketing. TECHNOLOGY. Technology. Bringing Innovation to Market. We had a rough time early on," says Parker, president and chief technology officer of Roving Software Inc. , Email address: Home.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Transcript of How to Prepare to Sell Your Business written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. John Jantsch: This episode of the Duck Tape Marketing Podcast is sponsored by Podcast Bookers, podcastbookers.com. Hello and welcome to another episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast. Back to Podcast. Transcript.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

This is part of my Startup Advice series. If you’re thinking about joining as the director of marketing, product management manager, senior architect, international business development lead, etc. at a startup that has already raised $5 million the chances of you making your retirement money on that company is EXTREMELY small.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 19, 2010

I’m planning on going to a Tech Coast Angels mixer tomorrow and the topic for me is whether there is angel funding out there for startups that don’t meet classic VC models. By way of background for the question, there’s a great post by Bob Aholt, a Pasadena Angel: An Angel Investor’s Thoughts on Valuation.

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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. and chartbeat.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Some really great stuff in 2010 that aims to help startups around product, technology, business models, etc. 500 Hats , February 1, 2010 When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication?

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