Customer Operations Seed Money Software Review 
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 27, 2011
If you had huge customer growth but just didn’t focus on revenue that’s a different story. Operating Costs. And when you’re looking at even earlier-stage companies (as VCs do) you might be even more focused on customer growth than revenue growth. million in revenue three years later is, “So effing what?”
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 17, 2009
A few years ago it became fashionable for large VC’s to do seed funding. With open source software (LAMP stack) and cloud computing infrastructure it just wasn’t that expensive to get your company going and founders just wanted to raise less money. If a VC term sheet comes in they begin their due diligence process.
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Up and Running
APRIL 18, 2014
In the early 1990s, my brother was working for a company that was going through the roof selling shareware software via catalog. With my third business, I didn’t even try to be original—I purchased a custom framing franchise and piggybacked to success on someone else’s name. I stole the ideas for my first startups from other people.
YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 28, 2015
Startups need to understand how to manage the seed money they receive from investors and VCs. Debt also has a due date and interest rate to negotiate. “From a diligence perspective, trolling appears as a blemish on the company,” said Fisher. Debt or convertible securities (e.g., ” Intellectual Property.
Up and Running
MAY 12, 2015
Drawing on advice from our own Tim Berry, founder of Palo Alto Software and Josh Cochrane, our VP of Product Development, I’ve broken down a few of the different options for entrepreneurs looking for feedback on their pitch. They ended up with a nice pitch, and approximately $300K in seed money.”. Operated by the U.S.
www.paulgraham.com
APRIL 28, 2010
I wassurprised recently when I realized that all the worst problems wefaced in our startup were due not to competitors, but investors.Dealing with competitors was easy by comparison. It wasnt because they werent accredited investors that I didntask my parents for seed money, though. Custom work doesnt scale.
techcrunch.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
This is the first post in what’s going to be a series of blogs on how to go from nothing – no connections, no team, no money and no knowledge of how the startup industry really works – to operating a growing business. I’m taking a 52 week course in how to start up, run, operate, and achieve self employment.
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