Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 7, 2013
Based on the final report for 2012 from Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), it may appear that IPOs are back as a viable startup exit strategy. billion from 49 listings, and represented the strongest annual period for IPOs since 2000. Marty Zwilling.
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 16, 2010
Part 1 – Access to Great Deal Flow – is here. The first three skills I espoused were: access to the highest-quality deal-flow, domain knowledge of the topic area in which you’re investing and access to VCs to help fund the next stages of development. This is actually the norm.
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Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 21, 2010
If you’re a startup and you don’t have a close relationship with a few law firms you’re really missing one of the most important relationships that any entrepreneur can have. I write about some of the lessons in my post on Startup Mistakes. I find that one of my best sources of deal flow is from lawyers.
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 14, 2009
To do this they have to accomplish five things; 1) get deal flow – via networking and legwork, they identify likely industries, companies and teams with the potential for rapid growth (less than 10 years), 2) evaluate those companies and teams on the basis of technology, market opportunity, and team.
crowdSPRING Blog
JANUARY 3, 2011
The past year saw startups on the rise, an increase in venture capital funding (both in real dollars and numbers of companies funded), a resurgence of IPOs, and the rise of David against Goliath, as best represented by Groupon’s spurning of a $6 billion offer from Google. Investors will be bullish on startups.
David Teten
MARCH 14, 2018
The firm attracts deal flow by promising a decision (positive or negative) in under 2 weeks, with minimal paperwork and without repeating due diligence. I’ve listed a few more below which require meaningful startup and ongoing costs. For more, see the Startup Studio Playbook. This requires a real financial sacrifice.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 8, 2010
I’d embed the video but it doesn’t seem to allow you to do this so here’s the link the This Week in Startups, Inaugural show. IPO market is back. We discussed some of the recent IPOs. Why VC’s who have “dial out&# programs to early-stage startups damage their reputation. - and much more.
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