Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2020

As a long-time advisor to entrepreneurs, and a former angel myself, I still find startups confused about the definition of an angel investor, and how and when to attract one. Typically, individual investments will be less than $100K, but a group of angels may syndicate multiples. Thus they don’t live or fly above the clouds.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 15, 2022

4:32] Is that was that the initial vision was to just make it easier to get those shows syndicated? [5:48] So I'm looking for a lawyer looking for MBA programmer and a graphics developer. And on that call, it was a lawyer, an MBA and a graphics developer and the graphics developer, new programmer got him on the phone.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Startups with large, lifecycle VCs included in the seed round syndicate did not reach Series A faster than those who did not. If a lifecycle VC was involved in the seed investor syndicate, the Series A was noticeably larger, at a $5.9M Foster product development and marketing which creates organic (or somewhat organic) user traction.

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www.peterdrew.net

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Peter Drew Internet Marketing Tools Online Blog Home Recieve an Email for Each New Post Here Contact Peter Drew You are here: Home / Internet Marketing / How to find a good programmer or web developer How to find a good programmer or web developer October 1, 2007 By Peter Drew Leave a Comment 1. Protect your asset. and is online a LOT.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The name On Site Opera was definitely derived from a mission-drive place. I found Dilate and loved the definition; Dilate comes from the Latin word ‘Dilatare’ meaning to grow, to expand, to enlarge and elaborate. It had a big impact on my own personal development as a gardener. Thanks to John Farkas, Golden Spiral ! #5-

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

I have seen this criticism at various places where this recap is syndicated on a weekly basis, as well as in certain random forums on the internet. However, 1M/1M is a development economics project. The first step is to develop some reference customers, something all early-stage startups should do.

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

They also did a lot of self-directed research checking all sorts of sources, from social media to syndicated content to category- or industry-specific resources.” – Beth Caplow, VP and Principal Analyst at Forrester [via Forrester ]. For example, Optimizely is a hero to web developers that want to improve their conversion rates.

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View from Seed

APRIL 30, 2015

If we don’t have a prior relationship, we’ll really want to try to develop that because it’s such a relationship play. If they can’t, then we want to know more about the existing investor syndicate, so we’re not the only ones at the table. But the costs are definitely there.

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Mike Michalowicz

AUGUST 30, 2012

One popular definition of insanity is to continue doing the same thing, expecting different results. Thanks to Kenny Jahng of Big Click Syndicate LLC. In otherwords, a dry cleaner competes with retailers who develop wrinkle free shirts/suits. The Unexpected Places Where You Will Find Great Employees. Customers Know Best.

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Gust

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Furthermore, angel groups frequently syndicate (co-invest) with neighboring angel organizations in an effort to help fill round of investment for local companies and assist members in diversifying their portfolios with investments in nearby regions. Is the product defined and developed? 20 to $50 million. -. >

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mashable.com

JUNE 30, 2012

There he heads product definition, marketing, and sales of the Tiggzi , a platform for mobile development. It enables consistent access to objects in their system (people, photos, events, and pages) and lets developers also access the connections between them (friend relationships, shared content, and photo tags).

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www.allthingsdistributed.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The first thing thatalways comes up when you want to discuss the role of a CTO is that there is no wellestablished definition of what a CTO actually does. The role developed into very different positions andthere are several ways how to categorize them. The first CTOs came onto the scene during the late eighties.A

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Seed-stage, meanwhil e, is technically that critical period when you need funding to do solution- and business-model development, to prove that your new product or service works, before you try to sell it to customers. million and is normally syndicated from one to three institutional seed investors or larger VC funds.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 14, 2017

He’s been a developer/hacker for over 15 years, and he sold his first startup, VinSolutions for $150 million. I grew up working in flea markets, and my family was entrepreneurial, not in the tech side of things or anything, but in different ways, and was always working side projects and jobs for people as a developer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

By definition, angels are accredited investors, who invest their own money for a percentage of the business. Groups of angels may syndicate multiple individual amounts, but if your total request exceeds $1 million, you need to focus on the venture capital alternatives. Early stage research and development won’t excite angels.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 19, 2014

Anecdotally, over the last 3-6 months we’re definitely seeing more examples of larger early stage or multistage funds offer to do 80-100% of a company’s seed round. It’s a really interesting development – if ~2012 was about the “party round,” could 2014 be about the Piggy Round?

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 5, 2012

If that’s not enough, then you’ll probably be naming your company as you juggle dozens of other responsibilities , such as building and testing your product, recruiting new team members or developing your go-to-market strategy. Naming your startup is definitely a challenging process! Programming and Web Development Lists.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Below are several ways to develop great roots. Develop literal concepts. Develop figurative concepts. You can easily multiply your output by adding a list of synonyms to the roots you already developed. Programming and Web Development Lists. Global Syndication Partners. Look up synonyms. Movie Lists.

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mashable.com

MAY 24, 2011

May 23, 2011 by Christina Warren 20 Share on Tumblr email share Share on Tumblr email share The Mobile App Trends Series is supported by Sourcebits , a leading product developer for mobile platforms. Sourcebits offers design and development services for iOS, Android, Mobile and Web platforms.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

If you’re working with an open source project, for example, it’s important that you have a definitive business model to drive revenue — though not at the cost of alienating your community of core contributors. To that end, companies will offer enterprise-ready software that comes with additional features, services and support.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

For example, my company decided early on to hire a UI designer, which has helped tremendously with our product development. Then we allocated the saved money into hiring the highest quality developers available — especially those who have experience working with a distributed team. Check) Stage 2: Develop App. (in

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. And this was a huge product, which took years to develop.

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mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

The search giant’s VP of Corporate Development, along with CEO Larry Page, signs off on the dozens of acquisitions and acqui-hires made every year, large and small. The Idea: A computer mouse with memory and clipboard feature, this would definitely be a useful device to have :). Programming and Web Development Lists.

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mashable.com

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

As an added bonus if the archive is published the results can be visualised in a separate tool I’ve developed. Now I’m definitely using them for my work. It’s still in Beta (I believe there’s a scheduled release at the end of the month) but it’s definitely worth checking out and playing around with.

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VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2017

their brands are less developed, so most people would struggle to name a show. So, let’s start with some definitions. It is often available for subscription, so that new episodes are automatically downloaded via web syndication to the user’s own local computer, mobile application, or portable media player. What is a Podcast?

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View from Seed

JANUARY 28, 2016

We don’t delineate between seed or pre-seed rounds, but as that definition has come into vogue, it’s clear that we are quite active as both “pre-seed investors” and “institutional seed investors.”. Second, we tend to look for situations where the founder has very strong founder/market fit.

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mashable.com

JANUARY 13, 2012

Companies should take social media seriously …it’s definitely here to stay! Programming and Web Development Lists. Global Syndication Partners. I’m surprised more aren’t better at this… January 15, 2012 14:50:14. Flag this comment. buzzquotient. Moms and Family Resource Lists. Movie Lists.

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mashable.com

JULY 4, 2012

Varying your anchor text is definitely a must in case you are “building” links. Programming and Web Development Lists. Global Syndication Partners. July 3, 2012 09:22:07. Flag this comment. July 4, 2012 08:04:04. Flag this comment. SubmitComfort. Moms and Family Resource Lists. Money and Finance Lists. Movie Lists.

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View from Seed

JUNE 30, 2015

Over a third of our investments happen pre-product (so by definition, before PMF), and two-thirds are pre-revenue. Or maybe your market hasn’t quite developed as quickly as you’d hoped. I think it’s also very instructive to know how often the investor leads early rounds and how large those rounds typically are.

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mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

Make A (Smart) Game Of It Subjot , the brainchild of game developer Chris Carella, turned its coming soon page into a social game using a feature available on LaunchRock. We are a startup social media dashboard in development, but have amassed over 5000 followers pre-beta. Very interesting product under development at Personify.

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OnlyOnce

MAY 1, 2019

Return Path , as we announce that Return Path has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by an exciting new company called Validity. Today is a special day in my entrepreneurial journey and in the life of the company that I started back in 1999 (last century!), Press release is here.

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OnlyOnce

MAY 1, 2019

Return Path , as we announce that Return Path has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by an exciting new company called Validity. Today is a special day in my entrepreneurial journey and in the life of the company that I started back in 1999 (last century!), Press release is here.

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VC Cafe

JULY 27, 2017

their brands are less developed, so most people would struggle to name a show. So, let’s start with some definitions. It is often available for subscription, so that new episodes are automatically downloaded via web syndication to the user’s own local computer, mobile application, or portable media player. What is a Podcast?

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Professor VC

APRIL 1, 2010

A couple of items buried in the 1300 page bill include changing the definition of an accredited investor and moving regulatory roles on private3 placements from federal to stage level. This will both reduce the number of angel investors and make it more difficult to syndicate across stage lines.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

APRIL 5, 2010

Initially, like blogging, I had no idea what this term meant, but with some quick research I learned that podcasts and podcasting are all about creating audio files and syndicating them online via things like RSS. You can read my more lengthy definition of what a Podcast is here.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 1, 2017

TL;DR: In a market that has historically idolized huge, splashy financings and exits, an increasing number of entrepreneurs are realizing that everyone else’s definition of success — particularly among certain large VCs — isn’t necessarily aligned with their own.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 14, 2017

And I got 20 – 30 minute interviews from all these people, I put those as excerpts which I think put on my YouTube which then got syndicated on entrepreneurs video network. What is the definition of dynamic communication as opposed to good communication? And you can see the snowball impact that would have. John: Sure.

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