YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 16, 2016

We witness so many of the subtle gains of our labor – ideas made real, people turned passionate partners and the prospects of inching ever-closer to a long-term future rather than the great likelihood of total business failure. Re-set the vendor and partner paradigm. Expect it, plan for it and don’t apologize for it.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. From RBI, Flexible VCs borrow the ability to reap meaningful returns without demanding founders build for an exit. Capacity Capital, Greater Colorado Venture Fund, Indie.VC, Reformation Partners, UP Fund, Versatile VC. Of the Inc. return cap.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Your customers, followers, shareholders, and partners want to be impressed. It might make sense to move more live chat staff over to the phones to handle demand. Within that dashboard is a funnel chart: The funnel bar chart shows the number of users at each stage of the sales funnel. Focus on the data that matters.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2019

Don’t wait for the harsh reality of the demanding business world to start thinking about these tradeoffs. The downside is loss of control and financial dilution. Old co-workers or new friends with complementary skills usually make the best partners. That’s not an attractive statistic if you crave control and power.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2017

The most obvious way to explain this is with sales people. If you hire 6 senior sales reps in January at $120,000 / year salary then you’ve taken on an extra $60,000 per month in costs yet these sales people might not close new business 6 months. COGS” represents the amount that each sale costs you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2015

It’s disconcerting for most to realize that these shares are initially worth nothing, and the challenge is to get that value up as quickly as possible, without losing it just as quickly to investors, lazy partners and taxation. Make sure the government waits for a stock sale to collect taxes. This is called stock dilution control.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 1, 2019

The market as a whole is expected to increase to $523 billion in sales in the next year, showing promising gains from years past. Small businesses in particular may find it difficult to keep up with the new demands of customers shopping online, including the expectation of free, fast shipping. Shared Shipping.

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Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 14, 2010

I was actually somewhat surprised that the following investors have agreed to use the Series Seed documents in certain of the their deals: Baseline, Charles River Ventures, SV Angel (Ron Conway), First Round Capital, Harrison Metal Capital, Mike Maples, Polaris Venture Partners, SoftTech VC and True Ventures. Anti-dilution protection.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2014

Don’t wait for the harsh reality of the demanding business world to start thinking about these tradeoffs. The downside is loss of control and financial dilution. Old co-workers or new friends with complementary skills usually make the best partners. That’s not an attractive statistic if you crave control and power.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

Editor’s Note: This testimony was delivered by a16z managing partner Scott Kupor to the U.S. By way of background, I am the Managing Partner for Andreessen Horowitz, a $16.5 Second, by better matching supply and demand, direct listings have generally mitigated the magnitude of IPO Pops, thus engendering better overall price discovery.

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Up and Running

MAY 27, 2014

You should think of choosing an investor the same way you consider choosing a business partner, because after you take their money, they become a partner in your business. And if you choose a partner based on money alone, you’re going to find yourself in trouble. (It Every time an investment is made, everyone dilutes!).

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2017

Don’t wait for the harsh reality of the demanding business world to start thinking about these tradeoffs. The downside is loss of control and financial dilution. Old co-workers or new friends with complementary skills usually make the best partners. That’s not an attractive statistic if you crave control and power.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Many aspiring entrepreneurs jump ship from corporate environments, complaining that they want to be their own boss, only to find that investors are more demanding bosses than the ones they left. Don’t let early funding increase risk and dilute your potential. A limited budget makes for a better business plan.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2013

Don’t wait for the harsh reality of the demanding business world to start thinking about these tradeoffs. The downside is loss of control and financial dilution. Old co-workers or new friends with complementary skills usually make the best partners. That’s not an attractive statistic if you crave control and power.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

Early in a services business there is usually no profits as the company reinvests in hiring people to grow, but by $20 million in sales the company should at least be pulling in 10% profits (if not more) depending on how much is reinvested. That is $12 million in profits over 3 years. It’s pure irony.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

George Deeb is the Managing Partner at Chicago-based Red Rocket Ventures , a startup consulting and financial advisory firm based in Chicago. Supply and demand. To start, let’s not forget about the obvious: the natural economic principles of supply and demand apply to valuing your business. The more scarce a supply (e.g.,

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Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 17, 2021

Additionally, as Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman points out, competition from the big companies isn’t necessarily a bad thing. “If All of these early-stage companies, you’re taking a risk on a bet; a bet of a future market, a bet on what demand will look like, a bet on how this will evolve.

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Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 17, 2021

Additionally, as Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman points out, competition from the big companies isn’t necessarily a bad thing. “If All of these early-stage companies, you’re taking a risk on a bet; a bet of a future market, a bet on what demand will look like, a bet on how this will evolve.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 22, 2012

As you may have already seen , I’ve been breaking down the pitches on this season’s Shark Tank while wearing my work hat as a Managing Director at Lightspeed Venture Partners. The founders have more demand than they know what to do with, and want to raise $55k for 5% equity in the company to buy a second truck. Freaker USA.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

The founder wanted to take the offer, but he called his advisor (his business school professor) who told him it was too much dilution for this stage, so he turned it down. It is very positive that the founder had generated some sales and interest from retailers. At some point the fad passes and sales will crash.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

A lawyer I asked about it said: When the company goes public, the SEC will carefully study all prior issuances of stock by the company and demand that it take immediate action to cure any past violations of securities laws. Whatkind of anti-dilution protection do they want? Not all the people who work at VC firms are partners.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

What is the best advice you can give for finding a business partner? Don’t quickly choose any business partner. Do that – nothing else but one product / company / focus and get to $1M in sales with atleast $15% net profit. The key is to ask the right people what they think – not your friends, parents or partner.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 1, 2011

If the sales team made unreasonable demands on the product organization, then that was my fault. Raise money in a highly dilutive way. My partner Scott Weiss relayed that it’s so common that there is an acronym for it: WFIO which stands for We’re F#%ked, It’s Over (it’s pronounced whiff-ee-yo). It kind of sucked to be me.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

All Unicorn participants — founders, company employees, venture investors and their limited partners (LPs) — are seeing their fortunes put at risk from the very nature of the Unicorn phenomenon itself. It will also minimize future dilution. LIMITED PARTNERS (LPS). Now you make your own decisions. ” Go public.

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Seeing Both Sides

JANUARY 4, 2012

My partner, Chip Hazard , likes to refer to the broadening efforts as the "lilly pad strategy": focus on jumping on to a lillypad next to you rather than across the entire pond. Once things are working well, there is a magnetic power that demands pouring more fuel onto the fire. Obviously, it's not that easy a decision.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 14, 2011

There’s income at risk, an audience who may leave, a brand that could become diluted. It may be through re-defining the market they target, or re-positioning their offer to be more attractive and appealing, or even by re-aligning and partnering with the bigger competitor with deeper pockets. and maybe more at stake.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

If your brand tries to be too many things at once, the message becomes scattered and the brand grows diluted. According to a study examining the effect of color on sales, 92.6% Lee Fredericksen, Managing Partner at Hinge Marketing explains : A brand promise is an extension of a company’s positioning. Color Palette.

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