Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2012

The good news is that he is all about helping early-stage startups. Early-stage startup. Every startup is early-stage to someone. For a startup founder, this stage is when the “big idea” has become a passion for him, but he hasn’t written anything down yet. Incremental investment may follow.

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View from Seed

JULY 5, 2022

Investors, customers, regulators, and all key stakeholders are demanding more transparent corporate sustainability disclosures. To meet these demands, the historical practice of manually collecting this data does not scale and results in inefficient reporting that is difficult to audit and easily misrepresented. And your least?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2011

The good news is that he is all about helping early-stage startups, the hard part for entrepreneurs is figuring out what it takes to play. Early-stage startup. Every startup is early-stage to someone. For VCs, early-stage means customer revenue is less than $10M. Lean startup.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 10, 2012

And it made me come to a new realization: Every early-stage web/mobile/online startup should have at least one technical advisor, probably two. Most early-stage, in-house teams needs to be hands on developers, not strategic. Why Investors Should Demand This. It just didn't dawn on me how common this need is.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Among these opportunities, the chance to pitch an investor and secure funding is perhaps the greatest of all — at least in the early stages of your startup career — as it can ultimately determine the long-term fate of your company. VCs want to see that there’s a demand for your product and that you’re able to meet that demand.

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Gust

JULY 8, 2012

The good news is that he is all about helping early-stage startups. Early-stage startup. Every startup is early-stage to someone. For a startup founder, this stage is when the “big idea” has become a passion for him, but he hasn’t written anything down yet. Incremental investment may follow.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 31, 2020

Busy people need help — especially when they are working for a demanding organization where they need to dedicate their time to high-level decision-making rather than tedious tasks. And by being faster, more accurate, and much more affordable, this will be a game-changer for small businesses across the board.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2014

In reality, very few executives or professional stars from large corporations survive in the early-stage startup environment. At a small company, if you''re constantly demanding more support, you risk turning your net impact into overhead-creep rather than value creation. Small-company heroes are consistently self-reliant.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 8, 2021

Here’s how 5 Sputnik-backed, woman led early stage startups began and how they’re growing today. after founding her first company Alex Porter, co-founder of MOD Tech Labs Learning to Humanize Tech : how Alex Porter and Tim Porter started MOD Tech Labs and how they learned to succeed in the early days during Sputnik ATX.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 14, 2022

While certain aspects of setting up a startup can be exhilarating, especially in the early stages of the business, there are also plenty of bumps along the road, big and small. The only way to know if this is to find out if there is a demand for it. The life of an entrepreneur can be exciting and filled with ups and downs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2013

Every early-stage startup should explore this new funding alternative. New “up-and-comer” VCs focus on early-stage companies. VCs are finding that they don’t need the “large” funds of $100M to $500M to support a portfolio, if they focus on early-stage startups. Marty Zwilling.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 28, 2018

There’s a quick litmus-test conversation any early-stage VC will have with the founder and it’s one that you should be as prepared for as your elevator pitch. It’s true that some later-stage private equity firms like to fund “roll ups” (a company that acquires many related companies in it sector), but this is seldom the domain of VCs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 23, 2013

In reality, very few executives or professional stars from large corporations survive in the early-stage startup environment. At a small company, if you're constantly demanding more support, you risk turning your net impact into overhead-creep rather than value creation. Small-company heroes are consistently self-reliant.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

None of that can compare with being the CEO of a startup facing a rapidly diminishing bank account, your best engineer quitting, working until 10pm and rushing to the airport and catching a redeye for a “ Hail Mary ” close of a customer, with your board demanding you do it faster. Early stage VC’s should have startup CEO experience.

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View from Seed

APRIL 2, 2024

Similarly, I’d argue that the early-stage venture “product” has elevated across the board. Treehouse for example continues to only sell beer on premise, eschewing what would certainly huge demand by retailers and restaurants for their products. A lot of offerings that were innovative at one time are table stakes today.

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

This behavior has marketers pledging to up their demand generation budgets. Because if people are making up their own minds, without coercion from sales, creating demand is the best way to get them to choose you. What is a demand generation manager and why do they matter? Demand generation owes a lot to inbound marketing.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

In very few specific cases, depending on the nature of the business, the business model might demand a considerable gestation period or extensive research and development. These usually play a role in the very early stage of your business, primarily pre-revenue. Early-stage. Options for initial setup. ?

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 11, 2022

Why Bringing These Two Skillsets Onto Your Cap Table Early Is Worth It. In 10 years of venture investing I don’t think I’ve ever participated in a seed round which had less demand than supply. Seed Stage Needs Here Are Usually About Preventing Things From Going Wrong. And so instead you get what you pay for.

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View from Seed

MAY 2, 2019

This is the logical path that one would think is pretty “standard” for early stage companies. Once early data exists, there are all sorts of comps out there that create some gravitational pull towards “market” pricing. The post The Road Less Traveled: Non-Standard Early Stage Funding Paths appeared first on NextView Ventures.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 16, 2018

Apps popularly started out as a means for communication (call, SMS), which then evolved to a platform for content consumption in the early stages of data (news, MMS and YouTube), and finally to what we now define as demand services (food delivery, transport and e-commerce). Satisfying the Demand for Safer Experiences.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 10, 2011

In reality, very few executives or professional stars from large corporations thrive in the early-stage startup environment. At a small company, if you're constantly demanding more support, you risk turning your net impact into overhead creep rather than value creation. Small-company heroes are consistently self-reliant.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2017

They come at the early stage while a startup has no revenue or valuation, so professional investors are hard to find. Meeting the new consumer demand for customization. Customers today increasingly demand solutions that are customized just for them. Facilitates building skills and familiarity with new tools.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2023

You are now entering the rollout stage , with money required for marketing, hiring a full-time team, and a production process. At this point, most Angel investors and a few early-stage VCs will be happy to talk, assuming you have the business model validated, and a large opportunity. Congratulations!

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

They come at the early stage while a startup has no revenue or valuation, so professional investors are hard to find. Meet the new consumer demand for customization. Customers today increasingly demand solutions that are customized just for them. Low-cost design and fabrication tools are extremely valuable.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 23, 2021

Relevancy for an early-stage company is the discovery and understanding of the real addressable market for a product or service. Today’s ultracompetitive global environment demands that you make alliances early. Startups often pay lip service to strategic partnerships, but they schedule these efforts far down the road.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Today, Mark Attanasio gets to flex his full range of expertise and interests as co-founder and Managing Partner of Hillcrest Merchant Partners, a Toronto-based merchant bank focused on early stage and mid market growth companies. One of the advisory areas Hillcrest Merchant Partners works in is electric metals.

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Gust

OCTOBER 5, 2014

In reality, very few executives or professional stars from large corporations survive in the early-stage startup environment. At a small company, if you’re constantly demanding more support, you risk turning your net impact into overhead-creep rather than value creation. Small-company heroes are consistently self-reliant.

Startup 165

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 28, 2022

Change leadership is a critical competency in the early stages of a transformation. Evidence is growing that consumers are willing to pay at least a small premium for sustainability, and have started to demand a discount for “un-sustainability.” Highlight leaders with business acumen as well as purpose as role models.

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Eric Friedman

MAY 1, 2023

Then about two years ago, I reunited with one of the smartest CTOs I know and we began connecting our old engineer network with early stage companies that needed to ship faster. A handful of times I brought in outside help to turbo charge work done for a client.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 12, 2014

These tensions seep out in some angels or seed funds publicly or semi-privately deriding later-stage VCs for their “bad” behavior. I have seen bad behavior from later-stage VCs, believe me. But I have seen equally bad behavior from super early stage investors. As always a balanced perspective is in order.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 18, 2012

Trend #2 - Early Stage Companies Lower Salary and Higher Equity (for Founder CTOs) The one exception to Trend #1 seems to be for Startup CTO s at earlier stage companies. What I had not realized is that this had translated into escalating salaries for CTOs and VP Engineering. It has not. CTO salaries are escalating quickly.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 17, 2021

And while this was a good start, a significant position of these companies were early-stage startups. For Fullfunnel.io, there were three key activities that brought the highest ROI for us: LinkedIn demand generation, publishing new detailed case studies, and webinars. We start mapping out a simple campaign.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

In reality, very few executives or professional stars from large corporations thrive in the early-stage startup environment. At a small company, if you're constantly demanding more support, you risk turning your net impact into overhead creep rather than value creation. Small-company heroes are consistently self-reliant.

Startup 238

Startup Early Stage Technical Review .Net 238

The Startup Magazine

MAY 22, 2018

The team maintains a focus on customers, learning from the customer support experience, ensure the product is good, and listen to the most demanding and vocal customers. Early stage. At this stage, the hiring of employees who are customer focused is paramount. What fast growing startups should not do.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Michael Guerriero: During my time, Brands Gone Wild experienced a sudden surge in demand for a very popular product around the holidays. To compensate for this, I implemented a real-time inventory monitoring system to help us identify any potential shortages in the early stages.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 19, 2016

Unfortunately, we work with companies that realize the IP actually belongs to a former partner or the organization that the founders worked for during the product’s early stages. Obtain a Confidential Information and Invention Assignment Agreement as early as possible to make sure the IP is clearly (and legally) assigned.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

She is a go to person for me when I have questions around technology or early stage marketing and branding. We do a lot of B2B and also have an "Early Stage Branding" practice for technology startups. I've known Farida for quite a while. Maybe ten years. It has been fun to get to know her again. Foreign Service.

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