Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2010

At this stage, you need investment bankers to negotiate a merger or acquisition (M&A), go private, or help you go public with an Initial Public Offering (IPO). Typically, they must also change and tune their executive team, to keep up with the increasing demands of a growing company on process discipline and sustainable success.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

I hope that you can join us Monday night, April 4, midtown NYC, at a panel on “Innovation in Private Company Liquidity-Online Merger Markets, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO” The program is sponsored by the HBS Club of New York and the HBS Angels of NY.

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Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2010

VC’s invested their limited partners’ “risk capital” in a portfolio of startups in exchange for illiquid stock. The size of the red bars (IPO’s) versus blue (mergers and acquisitions) illustrates that while venture-backed startups did get acquired, the IPO market was booming. The system worked in predictable and profitable ways.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 8, 2020

Over that time period, this newsletter has emerged as a must read for the city’s startup community because of its aggressive coverage of investments, IPOs, launches, Central Texas re-locations, mergers, founder-related events and (more recently) COVID-related layoffs. In fact, the Beat now counts more than 10,000 subscribers.

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Early Growth Financial Services

JULY 3, 2013

These new positions, together with David Ehrenberg, Founder and CEO of EGFS, comprise the formal leadership team at Early Growth, established to help create the velocity of expansion. In addition to their new roles, these three executives have also been made partners in the firm.

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Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 14, 2010

Founders Institute Plain Preferred Term Sheet (by WSGR – disclaimer, I represent the Founders Institute and was involved in drafting this document). The only way that the Series Seed documents will be widely used is if investors demand use of the documents. Changes in preferred and merger/sale of assets only.

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Early Growth Financial Services

JULY 3, 2013

These new positions, together with David Ehrenberg, Founder and CEO of EGFS, comprise the formal leadership team at Early Growth, established to help create the velocity of expansion. In addition to their new roles, these three executives have also been made partners in the firm.

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Diego Basch

JUNE 21, 2012

The purpose of this post is to analyze the folowing problem: Joe Founder comes to Silicon Valley with a laptop full of dreams, but no money. When a partner at GiganticTree Ventures asks them how they plan to reach sales of 100M/year, they have all the right answers. Shareholders demand it! What should Joe do?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

The founders felt that having a legitimate site for content would discourage Silicon Valley VC’s from funding entrepreneurs to create the next big TV killer. I might talk openly about how Hulu is my partner, while simultaneously launching an iPad player before hulu does (as ABC did) – even when I’m a shareholder.

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Up and Running

APRIL 6, 2022

Basically, a solopreneur is an individual who starts and runs a business on their own with no partners or employees. They don’t retain traditional employees or partners and instead focus on work they can do alone or with contractors. They rely on their employees and partners to fill in gaps with the necessary expertise.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Benchmark is an investor in Rover through a merger with DogVacay in 2017). The most noteworthy of these is likely Upwork (*), a company that formed from the merger of Elance and Odesk. Swing is now at over 1,200 school partners and has filled over 115,000 teacher absence days. As a result, productivity naturally improves.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

The founders coming out of the DEC ( Digital Equipment Corporation ) and Intel culture of the 1960’s and ‘70’s. And one would become my mentor and partner in later companies.) Filed under: Customer Development , Family/Career , Technology | Tagged: Steve Blank , Entrepreneurs , Tips for Startups « Am I a Founder?

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. In Meebo’s case, for example, I was lucky enough to partner up with Elaine and Sandy. No looking for partnerships (who’s going to partner with you anyway?). and Google. No phone system.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 11, 2014

I remember the first time I met Mark Gerson, the founder of expert network company Gerson Lehrman Group (where I previously worked), as he described how Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG) first started. Whether you’re a startup founder, angel investor or VC, you’ve probably had the need to quickly understand an industry.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 2, 2018

Jonathon Karelse is co-founder and a partner at NorthFind Partners, a Canadian-based, global consultancy that helps businesses transform through the use of data driven analytics, forecasting and planning, and change management strategies. It happens because they often neglect the forecasting and planning that helps them prepare.

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