Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

A C-corporation is more complex and expensive, and is recommended only if you expect to pitch to professional investors who demand preferred stock, or to more than 100 potential shareholders. A large portion of your competitive advantage and your potential value to investors is the size of your intellectual property portfolio.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 29, 2019

However, a diversified investment portfolio is recommended especially for new investors who want to test the waters. Its value depends mainly on the law of supply and demand. There is always a stable and increasing demand for gold especially in the jewellery industry. With gold investments, failure is never an option.

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genuinevc.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

« Reasonable Demands |. Stealth Mode. I’ve recently been introduced to a number of startups that are operating in “stealth mode,” and have been thinking about what to make of this fact. Yet there are indeed many situations in which I think it makes sense to operate covertly. Friction is Multiplicative.

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View from Seed

JULY 9, 2015

As an operator, not an investor, I’m amazed at how many casual, throwaway comments that happen inside a VC’s office would be genuinely useful to entrepreneurs building their businesses. These things are surprisingly indicative of how a founder operates. Accidental VC is a series of short posts written by me, Jay Acunzo.

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David Teten

MARCH 12, 2012

We’re filling it with our own team , plus a couple of startups in our portfolio ( Parsely , Phone.com , some in stealth mode). Here are our core operating principles: - Healthy alternatives should be truly viable alternatives, not luxury products. Our portfolio company Hashable has a popular pullup bar.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 26, 2023

We know a lot of founders in this space choose to remain in stealth and expect the actual number of Israeli startups working on generative AI to be much larger and grow quickly. We made two new investments in this space which are still in stealth. In just a couple of months the current version includes 68 startups.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 23, 2012

We are trying to… This is the operative word: Trying. "OMG we spend mmm millions on TV, Radio and Magazines trying to create demand by interrupting people. Should we rethink the balance between 'interrupting to possibly create demand' and 'welcoming with open arms people who want to hear from us'?"

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