YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 28, 2015

by John Vrionis, partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. This article highlights their advice on issues ranging from financing to patent trolls: While startups may believe lawyers are too costly, working with one early on avoids potentially serious problems later. Lightspeed is in the business of encouraging entrepreneurship.

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The Next Web

APRIL 6, 2013

My daily work consists of connecting innovative A round startups with potential investors or strategic partners. The five suggestions below are designed to help facilitate the investment process which may lead to a more expeditious term sheet and teach entrepreneurs to think more like an investor. Go For The Money NOW.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

If you truly believe that you, your company and your products are exceptional and your company will be valuable then you’re actually doing them a FAVOR by helping them invest in your startup. If an investor isn’t engaging then they’re not suddenly going to get a term sheet. You can short-hand this as “engagement.”

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 21, 2018

I told him, “I know we don’t yet have a term sheet so you feel you need to listen to everybody’s request. But imagine you were expecting two term sheets imminently. She had emailed with a partner at a big VC fund and he had passed the request to a junior associate. How would you act then? This isn’t rude?—?it’s

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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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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). This post assumes that you have a basic understanding of Series A financing terms. Y Combinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents (by WSGR). Dividend preference.

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Startups ›. View More in Startups ›. Managing Director, Enterprise Partners. In fact, by using analytics software that relies on a different way of measuring risk, the San Diego firm is becoming known in some circles as “the Moneyball of venture capital,” according to David Coats, a co-founder and managing partner.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2010

First, if the VC does 15-20 of these under one partner then it is certain he can’t spend any time with these investments. We used the Y Combinator open source term sheet. We signed the term sheet within 48 hours and had funded in under 2 weeks. And then there is GRP Partners. And they don’t.

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Gust

OCTOBER 8, 2014

If you want a great primer on how the VC and startup funding scene changed here’s a great primer. Entrepreneurs started demanding that VCs call their first-round financings “seed” rounds even if they were $3 million. It’s hard building a startup. [If you''re newer to VC math here''s a great primer].

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Professor VC

JULY 25, 2013

Startup outcomes tend to be very binary. An entrepreneur received two Series A term sheets, one lead by an international investor and the other from SH. Well, those 3 weeks came and went, and they decided they weren''t sure about the market and needed to get other partners in the firm on board.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 12, 2023

They fail to realize that the considerations are quite different for each, which can make or break their investment efforts, and ultimately their startup. More importantly, the focus on numbers tends to hide other more subjective issues that could be more important for any given startup. How big is your startup opportunity?

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

Want to start a startup? A typical startup goes throughseveral rounds of funding, and at each round you want to take justenough money to reach the speed where you can shift into the nextgear. Few startups get it quite right. 1 ] A startups life will be more complicated, legally, if any of theinvestors arent accredited.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 27, 2014

I’ve written before about our fundraising process and how it very much resembles that of a startup. We founded Homebrew to be the type of fund we would have wanted to raise money from – early stage partner of conviction, leading financing rounds with great co-investors, leaning in to actually help when you need it.

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Genuine VC

MARCH 25, 2010

I had coffee with an entrepreneur friend the other day who is in the early stages of putting a company together, and he recounted how his informal conversations with a venture capitalist had quickly escalated into a full partner pitch in just a few weeks. Fair enough.

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Genuine VC

MARCH 25, 2010

I had coffee with an entrepreneur friend the other day who is in the early stages of putting a company together, and he recounted how his informal conversations with a venture capitalist had quickly escalated into a full partner pitch in just a few weeks. Fair enough.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But in business, you want a lot of partners. In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers. See Bessemer Venture Partners’ A comprehensive guide to security for startups. Cobalt for General Partners helps GPs to optimize their fundraising strategy. 2) Market .

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Up and Running

JANUARY 7, 2020

Product-market fit describes how well your business’s product and your target market’s demand for your solution are aligned. We ended up receiving a $5m term sheet from investors, dozens of government customers from all across the western United States, and several offers to acquire us for 10x the initial investment.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Unfortunately in early stage startups the drive for financing hijacks the corporate DNA and becomes the raison d’etre of the company. Chasing funding versus chasing customers and a repeatable and scalable business model, is one reason startups fail. The goal of their startup in this stage becomes “getting funded.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2020

They fail to realize that the considerations are quite different for each, which can make or break their investment efforts, and ultimately their startup. More importantly, the focus on numbers tends to hide other more subjective issues that could be more important for any given startup. How big is your startup opportunity?

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

He is also co-founder and Managing Partner of Deciens Capital, an early stage investment fund. One dimension is a pretty firm belief that starting financial services companies should not be as hard as it is, and that there is demand in the market for yet another venture fund focused on functionally day-zero companies in financial services.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

And I also now have to raise money myself, but this time from bigger institutions that our industry calls LPs (limited partners). Partners make investment decisions. Also recognize that WITHIN a VC you have partners who focus on different areas. I now observes the fund raising process as a profession. Meet in person.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 22, 2018

Another thing that skews the process is the lack of accessibility of many partner-level VCs, especially to diverse communities. You're a partner at a firm, you're married, have kids, etc., I offered a term sheet to lead a $1.6mm financing. Look, I get it. That doesn't happen too often and that needs to change.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

.” “Mark has a vested interest in talking down valuations of startups.” When I was an entrepreneur there was no public information about how term sheets worked or how investors thought. In 2015 in the US there were $77 billion written into startup tech companies. goes into a startup. What hogwash.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

Want to start a startup? Investors evaluate startups the way customers evaluate products,not the way bosses evaluate employees. If youre making a valianteffort and failing, maybe theyll invest in your next startup, butnot this one. No one is interestedin a startup thats a "bargain" because everyone else hates it.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

In February of last year, Fortune magazine writers Erin Griffith and Dan Primack declared 2015 “ The Age of the Unicorns ” noting — “Fortune counts more than 80 startups that have been valued at $1 billion or more by venture capitalists.” Next came Rolfe Winkler’s deep dive “ Highly Valued Startup Zenefits Runs Into Turbulence. ”

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2016

They fail to realize that the considerations are quite different for each, which can make or break their investment efforts, and ultimately their startup. More importantly, the focus on numbers tends to hide other more subjective issues that could be more important for any given startup. How big is your startup opportunity?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 2, 2014

They fail to realize that the considerations are quite different for each, which can make or break their investment efforts, and ultimately their startup. More importantly, the focus on numbers tends to hide other more subjective issues that could be more important for any given startup. How big is your startup opportunity?

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Altgate

APRIL 22, 2009

 Today,  Wilson Sonsini  announced the launch of a " term sheet generator.  Today,  Wilson Sonsini  announced the launch of a " term sheet generator." "  It's basically a web tool that creates draft preferred financing term sheets for startups.

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Up and Running

MARCH 29, 2017

million for the SaaS startup I founded because sometimes we see success coming out of the blue, when really that person benefited from a broad network of support. My partner and I sold the company in 2012, right when mainstream companies at both the SMB and enterprise level were starting to adopt cloud-based SaaS solutions.

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mashable.com

JUNE 11, 2013

16 Common Mistakes Young Startups Make. Are you working on a startup? In fact, recent research shows that 75% of startups fail (based on a study of 2,000 startups that received VC funding from 2004 to 2010). Some startups are destined for failure. Whats This? By Lauren Drell 2013-06-10 14:46:07 UTC.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Useful blogs and links for startups Click Here ————– 2.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). VC & Startup Resources. Seed Startups. VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Hundreds of startups featured since 2005, will yours be next? About VC Cafe.

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