The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2023

These investments are a tremendous help to your startup because they will serve as a stepping stone to reach your target eventually. It is necessary to cover the early stages of product development, thorough market research, and other processes during the initial step. Hence they will miss the finish line.

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Seed Stage Technical Review Early Stage Due Diligence 124

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Cash flow is a basic survival metric for every startup. Yet it always amazes me that I can find two different startups, seemingly working on the same problem, with one having a burn rate several times higher than the other. They understand startup realities. Desperate entrepreneurs lose their leverage and die young.

Burn Rate 120

Burn Rate Hockey Stick Startup Salary 120

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

I believe the Maker Movement and hardware startups with limited resources are made for each other. In today’s fast moving market, the basic product development cost and time are critical to survival. They come at the early stage while a startup has no revenue or valuation, so professional investors are hard to find.

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David Teten

JUNE 25, 2012

I have a great idea for a product. I’m looking for an entrepreneur to start a company to provide this product, or a development shop which wants to bid on this project. I envision a software tool which makes your underlying software irrelevant, by standardizing the UI across all different products.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

Whether you are talking to peers, competitors or investors, you as an active entrepreneur will be judged on your familiarity with today’s startup and funding jargon. This term is currently applied to recent startups who profess a current valuation which exceeds $1 billion. Could your startup be the next one? Sweat equity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2014

Cashflow is a basic survival metric for every startup. Yet it always amazes me that I can find two different startups, seemingly working on the same problem, with one having a burn rate several times higher than the other. They understand startup realities. Desperate entrepreneurs lose their leverage and die young.

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Burn Rate Hockey Stick Entrepreneur Salary 262

Mucker Lab

MAY 28, 2020

Like a teenager with a million-dollar allowance and an identity crisis, a startup with too much capital and no product-market fit will become capable of making larger mistakes. As an investor, I root for startups. Before you indulge in marketing, sales and blinged-out offices, find product-market fit.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

The number of startups rose in 2015 for the first time in five years, with the largest year-over-year increase in two decades. Who would not want to joint the unicorns (recent startups with a current valuation of over $1 billion)? Successful startup teams today have a mix of remote employees, freelancers, and contractors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2021

When you see startups like SpaceX and Pinterest grow from a low valuation to a billion dollars in just a few years, it’s easy to assume that if you just keep doing what you are doing, you can get there as well. Switch your focus from product development to sales. Utilize mergers and acquisitions to accelerate growth.

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David Teten

JUNE 25, 2012

I have a great idea for a product. I’m looking for an entrepreneur to start a company to provide this product, or a development shop which wants to bid on this project. I envision a software tool which makes your underlying software irrelevant, by standardizing the UI across all different products.

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Developer Venture Capital Startup Valuation 114

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2017

In case you haven’t noticed it, the rapid evolution of do-it-yourself (DIY) facilities for developers, including 3-D printers, SketchUp and makerspaces such as TechShop , have scaled down the cost of prototypes and hardware design by an order of magnitude. Countless startup teams have already been spawned from these.

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View from Seed

MARCH 24, 2021

.” Below are our favorite pieces from the past few years, divided in to a few key categories: fundraising, company building, product development, industry trends, and the life of a VC. Free Template for Great Startup Pitch Decks, Direct from VCs. What Are Your Valuation Expectations? Happy reading! ” (Rob Go).

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 22, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) voice generation startup ElevenLabs has secured an $80 million Series B funding round, minting them as the UK’s newest unicorn. The latest funding brings ElevenLabs’ total raised to $101 million and values the company at over $1 billion after it received a $100 million valuation in June. Who are ElevenLabs?

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Artificial Inteligence Poland Cofounder Startup 85

The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2022

There are many benefits of selling your startup through a mergers and acquisitions advisor. When selling your startup with a mergers and acquisitions advisor, it’s essential to identify the key employees who have made the most valuable contributions to the business. Source: Pixabay. Identifying key employees.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

In the startup world, opportunities are fleeting, and obstacles are ubiquitous. Competition from other startups and established incumbents, constraints on time and capital, and limited access to talent and technology resources are just a few of the hurdles nearly every first-time founder faces while trying to build a business.

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Technical Review Due Diligence Early Stage Differentiation 140

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2023

For example, a startup SaaS company can use a specialized app to create a good product management process and keep track of the project's progress. 7- Sustainable development Photo Credit: Peter Chatfield One area where I anticipate developments in my field to accelerate in 2023 is the field of sustainable development.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Entrepreneur Social Media 121

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2015

If you consider yourself a technologist, you probably believe and may be propagating one of the following myths: The first priority for funding should be to develop the technology. Outside investors are most interested in scaling a proven business model, not research and development. Most founders bootstrap product development.

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David Teten

MAY 1, 2013

This is part 1 of a 2-part series on domain names and startups; part 2 will be “ Build Your Startup on a Vacant Domain Name ”. A startup called Corpora made headlines for all the wrong reasons after tech bloggers ran an image search to find the company logo. credit: Wikipedia)). Facebook paid $8.5

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Many lack intuitive financial sense that can help them build a great company once they achieve product-market fit. Here are five financial concepts that every startup founder should know to build an everlasting company. Asset valuation. The concept of asset valuation may seem counterintuitive, but it is an important idea.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

With a present valuation of over $35 billion, the frozen food market is likely to increase in size by 1.3% That is a 40% increase in value from the market’s 2018 frozen food business valuation of $260 billion. That is a 40% increase in value from the market’s 2018 frozen food business valuation of $260 billion. Source: Unsplash.

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Valuation Demand Business Plan Social Media 151

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Master of 500 Hats: Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp 2008, London) This presentation should be required reading for anyone creating a startup with an online service component. In my opinion, every startup needs to "pick a major" among these three drivers of growth. Choose one. The AARRR model (hence pirates, get it?)

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 20, 2020

You can hire remote developers. Many companies and organizations are up to develop the custom analytical and platform to find the insights. You can discuss every relevant thing including the product development as well as thorough research in your problem research.

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Up and Running

JUNE 14, 2017

Some believe in the all-in approach to product development: build an advanced app. In both scenarios, it seems that startup venture initiation and idea validation are strictly dependent on the app. The success of a startup is based on the value it provides to its stakeholders. Testing: The approach that makes sense.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Most startups view venture capital funding as a blessing from above — eager to take it as soon as they can get it. Typical startups take in multiple rounds of funding from multiple investors. Focus on Product Development First. In the startup world, who you are is often just as important as what you make.

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Early Stage Venture Capital Bootstrapping Pre-Money Valuation 85

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

especially if the startup already has a product and revenue? While the answers are somewhat semantic, the pre-seed funding round is making a comeback in 2024 startup financing. Pre-seed round tends to be the first ‘institutional’ round of funding in a startup. Seed is about showing initial product market fit.

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Valuation Software Review Generative AI Technical Review 186

Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

August 20, 2017: This is another in my series of posts all leading up to a book on Startup Decision Making. One of the most common mistakes I see in startups is making decisions that lose sight of the context , including the past, present, and future. Sooner or later everybody in a startup knows what everyone else is getting paid.

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Technical Review Software Review Cap Table Securities and Exchange Commission 48

Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Convertible debt financings have become an increasingly attractive approach for seed rounds because it delays the valuation discussion, costs less from a legal standpoint, and is an easier financial instrument to “keep raising more small amounts of money” on. One of them used to be a lead developer at [insert hot consumer tech company here].

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Burn Rate Equity Software Review Early Stage 152

Austin Startup

JANUARY 25, 2020

Austin, TX Fast forward 4 years later, here I am working for a startup at the South By South West Tech & Music festival in Austin, TX. SXSW brings a huge chunk of the music and tech world together in one city every year in March, and most startups launch their products there every year. How did I get the gig? He loved it!

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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 21, 2014

I believe the Maker Movement and startups are made for each other. In today’s fast moving market, the basic product development cost and time are critical to survival. They come at the early stage while a startup has no revenue or valuation, so professional investors are hard to find. Have you tried it yet?

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Entrepreneur Detroit California Cofounder 246

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

When times are really good for fund raising many teams delay to maximize their valuation. I’m a very big believer in the “Lean Startup&# principles as espoused by Steve Blank and Eric Ries. When you see evidence that there is this so called “product / market fit&# then you may be ready for larger amounts of capital.

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Pre-Money Valuation Dilution Valuation PR 303

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2012

Continuous innovation is required to survive in all businesses, beginning with a startup, and increasing in importance as your business matures. In a startup, that needs to be the founder or CEO, and that person has to be regularly and personally involved. New product development process. This is an imperative.

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Intellectual Property IP Valuation .Net 247

Women Entrepreneurs Can

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

A Venture Capital Firm is a firm that invests in startups and early-stage companies. Investing in a startup company carries a high degree of risk, particularly at the early stage. One of the most common ways of investing in a startup is by leveraging the expertise of a venture capital firm. Pre-Seed Investments. Seed Rounds.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 9, 2011

Continuous innovation is required to survive in all businesses, beginning with your startup, and increasing in importance as your business matures. In a startup, that needs to be the founder or CEO, and that person has to be regularly and personally involved. New product development process. This is an imperative.

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Intellectual Property IP Valuation .Net 234

The Startup Toolkit

AUGUST 30, 2012

The valley only has about 4x more VC deals than London (although average valuations are admittedly 2x higher): The valley is not 1000x better. Nobody on our team had even heard about startups before YC mysteriously accepted us, and 3 months later we still knew pretty much zilch. 25% during product development. Everywhere.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Over the summer, based on feedback from our portfolio and the broader startup community, NextView created pre-formatted board deck templates for seed-stage startups — part of our Growth Guides series. A seed-stage mobile startup’s housekeeping section might look something like this: Section 3: Core Metrics.

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Seed Stage Cap Table Metrics Burn Rate 331

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Its different from selling a product, because it is not part of our regular business practice, is not something that relates to our core competence, and tends not to happen in a repeatable and scalable way. Ill exclude those non- lean startups who basically exist for the purpose of raising bigger and bigger sums of money.

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