YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 19, 2015

Make sure your website is accessible. But did you know that few websites are accessible to disabled people? And there are plenty of online tools to help you test and check your site’s accessibility. Don’t dilute your content. Many website owners make the mistake of diluting their content.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 16, 2017

Thus every serious investor reserves a certain amount of his investment capital for follow-on rounds, which allows them to stay to course to success, even with dilution. Here again, the entrepreneur will be the one hurt most, by having fewer funding sources to access. They will need more money.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

In our previous essay, we introduced the concept of Flexible VC : structures which allow founders to access immediate risk capital while preserving exit and ownership optionality. 4 from our first year cohort of 10 crossed $1m ARR with less than 15% equity dilution while growing 2x; all are operationally profitable.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Part 1 – Access to Great Deal Flow – is here. The first three skills I espoused were: access to the highest-quality deal-flow, domain knowledge of the topic area in which you’re investing and access to VCs to help fund the next stages of development. avoid being diluted). But it is.

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Cap Table Angel Investor Liquidation Preference Deal Flow 283

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2014

Thus every serious investor reserves a certain amount of his investment capital for follow-on rounds, which allows them to stay to course to success, even with dilution. Here again, the entrepreneur will be the one hurt most, by having fewer funding sources to access. They will need more money.

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Angel Investor Angel Groups Accredited Investor IRR 278

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2020

Visit the university library for access to otherwise costly business reports. Access to intellectual property and current research. Every startup needs to start their funding search looking for grants, with no equity dilution, as well as contests and foundations. Access to entrepreneurs-in-residence, business mentors.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The curriculum also provided him with access to the EurekaConnect Behavioral Dynamics Professional Development and leadership training program. This access validated the importance of translational research coupled with the activities and inflection points needed to advance a clinical idea to a marketable product successfully.

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Austin Startup

JULY 6, 2018

Re: cash, the more “unbundled” types of accelerators (less formalized, less equity) tend to not provide any cash upfront, but also typically “cost” less in equity, often just 1–2% of your fully diluted capitalization. Anti-Dilution. See: Startup Accelerator Anti-Dilution Provisions; The Fine Print. See: Ask the users.

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Transformify

MAY 22, 2023

million people engaged in digital labor platforms are at risk of employment status misclassification, leaving them under-protected and with limited access to employment and social security entitlements. The Directive allows access to information by platform workers' representatives and national labor authorities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 12, 2021

Don’t underestimate the advantages of providing your products and services in exchange for access to facilities and equipment you need to grow. Similarly, a custom contract for a big customer can get you over a growth gap, without diluting your brand in the market. Negotiate bartering deals versus cash contracts.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2015

Now we have online information overload, more government regulations and easy worldwide access to alternatives. A team is often seen as a burden to an inventor, and may potentially dilute or steal ownership. Knows how to build and lead a team. Entrepreneurs know they need a team with many skills and enjoy the leadership role.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2015

Thus every serious investor reserves a certain amount of his investment capital for follow-on rounds, which allows them to stay to course to success, even with dilution. Here again, the entrepreneur will be the one hurt most, by having fewer funding sources to access. They will need more money.

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Angel Investor Angel Groups Accredited Investor IRR 120

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

This is smart because amazing board members can be transformative with important advice and access and can also help attract other great board members (and team members). For starters, the incoming CEO will demand between 4–6% of the company so shareholders will immediately face dilution.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 30, 2022

Growth financing can also be described as revenue-based financing, which essentially allows you to upfront your annual recurring revenue (ARR) and make it available right now, rather than forcing you to wait weeks or months until your end-of-year earnings are accessible. The scope of growth financing products. Final thoughts.

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 23, 2012

FoFs have a range of strategies of course, but broadly speaking LPs that invest in FoFs pay them a management fee and carried interest (on top of the fee & carry of underlying VC funds they invest in) for access, diversification, active management or a combination of all three.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

A finalist in the Social and Culture category , which will pitch at 11 am Saturday, March 9, EnrichHER Funding , based in Atlanta, is fueling the growth of women-led businesses by enabling women founders to secure capital in an affordable and non-dilutive way. EnrichHER aims to support 1000 female-led companies in one year.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 5, 2010

Brant and Patrick undertook a difficult challenge: to provide a generally accessible introduction to Customer Development, without diluting its impact or dumbing-down its principles. I believe it is the best introduction to Customer Development you can buy. On the plus side, that means its a great deal. I think theyve succeeded.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

Benefits: Non-dilutive, flexible credit offerings that fit SMB or enterprise SaaS. Additionally, portfolio companies are able to access competitive and often non-dilutive financing by monetizing an unavoidable expense that is being paid to its current processors, thus yielding a mutual benefit for both parties.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 30, 2017

Pragmatically, accelerators offer entrepreneurs a curated bundle of resources (a network of entrepreneurs and advisors, faster access to investors, education, some initial money, etc.) in exchange for a price: usually 6–9% of equity, with (sometimes) heavy anti-dilution rights, and pro-rata rights.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

The key is making sure the second close isn’t too high (I think 50% of X sounds about right) because you’ll be adding on that dilution to yourself & “X&# investors will own less of the company. This gives you the ability to get the first money in the bank while giving you flexibility in size of round. I chuckled.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 4, 2023

With crowdfunding, startups have access to a large pool of potential investors to help fund their projects with relatively low fees and minimal risk. Founders should consider other fundraising possibilities, such as traditional venture capital or angel investment, as well as non-dilutive funding sources such as grants or loans.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2017

That management team might have decided that they wanted to maintain more control of their company, didn’t want new board members and didn’t want to take dilution. If the growth is as spectacular as it is here and if they have access to cheap capital then they’d be crazy not to have raised VC money. Again, it depends.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

Every Flexible VC structure allows founders to access immediate risk capital while preserving exit, growth trajectory, and ownership optionality. . That said, Jonathan Bragdon, General Partner, Capacity Capital , points out that Flexible VC terms “twin” well with equity: providing less dilution while still providing investor assistance. .

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Either way, if you know you’re going to fail, it’s much better to do so with your own money on the line than money that also costs you in dilution, perpetuity or more. Not necessarily the entire business, but at some point, something will fail and you’ll either learn from it and grow or it will be the beginning of the end.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2013

Because at least while the VC spigot is open and flowing for high-potential individuals that fit a pattern that some VCs seem to favor they can access cheap capital that isn’t terribly dilutive and can use the to fund development and swing for the fences with limited focus on monetization. And the dilution that goes with it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2016

Visit the university library for access to otherwise costly business reports. Access to intellectual property and current research. Every startup needs to start their funding search looking for grants, with no equity dilution, as well as contests and foundations. Access to entrepreneurs-in-residence, business mentors.

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Intellectual Property Accredited Investor Entrepreneur Incubator 120

Life Beyond Code

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Once the $1 million revenue milestone is crossed, entrepreneurs find it easier to find additional customers, manage working capital, and access funding, whether it is credit or equity. The public roundtable is a free program accessible from anywhere in the world. This is where numerous ventures fail. 1M/1M is not exclusive at all.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 17, 2019

It’s pretty basic but is meant to give managers (and their potential LPs) a sense of how many companies will be in the fund, ownership targets, dilution assumptions, reserves strategy, exit expectations and ultimately, a target return for the fund. This exercise is also known as “let me show you how we get to 3-5x net.”

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Haystack

JULY 8, 2018

And 2) things may vary on a case by case basis, so rather than get lost in nuance here, I want to keep this post short, sweet, simple, and entirely accessible to everyone — I view this as “must-know information.” Maybe I have a 1-2 year headstart. ” For brief context, how did we get here?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 30, 2018

These are straightforward questions, the answers will have no bearing on your ultimate success and if you want to know the truth most VCs have access to databases like Pitchbook that have all of this information anyways. If a VC prices a flat or down round it means that management teams are often taking too much dilution.

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Up and Running

JULY 14, 2015

An early stage startup will want to access funds to help further validate its business proposition. Before any fundraising, it is important to set out what your parameters are for things like valuation (hence dilution), and terms that you would deem okay, versus those that you would consider as being too much from an investor.

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Technical Review Valuation Due Diligence Finder 60

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

You can get cash without diluting your ownership in the company. In addition, we are offering entrepreneurs access to investors and customers through our recently launched our 1M/1M Incubation Radar series. In 1M/1M, our preferred financing strategy is customers. Because customer financing equals revenue, not equity.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

Ninety-four percent of households are equipped with a computer and have Internet access (the others are still playing 8-bit Nintendo). I believe it is our excessive urge to ‘act normal’ and disdain of ‘networking’ that dilutes our social glue. On both these indicators, the Netherlands ranks second worldwide. How to fix this?

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 19, 2018

It’s my policy to avoid exclusivity unless it’s absolutely necessary for the survival of the company or if it has the effect of replacing a dilutive round of venture funding with guaranteed revenue that is non-dilutive. Who does it cover? The first question about negotiating exclusivity is who does it apply to?

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 1, 2019

First, some load boards require a monthly subscription be paid for access. The ability to ship goods in a more cost-effective way through ground transport as opposed to air freight helps businesses offer free shipping to customers, without diluting profits. Eric Weisbrot is the Chief Marketing Officer of JW Surety Bonds.

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Board Effect

MAY 10, 2019

Such metrics can include an investor’s liquidation preference, option exercise windows and expiry dates, and shareholders’ fully diluted ownership percentages. There’s the owner—maybe a partner or two—but unless employees are offered equity from the get-go, there’s typically not a whole lot of dilution.

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Cap Table Liquidation Preference Dilution Liquidity Event 40

Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 12, 2017

However, it’s not uncommon to de-risk an angel investment by requiring a certain minimum amount to be subscribed before escrow is broken and you have access to the cash. You reached a conclusion that this ought to be better for you personally as a founder even though you will suffer some dilution of ownership and authority.

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