The Equity Kicker

MAY 14, 2012

Twice in the last week I found myself coaching founders on how to build a financing plan around value creation milestones so I thought I would share what I said here. for consumer internet companies, breaking through user based thresholds – e.g. successful public beta with thousands or tens of thousands of users, 1m monthly uniques and so on.

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Finance Valuation Venture Capital Dilution 118

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2016

A popular myth these days is that finishing college only dilutes your entrepreneurial instincts, and the best of the best, including Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg, dropped out early to hasten their success. For the rest of us, a bit more practice before jumping feels like a better bet. I agree with Robert E.

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Entrepreneur Chad Incubator Dilution 120

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

Last night I had the great privilege to interview Bill Gross , one of the Internet’s true pioneers. He took out an ad in the Yellow Pages (it was the early 80′s, pre Internet), which cost him $1,000 / month for a half-page ad. If it worked in the Yellow Pages, why not on the Internet? Cars Direct / Internet Brands.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Now the 9th largest economy in the world, it‘s clear that the rest of the world is waking up to the potential in Texas. In 2019 and 2020, we saw hundreds of millions of dollars in non-dilutive funding go to Texas startups, most of which had never worked with the government before. Each city has its own special character.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

If your brand tries to be too many things at once, the message becomes scattered and the brand grows diluted. Marketing intelligence experts at Datorama recommend tracking your branded impressions, internet search volume, and the performance of branded keywords. This means that horizontal is the most restful and stable line position.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Instead of spending 4 years at university, I spend 4 years starting 2 internet companies that failed. What is the first step in creating an internet-based business (After planning) ? However, one of my co-founders doesn’t seem to be as motivated as the rest of us. Also, pick 1 idea and focus 110% of your time on it.

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Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

Reid Hoffman

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Raising excessive amounts of capital dilutes their stake in the company, and introduces a preference overhang (all that money has to be paid back before the founders and employees get to participate in the upside). On the Internet, that’s largely untrue. Raise more money than you need. Organization.

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Up and Running

JULY 14, 2015

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Incubator Email Startup Oregon 60

Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Bates: Good morning and welcome to our CEO panel, “How to Fine-Tune Your Small Business Finances From Funding to Growth” which I think is the direction that we would all like to be going. I’m here with some really phenomenal CEOs who are going to talk to us today about small business finances from funding to growth.

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