Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2021

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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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2015

David is one of the most active angel investors in New York, and also the CEO of Gust , which is an online platform for startup financing used by over 45,000 accredited angel investors, 1000 angel groups and venture capital funds, and 200,000 entrepreneurs. Rose, according to his recent book, “ Angel Investing.” billion collected in 2014.

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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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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

You can read the rest of the posts in the series by clicking here *. To provide relevant perspective, listing past convertible note(s) and/or equity financing(s) including total round size and valuation (caps) is helpful. Plus, any other non-standard items here should be called out, too, like non-dilutive grants, as applicable.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 28, 2018

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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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

You get dilution sensitive and you start optimizing on price of a financing deal, versus finding the right partners or raising enough money to grow. The rest of success is having the help and being well positioned for uncharted territory to make sure you keep going at the same pace.

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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. Given that the valuation of a startup increases when milestones like these are hit it makes sense to build a financing plan based on when they are likely to come in.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2014

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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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

The rest of this post series deals with the reasons why VC froze up in the first place, why investments have heated up recently and why the future of VC funding at the current pace is not certain. They should heed the age old advice that raising slightly more money while you can is always better than trying to optimize future valuations.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 13, 2011

And if you’re one of these brave souls — pouring your blood, sweat, and tears into running your own business — there’s no time for rest. They end up trying to do too much for too many, which dilutes their focus and often the quality of their product or service. The problem is that too many entrepreneurs never learn to say ‘NO!’

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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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Scott Edward Walker

APRIL 8, 2013

. “Be careful not to have too many co-founders; it’s the most expensive dilution you’ll ever face.” Seed Finance Survey 2012 (via Fenwick) [link]. Seed Finance Survey 2012 (via Fenwick) [link]. Quora: “What separates the top 10% of startup CEOs from the rest?” ” - @msuster [link].

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 14, 2019

BULLISH aka YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY KILLING IT : You’ll get the sense because the rest of the firm immediately is overly attentive to your needs, wanting to make sure there’s a ton of goodwill. Even at the cost of a little more dilution. And the rest of the cap table can come along or not with their pro rata. (A

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View from Seed

JANUARY 26, 2016

To ensure you receive the rest, subscribe here. With that in mind, let’s look at an illustration of these trends below, which demonstrates what’s been happening to early-stage financing rounds over the last 15 years or so. The reasons for the shift are: Late-stage financing froth. Tweet this.).

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Transformify

JULY 23, 2018

To boost innovation and SME sector growth, the EU Commission has launched the SME Instrument of the Horizon 2020 program – the largest non-dilutive fund in the world. Why non-dilutive? Remember that the SME Instrument covers 70%, the rest needs to be provided by the startup company. It is a grant, not an equity funding.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

it also means less dilution, something that entrepreneurs should be very mindful of. The entrepreneurs believed that they could build the business faster with more capital, so it’s not an unreasonable thing to give up more dilution for more money at the same valuation. I’d love your thoughts and comments.

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venturehacks.com

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Reading on, the term sheet states, “The $8 million pre-money valuation includes an option pool equal to 20% of the post-financing fully diluted capitalization.&# First, the option pool only dilutes the common stockholders. That does work if the company gets sold before another round of financing.

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Up and Running

APRIL 24, 2018

Because of complex government regulations and a lengthy incubation period, funding a healthcare startup is more difficult compared to financing a tech startup. However, you can certainly raise some of the capital through bootstrapping and the rest via seed funding. Secure timely funding.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

Too many entrepreneurs focus on dilution. But over-optimizing for dilution is a bad attribute relative to focusing on creating a big & winning company. Think YouTube vs. the rest. It also is how they financed their entry into the United Nations. Bill thinks that most companies your success is usually binary.

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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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The Next Web

DECEMBER 3, 2013

So we tend to go with one person, but we do like to see the team so even if that’s during the Q&A, you should bring up the rest of the team for questions.”. The way your startup was founded and financed until now will affect your eligibility for a startup accelerator. Pick a confident speaker. Who should deliver your pitch?

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venturehacks.com

MARCH 21, 2008

See Part 1 for the rest. If your company hasn’t raised a Series A, increase the advisor’s equity by roughly 30%-50% to account for dilution from seed investors, Series A investors, option pools, swimming pools, and the like. If you have more questions, email us at ask@venturehacks.com.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 2, 2010

On top of that, when you set out to raise a certain size round, and the round grows on you, you usually wind up taking a lot more dilution than you intended. Doesn’t that sound like a better outcome than “Miss milestones, and now figure out what to do with the rest of the money for the next year.” The solution? Try to prove one thing.

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blog.simeonov.com

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

In one case the CEO had a different vesting schedule because he had spent a lot more time than the rest of the founding team on the idea. However, founder agreements are not set in stone and it is common for them to be tweaked by a little or a lot during the first financing by professional investors. more details ].

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Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

Financing, that is.I One truth of start-up financing is that it generally takes twice as long and twice as much money to accomplish your milestones. Most companies dont come close to their rose colored financial models prepared when going out for Series A financing. As I said up front, I have mixed emotions about the financing.

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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). Raise more money than you need. Entrepreneurs try to avoid raising more capital than they need. Organization.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

However, one of my co-founders doesn’t seem to be as motivated as the rest of us. If you believe in it – then finance whatever you can yourself. 2) Co-Founders are the largest form of dilution (if you’re raising) 3) Everything around LeanStartup / Customer Development 4) Understand the micro economics of your business early.

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Up and Running

JULY 14, 2015

We appreciate you writing back and letting us know what you thought of the episode, and of course for the rest of our listeners if you are interested in contacting us, you can do that by emailing bcast@bplans.com. They never worked with the startup who had needed to raise multiple rounds of financing. That’s bcast@bplans.com.

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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. This means that horizontal is the most restful and stable line position. They are more casual and playful than vertical or horizontal lines because they resist being pigeonholed in either resting position.

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Life Beyond Code

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Through this journey, we have raised the visibility of fundamental issues like the causes of exorbitantly high infant entrepreneur mortality, and alerted the entrepreneur community with a simple observation: Entrepreneurship = (Customer + Revenue + Profits); Financing is Optional. The rest of the services are for paying members only.

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