Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2012

A non-profit organization is generally defined as an organization that does not distribute its surplus funds to owners or shareholders, but instead uses them to help pursue its goals. Obviously, these companies still need money to get started, or finance growth, just like a for-profit company. Individual and institutional donations.

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Angel Investor Technical Review Exit Strategy Equity 218

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Loan financing and equity investment are two common methods of funding a new business start-up, assuming you do not have the capital on your own. Debt financing is the better choice when you prefer to retain control of your operation, and you do not mind the tradeoff of greater risk for higher earning potential.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2011

A non-profit organization is generally defined as an organization that does not distribute its surplus funds to owners or shareholders, but instead uses them to help pursue its goals. Obviously, these companies still need money to get started, or finance growth, just like a for-profit company. Individual and institutional donations.

Angel Investor 238

Angel Investor Technical Review Exit Strategy Equity 238

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2014

Shark Question #4: How much equity and debt is there in your business? In other words, how much of the business is financed with equity (owner’s money) or debt (borrowed money). This will enable you to operate day to day with a clear direction for the future. Craft a solid business and strategic plan.

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CPA Technical Review Later Stage Equity 160

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Finance | Tuesdays. Financing a Small Business. Office and Operations. Financing A Small Business. Personal Finance. Should You Share Equity with Consultants? To grow his cash-strapped start-up, Parker ended up sharing equity -- not only with employees, but also with consultants and vendors.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 1, 2022

The three main components of a company are production or service, marketing and sales, and finance. Finance is how you manage your finances, including budgeting, accounting, and bookkeeping. Financing Your Startup. The most common types of financing are debt financing, equity financing, and venture capital.

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Technology Venture Capital Finance Startup 137

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Finance | Tuesdays. Financing a Small Business. Office and Operations. Financing A Small Business. Personal Finance. Will Work for Equity. Dave Graham Business Venture Capital Private Equity GlobalLogic Inc. Theres a huge opportunity cost in not taking equity," he says. Start-up | Mondays.

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VC Adventure

MAY 10, 2020

That rule was designed to prevent companies under common ownership from accessing SBA funds, but as it applied to PPP, it potentially excluded any venture-backed companies where venture firms owned greater than 20% equity (and where the companies were not affiliated, they just shared a common investor).

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Up and Running

MARCH 9, 2022

There are numerous instances where an in-depth view of your business finances can help avoid risks. According to a study, 60 percent of small business owners admit that they don’t feel knowledgeable about their finances. Operating leverage effect (OLE) ratio. OLE ratio = contribution margin ratio/operating margin.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2010

A non-profit organization is generally defined as an organization that does not distribute its surplus funds to owners or shareholders, but instead uses them to help pursue its goals. Obviously, these companies still need money to get started, or finance growth, just like a for-profit company. Individual and institutional donations.

Angel Investor 143

Angel Investor Technical Review Exit Strategy Equity 143

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

In fact, it was only 7 years ago that Apple shipped its first iPhone and Google introduced its Android operating system. In spite of this, private equity funds have used the rallying cry of efficiency to hijack corporate strategy and loot the profits that historically would have been reinvested into research and development and new products.

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Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property 325

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 5, 2023

Estate planning is often associated with allocating how your assets and resources will be distributed upon your death in a way that complies with your wishes, avoids burdensome taxation, and allows your beneficiaries to avoid the lengthy and complicated probate process. Estate planning can be exactly that.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 14, 2020

To take one example, equity markets look ‘priced to perfection’, after a miraculous rebound from significant sell-offs in March and April after the initial economic shock of Covid-19. If a business is in the fortunate position to invest, owners will often look to upgrading equipment, or invest in the property the business operates from.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Every business regardless of size needs a certain amount of working capital to make sure smooth business operation. Working capital is nothing but the funds or equity available to business owners to meet their short-term expenditure and financial commitments. Different types of working capital loans. Benefits of working capital loans.

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India Finance .Net Security 140

ReadWriteStart

JULY 17, 2023

Furlenco is a Bengaluru-based furniture and appliance rental service that operates in more than a dozen cities across India. The platform has raised over $225 million through equity and debt financing to date. For Furlenco, it provides access to Sheela Foam’s extensive distribution network and marketing expertise.

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Up and Running

JULY 18, 2014

One of the easiest ways to start a business is to operate as a sole proprietorship, but easy doesn’t really mean the best. So the S corporation splits the owners income into two parts, wages and pass-through distributions. But you’ll avoid employment tax on the income distribution. Here’s why the S corporation is so attractive.

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Small Business LLC Nevada Software Review 87

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

By that time investment bankers were on a roll privatizing assets as far flung as Chilean Electricity Distribution Rights, Montreal’s container port, parking meters in Chicago, sections of the Pennsylvania turnpike, the London City airport, and (the proposed) CA & FL Lottery systems. Ironically, given the U.S.’s municipal bond market.

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Private Equity New York City Chicago Investment Bankers 129

Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 12, 2009

Any company that raises venture financing will need to be a C corp in order to issue preferred stock. If founders want the benefit of flow through tax treatment with respect to losses prior to an outside financing, an S corp election may make sense as long as there are no entity or non-U.S. citizen/resident stockholders.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 25, 2016

How much will it cost to produce your product (manufacturing & distribution)? Who will be on your management team and your staff, and how much will it cost to compensate them (equity and/or salary)? Don’t start up until you have lined up the funding you need to reach breakeven (typically 18 months of operating capital).

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

Or, as my friend Marc Andreessen might say, Software Eats the Private Equity World. After the first few years of operations, some 50-100 companies had gone through YC, and many of them stayed in touch and supported each other as well as newer batches of startups that were coming into YC as well. Mega VC, Micro VC.

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Silicon Valley Early Stage Venture Capital Valuation 74

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

So their revenue figures, pre IPO financing and ownership, and other info is all widely available. There’s different flavors or derivations of these… e-tailers and marketplaces are both e-commerce businesses but differ in operational model, growth patterns, and profit margins. From Google Finance.

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IPO Aggregator B2B Internet 194

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 28, 2022

With the rise of startups and growing businesses , it has become more critical for investors to have a thorough understanding of equity to be aware of all of the advantages they are receiving from the companies they have invested in. What is Company Equity? Types of equity. Common stock. Preferred shares.

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Gust

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Readers can anticipate my next point in continuing the analogy: It makes no more sense for a non-lawyer to prepare fundamental legal, governance, equity and intellectual property documents than it would for a patient to self-diagnose and begin taking prescription-strength antibiotics or other medications. Newco, Inc.”)

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Intellectual Property Non-disclosure Agreement Delaware Stock 139

Up and Running

JULY 16, 2015

The good news is that there are more routes to financing available to businesses of all sizes in the U.K. The effect has been widespread, but one predictable consequence is a groundswell of demand for credit, loans, and cash flow finance solutions amongst the U.K.’s than ever before. s small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

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Angel Investor Venture Capital Finance Finder 60

Genuine VC

JANUARY 3, 2013

Look back to the reasons why there was a Cambrian explosion of seed funding in the first place – a dramatic reduction in the initial capital requirements to launch a new company because of cloud hosting infrastructure, social graph distribution platforms, open source and low-cost development tools/methods, etc.

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Seed Stage Venture Capital Audience New York 166

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations. When I was single, I registered for (a lot of) dating websites.

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Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Up and Running

APRIL 24, 2018

Not only that, but global equity funding to digital health companies reached $3.67 Health care ethics are the moral principles and values that allow you to make the right choice while promoting, distributing, and operating your product to healthcare organizations or patients directly. billion in 2017 YTD (as of May 22, 2017).

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SBIR Startup Artificial Inteligence Intellectual Property 73

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

3) invest in and take equity stakes in exchange for capital. We could for example, find warning signs in popular literature about e.g. finance suggesting rapid maturation in bond trading. Each VC firm/partner has a different spin on what to weigh more.) 4) help nurture and grow the companies they invest in. Warning sign? At best. ~

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Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 217

K9 Ventures

APRIL 9, 2014

Yes, almost everyone who was operating as a Super Angel, went on to raise a venture fund. Top engineering talent today has a bimodal distribution. Seed is not the first round of financing any more. For example, doing equity rounds only, no convertible notes, leading rounds and taking on board seats.

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Mezzanine Seed Stage Early Stage IPO 134

Growthink Blog

MAY 23, 2011

The typical wisdom regarding the appropriate financing course for a new company goes as follows: 1. An entrepreneur starts a company in classic " bootstrap " fashion - with a combination of sweat equity and their own financial resources. It is driven by the following: • The Best Metric for the Health of a Company is Cash Flow.

Angel Investor 112

Angel Investor Venture Capital Sweat Equity Cram Down 112

Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Other companies, like Blue Origin, Firefly Space and Space X are all conducting operations in Texas, both together with NASA and for their own unique space ventures. In short, the first wave of internet companies were widely distributed and brought people online (AOL in Virginia, Microsoft in Albuquerque and Seattle, Dell in Austin, etc.)

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 10, 2012

As O’Leary said, this isn’t an equity investment. They could have either paid someone a healthy salary out of the profits that they are making, or they could have given someone a much smaller equity stake in the company to attract an experienced business person. Astonishingly, the entrepreneurs took the deal. Fat Ass Fudge.

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Covenant Warrant Southern California Los Angeles 162

Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Further, you demonstrate on your spreadsheet that a venture return to early investors is plausible at a valuation that gives you enough equity to get the job done and to take care of you and your team at exit time. You also need to look at your operating history to date and get comfortable that your machine is humming along as planned.

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Valuation Forecast Seed Money Business Model 48

Business Plan Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2013

While some investors will be willing to help you build your team, they will not be willing to invest in your startup if you are not willing to distribute responsibility and bring on diversified expertise. Rather, give titles such as VP of Engineering, Product/Technology, Sales, Marketing, Finance, etc.

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Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE Cofounder CTO Hire 79

Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

As opposed to taking a potentially smart risk on equity). I was still unprepared; I had no idea that I also needed to learn about go-to-market strategy and distribution. In particular, Bill Sahlman’s Entrepreneurial Finance course was excellent. For example, MBA students take classes on accounting and finance.

Silicon Valley 69

Silicon Valley Venture Capital Balance Sheet Cofounder 69

Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

As opposed to taking a potentially smart risk on equity). I was still unprepared; I had no idea that I also needed to learn about go-to-market strategy and distribution. In particular, Bill Sahlman’s Entrepreneurial Finance course was excellent. For example, MBA students take classes on accounting and finance.

Silicon Valley 69

Silicon Valley Venture Capital Balance Sheet Cofounder 69

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2011

Most of our management tools, like planning and forecasting, require a long and stable operating history. Consider the total amount of funding for doomed projects that comes from VC’s, large company M&A departments, government grants, and private equity firms. She works every day financing the next generation of startups.

Lean 167

Lean Startup Metrics Private Equity 167