YoungUpstarts

APRIL 30, 2020

Rosenstrauch, Founder and CEO of FUEL Partnerships. Speed equals immediacy AND certainty of delivery (in stock): Consumers want same day or next day delivery more than ever before. In our view, retailers must absorb the additional costs of the new distribution requirements if they want to be part of the future retail landscape.

America 222

America New York City Technical Review Distribution 222

Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Over time, capital requirements for insurance companies became quite large and most insurance companies have adopted the model of a “stock insurance company” (an insurance company that is owned by investors who have purchased company stock). Here’s how it works: Everyone can become a member of Nexus Mutual by buying the NXM token.

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Software Review Stock Technical Review Distribution 66

NZ Entrepreneur

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The pitch: StockTrim is a SaaS API which uses a machine learning algorithm to look at past stock behaviour and project future demand to avoid the common situations of over-ordering, under-ordering or miscalculating delivery times and quantities. A company is more than the CEO / founder, so tell your angel investors who’s in your team.

Technical Review 103

Technical Review Software Review Due Diligence Startup 103

Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2018

When Sloan arrived at GM in 1920 he realized that the traditional centralized management structures organized by function (sales, manufacturing, distribution, and marketing) were a poor fit for managing GM’s diverse product lines. If you’re following Tesla, you might be interested to know that Sloan wasn’t the founder of GM.

Michigan 275

Michigan Cofounder Stock Forecast 275

David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

From RBI, Flexible VCs borrow the ability to reap meaningful returns without demanding founders build for an exit. Every Flexible VC structure allows founders to access immediate risk capital while preserving exit, growth trajectory, and ownership optionality. . Flexible VC 102: Variations.

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Cofounder Technical Review Equity Dividend 78

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

In the early days of Rocket Science I realized that we needed high-level advice on multiple fronts; technology, game development, video game distribution, etc. At one of our initial board meetings we had agreed on the general principle of an advisory board and put together an overall stock budget to compensate advisors.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 25, 2015

Owners of corporations also pay taxes when they are paid dividends or profit from sale of the stock, which is why it is common to say that corporations are “double-taxed.” Ownership of a corporation is measured in stock. Stocks are issued at the time the company is formed, and more can be issued over time. Verdict : It’s a tie!

LLC 100

LLC Technical Review Software Review Limited Liability Company 100

VC Cafe

JANUARY 27, 2021

Now synonymous with video-conferencing, the company-name-turned-verb stock peaked in October 2020, a market interpretation of how the Zoom Boom has defined the daily lives of many millions throughout the COVID-19 outbreak. 2020 was a good year for Zoom. Then there’s Bubbles , a chrome extension focusing on screen grab collaborations. “

Vertical 148

Vertical Video Technical Review Europe 148

Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Kayak was started here in my backyard of Boston… co-founder & CTO Paul English and the product/engineering team is based here in Concord MA. Co-founder & CEO Steve Hafner and the business team are based in Norwalk, CT. Distribution revenue is CPC and CPA. . Kayak generates both distribution (i.e.

Pre-Money Valuation 113

Pre-Money Valuation Liquidation Preference Dividend Common Stock 113

This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 14, 2024

Over a decade ago, when I was working for First Round Capital, we opened our doors for “Open Office Hours”—a series of open meetings where any founder could come in and chat with us for 20 minutes each. I’m not sure we backed any of the founders—but that wasn’t the point. We met quite a few smart folks. We had 70 investors sign up!

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Curation Community Founder Stock 126

Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

The founders each have common shares that will vest over four years. The vesting schedule protects each of the co-founders in case one gets hit by a bus or decides to drop the project after a short period of time. They come up with two options: Hire Praveena as an employee and offer her stock options.

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Cap Table CTO Hire Technical Cofounder Cofounder 133

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2015

The Founder needs to remember that meetings up to this point have been primarily off-site, with staged demos, and managed personally by the CEO or a small team. That might start with the CEO giving the investor pitch to the whole organization, and distributing the current business plan document to everyone.

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Due Diligence Startup Term Sheet 120

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Experienced entrepreneurs understand investor expectations of Board representation, preferred stock, and payments based on interim milestones. Founder insistence on non-dilute clauses, arms-length relationships, and quick closure without due diligence will short-circuit active interest. Ask only for the money you can justify.

Due Diligence 271

Due Diligence Intellectual Property Entrepreneur Preferred Stock 271

VC Adventure

AUGUST 16, 2020

It strikes me that many founders never really consider this question. Many founders feel that it’s equitable to have everyone share in the upside and feel like owners. Why have an option program to begin with? Many, but not all, Foundry companies give options to all their employees.

Programming 149

Programming Vesting Equity Software Review 149

Transformify

MARCH 14, 2020

At the same time, the stock markets collapsed, and most businesses already report skyrocketing losses, unmet revenue targets and insufficient stock due to production slow down in China, India and the rest of the world. However, talent was not in abundance and relocation was not always an option due to the skyrocketing rent prices.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 18, 2011

Clavier began his presentation at the beginning of a company's lifecycle, asking how many co-founders a startup ought to have. He says that one is too lonely, two is good and three is a great number if they can combine their skills to cover design, development and distribution. They want to stock their shelves and they have nothing.

Investment Bankers 153

Investment Bankers Technical Review Cofounder Due Diligence 153

Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Some companies, especially those financed by angel or VC investors, have good, formal stock option plans with properly priced options set to reward all employees and managers in the event of a corporate sale. So, I wrote into the final distribution instructions a surprise five figure bonus for each of the five executives.

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Stock Options Stock Distribution Programming 192

Gust

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Copyright is the right to control reproduction and distribution of original works of authorship fixed in tangible forms of expression. Here are a few key questions and observations that I offer to any newly incorporating startup: Who are the founders? Has anyone already left the picture?

Intellectual Property 149

Intellectual Property Technical Review Software Review IP 149

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

by Bryce Welker, founder of Crush The CPA Exam. Before your financial statements can be filed with the SEC or distributed outside of your business, an external auditor must ensure your records adhere to GAAP. That can affect your first-time audit in two main ways: with stock option expensing and 409A Valuations. 409A Valuations.

CPA 165

CPA Stock Options Valuation Stock 165

The Startup Magazine

JULY 1, 2022

Like the stock market, Cryptocurrency can be bought and sold based on supply and demand. If you are not already investing in stocks and mutual funds, crypto is not where you want to start investing. William Rice – Cryptobuxx Founder. How is Crypto an investment? The project failed in 2018. Is Crypto right for me?

Stock 148

Stock Institutional Investors Demand Portfolio 148

Eric Friedman

JANUARY 1, 2023

Far fetched, but with a balance sheet that is gigantic and the Peloton stock around $38 ($12bln market cap) at the time of this writing, I could see this making a lot of sense. -1: I still want this to happen, but as I love to tell founders Hope isn’t a strategy. 1: Failed it. Didn’t happen. 1: Failed it.

Balance Sheet 60

Balance Sheet ChatGPT Technical Review Software Review 60

Eric Friedman

DECEMBER 10, 2022

Far fetched, but with a balance sheet that is gigantic and the Peloton stock around $38 ($12bln market cap) at the time of this writing, I could see this making a lot of sense. -1: I still want this to happen, but as I love to tell founders Hope isn’t a strategy. 1: Failed it. Didn’t happen. 1: Failed it.

Balance Sheet 60

Balance Sheet ChatGPT Technical Review Software Review 60

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2020

Experienced entrepreneurs understand investor expectations of Board representation, preferred stock, and payments based on interim milestones. Founder insistence on non-dilute clauses, arms-length relationships, and quick closure without due diligence will short-circuit active interest. Ask only for the money you can justify.

Due Diligence 308

Due Diligence Intellectual Property Preferred Stock Startup 308

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 14, 2020

by Alan Jenkins, founder and CEO of Quadrant2Design. With stocks and almost everything else looking highly-priced, it is arguably sensible not just to hold gold as an inflation hedge, but also because of its lack of correlation to other asset classes. The reason for the rise in gold is simple.

Small Business 218

Small Business United Kingdom Europe Global 218

thebarefootvc

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

– Austin Hill , co-founder Blockstream (FPV’s newest portfolio company). The combination of mobile technology, sensors, robotics, and data analytics will create businesses that can empower billions of people around the world through decentralized and distributed networks where the “middlemen” are no longer required.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 1, 2011

Chris McCann is the co-founder of StartupDigest , the members-only guide to the tech startup world. In the traditional stock market an index is a small sample of the market that represents the stock market as a whole. Index vs. Concentrated Investing. s very hard to beat the efficient market. Just look at AngelList?'s

Technical Review 123

Technical Review Due Diligence Cofounder Startup 123

This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 25, 2011

The issue was that for the last two weeks in August, there were no VCs around to pitch, no distribution partners to meet with for biz dev deals, and seemingly no one else around actually working for me, the non-technical co-founder to push ahead toward milestones. Third, I'm not sure I could have successfully unplugged anyway.

Technical Review 114

Technical Review Software Review PR Cofounder 114

Scott Edward Walker

DECEMBER 13, 2018

The purpose of this post is briefly (i) to provide an overview of acquihires and (ii) to discuss the significant legal issues that founders must address. Accordingly, the deal may be a mere fiction designed to get funds into the startup to be distributed to its investors. Will the Founders Receive any Purchase Price Proceeds?

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

The stock market clearly values companies that can deliver disruptive innovation. For example, Coke added snack foods, which could be distributed through its existing distribution channels. If they don’t, then the management team has simply become caretakers of the founders’ legacy. This never ends well.

Private Equity 326

Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property 326

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2022

This is largely due to several major stock market crashes and global economic uncertainties. It’s a tough time for a lot of startup founders right now. This is not meant to be a negative post, but rather a temperature check of today’s market environment and the levers founders can pull on to survive this period.

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Founder Technical Review Down Round Liquidation Preference 174

Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 7, 2012

Week three’s breakdown covered topics like how hard momentum is to turn around, and how participating preferred stock works. The founders were very sympathetic; a man, laid off from his job, and his very pregnant wife, who sold their house and investing $150k into the business and are working hard to make a go of it.

Technical Review 110

Technical Review Technical Cofounder Valuation Pre-Money Valuation 110

Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 14, 2022

She is the founder of the digital marketing firm Market MindShift. She's the founder of the digital marketing firm Market Mindshift, and author of a book we're gonna talk about today, the Power of Scarcity, leveraging Urgency and Demand to Influence Customer Decisions. And so it's distribution is distribution issue.

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Differentiation Demand Distribution Sales 80

VC Cafe

MAY 23, 2023

Chegg, which lost over 40% of its stock value after the CEO remarked that the company’s tutoring product is being challenged by ChatGPT, has been working hard to incorporate generative AI features into their own product with GPT-4 in the form of CheggMate , but so far with little results.

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Generative AI Artificial Inteligence ChatGPT API 165

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2020

When the dust settles from the initial joblessness and people have lost savings, don’t immediately find new jobs and this weighs on the stock markets, people will inevitably cut personal spending. Biggest Advice I Give to Portfolio Founders? Paying close attention to the psychology of founders. We actually encourage it.

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Marketing Valuation Churn Rate Balance Sheet 263

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 22, 2017

Most founders consider the story already told and the deal pending, so they aren’t sure what more then can do. This meeting should include the CEO giving the investor pitch to the whole organization, and distributing the current business plan document to everyone. Set up an interview room, stocked with current docs.

Due Diligence 148

Due Diligence Bankruptcy Angel Investor Stock 148

www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The distribution of investors should mirrorthe distribution of startups, which has the usual power law dropoff.So Whichis good news for founders: theyll get to keep more of the company. So ifyou want to predict what the future of venture funding will be like,just ask: how would founders like it to be?

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Startup Valuation Non-Compete Deal Flow 93

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Docker is an open platform designed to let developers and sysadmins build, ship and run distributed apps from anywhere. The main contribution of the open-source Docker software is to simplify the distribution of applications by standardizing their properties and shipping them together with their entire environment in neat containers.

API 60

API Software Review Technical Review Startup 60