YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

For many entrepreneurs and inventors, mass producing and distributing products simply doesn’t play to their strengths. These involve finding funding and getting up to speed quickly on the highly complex manufacturing and distribution processes. Technical data and training needed for development, manufacturing and distribution.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 26, 2013

If your startup is great enough to get a term sheet from angel investors or a venture capitalist, the next step for the investor is to complete the dreaded due diligence process. This will cover the technology, the current state of development, and customer satisfaction. Validation of product. Sales and marketing strategy.

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Technical Review Due Diligence Startup Term Sheet 242

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2015

For the elite startups and entrepreneurs who manage to attract the investor they dream of, and survive the term sheet negotiation, there is still one more hurdle before the money is in the bank. This is the mysterious and dreaded due diligence process, which can kill the whole deal. Status of the solution. Traction in the marketplace.

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Technical Review Due Diligence Startup Term Sheet 120

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. So we have five themes – Digital Life and Distribution are the other two.”.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Amidst the rise of new funds, new technologies, and potentially disruptive late stage players, I thought it was important to share what we consider to be our core operating principles here at NextView. . As seed funds have raised larger and larger funds, more have developed the muscle around issuing term sheets and “leading”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 29, 2012

If your startup is great enough to get a term sheet from angel investors or a venture capitalist, the next step for the investor is to complete the dreaded due diligence process. This will cover the technology, the current state of development, and customer satisfaction. Validation of product. Sales and marketing strategy.

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Technical Review Due Diligence Term Sheet Startup 245

Hunter Walker

APRIL 20, 2014

And your term sheet waits at the bottom. A technology advantage? A distribution relationship? Still lots of hard work and good fortune to close the deal, but your term sheet is right on the other side.' Now I want to spend a few paragraphs on framing the pitch — I call it The Belief Funnel.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 28, 2010

If your startup is great enough to get a term sheet from angel investors or a venture capitalist, the next step for the investor is to complete the dreaded due diligence process. This will cover the technology, the current state of development, and customer satisfaction. Validation of product. Sales and marketing strategy.

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Technical Review Due Diligence Term Sheet Angel Investor 229

Mucker Lab

AUGUST 27, 2014

At the time, LA and Santa Clara were both the epicenter of the technology industry due to the significant overlap between the aerospace/military industry (Los Angeles) and the computing business (Silicon Valley). At the same time, the consumerization of the technology business made Silicon Valley the de facto capital of all things tech.

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Los Angeles Southern California Silicon Valley Technical Review 138

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 8, 2009

They tell you that they’re working on biz dev deals with distribution partners and they get the deals signed. And I know many stories of Benchmark or similar investors writing term sheets after the first meeting. Tags: Pitching VCs Start-up Advice startup technology vc venture capital. They hire key staff.

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Technical Review Term Sheet Venture Capital Revenue 309

David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

Flexible VC creates early liquidity which can be either reinvested or distributed to LPs. Womble Bond Dickinson has released a white paper on Performance Aligned Stock and a term sheet on ImpactTerms.org. . (If Early-stage: Cofounder with engineering/ product background from top-tier university or major technology company.

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Cofounder Technical Review Equity Dividend 78

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

My blog linked to Brad Feld’s blog because I was so grateful for his series on term sheets and he was one of the biggest reasons that as a VC I felt compelled to blog. Distributed version control model – first in the industry like ours and we are filing patents. That changed very quickly. Folksonomy. Free product.

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Venture Capital Term Sheet San Diego Viral 274

View from Seed

AUGUST 17, 2021

In some cases, great companies massively expand the definition or potential of the market with innovative products, technology leverage, and great execution. I was speaking to the former CFO of one of our most valuable portfolio companies the other day, and she recounted how this company once pitched 70 investors to barely get a term sheet.

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IRR Dilution Founder Portfolio 205

View from Seed

AUGUST 17, 2021

In some cases, great companies massively expand the definition or potential of the market with innovative products, technology leverage, and great execution. I was speaking to the former CFO of one of our most valuable portfolio companies the other day, and she recounted how this company once pitched 70 investors to barely get a term sheet.

IRR 156

IRR Dilution Founder Portfolio 156

View from Seed

AUGUST 17, 2021

In some cases, great companies massively expand the definition or potential of the market with innovative products, technology leverage, and great execution. I was speaking to the former CFO of one of our most valuable portfolio companies the other day, and she recounted how this company once pitched 70 investors to barely get a term sheet.

IRR 136

IRR Dilution Founder Portfolio 136

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 2, 2010

His term sheet series helped me at a time when I needed help. The first goal was rooted in childhood – I grew up playing with technology and it has always been my passion. So while the rest of my Internet-savvy friends were leaving Andersen Consulting to go work for technology startups – I wanted to choose life.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

I was still unprepared; I had no idea that I also needed to learn about go-to-market strategy and distribution. It’s not like after completing the class I was prepared to negotiate a term sheet. Like many first time founders, I ran over that landmine. But what I wasn’t doing was trying to earn a credential or boost my salary.

Silicon Valley 69

Silicon Valley Venture Capital Balance Sheet Cofounder 69

Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

I was still unprepared; I had no idea that I also needed to learn about go-to-market strategy and distribution. It’s not like after completing the class I was prepared to negotiate a term sheet. Like many first time founders, I ran over that landmine. But what I wasn’t doing was trying to earn a credential or boost my salary.

Silicon Valley 69

Silicon Valley Venture Capital Balance Sheet Cofounder 69

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

These elements of the business model– revenue (pricing, pricing strategy), distribution channel, How to Get/Keep/Grow customers, Key Activities, Resources and Costs – are other, critical parts your start up needs to understand and have in place. What are your unique insights about technology, economics, change in market, etc.

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Cofounder Seed Stage Valuation Metrics 431

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 6, 2011

She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. a distributed, democratic model of capitalism. The company has generated excellent investor interest and multiple term sheets. As an entrepreneur CEO, she ran three companies: DAIS, Intarka, and Uuma.

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Silicon Valley India San Francisco Entrepreneur 118

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Amidst the rise of new funds, new technologies, and potentially disruptive late stage players, I thought it was important to share what we consider to be our core operating principles here at NextView. . As seed funds have raised larger and larger funds, more have developed the muscle around issuing term sheets and “leading”.

North America 36

North America Seed Stage Early Stage Lead Investor 36

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

It’s also important to say that while many successful technology companies have been venture-backed--Apple, Amazon, Google and Facebook come to mind-- it’s not solely a funding method for technology companies. Why did you decide to write a manual like this, especially right now? but globally.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

And then we also looked at our operations and said, "We have a footprint across the US that can produce and distribute millions of meals every week, fresh meals to 400 cities and towns at incredibly affordable prices given the way we have cost optimized our footprint and our program." Kirsten Saenz Tobey : So we started the company in 2006.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

In late 2015, many public technology companies saw a significant retrenchment in their share prices primarily as a result of a reduction in valuation multiples. Everyone was successful on paper, but in terms of real cash-on-cash returns, there was little to show. In Q1 of 2016 there were zero VC-backed technology IPOs.

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IPO Term Sheet Silicon Valley Valuation 40

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 11, 2010

I’m surprised how few people talk about valuations, term sheet terms, how much to pay recruiters, etc. We’re recommending to our companies that they be distributed.&#. Uh, I guess he won’t be co-sponsoring a technology lab in LA with me then? We don’t believe in it anymore.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 22, 2010

’ When you use technology for a really long time you begin to spot patterns. We were doing an educational session on term sheets. I had expect a Q&A style session and as I asked the first question – BOOM – he went straight to screen sharing using his term sheet write-ups on VentureHacks.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Every startup faces multiple choices and decisions when it comes to technology. Ad Serving Technology. free, distributed source code control management system. WSGR Term Sheet Generator. Orrick, Herrington Term Sheet Generator. Founders Institute Plain Preferred Term Sheet â?? Preloaders.net.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

If the future and the past have some kind of relationship in most contexts, there are places where the past and the future become uncorrelated and there are ways to assess that around things like demography, technological shifts, et cetera. On Cryptocurrencies. Baseball cards are a useful mental model as they are relatively rare assets.

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Silicon Valley Venture Capital Cofounder Africa 88

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

This video should be the gold standard in explaining contract terms. Github - Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs Pivotal Tracker – Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration.

Software Review 110

Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

As you can see from the chart their data suggests there are about $25 billion of VC distributions per year in the US. On the enterprise side, I know every buyer of technology in this industry. Many entrepreneurs come by with great pitches and say, “I’m hoping to have term sheets in the next 30 days.”

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