The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Thomas Clayton has started and run numerous high-tech startups in Silicon Valley. He is currently CEO of Bubbly , a social media startup backed by Sequoia Capital, SingTel Innov8, and JAFCO. The company is one of the largest VC–backed startups in Southeast Asia, having raised over $60M in funding.

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

Startups and angels: Along the way to success. Please see later version of this post on May 16, 2010 Entrepreneurs are often not experts in the area of term-sheet negotiations and all of the surrounding issues.   Investors sometimes “present” the terms they’d like and expect the entrepreneurs to react.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2016

Most aspiring entrepreneurs look to their alma mater, or any university, as a source of classes that can help them, but neglect to think outside the box or take advantage of all the other resources to be found there. Access to entrepreneurs-in-residence, business mentors. Visibility to startup job opportunities and career guidance.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 26, 2018

Transcript of Honest Startup Advice From Somebody Who’s Been Through It written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. John Jantsch: If you’re a founder of a startup, maybe you need some brutally honest advice from somebody who’s been there. Back to Podcast. Transcript. ” Rand, thanks for joining me.

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Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 14, 2010

My general opinion is that anything that makes the financing process faster and easier or otherwise educates entrepreneurs is a good thing. (A In addition, I think that a “peace treaty&# between early-stage investors and startup companies on standard terms (at least at a term sheet level) is a step in the right direction.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

This thinking is largely driven by the venture capital industry (and subsequently Wall Street) who are in search of high margin, highly scalable businesses. I gave them advice I don’t think they were expecting from a VC, “Don’t raise venture capital for this business. You’re a small fish.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

Having time to think about “leadership” at most startups feels like a luxury. The reality of most startups is about survival. So spending time thinking about what your leadership style is, whether it’s effective and what you could do to improve it can yield dividends. It’s a new year – 2016.

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Altgate

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Tips: $75 HOT All-Hands Team Meeting Board Management Tips For Startup CEOs Customer Support 2.0 Tips: $75 HOT All-Hands Team Meeting Board Management Tips For Startup CEOs Customer Support 2.0 Tips: $75 HOT All-Hands Team Meeting Board Management Tips For Startup CEOs Customer Support 2.0 Bookmark the permalink.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

V: Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? Capacity Capital , based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, was launched in 2020 with a primary focus on the Southeast. GCVF is pioneering the future of venture capital and high growth startups for all small communities.

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Startup Company Lawyer

AUGUST 31, 2012

Over the past few years, convertible debt has emerged as a quick and inexpensive method for startup companies to raise money from angel investors and early stage venture funds. However, most typical convertible debt issued by startups have a maturity date of typically one year or later from the time of issuance. Background.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The past year was a wild ride for startups and founders, giving a whole new meaning to the ”rollercoaster” aspect of being an entrepreneur. A combination of competition for top talent and an effort to bring employees back to the office drove startups in Israel to throw extravagant parties and all-inclusive retreats abroad.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 21, 2013

Jim Hornthal splits his time between venture capital, entrepreneurship and education. That ‘cut’ still left me with over 40 potential thick-skinned budding entrepreneurs. Today he is the co-founder and Chairman of Triporati, LaunchPad Central. I next cut out any students for whom this would be one of five courses.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 18, 2018

Still, the process of incorporating a company has to be one of the most complicated things for startup owners to handle. Sure enough, most entrepreneurs who have established robust business models will have to go through several legal hurdles before officially securing their recognition as a legitimate enterprise.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2018

They run the gamut from affiliate marketing to startup conferences with virtually everything in between. We’ve used this experience to take the guesswork out of which conferences are the most valuable for a startup founder to attend. There are upwards of 100 digital conferences each year catering to the ecosystem. LTV Conference.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2009

Steve my name is Donald xx, and I’m the head of external affairs of the CIA’s venture capital firm and we’d like you to keynote our conference.” And you’d like me to do my talk on Customer Development and startups?” “No, we’re the other CIA.” Do you mean the Culinary Institute of America?

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Scott Edward Walker

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Introduction This post originally appeared in the “ Ask the Attorney ” column I am writing for VentureBeat ; it is part of my ongoing series regarding venture capital term sheets. Indeed, some very pro-entrepreneur investors, like Fred Wilson , do not require no-shop provisions (see rule #4 in Fred’s post “ Competing To Win Deals ”).

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BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

This is awesome not just for us but also for enterprise startups in NYC. To have institutional investors the quality of Knollwood and Top Tier Capital seeking an allocation to seed and NYC enterprise shows the tremendous progress we have all made. Having more capital will only further our mission, not change it.

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ConversionXL

JULY 29, 2015

Education plays a major role in venture capital. For example, digital startups are more likely to secure funding if someone on their founding team holds a doctoral degree. shares, dividends). Even though most people chose KIA projects, AON projects were more successful: Why are AON projects more successful?

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Altgate

MARCH 17, 2009

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← Global Nuances of Startup Compensation Obama Shoots Down 90% Tax Bracket → Popular Posts Posted on March 17, 2009 by fnazeeri Once again, here is a list of some of the more popular posts on this blog.

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Gust

MAY 24, 2012

Yet I’m skeptical that a widespread shift will occur anytime soon, and for reasons discussed below, as much as I admire and advocate for talented entrepreneurs, I believe it would be a losing proposition for nearly all involved.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

In February of last year, Fortune magazine writers Erin Griffith and Dan Primack declared 2015 “ The Age of the Unicorns ” noting — “Fortune counts more than 80 startups that have been valued at $1 billion or more by venture capitalists.” At the same time, we also started to see an increase in startup failure.

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www.singlefounder.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

I’d like to take a few minutes to dispel the top five myths of software startups. Venture capital is one method of getting a company off the ground, but it’s not the only method. Venture capital is also not a guarantee of success. VC funding gets you startup capital and a chance.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Tech entrepreneur mayor presides over NYC tech during an explosion in company creation, job growth and venture funding. The multifold growth we''ve had in the startup engineering base of NYC happened before we even decided to build these companies. Politics Venture Capital & Technology'

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

I actually use LivePlan and I mentor entrepreneurs all over the world. I have some entrepreneurs who are in Gaza, who are in Cairo, who are in New Jersey, and I’m in Oregon. As an entrepreneur I would say 50/50. Now entrepreneurship is the sexiest word on the planet, so a lot of people have startup weekends.

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Board Effect

MAY 10, 2019

In the early days, tracking the percentage of ownership in a startup is easy. Things can escalate quickly, however, when a startup decides to seek investors. Raising investment capital means raising the stakes on managing a cap table. Cap tables come into play when it comes time for a startup to raise capital.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 24, 2014

Part 1: Bend, Oregon Ecosystem and Entrepreneurs. Part 2: Early-stage Regional Venture Funds. Local entrepreneurs just made it up as they went. The most fertile source of entrepreneurs is the population of existing entrepreneurial companies. Part 3: Engineering a Regional Tech Cluster. Here’s Part 3 of Dino’s story….

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Up and Running

MARCH 29, 2017

million for the SaaS startup I founded because sometimes we see success coming out of the blue, when really that person benefited from a broad network of support. See Also: What Do Venture Capital Firms Want? I knew I wanted to be an entrepreneur long before I could even spell entrepreneur.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

At the time, he was advising the campaign while also serving as Executive Vice President and General Counsel at Revolution, a DC-based VC firm created to fund startups led by diverse founders all over the country. Eric Ries : It helped a lot of entrepreneurs, by the way. Ron Klain : Helped a lot of entrepreneurs.

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