Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Who would not want to join the unicorns (recent startups with a current valuation of over $1 billion)? The days of lengthy, text-heavy, business plan documents prepared by expensive experts are behind us. Building your public image and presence should start even before product development, through your website, logo, and blogging.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Who would not want to join the unicorns (recent startups with a current valuation of over $1 billion)? The days of lengthy, text-heavy, business plan documents prepared by expensive experts are behind us. Building your public image and presence should start even before product development, through your website, logo, and blogging.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

Who would not want to joint the unicorns (recent startups with a current valuation of over $1 billion)? The days of lengthy, text-heavy, business plan documents prepared by expensive experts are behind us. Building your public image and presence should start even before product development, through your website, logo, and blogging.

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Up and Running

JUNE 14, 2017

Some believe in the all-in approach to product development: build an advanced app. The point tracking and documentation system would be managed manually by my team on the back end. Almost on a weekly basis, I meet new aspiring entrepreneurs looking to execute on their ideas.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 25, 2020

I remember enjoying reading his book “ Delivering Happiness ,” the story behind how he led Zappos and drove it to a billion dollars in revenue before Amazon bought it. To make it official, we used a Y Combinator post-SAFE document with a pro-rata side letter to document it and put it into the company’s minute book.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Regardless, this document is a viable alternative to creating decks at the seed stage, and we wanted to deconstruct what that might look like below. Examples of housekeeping include the following list, though not every item will appear every time: Finance: Cash out date, burn rate, 409A valuation, cap table, common/preferred stock dashboard.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Keep the valuations consistent with company progress. The bottom line is that the pedigree of your investors will have much to do with your ultimate valuation and with your enjoyment of the startup experience. Adhering to standard rules and processes, no matter how formally they are documented, can keep the machinery humming.

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