Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2020

For early-stage startups, the goodwill component can easily exceed the size of all the financial elements together, or can just as easily mark a company with good financials as not investable. Good performance management is more about rewarding desirable behavior than penalizing bad performance. People relationship focus.

Valuation 311

Valuation Technical Review Due Diligence Leadership 311

NZ Entrepreneur

MAY 31, 2021

The Angel Association of New Zealand ( AANZ ) is co-hosting with New Zealand Growth Capital Partners ( NZGCP ) a series of workshops on early-stage investment. Andrew Chen shares his takeaways from the second instalment on Portfolio Management, held in Wellington on 13 May 2021. By Andrew Chen for the Angel Association of NZ.

Portfolio 81

Portfolio New Zealand Management Technical Review 81

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

Early stage burn rates over $50K per month, or a runway of less than six months may indicate an inefficient or desperate startup. The allocation of shares among the founders, and the number and size of outside investments, will tells volumes about the health, stability, and management of the business.

Sweat Equity 207

Sweat Equity Burn Rate Technical Review Intellectual Property 207

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

You will need to have an impressive management team to support your search for venture capital. This deck shares insights about your service or product, business model, funding needs, and the skills of your management team. Management team. Due Diligence and Closing the Deal. Pitch Decks and Presentations.

Venture Capital 144

Venture Capital Technical Review Software Review Security 144

The Startup Magazine

MARCH 14, 2022

Profitably managing and owning businesses with all the inherent risks have always defined the Indian entrepreneurial spirit. 5) Managing the operations. At this stage, the founder mainly raises funding from their sources or family and friends. And this has been the way of life here in India. 4) Forming a company identity.

Technical Review 143

Technical Review Due Diligence India Startup 143

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Toronto’s Mark Attanasio has spent some 20 years advising businesses at various stages in their development on what it takes to position themselves for growth – whether it’s through traditional transactional activities like management buyouts and mergers and acquisitions or via a public listing on a Canadian stock exchange.

Partner 113

Partner Technical Review Management Due Diligence 113

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

By contrast, they backed 620 funds in the last three months of 2021 First time fund managers hit hard: In 2022, limited partners backed 141 funds run by first-time managers, a 59% decline from the prior year and the lowest number since 2013 How does the constrained LP environment manifest for funds and startups?

Venture Capital 215

Venture Capital Technical Review LP Institutional Investors 215

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 16, 2013

If the company was incorporated five years ago, and is still in early stages, with the same founding team, chances are slim that it will suddenly get back on track with you as an employee, or you as an investor. But don’t let management divert you with comments on your failure to understand “the vision and the big picture.”

Due Diligence 253

Due Diligence Sweat Equity Intellectual Property Burn Rate 253

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

by Lu Zhang, founder and managing partner of Fusion Fund. Among these opportunities, the chance to pitch an investor and secure funding is perhaps the greatest of all — at least in the early stages of your startup career — as it can ultimately determine the long-term fate of your company.

Technical Review 140

Technical Review Due Diligence Early Stage Differentiation 140

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Over the past decade, I’ve (somewhat accidentally) put together on this blog a syllabus on how to launch, manage, and invest a VC fund. For example, we created a pipeline management tool that automatically adds deals along with relevant information (such as attachments received) to our funnel. 5) Manage deal flow.

Technical Review 60

Technical Review Private Equity Management Cap Table 60

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Over the past decade, I’ve (somewhat accidentally) put together on this blog a syllabus on how to launch, manage, and invest a VC fund. For example, we created a pipeline management tool that automatically adds deals along with relevant information (such as attachments received) to our funnel. 5) Manage deal flow.

Technical Review 60

Technical Review Private Equity Management Cap Table 60

Gust

DECEMBER 8, 2013

If the company was incorporated five years ago, and is still in early stages, with the same founding team, chances are slim that it will suddenly get back on track with you as an employee, or you as an investor. But don’t let management divert you with comments on your failure to understand “the vision and the big picture.”

Due Diligence 174

Due Diligence Sweat Equity Intellectual Property Burn Rate 174

NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

So managing risk in a startup is less about compliance, it’s more about being as brave and ambitious as you can without breaking things. This may mean straddling the line between governance and management when necessary. Take part in startup investment due diligence. And they need to do this at pace.

Technical Review 88

Technical Review Software Review New Zealand Due Diligence 88

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 8, 2015

Early stage burn rates over $50K per month, or a runway of less than six months may indicate an inefficient or desperate startup. The allocation of shares among the founders, and the number and size of outside investments, will tells volumes about the health, stability, and management of the business. Marty Zwilling.

Technical Review 120

Technical Review Due Diligence Sweat Equity Burn Rate 120

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Every potential early-stage Venture Capitalist should take a year and do it before he or she makes partner. Early-stage Venture Capital firms grow their partnerships in different ways, some hire: partners from other firms. Today, you can start a web/mobile/cloud startup for $500,000 and have money left over. Here’s why.

Venture Capital 332

Venture Capital Early Stage Technical Review Startup 332

The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

The FUND Conference brings together over 100 startups to present their early-stage products and pitches in front of hundreds of investors and industry leaders. Anticipating the challenges of due diligence helped me to crystallize our tech development strategy and the sales strategy, and guided our financial planning.

Technical Review 152

Technical Review Software Review Illinois Due Diligence 152

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

These usually play a role in the very early stage of your business, primarily pre-revenue. Under this category, you have the angel investors who would invest their own money and Venture Capital or VC firms, who manage funds aimed towards specific startup sectors and stages. Early-stage. Debt investors.

Startup 150

Startup Entrepreneur Elevator Pitch Seed Stage 150

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Finance is a new, early-stage, New York-based VC focused on East Coast companies. The roadmap for the firm is here: Syllabus for how to launch, manage, and invest a VC fund. As the firm grows, we will need support in origination, financial modeling, due diligence, transaction execution, etc. Company overview.

New York 60

New York Venture Capital Technical Review Due Diligence 60

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

For early-stage startups, the goodwill component can easily exceed the size of all the financial elements together, or can just as easily mark a company with good financials as not investable. Good performance management is more about rewarding desirable behavior than penalizing bad performance. People relationship focus.

Leadership 120

Leadership Technical Review Due Diligence Valuation 120

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2010

I’m very pleased today to announce that I invested, on behalf of GRP Partners, in Burstly alongside Rincon Venture Partners , an early stage VC in Southern California whith whom we love to work (and were our co-investors on RingRevenue ). He knows the ad management and ad network businesses. What does it do?

Mobile 282

Mobile Management Southern California Application Development 282

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

In an early stage start I believe it’s the CEO’s job to manage these functions. It’s pretty tough to convince me in a company of less than 50 people that the CEO can’t handle 6-8 direct reports to manage the various areas of the business. But I ran product management. We had a VP of Biz Dev.

Technical Review 325

Technical Review Startup Cofounder Due Diligence 325

David Teten

JUNE 10, 2020

SOP Capital is a new, early-stage, New York-based VC focused on East Coast companies. The roadmap for SOP is here: Syllabus for how to launch, manage, and invest a VC fund. As the firm grows, we will need support in origination, financial modeling, due diligence, etc. . Company overview.

New York 60

New York Venture Capital Technical Review Due Diligence 60

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

I’ve been having discussions with several people recently about the role of the CTO (Chief Technology Officer) in very early stage companies. However, I’ve now begun questioning how and what an early-stage / startup CTO should be. How are we going to manage the product roadmap? Who will do that?

CTO 225

CTO Fractional CTO CTO Hire Technical Review 225

Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Demonstrate your team’s unique unfair competitive advantage, whether it is technology, stellar management team, or key partnerships. Be prepared for due diligence. It’s critical that the data you present is verifiable, since any serious investor will conduct extensive due diligence. Don’t just list competitors.

Venture Capital 129

Venture Capital Business Plan Technical Review Private Placement 129

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2010

I’m doing due diligence on a company of another entrepreneur in LA whose company was apparently doing very well. It meant that the management teams hadn’t figured out a product / market fit for their own businesses. If they’re early stage like you, they’re likely just dogs.

Merger 276

Merger Technical Review Early Stage Dilution 276

ReadWriteStart

JULY 12, 2019

It shouldn’t be a surprise that the buzz surrounding AI/machine learning and early stage startups peaked in 2018. Data-driven AI can guide emergency management services through tough situations. Due diligence can uncover what’s genuinely artificial in that company.

Artificial Inteligence 132

Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Software Review Startup 132

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 12, 2014

These tensions seep out in some angels or seed funds publicly or semi-privately deriding later-stage VCs for their “bad” behavior. I have seen bad behavior from later-stage VCs, believe me. But I have seen equally bad behavior from super early stage investors. Later stage investors want a maximum size check.

Technical Review 336

Technical Review Later Stage Early Stage LP 336

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 10, 2016

Early stage burn rates over $50K per month, or a runway of less than six months may indicate an inefficient or desperate startup. The allocation of shares among the founders, and the number and size of outside investments, will tells volumes about the health, stability, and management of the business.

Sweat Equity 120

Sweat Equity Burn Rate Technical Review Intellectual Property 120

Gust

MAY 22, 2012

It’s an early stage investment, meaning that it has a long way to go, several years, before it gets through all the testing and makes a difference for people. We like the local connection. . This year we started with more than 30 submissions from startups.

Technical Review 111

Technical Review Oregon Due Diligence Term Sheet 111

David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

As two fund managers employing Flexible VC, we think it is a healthy addition to the ecosystem and will yield more predictable and stable healthy returns for investors. Too often, investment structures force the management team to make decisions between misaligned growth and investment (return) objectives. Early liquidity.

Cofounder 78

Cofounder Technical Review Equity Dividend 78

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

In venture capital in particular, early-stage companies are often operating in frontier industries, where the rules are unpredictable and conventional analytic frameworks may be misleading. A major angel group used Influitive , an advocate management tool, to track, activate and motivate their members. 4) Manage deal flow.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 25, 2015

The key reason for the explosion in capital flowing into the industry, and therefore the large increase in practitioners, had nothing to do with 1970’s performance, early stage investing, or technology. Some were Silicon Valley early stage companies, such as Apple, Quantum, and Masstor Systems.

Venture Capital 70

Venture Capital SBIC Technical Review Silicon Valley 70

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

I talked about this in my social proof post where I gave some suggestions about how to get the early guys off of the fence. Most early-stage entrepreneurs who have worked with me (either as an angel or as a seed VC) know that I don’t rely at all on the social proof of other investors. When I’m in, I’m in.

Finance 286

Finance Term Sheet Technical Review Warrant 286

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

I think you have to listen to the queue’s.” “…if you look at a lot of the early stage investors, whether it be Union Square Ventures or First Round or Jeff Clavier at Softtech or Dave McClure – we want to try the product, we want to experience the product, we want to get a sense of how the entrepreneur is thinking about it.

Technical Review 288

Technical Review Venture Capital Silicon Valley Software Review 288

Up and Running

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

I’ll explain this more later, but assume that only a very few high-growth companies with high-power management teams are venture opportunities. The rare exception is a special case, in which investors know an entrepreneur well and are ready to invest in them at an early stage. Actually, venture capital financing is very rare.

SBA 161

SBA Venture Capital Angel Investor Technical Review 161

Berkonomics

JUNE 26, 2014

Occasionally, an angel is a member of a wealthy family, having little experience managing a business. But most often these angels are skilled at growing companies, calling on their past experience to evaluate and then help entrepreneurs in their early stages of growth. Order all 3 Berkonomics books for $49.95,a a 33% discount.

Liquidity Event 76

Liquidity Event Technical Review Due Diligence Angel Groups 76

David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

Though RBI will displace some traditional equity VC, its much bigger impact will be to expand the pool of capital available for early-stage entrepreneurs. . However, only recently have early-stage companies started to use this model at any scale. . So what is Revenue Based Investing? of founders raise VC; the other 99.4%

Revenue 60

Revenue Term Sheet Founder Technical Review 60