VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

It takes a LOT of courage to say no to potential revenue, especially in the very early stages of a startup. Toya represents a new type of digital ,branded, social experiences that are already creating brand equity. Avoiding saying no is a mistake I made as an entrepreneur and one I have seen many other founders make frequently.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

When I first read Paul Graham’s blog post on “High Resolution&# Financing I read it as a treatise arguing that convertible notes are better than equity. 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. Photo credit: D. and not a min.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Mobile and web software apps may cost even less. This can cause early investor dilution, lower ultimate returns or leave the startup stranded. Yet, in my view, every early-stage entrepreneur should be exploring this new funding alternative before approaching VCs. The cost of entry for tech startups continues to go down.

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Steve Blank

MAY 19, 2015

Organizational debt is all the people/culture compromises made to “just get it done” in the early stages of a startup. They had reinvented a traditional print media category onto web and mobile devices for a new generation of users who were no longer buying magazines but reading online. the company had.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

We spent our future since the equity was artificial. So I believe that now is the perfect time to build a company and the perfect time for early-stage investors to bet on innovation. It is also a result of pent-up demand. In the following post I argue that this increased pace may be temporary. So why the ’09 bounce?

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Working for Equity Instead of Cash. has an article on service firms waiving their fees and instead taking equity in their clients. Interest in this waned when the Internet bust resulted in most tech start-up equity becoming worthless, but it seems to be coming back. Not all start-up stock is created equally.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Will Work for Equity. Dave Graham Business Venture Capital Private Equity GlobalLogic Inc. Determined not to miss another opportunity, Graham has begun waiving fees and instead taking equity in clients he thinks have a good shot at success. Theres a huge opportunity cost in not taking equity," he says. Honorees Resources.

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Austin Startup

MAY 11, 2017

Our unique approach to investing, coupled with a pioneering spirit, provides the vision to guide early stage growth companies beyond today and toward future success. Vista Equity Partners | Vista Felicis Ventures At Felicis Ventures we back the world’s iconic companies of today and tomorrow. That drives every decision we make.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 19, 2017

Crowdfunding for startups is taking off, as well as entertainment platforms that deliver great shows across mobile and at-home devices. A tip for all startups is to look at equity crowdfunding as a capital source. So it’s more of a true investment, and investors get equity shares as well as perks. Content Delivery Innovation.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2014

10 Top Financial Tips for Early-Stage Startups | StartupCollective – crowdspring.co/1qWvaC4. “Brand equity is important because it can become a significant part of a company’s value.” “Brand equity is important because it can become a significant part of a company’s value.”

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www.drowningamerican.com

JUNE 22, 2012

Next → How to Hire for Sweat Equity…. Here is the original post: Early Stage Web Application Start-Up Seeking Developer/Designer. JS (for web/internet and mobile devices). And now I’m trying to get my own team, and have them work for equity. Musings on Life and the American Dream. Post navigation.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Greycroft is an early-stage VC. Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming. In the show we talked about why this is important to mobile application developers. When the show has been processed it will be available here (estimated 8pm PDT). OTHER DEALS: 1.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 19, 2020

Mobile and web software apps may cost even less. This can cause early investor dilution, lower ultimate returns or leave the startup stranded. Yet, in my view, every early-stage entrepreneur should be exploring this new funding alternative before approaching VCs. The cost of entry for tech startups continues to go down.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 28, 2012

We use technology in every business, from online sales and shipping to mobile Web. Give up equity in your company. Very early-stage startups may have to give up as much as 30% of their company to bring on a rockstar programmer. Learn to build the product yourself. Doug Bend , Bend Law Group, PC.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

In April 2012, Congress passed the JOBS Act , which authorizes equity crowdfunding and liberalizes some requirements regarding the issuance of securities by privately held companies. Patent reform is high on the list of priorities for most of the tech industry, particularly in the areas of software, Internet and mobile technology.

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The Equity Kicker

MARCH 28, 2014

They are one of the firms that inspires us here at Forward Partners , particularly for their operational model which we have adapted and extended so it works for early stage in the UK. The ultimate market size that this current generation of tech companies can go after dwarfs that of previous ones.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Zong – mobile payments has been a very hot area over the past couple of years with the success and growth of both Boku and Zong. Boku and Zong focus mostly on mobile payments for virtual goods. It has proven a very successful strategy to get consumers to activate the payment on their mobile phone bill. VC Financings: 1.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 28, 2012

We use technology in every business, from online sales and shipping to mobile Web. Give up equity in your company. Very early-stage startups may have to give up as much as 30% of their company to bring on a rockstar programmer. Learn to build the product yourself. Doug Bend , Bend Law Group, PC 7.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

All of this is according to Paul Graham, co-founder of the early-stage investment fund Ycombinator. We are coaching VCs and Angel Investors everyday who call us wanting to understand our Early Stage LPO versus late stage IPO approach to business. Companies like GrowPublic, Inc.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

All of this is according to Paul Graham, co-founder of the early-stage investment fund Ycombinator. We are coaching VCs and Angel Investors everyday who call us wanting to understand our Early Stage LPO versus late stage IPO approach to business. Companies like GrowPublic, Inc.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2014

Mobile and web software apps may cost even less. This can cause early investor dilution, lower ultimate returns or leave the startup stranded. Yet, in my view, every early-stage entrepreneur should be exploring this new funding alternative before approaching VCs. The cost of entry for tech startups continues to go down.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 26, 2017

There are no excuses to leaving persons with disabilities or any other equity group behind; recognition of all people as equal members of society will bring prosperity and sustainability to Austin. shops, civic places, workplaces) can increase walking and biking and increase personal mobility.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Convertible Equity, A Better Alternative To Convertible Debt? Practical Advice for Raising Early Stage Venture Capital – [link]. Mobile Advertising: Twitter Sales Are Double That Of Facebook In A Google-Ruled, $2.6B Pricing Experiments You Might Not Know, But Can Learn From – [link]. – [link].

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2015

If you need funding for these early stage activities, I have some suggestions on better strategies to follow. In this context, there are at least six stages often included in the scope of R&D to narrow your focus: Search for new technologies.

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Haystack

AUGUST 18, 2019

4/ Orthogonal Competition – I recently tweeted about a new breed of early-stage technology investor that has its roots in public equities (hedge funds, long/short, etc.) Many of these new data-driven funds are hiring experienced VCs across early stages and building outposts in the Bay Area.

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socialmatchbox.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

If you post up an ad to an online job board asking for someone to join your very high risk early stage startup company the odds of getting someone who decent are slim to none. Another option is sweat equity. Motivation to work for sweat equity is something else that founders tend to take for granted.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers. Point Nine Capital uses Qwilr to create modern, mobile-native collateral.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

Or, as my friend Marc Andreessen might say, Software Eats the Private Equity World. However after Sequoia and Ron Conway announced their investment in YC in 2009 , and after YC alumni DropBox and AirBnb raised capital on billion-dollar valuations in 2010-11, the program quickly became the gold standard among early-stage startup incubators.

Silicon Valley 74

Silicon Valley Early Stage Venture Capital Valuation 74

Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). Now, for very early stage companies, you may be thinking, “I don’t have any cash, so outsourcing isn’t an option.&# To that I say baloney.

Software Review 65

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 31, 2011

He recently founded The Startup Centre , an India-based accelerator for early stage start-ups, and also a hub for initiatives related to tech, design and entrepreneurship. With the birth of Barcamps, Open Coffee Clubs, Mobile Mondays and the likes, India’s entrepreneurial scene is set on fire.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 27, 2011

I strongly believe (at least for very early stage technology ventures) that you will get diminishing returns and arguably negative returns once you get past an initial threshold of team, product, market and financial diligence. The Most Obvious Mobile Ad Unit and What the New York Times Got Wrong. Email This BlogThis!

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Hunter Walker

MAY 7, 2014

I recommend to founders that if there’s a unicorn you need who isn’t on founding team, (a) start identifying those people in advance of fundraising and (b) prepare to compensate them generously via equity. Their ultimate goal was a native mobile app but they’d built a proof of concept on web (with some light mobile web responsiveness).

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

It’s not uncommon for incredibly smart and talented Phd’s or CS majors from Stanford to raise $10 million on an early-stage “platform&# that if it succeeds it will be huge. LA generally doesn’t have an appetite for this kind of investment at early stages. LA investors are more pragmatic.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

It can be a mobile app on a phone. That is the role of the CEO in an early stage company. Now, if you're running what we call a high growth startup, usually what you're doing, but not always, like I said, is using technology. You don't have to invent this technology. You didn't have to invent the iPhone and invent applications.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

When it comes to founders, Texas has jewelry mogul, Kendra Scott; Mavericks owner, Mark Cuban of Shark Tank; Whitney Wolfe Herd of Bumble; video game developer, John Carmack; Vista Equity Partners Founder, Robert Smith; Michael Dell of Dell Technologies; and now Elon Musk of SpaceX and Tesla!

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

Corporate incentives: Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 developed a broad-based equity incentive compensation program known as stock options. Over time, the concept of broad-based equity ownership has become characteristic of most tech companies and embedded in Silicon Valley startup culture very early on. Venture capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

Michael is a very accomplished corporate executive in his own right having run Sega Gameworks and helped IPO EuroDisney as well as having been on the founding team of DreamWorks SKG (where he helped them raise their first $900 million in equity). Clients include Skype, Equifax, T-Mobile, Fox Internactive Media. We discussed: 1.

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