ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Well, I have coached early stage entrepreneurs for a couple of years now - diligently, patiently - and have learned a few things. As you may know, 99% of the entrepreneurs who seek financing, get rejected. The first step is to develop some reference customers, something all early-stage startups should do.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Bottom line, early stage equity is very, very expensive. So at any point, if you are trying to raise money, and you are hearing from investors that you are too early and have too little validation, it may be a good thing. Then Liana Thompson pitched Trendy Loot , a very early stage deal site for low-end jewelry.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Cloud-based legal records management, digitization, archival, retrieval. Sequoia has financed them. First up was Ambal Ramachandran with SurgeForth , a talent management SaaS company that we first saw last November. Rajeev wants to build a BPO firm in a place called Bolpur in West Bengal, India. Photo by thesaint.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

I call it drip-financing. Most entrepreneurs have no choice but to avail of this sort of financing along with the mentoring and the contacts that could come with it (doesn't always come along, though). In 1M/1M, our preferred financing strategy is customers. Because customer financing equals revenue, not equity.

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 5, 2015

Together this means that Seed stage companies need to run longer and at a higher expense structure, meaning they need to raise a lot more capital. A re-jiggering of deal stages and sizes had begun in 2013. I still wanted K9 to be the first institutional money in a company and work with “frighteningly early-stage” companies.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Task Management. Project Management Tools. Subscription Payments / Management. Managing APIs. Customer Relationship Management. Contractor Management. Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013).

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

If you are in the very early stages with your company and there are no major reasons (e.g. Not literally, but one big surprise to me was that in the 40 odd investor meetings I had, I managed to open the deck probably only 5-10 times. I’m from India and lucky to be part of the Winter Silicon Valley 2010 session.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

” Sixteen innovative and high impact MaD Venture Fellows were invited to present at the MaD Ventures Salon on 25 January, pitching to 300 people in the investment, finance and business communities in Hong Kong. It also assists the management authorities in disaster recovery and in building a better world with less disaster. “It

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VC Cafe

JUNE 19, 2020

According to its survey released this month, the impact investment market has reached $715 billion in 2019, with an estimate of about 1,720 organizations now involved in managing funds for those who want to make a financial return from investments that also have beneficial social or environmental outcomes. “We

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

First up at this week's Strategy Roundtable was Cheryl Yeoh presenting CityPockets , an online destination, and an app for managing daily deals across a wide range of sites. Gnosis India. In today's India, people with high-end engineering skills are in high demand. But for Cheryl, the problem is that she needs critical mass.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

It’s our hood alignment station,” the plant manager said proudly. One day, I was at the Ford Wixom auto assembly plant training my replacement and I was at met at the door by an irate plant manager. the manager followed us still yelling. These damn models weren’t designed right so we’re fixing them on the line.”

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

The premium lounge includes an online curriculum addressing the common topics specific to very early stage entrepreneurship; private roundtables that many of you have requested; customer, channel partners, and investor introductions; media and analyst access; and a variety of other value-added services to make our entrepreneurs successful.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Europe, Canada, Israel, Mainland China and India, according to industry tracker Dow Jones VentureSource. the dip in capital invested but rise in deal flow is a sign of health as investors return to funding more early-stage deals,” said Jessica Canning, global research director for Dow Jones VentureSource. NEW YORK (Nov.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

to build the satellite office and to personally oversee the recruitment and management of American executives who can lead the sales and marketing efforts. until the late-stage go-to-market phase may be too late. and have gained management experience at large organizations such as Google, Microsoft, and Amazon.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Antonio has a portfolio of Web-based business process management applications for small businesses with 10-100 employees. Then, she can start doing partnerships with fraud management system vendors and use their channels to sell, perhaps. All this, could, potentially, be done without external financing. Photo by mjamesno.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Finally, I am queasy about the assumption that retailers will fulfill their part on the merchandising and logistics side adequately, because other than catalog companies, most retailers do not have the infrastructure to service consumer orders - packing, shipping, inventory management. Trinity Business Solutions. Photo by wax115.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

I got a job at a bank, and I worked in their corporate finance group. We had a finance group for all of the bank branches based in San Diego, and I wrote programs to download stuff from the mainframe so we could do analysis three days faster than they could send us the data. It’s humbling to spend time in India.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

I’ll discuss what skills you’ll need, how to write your requirements, how to source developers and designers, how much to budget, how to agree a development contract, how to manage your vendors, how to plan your release, all the documentation youll need, and much more. What is bootstrapping? So, what does it mean to bootstrap a company?

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

He is looking to raise money now, but I must say, his financing strategy made me cringe. In speaking with Lokesh and discussing his and his colleague's backgrounds, I sensed that this is a group trying to do management consulting with little or no background. We have to work on that! Financial Consulting Service. Photo by designkryt.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

This time around, there has been an explosion at the early stages, and the very late pre-IPO growth stages. “The real winners here are going to be the seed funds and early stage VCs that can write a $1 million to $2 million check,” says AngelList co-founder Naval Ravikant. Now it’s glutted.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Near shoring development with your team (ex: your team is based in Canada / India) is cool, but not outsourcing. If you believe in it – then finance whatever you can yourself. When it comes to early stage investing – it’s all gut. Just ensure you understand your numbers and manage them well. $50

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

To learn more about the CAC ratio and CLTV, you can read Philippe Botteri’s white paper “CAC Ratio - One Number to Manage your SaaS S&M Spend” also available at www.bvp.com/saas. Together, CMRR, Cashflow, Churn, CAC, and CLTV make up the “5 C’s of SaaS Finance. Philippe Botteri. Bessemer SaaS Law #3.

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BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 10, 2003

A number of my portfolio companies outsource development to India and other locales. When offshoring it is important to think about what can and cannot be offshored, whether management can handle it, and whether or not you open your own office with your own infrastructure or outsource completely.

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Life Beyond Code

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Through the Entrepreneur Journeys project, I have come to conclude that the most vulnerable phase in an entrepreneur’s life is the pre-$1 million revenue stage. In my roundtables, the vast majority of entrepreneurs I work with are in this rather vulnerable pre $1 million revenue stage. This is where numerous ventures fail.

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