Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

Yeah, that was when I changed for me…” “…there was so much positive feedback on demystifying this one element of venture capital. And especially if you are dealing with early stage firms where partners might have different areas of specialization but they might have a lot of connective tissue across things. was starting.

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Technical Review Venture Capital Silicon Valley Software Review 288

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

These usually play a role in the very early stage of your business, primarily pre-revenue. Government programs. You should also research the government programs like subsidies, funding, and grants that are available for your business sector and ensure you understand the parameters to qualify for these. ? Inception stage.

Startup 150

Startup Entrepreneur Elevator Pitch Seed Stage 150

Up and Running

AUGUST 18, 2014

Startups have some unique struggles, especially in regard to financing. Startups tend to rely on capital that comes via angel investors or venture capital firms while small business operations may rely on loans and grants. Key difference #2 – the relationship with funding. The exit is what gives them a return.”

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Small Business Exit Strategy Cofounder Angel Investor 154

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 7, 2016

Sure, companies in the Bay Area – particularly Silicon Valley and San Francisco – consistently receive the highest percentage of venture money nationwide. But a slowdown in venture capital financing and questions about a technology bubble have led to many entrepreneurs and startups considering other avenues for growth.

Canada 100

Canada Silicon Valley San Francisco Technical Cofounder 100

Gust

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

When people would ask a similar question back then about the difficulty of software development, my usual response was “anyone can write a TAP program over a weekend that will work with 80% of the paging systems in the world…but getting it to work on the other 20% will take you a year.” despite having lots of competitors.

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Belarus Kazakhstan Portugal Accredited Investor 107

David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance.

Revenue 60

Revenue Technical Review Software Review Equity 60

Austin Startup

MARCH 20, 2017

Since the field’s estimated beginnings in 2009 , subsegments like “feminomics” and “inclusive finance” have spun off, but at it’s core gender lens investing is: incorporating gender as a factor to guide investment strategies. Enter True Wealth Ventures. Contrasted with an average VC fund size of $30M… there is a mismatch.

Private Equity 54

Private Equity Venture Capital United States Equity 54

VC Adventure

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily blocked a small venture capital fund, Fearless Fund, from running a grant contest that awards $20,000 grants to small businesses led by women of color. But this betrays a fundamental lack of understanding about how small businesses and financing work. (In University of NC, et al.

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North Carolina America Early Stage Venture Capital 68

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2015

I challenge any entrepreneur, for example, to define the difference between "seed-stage" and "early-stage" financing. Asking for early-stage money before you have customers and revenue will likely kill your credibility with real investors. A micro venture capital firm.

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Seed Stage Finance Early Stage Startup 120

Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2019

Immediately sign up for the Capital Factory VIP List. Meet the Locals Here are the most active early stage investors in town that you should meet while you’re here and do deals with. There will also be a constant stream of programming including official SXSW panels. You can see a much larger list at the end.

Silicon Valley 50

Silicon Valley Technical Review Texas Venture Capital 50

Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 5, 2010

My contributions to this undergraduate textbook, Venture Capital: Theory & Practice , are the result of two important collaborations. Venture Capital started in China in 1985, when the first government-sponsored venture capital firm was established. Venture Capital is a popular buzzword in China.

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Venture Capital China Technical Review Due Diligence 44

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 9, 2010

It is a very good format for entrepreneur groups around the world to get together and network around the roundtable programming which happens every week, religiously. Jacqueline asked an important question: how do you mitigate your working capital challenges in an e-commerce company at the very early stages without raising financing?

Silicon Valley 117

Silicon Valley Malaysia India China 117

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.

Cloud 115

Cloud Silicon Valley Incubator Finance 115

mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

The venture capital industry is facing real competition for the first time in decades. The venture capital industry is facing real competition for the first time in decades. All of this is according to Paul Graham, co-founder of the early-stage investment fund Ycombinator.

Angel Investor 84

Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review 84

mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

The venture capital industry is facing real competition for the first time in decades. The venture capital industry is facing real competition for the first time in decades. All of this is according to Paul Graham, co-founder of the early-stage investment fund Ycombinator.

Angel Investor 83

Angel Investor Venture Capital Social Media Technical Review 83

500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

TL:DR : This post aims to recap significant changes in the venture capital industry over the past ten years, and then make some [biased] predictions as to major forces at play in the next five years. However, all three shifts are related and can be summed up simply as: Geeks are Taking Over Venture Capital.

Silicon Valley 74

Silicon Valley Early Stage Venture Capital Valuation 74

OnlyOnce

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

On the heels of the announcement we made last month about our Series B financing , we are now announcing the launch of a new program called Bolster Prime and a new venture capital fund called Bolster Ventures. The roots of Bolster Prime and Bolster Ventures pre-date the founding of Bolster.

Silicon Valley 62

Silicon Valley Venture Capital Cap Table Early Stage 62

Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2018

On the first official day of SXSW I’m going to be at the convention center all day until I head over to Capital Factory to kick off the SXSW Startup Crawl ! Join us and learn how to attract Venture Capital investment in your startup when you live somewhere other than Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, or Boston.

Technical Review 89

Technical Review Austin Texas Cofounder 89

Up and Running

AUGUST 17, 2015

Additionally, I had already studied Economics and Finance during undergrad, making the academic part of an MBA seem a little redundant. The fundraising process may start with friends and family, but may quickly shift to a bank loan, individual angel investors, or at a later stage, venture capital or private equity.

Entrepreneur 60

Entrepreneur Cofounder Angel Investor eCommerce 60

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

I had witnessed a number of early-stage tech startups in LA raise seed capital from the Bay Area and relocate. It was 2009 and it was terribly difficult to get any financing (if you can remember a time like that!) And Jim & I went on to raise several more venture capital funds in our day jobs.

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Early Stage Venture Capital Los Angeles Coder 290

www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Entrepreneur Homepage Startups Starting a Business Home How-To Guides Startup Basics Business Ideas Business Planning Startup Financing Success Stories Home-Based Business Starting a Business Play Video How to Take a New Product from Just an Idea to a Business (Video). Financing Some Jobs Act Proposals Make Headway.

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Sweat Equity Equity Fractional CTO CTO 55

Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2013

Recently, the financing of innovation in medical devices has collapsed even further with most Class III devices simply unfundable. Venture Capital Issues. Early stage Venture Capital for medical device startups has dried up. Venture Capital.

Startup 294

Startup Venture Capital Lean IPO 294

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

I bought a book and I learned how to program macros and build spreadsheets. I got a job at a bank, and I worked in their corporate finance group. I did programming for the career center at UC San Diego, trying to build programs for the career center. So it was from ’91 to ’94 that I programmed.

Cofounder 337

Cofounder Technical Cofounder San Diego Startup 337

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

Funnily enough I just answered this question yesterday on Quora when somebody asked, “Why would an early-stage investor specifically NOT prefer a convertible note structure to straight equity (e.g. a priced/valued preferred stock financing)?&#. Why many early-stage investors DO price rounds (e.g.

Equity 319

Equity Early Stage Angel Investor Valuation 319

David Teten

JULY 3, 2013

I hope you can join me for this program, cosponsored by Empire Angels ; HBS Alumni Angels of Greater New York ; and the The Young Venture Capital Society. what you need to know as an early stage investor: best practices in origination, evaluation, structuring and adding value. So You Want to Be an Angel?

Angel Investor 114

Angel Investor New York Accredited Investor New York City 114

Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

How would Billy Beane have done as an early stage investor? Im still not convinced that "gut feel" isnt a good way to invest at the early stage, but this can certainly get rid of over-thinking and provides diversification and investments in entrepreneurial teams that would be otherwise overlooked. ProfessorVC. at 2:32 PM.

Technical Review 38

Technical Review Early Stage San Jose Angel Investor 38

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Finance | Tuesdays. Financing a Small Business. Financing A Small Business. Personal Finance. Dave Graham Business Venture Capital Private Equity GlobalLogic Inc. Venture Capital Firms. Were not a venture capital firm.". Start-up | Mondays. Technology | Thursdays. Franchises.

Arizona 40

Arizona Equity Iowa Venture Capital 40

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 30, 2014

identify financing vehicles before you need them. Accelerators take teams with fairly focused ideas and offer a formal 3-4 month program of tutoring/mentoring with seed funding in exchange for equity. And probably the most important will be the Lean LaunchPad @ Life Science Angels class for early stage life science companies.

San Diego 261

San Diego North Carolina Chicago Lean 261

Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

– The Torch Program. In size, scale and commercial results China’s Torch Program from MOST (the Ministry of Science and Technology) is the most successful entrepreneurial program in the world. The early clusters occurred by happenstance of geography or history. government’s SBIR and STTR programs.

Programming 278

Programming Technical Review SBIR China 278

Growthink Blog

MAY 10, 2012

The five main stages include the following: 1. Early Stage Investment (Series A & B) 4. Later Stage Investment (Series C, D, and so on) 5. Mezzanine Financing Most companies that raise equity capital and are eventually acquired or go public receive multiple rounds of financing first.

Equity 88

Equity Mezzanine Later Stage Venture Capital 88

David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

V: Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? VI: Revenue-based financing: The next step for private equity and early-stage investment. This is a summary of: Revenue-Based financing: State of the Industry 2020.

Equity 78

Equity Revenue Cofounder Colorado 78

Haystack

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Those of us in the early-stage tech ecosystem by now well know that saying “there are a LOT of seed and new startups” is a gross understatement. Doing them online removes the critical in-person touch that’s required (in my opinion) to assess at the early stages. 5/ Who Is On The Hook?

Deal Flow 106

Deal Flow Cap Table Early Stage Institutional Investors 106

Up and Running

JANUARY 30, 2014

To thrust our venture forward, gain business skills quickly, and increase our chances of raising capital, we searched for an accelerator program. Accelerators are short entrepreneur training programs designed to jump-start new businesses. The application process for each accelerator program varies. Accelators.

Incubator 105

Incubator New York City Venture Capital Startup 105

rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Preserve your equity by using a consulting CTO to ramp up your company before securing early-stage financing and hiring a permanent technology partner. If you’ve begun the process of raising capital, ask the angels or venture capital partners to recommend technologists who consult on a part-time basis.

Fractional CTO 40

Fractional CTO CTO CTO Hire Fractional VPE 40

David Teten

APRIL 7, 2017

Because of that insight, we co-founded the Venture Capital Access Program , focused on helping women and minority entrepreneurs raise capital from HBS Alumni Angels. We have seen an increasing number of our members invest in these ventures. Kashmir, Board Member and Screening Co-Chair of HBSAANY.

New York 60

New York Africa Cofounder Egypt 60

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

This episode of This Week in Venture Capital featured Michael Montgomery, president of Montgomery & Co. You have to be selected to present and it is typically reserved for companies that have already raised early-stage capital and are well into revenue growth. Venture Financing. Watch the show!

IPO 242

IPO Venture Capital Private Placement Cofounder 242

Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

– The Torch Program. In size, scale and commercial results China’s Torch Program from MOST (the Ministry of Science and Technology) is the most successful entrepreneurial program in the world. The early clusters occurred by happenstance of geography or history. government’s SBIR and STTR programs.

Programming 170

Programming Technical Review SBIR China 170