Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2023

In the US, you may find that the Small Business Administration (SBA) can get you infusions of cash without normal backup requirements. Negotiate an advance from a strategic partner or customer. Request a small business grant. This is the primary source of non-personal funds for very early-stage startups.

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Equity Startup Small Business Administration SBA 266

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2020

In the US, you may find that the Small Business Administration (SBA) can get you infusions of cash without normal backup requirements. Negotiate an advance from a strategic partner or customer. Request a small business grant. This is the primary source of non-personal funds for very early-stage startups.

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Equity Small Business Administration SBA Syndicate 436

David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. A range of small VCs are deploying with Flexible VC structures, but we believe the total amount of AUM deployed with this strategy is well under $50m. Of the Inc.

Cofounder 78

Cofounder Technical Review Equity Dividend 78

Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

So far most of the top funded AngelList Syndicates look, well, not surprising. Additionally, funds such as Foundry Group and Google Ventures have taken their own approaches – the former creating a separate early stage entity , the latter encouraging their seed stage partners to create standalone personal syndicates.

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Syndicate Syndication South America Seed Stage 98

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2018

In the US, you may find that the Small Business Administration (SBA) can get you infusions of cash without normal backup requirements. Negotiate an advance from a strategic partner or customer. Request a small business grant. This is the primary source of non-personal funds for very early-stage startups.

Entrepreneur 240

Entrepreneur Equity Small Business Administration SBA 240

Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

In another we decended into a debate about our 5 year forecasts (I built the models so fielded most of these questions), and it became clear they probably weren’t the best fit for our Series A round (this group is no longer in the early-stage VC business). We three partners are working hard. link] Lincoln Coutts.

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Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2014

In the US, you may find that the Small Business Administration (SBA) can get you infusions of cash without normal backup requirements. Negotiate an advance from a strategic partner or customer. Request a small business grant. This is the primary source of non-personal funds for very early-stage startups.

Entrepreneur 283

Entrepreneur Startup Equity Small Business Administration 283