VC Cafe

JANUARY 18, 2013

Interesting infographic from Anna Vital in San Francisco, from the Kickstarter campaign "Becoming an Entrepreneur" Kickstarter campaign. Trying to get inside the mind of an early stage VC investor. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 12, 2017

by Michael Gallaher, Audit Associate at Sensiba San Filippo . To outside investors, the future of early stage and startup companies can be murky. Many of these companies are pre-revenue and in the cash burn stage as they try to establish their technology and market.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

This was one of the reasons entrepreneur Justin Yoshimura ( founder of the start-up 500friends ) found his way there: Compared to San Francisco in particular, it’s very cheap. and I have a yard with a pool and a beautiful home for less than what I would pay for an equivalent-sized condo in San Francisco.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2021

Current AWS loft locations include: New York , San Francisco , Tokyo , Paris (Station F) , and Tel-Aviv (Floor28). AWS Builder Space (Israel) – A non-equity program for early stage startups who are looking to accelerate their speed to market.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2013

But in Los Angeles, Santa Monica is akin to SoMa in San Francisco, Cambridge in the Boston area or Flatiron / Union Square in NYC. Santa Monica is the place where the highest concentration of early-stage startups are created if you consider also the contiguous geography of Venice Beach.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

The tech market is filled with many stories of early-stage funding. We have two big winners in France, one in the UK and a couple in San Francisco. It’s even more exciting when you can report an exit of a company that is a major win. ” Let me explain all three.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

This was one of the reasons entrepreneur Justin Yoshimura ( founder of the start-up 500friends ) found his way there: Compared to San Francisco in particular, it’s very cheap. and I have a yard with a pool and a beautiful home for less than what I would pay for an equivalent-sized condo in San Francisco.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

We back very early stage companies and work alongside executive teams as their build their teams, launch their products, announce their companies and raise their first downstream capital rounds. The biggest change for us in early-stage investing is that we now need to commit earlier. Seksom Suriyapa ?—?he

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 20, 2019

recruiting, especially in the San Francisco Bay Area has become incredibly difficult with a high competition for talent and extraordinarily high compensation packages from some of the bigger companies. Most early stage companies will go through a growth/maturation process that helps to figure out the ultimate product?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2013

I looked up his bio, “UVA, banking analyst, doing some early startup work” and thought – sure – come meet me for a coffee. I don’t believe in distributed teams in early-stage business. I told him my strong biases. Sure, there are exceptions. Of course – some people can be remote. Not for me.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Early Stage. Historically we were near Beverly Hills in Los Angeles and throughout the 1990s and early 2000s this was fine since there was not strong locus in LA with some great deals in Pasadena, downtown, San Fernando Valley as well as on the Westside in Santa Monica. Transparent. WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get).

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View from Seed

MARCH 22, 2016

This is for the early-stage companies — the entrepreneurs with great ideas and tireless work ethics who feel like they’ve emailed half of the country’s news outlets with nothing but the rare “thanks, but not interested” reply to show for it. And don’t pitch a Boston newspaper on your San Francisco startup. Pitch late.

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View from Seed

JULY 13, 2022

RH: What’s your favorite thing about being an early-stage founder? CN: I generally enjoy all parts of being an early-stage founder, you’re all kinds of free and perhaps really naive, which is just a really great mindset for innovation. I had an itch to ship off across the country, so to San Francisco I drove a trusty Kia.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

So we got a space in San Francisco, we launched the founders space accelerator, and it just spread from there. That is the role of the CEO in an early stage company. John Jantsch (14:46): So Steve, you, you're still in San. Steve Hoffman (14:47): Francisco, right? I am actually near San Francisco.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

The companies I spoke to all agreed that the community there was extremely supportive, especially in the critical ulta-early-stage. As a result, for a lot of these companies, Boulder is just a gateway to San Francisco. Then, create an encouraging environment for early-stage companies. Bring your questions.

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A Crowded Space

OCTOBER 3, 2018

I remember when I made that first flight out to San Francisco from Boston to meet the team in 2004, the company was down to its last $20K in the bank. We lived together in a crappy apartment in San Francisco and commuted together from SF down to the peninsula every day. We were effectively together 24/7.

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David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

A typical VC thesis: “we invest in tech startups in Europe at an early stage” However, our experience shows that in many cases: . Thirty-four VC firms in OpenVC call themselves “early-stage” Yet, 30% of those don’t actually invest in pre-revenue startups.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Another advantage of the early stages is that most dont have to juggle too many competing priorities. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. If you dont have customers, a product, investors, or a board of directors, you can pretty much stay focused on just one thing at a time. Bring your questions. Amazon PostRank

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 30, 2017

This was one of the reasons entrepreneur Justin Yoshimura ( founder of the start-up 500friends ) found his way there: Compared to San Francisco in particular, it’s very cheap. and I have a yard with a pool and a beautiful home for less than what I would pay for an equivalent-sized condo in San Francisco.

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techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

Ressi estimates that the debt note now accounts for over 50% of all angel and early stage deals. Yokum Taku, Corporate and Securities Partner at the Palo Alto, California Office of Wilson Sonsini agrees, “I can’t think of a good reason not to shift early stage seed financings toward convertible equity away from convertible debt.”.

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techcrunch.com

JUNE 22, 2012

Having to invent ad hoc terms to work together, negotiating terms, and throwing money into hiring lawyers can really hamstring the formation of productive founder-advisor relationships — something that can really make or break a startup in its early stages. San Francisco, CA. San Francisco, California.

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View from Seed

JULY 21, 2022

EP: I went off to the University of Michigan for college and last year made my way back to Santa Monica after 4 years of working at Meta in Digital Marketing in Austin and San Francisco. RH: What’s your favorite thing about being an early-stage founder? And your least?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Greycroft is an early-stage VC. Founded in December 2006 in San Francisco by Farb Nivi (ex-Princeton Review/Kaplan top instructor). It’s always fun debating companies with Dana because she’s always so knowledgeable on deals – particularly those in the digital media, ad-tech and eCommerce spaces. Competitors: Knewton.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 11, 2022

I spent time talking to many mentors and friends, investors and founders alike, about what drives them, what makes an effective partnership, the evolution of early-stage investing, and what’s possible for the future of our industry.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2019

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. It’s a robust ecosystem so I’m only listing the ones we’ve done the most deals with here but Capital Factory is the most active early stage investor in Texas so this is a good sampling.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

I’ve decided to take all of my private conversations and subjective points-of-view on the topic and make them public in a keynote speech at the Founder Showcase in San Francisco on June 15th. I thought I’d post on one of the topics before hand. billion.

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The Equity Kicker

MARCH 17, 2015

That’s still true in less developed parts of the world, but in San Francisco and increasingly in London there are multiple sources of venture capital working very hard to find good investments and entrepreneurs sitting on quality opportunities have lots of options.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

In an early-stage startup especially, revenue is not an important goal in and of itself. Let’s start with a simple question: why do early-stage startups want revenue? If youre still very early stage, then you need to know what a true early adopter looks like. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

But he has helped put Boulder on the consciousness of so many young, aspiring entrepreneurs in search of somewhere other than the San Francisco Bay Area to work & live. Chris Devore & Andy Sack have created Founder’s Coop with the goal of funding, incubating & launching more early-stage ventures in Seattle.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 27, 2022

However, it is important to remember that this market is still in its early stages and that there is a lot of volatility. Another popular option is Kraken, which is based in San Francisco. This type of trading allows investors to speculate on the future price of Bitcoin without actually owning any of the digital currency.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 30, 2009

A discounted price is available for early stage entrepreneurs and students. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Expo New York New York, NY Nov 19 The Lean Startup at MIT Boston, MA Nov 20 Lunch workshop at Dogpatch Labs Boston, MA Dec 17 Lean Startup Cohort program begins San Francisco, CA KISSmetrics KISSmetrics is loading.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, March 13, 2009 Dont launch Heres a common question I get from startups, especially in the early stages: when should we launch? This is the usual reason given for a marketing launch, but for most early stage startups, its a failure. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

The people who are the lifeblood of an early-stage startup are earlyvangelists. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. For example, my experience with teenagers is that they are very reluctant to call or email asking for support, even when they have a severe problem. They just dont need another authority figure in their life.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2017

Upfront VI is our latest core fund and is $400 million to invest in early stage entrepreneurs. LPs (the people who invest in VC firms) have clearly voted in favor of LA with the creation of 15+ new early-stage venture firms and the continued growth is size and team of the great larger firms that are well established.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

San Francisco-based Beautiful.AI , a first-of-its-kind tool that applies artificial intelligence to automate the design process, has just released new product features to help SMBs create modern, clean and professionally designed slides in minutes. I’m Mitch Grasso and I am the CEO and founder of Beautiful.AI.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Since the early days of the product’s life, you’ll know if users need it and how to improve it. Let’s see what else you can do using an MVP: Identify risks at an early stage at a relatively low cost. Now, Uber is an international service, but back then, it was just a small San-Francisco based startup.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 24, 2014

Part 2: Early-stage Regional Venture Funds. Direct flights to the San Francisco Bay Area and other major metro areas (depending on location of the region) are vital to reduce the friction of conducting business, encourage talent to test drive your community, and attract investors and other ecosystem partners to the region.

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