Mucker Lab

AUGUST 27, 2014

As an entrepreneur himself, founding and operating printed circuit board factories in Taiwan, my father was debating between two places to immigrate to and build his next new venture: Los Angeles (“The Valley” aka San Fernando Valley) and Santa Clara (“Silicon Valley”).

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

Since 2017 we’ve managed $3 million in revenue-based financing, which helps cash-strapped technology companies grow. According to Brian Parks, “Bigfoot provides RBI, term loans, and lines of credit to SaaS businesses with $500k+ ARR. Investment Criteria: B2B SaaS or tech-enabled services with proven, recurring contracts.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

When I met my now-wife, I realized that any technology that can find me a spouse is a killer app. I’d argue that the same type of technologies that have revolutionized dating can revolutionize our industry. . I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Investors of all types and stages, startup founders and employees, and tech media are all counted among them.). Featured posts in CrunchBase Daily , StrictlyVC , and Dan Primack’s Term Sheet
. To do so, Danielle didn’t wait for people to come into contact with Mattermark and enter into the top of their funnel.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

Access to the corporate investor’s ecosystem can open up great opportunities from technology validation to customer and partner development. There is a possibility that Amex may explore acquisitions within the Amex Ventures portfolio, but those discussions will be on market terms similar to those with other potential acquirers.”.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

Department Mission Statements – What am I Supposed to Do Today It wasn’t that we somehow had inherited dumb employees. competitive analyses, channel and customer collateral (white papers, data sheets, product reviews), customer surveys, and market requirements documents. Titles are not the same as what your job is.

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www.seriesseed.com

DECEMBER 9, 2012

Series Seed Term Sheet (v 2.0). Series Seed Term Sheet. It would be helpful to get a California standard employee manual, employee contract/agreements, IP ownership release to company, and confidentiality. Technical issues are fixed for Firefox users (thanks Rob for the comment).

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

. × At Greylock , my partners and I are driven by one guiding mission: always help entrepreneurs. It doesn’t matter whether an entrepreneur is in our portfolio, whether we’re considering an investment, or whether we’re casually meeting for the first time. Entrepreneurs often ask me for help with their pitch decks.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 10, 2018

Many entrepreneurs let the early rejections get to them and it’s normal because when you hear “no” you think “what’s wrong with me!?” Founders read the tech press every day filled with stories about these $20 million fund-raisings by this firm and that firm and it sounds like everybody else is doing it except for you.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 17, 2020

In most cases, these applicants for equity funding must be rooted in technology to apply to this limited discussion. If you have a virtual company with your employees working from home locations, as many startups do, it should be the location of the founder. Friends and family investors. Individual super angel investors. Accelerators.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

10 Ways To Be Your Own Boss - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , June 18, 2010 The folks at Behance and Cool Hunting asked me to talk at their 99% Conference a couple months ago. had two occasions recently to review products which had clear market leadership. Here are the top 30 along with a brief snippet from the post.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

A friend of mine is a serial entrepreneur and is running a high-profile, early stage company in NorCal. We exchanged ideas when I was an entrepreneur along side him in NorCal in 05-07 and my point-of-view on founder / VC relationships hasn’t shifted even 1% since I went to the dark side. Many term sheets ensued.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

So we looked at those three things and we, I would say, turned on the turbo gas, I guess, like you wouldn't believe, and due to an amazing ecosystem of team leaders and city leaders and school partners and investors, just catalyzed the message across communities to say we're here to serve right now and we can scale very quickly.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

All Unicorn participants — founders, company employees, venture investors and their limited partners (LPs) — are seeing their fortunes put at risk from the very nature of the Unicorn phenomenon itself. Everyone was successful on paper, but in terms of real cash-on-cash returns, there was little to show. Who are the Sharks?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. I never suggest that entrepreneurs just randomly pitch VCs. I get approached about clean tech or biotech periodically – I don’t focus on these. You’ll never make a great entrepreneur.

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management.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 7, 2012

Why many entrepreneurs come across as jerks August 7, 2012: 10:57 AM ET. Despite the assumption that entrepreneurs act like arrogant babies, most exceptional leaders tend to balance their convictions with a healthy dose of humility. MORE: When you are a beloved employees replacement. Business School. Management. Most Popular.

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mashable.com

JUNE 11, 2013

Lucky for you, time-strapped entrepreneur, weve gathered some tips from the pros to help you avoid some of the most common, game-ending mistakes committed by young startups. At a small company, employees need to wear many hats, and they need to be prepared to wear many hats. Follow @mashable. see more > Search. Social Media.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

automatic links to generated images Rietveld - asynchronous code reviews on changesets Tech*if*er0*urs – blog on roadmap for learning rails Best free programming books Project Management Basecamp - web-based project management and collaboration tool. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Every startup faces multiple choices and decisions when it comes to technology. A group of Seedcamp entrepreneurs started a startup tools wiki for that purpose, and we thought it would be well suited here. Girls in Tech. Ad Serving Technology.

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