Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2012

Personal loans from individuals, employees and board members. As in any company, they can lead to employee problems, or messy legal issues. This could work to get you legal or accounting services, but won’t get you cash to pay employee salaries. Personal loans are certainly an option, but should be avoided if possible.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Every entrepreneur needs help and support along the way, from developing the initial idea, to selling off the successful business (exit strategy). Growth and exit stage. This normally means more than 30 employees, and more than $1 million in revenue. Don’t waste your resources on the wrong ones. Funding or rollout stage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2011

Personal loans from individuals, employees and board members. As in any company, they can lead to employee problems, or messy legal issues. This could work to get you legal or accounting services, but won’t get you cash to pay employee salaries. Personal loans are certainly an option, but should be avoided if possible.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

Personal loans from individuals, employees and board members. As in any company, they can lead to employee problems, or messy legal issues. This could work to get you legal or accounting services, but won’t get you cash to pay employee salaries. Personal loans are certainly an option, but should be avoided if possible.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

According to the Angel Capital Association: Angels (private money) invest in 55,000 startups each year versus 1,500 companies by VC (venture capital) funding. Many young entrepreneurs feel getting funding, whether it be meeting their crowdfunding goal or attracting venture capital, is validation for their business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2010

Personal loans from employees and board members. As in any company, they can lead to employee problems, or messy legal issues. This could work to get you legal or accounting services, but won’t get you cash to pay employee salaries. Personal loans are certainly an option, but should be avoided if possible.

Angel Investor 143

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Over the same 30 years, Venture Capital firms have honed their skills and strategies to match Wall Streets needs to achieve liquidity for their portfolio companies. One of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make is misunderstanding the role of venture capital investors. What Do VC’s Do?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 28, 2018

Every entrepreneur needs help and support along the way, from developing the initial idea, to selling off the successful business (exit strategy). Growth and exit stage. This normally means more than 30 employees, and more than $1 million in revenue. Don’t waste your resources on the wrong ones. Funding or rollout stage.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

After all, the show is essentially about pitching a burgeoning business in order to secure venture capital funding. In fact, this is true with any group of venture capital investors. While it’s understandable, you need to ensure it’s profitable and, quite frankly, have a viable exit strategy lined up.

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Up and Running

JULY 2, 2014

You can’t underestimate the importance of selecting an attorney who “gets” your business model, your market opportunity, and most importantly, your fundraising and exit strategy. Can they create and advise on a Capitalization Table? Best of luck to you in your startup venture!

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2013

Every entrepreneur needs help and support along the way, from developing the initial idea, to selling off the successful business (exit strategy). Growth and exit stage. This normally means more then 30 employees, and more then $1 million in revenue. Don’t waste your resources on the wrong ones. Funding or rollout stage.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Pricing Strategy. Exit Strategies. Strategy and Planning. Employee Benefits. Dave Graham Business Venture Capital Private Equity GlobalLogic Inc. Venture Capital Firms. Jumpstart wasnt much at the time, just four employees working from home offices. Basic Accounting. Bookkeeping.

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www.instigatorblog.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Changing Equity Structures for Early Startup Employees Tweet Recently someone asked me for advice on how much equity they should give to their early employees. His company had just closed an early round of funding and he wanted to cement the employee relationships. Those first employees will take 0.5-1%

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 16, 2011

It has been at least a decade since going public via an Initial Public Offering (IPO) has been considered a credible exit strategy for startups. But before you jump on the bandwagon, you should consider the advice I saw recently from the maven of venture capital, William H. Do you need this for recruitment and retention?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

Every entrepreneur needs help and support along the way, from developing the initial idea, to selling off the successful business (exit strategy). Growth and exit stage. This normally means more than 30 employees, and more than $1 million in revenue. Don’t waste your resources on the wrong ones. Funding or rollout stage.

Incubator 120

Incubator Startup Exit Strategy Institutional Investors 120

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2012

Every entrepreneur needs help and support along the way, from developing the initial idea, to selling off the successful business (exit strategy). Growth and exit stage. This normally means more then 30 employees, and more then $1 million in revenue. Don’t waste your resources on the wrong ones. Funding or rollout stage.

Incubator 237

Incubator Startup Exit Strategy Institutional Investors 237

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 13, 2011

Every entrepreneur needs help and support along the way, from developing the initial idea, to selling off the successful business (exit strategy). Growth and exit stage. This normally means more then 30 employees, and more then $1 million in revenue. Don’t waste your resources on the wrong ones. Funding or rollout stage.

Incubator 230

Incubator Startup Exit Strategy Institutional Investors 230

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Pricing Strategy. Exit Strategies. Strategy and Planning. Employee Benefits. Back in 1997, Randy Parker was staring at a blank whiteboard, wondering where hed find the money to hire the employees and consultants he needed to build his new product. "We Basic Accounting. Financing A Small Business. Leadership.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 15, 2011

Chris Sacca, a former Google employee turned investor, places a high priority on remaining involved with his investments. “He Bill Clark of MicroAngel Capital Partners suggests the following perspective : “Given the high rate at which startups fail, it’s wise to spread your risk by investing in more than one.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Thus a record number of entrepreneurs (and employees) are getting rich. Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy. Twitter was one of the most notable, with a market capitalization now up to $38 billion all by itself. A year from now that’s projected to go as high as 100.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . Point Nine Capital uses 15Five for continuous employee feedback. Fund/SPV management services specifically are provided by Assure Services and Proteus Capital.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2015

Thus a record number of entrepreneurs (and employees) are getting rich. Initial Public Offerings (IPO) are back as an exit strategy. An unprecedented number of startups, over 100 at last count, are now valued above $1 billion, according to a recent Wall Street Journal article.

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BeyondVC

SEPTEMBER 14, 2004

Typically, in the context of these department-level updates, discussion will ensue on milestone progress, roadblocks or hurdles to realizing the goals, resource constraints, performance of various employees, and any potential addition or subtraction to the list of goals.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

This discussion expands on my Quora answer to a specific question: “ Why were the stock options of MySpace employees worthless even though the company was sold to News Corporation for hundreds of millions? ” The complete story includes a startup-within-a-startup, investments and exits by two VC firms, and some genuine corporate drama.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

As it stands, a privately held company with more than 500 stockholders or optionholders can be forced to become such a “ reporting company ” under the ’34 Act, essentially incurring all of the obligations of being a public company with none of the capital-raising benefits.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 25, 2017

See Also: Venture Capital Funding: A Curated List of Our Best Resources. Securing startup capital: A brutal experience that drags on and on. See Also: 17 Venture Capital Blogs You Should Be Reading. See Also: What Do Venture Capital Firms Want? We thought we could change the game.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

The reason is thatinvestors need to get their capital back. Theyll only considercompanies that have an exit strategy—meaning companies that couldget bought or go public. The reason is that employees are investors too—oftheir time—and they want just as much to be able to cash out.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 3, 2019

So being together and obviously the company’s grown a lot, but the principles and just the passion and values around growing a business the right way where there really, truly is no exit strategy and we’re in it for the long run and focusing on our customers and our employee experience. Yaniv Masjedi: Yeah.

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