YoungUpstarts

APRIL 30, 2018

Computing pioneer Alan Kay said, “Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we’re all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.”. It’s about them. You should be a central figure in your story but don’t be obnoxious about it. Without one, it fades into the background.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2013

“Seed investments” are early stage financings (typically less than $1.5 This is great evidence that the recession drag on funding new startups is behind us. Thus the venture capital industry isn’t dead yet, despite all the rumors, and more startups are getting money, even at Series A and later levels. Stay alert.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 9, 2018

In the last few days of 2018, we took some time to ask a few entrepreneurs and business what their biggest business accomplishments were. #1- We are looking forward to manufacturing these pieces in the US in ethical factories that believe in paying quality wages to their workers. We started talking, seriously about the idea.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

It’s what life was like as an entrepreneur. I plan to write about it early next year when we’re all through. But this is nothing like the stress of being an entrepreneur. As I’ve written about before, You’d Have to be a Big Baby to Complain about Being a VC. It’s all too familiar.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 18, 2014

Despite earning Oprah money and minting more than 150 millionaires with six successful exits, including Splunk, currently valued at more than $5 billion, Baum has yet to retire. Instead of launching another startup, however, he’s launching entrepreneurs. And execution is all about people—high-quality people.

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cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

A frequent question entrepreneurs have when they are just starting their company is: how secretive should I be about my idea? My answer: you should talk about it to almost anyone who will listen. This includes investors, entrepreneurs, people who work in similar areas, friends, people on the street, the bartender, etc.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2011

The caveat is that these young entrepreneurs have to drop out of college to do it. This move is indicative of the possibility that the traditional ways of going about making a living through a college education, an entry-level position at a firm, and steady promotion through the ranks is a dead model. You can keep overhead low.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 30, 2013

Colorado is the number one relocation destination in the US for skilled workers ages 25 to 44. As for Signpost , we anticipate growing our Denver office from 30 to about 100 in 2014. To quote Patrick Quinlan, CEO of Denver-based Convercent, “You may not know about all the work we’re doing in Denver, but you will soon.”.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 22, 2017

Success as an entrepreneur takes a lot more than an idea, a dab of seed money and, as they say, a wing and a prayer. How did you gauge that you were ready to go out on your own, and how did you go about balancing the risks and rewards? That’s #1 for us. It’s all about cost management. The end result?

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 1, 2010

There has been much discussion about VCs doing seed funding in the past year. I’ve written about it myself (Is VC Seed Funding Dead?) and (Is There Really a Signaling Problem with VC Seed Funding?). I’ve done 4 seed investments in the past year and they are 100% referenceable.

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Gust

OCTOBER 2, 2014

It’s what life was like as an entrepreneur. I plan to write about it early next year when we’re all through. But this is nothing like the stress of being an entrepreneur. As I’ve written about before, You’d Have to be a Big Baby to Complain about Being a VC. What’s it really like being an entrepreneur?

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Ben's Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Through the process, people asked us three questions consistently and I will answer them here. We want to be in business with the best entrepreneurs going after the biggest markets and we do not care whether they need seed money, venture money or growth money. Why raise $650M? Isn’t smaller better?

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 15, 2015

Let me tell you a few short hair-raising stories of entrepreneurs who have raised money and regretted it later. Here are some rules that entrepreneurs almost always ignore to their future peril. There’s a common expectation among entrepreneurs that seed money from family is great – letting close relatives in at the ground floor.

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readwrite.com

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Follow us: Subscribe to our newsletter. Share on: Let's All Shed Tears For The Crappy Startups That Can't Raise Any More Money. People are writing about this phenomenon as if it is a surprising turn of events. Enterprise. Share… on Facebook. on Twitter. on Google+. on Linked in. Enterprise. Hot Topics.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series about Raising Venture Capital. A few years ago it became fashionable for large VC’s to do seed funding. So they set up seed programs that allowed for rapid decisions for $500k or less, often done as convertible debt for both speed and cost reasons. And how about Andreessen Horowitz ?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

I caught up with him recently to talk about venture capital from both sides of the equation, investing for the long-term, missed opportunities, and how he gets good ideas. ** Let's start with something basic. You've seen how venture capital works from both sides--as an entrepreneur and a venture capitalist.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

Not FU money, but “feed the family&# money. When you’re too far removed from renting a house, driving an 8-year-old car, worrying about how you’ll put your kids through college or coming home to a spouse who wants to know why you don’t just get a “real job&# then it’s hard to identify.

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The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 20, 2014

Matt was a second time entrepreneur who had a wealth of experience in the holiday lettings industry. With no team and no technical expertise Matt was planning to find a team and build out some product before starting to raise some seed money. Our unique model allowed him to get started straight away.

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Rob Go

MARCH 10, 2012

My friend Jordan Cooper wrote an interesting post a few days ago about some of his predictions of the venture market in 2012. I think that over time, this is the best way to handle market swings as a seed stage investor who is a) playing in a highly unpredictable part of the market and b) has a very long time horizon.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 21, 2014

If you’re reading this, you’re probably considering selling your app to someone else, hopefully for large sums of money. Or at least you’re thinking about it but you’re not sure if you want to let your baby go. You can then use the $1,200 as seed money to work on a new idea. Design & Dev Entrepreneur How-To''s'

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Rob Go

MARCH 20, 2013

What are some common-sense tips for startups as they seek to avoid the “ Trough of Sorrow ” that Brian Balfour has blogged about? Say instead “hey, a good friend of mine is thinking about quitting his job and starting this company. Which leads us to our second question: Two friends and I are building a company part-time.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

It is the first in a series of posts he’s writing about the decisions a young entrepreneur needs to make when she/he is first starting a business. One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. Need proof?

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 14, 2015

A company raises $1m of seed money from angels in a convertible note with a $6m cap. Assuming equity is raised at or above that cap, the total dilution, before the new money, is 16.6% (equivalent to an equity financing of $1m at a $6m post money valuation. Yup – this just happened to us in an FG Angels deal.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Email us or call +44 (0) 844 3579899 home about services blog labs Which language should my startup use? Share this: net c# development django java language php software Were often asked by entrepreneurs which language their startups should adopt when developing their technology.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

There are many myths about what it takes to start a business. That is why it is imperative for entrepreneurs to critically examine all advice and “truths” about startups. Fortunately, many startup myths revolve around three common topics (business plans, money, and unnatural hustle). Successful entrepreneurs move quickly.

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Hippoland

JANUARY 23, 2018

It will be hard to raise a pre-seed round through traditional methods If you are raising money through traditional methods (such as with angels / micro VCs / VCs) via a convertible note or convertible security or equity deal, it will be a lot harder to raise pre-seed money in 2018. This is what I’ve alluded to here.).

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Hippoland

JANUARY 23, 2018

It will be hard to raise a pre-seed round through traditional methods If you are raising money through traditional methods (such as with angels / micro VCs / VCs) via a convertible note or convertible security or equity deal, it will be a lot harder to raise pre-seed money in 2018. This is what I’ve alluded to here.).

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www.businessinsider.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Some Of The Most Important Gadgets Of The Year Will Be Announced This Week (And Were Not Just Talking About The iPhone 5). The Editor Of German Tabloid BILD Tells Us What He Really Thinks About The Greeks. Heres What That Led To Explosive Growth For Chinese And Indian Entrepreneurs. JOB OF THE WEEK: Operations Manager.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

I’ve been hearing about the so-called Series A Crunch for at least six months, and in recent weeks, I’ve spoken with more than 20 venture capitalists, angel investors, incubator heads, lawyers, and other necessary cogs in the ecosystem trying to get some details about it. Pando Daily. PandoMonthly. PandoDigest.

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