Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 6, 2020
It seems that most of you entrepreneurs I meet in my role as business advisor are convinced that starting a new business requires equity investors, exponential growth, and a plan to go public via IPO. Personal income is related to operations versus equity. With major investors, your equity and return is diluted and delayed.
Steve Blank
MARCH 31, 2014
In spite of this, private equity funds have used the rallying cry of efficiency to hijack corporate strategy and loot the profits that historically would have been reinvested into research and development and new products. And to keep executing large organizations hire employees with a range of skills and competencies.
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Both Sides of the Table
JULY 16, 2010
So even within the “alternative class&# our LPs are looking at other asset investment choices such as distressed buyout funds, private equity or hedge funds. You don’t need to buy expensive software – there are free open source solutions for nearly everything. VC will shrink. Oh yes it will.
David Teten
JANUARY 21, 2021
V: Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? VI: Revenue-based financing: The next step for private equity and early-stage investment. VIII: The Leading Flexible VCs, With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing. —– Indie.vc
David Teten
SEPTEMBER 2, 2017
It’s hard enough to get a job at a venture capital or private equity firm; it’s even more complex to join as a Partner. Also see Preqin’s Key Due Diligence Considerations for Private Equity Investors. . VC and private equity are very illiquid on both the investing and the personnel side. So assessing fit is critical.
Feld Thoughts
MAY 9, 2011
Make it simple – eliminate capital gains if an individual (who is an accredited investor) invests equity (i.e. The solution so far has seemed to be “hire more people to process more paper faster.&# Then open source the results. risk of 100% loss of investment) in a private company with less than 100 employees.
www.reincubate.com
FEBRUARY 1, 2010
Start-ups often hire at one extreme -- closer to a Lead Developer or VP of Engineering -- whereas corporates may focus on their CIO, which is potentially quite a different role. Past contribution to one or more Open Source projects. Firstly, theres no one-size-fits-all description.
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