Austin Startup

MAY 7, 2017

Some of the most interesting events in Austin for the week of May 8 through May 14 are as follows: Mon, May 8 thru Thurs, May 11: OSCON OSCON brings the software engineering and developer community together to explore what’s new and useful in open source languages, tools, and techniques. At Galvanize at 6:00 pm.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Think about this; 7 years ago Nokia owned 50% of the handset market. Fast-forward to today—Apple is the most profitable Smartphone company in the world and in Spain Android commands a market share of more than 90%. Its worldwide market share of Smartphones has dwindled to 5%. Apple owned 0%.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 5, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Small Business Marketing Tip: Send Email Campaigns At Night To Increase Revenue | crowdSPRING Blog – [link]. 8 Steps to Mastering Time Management | OPEN Forum – [link].

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. Though RBI will displace some traditional equity VC, its much bigger impact will be to expand the pool of capital available for early-stage entrepreneurs. .

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

But VC is an “illiquid asset&# so funds didn’t disappear quickly - In 2000/01 the stock market quickly adjusted punishing investors in the NASDAQ and in individual public technology stocks. What accelerated this was the collapse of the public stock markets. VC will shrink. Oh yes it will.

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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 —– Indie.vc

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 8, 2010

- Startup Company Lawyer , March 14, 2010 After the recent announcement of the Series Seed Financing documents by Marc Andreesen, Brad Feld points out that there are now four sets of “open source” equity seed financing documents. It’s the old – 5% of massive market gives us a big number. Not that it’s always a bad thing.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Bitrefill makes it easy for anyone to buy gift cards and phone minutes (a big use case in emerging markets) instantly using Lightning. The market for mobile gaming is insanely large and growing quickly: >$77B in 2020 with >10% YoY growth. But that’s a discussion for another time ?? . 2) Gaming . At least not yet.

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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. I thought it would be helpful to put together some notes on market norms and issues to consider in negotiating a partnership at an institutional investment firm. So assessing fit is critical.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 14, 2012

One of the key objectives of the recently passed JOBS act is that it will “open” the now 11 years and counting "shut” window for initial public offerings. Because golly, when it comes to the IPO market and public market returns in general, help is needed in a big way. Hopefully, it will help. How bad is it? read more.

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Austin Startup

JULY 23, 2010

Not surprisingly, given his background, Dave built the technology on an open source stack for the infrastructure and incorporated from the very beginning the framework for a robust administrative component that would allow the service to scale as large as needed.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

I wrote recently about Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? Some firms provide tools to do this online, e.g., Capital ’s Cost of Equity estimator ; Lighter Capital’s Cost of Capital Calculator ; 645 Ventures’ cap table simulator. Revenue-based investing VC.

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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. . In liquid markets, most of the calories expended on technology and analytics are focused on trade selection, or “ origination ”. 2) Market . This is harder than it sounds.

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www.seriesseed.com

DECEMBER 9, 2012

.  That’s because there are not that many issues to negotiate in a simple equity financing.   Based on the comments received, both on the blog and in the many deals in which these documents have been used, I am convinced that the terms of a simple set of equity documents are really not an issue. 

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Version One Ventures

AUGUST 23, 2017

There’s great promise to build large scale platforms to run open source projects among other things. Ronald Coase’s Nature of the Firm states that enterprises exist in order to decrease transaction costs: it can be more cost-efficient to bring partners in house rather than procuring goods and services via contracts and the market.

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nikcub.appspot.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Freenode is the network most popular with developers today, especially with open source projects (channels such as #python, #rubyonrails, ##php etc. Simply having an idea and a promise of working on marketing is not enough to attract a capable technical co-founder. Make sure you take into account your target market (ie.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

And finally, you may be able to avoid diluting your equity. Preserve your equity by using a consulting CTO to ramp up your company before securing early-stage financing and hiring a permanent technology partner. Increasingly, people who were only available as full-time, equity-position founders or [.] Try Google.

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discuss.joelonsoftware.com

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

where I can learn about how to build a sweat equity team? After 14 years of trying to do most of it myself, Im ready to build a team, and aggressively build market share in a niche that I believe my competitors have neglected. Rather, it is a proposal for sweat-equity investors. But this proposal isnt for angel cash investors.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

For example, you can barter for a service or you can negotiate payment terms or even equity for service. PR/Marketing. Cloud computing, open source and a global talent pool make outsourcing easier than ever before (even a few years ago). To that I say baloney. Even without cash you have many ways to outsource.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

He spoke about risk (development, market, financial and execution), social media, how you must create content (most likely through a blog) to win in today’s “search&# economy. An excellent presentation from a brilliant guy.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Apple Declared "Marketer of the Decade" This iPhone 4 Costs $8 Million Next Apple Event Goes "Back to the Mac" View More » Mobile Starbucks Stores in New York Now Acce. Marketing Manager at Fanscape (Lo. Mozilla Wants You to Build Your Own B. 10 Beginner Tips from PHP Masters Mozilla Jumps into the App Store Game.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Apple Declared "Marketer of the Decade" This iPhone 4 Costs $8 Million Next Apple Event Goes "Back to the Mac" View More » Mobile Starbucks Stores in New York Now Acce. Marketing Manager at Fanscape (Lo. Mozilla Wants You to Build Your Own B. 10 Beginner Tips from PHP Masters Mozilla Jumps into the App Store Game.

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mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

“Once that product is built, you will probably have given away a lot of equity.&# “Once that product is built, you will probably have given away a lot of equity.&# In exchange for $150,000 to $300,000 of work, each startup has given Kayweb 14% to 40% equity. Have an account?

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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Startup internet projects often arrive slightly buggy at first and if the entrepreneur didn’t take the time to research the market in advance, the product can be dead on arrival. The situation becomes even worse if there is no marketing plan or budget. Look at the market size and the number of competing products.

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K9 Ventures

MARCH 23, 2011

I may be well be in the minority in the Valley to think this way — especially so as a seed stage investor — but I have a strong preference for doing priced equity rounds for funding companies at any stage. It is in essence equivalent to being a Liquidation Preference that is typically seen in a preferred equity financing.

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The Equity Kicker

JUNE 18, 2012

If Microsoft can maintain profitability whilst their market share declines then they still have an interesting paid for software business. Apparently that is broadly comparable with what Microsoft charges PC makers now. The centrepiece of the ‘free’ argument is that the price of everything drops to its marginal cost of distribution.

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www.cscyphers.com

MARCH 8, 2012

It can be hard to sort the wheat from the chaff when you’re talking to a marketing person (‘Ah, you do internet marketing? the marketing to get potential customers to use that weekend website. Marketing (12). open source. And… what else?”). I Don’t Need You Anymore. Mobile (3).

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

But when done well it can really help get a company going fast, professionally and without the founders having to give up much (if any) equity - or bankrupting themselves. There are a couple of good reasons a company should consider bootstrapping its market entry. You dont /have/ to build vendor lists and out-source.

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The Equity Kicker

MARCH 14, 2013

I think two developments have combined to reduce expectations of the size of the blogger/news hound market. People are trying to save Google Reader, and one way to do that would be for Google to open source the code. I hope that they succeed.

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

These professionals can help with anything from finance to marketing, but you wont find any software engineers volunteering their services. It's not a question of me being unwilling to work for equity -- I am. Or Gimp, or the 1000s of other open source projects, built for free by software engineers. Not likely.

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The Equity Kicker

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Then you’d raise a Series B to scale the marketing. The qualitative bar for the team, idea, and market was high. Then you’d build the product and spend $5M to market it. At this point, you could use a free Open Source stack which would accelerate development. In 2004, you’d raise $500k with just an idea.

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The Equity Kicker

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

His theory of disruption states that large companies are most often disrupted by small competitors who release products which are cheaper and initially inferior but good enough to take the low end of the market, after which quality improves to the point where they take the whole market. Wadwha is right.

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The Equity Kicker

OCTOBER 2, 2014

From a market perspective we liked the fact that companies everywhere are building their own custom cloud monitoring solutions using open source software – just like David and his team did at Alfresco, and that as cloud penetration increases demand for cloud monitoring solutions is only going to grow.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 6, 2013

Thursday is guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest is Porter Gale – author of Your Network is Your Net Worth. Many open source applications (i.e. So blogging is a bit like sweat equity: you need to make sure you can glean a return in ways that are not directly deposited in your bank account.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

previously explained that it usually requires some equity, but here is some more step by step practical advice. CompStudy 2008 Report on Equity and Cash Compensation at Technology Startups. ", they are aimed at convincing companies to use open source software. Simply put, there is no market for RSS.

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The Equity Kicker

MARCH 10, 2015

At the time I wrote “From a market perspective we liked the fact that companies everywhere are building their own custom cloud monitoring solutions using open source software” Startup general interest' This ‘custom solutions’ analogue was important when we decided to invest in Dataloop last year.

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BeyondVC

JUNE 11, 2007

We all know the story – it is incredibly cheaper to start a web-based business versus 5 years ago with the rise of open source software and commodity servers. All I can say is when evaluating your company’s cash needs and potential runway, looking at the venture debt market is not a bad idea.

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