crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

In Silicon Valley, Technology Talent Gap Threatens G.O.P. Special Report: Silicon Valley’s dirty secret – age bias | Reuters – [link]. Convertible Debt: really Bridge Loans and Equity Replacement Debt – [link]. In Silicon Valley, Technology Talent Gap Threatens G.O.P.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 5, 2013

SEC Greenlights One Style Of Equity Crowdfunding For Startups | TechCrunch – [link]. Why Silicon Valley needs critics like Morozov | San Francisco Chronicle – [link]. . “Products take off not just because of WHAT they do but HOW they make us feel.” ” – [link]. Tribute to Ridiculous Voices!!

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Instead of hearing from your long lost third-cousin, you will be inundated with an avalanche of ‘congratulatory’ emails, calls and letters from people who want to relieve you of the burden of your hard-earned equity round. Such positions include: PR, Sales, Product Development, Lead Generation, Strategic Planning, Fund Raising, etc.

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 12, 2012

Some days in Silicon Valley it feels like there are more investors than there are entrepreneurs. You get a situation whether investors are incentivized to put in more money into a company, not only to buy more equity, but also to fund the quick growth. And there absolutely are more investors than there are good deals.

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 12, 2012

Some days in Silicon Valley it feels like there are more investors than there are entrepreneurs. You get a situation whether investors are incentivized to put in more money into a company, not only to buy more equity, but also to fund the quick growth. And there absolutely are more investors than there are good deals.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

Or, as my friend Marc Andreessen might say, Software Eats the Private Equity World. note: apologies in advance for the west coast bias; i’m in silicon valley). but the food was awesome, & the PR wasn’t bad either). Scaling Up & Out: The Valley is Flat (and Global). Mega VC, Micro VC.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Convertible Equity, A Better Alternative To Convertible Debt? Ecosystem 101: The Six Necessary Categories To Build The Next Silicon Valley – [link]. Pricing Experiments You Might Not Know, But Can Learn From – [link]. 4 Pieces Of Practical Advice for Women Entrepreneurs – [link]. – [link].

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

If you’re a visiting dignitary whose country has a Gross National Product equal to or greater than the State of California, your visit to Silicon Valley consists of a lunch/dinner with some combination of the founders of Google, Facebook, Apple and Twitter and several brand name venture capitalists. Hackers’ Guide to Silicon Valley.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 11, 2010

It’s what Silicon Valley / San Fran entrepreneurs get for free. These are not to be confused with incubators like YCombinator or IdeaLab which look to invest in your company and take equity positions. But the real benefits of being somewhere like the CIC is this interaction between entrepreneurs.

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The Next Web

JUNE 15, 2012

From Silicon Valley to Peoria, Illinois, cash-strapped startups look for inventive way to finance their business – often handing out equity to employees, consultants, vendors, and other service providers. Pitfalls in sharing equity. While equity can be a great tool for compensating early on, the drawbacks are significant.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Seattle should be the envy of any non Silicon Valley tech community in the country. They have the same trade-off decisions that you do about packing up and moving to Silicon Valley vs. staying and building locally. Not to mention every major agency, many PR firms, etc. The ingredients are all here.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

Normally this is accepted as given, much like how when you close an equity round, the price you got is the price you got. It is much more complicated to implement something like this in an equity round, which is why you almost never see it.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Season 4 of week 10 of Shark Tank was interesting because two of the pitches were for internet businesses that I could imagine seeing in my day job as a Silicon Valley Venture Capitalis t. The company launched six months ago and so far has grown to 110 subscribers, with all customer acquisition coming from PR and referrals.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 14, 2010

He is willing to give up 33% of equity for this $1 million investment. I feel that it is not at all necessary to give this much equity up at this stage of the game. Through SEO and mommy blog PR, Lee can tap into this market. Sramana Mitra is a technology entrepreneur and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Zynga, Equity & Tough Decisions – [link]. The Wisest Entrepreneurs Know How to Preserve Equity – [link]. One Strike and You’re Out: In Relationship Era, Bad PR Pitches Will not Be Tolerated – [link]. So much excess in hiring by Silicon Valley startups.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

He is willing to give up 33% of equity for this $1 million investment. I feel that it is not at all necessary to give this much equity up at this stage of the game. Through SEO and mommy blog PR, Lee can tap into this market. Sramana Mitra is a technology entrepreneur and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

He is willing to give up 33% of equity for this $1 million investment. I feel that it is not at all necessary to give this much equity up at this stage of the game. Through SEO and mommy blog PR, Lee can tap into this market. Sramana Mitra is a technology entrepreneur and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley.

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Marketing Bootstrapping Incubator Angel Investor 52

Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Eric Ries, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and author of The Lean Startup, popularized this strategy for web applications. You might also be giving investors too much equity early on, as the risk is extremely high for them in the beginning stages of growing a SaaS company.”. Do your own PR. Don’t forget real-life products.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

The favorite of many Silicon Valley startups is the Big Tech Co distrubution deal where you get to how off how effective your biz dev capabilities are. Except that most of the these deals end up going in the PR waste bucket. Sort of amortizing the costs of their sales reps over more products. It’s a perfect love story.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Especially if you aren’t from around Silicon Valley. pretty much sums everything up well, but – let’s be honest here – if you live outside Silicon Valley, you are going to be at odds, because the rest of the world hasn’t yet caught up with this tech start-up thing.

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Steve Blank

MAY 4, 2009

Every marketing communication hire couldn’t wait to produce the next great ad or PR program. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. While this may seem obvious to anyone not in sales and marketing, trust me, in a technology company this is a conceptual breakthrough. Order Here. To Order Outside of the U.S.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Don’t exacerbate the issue by needing to figure out how to deal with a large equity deadweight on your hands (investors won’t like that the #2 stakeholder is absent, even estranged, from your company). So, the best way of dealing with this issue is to take a long, long vesting period for all major sweat equity founders. Too much money.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 28, 2014

Silicon Valley Investors, Low Interest Rates, And The Tech Bubble | Business Insider – crowdspring.co/1gkKBnb. Ageism In Silicon Valley Is So Bad People In Their 20s Are Getting Cosmetic Surgery – crowdspring.co/1lgVtFQ. Free Startup Docs: How Much Equity Should Advisors Get?

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Researchers polled experts in lending, mezzanine capital, private equity, venture capital and private businesses themselves. I would assume most businesses are going to claim they should get VC funding in order to help their PR, even if no one at the company actually believes it. A lot of the stats weren’t surprising. Printed from: [.]

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

I sold to you & PR function back in the day (SuperMac) and others to the many companies dating back, but finally E.piphany ~ MediaMap (now is Cision). Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. Thanks for a Great Post. Reply Mary B. , on June 5, 2011 at 1:15 am said: Stumbled on your page by serendipity.

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