Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Last week a company we enthusiastically backed, uBeam , led by a very special entrepreneur, 25-year-old Meredith Perry , announced a $10 million round of financing. Could you withstand the public scrutiny every day of being a young tech founder and show up every morning filled with enthusiasm? Of course the naysayers are out again.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 12, 2017

When investors believe in the founders, products, or ideas they will provide companies with funding. However, as a condition of financing they may require annual audited financial statements. For many startups this results in a need to raise additional financing through debt or equity arrangements.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 21, 2015

However after spending a week teaching 130 entrepreneurship students, ~35% of them women, and then walking through ~100+ WeWork and TechSpace offices in New York, I get the impression that the number of women leading startups in New York is much higher than in the San Francisco Bay area. Women seem to be more represented as founders.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 7, 2017

by Hannah Sieber, co-founder and COO of EcoFlow Tech. Before EcoFlow Tech, she led the San Francisco Center for Economic Development’s Southern China effort where she worked with Chinese companies across the Pearl River Delta on building and financing strategic projects in San Francisco.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 6, 2012

Following is a guest post from Cyril about the program along with a link to their Demo Day event in San Francisco on June 18th. The remaining traps to avoid are in the fields of logistics, distribution, financing and fundraising, among others.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

And the loosening of federal monetary policies, particularly in the US, has pushed more dollars into the venture ecosystems at every stage of financing. What Has Changed in Financing? They might be ideas they hatch internally (via a Foundry) or a founder who just left SpaceX and raises money to search for an idea.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Founder Kevin Systrom launched Instagram with 25,000 beta users on October 6, 2010; two years later, the app continues to see massive growth, recently reporting 150 million active users. Ben Schippers is the co-founder of HappyFunCorp , a Web development company that has built sites for TeePublic , Of A Kind , Postography and Yeah TV! “If

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

by Donovan Janus, founder of 17hats. The question is, how can you balance your books when your whole life is on the line, not just your finances? of UC San Francisco. of UC San Francisco. When food and shelter are a freelancer’s two heaviest expenses, a conversation about “costs” sounds absurd, no?

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

So I was looking for a name that would include sustainability, impact, or social responsibility as well as investing and personal finance. In the end, it was a friend who was helping me brainstorm who came up with SustainFi (sustainable + finance.). I probably looked at 100 different options, and most of them were taken.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

How to Translate Your Passion Into Your Purpose written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Liz Elting In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Liz Elting, the co-founder and CEO of the award-winning TransPerfect. billion in revenue and offices in over 100 cities around the globe.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 30, 2018

This area of San Francisco means you’ll be rubbing shoulders with your colleagues, and you might just network yourself into a deal that can help your business. As the founder of your startup, you’re responsible for its finances. But where you should set up shop is no longer as easy as it once was.

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Diego Basch

MARCH 14, 2013

Here they are: 1) I strongly prefer investing in companies located in San Francisco (city proper, not the Bay Area). I live in San Francisco, and I enjoy driving on Bay Area freeways as much as having a root canal done by a drunken dentist who hates my family. That’s a positive return to me.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 23, 2009

If you never have, you can create your own using Google Finance. If you never have, you can create your own using Google Finance. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th.

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth. Two years ago I got the bug to do an online recruiting startup and I began the hunt to find a technical co-founder - a software engineer who works for no cash - to help me build my dream website. I learned something: technical co-founders are a myth. Captain Recruiter. Real Advice. No Nonsense.

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Sakti3 Founder Sastry to Step Down From U-M. San Diego ›. View More in San Diego ›. San Francisco ›. View More in San Francisco ›. Innovation Report Shows San Diego Added 695 Tech Jobs at End of 2011. San Diego’s Free EvoNexus Tech Incubator Gains Qualcomm Expertise. San Diego Events ›.

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A Crowded Space

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

Good founders are really good at building buzz and hype. Great founders sometimes avoid it - more on that later) They’re good enough to build some buzz, get some angel investors to publicly invest in and endorse their company, introduce them to more angels, get solid press coverage, and write guest posts about the future of the xyz economy.

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Startup Company Lawyer

MAY 4, 2009

Adeo Ressi , the founding member of TheFunded , recently announced the establishment of TheFunded Founder Institute. The Founder Institute helps founders launch innovative companies by providing training, services, and company-building assignments, such as incorporating the business, filing provision patents, and setting up books and records.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

This includes well-compensated white-collar industries like finance, medicine, and legal services. And female founders of startups are on the rise as well. . In industries like finance, the ranks of upper management remain very white and very male. Look closer, though, and the picture darkens.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2019

three entrepreneurs who are part of this vanguard of Latam founders. Yet female founders received only 2% of venture capital dollars in 2017. due in large part to the rising costs in San Francisco and economic booms elsewhere. You can see a much larger list at the end. What gives? particularly in the Heartland?—?due

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

It should be even more important to the founders themselves, because it demonstrates that their business hypothesis is grounded in reality. These founders have not managed, to borrow a phrase from Steve Blank , to create a scalable and repeatable sales process. More on that in a moment. They are close to breakeven.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Tim O’Reilly, Founder at O’Reilly Media and promoter of open source and Web 2.0 Let’s have a look at what early stage founders can expect in terms of oxygen. Capital Factory runs not only a tightly-knit co-working space, but also an incubator-accelerator type of organization with very founder-friendly terms.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

I’ve decided to take all of my private conversations and subjective points-of-view on the topic and make them public in a keynote speech at the Founder Showcase in San Francisco on June 15th. That’s the deal you get when you’re raising in a good market for startup financing. That’s fine.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 24, 2014

It’s for reasons like these that I support getting startup founders some liquidity during their company’s first few years, perhaps as early as Series A financing when appropriate. At Homebrew we’ve backed many first time founders, many of whom have struck out on their own and are putting lots at risk.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 20, 2023

He is co-founder of Monograph Capital, a life sciences venture firm in London and San Francisco, and was previously CEO of the Rhodes Trust in Oxford. Recent, an episode featured Max Novak, the founder of Nova Cast, where he talked all about how podcast booking campaigns create value for listeners and for brands.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 15, 2015

Headquartered in San Francisco, AppDirect makes it easy for businesses to find, buy, manage, and monitor cloud services from a central location. We first met the founders of AppDirect – Daniel Saks and Nicolas Desmarais – when they acquired Standing Cloud , a Boulder-based portfolio company of ours.

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Gust

AUGUST 22, 2012

From my vantage point as a business lawyer for entrepreneurs, one of the greatest frustrations for a well-intentioned company or founder comes in attempting to comply with all applicable laws and regulations without necessarily even knowing what they are.

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Scott Edward Walker

APRIL 22, 2012

This post is the second part of a three-part primer on convertible note seed financings. Part 1, entitled “ Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Convertible Note Seed Financings (But Were Afraid To Ask) ,” addressed certain basic questions, such as (i) what is a convertible note? (ii) What Is a Conversion Discount?

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Jason is the Founder of 37 Signals, makers of Basecamp, with over 3 million users and 2.8 Just take any week of venture financings these last few years and you will find that almost all of the companies funded to be cloud-delivered software businesses. Flurry (San Francisco, CA), - Provider of mobile analytics services - $15 million.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

In the case of Freshdesk, their main competitor, Zendesk, is operating with a San Francisco - Copenhagen cost-structure and will find it harder to compete with this strategy. Zendesk is heavily financed by Benchmark and Charles River and has 10,000 customers. Thursday, June 30, 2011: Register Here.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Manu Kumar is Founder and Chief Firestarter at K9 Ventures. Kumar was the Founder, President and CEO of SneakerLabs, a company which developed software and services for web-based customer interaction. Hyper-Local, meaning the entire team should be based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Frighteningly Early.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

billion 2013 figure) have been massive financings at Honest Company ($70mm), JustFab ($85mm), ZipRecruiter ($63mm) and lord only knows how much SnapChat has actually accumulated. Over the past 4 years LA’s tech fundings have growing at a 30% compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) which is > 4 times the US average VC CAGR (7%).

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 26, 2009 Product development leverage Leverage has once again become a dirty word in the world of finance, and rightly so. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. But I want to talk about a different kind of leverage, the kind that you can get in product development. Bring your questions.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

In the summer of 2015, our co-founder/managing editor, Stephanie Choporis, was a graduate student at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and tasked with the following assignment: develop an idea for a new media product. We plan to start expanding to other markets, such as New York City and San Francisco, in a few years.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 27, 2014

I recently attended and presented at Dave McClure’s PreMoney conference in San Francisco. Scott pointed to B-round SaaS valuations in excess of $100 million in $15m+ financing rounds with companies with very limited proof of customer traction or revenue. tl;dr version.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

In 2010, Antonio Garcia Martinez, the founder of AdGrok, wrote, “New York will always be a tech backwater, I don’t care what Chris Dixon or Ron Conway or Paul Graham say.” Top founders want to live in a place where employees are serious about working hard. San Francisco is dealing with some very serious livability issues.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

I apologize for the audio quality – we did this in a rush because we found a last minute studio and recorded in San Francisco. Finally, I do want to mention that Mike was the founder of DogPatch Labs , which has facilities in Cambridge, New York and San Francisco. Venture Financings we Discussed.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 6, 2013

” Michelle and her business partner Andrew Ekelem are the founders of Chariot Mobility, a company dedicated to updating the manual wheelchair to a low-profile, efficient and ergonomic chair that better serves the needs of its users. Within a year, Freja hopes to be selling VegiMeat in San Francisco.

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