mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

If you’re a startup entrepreneur, you risk facing a competitive disadvantage if you wait too long to expand your operations. The first step in the process of expansion is identifying which markets are of the most strategic significance to your business. You’ll also likely be hiring local staff for your new office.

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France Marketing Social Media Startup 77

View from Seed

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Recently, we looked at our own portfolio at NextView Ventures to dig a little deeper on how startups actually raise that next round of financing. Startups with large, lifecycle VCs included in the seed round syndicate did not reach Series A faster than those who did not. 4 Operating Philosophies Affecting Series A Raises.

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Syndicate Syndication Seed Stage Startup 333

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

5 Lessons from 150 startup pitches - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , July 11, 2010 I just reviewed several hundred startup pitches for Capital Factory. The collapse of the IPO market and dysfunctional math in the venture capital community has stacked the odds against you. Here’s why. Take a look at the chart below.

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Software Review Startup Venture Capital Technical Review 217

Berkonomics

APRIL 3, 2014

We’ve spoken of financing a young company through friends and family, known as “inside angels.” And even though angel groups syndicate their best deals within their respective associated networks, it is always best to apply to the angel groups nearest your physical location. Raising money'

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Equity Finance Liquidity Event Angel Groups 92

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

In liquid markets, most of the calories expended on technology and analytics are focused on trade selection, or “ origination ”. I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations. 2) Market . The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies. 1) Manage the firm .

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Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Hunter Walker

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

I really liked Jason Lemkin’s “ Do You Have a Weak Investor Syndicate ” blog post from earlier in the summer. As a venture fund I might have a strategy which says “for every dollar I invest into companies, I will hold one dollar in reserve for additional financings.” Go read it and then come back here….

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Cap Table Seed Stage Syndicate Syndication 94

Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

million in Series A financing. Austin-based S3 Ventures led the oversubscribed round, which also included Capital Factory, HealthFundr, and a syndicate of strategic clients. This new financing enables the company to expand its R&D, sales, marketing, and operations teams, supporting the company’s rapid growth.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

And no matter what the latest trends indicate, you will eventually have to spend money on PR and marketing. million in venture financing. No doubt early-stage companies can be started on a shoestring by low-paid entrepreneurs, but when financing a scalable, sustainable product, a free application server won’t make much of a difference.

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mashable.com

JANUARY 23, 2012

If you’ve been operating as a Corp, LLC, or Partnership, all business associates need to vote on closing the business. If you’ve been operating as an LLC, review the dissolution requirements in your state’s LLCA (Limited Liability Company Act). Business & Marketing. This final vote should be recorded in the meeting minutes.

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LLC Technical Review Social Media Startup 68

Women Entrepreneurs Can

MARCH 18, 2023

They may help with product development, market research, or even setting up a management team. They also offer to fund marketing and other operations. To help entrepreneurs achieve their goals, VCs look for firms with a clear market opportunity and growth potential and a track record of success in that industry.

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Artificial Inteligence Startup Early Stage Syndicate 52

Mike Michalowicz

DECEMBER 18, 2012

You may not be as good at marketing, sales, social media and generating the kind of publicity required to be a huge success. I highly recommend you hire marketing, sales and social media experts to assist you in positioning your business to succeed. Thanks to Kenny Jahng of Big Click Syndicate LLC. Second Guessing Decisions.

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mashable.com

JUNE 30, 2012

There he heads product definition, marketing, and sales of the Tiggzi , a platform for mobile development. Network Operators: AT&T, Verizon, Deutsche Telekom, and others are getting in the game with APIs exposing network resources, including SMS and carrier-billing for in-app purchase. Business & Marketing. All Stories.

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API Cloud Web Social Media 68

VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

Massimo Sgrelli, Entrepreneur, angel investor, computer programmer, agrees with Eyal’s suggestion: The best way to attract Silicon Valley investors to your non-US startup is to split your operations keeping R&D in your own country, while moving business and marketing heads in the Valley (and potentially the founders too).

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Silicon Valley Startup Seed Stage Delaware 104

OnlyOnce

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

On the heels of the announcement we made last month about our Series B financing , we are now announcing the launch of a new program called Bolster Prime and a new venture capital fund called Bolster Ventures. This is another big week for us at Bolster. Any entrepreneur would be lucky to have one of these mentors in their corner.

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Silicon Valley Venture Capital Cap Table Early Stage 62

View from Seed

JANUARY 26, 2016

There are a number of factors that have contributed to the rise of pre-seed rounds, but the strongest have been the frothy late-stage financing market, coupled with both the scaling-up of some of the early winners in the institutional seed ecosystem and the scaling-down of some larger funds that retrenched after the financial crisis.

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Seed Stage Early Stage Cofounder Finance 120

Hunter Walker

JANUARY 20, 2015

Today, Pillow announced their seed financing which we led in 2014 along with a great syndicate including our friends at Sherpa Ventures and Homebrew advisor Lee Linden. Your average busy person may not want to take on the operational burden of cleaning, managing and essentially becoming a sole proprietorship,” he said.

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Hosting Los Angeles San Francisco Syndicate 48

View from Seed

JANUARY 28, 2016

When we talk about seeds, we mean your first outside round of financing at the earliest stages of your business. In my prior post, I talked about the rise of the pre-seed and a more nuanced definition of a pre-seed based on milestones, not financing labels. This staged approach is often much better for the founders as well.

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Cofounder Finance Founder Syndicate 120

mashable.com

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Ann Smarty is a search marketer and full-time web entrepreneur. That’s why many social media marketers and power users are in constant search of free, efficient alternatives. Twitter search operators can help you filter out links (search “ -filter:links “) and find tweeted questions (search “ ?

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Social Media Analytics Media API 108

mashable.com

MARCH 7, 2011

A de facto requirement for any modern mobile operating system is the inclusion of a modern HTML5-compliant web browser. Supporting one platform can be difficult enough, but now developers not only have multiple operating systems to consider, but multiple device types as well. Have an account?

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mashable.com

JANUARY 18, 2012

One creative marketing consultant selected a variant of the name Agora for her business, loving the connection to the ancient Greek word agora , meaning marketplace. Professional Development: How to Stay on Top of the Latest Marketing Trends. There’s a huge secondary market for buying and selling names. 25 Comments.

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Naming Social Media Social Network RSS 97

VC Adventure

AUGUST 10, 2010

In it, he describes our philosophy around seed investing and differentiates it from what others (but not everyone) in the market is doing. With the foundation of our operating philosophy in tact we turned our attention to what this new business should do. I’ve known the CEO of Trada, Niel Robertson, for almost 10 years.

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Syndicate Syndication Due Diligence SEM 74

Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 9, 2006

TOP or Total Operational Performance, is a cost cutting approach, where your objective is to cut 40% of all the "not-strictly-necessary costs" by doing things differently. Done deal: after a quick syndication with the kitchen team (their job was at stake, so they were easy to convince.), sales and marketing. (10). internet. (6).

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Software Review Technical Review Europe Venture Capital 48

VC Cafe

JULY 4, 2011

The ratings agency noted that the improvement in public finances reflects both revenue growth as a result of buoyant output, as well as expenditure control, resulting from the adoption of new fiscal rules. Given that, the central government deficit fell to 3.8% of GDP in 2010 from 5.2% in 2009 and debt moderated to 76.6% of GDP from 79.3%

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Balance Sheet Acquisition Africa 90

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

I’ll focus for now on the business itself, there’s plenty of other info on the web if you care to understand the equity ownership or financing history of Facebook and frankly this has been fairly well known for awhile. ==. who derive a meaningful chunk of their revenue from operating ad networks. Facebook, Inc.

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IPO South Korea Venezuela Revenue 100

David Teten

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

The average equity fund investor earned a market return of only 4.25%. One are investors in truly new asset classes, e.g., frontier markets like the Pakistani stock market, which really do provide new opportunities for investors to put capital to work. I can only think of a few exceptions to this zero-sum principle.

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Management Pre-Money Valuation Venture Capital New Hampshire 114

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

We were using it to get features to market faster, and that was working well. I now believe that the "pick two" concept is fundamentally flawed, and that lean startups can achieve all three simultaneously: quickly bring high-quality software to market at low cost. Even worse, agile wasnt really helping me ship higher quality software.

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Software Review Engineer Management Technical Review 164

Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Texas is the most promising technology market in the United States. If you want to launch a new business, this is a great market to launch from because you can easily reach all of the major Texas cities with one office. The larger Dallas metro-region is the fourth largest in the country and Houston metro-region is the fifth.

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Rob Go

JANUARY 28, 2016

When we talk about seeds, we mean your first outside round of financing at the earliest stages of your business. In my prior post, I talked about the rise of the pre-seed and a more nuanced definition of a pre-seed based on milestones, not financing labels. This staged approach is often much better for the founders as well.

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Cofounder Finance Founder Syndicate 28