Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2011

The most successful entrepreneurs are those with multiple real-life experiences, who have personal exposure to markets where opportunities are being left on the table. More important are standard business, finance, and economics courses. Most schools have business plan competitions, and even give out seed money to winners.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

The most successful entrepreneurs are those with multiple real-life experiences, who have personal exposure to markets where opportunities are being left on the table. More important are standard business, finance, and economics courses. Most schools have business plan competitions, and even give out seed money to winners.

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Gust

JANUARY 13, 2013

The most successful entrepreneurs are those with multiple real-life experiences, who have personal exposure to markets where opportunities are being left on the table. More important are standard business, finance, and economics courses. Most schools have business plan competitions, and even give out seed money to winners.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 22, 2017

Success as an entrepreneur takes a lot more than an idea, a dab of seed money and, as they say, a wing and a prayer. Part of the challenge of successful entrepreneurship is the ability to anticipate market needs and come up with solutions to meet them – often even before the market knows there is a need. The end result?

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cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Very, very few markets have room for only one player. Quite early on, you will be able to differentiate yourself – and having competitors help you grow the market can actually be a good thing. But it’s probably wise to be more secretive in some vertical markets: [link]. [link] Kristian Dupont. I agree completely.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 1, 2010

I think the issue was mostly framed initially by Chris Dixon in his article The Problem with Taking Seed Money from Big VC s. The fact that I invest less just means the company is earlier stage and needed/wanted less or without a product/market fit we weren’t yet prepared to invest more heavily.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 30, 2012

Sara focuses upon another side of small business financing not typically considered in the angel and venture world, financing from sources for companies that will probably never be attractive to those niches. . Crowd Funding: The Internet is at work here, especially for obtaining early stager seed money.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

There are about 32 million left-handers in the US, you have a special product for them, and surely you can get just 5% of that market and have 1.6 You’ll want to get cozy with the numbers all over again based on some history and make decisions on operating spend and on financing strategies. million customers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

Of course, hitting your objectives alone doesn’t guarantee success--you might have set the wrong objectives or the market needs may shift over time--but it’s a reasonable proxy for measuring interim success. I'd love to hear your thoughts on what's happened in the capital markets over the last 20 years--the good and the bad?

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Rob Go

JANUARY 20, 2015

There were a number of interesting articles published over the last week in response to Mattermark and CB Insight’s data around early stage financing activity. As a team, we’ve been thinking about what has been going on in the seed market in recent years. There is plenty of appetite for good seed-stage investment opportunities.

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Rob Go

MARCH 20, 2013

First, the first time products hit the market and it’s clear you don’t have 100% product market fit. Find good financing partners. You want to find financing partners who help you in the situations described above, don’t become yet another impediment. These troughs tend to happen at somewhat predictable points.

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Seeing Both Sides

MARCH 2, 2011

Hunch-driven : they had deep domain knowledge and didn't need outside studies or market research to guide their prioritization. million in its series A financing and kept the burn rate at less than $100k per month to make he money last. Raising money, scaling the team. Modest burn : the company only raised $1.35

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2020

You’ve heard about that teenager or grandmother or your brother-in-law’s co-worker’s cousin who invested a little bit of money in bitcoin and struck it rich and you want part of the action. Bitcoin investing is the new frontier, the Wild West, a place where the playing field is relatively even and anyone can make some money.

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 28, 2013

Seed financing grew from 89 fundings in Q1 2009 to more than 500 in Q3 2012. That means there are a lot more seeded startups out there: an excess demand for a limited supply of Series A financings. Traditionally, I’ve advised startups to raise enough money to sustain them for 18 months.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

The one thing that does effect them all is the cyclicality of funding and exit markets, but if you go back over the last 20 years, there's really only been a very short timeframe where you literally could not get a company funded. Sure, when those periods hit, they hit bad, but most of the time, they hit the poorly prepared companies worse.

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www.businessinsider.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Your Money. Parse, one of the most-anticipated startups in Silicon Valley these days , went through Y Combinator last year and raised seed money from Google Ventures , for example. Sometimes we pay the market price because thats whats on the table.". JOB OF THE WEEK: Operations Manager. Clusterstock. Broker Center.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Add to this regular angels becoming “super angels” — a much-mocked phrase for when someone goes from investing their own money to investing institutional funds. Essentially they became micro-VCs, still investing at the seed level but with much greater resources behind them. A name like 500 Startups says it all.

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