YoungUpstarts

APRIL 7, 2016

Sure, companies in the Bay Area – particularly Silicon Valley and San Francisco – consistently receive the highest percentage of venture money nationwide. But a slowdown in venture capital financing and questions about a technology bubble have led to many entrepreneurs and startups considering other avenues for growth.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

Until recently it was headquartered 2 blocks from our offices in Santa Monica so we literally saw it emerge under our feet and we proudly invested in the last 3 rounds of financing. Local politicians wanting to see local job creation rather than jobs at tech firms all migrating to San Francisco should be heartened. Not at all.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 2, 2016

There is no doubt about it, the appeal of startup culture is inarguable. San Francisco is already well publicized. Today, institutions like the Launch Pad University and Americas Venture Capital Conference mean that a city is a hot place for startups to get financed. So, you’ve got the bug to work for yourself?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 4, 2018

The Silicon Valley-oriented technology press outlets don’t cover us because we’re not in San Francisco, even though we’re more successful than most of the startups they cover. This week we closed $250M in financing from Silver Lake , the premier technology private equity firm.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 21, 2015

Just before the holidays I had coffee with Anne, an ex MBA student running a fairly large product group at a search engine company, now out trying to raise money for her own startup. The Columbia Startup Lab is a visible symbol of how the university is making entrepreneurship an integral part of all colleges at the university.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 2, 2022

The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. The post Progress of Bitcoin in North Carolina appeared first on The Startup Magazine. The Bitcoin trading platform Coinbase has been one of the biggest beneficiaries of North Carolina’s progress.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 12, 2017

To outside investors, the future of early stage and startup companies can be murky. 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. What are the company’s obligations?

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

From manufacturing to sales to finance, the supply chain routinely fails to command the respect it deserve. For manufacturing startups, here are several ways to achieve effective supply chain management: Understand Your Supply Chain Elements. Too many startups mistakenly believe that their “widget” comes from one source.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Here are their breakdowns of the costs and time investments to create 10 of the world’s hottest startups. Suddenly, those multi-million dollar financing rounds that startups raise don’t seem so outrageous! The San Francisco-based company made do with $50 million to build its product from scratch to current iteration.

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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

JUNE 5, 2011

2 preamble issues having read the comments on TC today: 1: I know that the prices of startup companies is much great in Silicon Valley than in smaller towns / less tech focused areas in the US and the US prices higher than many foreign markets. That’s the deal you get when you’re raising in a good market for startup financing.

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Diego Basch

MARCH 14, 2013

While that may be true, I invest in startups because I need to feel useful. I invest in some startups because I genuinely enjoy it. I invest in some startups because I genuinely enjoy it. I don’t plan to allocate more than 5% of my portfolio to startups. I would not want to be in that position.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

In September 2017, I spent 2 weeks in Austin, Texas to understand what makes this vibrant startup ecosystem tick. It follows up on my posts discussing why early stage startups should — or should not — move to Silicon Valley. Should Early Stage Startups Move to Austin because of Capital? Money is like gasoline during a road trip.

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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. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R. Expo SF (May. . Expo SF (May.

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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? Today you have funders focused exclusively on “Day 0” startups or ones that aren’t even created yet. Of course we can’t.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 23, 2019

While areas such as Las Vegas, San Francisco, and New York bring in the most tourists a year, know that high-mileage areas are already saturated with hotels and come with a more expensive up-front cost. Check out these resources: Bplans’ Hotel and Bed and Breakfast Industry Startup Guide. Startup resources for hotels.

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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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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

During today's roundtable, we had four Microsoft BizSpark Startup India Challenge grant finalists present. 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.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 6, 2019

by Pete McCain, startup mentor at AppVelocity. Being a startup or entrepreneur, if you want to make the most out of Apple’s latest innovations for your startup business, then you are at the right place. Finance Apple Watch App. Undoubtedly, there are plenty of apps trying to help you stay on top of your finances.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 29, 2018

When 90 percent of startups fail , the odds are against you. This stark reminder about startup failure serves to encourage you to be smarter about your startup, particularly your finances. Think about relocating out of the typical startup zones. Basing your startup in Silicon Valley gives you some advantages.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2019

The SXSW Startup Crawl! Grab a group of friends and tour the latest and greatest of Austin’s startup community. Grab a group of friends and tour the latest and greatest of Austin’s startup community. Wednesday, March 13 Every day 10:00am-5:00pm.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 10, 2013

As I’ve said before, all startups need to realize that every other company still has to see itself naked in the mirror in the morning. In my interview I talked about the biggest stress that really comes from startups – dealing with all the other people with whom you work. They are only one aspect of the startup experience.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 30, 2018

The financial institutions the pioneers of fintech aimed to disrupt are now appealing to emerging fintech startups as a way to keep up with these changes. Location, like timing, is very important when it comes to your startup. On the other hand, it is the most famous tech-startup site in the world. (It Consider a strategic move.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Startups need funding to bring their product to market and get to profitability. But how do you go about finding startup investors? In many cities with a startup scene, there are angel investors. A successful startup can yield a pot of gold if there’s an initial public offering. Startup Incubator or Accelerator.

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techcocktail.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Tech Cocktail Connecting, educating and amplifying the startup technology community and having fun doing it since 2006. So, today we’d like to highlight a few main points to consider when building your startup team. Startup’s can be stressful and there may be many times when people want to quit.

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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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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

That prediction obviously turned out pretty wrong, but it did drum up a whole lot of chatter about the right ingredients for building a startup community—about New York vs Boston on the East Coast and whether cities like Austin and Seattle would ever break through. San Francisco is dealing with some very serious livability issues.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 24, 2017

Foundry Group is best known for our investments in startups, but our vehicle currently investing in other venture funds, Foundry Group Next, is off to what we believe to be a great start and I wanted to share an update about it by talking about our new investment in a fund managed by Founder Collective. It starts with the people.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

At this year’s FUND Conference in Chicago, Illinois, over 100 startups presented their early-stage companies in front of hundreds of investors and industry leaders. The startups ranked most highly by investors and startup enthusiasts in terms of scalability and longevity received votes on how well they connected with investors.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Validated learning about customers Would you rather have $30,000 or $1 million in revenues for your startup? In an early-stage startup especially, revenue is not an important goal in and of itself. Let’s start with a simple question: why do early-stage startups want revenue?

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 13, 2013

Many businesses are looking to business credit cards to help them fund startup costs when they are first building their business. We used the cards to finance initial orders as we built credit and terms with vendors,” Benz explains. by Jeff Hindenach, Editor with NextAdvisor.com. Why get a business credit card?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. But to answer the actual question “Is there something going on in LA?”

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keen.io

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

How I negotiated my startup compensation. When I started thinking about joining Keen, I quickly realized there is a lot I don’t know about startups. I knew enough to know I wanted to join a startup. To be honest, I knew I wanted to join this startup. Startup Equity for Early Employees. Michelle Wetzler.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. After all, our startup is on a fixed budget.

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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. Its a force that allows startups to build products at parity with much larger companies - cheaper and much faster. Its a key lean startup concept.

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SiliconHills

MAY 14, 2015

Vested Finance, an Austin-based financial technology startup, announced it has closed on $5 million in seed financing led by Sandleigh Ventures. The Austin-based company plans to use the money to expand its operations by hiring a development team to create and distribute its mobile app.

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