Eric Friedman

DECEMBER 27, 2021

1/ Twitter builds out payments into the product – launches a new creator chapter. I think AngelList is leading the charge here with Rolling Funds and other products like free RUVs for companies. 7/ SaaS roll-ups and micro-private equity become huge. Your entire experience and process will be governed by a authentication.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 14, 2011

“Increasingly, attention is shifting from established Western markets to our part of the world, and we believe Asia will increasingly drive venture capital and private equity activities in the future,” says Eugene Wong, chairman of the Singapore Venture Capital Association (SVCA). Ongoing Challenges.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

32 students were scattered across the globe and given a seemingly impossible assignment- they had 10 weeks to understand and then solve a real Dept of Defense problem – by interviewing 100 beneficiaries, stakeholders, requirements writers, et al while simultaneously building a series of minimal viable products – all while never leaving their room.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

You succeed in convincing one company and a government to adopt computers and learn to code much faster than their competitors /adversaries. These technologies will transform businesses and government agencies. Today, 100s of billions of dollars in private capital have been invested in 1,000s of AI startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2023

A few, like Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), despite recent failures, actually do provide management services to startups, invest in startups, or provide early-stage venture capital, but that is not called an investment service and is part of a function called Emerging Technologies, or sometimes Private Equity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2020

A few, like Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), actually do provide management services to startups, invest in startups, or provide early-stage venture capital, but that is not called an investment service and is part of a function called Emerging Technologies, or sometimes Private Equity.

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Silicon Valley Private Equity Initial Public Offering Term Sheet 362

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2020

For example, if you have a proven product, real revenue, a big potential market, and are ready to scale up the business, every investor will be interested. For investors, this is the idea stage , where you may have a great idea, but no plan, product, or customers, and probably no success record in this business domain. Congratulations!

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

One of the stipulations that franchises have to abide by is the production of a franchise disclosure document (FDD). Unfortunately, states don’t have any particular legislation for franchises, and the federal government can’t be bothered to enforce the rules they already have in place. Watch Out for Private Equity Owners.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

You must have a prototype or a minimum viable product (MVP). To fund the sudden spike in production, funds will be required for additional inventory and wages. It is going to cost a lot of money just to get the initial batch of products to test the market and would definitely require external funding. Government programs.

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David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2013

Partners for a New Beginning (PNB), a public-private partnership housed at the Aspen Institute, is organizing a Venture Capital, Private Equity and Angel Investor Delegation from the Maghreb. What role can government agencies both in the U.S. Localisation du Maghreb (Photo credit: Wikipedia).

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Unfortunately, there come times when an industry is being irresponsible and facilitating such harm that government has to step in and act. Regulation can have major unintended negative consequences so it’s generally best when government can work with industry and public interest groups to craft solutions everyone buys into.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 8, 2022

All of these are accomplished with minimal resources to deploy at scale products/services that are needed and wanted. Our current approaches – both in the past and current administration – to innovation across the government are piecemeal, incremental, increasingly less relevant and insufficient.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2018

For example, if you have a proven product, real revenue, a big potential market, and are ready to scale up the business, every investor will be interested. For investors, this is the idea stage , where you may have a great idea, but no plan, product, or customers, and probably no success record in this business domain. Congratulations!

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 3, 2012

jamescaan : James Caan is a serial entrepreneur and CEO of the Hamilton Bradshaw private equity firm. JohnFMoore : Gov In The Lab magazine founder and CEO John Moore discusses bridging the divide between citizens, politicians, and the government. betashop : Fab CEO Jason Goldberg discusses “the product” on @betashop.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Eventually the private equity firms and multinationals take over and it becomes harder for a marginally-funded startup entrepreneur to compete, but for that brief, glorious time, the opportunities seem endless. The focus is on providing more reliable products. Regulatory. Rather, newer entrants are refining it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 4, 2014

For example, if you have a proven product, real revenue, a big potential market, and are ready to scale up the business, every investor will be interested. For investors, this is the idea stage , where you may have a great idea, but no plan, product, or customers, and probably no success record in this business domain. Congratulations!

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Angel Investor Intellectual Property Investment Bankers Private Equity 232

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

A few, like Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), actually do provide management services to startups, invest in startups, or provide early-stage venture capital, but that is not called an investment service and is part of a function called Emerging Technologies, or sometimes Private Equity.

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IPO Silicon Valley Private Equity Initial Public Offering 205

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2016

For example, if you have a proven product, real revenue, a big potential market, and are ready to scale up the business, every investor will be interested. For investors, this is the idea stage , where you may have a great idea, but no plan, product, or customers, and probably no success record in this business domain. Congratulations!

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

In addition, I’ve noted a few multi-product lending firms, e.g., Kapitus and United Capital Source , which provide RBI as one of many structural options to companies seeking capital. . We have a special program if you are pre-seed and need product development. I’ve listed below all of the major RBI venture capitalists I’ve identified.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 19, 2020

Impact Investing has been around for a long time, most prominently since the 1960’s as companies and governments began engaging with the concept through private equity and debt investing in developing economies. How will they be able to deal with it if not through private investment?”

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 6, 2012

I almost don’t want to tell you because I love the product and would love for them to stay under the radar screen from investors. It is company 500px who has a beautiful product and a burgeoning community on the iPad and web. 16:00 What should government be doing? 500px is in Toronto. What’s your take on that?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 22, 2011

A few, like Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), actually do provide management services to startups, invest in startups, or provide early-stage venture capital, but that is not called an investment service and is part of a function called Emerging Technologies, or sometimes Private Equity.

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Silicon Valley Private Equity Initial Public Offering Startup 211

Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Are they running from high prices, high taxes, dysfunctional government, and wildfires? All of the investors, all of the big companies, all of the government groups?—?they In fact, the Houston city government ranks number onein the country in renewable energy use. What’s bringing them here? Count all of the people you know!

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

It's easy to say that companies, universities and the government should be doing more to find a cure, but that ignores years of overlooking the importance of the work of those studying infectious disease, and in many cases, the lack of sophisticated tooling that they urgently need. My name is Robert Rhinehart.

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Growthink Blog

MARCH 26, 2012

Well, try on for size quick and efficient financing for any project, any product, any company that a thoughtful and passionate entrepreneur, artist and/or cause-oriented activist can dream up. As exciting, the amazing, networked power of crowdfunding will usher in a true golden age for U.S. What would this look like?

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Private Equity Startup IPO Equity 89

Growthink Blog

MARCH 19, 2012

The result is that far too many entrepreneurs can't start or grow their ventures—and can't provide jobs and new products and services to spur our economy. Letting small companies sell equity stakes online would be a huge boost to those firms—like angel investing on steroids.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 31, 2010

A few, like Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), actually do provide management services to startups, invest in startups, or provide early-stage venture capital, but that is not called an investment service and is part of a function called Emerging Technologies, or sometimes Private Equity.

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Silicon Valley Private Equity Startup Initial Public Offering 120

Up and Running

AUGUST 8, 2013

Before you invest too much time and money in to your business you need to establish if your product or service will be in demand. Research the market by: Looking at competitors: Do they have a similar product or service? There’s no point in developing the end product if it isn’t profitable. Is there a niche in the market?

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Transformify

MARCH 4, 2018

Providing services to Fortune 500 companies in the US and Canada, Insight Global provides services to the IT, accounting and finance, engineering and government sectors. Founded in the 80s, The Execu Search Group has a niche clientele consisting of private equity funds and, venture capital companies, and hedge funds.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

John Warrillow: They sure are, and by the way, that’s a typical fishing letter used by either a private equity group or a business broker, as flattering as it can be, it probably doesn’t mean a whole lot. One, product innovation, and two, sales and marketing. Take Intercom customer, Unity.

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Professor VC

MARCH 10, 2009

In other parts of the country, this is business as usual: Identify a customer need Build a product Sell the product In the valley, the knee jerk reaction is to start with the powerpoint deck and look for the venture capital drug. They have a standard presentation on bootstrapping, which they present around the country.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2011

And others are from unusual folks we don't normally think of as entrepreneurs, from corporate managers to government agencies. What really constitutes product/market fit? The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MAY 9, 2019

VCs tend to gain most of their returns through carried interest- a percentage received as compensation from the profits of a hedge fund or private equity. This is a problem that solopreneurs and early-on product startups run into frequently. Don’t fall victim to a productivity bottleneck- scale as you need to.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 9, 2019

Not only was it productive at building relationships between investors and driving direct investment, but it was also a lot of fun, too! Dallas and Frisco We started the morning off at Old Parkland in Uptown Dallas, which is “the Capital Factory of private equity”?—?a Thank you, @ATXStartupScene for a day we will never forget.

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Babbling VC

MAY 13, 2010

Money is available for start-ups in Europe and in my opinion, the consolidation of venture capital and the private equity scene is past the worst. Even the governments are doing their part, like it or not, as is the case in France and Germany. Basically everyone is moving their product to “the cloud”.

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