Gust

OCTOBER 19, 2014

I always advise software startups to file patents to protect their “secret sauce” from competitors, and to increase their valuation. A lot of companies, like Lodsys above, buy up software patents that are over-broad, and hold startups hostage after the fact, through royalties and litigation. Software technology changes rapidly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 14, 2020

That approach may work for an entrepreneur who just sold a successful business for a huge profit, but it doesn’t work for the rest of us who are not proven successes yet, or don’t even have a business yet. Non-credible funding request or unreasonable valuation. Future unproven projections don’t set today’s valuation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2021

In startup business plans, a bubble is too many entrepreneurs and too many investors chasing the latest “next big thing,” like Google search engine, Facebook social network, or Amazon e-commerce site. In startups, a great success like Google causes busts by stimulating more supply, without regard to demand. High valuation, low profit.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2022

That approach may work for an entrepreneur who just sold a successful business for a huge profit, but it doesn’t work for the rest of us who are not proven successes yet, or don’t even have a business yet. Non-credible funding request or unreasonable valuation. Future unproven projections don’t set today’s valuation.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Thomas Clayton has started and run numerous high-tech startups in Silicon Valley. He is currently CEO of Bubbly , a social media startup backed by Sequoia Capital, SingTel Innov8, and JAFCO. The company is one of the largest VC–backed startups in Southeast Asia, having raised over $60M in funding. Sequoia , Accel , NEA , etc.).

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Hunter Walker

JULY 18, 2022

Why I’m Not Telling Every Startup To ‘Pull The Brakes’ Just Yet. The ‘valuation multiples’ reset also came with an increase in slope of the curve. A drop in growth rate turns into a drop in valuation multiple. The latter means that every Series A+ startup has to reforecast. Is This a Tech Recession or a General Recession?

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2023

For example, a startup SaaS company can use a specialized app to create a good product management process and keep track of the project's progress. Positive experiences create emotional value, which keeps customers coming back and makes small businesses stand out from the rest. Thanks to Sean Stevens, Immerse Education ! #5-

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2018

Yet crowdfunding is no panacea for hungry entrepreneurs and startups. According to Yahoo Finance , less than a third of crowdfunding campaigns currently reach their goals, and the rest have to return anything they do collect. It is this growth that concerns many investors: Startup valuations can’t be negotiated via crowdfunding.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 3, 2020

joined a startup; has been reelected to his third term, representing the 8th district of Wisconsin; and is on the House Armed Services Committee. It would be the biggest investment from the federal government in research and development since the end of the Cold War, and a lot of that would be in clean energy technology.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Waterloo, Canada-based Kik recently passed 80 million users, which was given particular significance from local media who noted that it took the 4-and-a-half year old startup past BlackBerry and its BBM mobile messaging solution. The Canadian government matched the investment, and the 15-year plan kicked off. The Web-based platform.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 25, 2011

In startup business plans, a bubble is too many entrepreneurs and too many investors chasing the latest “next big thing,” like Google search engine, Facebook social network, or Amazon e-commerce site. In startups, a great success like Google causes busts by stimulating more supply, without regard to demand. High valuation, low profit.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

August 20, 2017: This is another in my series of posts all leading up to a book on Startup Decision Making. One of the most common mistakes I see in startups is making decisions that lose sight of the context , including the past, present, and future. Sooner or later everybody in a startup knows what everyone else is getting paid.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 19, 2021

True, many boards are dysfunctional, but when you build a great startup board, it will be a powerful tool that can help the CEO make the company successful. This essay, which is based on Part 1 of a two-part episode of the Greymatter Podcast, will cover the fundamentals of building great startup boards.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Want to start a startup? You need three things to create a successful startup: to start withgood people, to make something customers actually want, and to spendas little money as possible. Most startups that fail do it becausethey fail at one of these. Most startups that fail do it becausethey fail at one of these.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Want to start a startup? Its equivalent toasking how to make a startup succeed—if you avoid every cause offailure, you succeed—and thats too big a question to answer onthe fly. 1 ] In a sense theres just one mistake that kills startups: not makingsomething users want. Get funded by Y Combinator.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2013

In startup business plans, a bubble is too many entrepreneurs and too many investors chasing the latest “next big thing,” like Google search engine, Facebook social network, or Amazon e-commerce site. In startups, a great success like Google causes busts by stimulating more supply, without regard to demand. High valuation, low profit.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

So we could go, we could spend the rest of our time talking about valuation. The government, for example, often defines small business by the number of employees. 07:47): Well, where are they gonna get the rest of the money and what's that gonna cost them? 20:06): Remember that the valuations based on the cash flow.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2016

That approach may work for an entrepreneur who just sold a successful business for a huge profit, but it doesn’t work for the rest of us who are not proven successes yet, or don’t even have a business yet. Non-credible funding request or unreasonable valuation. Future unproven projections don’t set today’s valuation.

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Up and Running

JUNE 14, 2017

In both scenarios, it seems that startup venture initiation and idea validation are strictly dependent on the app. To determine the viability of an app or startup idea without building out the full solution, entrepreneurs should: Test potential buyers’ real buying intentions by monitoring their willingness to pay for a beta version.

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betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

This past week while I was in Tokyo for meetings with potential partners for Fab, I was invited to participate in a panel discussion on startups. All the rest is noise. There’s no time to dicker around at a startup. Startups are hard work. If you are down on someone, the rest of your team will already know. ?.

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 1, 2013

I believe we’re going to look back in 2-5 years and realize that we’ve been in a once a decade boom for internet & software startups. And as I’ve mentioned valuations in the private investment sphere have largely rationalized in the last 12-18 months. The US government last shut down in 1995 and 1996.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

The existential freakout that occurred in January and February seemed like the distant past with the lingering hangover being a clearer focus on valuation and overall funding needs from new investors. At the early stages, raising the first $2m tends to be straightforward in most geographies that have meaningful startup communities.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 26, 2011

Open Government. Companies like Publicstuff and Votizen that help us connect with our elected officials and local governments are going to get a lot of dollars and attention this year. There are a lot of things I love about my Android phone--like the easy integration into the rest of my Google life. Reader beware.). Calendaring.

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Up and Running

MARCH 29, 2017

million for the SaaS startup I founded because sometimes we see success coming out of the blue, when really that person benefited from a broad network of support. If you want to run a startup, go with what you know. So I had a business plan, a product, and funds enough to buy some time to figure the rest out.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 12, 2020

This is true not just for startups, but for so many of the institutions that govern society. We owe our grandparents a debt of gratitude for the institutions that still govern our daily life. And this is true not just of startups, but of so many of the institutions that govern society. Eric Ries : I know.

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venturehacks.com

MARCH 21, 2008

Venture Hacks Good advice for startups. See Part 1 for the rest. They can even add more value than an independent board member because they don’t have to deal with corporate governance. And that wouldn’t make any sense—our valuation already takes the investor’s value-add into account.&#

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The Next Web

JANUARY 15, 2014

There are five strategies, or patterns, that set apart leading internet startups – or the billion-dollar club companies – from all the rest. I’ve studied a host of startup ventures in quest of the patterns behind their success. This post originally appeared on Geektime. Asset #2: Cashing the most.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

The New York Times revealed that Uber had been using a feature that showed people it suspected to be government officials a fake version of the app that would deny them a ride when in areas where Uber was illegal. Take the story of luggage startup Away’s CEO Steph Korey. They blame everything in their life on somebody else.

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