Up and Running

APRIL 18, 2014

And we did, until the internet came on the scene a couple of years later and left us holding our floppy disks in our hands. With my third business, I didn’t even try to be original—I purchased a custom framing franchise and piggybacked to success on someone else’s name. We thought, “Hey, we can do that!” Write it down on a napkin.

Detroit 156

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Hippoland

AUGUST 17, 2016

A reader named Turner Dean recently asked me whether it’s better to raise seed money on convertible notes or straight-up equity. I think my total legal bill for getting my seed round done for LaunchBit was something like < $3000. This should be basically free.

Equity 48

Equity Convertible Security Silicon Valley Technical Review 48

pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Firms like Accel and Greylock and Menlo Ventures announced discovery or seed funds, while other firms like Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz pioneered stealthy scout programs to give entrepreneurs their money, whether they knew it or not. A name like 500 Startups says it all. Entrepreneurs are survivors by nature.

Technical Review 93

Technical Review Silicon Valley Incubator Syria 93

Austin Startup

APRIL 23, 2010

Everyone is so focused on search that they’re going to miss the bigger opportunity, which I think is making meaning out of the massive amount of information on the internet, not just searching it. The name gives you a slight window into what they do, but it’s like one click business listening.

Intellectual Property 79

Intellectual Property Austin Early Stage Agile 79

readwrite.com

DECEMBER 3, 2012

It’s Ben Parr of Mashable, whose background includes blogging and … blogging, announcing that he too is now a venture capitalist and is creating a “celebrity fund” that has a super cool name — #DominateFund. The kind of guy who makes up a name like #DominateFund. And who announces a fund before he’s actually raised the money.

Silicon Valley 111

Silicon Valley Las Vegas Angel Investor Startup 111

cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

The only thing I wouldn’t do is to post it on the internet. Then again, there’s a difference between publishing a description of the idea on your website and simply announcing a name and perhaps a tag line. link] What’s the right amount of seed money to raise? link] Marco. I know, Chris. link] Yaniv Nizan.

Stealth 68

Stealth Startup NDA Cofounder 68

www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

During the Internet Bubble there were a number of startups founded by business people who then wentlooking for hackers to create their product for them. If you work your way down the Forbes 400 making an x next to the name of each person with an MBA, youll learn something importantabout business school. This doesnt work well.

Startup 105

Startup Cofounder Software Stock 105