Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 11, 2023

As I sat there I was overhearing the secretaries complain about this new computer program they had (WordPerfect, my guess is it was 5.1 Pretty weird hobby for a 15 year old kid but I had used it at my mom’s office and, sick of doing repetitive drudge work, had taught myself to program WP macros in order to automate mundane tasks for her.

Private Equity 78

Private Equity Equity DC Leveraged Buyout 78

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2016

With valuations rising fastest in late-stage venture and the competition that is well-known from corporate VCs, mutual funds, hedge funds (and even LPs), it is unsurprising that LPs are most concerned about late-stage VC. 68% of LPs surveyed expressed caution that the late-stage part of the market is over-valued.

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Venture Capital LP Silicon Valley Marketing 150

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2021

After working many years in business, both in large companies as well as startups, I’ve realized that you can learn more from peers and mentors than from any formal education program. Of course, nothing beats learning from your mistakes , but that’s a painful and very time-consuming journey. But don’t be fooled into taking mentoring lightly.

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Eric Friedman

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

If you are an operator looking to advise companies, think about how you can join communities, accelerator programs, mentor programs, or similar roles that put you in close proximity to companies. I have found the biggest benefit to being an advisor is the proximity to innovation that is happening with amazing people.

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Early Stage Equity Vesting Cap Table 103

Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2014

If they acquire later stage companies who already have users/customers and/or a predictable revenue stream, they are acquiring companies which are executing. Incentive programs need to tie together the new acquisition’s continued success and the rest of the company.

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Acquisition Intellectual Property Silicon Valley Startup 332

Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2014

Regional Angel funds that pool investors capital and typically make a one time investment in a startup, sometimes at an early stage but often at a slightly later stage. Late stage large regionally based funds that invest in late stage or mezzanine deals. Large regionally based early stage funds have mostly failed.

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Early Stage Silicon Valley Oregon Technical Review 286

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

When you are raising a large, later-stage round given by this time you’ve likely got a fairly large business to run. I know they will continue to produce great successes and that they have a team of great thinkings and leaders running their program. International money. It is not my proprietary deal flow.

Early Stage 361

Early Stage Deal Flow Investment Bankers Technical Review 361

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

When you are raising a large, later-stage round given by this time you’ve likely got a fairly large business to run. I know they will continue to produce great successes and that they have a team of great thinkings and leaders running their program. International money. It is not my proprietary deal flow.

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Deal Flow Early Stage Investment Bankers Technical Review 347

Steve Blank

MARCH 17, 2020

A one-year problem means taking a knife to your burn rate (layoffs and elimination of perks and programs to reduce your variable expenses,) renegotiating what previously seemed liked fixed expenses (rent, equipment lease payments, etc.) If they pull back, there will be a liquidity crunch for later stage startups (Series B, C…).

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Burn Rate Startup Valuation Sales Cycle 436

Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2013

The previous post described how the Torch program built China’s innovation clusters. The second wave of technology investors were Chinese banks, who provided the majority of the later stage investments in the Torch Program. The Rise of Chinese Venture Capital. Like the U.S.

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Venture Capital China Offshore SBIR 271

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Wildfire was one of the darlings of the fbFund incubator program. In the program we also talked about much debated topic of large VC’s and whether they should have seed programs. If you’re interested in the topic you should check out the program. Wildfire Interactive. 4mm in Series A. Read more: TechCrunch.

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Venture Capital Cofounder Spain San Diego 270

Austin Startup

JUNE 30, 2017

No matter how many MOOCs, Khan Academies, apprentice programs, degree-less job openings, Thiel Fellowships, etc. The exact same can be said for the most prestigious accelerator programs. But outside of the true elite, the traditional format and cost of accelerator programs is likely not sustainable.

Curation 48

Curation Startup Cofounder Equity 48

Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2013

The previous post described how the Torch program built China’s innovation clusters. The second wave of technology investors were Chinese banks, who provided the majority of the later stage investments in the Torch Program. The Rise of Chinese Venture Capital. Like the U.S.

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Venture Capital China Offshore SBIR 163

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 3, 2021

If you want to continue growing with PPC ads in the later stages of your company’s development, you can increase your budget and target keywords more aggressively. Referral Programs. PPC ads are easy to set up and are practically guaranteed to generate traffic to your site, even if it’s brand new. Email Marketing.

Early Stage 125

Early Stage PPC Retention Churn Rate 125

Version One Ventures

JANUARY 15, 2019

First hires should be like “swiss army knives,” able to take on multiple tasks at any stage and figure out how to solve problems. Your job description for hiring at this stage should focus on general capabilities. At later stages, you start hiring for specialists.

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Hiring Later Stage Early Stage Portfolio 118

David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

Most importantly, we have regular meetings with later-stage VCs and enterprise clients both in the US and internationally to discuss our companies which fit their investment mandates. Effectively, we are a market maker between our portfolio companies and the late-stage VCs and large enterprises which are our co-investors.

Portfolio 60

Portfolio Technical Review Private Equity Database 60

Up and Running

AUGUST 17, 2015

The fundraising process may start with friends and family, but may quickly shift to a bank loan, individual angel investors, or at a later stage, venture capital or private equity. Make sure you still pay attention to the overall brand of the MBA program.

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Entrepreneur Cofounder Angel Investor eCommerce 60

Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

Gust is used by over 1,000 angel investment groups, accelerators, business plan competitions and support programs to manage their applications. That’s why investors attend Demo Days and look for acceptance into such programs as one of several ‘validators’ of a startup. If they’re legitimate, they will.

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Angel Groups Elevator Pitch Software Review Deal Flow 159

View from Seed

JUNE 5, 2018

The quest for building such hiring machine is universal across companies at various stages. Keeping that in mind, we designed the program in such way that later-stage portfolio companies such as Dia&Co and MealPal could gain insights alongside younger ones such as Voodoo Manufacturing , ExecThread , and Virgent Realty.

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Hiring Portfolio Metrics B2C 120

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 31, 2012

Many MBA programs still cater too much to the needs of large, corporate management jobs or prepare students to enter big consulting companies or investments banks. Erin’s main points: “As a former tech sales executive, I agree with many of [Mark's] lessons — when applied to later-stage, post-traction point startups.

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Startup Early Stage Sales Cofounder 319

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 2, 2012

“Golden Gate Ventures’ links to later stage investors and Silicon Valley can add most value once start-ups launch products and prove market traction. Golden Gate Ventures will continue to fund start-ups that have already launched and shown traction, independent of the bootcamp.

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Asia Singapore Silicon Valley Cofounder 162

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 12, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, June 12, 2009 Lean Startup Workshop scholarship program I havent had much time to write lately, and so havent been able to share much about the Lean Startup Workshop series I have been producing with OReilly in their Master Class division. Learning is better than optimization (the local ma.

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Austin Startup

JULY 29, 2018

It doesn’t make any sense to pitch a later stage, “growth” investor with your seed stage idea just like it doesn’t make much sense to pitch a new tech startup to an investor who only does oil & gas. Some like to be the first investor to commit and others prefer to be the last.

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Angel Investor Technical Review Los Angeles Seed Stage 59

Genuine VC

MAY 5, 2015

Today, I’m thrilled to publicly announce NextView’s Talent Exchange, a program helping both top talent and NextView-backed startups connect with each other more easily, beginning with Boston companies (which make up just over half our portfolio). And, above all else, we knew this program could feel more human than other existing solutions.

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Portfolio Startup Boston Seed Stage 100

Up and Running

JANUARY 30, 2014

To thrust our venture forward, gain business skills quickly, and increase our chances of raising capital, we searched for an accelerator program. Accelerators are short entrepreneur training programs designed to jump-start new businesses. They are frequently confused with incubator programs, but the two are technically different.

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Incubator New York City Venture Capital Startup 105

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 8, 2011

It sounded a bit like other special interest groups crying for their entitled government programs. In later-stage businesses, entitlement is evident when employees treat customers with indifference, or feel they are entitled to their job by merely “showing up for work.”

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Later Stage Early Stage Government Equity 241

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

The sooner you pass your work on to a later stage, the sooner you can find out how they will receive it. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down?

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San Francisco Software Review Continuous Deployment Development Team Review 161

Growthink Blog

MAY 10, 2012

You see, equity capital is raised in stages or rounds. The five main stages include the following: 1. Early Stage Investment (Series A & B) 4. Later Stage Investment (Series C, D, and so on) 5. Series B is the round that follows series A in early stage financing. Pre-Seed Funding 2. Seed Funding 3.

Equity 88

Equity Mezzanine Later Stage Venture Capital 88

ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

Each salesperson elevated their top 10 accounts to receive highly customized one-to-one account-based marketing programs. Companies outside the top 10 still enjoyed the benefits of account-based marketing, but through engagement-driven one-to-few programs instead. 8 questions to ask before developing your ABM program.

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Customer Marketing Channel Acquisition 98

Eric Friedman

DECEMBER 25, 2008

I have looked at a number of web services both from their inception and early alpha, to beta programs and later stage developed businesses. I have been doing this for years and it was definitely a highlight in thinking about my current role.

Web 60

Web Analytics Later Stage Cloud 60

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

Of course there were variants – we preferred PostGres to MySQL and many people used other programming languages than PHP. Linux (instead of UNIX), Apache (web server software), MySQL (instead of Oracle) and PHP. Open source became a movement – a mentality. Suddenly infrastructure software was nearly free.

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Venture Capital Software PHP Open Source 334

YoungUpstarts

JULY 1, 2016

If you don’t take H&S seriously, it will come back to bite you at a later stage. Or, you could outsource your health and safety program to a third party HR specialist. However, you should ignore health and safety concerns at your risk. The second you start up a company they should always be at the forefront of your mind.

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Small Business Employee Later Stage Restful 113

Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

Corporate incentives: Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 developed a broad-based equity incentive compensation program known as stock options. local/state QSBS) to encourage high-risk, early-stage investing. Simply put, later-stage capital travels easier; seed-stage capital providers are homebodies.

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Silicon Valley Non-Compete San Francisco Government 36

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

That was the topic of my keynote at Seedcon, an event hosted by the University of Chicago, where I am a graduate of the MBA program. Maybe I need to do slightly later stage.” What’s it really like being an entrepreneur? Entrepreneurshit. The Truth About Building Starutps from msuster. I want to do this again.

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Monaco Cofounder Chicago Mexico 420

Software By Rob

JANUARY 8, 2019

During the ensuing two-and-a-half months we’ve spoken with more than 100 founders and investors, worked on terms, and settled on the structure of the program. ” That is, a group of 10-20 companies going through the program together. From the beginning, we knew we wanted to fund in “batches.”

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Early Stage Valuation Seed Capital Revenue 46

The Entrepreneurial Mind

JULY 14, 2010

And many larger business schools add other barriers, such as separate admissions processes to get in to their program once you are admitted to the university. Remember that the government just did a massive power grab and took over the college loan program. But let's not assume that this is necessary at all schools.

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SBA SBIR Government Angel Investor 64

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

The program examines the DNA of entrepreneurs: what makes them tick, how they came up with their ideas; and explore the habits that make them successful, and the highs, lows and pivots that pushed them forward. Wasn’t the mayor (essentially) saying to Columbia, “You’re (applied science program) isn’t good enough.

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Entrepreneur New York Cofounder Equity 120