The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2023

This could be a proportion of the company’s equity or investment; in other instances, it could be a portion of its later-stage profits. Because of this, getting seed venture money, for example, becomes more feasible for many startup companies, particularly those in the technology industry.

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Seed Stage Technical Review Early Stage Due Diligence 126

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

They want to build one of LA’s premier technology & games businesses – what I call “a patron company.&#. . “What you get&# is one of the most mature, seasoned & experienced mobile games developers that has existed. They have no interest in an early exit. Will we get there? Obviously the tough work is ahead.

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Later Stage South America Mobile Silicon Valley 310

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

With modern technology, you can now be alerted on your mobile phone or computer once the motion sensors have picked up a person nearing your door. Crosscutting will ensure it is impossible for prying eyes to glue the pieces back together at a later stage.

Security 121

Security Technical Review Later Stage Mobile 121

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 15, 2020

Organizations are trying to switch to remote working with the help of technologies and work culture to obtain similar or better operational efficiency than before. It helps you go through the documents at any later stage even if the original version differs from the latest one. by Mahendra Gupta of Saviom Software.

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Management Software Review Technical Review Security 165

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 12, 2014

Prorata rights are one of the most important rights of a private market technology investors and yet are seldom fully understood. They often create the biggest tensions between investors who are investing at different stages in the business. I have seen bad behavior from later-stage VCs, believe me.

Technical Review 336

Technical Review Later Stage Early Stage LP 336

Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

We’re standing 15 air miles away from the epicenter of technology innovation. I’ve been asked to talk today about the future of Innovation – typically that involves giving you a list of hot technologies to pay attention to – technologies like machine learning. In fact, it’s not about any specific new technologies.

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Restful Silicon Valley Puerto Rico San Jose 222

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2023

Most of these are non-profits, set up by a university to commercialize new technologies, or a municipality to foster business development for the local economy. Accelerators generally accept startups at a slightly later stage, and attempt to compress the timeline to commercialization into a few months, instead of a year or more.

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Incubator Silicon Valley North America Small Business Administration 231

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Technology cycles have become a treadmill, and for startups to survive they need to be on a continuous innovation cycle. Technology Cycles Measured in Years. But in the 20th century, dominated by hardware and software, technology swings inside an existing market happened slowly — taking years, not months.

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Founder Technical Review CTO Hire IPO 245

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Most of these are non-profits, set up by a university to commercialize new technologies, or a municipality to foster business development for the local economy. Accelerators generally accept startups at a slightly later stage, and attempt to compress the timeline to commercialization into a few months, instead of a year or more.

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Incubator Silicon Valley North America Startup 398

Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2014

Dino Vendetti a VC at Bay Partners, moved up to Bend, Oregon on a mission to engineer Bend into a regional technology cluster. Today with every city, state and country trying to build out a technology cluster, following Dino’s progress can provide others with a roadmap of what’s worked and what has not.

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Early Stage Silicon Valley Oregon Technical Review 286

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 18, 2012

Montgomery also uses the examples and experiences of Cobalt Networks , 3Dfx Interactive and NetMind Technologies to support many of the points he makes to provide additional context.

Technical Review 174

Technical Review Later Stage Incubator Business Model 174

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2014

He wanted to know what I thought of his technology deal. For all the things he’s likely known for, he probably hasn’t yet built a strong relationship as an early stage venture investor (he invests often in later-stage deals where he is very respected). My email back to him was a version of.

Silicon Valley 333

Silicon Valley Early Stage Later Stage Technical Review 333

Up and Running

MARCH 31, 2021

In fact, right now there are three crucial areas of business that are capable of withstanding that first elevator pitch: healthcare, technology, and education. An Angel right now will be looking for a startup that seeks to fix the problem at hand with a great outlook for future applications later on in time.

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Small Business Angel Investor Technical Review Elevator Pitch 116

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2016

We All Know That Dollars into Venture Have Gone Up … As a starting point, we know that the dollars into venture have steadily rebounded to pre great-recession levels, with just under $30 billion committed to US technology venture capital in 2015. …But LPs Have Been Putting Out More Money Than They Are Getting Back.

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Venture Capital LP Silicon Valley Marketing 150

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

But markets have changed and I think investors, founders and experienced executives who want to join later-stage startups can all benefit from playing the long game. There was later-stage capital provided by Morgan Stanley, NewView Capital, Goldman Sachs and others that gave us a long-term outlook. And the fifth?—?society?—?also

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Venture Capital LP Valuation Later Stage 363

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

It’s also important to say that while many successful technology companies have been venture-backed--Apple, Amazon, Google and Facebook come to mind-- it’s not solely a funding method for technology companies. but globally.

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Lean Venture Capital Conversion IPO 108

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

VCs tout themselves as frontier technology investors, but most are using the same infrastructure tools they have used for the past 20+ years: Excel and recent college grads searching Google. According to Knowledge.VC , under 5% of US VCs have a full-time team member focused on technology. . But we’re doing it slowly.

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Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

Years ago, it cost a million dollars for a new e-commerce site, one that you can now create for almost nothing with current tools and technology. You don’t have to be a heavily funded later stage startup to get access to “big data,” customer analytics, and metrics dashboards. Measuring progress with big data and analytics.

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Intellectual Property Startup Angel Groups Social Media 120

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 28, 2018

Of course the VC is looking to have specificity in how you plan to spend the money you’re going to raise and plans that show a pie chart that says, “25% on marketing, 30% on technology and R&D, 20% on infrastructure, 25% on G&A” do not get funded. Yes, I see plans this pedestrian.

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Burn Rate Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Dilution 247

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

In turn, this leads to the development of a thriving startup ecosystem which paves the way for technology and innovation. Drives development in technology. Set up in 2014, the startup offers applications for facial recognition, smart learning, and deep learning technologies. Allows startups to scale up easily.

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Venture Capital Asia Artificial Inteligence Later Stage 196

David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

Data from OpenVC shows that VCs typically focus on 2 technology classes. Out of 125 funds in the database, 33 state they invest in 1 type of technology (e.g. software”); 43 invest in 2 types of technology (e.g., a16z’s Cultural Leadership Fund aims to “enable more young African-Americans to enter the technology industry.”.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Cofounder Venture Capital Deal Flow 78

thebarefootvc

JANUARY 27, 2014

I think that later stage valuations are frothy (for reasons I explain below) while earlier stage valuations are starting to stabilize from previous highs (with the exception of the superstar serial entrepreneur) - turns out scaling in a sea of competition (both startup and entrenched) is not so easy. Technology ubiquity.

Technical Review 63

Technical Review Valuation Venture Capital Investment Bankers 63

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. Companies that acquire startups for their intellectual property, teams or product lines are acquiring startups that are still searching for a business model.

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Acquisition Intellectual Property Silicon Valley Startup 332

VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2012

Companies have shifted from producing pure technology to producing consumer products. Pure technology companies focus on IP, and need to compete with emerging markets, offering cheaper labor and potentially better economies of scale. Mid and later stage companies attracted $1.48 increase compared to 2010 ($781 million).

Technical Review 111

Technical Review IPO Seed Stage 111

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

These optimization tips can help companies at early and even later stages make great strides to optimize the potential of their website… and business. Patrick Llewellyn joined 99designs in 2009 after a decade in boutique corporate advisory primarily working with Australian technology and new media companies.

Web Development 100

Web Development Later Stage Hosting Web 100

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2021

Shots on Goal Being great as a startup technology investor of course requires a lot of things to come together: You need to have strong insights into where technology markets are heading and where value in the future will be created and sustained You need be perfect with your market timing. On Funding?—?Shots

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Bankruptcy Bridge Financing Portfolio Angel Investor 294

Gust

JANUARY 4, 2012

Later stage companies have some additional concerns: What favorable impact could IP have for PR, marketing and investor relations purposes, or as an attraction to potential acquirors? What is the risk-benefit calculus for developing and protecting proprietary technologies vs. buying or licensing them (“ build vs. buy ”)?

Intellectual Property 143

Intellectual Property IP Startup United States 143

David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

I’ve shown below a case study of the geographic diversification of the largest late-stage technology venture capital / growth equity investors. These funds use a combination of cold-calling, travel, firm networks, paid expert networks, and technology to identify investment opportunities outside of their neighborhood.

Private Equity 114

Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Equity 114

Austin Startup

MAY 11, 2017

We make a minority of our investments in new technology areas where deep technical innovation is occurring and where we believe there is will be a large future market opportunity. For these companies, we look for deep technology differentiation plus early market validation or clear opportunity for such.

Private Equity 48

Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Seed Stage 48

VC Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

Maturity : Battery invests in companies at all stages – from seed to later stage private equity buyouts. Geography : The Company invests throughout the world, with most investments are made in North America, Europe, Israel and India.

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North America Silicon Valley Private Equity 76

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Selecting the right technology partner. And lastly summarise all the above points for easy referencing at later stages. This is the phase where you select your technology partner to help you develop the app. Determining the originality and genuineness of your idea. Sketching and Drawing. Designing the User interface.

Mobile 113

Mobile Developer Social Media Later Stage 113

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

Most of these are non-profits, set up by a university to commercialize new technologies, or a municipality to foster business development for the local economy. Accelerators generally accept startups at a slightly later stage, and attempt to compress the timeline to commercialization into a few months, instead of a year or more.

Incubator 218

Incubator Silicon Valley North America Small Business Administration 218

K9 Ventures

AUGUST 14, 2017

a $42M technology-focused Pre-Seed fund. It was a conscious decision to maintain the fund size at the same level, despite both market pressure (larger rounds at earlier stages) and demand pressure (lots of LP money entering the stage) to raise a larger fund. K9’s last fund, K9 Ventures II, L.P., was a $40M fund.

Technology 96

Technology LP San Francisco Portfolio 96

Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

Despite, the negative trends noted above in terms of overall volume and the later-stage nature of IPOs, the good news is that we have seen areas of innovation and progress in the market over the past few years. has been the unquestioned global leader in technological innovation since World War II.

SEC 36

SEC Accredited Investor IPO Technical Review 36

Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2013

The first post described how China built a science and technology infrastructure to support advanced weapons systems development. The first wave of startups began when R&D centers and universities began to provide the technology and seed capital for new startups that were spin-outs or spin-offs. Like the U.S.

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Venture Capital China Offshore SBIR 271

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. And they have access to some of the most talented technology entrepreneurs so this is a worthy goal for them. International money. ” Fair play.

Early Stage 361

Early Stage Deal Flow Investment Bankers Technical Review 361

Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2009

Yet for every founder there are 10-20 other employees who take the near-equivalent risks in joining an early-stage company. If you’re not a founder (by choice, timing or temperament,) you may be an early employee or a later stage startup employee. Founders know they want to start something. You’re not joining a big company.

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Cofounder Founder Silicon Valley Technical Cofounder 219