Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

We are in a bubble (with so many private $1bn+ valuations). pre-money valuation you certainly would want to exercise your right to continue investing if you had prorata rights. The “big boom” in startup financing started around March 2009?—?more Where are we today? .” more than 5 years ago?—?and and hasn’t abated.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 26, 2022

At the turn of the century after the dotcom crash, startup valuations plummeted, burn rates were unsustainable, and startups were quickly running out of cash. A down round is when a company raises money at valuation that is lower than the company’s valuation in its prior financing round. They’re Back.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

by Alejandro Cremades , cofounder of Panthera Advisors and author of “ The Art of Startup Fundraising: Pitching Investors, Negotiating the Deal, and Everything Else Entrepreneurs Need to Know “ Why should entrepreneurs intentionally be generous when negotiating with investors? Startups seem to be raising later and later rounds.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2022

There are many benefits of selling your startup through a mergers and acquisitions advisor. When selling your startup with a mergers and acquisitions advisor, it’s essential to identify the key employees who have made the most valuable contributions to the business. Source: Pixabay. Identifying key employees.

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VC Cafe

MAY 29, 2022

Building on my post on ‘ Advice for startups in a downturn (May 2022 edition) ‘, this week I continued to follow with interest the impact of the current correction on startups and venture capital, particularly in early stage. Which Startup Investors Pulled Back The Most So Far In 2022? The bull market is over.

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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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Austin Startup

MARCH 22, 2021

In recent years we’ve seen mega-rounds of investment and sky-high valuations. billion Series D round giving the company a valuation of about $14 billion!* You’ll get quicker and quicker each time you do it, and soon your reputation will precede you due to pent-up demand from buyers and sellers. They raised a whopping $2.4

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2012

The truth is that I wasn’t as valuation sensitive as my original VC partner was and I would have been willing to raise price. But for me I care too much about my long-term reputation. I don’t want my reputation to be built on abandoning friends in good times or bad. ” We closed the deal. ” I disagreed.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Here are five financial concepts that every startup founder should know to build an everlasting company. Asset valuation. The concept of asset valuation may seem counterintuitive, but it is an important idea. The basic lesson that founders can learn about asset valuation is that Accounting is past and Finance is future.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 17, 2017

This way, even if your business fails, your personal brand and reputation will enable you to quickly rise back with a new business. This helps drive your business valuations higher and can thus lead to a more successful sale. An entrepreneur is known to start around 2.3 businesses on an average.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

Reputation of firm? Politics are a part of human nature and thus a part of all startups. As I like to say “ Startups are all naked in the mirror ” (we see our own flaws but see everybody else in their Sunday best.). Startups are hard. Startup Advice VC Industry' Picking a VC is hard. Of partner?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

One of the reasons that now is the time to be an entrepreneur is the explosion of startup assistance organizations, usually called incubators or accelerators. A few are still trying to make a profitable business out of nurturing startups, but it’s a challenge to make money when your customer startups don’t have many resources to give.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 28, 2023

By preventing risks rather than managing them after they occur, organizations avoid expensive legal battles, fines, operational disruptions, and reputational damage. Regulatory Compliance and Reputation Adhering to legal and regulatory requirements is essential for any business.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 23, 2010

Answers OnStartups- Shortly after I started blogging I noticed a website called “ Answers on Startups ,&# which I instantly loved and spent a bunch of time on. It was this sort of techie / geeky looking UI implementation of questions that anybody could ask about startups. I comment and I build awareness & reputation.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 17, 2020

intellectual properties or proprietary technologies) are giving you a competitive advantage, what makes your brand attractive to its target audience, and what tangible or intangible attributes are elevating your reputation in the marketplace. Improve conversion rates on your website.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2012

A good many startups I know have been “successful” over a couple of years in overcoming the challenges of starting the business, including incorporation, services development, funding, and setting up operations. It’s important to stand up to competition and wear your reputation on your sleeve. But don’t worry.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 24, 2020

Whether you’re interested in selling a website you built from scratch, or want to sell your Amazon-based B2C brand, there are many different baseline factors that go into determining an appropriate website valuation number. While it’s true that valuations can get quite technical, the basics are relatively easy to understand.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2016

One of the reasons that now is the time to be an entrepreneur is the explosion of startup assistance organizations, usually called incubators or accelerators. A few are still trying to make a profitable business out of nurturing startups, but it’s a challenge to make money when your customer startups don’t have many resources to give.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 28, 2011

A good many startups I know have been “successful” over a couple of years in overcoming the challenges of starting the business, including incorporation, services development, funding, and setting up operations. It’s important to stand up to competition and wear your reputation on your sleeve. But don’t worry.

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David Teten

AUGUST 20, 2019

Lighter Capital reports that they’ve funded companies in 30 states, including well established startup hubs and less mature ecosystems. . This would be easy to detect: among their portfolio companies, do startups with female founders outperform those without? Concentration in consumer/branded products startups.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2011

A tech bubble is the rapid inflation in the valuation of public and private technology companies that exceeds their fundamental value by a large margin. Today, the signs of the new bubble are the Linked-In initial public offering (IPO), Facebook’s stratospheric valuation and the rapid rise of early-stage startup valuation.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Legal issues can have dire repercussions for your company and could potentially tarnish its reputation while leading to significant financial loss. The post Understanding Actions and Consequences as a Business Owner appeared first on The Startup Magazine.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 7, 2023

This ability to stand tall not only helps in maintaining their reputation but also highlights their unwavering reliability to stakeholders and partners. The post 4 Ways How Risk Management Companies Ensure Financial Security appeared first on The Startup Magazine.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2013

A good many startups I know have been “successful” over a couple of years in overcoming the challenges of starting the business, including incorporation, services development, funding, and setting up operations. It’s important to stand up to competition and wear your reputation on your sleeve. But don’t worry. Marty Zwilling.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 20, 2014

If the company is doing really well, the VC will have an incentive to try to do more of the next round at perhaps not the highest possible valuation. In this case, the VCs really consider this a true investment of both time and reputation. Their aggressiveness sends a signal to the market.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 22, 2020

Another area that investors should look into is the valuation of the property. Many factors are dependent upon valuation, like taxation and the availability of financing. Having an overly high valuation means that taxes and insurance will be higher as well. Property owners need to work with a reputable broker.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Startups don’t just become worth multi-billion dollar valuations overnight. Small business loans are readily available to startups that are in need of immediate financial solutions. Micro lenders are always interested in loaning to startups that require income producing assets. 1 Purchase or Upgrade Your Equipment.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 30, 2022

The Proud Owners of a Startup. Today, as the proud owner of a startup, you’re probably much better at managing your money. It might take the experience of growing and exiting two or even three startups before you know how to do that. . Let’s take a deeper look at why your startup probably doesn’t need funding.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 10, 2022

I really enjoy our conversations and am especially glad you’re up for some candor, because it’ll help provide some insight into the state of the startup and funding market. Homebrew was on the board of a construction tech startup called BuildingConnected , having led their seed financing. Ok, first, let’s provide some backstory.

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Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

We looked at the companies in New England (call them "Boston and surrounding") that had exited in the last 10 years (2003-2013) with greater than $500 million in market valuation. Apparently, successful Boston-based startups have an even greater concentration of immigrant influence. Strong Diversity.

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 7, 2022

And with the tech valuation reckoning underway, if you’ve been RIF’ed you’re not alone. I can’t tell you whether this is just a few months of rightsizing or a multiyear recession but I do anticipate there are going to be more cuts — and outright failed startups — before our industry outlook returns to half-full instead of half-empty.

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Up and Running

APRIL 11, 2016

Morgan Franklin , a licensed real estate agent based out of Lexington, Kentucky, says, “I was confident [my idea] was going to work because I had already developed enough business to pay all of my startup expenses before I took my real estate exam.”. Essentially, your reputation is your brand. Keep Your Startup Safe from Legal Trouble.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 8, 2010

I’d embed the video but it doesn’t seem to allow you to do this so here’s the link the This Week in Startups, Inaugural show. My answer: “no.&# I believe that the team is high potential but the valuation seems stratospheric to me for the stage of the company. Crazy valuation. and much more.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Investing in startups is a lot more than just buying “stock” in a company. For investors who have come to the table with a history investing in publicly listed companies or the property market, it’s easy to think that backing startups is largely a “set and forget” strategy. Ask yourself, where is your startup currently struggling?

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 24, 2011

First up, Priyanshu Harshavat, from Evanston, Illinois, presented Socioclean , a service for cleaning up your reputation on social networks. Our co-host for the program was TiE Midwest, based in Chicago. Next Chris Ruder from Chicago, Illinois, pitched Spikeball , a new volleyball-esque game that is being played at camps and college campuses.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Below, he gives an honest take about what he’d do differently and what he’d do again as a startup CEO. Now that Backupify has had a nice exit and my life is in a different place, I agreed to write this post, full of my own advice based on my experience as a startup CEO. Startups are incredibly hard. Keep at it.

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The Equity Kicker

MARCH 22, 2016

Sometimes it works well – Jack Dorsey did a $10m seed round for Square in 2009 at a rumoured valuation of $40m and I’m sure his investors are very happy. It has always felt to me like the learnings from doing one startup must help with the second, although not enough to justify investors’ enthusiasm in backing them.

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