Genuine VC
FEBRUARY 3, 2011
Much of the VC blogosphere commentary about startups covers venture and angel financing with advice focused on company founders. But most people in the startup game aren’t VCs nor are they founders (yet)… but rather they’re employees of startups. ” “How do I identify promising startups?”
Genuine VC
MARCH 24, 2014
A couple years ago, my partner Lee penned a blog post about the milestone benchmarks for startups raising a Series A round of financing. There really isn’t a hard and fast prescription for start-ups to follow after they’ve raised their Seed round, so what’s a startup to do? Generate Real Revenue.
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Genuine VC
FEBRUARY 3, 2011
Once you’ve figured out whether you want to find a very early stage startup or a late stage one (the topic of my first post in this series ), the real hard work begins. Whether it’s early or late, there are always a certain set of startups within a particular ecosystem that are generating all of the talk in the community.
Genuine VC
JULY 1, 2014
So I thought that on the day after the announcement, it would be useful to share these lessons which they taught me that I believe have broader applicability to other startups : Find a team who really gels together. Of course you want the founding team to get along. That’s a given. But what bonds Brian, Samir, and Andrew is pretty awesome.
Genuine VC
JANUARY 29, 2008
I am happy to share that we at Venrock have made an investment in a startup which directly addresses this problem. You could sell them on eBay or Craigslist, but that’s such a pain. And who knows how much you could get for them? Second Rotation is an online service which allows consumers to easily sell all of their electronic gadgets.
Genuine VC
JANUARY 29, 2008
I am happy to share that we at Venrock have made an investment in a startup which directly addresses this problem. You could sell them on eBay or Craigslist, but that’s such a pain. And who knows how much you could get for them? Second Rotation is an online service which allows consumers to easily sell all of their electronic gadgets.
Genuine VC
MAY 29, 2014
Not all startups are the same. Seed stage” startups raising $1M-$2M rounds of pre-Series A capital come in very different flavors. Some are pre-product, while all the way on the other side of the spectrum, some have meaningful revenue and clear up-and-to-the-right metrics. Better to be safe than sorry.
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