YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 3, 2019

They had unique technology, but needed help better explaining why that mattered to buyers who were stuck in the old ways of thinking about network security risk, products and categories. When FireEye became my client, their revenues were stalled in the low millions of dollars a year.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Building extensive experience in the financial service industry over a twenty year career, Donato Sferra began his financial career as an equity research analyst at TD Securities, specializing in auto parts, solar and automation. That’s the complete package that those in the venture capital world are interested in seeing.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2020

If you want your business to grow faster by taking on investors and raising venture capital, you might want to switch your business entity from an LLC to a C Corporation. The C Corporation is often the best choice for companies that want to take on capital from investors or sell shares of stock.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 9, 2019

Debt funding, in simple terms, is a way of raising the capital needed in the establishment or development of a business enterprise. To start any business, you need capital, and in order to raise this capital, you need to have a business. However, there are many people who don’t plan to raise venture capital anytime soon.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

After all, the show is essentially about pitching a burgeoning business in order to secure venture capital funding. In fact, this is true with any group of venture capital investors. You’ll need to appear fully prepared and in complete command of the facts if you have any hope of securing their funding.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 16, 2018

There, he would be showered in venture capital, build a team of similarly brilliant twenty-somethings, acquire millions of customers seemingly overnight, and steer his startup to an IPO and himself to the cover of Inc magazine well before his 30th birthday. Instead, he would take his evident talent to Silicon Valley.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 2, 2015

Robot,” a new TV series that follows a cyber security hacktivist who shut down DDOS attacks by day and hacks criminals in his free time, all in the name of doing good. At a time of year when families are packing up and heading off on vacation, the news proves that your cyber security can’t afford to take a break.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 9, 2018

Yet if you are lucky enough to secure venture capital, your chances of success will be quite good. The value of overall venture capital investment in the US is nearly $72 billion , but startups get a very small fraction of it.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2018

It’s also valuable to your branding as it protects your business’s reputation and secures your intellectual property from copyright infringement. . Money is an important issue, and it has always been that way ever since the capital markets were formed. For one, startups can access venture capital from larger enterprises.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 1, 2018

Most investors, venture capital firms, and board members will ask about D&O insurance. Side C : Protects the company in cases of shareholder lawsuits or class action over securities concerns. Cyber security statistics shows that 43 percent of cyber attacks are aimed at small businesses. Employment Liability Insurance.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2019

All of these are absolutely key to increasing your startup’s ability to demonstrate the traction it needs to secure the confidence of investors and the next round of financing. It gives you a prescriptive approach to category creation and market validation, product positioning and acquiring validated market feedback.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Ticketbis, a Spain-based online platform where users can easily and securely buy and sell tickets for every kind of event, such as concerts, festivals, theater plays, art performances or soccer games – earlier last month closed a round of funding worth US$6.6 million, making it a total of $12.7 million since its founding in 2009.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 6, 2016

While grocery retailers used to maintain a secure front through their physical location, that’s not all it comes down to anymore. Take a look at these two ways the grocery industry can come together to compete against these hidden competitors: Tap venture capital investors to help with innovation.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Ralph (Buddy) Arnheim , a partner in international law firm Perkins Coie ‘s Business practice, focuses his practice on the representation of emerging growth companies, venture capital funds and other early stage investors, and investment banks. Thinking Aloud business plan executive summary Ralph Arnheim'

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 26, 2020

Gurinder Sangha, a securities lawyer who started Intelligize (sold to Lexis-Nexis), put it best when he said that you want to go after investors that are “in your tribe.”. Sangha was a graduate of University of Pennsylvania and his first venture capital investor turned out to be an alumni. Who is in your tribe? In the U.S.,

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

Using venture capital can be a good source of funding. It is important that business owners or entrepreneurs understand venture capitalists often expect a controlling interest in the company in exchange for a hefty initial investment. The partner may become an employee or may remain outside the business as a silent partner.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 24, 2014

If you decide that you need more capital, try to secure it before you launch your new business or at least plan how you intend to do so. There is any number of options for raising capital. You may be able to able to ask family and friends for relatively small amounts.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

One of the earliest and most critical decisions an entrepreneur must make is whether to self-fund a startup by bootstrapping, or raise outside funding through venture capital.” – Forbes. The day I secured a large contract with Nintendo I decided to jump ship and quit my day job to focus my energy on building out Inversoft.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Securities Class Action Filings: 2014 Year in Review. His specialties include Public Directors & Officers Liability, Employment Practices Liability, Fiduciary, Crime, K&R, Venture Capital and Private equity programs. 1] Cornerstone Research. He has more than 20 years of industry expertise.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 6, 2016

Currently in its 7th season, the show features a panel of potential venture capital investors, called “sharks”, that considers offers from aspiring entrepreneurs seeking investments for their business or products. Having a well thought out product would go a long way in securing an investment. Do the Math.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 25, 2016

The trend toward launching without planning may be why the failure rate for venture capital-backed businesses is as high as 75 percent. I secured preorders by meeting in the field with my first two customers. Or should you do some planning first? Yet, if you take too much time to plan, you may never launch your business at all.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 27, 2015

Yet very small businesses (VSBs) are one of the last untapped bastions of innovation and, by association, venture dollars. Innovations in SaaS have made core VSB functions like lead conversion, scheduling, CRM and secure transactions available online for the first time ever.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

specializing in public and private mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital transactions and general corporate and securities law matters. Prior to co-founding Should I Sign, Tej was a corporate attorney at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP and then Kleinberg, Kaplan Wolff & Cohen, P.C.,

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 11, 2017

Earlier this month, my co-founders and I raised our sixth round of venture capital funding for Nvoicepay. However, we do know that only about nine percent of entrepreneurs in venture capital backed technology startups are women. by Karla Friede, CEO, co-founder, and member of the Board of Directors at Nvoicepay.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 31, 2016

Being part of a new and unestablished company brand results in even greater challenges and distractions as they attempt to move from angel or venture capital funding to self-sustainment. Larger portfolios and fancy promotions can follow, but get the basics in place at the very beginning or in other words, secure the foundation.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 14, 2016

As an entrepreneur, though, you should look no further than Fab.com as a cautionary tale of venture capital. The Drawbacks of Venture Capital. In 2016, there will be another twist in crowdfunding as the Securities and Exchange Commission opens up equity options to unaccredited investors.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 3, 2012

SteveWoda : Steve Woda is the CEO and co-founder of uKnow.com, offering insight into safety and security online. FrancisBoulle : CEO of FundMine Francis Boulle talks angel investment and venture capital on @FrancisBoulle. @artpapas : CEO and founder of Bullhorn, @artpapas is an authority on recruiting technology.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

The stakes will always be high—at one end of the spectrum you fail to raise the capital you need and at the other end you give up more ownership of your company than necessary to secure funds. PMVs are important for both angel investment and venture capital pitches. With that much at stake, do your best to get it right.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Then came the rise of the private equity firms, the explosion of Venture Capital and more recently Corporate Venturing. Investing in a more secure option of data sharing and a document repository will be an important line item for 2016 budgets. New sources of funding.

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