Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

What accelerated this was the collapse of the public stock markets. There is also True Ventures that does early stage, seed investments. I have written more in depth on this topic in the past. – This massive increase in seed & angel funding caused Paul Kedrosky to predict that there is a coming seed fund crash. .

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2013

You see, we do most of our deals upfront at the Seed and Series A stage. We created one of the first accelerators in Los Angeles, Launchpad LA, which has gone on to help launch > 50 startups in the past 4 years who together have raised in excess of $150 million in capital. See what we did there? That seems pretty superficial!”.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 16, 2021

One of the main challenges is understanding the customer, especially during the seed one funding space when they are still figuring out the market need, their product USP, and product marketing key messaging. It also allows businesses to create call playlists to accelerate new hires’ sales training and ramp-up process.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

I've talked about this topic before in How Investors Think About Valuation of Pre-Revenue Startups. You can also take a look at StartupRoar 's topics: Startup Valuation , Pre-Money Valuation , and Early Stage Valuation. You didn’t get acceleration on a change of control? Same Value for Sweat Equity as Investment Dollars?

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Up and Running

AUGUST 18, 2014

This is especially true for those teams or individuals that become a part of an accelerator or incubator program. As I said above, incubators and accelerators are great for those that have never started a business before, or perhaps who have never started a startup. Difference #3 – planning for the ‘end’ or the exit strategy.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

A comprehensive post on this topic could be 5,000+ words, but we do not do such things here. Traditional seed funds have gotten bigger, many armed with opportunity funds on top. This is a huge topic and one that I will address separately in the new year. Hundreds of new micro funds somehow keep getting into the market.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 17, 2020

Growth was up, we were regularly getting featured in the App Store, and we were just about to kick off our seed round. marketplace growth ), looped in smarter people on topics I have little experience on, and collaborated with other great publications to reach new audiences. So I embarked on some in-depth research projects (e.g.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

It’s always fun chatting with Jason because he’s knowledgeable about the market, quick on topics and pushes me to talk more about VC / entrepreneur issues. In terms of topics we spoke about: - Do VC’s send your presentations around to other people if they don’t fund you? We covered the topics discussed on VentureHacks.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 6, 2018

We built out our CXO advisory board and further cemented our Fortune 500 relationships to help our portfolio cos scale from “founder-market” fit to product market fit in an accelerated timeframe ( meet our advisors ). This is a trend that kicked off over the last 2 years and will only accelerate in 2018.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

I have long tried to raise awareness of the trade-off between growth & profits as outlined in this much read blog post on the topic (and please forward to your favorite journalist who often simply report that companies that aren’t profitable are bad). Best to make sure you’re aligned closely with your investor on this topic.

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David Teten

AUGUST 15, 2013

The most common ways in which the Fortune 500 are working with the startup community at scale is through corporate VC arms, contests, packages of benefits geared to startups, and accelerator programs. Regional winners are awarded $100,000 in seed funding, with the overall winner taking home an additional $150,000. 4) Accelerators.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

Jason does an excellent job explaining the math behind more complex subscription forecasting, but also touches on topics like marketing and company culture. David Cohen is the founder and Managing Partner of Techstars, the #1 ranked internet startup accelerator in the world. What questions do you have related to this topic?

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Austin Startup

JUNE 5, 2018

Finally, if LGBTQIA topics are of interest to you, then also be sure check out content from March Magic 2018, which included community alliances, the gender spectrum, activism, visibility, the movement towards equality, and more. Startup Weekend HackOut is being organized in partnership with Techstars , StartOut and Lesbians Who Tech.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Here are a bunch of things I don''t do: I won''t do office hours anymore at incubators and accelerators. As for learning, if I really want to understand a topic, I''d much rather just connect up with a panelist one on one. If I''m going to be effective, I have to be very careful about how I dole out my time and where it goes.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

*This post is part of our “pitch deck” series where we dissect the seed stage pitch deck and discuss the ideal flow for a pitch. Financial Projections : At the seed how much a potential investor digs in to them differs, but nearly all investors want to see a set of financial projections.

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techcrunch.com

JUNE 22, 2012

Hot topics. Not to mention, once the founder and advisor have nominally agreed to a relationship, law firms enter the mix and seed the new advisor with a mountain of paperwork — legal agreements, options agreements — documents stuffed with legalese and binding statements. Enterprise. Smartphones. Digital Cameras.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Northeastern IDEA Venture Accelerator. WebInno Supper Club – Regular, small dinner series around very specific topics. Topics have included “Leveraging Pinterest”, “Mobile Commerce”, and “Facebook Advertising”. Coworking Spaces and Accelerators. Summer@Highland – Student focused accelerator. MIT Start Lab.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

We have a special program if you are pre-seed and need product development. We provide revenue-based funding and business acceleration support to service-based small businesses located outside of major capital markets such as Silicon Valley and New York City.”. “We Alternative Capital. “ You qualify if you have $5k+ MRR.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

” in 2014 the data seems pretty conclusive because LA has now become the fastest growing tech startup region by numbers of companies being started and those of us here have noticed this pace accelerating. Many of the early winners sold for north of a half a billion dollars. Success begets success. and are guiding LA 2.0.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 21, 2014

As the seed-stage startup fundraise process has received more transparency in recent years, ranging from published advice on how to raise seed capital to increased availability through AngelList, Funders Club, and various accelerator programs, I’ve noticed another trend emerging.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 18, 2011

Clavier spoke last week at the International Startup Festival in Montreal on the topic of raising money - with a special emphasis on the numbers that a startup should keep an eye on. Clavier recommends the book Do More Faster: Techstars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup. The next stage is seed funding, and you should raise $500k-$1.5m

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Even without a website of your own, you can publish through public blogs accepting topics of your niche such as Medium and LinkedIn. Apply to Accelerators. These are programs usually offered by seed funds, large established entities and investment firms to start-ups. City’s Entrepreneurial Community.

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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. If you want to expand your network, consider applying for an accelerator program such as Capital Factory , Techstars or Y Combinator.

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VC Adventure

OCTOBER 4, 2021

This is an important topic, and I wanted to share and emphasize a few insights from the conversation. A majority of these independent directors have accelerated vesting (as they should, in my view). Thelander’s data (n=123), ~70% of outside members of the board have 100% acceleration of their options. According to J.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2020

His lab specializes in accelerating the discovery of new drug compounds and treatments. His lab specializes in accelerating the discovery of new compounds and treatments. This is a topic that used to be considered arcane, and now the whole world wants to learn more about, and we all have a personal stake in understanding.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Our founders realized that investors needed to learn interactively, on-demand, on very specific topics, and in an atmosphere of trust. So GLG started connecting our clients directly to the smartest people on any given topic. Thus far, most GLG Share members have at least raised their seed round or Series A.

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OnlyOnce

MAY 13, 2021

This is an important topic to write about at this particular time because America’s “startup revolution” continues to gather steam. There are only increasing numbers of venture capital investors, seed funds, and accelerators supporting increasing numbers of entrepreneurial ventures.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2019

Then we reach out to all of the venture capitalists, accelerators and coworking spaces to spread the word. We invite you to join member representatives from Angel Capital Association (ACA) and Alliance of Texas Angel Networks (ATAN) groups for a conversation about the topics impacting angel investing today. Will ICOs make a comeback?

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ithacaVC

JUNE 13, 2017

Personally, I am a fan of accelerator programs. There is a healthy debate on this topic, but I think that being intensely pushed by good mentors for 3 months or so can only improve the chances of success! This morning I came across an interesting accelerator ranking.

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allthingsd.com

JULY 16, 2012

Seed-stage venture capital accounted for 22 percent of all deals, continuing steady acceleration since the beginning of last year. There were more seed deals than Series A fundings for the first time ever. It is a fusion of different media styles, different topics, different formats and different sources.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

accelerators, e.g., Dreamit, ER Accelerator, Techstars, Y Combinator. I was fortunate to get some thoughtful input from the leadership of DarwinApps , Casual Corp , Coventure , HappyFunCorp , OAB Studies , and World Accelerator. I’ll be writing more on many of these topics in an upcoming blog post on “staffing an experiment.”.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Yet they share values and hopefully some synergy around topics of mutual interest (same customers, or technologies). Accelerators take teams with fairly focused ideas and offer a formal 3-4 month program of tutoring/mentoring with seed funding in exchange for equity. Incubators are designed for teams with an idea.

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techcrunch.com

APRIL 26, 2013

Hot topics. This is just the next phase of AngelList’s evolution into a one-stop shop for seed-stage companies and their backers. « previous story Zynga Plans To Accelerate Its Launch Cycle, Says New Games Won’t Offset Declines In Q2. So youve got the inside scoop on a story or topic that weve covered?

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 17, 2018

As you drive, the box monitors your driving style, including things like braking, speed, acceleration, turns, and so on. Have a look at some of our money saving tips for further information on this topic. Primarily reading outside of business helps him come up with new ideas and draw new correlations between topics.

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David Teten

MAY 1, 2013

The awesome story of how CEO Joe Fernandez bought the Klout.com domain is one of many reasons we were excited to lead the seed round in Klout. The only other caveat is that the domain name must actually be a live website on the same topic as the keyword. Just purchasing an Exact Match Domain name is not enough.”.

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www.quora.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Type to Add and Search Questions; Search Topics and People Startups Startup Compensation Entrepreneurship Compensation Stock Options Major Internet Companies Silicon Valley Why is there such a large founder to early employee equity drop-off? Visibility at a Series D-funded company is much different than that at a seed-funded one.

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The Equity Kicker

DECEMBER 21, 2012

The coming Series A crunch is perhaps the hottest topic of conversation in US tech circles at the moment and the numbers in the charts above show why. So if there is to be a Series A crunch here it will be for the same reason as in the US; because the number of seed investments has ballooned.

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