Up and Running

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

In this article, we’re going to explore why financial contingency plans are so important and help you create your own for your early-stage business. In the early stages of a business, there are often simply no resources to absorb any unexpected negative events. He’s been working in SEO since 2006.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 9, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Friday, March 9, 2007 Map of VC Investments Found this Map of 2006 VC Investments post. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh. Some very interesting graphics including this heat map: Very cool visualization tool!

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 22, 2010

When I went to raise money in 2006 I thought I knew every term in a term sheet but somehow I still got a bit duped by the option pool shuffle. VC’s in early rounds will argue that “participation&# is simply downside protection and if you sell for a lower price they should get more of the proceeds. This is a shame.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 14, 2011

And while there are currently there are seven incubators under the program, including Neoteny Labs and Plug and Play , the effort to boost the pool of investors and incubators should see more early-stage, high-tech startup companies in Singapore get nurtured. ” Global Money Flow – From the West to Asia.

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Mucker Lab

AUGUST 27, 2014

After stints as a technology investment banker, a dot-com entrepreneur, and a product manager in Silicon Valley, I moved to Los Angeles in 2006. It’s probably not too controversial to say that the median level of sophistication of early stage entrepreneurs in Los Angeles is lower than that of Bay Area. Cashflow” vs. “Big Idea”.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2015

msuster looking for an inspired post on when an exclusivity deal (w/ major industry player) works (cons as well) for an early stage tech co. — I would trade a 6-month exclusivity for a large, 3-year guaranteed revenue deal in many instances provided I’m an early-stage company looking for my first big contract win.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Angel investors are generally former entrepreneurs and/or executives, who invest in privately-held, early-stage companies. Relatively untested early-stage ventures are less predictable and more prone to failure than established companies. Source: Center for Venture Research – Angel Market Analysis Report.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

When I came to Paris in 2006, I had a well-developed idea for a startup and nothing else. OSEO validation in turn makes early-stage startups eligible for a variety of support services and funding options. OSEO can be involved during very early stage activities, such as business plan creation and feasibility studies.

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SiliconHills

MAY 29, 2019

Santé Ventures, a healthcare and life sciences investment firm specializing in early-stage companies, announced Wednesday it has closed a $250 million fund. This is Santé Venture’s third fund, since its founding in 2006. The firm is based in Austin and has an office in Houston.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2019

A very common mistake of early stage startups is to request a small investment to get started. Yet I can’t argue their success in the value proposition, since they turned down a billion dollar offer from Yahoo way back in 2006, and their market cap today is around $400 billion.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

This is the failure of many early-stage companies when they try to scale. I had the CEO of a prominent site in 2006 come to me near tears about how she couldn’t take the stress of running her company any more. Some entrepreneurs make the mistake of never devolving power. And the opposite is also true.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 29, 2019

When we started Techstars in 2006 we had one core goal in mind – helping entrepreneurs succeed. Amos decided to write Sell More Faster because he realized building early-stage sales organizations had become intuitive to him based on a simple but effective process he created back at Business.com called W3.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 4, 2019

The first is from David Rubenstein (Carlyle Group co-founder – one of Blackstone’s competitors) in 2006. Inevitably when people look back at this period, they will say this is the golden age for private equity because money is being made very readily,” Carlyle’s cofounder David Rubenstein told an audience at the beginning of 2006.

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SiliconHills

MAY 17, 2018

The venture capital firm, founded in 2006, focuses on early-stage companies and since its launch, the firm has made more than 50 investments in the enterprise and consumer technology categories. Silverton Partners, based in Austin, announced this month that it has closed on Fund V at $108 million.

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 5, 2015

I still wanted K9 to be the first institutional money in a company and work with “frighteningly early-stage” companies. Your early stage investment portfolio may no longer really be early stage. Over the next few months, I could see more and more signals that this shift was really happening.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

I built a 3,000 person tech networking organization in NYC back in 2006 and was one of the first 100 members of the NY Tech Meetup back in 2005 so I’ve participated in a lot of these conversations. That’s why you also need super early stage investors who can lead rounds, being willing to place bets when there isn’t much there there.

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VC Adventure

APRIL 16, 2018

Nassim Taleb’s book, The Black Swan had just come out and we decided to read the book and discuss its implications for the venture firm we were about to start in late 2006. I think we intuitively understood this back in 2006 and the cruz of our debate centered around just how diversified should a portfolio like ours be.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

For example, in 2006, we co-founded Techstars. He was dissatisfied with his experience and had a hypothesis around helping a group of companies get going, surrounding them with active mentors, and accelerating their early growth. At the time David Cohen, the co-founder and CEO, was unhappy with how angel investing worked.

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

social networking hype of 2006-2007. Best evidenced by the Russian investment firm Digital Sky Technologies and their investments in Facebook, Zynga, and Groupon, foreign investors more than ever before are placing bets on early-stage U.S. Here’s why: 1. Individual Investors, NOT Venture Capitalists, are Leading the Charge.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2013

A very common mistake of early stage startups is to request a small investment to get started. Yet I can’t argue their success in the value proposition, since they turned down a billion dollar offer from Yahoo way back in 2006, and their market cap today is about $126 billion.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2017

A very common mistake of early stage startups is to request a small investment to get started. Yet I can’t argue their success in the value proposition, since they turned down a billion dollar offer from Yahoo way back in 2006, and their market cap today is around $400 billion.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Early stage voice-activated CRMs will consist of a basic integration with well-established virtual assistants such as Amazon Echo, Google Home and Apple HomePod. In 2006 and in 2009, John was awarded the Technology Executive of the Year, and the Titan of Technology awards by the CTA.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 26, 2016

With that in mind, let’s look at an illustration of these trends below, which demonstrates what’s been happening to early-stage financing rounds over the last 15 years or so. Series A investors invested quite early, often before product/market fit.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 12, 2016

If we fund an early stage startup company today and it’s hugely successful, it’ll be coming into its own in 2025. We started Techstars in 2006 and ran the first Boston program in 2009. He labeled the company’s breakout year, 2006, as “The Dream.” Ponder that for a moment.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

With the sting of losses so fresh, much of the angel activity dried up in the early 2000s, but it restarted with the launch of Central Texas Angel Network in 2006 and Capital Factory opening its doors in 2009. The angels that were investing in Austin during this time period also got caught in the Dot Com boom and bust cycle.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 15, 2013

When we started TechStars in 2006, the idea of an accelerator was brand new. All four of us had been successful entrepreneurs and we decided to try TechStars as an experiment to help create more early stage start-ups in Boulder. We funded the first TechStars program in Boulder in 2007 with $230,000.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 18, 2011

A very common mistake of early stage startups is to request a small investment to get started. Yet I can’t argue their success in the value proposition, since they turned down a billion dollar offer from Yahoo way back in 2006, and value themselves today internally at $4B or more.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 9, 2016

We when started Techstars in 2006, our goal was to change the way early stage company creation and innovation worked. Or anyone else who has been positively motivated or influenced by Techstars in any way.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

They built industrial-scale funds dedicated to backing early-stage startups with $500k rather than $5 million. These funds were active back in 2006 when I was raising money for my second company. The earliest people that I spoke to who understood the changes in our industry were True Ventures & First Round Capital.

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VC Adventure

MAY 1, 2012

That’s the order of states with the greatest dollar value of seed and early stage investment according to a PWC MoneyTree study that my partner Jason blogged about today. Compare that with 2006 when Colorado ranked 12th on the list with just under $ 90M invested in 32 companies.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 31, 2014

In 2007, when we set out to raise our first Foundry Group fund, early stage tech VC was in the shitter. No one believed that you could make any money as an early stage VC and when we went out to raise our first fund, we heard over and over again that we were on a fools errand. But is wasn’t always this way.

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Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 5, 2010

In 2006, China’s total venture capital investment reached $1.78 Venture Capital started in China in 1985, when the first government-sponsored venture capital firm was established. The industry built slowly until a few years into the new century. B, becoming number two globally, next to the US; the US venture capital investment was $25.6B

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2010

A very common mistake of early stage startups is to request a small investment to get started. Yet I can’t argue their success in the value proposition, since they turned down a billion dollar offer from Yahoo way back in 2006, and value themselves today internally at $4B.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

The importance of the conference is that it assembles most of the top privately held early-to-mid-stage technology companies in the country (and some globally) as well as most VC’s, growth equity funds and corporate development departments from large industry players looking at technology acquisitions. TechCrunch.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

There’s no doubt (at least anecdotally) that the pace of VC investments in early-stage technology companies has picked up in the past few months. I hear from several sources that Sequoia is very active in the market aggressively chasing several deals and even driving up prices on some early-stage deals.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

You could argue that choosing the name “first round” paints them into a corner in case they want to ever do a late stage fund, but I suspect they named it FRC precisely because they wanted to excel at early-stage investing. I know that I call them often to co-invest.

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Agile VC

JULY 19, 2012

billion fund (CRV XI), though the firm’s roots were modest (Rick Burnes started CRV back in 1970 with a $4M first fund) and until then CRV had mostly stuck to its knitting of early-stage investing with small-mid sized funds. Like many leading firms CRV used this opportunity to raise a huge $1.2

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