YoungUpstarts

MARCH 14, 2016

by Keith Smith, co-founder and CEO of Payability. Sure, VC cash can boost your business to new heights, but it also reduces your equity in the company, forces you to focus on company valuation, and provides a false sense of financial security. You also get to keep your company’s equity, and you don’t answer to investors.

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David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

(co-written with Stephane Nasser , co-founder of OpenVC , an open-source initiative to collect and analyze all VC theses.). OpenVC is a new, open-source initiative to collect and analyze all publicly available VC theses, to help founders more efficiently find the right investors, and vice-versa. Technical founders .

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

Brunner (@heatherjbrunner) | Twitter Preston James Co-founder & CEO DivInc Preston is at the center of everything Diversity & Inclusion in Austin. An early Human Rights Campaign board member and longtime Austin LGBTQ leader, Eugene co-chaired President Obama’s & the DNC’s LGBTQ Leadership Council.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Now the bad news: some venture capitallists have a bias against startups with an explicit positive social impact, on the grounds that they have a smaller addressable market, and that the founders are not sufficiently focused on creating shareholder wealth. If you think I’ve missed any, please contact me. Future Labs Flash Pitch. “For

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

While private equity has a history in the U.S. that dates back over a century , the “boom or bust” period of the 1980s to early 1990s is considered the period that marks the rise in private equity and venture capital funding as we know it today. According to Fortune , in 2006, female founders were involved in only 2.95

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2022

And after my surgery in 2016, I dived right into starting my own business and got a job with a photography company based in BC Women’s Hospital where I went on to photograph over 1,000 babies for over two years! My co-founder and I have both been professional matchmakers for over 20 years each when we started our business.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Carlson founded Polychain Capital in 2016. Peter is the founder of Bay Street Capital Partners. Guss is 28 years old and he is the co-founder of Octane Lending. In 2014, the company raised $28 million in shareholder equity. Collison co-founded Auctomatic in 2007 when he was a teenager. Peter Gylfe.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

2012-2016: The Era of Blitzscaling. But during this period, many founders and investors do prize growth above most everything else. Late stage rounds help keep companies private longer and eventually Facebook proves to be a blockbuster company… public equity investors hope to find the next Facebook pre-IPO.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 21, 2018

Stock market indices hit an all-time high in September as prices continue to move steadily upwards post the 2016 election. Cultural equity is a common casualty of a short-term approach breaking the social contract with long-standing employees. Headline GDP growth for Q2 is at 4%, its highest result in 4 years.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Founders generally need more focus on the market sizing, volume projections, cost details and margin expectations to balance the optimism of their passion for the idea. Co-founder and equity negotiations work best if you own all the equity. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 01/22/2016.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

It was there that I met Eric Simone (one of the first investors in Bazaarvoice) as well as Josh Baer (one of the first investors in Bazaarvoice through his team building our first solution and getting paid primarily in equity versus cash). Still in business today and run by my co-founder. Below is a post I wrote on their Yahoo!

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2017

I’m Shelia Fitzgerald, owner and founder of EliteFitz, a destination inspired women’s boutique. We have an amazing co-parenting style that works for both of us, and we’re both happy. Thanks to Emily Reynolds, founder of R PR Firm ! #4 We’ve continued bootstrapping since then — today we are a $2.5

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 2, 2016

Mark Zuckerberg can tell you a horror story about how his early informal breakup with a co-founder ultimately cost him a settlement later worth four billion dollars. A co-founder who loses interest and backs out early will likely be back to claim his half after you reach unicorn status. Late surprises lead to lawsuits.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

“If you can fix a problem for someone and do it better, quicker, and/or cheaper than your competitor, you’re off to a good start.” – Gabriel Kuperman, founder and CEO of CuePin. We created UpKeep to fill this void—a cloud-based solution that was affordable for any size business.” – Ryan Chan, founder of UpKeep.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2016

Every startup needs to start their funding search looking for grants, with no equity dilution, as well as contests and foundations. Attract a co-founder and key team members. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 04/20/2016. Get help with grant funding and incubator resources.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

For investors outside of Austin and LPs: Austin is a a vibrant startup market and this list of capital sources can help you identify firms to co-invest with and funds to invest in. He is the founder and former Co-Chairman and CEO of Motion Computing. We’ve compiled a definitive list of sources of startup capital in Austin.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2016

Other entrepreneurs don’t even realize that they badly need a co-founder or team leader who can complement their own skills. Update yourself on their history, founder backgrounds, and competitors. Adjust your lifestyle to work for equity value. Practice active listening with advisors and startup founders.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 27, 2018

Meyers and Kate Pope Hodel, co-authors of “ Beyond Collisions: How to Build Your Entrepreneurial Infrastructure “ How does a community find funding to support building and encouraging an entrepreneurial infrastructure? by Maria E. The connections and collaborations don’t happen by chance. Approach Foundations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2016

If you expect an equity investment from reputable investors for your new startup, you need to know the boundaries that often limit their interest. A solution would be to find a co-founder with the requisite background or investors who know you. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 04/15/2016.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Tim Schumann, Founder & CEO, Buddy Ventures , highlights that typically less investment capital is required to get into foreign startups at the same stage of development as a comparable US startup. . Founders’ determination. If you want to start selling abroad, an international founder is an advantage.

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

2012-2016: The Era of Blitzscaling. But during this period, many founders and investors do prize growth above most everything else. Late stage rounds help keep companies private longer and eventually Facebook proves to be a blockbuster company… public equity investors hope to find the next Facebook pre-IPO.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 28, 2016

In addition to fixing some lingering errors, lousy grammar, and poor word choices, we founder a few more places to insert Oxford commas so Amy and Ryan would be happy. There are two new forewords – one from Fred Wilson at USV (the VC perspective) and one from James Park, CEO and co-founder of Fitbit (the entrepreneur perspective).

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Austin Startup

MARCH 22, 2019

In December 2016, Capital Factory launched Austin’s first VR Lab. With games like 2016’s Pokémon Go , to movies like 2018’s Ready Player One, this emerging tech has come to the forefront of our culture. As the #1 best city to start a business ( according to Inc. “We Who Can Apply?

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 13, 2016

by Jeffery Kang, CEO and founder, IngDan. billion connected things will be in use worldwide in 2016. Not in the traditional way where you get advisors in exchange for vast sums of equity, but incubated as a spin-off from the lab and backed by a supply chain that’s got your back. It’s an election year.  Analysts forecast that 6.4

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 4, 2017

Startup activity in the United States increased in 2016, continuing an upward trend that began in 2015 , according to the Kauffman Foundation. asks Bruna Martinuzzi, president and founder of Clarion Enterprises. million valuation ($150,000 for 10 percent equity) in 2008. Airbnb was valued at $30 billion in August 2016.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Mike Arsenault and his two co-founders—all with technical backgrounds—built their MVP while working full time for other SaaS companies. “We An engineer by training, Founder and CEO Larry Gadea built the MVP of Envoy’s first product, Visitors, by himself using only free versions of software. “I Qualified.io

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2017

It’s using sensors to collect data about the movement of people, all forms of vehicles and bikes,” Herman Chandi, co-founder of analytics company CommunityLogiq, told TechRepublic. “A In 2016, the city agreed to add a smart eco technology center to showcase sustainable development, The Straits Times reported.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Mike Arsenault and his two co-founders—all with technical backgrounds—built their MVP while working full time for other SaaS companies. “We An engineer by training, Founder and CEO Larry Gadea built the MVP of Envoy’s first product, Visitors, by himself using only free versions of software. “I Qualified.io

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 10, 2017

The Institute includes a co-working space and accelerator (the Blackstone LaunchPad at UT Dallas), an incubator, a training group, a seed fund, and much more — all working together under the unifying, umbrella theme of entrepreneurship. I’m also executive director of the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

I've known Brian Chesky, Co-Founder, CEO and Head of Community at Airbnb for a long time. I think every founder, every CEO, every leader, could learn something, could take heart from Brian's example and I hope they will. Brian Chesky : I am Brian Chesky, co-founder, CEO, and head of community at Airbnb.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

The geographic concentration of network effects, jobs, and economic growth in cities is not a new phenomenon, but disparities between the haves and have-nots continue to expand : Workers in cities earned more than 50% higher wages relative to workers outside those cities in 2016 (it was 30% in 1980). Furthermore, as of 2016, the U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

I recently survey more than 150 VC friends from all stages and geographies what they thought about the market by asking “Which of the following statements best describes your mood heading into 2016?” In the case of startups the “buyer” is the VC looking to part cash for “purchasing” equity in your startup.

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