www.instigatorblog.com

MARCH 2, 2010

The Importance of Advisory Boards for Startup CEOs Tweet When a startup receives financing it will need to setup a Board of Directors. The Board probably existed beforehand, but was made up only of the founders. Mark Macleod spells it out beautifully in his post on Advisory Boards.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Free FoundersCard membership, 24/7 online support through forums, discounts on products and services, offline events, the assistance of an editorial team to aid in the creation and dissemination of content for the purposes of brand building and media opportunities, and more. The group also provides counseling for couples and families.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. Similar to the explosion of seed funds in the past decade, we (and some limited partners too ) believe these Flexible VCs are on the forefront of what will become a major segment of the venture ecosystem. Of the Inc. 5000 companies, only 6.5% return cap.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 6, 2018

2017 was another year of growing, learning, investing and partnering with amazing founders. 6 portfolio companies raised Series A financings including Manifold , Hypr , and 4 unannounced, 1 raised a Series B (unannounced), and Security Scorecard raised a $28mm Series C. Our partners include IBM and one unannounced Fortune 50.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Like many established finance & media companies, GLG knows that the tech startup sector is a growing part of the economy. We’re backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, Silver Lake Partners, and individual investors like Ron Conway, among others. Or, you can go straight to the source. Who are they?

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Find partners or investors. Who am I providing a service or product to? Is your product or service explicitly geared toward men, women, or children? You’re more likely to succeed if you start your business with a specific product or service designed for a particular group of people. Write a business plan. Build your team.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 28, 2017

As a new business advisor and angel investor, I have assembled my own favorite list of shortcuts to avoid, in the hope of saving you from learning these lessons the hard way: Be satisfied with verbal or handshake partner agreements. Focus on products and customers, and trust your accountant.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 12, 2019

It might be the products or the customers they deal with, or it could even be the fact that they are the ones in charge of it all. Whether it was product and service offerings or the way we conducted business, I often wondered, what could we be doing better? The reasons are as varied as the businesses themselves. 1- Three things.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Great for visualizing work of product development. agile product management. agile product management and Scrum tool. agile product management and Scrum tool. Agile project management tool collaborative product life-cycle. easy business finance software. YCombinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents.

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Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

In Customer Development the goal of a minimum feature set is to pare the features of the first product release to the minimum necessary for early customers. During the 1990’s large corporations had bought different software applications to automate each part of their enterprise – finance, customer support, manufacturing, sales, etc.

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San Francisco Database Advisory Board Silicon Valley 230

David Teten

JANUARY 13, 2015

Most investors and other members of the American elite come from a homogeneous background: white, male, straight, Christian (or Jewish, at least in the finance industry), tall , handsome , physically fit, graduate of a select university, with American parents of upper middle class or higher socio-economic status.

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Venture Capital Advisory Board Greece Cofounder 60

Austin Startup

DECEMBER 29, 2018

Bill Wood, founder of Silverton Partners and an early General Partner at Austin Ventures before, said something that got me thinking (quoting from the SiliconHills article ): Because it’s easy to startup a company and doesn’t take a lot of money, Silverton Partners sees more startups forming, Wood said.

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Cofounder Austin Technical Review Advisory Board 48

Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

So I've been on boards, you know, going back to 1994 was my first board shortly after I sold my first company. I guess I was on the board of my first company, but we didn't really, we didn't have a board. And having that spread across the board so that the board really can bring different things is powerful.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.

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Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2011

I also spend close to half my time teaching, and in addition to serving on the entrepreneurship advisory boards at Columbia, Yale and NYU, I am Chair of the Finance, Entrepreneurship and Economics program at Singularity University in Silicon Valley. My second, six years later, took only $2 million in VC funding.

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New York Accredited Investor Advisory Board IRR 221

mashable.com

AUGUST 20, 2011

For them, “working from home is the most efficient situation for us to build our product — we can be machines over here,&# says Golkin, explaining that the two simply “work, eat, sleep and gym, all with a constant Spotify soundtrack.&# Have an account? instead of having to travel home. Let us know in the comments below.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 20, 2019

It could be more revenue, hiring clients or launching a new product or service, where setting goals presents a fresh opportunity to achieve different objectives. I want to help the best brands around the world find their voice so that their target audience can find them quickly when in need of their products or services.

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Papua New Guinea Hawaii Advisory Board Churn Rate 65

Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2010

And some larger funds that specialize in later stage deals may have a partner or two who likes to invest at this stage. They understand that now’s not the time to hire a senior VP of Sales to start to scale the sales force or to look for a finance department to create income statements that say zero each month. Who Do They Hang With?

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Founder Vesting Later Stage Early Stage 232

David Teten

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

I’ve often found it helpful to have on hand a simple model showing the impact of each financing stages on all team members, suitable for sharing with everyone in the company. Projections were based on dozens of operational assumptions related to pricing, production, marketing spend, etc. Photo credit: dierken.

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Employee IRR Startup Mexico 155

Feld Thoughts

JULY 27, 2010

In 2008 I was invited by Pamela Samuelson , who I met through several Silicon Flatiron events, to be on an advisory board at the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology. My partner Jason took one of them on when he wrote his post 76% of Venture Capitalists Believe that Software Patents are Important (NOT!)

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 15, 2016

We had the chance to speak with Sassa to learn more about her background, SISU, and the amazing finance pathway SISU has followed. I’m a journalist and a children’s author, I have had my own production company and I have worked in television. Sometimes a great advisory board can be just as useful. But that was then….:-).

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

MAY 5, 2016

Brian joins Lightspeed as our Partner in charge of executive level talent for Lightspeed and our portfolio of companies. Prior to joining Russell Reynolds Associates, Brian worked at Salomon Brothers, Lehman Brothers and Thomas Weisel Partners, where he joined at the firm’s inception in early 1999.

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Silicon Valley Flash Advisory Board Pennsylvania 60

BeyondVC

JANUARY 29, 2009

  In typical startup fashion, they launched a product, got a number of users, and then iterated several times to improve the service.    What this boils down to is your simple product pitch. (1-2 Customer traction – is product in hands of customers?    While Version 2.0 What's the problem?

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Advisory Board Startup Early Stage Social Network 125

thestartuplawyer.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

About the Author Ryan Roberts is a startup lawyer and represents technology companies through all phases of the startup process, including incorporation, seed & venture financings, and exit transactions. We entrepreneurs constantly try to refine our product or model, so it is only natural to think that we should refine ourselves.

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