YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 5, 2012

But while there is plenty of great educational material out there on the Web, the problem is locating it; in fact, it is said that about 66-percent of time spent learning online is wasted simply looking for the right Internet sources. The company is currently seeking first-round venture capital and institutional funding.

Illinois 165

Illinois Aggregator Chicago Widget 165

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

The negativity either impacted investment funding (venture capital fell off a cliff in 2009) or the customers they were targeted as was the case for Untitled Partners who were building a platform for fractional art ownership. Now I just need a business model. 8 – Lack Passion and Domain Expertise. 5 – Ran out of cash.

Cofounder 89

Cofounder Startup Technical Cofounder CTO Hire 89

techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Researchers polled experts in lending, mezzanine capital, private equity, venture capital and private businesses themselves. Not a big shock, but things don’t look pretty, especially in the venture capital world. The businesses, it seems, vastly over-estimate their ability to raise funds.

Venture Capital 62

Venture Capital Technical Review Sweat Equity Valuation 62

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

If you are an entrepreneur seeking funding, try our free Funding Recommendation Engine to identify a list of angels, venture capital and state grant programs that best match your business. Post-Mortem Title : Lessons from Kiko, web 2.0 We had the wrong business model. It’s free. Get started here.

Software Review 79

Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Bloch was previously a partner in Jerusalem Venture Partners and an active member of the board in the Israeli startup Wix. Its business model consists of advertising and selling the behavioral purchasing data of its consumers – including brand loyalty and frequently searched for products.

Venture Capital 98

Venture Capital Aggregator eCommerce Partner 98

Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

Rule 1: In an existing market Customer Development means not only understanding potential customers, but your competitors in detail – their product features, their sales channels, their demand creation strategy, their business model, etc. We’re about to ship next week.” This is easy to test.

Silicon Valley 206

Silicon Valley Startup RSS Customer Development 206

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

You validated our business model and added huge value to our efforts. Keep up the blogging and web casts and we will keep listening and growing. However, as we know from the cable industry, subscription businesses can be very profitable over time. Let me just say "Thanks". to acquire the client. Bessemer SaaS Law #6.

Software Review 48

Software Review North America Europe Metrics 48

www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

For Web and SaaS businesses with smaller transactions at higher volumes, this kind of modeling and tracking is much easier, as web-based lead generation and marketing have easy to implement measurements, and the greater the volume of transactions, the more clearly patterns emerge. But this can be expensive to increase.

Metrics 55

Metrics Design Entrepreneur Startup 55

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

It is the first in a series of posts he’s writing about the decisions a young entrepreneur needs to make when she/he is first starting a business. The timing is perfect, there is more than a little overlap with Vivek Wadhwa’s guest post on venture capital earlier today. This is the blog post I needed to read.

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

Startup Company Lawyer

MAY 26, 2012

First, crowdfunding involving the sale of securities triggers the prohibitively expensive registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as generally no exemptions are available in many crowdfunding models. Some companies utilize pure donation models.

SEC 58

SEC Securities and Exchange Commission Accredited Investor Private Placement 58

Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

After college, I was a very early employee at a web company called Tumblr. I joined when there were around seven people there and ran business development there for a little over a year. It’s a web-based time tracking system. If you’re looking for five million dollars, you should be thinking institutional capital.

Small Business 95

Small Business Finance Forecast Metrics 95