SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Some great content around the intersection of startups and being a Startup CTO in June this year. This continues my series of posts: Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March The following are the top items based on social signals.

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Software Review Startup Venture Capital Technical Review 217

David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

the “TOPSCAN” framework from my research study on value creation by VCs ): T eam-Building – We aggregate openings across our portfolio on our jobs page. We also have a better known brand than some of our early stage companies, so we can leverage that to help source talent. For example, consider public relations.

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Portfolio Technical Review Private Equity Database 60

David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

VC Platform community has grown approximately 120% in the last 3 years. aggregates resources from all the VCs. Real Ventures , an early-stage, Canadian-based fund, runs a two-day Founder Camp every six months. Requires ongoing management to keep community members engaged. . AskAnything.VC

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Private Equity Venture Capital Portfolio Equity 78

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

My colleagues Sebastian Soler , Steven Greenberg and I recently launched a new online community, PEVCTech.com , exclusively for PE/VC investors; engineers who work at PE/VC funds; and other technologists who specialize in working on this problem. The Pocket Negotiator is very early-stage attempt to aid in the negotiating process itself. .

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Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

When I came to Paris in 2006, I had a well-developed idea for a startup and nothing else. In that time, I've discovered that the startup scene is infused with passion, energy and a strong spirit of collaboration. Pamela Poole is a blogger, translator and tech writer, and founder of Francophilia.com , a social startup for Francophiles.

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France Technical Review Incubator Early Stage 163

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. . See Bessemer Venture Partners’ A comprehensive guide to security for startups. Data companies focused on early-stage startups include Aingel , fundsUP , Preseries , PredictLeads , and Sploda. 1) Manage the firm .

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Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

mashable.com

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Were seeing 3D printing start to take off, and were in the very early stages of this revolution. Amazons product suggestions are great because they have so much aggregate data. If they did, I could get an amazing aggregate view of whats relevant to me based on a more complete profile. 3D Printing for Clothing.

eCommerce 108

eCommerce Technical Review San Francisco New York City 108

Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

It was designed to bring together many of the new approaches to building a successful startup – customer development, agile development, business model generation and pivots. Startups, are not about executing a plan where the product, customers, channel are known. – not just web-based startups.

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Lean Business Model Customer Development Guinea 304

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

I had witnessed a number of early-stage tech startups in LA raise seed capital from the Bay Area and relocate. Adam had a full time startup and then was doing consulting (he later raised a VC fund). We have witnessed one hell of a startup boom from 2009-2014 which has coincided with the boom in accelerators.

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Early Stage Venture Capital Los Angeles Coder 290

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). VC & Startup Resources. Seed Startups. VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Hundreds of startups featured since 2005, will yours be next? About VC Cafe.

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Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

Venture Chronicles

MAY 26, 2010

This is the “tastes great, less filling&# debate that recurs on a regular basis in the venture capital and entrepreneur communities. From Lean vs Fat Startups: The Disrupt Debate ]. I’d be willing to bet that more investors lose a great amount of aggregate capital here than at any other stage.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 5, 2012

But Chicago-based startup MentorMob ( www.mentormob.com ) wants to change that – the free, community-based collaborative service aims to aggregate and organize the best online educational content on any topic, so it’s easier to find. With MentorMob , you spend more time learning and less time searching.”.

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Illinois Aggregator Chicago Widget 165

Hunter Walker

AUGUST 26, 2022

Hunter Walk: Ok, so we first met when you were leading comms at enterprise software company Box, a startup you joined when they were still pretty early and stayed at until post-IPO. But for the first time since abandoning my law school plan A, my mandate was clear: I needed to work at a startup. First, congrats! Enter Box.

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IPO Cofounder Early Stage Portfolio 90

www.seriesseed.com

MARCH 2, 2010

Mahatma Gandhi I hesitate to use a quote from one of the greatest people ever to grace planet earth, and certainly the question of how to structure early stage investment is a laughable cause as compared to the rights that Ghandi (also a lawyer) fought to advance.  I’ve attached version 2.0 Second, they are simple.

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Finance Term Sheet Equity Aggregator 58

VC Cafe

JUNE 19, 2020

Now it’s a big world of impact and technology out there, so let’s start by putting terms in context: Tech for Good: companies or projects that are concessionary in nature, might make a big impact in local communities but might not make as much money as a VC would require from its investments. Cecile Blilious and Leehe Skuler.

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Venture Capital Global South Africa 174

pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Incubators, too, helped flood the markets with even more startups, and AngelList played its part too. A name like 500 Startups says it all. This time around, there has been an explosion at the early stages, and the very late pre-IPO growth stages. More cash equals more entrepreneurs who get to start companies.

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Technical Review Silicon Valley Incubator Syria 93

Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2019

The panel will take questions and give stories and advice on startup sales from their vast wealth of experience in the entrepreneurial world. The W3 Method equips startups with the tools to articulate their strategy with their team, company, investors and customers.

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Austin Management Los Angeles New York City 48

Version One Ventures

MAY 27, 2015

During the early days at my startup JustBooks, our first growth hack was buying books to list so we didn’t have an empty site. It’s an easy way to get inventory in the early stage, but it’s not scalable as it gets expensive to both buy and manage inventory yourself. Aggregate readily accessible inventory.

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Aggregator Seattle Affiliate Demand 60

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 27, 2011

When you first start a company, the corporate brand hasn't yet developed a reputation or any customer momentum, so most early-stage companies leverage the brands of the individuals involved for credibility. There are tons of tips for developing your startup's pitch. Aggregate and curate to reinforce.

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Elevator Pitch Management Aggregator Curation 144

ConversionXL

JULY 29, 2015

Most project creators describe their project using aggregate framing. For example, digital startups are more likely to secure funding if someone on their founding team holds a doctoral degree. But indirect reciprocity plays a powerful role in online communities, such as open-source development. The problem?

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Campaign Reputation Metrics Naming 48

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

The teams live and die by the Lean Startup credo: “There are no facts inside the building so get the hell outside.” Life will be like that – in a startup, you’d either be talking about shutting down or pivoting like mad.”. If you can’t see the presentation click here. “Be Be frustrated, not embarrassed,” he counseled them.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

The teams live and die by the Lean Startup credo: “There are no facts inside the building so get the hell outside.” Life will be like that – in a startup, you’d either be talking about shutting down or pivoting like mad.”. If you can’t see the presentation click here. “Be Be frustrated, not embarrassed,” he counseled them.

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Eritrea Lean Libya Silicon Valley 258

VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2010

BizMe2 , a new Israeli startup led by serial entrepreneur Yair Margolin, is looking to do to conferences what WordPress did to blogging. VC Cafe: You have a pretty long track record in startups. PeerTV was linux on DSP, which aggregated content from the Internet like Boxee and BeeTV. Tell me a bit about your previous experience.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. Nevertheless, if you share too much in your funding process or meet too many VCs expect a certain amount of your ideas to spread around the startup community. This is unintentional and inevitable.

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Stealth SEC Advertising Accredited Investor 285

Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

I have been involved in startups since I graduated from college in 1996. My background with entrepreneurialism is this is my sixth startup. My name is John Bates. I’m the CEO of Executive Speaking Success and I’m a long-time entrepreneur. This is really an exciting panel to be a part of. Bates: Fantastic. Thank you Sabrina.

Small Business 95

Small Business Finance Forecast Metrics 95

David Teten

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

I believe it’s healthier to stage our investments in a series of modest-size checks. According to CB Insights, there is little to no relationship between financial runway and startup success. This may make sense from the individual perspective of a given VC, but collectively it ensures that early-stage companies are overvalued.

Management 114

Management Pre-Money Valuation Venture Capital New Hampshire 114

Startup Company Lawyer

MAY 26, 2012

President Obama signed the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (known as the JOBS Act) into law on April 5, 2012. Despite the buzz among entrepreneur communities, various restrictions may make crowdfunding impractical for companies raising money and the intermediaries that facilitate the process.

SEC 58

SEC Securities and Exchange Commission Accredited Investor Private Placement 58

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Problem was, I seemed to suck at the whole startup thing. Rather, I didn’t have anyone around me familiar enough with startups to tell me that I was doing it all wrong. One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going.

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

This led to an explosion in startups. Amazon in turn led to the formation of an earlier stage of venture capital now led by what I call “micro VCs&# who typically invest $250-500k in companies rather than the $5-7 million that VCs used to invest. The LP Community Hasn’t Yet Caught Up. There are also others.

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Venture Capital Software LP Early Stage 296

This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 1, 2013

For a long time, they were basically the only game in town for seed and early stage funding in NYC. Not only has the NYC ecosystem changed, but the whole ecosystem around early and seed investing has innovated. Not only has the NYC ecosystem changed, but the whole ecosystem around early and seed investing has innovated.

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Angel Groups Angel Investor Aggregator New York 146

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

While the CAC ratio helps SaaS businesses at scale to manage their Sales and Marketing spend, the SLC is a helpful framework for early stage businesses before you have meaningful data. 3) Analyze the aggregated data to determine best practices and benchmarks across your customers. Anonymous said. Hi I read this post two times.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

In February of last year, Fortune magazine writers Erin Griffith and Dan Primack declared 2015 “ The Age of the Unicorns ” noting — “Fortune counts more than 80 startups that have been valued at $1 billion or more by venture capitalists.” Next came Rolfe Winkler’s deep dive “ Highly Valued Startup Zenefits Runs Into Turbulence. ”

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IPO Term Sheet Silicon Valley Valuation 40

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

We’re co-leading the $6 million investment with Roger Ehrenberg at IA Ventures in NY and one of the most respected early-stage investors in the country in “big data&# companies. The Twitter Ecosystem for Startups & Investors. The Importance of Twitter. It is an awesome example of the power of implicit data.

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