YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 28, 2015

This article highlights their advice on issues ranging from financing to patent trolls: While startups may believe lawyers are too costly, working with one early on avoids potentially serious problems later. ” The Cost of Financing. In a Series A financing, companies must pay the investors’ lawyers as well as their own.

Convertible Security 100

Convertible Security IP Technical Review Software Review 100

David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

As an agenda for each meeting, I suggest: – How can we most add value, in addition to helping with financing? A well-organized library of best practices for founders in your vertical, which you can share as appropriate. aggregates resources from all the VCs. I have developed a founder curriculum on my blog.

Private Equity 78

Private Equity Venture Capital Portfolio Equity 78

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

” From the hyperbolic Jason Calacanis weighing in that “The petty VC’s did everything to deride [Naval, the co-founder of AngelList]” as though the industry was collectively s g its pants that AngelList was going to put us out of business. founder fighting. strategic direction. That would add too much overhead.

Syndicate 356

Syndicate Syndication Cofounder Early Stage 356

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

In other words, they’re telling companies that, in order to get next round funding, they’re somehow supposed to stay the same fast growers they were before the tech downturn, but just do that longer and get to higher aggregate revenue and performance numbers. Maybe the middle ground is not putting away your experiments.

Lean 166

Lean Aggregator Portfolio Revenue 166

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2017

by Joe Duncan, founder of Duncan Capital LP. Here digital intercepts of consumer activities are aggregated into large data sets, analysed, and assessed versus market expectations. Founder of Duncan Capital LP , Joe Duncan is a FinTech entrepreneur, with a strong background in Cryptocurrency and Artificial Intelligence.

Technical Review 154

Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Software Review IPO 154

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Gavin Braman, Co-Founder @ Drifting Creatives. Just like Peep, other marketers from hypergrown products, such as David Cancel (founder at Drift) argue that product-based differentiation is vanishing. It’s like they thought about the attendees and what they need and then designed a format focused on them.

B2B 94

B2B Marketing Curation PPC 94

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2021

We’ve had two companies where we had to bridge finance them several times before they eventually IPO’d We had a portfolio company turn-down a $350 million acquisition because they wanted at least $400 million. Another 3–5 could return in aggregate $300–500 million. It sold to Amazon for > $1 billion.

Bankruptcy 294

Bankruptcy Bridge Financing Portfolio Angel Investor 294

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 21, 2017

by Stephen Sheinbaum, founder of Bizfi. Debt consolidation can help businesses regain control of their finances. It can also help a small business to put itself on firmer footing, making it a better candidate for growth financing in the future. Overall Business Finances. Not sure what’s causing the drag on your finances?

Small Business Administration 145

Small Business Administration Finance Aggregator Small Business 145

Austin Startup

JULY 6, 2018

Some accelerators will require you to “make room” for them in future financings up to a certain amount. But 95% of founders I’ve worked with have viewed “cutting in line” to speak with investors as the main reason for entering an accelerator. Ask specific founders, off the record. Pro-Rata / Future Investment Rights.

Dilution 48

Dilution Startup Technical Review Equity 48

View from Seed

DECEMBER 11, 2019

I’m thrilled to announce that I’m joining [New Firm] as a Partner where I will continue to invest in great Founders across the industries I care about.”. “I Yes, there are intermittent points of feedback along the way, like valuation marks from subsequent rounds of financing. Bonus points if they’re a Founder of the firm.

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Venture Capital Cap Table Partner LP 204

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Pamela Poole is a blogger, translator and tech writer, and founder of Francophilia.com , a social startup for Francophiles. Through them, entrepreneurs can hook up with R&D resources in universities and companies, and get access to a robust support network that provides opportunities for visibility, growth and financing.

France 163

France Technical Review Incubator Early Stage 163

Hunter Walker

AUGUST 8, 2023

” What are my major assumptions for why there’s more markdowns to come in the aggregate for the last decade of venture portfolios? The reality is lots of companies – many of them quite promising – have already undergone, or will be facing, next financings which “clean up” old cap tables. Valuations.

Portfolio 98

Portfolio Cap Table LP Valuation 98

The Startup Magazine

MARCH 1, 2021

As part of The Startup Magazine Founder Interview Series , we interviewed Maha and David Harper, wife and husband co-founders of Atlas Group London, a construction-tech startup that has digitized the building of healthcare facilities. Co-Founder & CEO. Co-Founder & COO. David Harper. Maha Harper.

Technical Review 112

Technical Review Founder Saudi Arabia Cofounder 112

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 3, 2014

Recognizing the problem, a number of startups and accelerators in Malaysia have banded together to create Launchpad , an online service that aggregates and provides information on startup internship positions in Asia to help graduates and students to decide which jobs are the best fit for them.

Malaysia 186

Malaysia Matching Asia Thailand 186

Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

And they were increasing at an aggregate 33 million IOS and Android activations per month. ” A good number of startups in Beijing seem driven by the VCs – and not the founders. The motivations are the same – profit – driven by entrepreneurs and venture finance. Some startups acted like the VC was a bank.

China 327

China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 327

Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2018

They are talking about everyone who chooses to be self-employed – from a corner food vendor without a high school diploma to a high-tech founder with a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford.). Increasing the number of new ventures will only generate aggregate wealth if those who start firms are truly more productive as entrepreneurs.

Entrepreneur 336

Entrepreneur Business Model Capital Gains Aggregator 336

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 13, 2017

by Stephen Sheinbaum, founder of Bizfi. Stephen Sheinbaum is the founder of Bizfi , an aggregation marketplace that offers many kinds of alternative funding, from short-term finance to longer term loans, equipment finance and lines of credit. Every entrepreneur starts out with dreams of success.

Small Business 100

Small Business Small Business Administration Social Media Aggregator 100

VC Adventure

APRIL 30, 2020

I wrote recently about the The Finance Assistance Network (FAN) , that I helped set up (along with Lew Visscher and Phil Votteiro) three weeks ago to offer pro bono financial advice to small businesses affected by COVID-19. Lew Visscher is the founder of Lew’s List. I though it was worth sharing here as well.

Small Business 79

Small Business SBA Colorado Finance 79

Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

And they were increasing at an aggregate 33 million IOS and Android activations per month. ” A good number of startups in Beijing seem driven by the VCs – and not the founders. The motivations are the same – profit – driven by entrepreneurs and venture finance. Some startups acted like the VC was a bank.

China 219

China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 219

Scott Edward Walker

JUNE 9, 2019

Over the past few weeks, two of my clients have received financing term sheets in which the investors requested super pro rata rights. Accordingly, I thought it would be helpful for founders to discuss these rights and to point out the problems they create for startups. This is a huge red flag and founders should push back very hard.

Preferred Stock 56

Preferred Stock Term Sheet Dilution Stock 56

www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Sakti3 Founder Sastry to Step Down From U-M. Co-Founder and CEO, Wetpaint. Founder, DEKA Research and Development Corporation. On its website , the firm says, “We track everything from financing details, investors, board members, and management, to industry segments, business stages and exits.” Subscribe for Free.

San Diego 40

San Diego Venture Capital Technical Review San Francisco 40

Hunter Walker

AUGUST 26, 2022

I had gone to high school with the founders in the Seattle area, and we had recently reconnected. My boss, Jen Grant , was an incredible manager, and Aaron Levie, the co-founder and CEO, was a fantastic partner on all things communications. I tried to get hired at Better Place and failed. Enter Box. They gave me a shot.

IPO 91

IPO Cofounder Early Stage Portfolio 91

K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 10, 2017

I’ll start with all the questions I can think of, from many different perspectives: founders, LPs, the press, and even other VCs. This post is intended to be a dynamic document, and I will attempt to update it from time to time with new questions that may arise or as financing trends evolve. Q: Is Pre-Seed a Thing?

Seed Stage 82

Seed Stage Finance Later Stage Equity 82

Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2013

Recently, the financing of innovation in medical devices has collapsed even further with most Class III devices simply unfundable. Digital Health covers a broad spectrum of products, unless the founders have domain experience startups in this area usually discover the FDA and the 510(k) process later than they should. .

Startup 300

Startup Venture Capital Lean IPO 300

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

It was 2009 and it was terribly difficult to get any financing (if you can remember a time like that!) She joined Launchpad as a very non-traditional founder and defied every conventional expectation to build one of LA’s fastest growing companies. They have raised company profiles and made follow-on financings easier.

Early Stage 290

Early Stage Venture Capital Los Angeles Coder 290

YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2012

Lauren Bush at Under30CEO , April 21, 2011 : Lauren Bush, co-founder of FEED Projects, discusses how she applied her entrepreneurial skills to the nonprofit, social justice sector. Watch this video with the site’s founder and CEO where he talks about how he launched everything solo and wound up with an entire company built around one idea.

Entrepreneur 231

Entrepreneur Cofounder Washington Bangladesh 231

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

Consequently, you’ve decided to utilize this passion and expertise to collect and aggregate social media data from some of the popular social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, CrunchBase, and LinkedIn. Thus, you must manage your available finances wisely. Implement the “lean startup” philosophy.

Bootstrapping 85

Bootstrapping Global Startup Hungary 85

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

It should be even more important to the founders themselves, because it demonstrates that their business hypothesis is grounded in reality. These founders have not managed, to borrow a phrase from Steve Blank , to create a scalable and repeatable sales process. More on that in a moment. They are close to breakeven.

Customer 167

Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 15, 2010

The aggregated product data can be easily queried, and thus compared, matched and filtered with unprecedented ease and power. CrowdSpot -credit verification through your social graph, started by Yaron Samid, founder of TechAviv and former co-founder and CMO of Pando Networks, and Raphael Ouzan.

Stealth 74

Stealth Cofounder Matching Artificial Inteligence 74

VC Cafe

OCTOBER 15, 2010

The aggregated product data can be easily queried, and thus compared, matched and filtered with unprecedented ease and power. CrowdSpot -credit verification through your social graph, started by Yaron Samid – founder of TechAviv and former co-founder and CMO of Pando Networks.

Stealth 79

Stealth Cofounder Matching Artificial Inteligence 79

The Next Web

DECEMBER 5, 2013

I asked a panel of fellow founders from the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) the following: Name one SaaS product your business uses to convert more leads into actual sales and why is it so effective. Contactually helps aggregate all of your networks and contacts into a central hub that tracks your relationships.

Sales 136

Sales Product Aggregator Database 136

Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 4, 2020

I first met Joe when he was working as a General Partner for Entrepreneur First , a Greylock -backed early stage tech fund which has gone on to raise and run $200 million in capital for start-ups, creating a global portfolio with an aggregate value of more than $2 billion.

United States 28

United States Silicon Valley Artificial Inteligence San Francisco 28

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2019

A report that can be filtered and aggregated by data points like team, portfolio, or customer, also acts as a KPI that allows teams to identify which projects need attention, which are profiting, and which are facing losses. Vadim Katcherovski is the Founder and CEO of Project Management software platform, Easy Projects.

Artificial Inteligence 168

Artificial Inteligence Software Review Management Software Developers 168

Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

A check-in aggregation platform. I take CFO roles in early stage companies and participate on the management team during the early financings and business model development phases. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State. TuneUp - iTunes plug-in that cleans up your music library.

Technical Review 38

Technical Review San Jose Angel Investor Silicon Valley 38

Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

While currently free to angel groups, their business model revolves around aggregating the angel investment data. If my math is correct, this is approximately a 31% IRR, which has to beat individual angel investments on aggregate and venture capital returns over the period of the study (1990-2007). return on investment after 3.5

Pre-Money Valuation 28

Pre-Money Valuation Angel Investor Angel Groups Valuation 28

Hippoland

JANUARY 4, 2017

Lawyers can charge as much as $10k-$30k (in the US) to draft and execute the legal docs for an equity round, and traditionally, founders are responsible for paying for this as well as investors’ legal costs! So, in the aggregate, it is possible that you may be required to pay as much as $30k-$50k to get an equity round done.

Convertible Security 48

Convertible Security Equity Security Silicon Valley 48

Austin Startup

JUNE 21, 2010

In early 2009, the founders of Sparefoot (then called Homstie.com) had a vision of allowing people with extra storage space in their homes to make a match with people who wanted to store things. During the summer of 2009 the founders did more research on the market, tested out some ideas and refined their offerings.

Los Angeles 72

Los Angeles Aggregator Early Stage Partner 72