View from Seed

MARCH 1, 2016

That story is how you recruit employees, convince customers to give you a shot, and secure funding. Are you aggregating and leveraging a competitive dataset none will be able to reproduce? Each financing you raise is to get to the next milestone, so when pitching your startup, some portion of your pitch should include a called shot. “We

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2021

We try to balance deals across (amongst other things): cyber-security, FinTech, computer vision, marketplaces, video games & gaming infrastructure, marketing automation, applied biology & healthcare systems, sustainability and eCommerce. Another 3–5 could return in aggregate $300–500 million.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Here digital intercepts of consumer activities are aggregated into large data sets, analysed, and assessed versus market expectations. To be in a position to benefit when the higher-volume platforms become fully operational, key players are launching lower-volume pilot programs. Underwriting.

Technical Review 154

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

And they were increasing at an aggregate 33 million IOS and Android activations per month. Equally of interest is a good number of them end up in the PLA’s GSD 3 rd Department (the equivalent of our National Security Agency. ) The motivations are the same – profit – driven by entrepreneurs and venture finance.

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Hippoland

JANUARY 4, 2017

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. For example, if a startup is raising $1m in a priced round, this means that the startup must find enough investors to in aggregate invest $1m into your company at specified terms within a certain time period.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

And they were increasing at an aggregate 33 million IOS and Android activations per month. Equally of interest is a good number of them end up in the PLA’s GSD 3 rd Department (the equivalent of our National Security Agency. ) The motivations are the same – profit – driven by entrepreneurs and venture finance.

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David Teten

JULY 14, 2014

Neither prominent asset managers not wealth management advisor nor the regulatory bodies were able to perceive and/ or prevent the massive destruction of value that happened as a result of the mortgage backed security market. Thus two main and divergent trends are taking place simultaneously.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 13, 2017

Those dreams can fuel any business as it secures loyal customers and achieves a consistent revenue stream, but that may not be enough to take it to the next level: its transformation into a larger company. by Stephen Sheinbaum, founder of Bizfi. Every entrepreneur starts out with dreams of success.

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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. Simply put, pro rata rights permit the investor to maintain its percentage ownership in subsequent financing rounds. Introduction. Pro Rata Rights.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 28, 2015

Financial services provider MasterCard has announced the results of its MasterCard Financial Literacy Index, which revealed that progress towards improving basic finance knowledge and skills across Asia Pacific has stalled as 12 of 16 countries record lower scores in financial literacy. ” Full scores and rankings can be found here.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 30, 2018

Medium has become the go-to place for snake oil salesmen peddling Initial Coin Offering (ICO) towards Medium reader base to make a financial decision based on speculative information that runs afoul of local and global securities laws. And what happens, the grandeur guy disappears off Medium. We seen this all before in history?—?the

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Coats says the VC firm spent more than six years and invested millions of dollars to compile a database of key variables from more than 60,000 venture financing deals covering roughly 98 percent of all U.S. It took another 21 months or so for Correlation Ventures to secure its first $8.5 venture investments since 1987.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 15, 2010

The aggregated product data can be easily queried, and thus compared, matched and filtered with unprecedented ease and power. Self reported: Stealth-mode peronal finance security startup powered by the collective vigilance and wisdom of crowds.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 15, 2010

The aggregated product data can be easily queried, and thus compared, matched and filtered with unprecedented ease and power. Self reported: Stealth-mode peronal finance security startup powered by the collective vigilance and wisdom of crowds.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 21, 2010

At the 2009 Demo Day , the company announced on stage that they had secured a round of significant seed funding. Today the company announces a $2M Series B financing, with return investors Silverton Partners, FLOODGATE (the new name for Mike Maples firm), and Capital Factory returning as investors.

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Startup Company Lawyer

MAY 26, 2012

” Title III enables “crowdfunding,” or the ability to sell securities in small amounts to a large number of investors. In 2005, Kiva launched a micro-finance platform that allows people to lend small amounts of money to entrepreneurs in developing areas. Crowdfunding Prior to the JOBS Act.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 2, 2013

Count stuff – This is what most would call finance, but to me it also includes measuring and analyzing all manner of data, both tangible and intangible. In many cases this business model includes the creation of a marketplace, handling transactions and ensuring security. Deliver stuff – This is where the real value exchange happens.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 28, 2008

Wize provides consumers with a unique way to leverage the online wisdom by aggregating the opinions of millions of users and by letting people ask questions about a specific product or need to the Wize community. Intego is the leading Security Software Suite for Mac. For those who are skeptics, check this latest Mac security alert.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 2, 2016

They may know what making a donation or buying a product on Kickstarter is but they don’t understand crowdfunding as we in the industry view it, which is financing a startup or a company and actually owning a piece of it. For entrepreneurs – what is the biggest must-do that helps with securing funding?

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2010

The team has already secured nearly $2 Million in Series A financing from Mike Maples new firm FLOODGATE, and Austin Ventures. The value is in how to aggregate, curate, display relevant content, create participation around the conversation, and analyze how it drives real business metrics.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 25, 2021

With typically no in-house accounting and finance teams, and traditional accounts payable (AP) automation solutions like Bill.com not meeting their flexibility and cash flow control needs, small businesses are still writing and posting checks to pay suppliers, a process exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Small investment firms often have interns and entrepreneurs in residence passing through, each of which is a security risk. See Bessemer Venture Partners’ A comprehensive guide to security for startups. One aspect of management which merits attention is your own cybersecurity, which should not be left until a crisis to address.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

One approach is to look at all wins and see which precise constellation of campaigns were involved in securing those customers. aggregate pipeline created in a given week) could be altered reflexively by their measurement -- a sort of Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle for high-velocity sales. Great stuff!

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 16, 2011

If you’re anything like me, I get really annoyed by the stacks upon stacks of bills I receive every month – not only is it a painful reminder of how much hard-earned money is being sucked from me, but also because it’s really, really difficult to keep track of one’s finances this way.

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viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Your service has to be secure, it has to scale immediately, you need PhD’s to help you develop algorithms and you’re probably applying for a few patents. You won’t need to scale right away and it doesn’t need to be super secure. I have a degree in finance. I'm writing a series on all the steps I took.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

It is vital to have a score of higher than 750 to have the opportunity to benefit from a home loan and secure better financing costs on your home credit. Likewise, some banks demand security that makes that qualification the bank to request extra security alongside your credit sum on the off chance that property costs fall.

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Transformify

JULY 14, 2022

Thanks to Open API integration, the customer’s job listings posted to Transformify ATS ( applicant tracking system) will be published by a lot of other recruiter services, job boards and job aggregators such as Indeed, Jooble, DrJob, Adzuna and many more. Calendar Integration. In this area, we rely on React.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

12 cloud IPOs in the past 2 years: One from Europe SaaS companies are thriving in the public markets, with their aggregated market cap grew 350% since 2011, and 12 cloud companies going public in the past 24 months. These 12 have performed well, with an aggregate $2.6

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Planzone – Secure and private collaborative project workspace to share files, manage tasks, and communicate with others. Database, File Storage & Information Management Pixily – An online service that lets you aggregate, organize, find and share your documents. skrbl – Online collaboration and white board space.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

And what Onward is endeavoring to do is both aggregate that information, but also organize it for the individual who's living through traumatic unemployment. And so that ability to match the resource to the human, based on the human's unique attributes, is really the fundamental functionality of Onward.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Together, CMRR, Cashflow, Churn, CAC, and CLTV make up the “5 C’s of SaaS Finance. As a private company, you have a VERY high cost of capital (well above 10%), whether you raise venture capital, angel money, friends and family investments, bank financing, or all of the above. Yahoo Finance. Philippe Botteri.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

It kind of aggregates technology content, I suppose. And of course, I wasn't really interested in the finance side of it to me. And all the security and backups were being kind of managed by this company. And so, all of a sudden, you have finance, and compliance, and bankers, and folks like that. I'm curious.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Bates: Good morning and welcome to our CEO panel, “How to Fine-Tune Your Small Business Finances From Funding to Growth” which I think is the direction that we would all like to be going. I’m here with some really phenomenal CEOs who are going to talk to us today about small business finances from funding to growth.

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Altgate

APRIL 22, 2009

"  It's basically a web tool that creates draft preferred financing term sheets for startups.  Obviously, WSGR has a much larger sample size and the fact that they make it public (in aggregate) is impressive. link] Swedes Start Voting as Reinfeldt’s Coalition Is Poised to Win Second Term | BZEE Finance [.]

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Scott Edward Walker

JANUARY 13, 2012

House of Representatives overwhelming passed the Entrepreneur Access to Capital Act , a crowdfunding bill which permits startups to offer and sell securities via crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter or social networking sites like Facebook.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Tweet View Comments Sarah Lacy Feb 19, 2010 Pepperdine has a new study out that attempts to shed some light on the clubby, shadowy world of private finance. Paglia, Pepperdiine’s Denney Academic Chair and Associate Professor of Finance. Think Again. Not a big shock, but things don’t look pretty, especially in the venture capital world.

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Scott Edward Walker

MARCH 1, 2012

House of Representatives voted 407-17 to pass the “Entrepreneur Access to Capital Act,” a crowdfunding bill which permits startups to offer and sell securities via crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter or social networking sites like Facebook. .” – Bill Maher On November 3, 2011, the U.S. What is Crowdfunding?

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