View from Seed

MARCH 24, 2021

So, we decided to aggregate NextView’s “greatest hits.” Free Template for Great Startup Pitch Decks, Direct from VCs. ’ like all startups have to, but also “why invest now?'” Seed stage startups are now graded on a curve.” Happy reading! The Fundraising Process. ” (Rob Go).

Seed Stage 177

Seed Stage Hiring IPO Analytics 177

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2021

Photo by Vanna Phon on Unsplash Customer acquisition is the lifeblood of many startups from e-commerce to gaming to marketplace companies, among others. Most of these startups spend the lion’s share of their marketing budget in today’s social media channels: Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Snap, TikTok and so on because?—?no no surprise?—?that’s

Founder 424

Founder Product Cofounder Acquisition 424

Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. This left an open playing field for Chinese software startups as they “copy to China” existing U.S. And they were increasing at an aggregate 33 million IOS and Android activations per month.

China 216

China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property 216

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.

Lean 159

Lean Aggregator Portfolio Revenue 159

View from Seed

MARCH 1, 2016

All of these stories are useful for recruiting, internal alignment, and business development—they really serve as analogies for different types of startups. If you can tell these stories well, it will be a huge weapon in your startup’s arsenal. Are you aggregating and leveraging a competitive dataset none will be able to reproduce?

Founder 120

Founder Technical Review Cofounder Non-Compete 120

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Since 2005 startup accelerators have provided cohorts of startups with mentoring, pitch practice and product focus. What’s been missing for everyone is: a common language for investors to communicate objectives to startups. a language corporate innovation groups can use to communicate to business units and finance.

Incubator 312

Incubator Intellectual Property Startup Lean 312

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 4, 2015

I’m a startup founder and I spend more time at the office than I’d like to admit. Work/life balance has become a hot topic in the startup world. Duolingo is an online language learning startup that counts Ashton Kutcher as one of its investors. Remember the pilot episode of Alex Blumberg’s StartUp podcast? Sound familiar?

Founder 100

Founder Arizona Cofounder Technical Review 100

VC Adventure

AUGUST 15, 2018

It was and is imprecise science but – at least in the case of venture backed startups – there wasn’t much harm in an option being priced low. These reports are generally quite lengthy and not always particularly comprehensible to non-finance professionals. I was wrong.

Valuation 48

Valuation Common Stock Cap Table Software Review 48

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 3, 2014

The startup scenes in Southeast Asia – Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam, among others – have been thriving, attracting scores of students and young graduates who want to be part of their local startup movement. And many of these startups, some flush with cash and others eyeing international expansion, are hiring.

Malaysia 186

Malaysia Matching Asia Thailand 186

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Is your new startup targeting auctions? … Due to the relatively small potential contract values in restaurants, startups serving these customer segments have to build very efficient sales teams or online customer acquisition tools to aggregate many of them inexpensively. . The other half is commercial gallery sales.

Small Business 110

Small Business Marketing Startup Silicon Valley 110

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? aggregates resources from all the VCs. Once you have assembled the right core team, I recommend prioritizing as follows: First, meet with your portfolio company management. – What are your fundraising goals?

Private Equity 78

Private Equity Venture Capital Portfolio Equity 78

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2021

Shots on Goal Being great as a startup technology investor of course requires a lot of things to come together: You need to have strong insights into where technology markets are heading and where value in the future will be created and sustained You need be perfect with your market timing. On Funding?—?Shots

Bankruptcy 294

Bankruptcy Bridge Financing Portfolio Angel Investor 294

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.

France 163

France Technical Review Incubator Early Stage 163

Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2013

What if we could increase productivity and stave the capital flight by helping Life Sciences startups build their companies more efficiently? One would think that designing a medical device would be a simple engineering problem, and startups would be emerging right and left. Life Sciences II – Medical Devices. Regulatory Issues.

Startup 296

Startup Venture Capital Lean IPO 296

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.

Lean 300

Lean Business Model Customer Development Guinea 300

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Here are four critical challenges of tech startup PR. Technology industry startups have to pay more attention to their image than most other companies do. The business side chronicles which startups locked down financing rounds, who are providing them, and what the money is earmarked to do.

PR 107

PR Startup Social Media Silicon Valley 107

Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2018

If you asked me why I gravitated to startups rather than work in a large company I would have answered at various times: “I want to be my own boss.” “I It never crossed my mind that I gravitated to startups because I thought more of my abilities than the value a large company would put on them. I love risk.” “I

Entrepreneur 336

Entrepreneur Business Model Capital Gains Aggregator 336

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

In other words, you must start bootstrapping an online startup , because the future of the global business world is online. What is a startup? Before we look at ways to bootstrap a startup, let’s consider a comprehensive definition of what a startup is. Ways to bootstrap a startup.

Bootstrapping 85

Bootstrapping Global Startup Hungary 85

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 99

Portfolio Cap Table LP Valuation 99

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Five Quarters of Profitability During the 1980’s and through the mid 1990’s startups going public had to do something that most companies today never heard of – they had to show a track record of increasing revenue and consistent profitability. The world of building profitable startups as the primary goal of Venture Capital would end in 1995.

Silicon Valley 223

Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 223

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

As many of you know, in the past I’ve done a series of posts deconstructing the S-1s of VC-backed internet startups going public. A few years ago this was sort of a novelty… not that many startups were going public and not that many bloggers or mainstream journalists took the time or had familiarity with combing these SEC filings.

IPO 194

IPO Aggregator B2B Internet 194

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. It was 2009 and it was terribly difficult to get any financing (if you can remember a time like that!) Adam had a full time startup and then was doing consulting (he later raised a VC fund). Startup Lessons'

Early Stage 290

Early Stage Venture Capital Los Angeles Coder 290

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. Introduction. Pro Rata Rights.

Preferred Stock 56

Preferred Stock Term Sheet Dilution Stock 56

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Certain experts have described the situation as a Keynesian supply shock, a negative event that triggers aggregate supply shortages with bigger impacts than the prior reduction in labor supply. A lot of companies suffered supply chain disruptions due to COVID-19. Yet, they get more complicated.

B2B 153

B2B Cost Management Forecast 153

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.

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. Self reported: Stealth-mode peronal finance security startup powered by the collective vigilance and wisdom of crowds.

Stealth 79

Stealth Cofounder Matching Artificial Inteligence 79

www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Startups ›. View More in Startups ›. 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. View More in Life Sciences ›. View More in Mobile ›. Dan'l Lewin.

San Diego 40

San Diego Venture Capital Technical Review San Francisco 40

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

It's tough to be a startup in the daily deals space these days. To quantify some of this, CB Insights has released a report covering valuation multiples for both M&A and venture financing for Daily Deal startups. Of course this is two seperate data sets so you have to be careful but it's probably directionally accurate.).

Valuation 124

Valuation Aggregator Acquisition Differentiation 124

Genuine VC

JULY 10, 2012

There are essentially two distinct basic strategies for startup entrepreneurs to raise a seed round of capital: Subscription approach – An entrepreneur sets a structure (usually a convertible note) and recruits individual angel investors who subscribe to the round, all without a term-driving lead investor.

Syndicate 207

Syndicate Syndication Seed Stage Portfolio 207

www.seriesseed.com

MARCH 2, 2010

SeriesSeed.com Series Seed Financing Documents Blog Home Documents Blog Archives Subscribe 09/02/2010 Version 2.0   That’s because there are not that many issues to negotiate in a simple equity financing. Let’s imagine that using the more simple documents saves 10% of the time and money involved in a seed financing.

Finance 58

Finance Term Sheet Equity Aggregator 58

K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 10, 2017

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: What amount of financing is considered Pre-Seed? Typically, Pre-Seed rounds are less than $1M in aggregate capital raised. Q: Define Pre-Seed?

Seed Stage 82

Seed Stage Finance Later Stage Equity 82

Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

In the case of an early-stage startup that hasn’t issued preferred stock yet, the debt converts into stock of the acquiring company (if it’s a stock deal) at a valuation subject to a cap. In this case, the documents dictate that the company will pay back outstanding principle plus interest and then a multiple on the original investment.

Conversion 96

Conversion Sales Later Stage Preferred Stock 96

www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Blog About Log in Register Designing startup metrics to drive successful behavior Great companies are almost always run by great management teams. Share: Posted in Building for Success , Sales & Marketing Machine , Startup Help. Most startups probably don't have enough runway to try one thing at a time.

Metrics 55

Metrics Design Entrepreneur Startup 55

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Validated learning about customers Would you rather have $30,000 or $1 million in revenues for your startup? In an early-stage startup especially, revenue is not an important goal in and of itself. Let’s start with a simple question: why do early-stage startups want revenue?

Customer 167

Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

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.

IPO 91

IPO Cofounder Early Stage Portfolio 91

Austin Startup

JANUARY 30, 2018

As soon as the DAO went south, that same guy start posting grandeurs on Medium as investors lost more than $50 million in aggregated value. When experts around the world warned this token and the structure had flaws, there was a guy on Medium continuously posting grandeur scenarios of how the DAO is going to change the world around us.

Aggregator 48

Aggregator Security Austin Conversion 48

Growthink Blog

APRIL 22, 2015

Investors interested in aggregating positions in Disruptive Technology Companies at their most opportune moments: after the highly unpredictable Startup stage, but before they become widely known and priced to market. Business Planning Entrepreneurship Financing Investing Jay Turo Management Venture Capital'

Venture Capital 48

Venture Capital Valuation Aggregator Business Model 48