Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2012

Technical due diligence typically starts with a full one or two day review with the engineering and product marketing staff. Founders with bad credit, active lawsuits, or recent bankruptcies dramatically increase the risk. A dysfunctional team, or even one naysayer in a critical position can stall your investment.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 5, 2017

Bankruptcy is relatively common, especially post-2009, but recovering from it can require professional help. Search engine optimization (SEO) is exactly what it sounds like: optimizing your online presence so it ranks higher on search engines when people are Googling your If you have a business, you need an online presence.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2016

This element is usually called technical due diligence and typically consists of a day with your engineering and marketing team led by internal team leaders. Any unusual financial risks, including contingencies, large contracts, recent bankruptcies or credit denials on the part of any owners must be disclosed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Technical due diligence typically starts with a full one or two day review with the engineering and product marketing staff. Founders with bad credit, active lawsuits, or recent bankruptcies dramatically increase the risk. A dysfunctional team, or even one naysayer in a critical position can stall your investment.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 30, 2020

I owned a mortgage company when the mortgage industry crashed and lost almost everything pushing me to the brink of personal bankruptcy. I thought of disrupting the SEO industry by using data to have clients rank high on search engine results page. I don’t just focus on helping businesses grow by ranking them higher in search engines.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Additionally, small businesses are at a higher risk of bankruptcy because of the potential of large chain stores putting them out of businesses and the increasing use of online shopping; therefore making a strong online presence crucial to stay in business. Brand Loyalty. Generate Leads.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Technical due diligence typically starts with a full one or two day review with the engineering and product marketing staff. Founders with bad credit, active lawsuits, or recent bankruptcies dramatically increase the risk. A dysfunctional team, or even one naysayer in a critical position can stall your investment.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2016

Poorly calculated LTVs can become BVs (bankruptcy values). In general I find that raising large amounts of money when you haven’t figured it out ends up papering over problems more then helping solve fundamental issues in the business. CAC is often measured incorrectly and doesn’t often doesn’t capture the true costs of acquisition.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2014

Where are the Women Software Engineers? – crowdspring.co/12gwMCO. TV-Streaming Firm Aereo Files for Bankruptcy | WSJ – crowdspring.co/1Fh64Ie. Coca-Cola Plans to Help Startups Around the World – crowdspring.co/159Mot0. 8 Qualities of Leaders Who Deliver Value Every Day – crowdspring.co/1A8QSK8. 1reRybq.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 2, 2020

And this mercilessly pushes them toward the bankruptcy. And the reason behind its bankruptcy will be obscured sales. Elvira Gavrilova is sure that by putting too much effort and finances into production and not paying as much attention to sales, the business people violate the essence of the business itself.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 23, 2020

While we ramped up our content this year and increased the number of posts on our blog, we’ve realized that it’s also important to make a pivot now, and ensure that our content is optimized and will begin to rank on search engines. Thanks to Andrea Loubier, Mailbird ! #11- 11- Pivoting to a standardized service.

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techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

If the startup can’t repay the loan, it will be in default under the note; in which case, the noteholders may force the company into bankruptcy (if the startup can’t renegotiate with investors to extend the loan). Your guide for the best gadget gifts of 2011. Crunchboard.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 28, 2012

Considering how incredibly popular Harley-Davidson is today, it’s hard to believe that the motorcycle company was ever on the verge of bankruptcy, but it’s true. Harley-Davidson experienced near-bankruptcy from 1969 to 1981 when the American Machine and Foundry (AMF) bought the company and turned it upside down. Harley-Davidson.

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Ben's Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2012

However, bringing in the right kind of experience at the right time can mean the difference between bankruptcy and glory. For example, for engineering managers the comprehensive knowledge of the code base and engineering team is usually more important and difficult to acquire than knowledge of how to run scalable engineering organizations.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

OCTOBER 18, 2023

It is particularly helpful for companies hiring someone to handle money and can help them avoid pitfalls like large debts or bankruptcy filings. In addition, certain professions like engineers, doctors and stockbrokers are required by law to undergo a fingerprint background check before applying for a professional license.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2020

And without a steady, sustainable stream of new customers, cash reserves will dwindle, revenues will dry up, and bankruptcy will inevitably ensue. It’s also worth mentioning that the reasons a particular channel, whether it’s social media, paid ads, or search engines, outperforms another might not always be clear.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

Salon C Register: SXSW badge required The Texas Startup Manifesto SXSW Report on Trust: Gov’t, Tech & Media with WP Engine CEO Heather Brunner Join the legendary Dan Rather, Heather Brunner (WP Engine), Jess Clifton (Edelman Digital), moderator Richard Edelman and host Hugh Forrest (SXSW). 3:00PM Location: Hilton?—?Salon

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Steve Blank

MAY 15, 2009

Signs of Success One of the things you do right in a startup, is you move from one cheap and cramped building to another as you grow, with desks, cubicles and engineers piled cheek to jowl. Engineers were packed in cubicles or desks right on top of each other? Now every engineer can have their own office.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

—> Individual company bankruptcy risk —-> Traditional Equity VC . Early-stage: Cofounder with engineering/ product background from top-tier university or major technology company. For simplicity, we didn’t include a separate column for convertible notes (e.g., Flexible VC. Traditional Revenue-Based Investment.

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Through these experiences, I discovered my passion for leadership development and championed it into University of Toronto Engineering in two ways: a program that equips graduate students with leadership theory and practice, and what is now an institute for leadership education in engineering – the first of its kind in Canada.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

By comparison, traditional VC has a bankruptcy rate of 30-40%. We determine a salary cap with the founder based on a software engineer in the closest major city. According to Indie.VC collateral, all 8 are still in business, with 2 follow-on investments, 3 “breakout” companies, and 1 returned 5x initial investment.

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Ben's Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2012

However, bringing in the right kind of experience at the right time can mean the difference between bankruptcy and glory. For example, for engineering managers the comprehensive knowledge of the code base and engineering team is usually more important and difficult to acquire than knowledge of how to run scalable engineering organizations.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 10, 2013

Startups are filled with enormously talented people – often product people & engineers. There is always a tomorrow – even after bankruptcy. In my interview I talked about the biggest stress that really comes from startups – dealing with all the other people with whom you work. A second act.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

I signed on, because I had owned a world-class engineering company. Their collective ignorance started the company down a path that sounded smart but pushed them toward bankruptcy. The few I talked to had a general sense the business was struggling, but none of them knew just how bad things had gotten.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 6, 2019

From a personal perspective, this presented a compelling engineering challenge. Meanwhile, I was doing a great job creating content for my website and ranking in the search engines – so good a job, that people wanted to hire me to handle their content and SEO. But I was bad at the “business” of being a motivational speaker.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2018

Engineering Serendipity Making real connections starts with having the right people in the room. Join us at this interview and hear how WWE co-founder Linda McMahon fought back from bankruptcy to build her company into a publicly traded entertainment and media powerhouse. Serendipity is what SXSW is all about.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2019

Consumers rely on search engines and pay-to-play rating sites to find legal counsel. (Share with us what problem you’re solving). With more lawyers in the US than ever before, marketing legal services has become increasingly difficult. Attorneys have a lot of options to market their services to consumers, but not all are effective.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2010

If no financing happened then this “note&# may not be converted and thus would be senior to the equity of the company in the case of a bankruptcy or asset sale. They might not replace an engineer or two that quits. It starts as a debt instrument (e.g. a loan) that is later converted to equity at the time of the next financing.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

But nine months after the first call was made in 1998, Iridium was in Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Second, since it knew the solution, it went into a 8 -year Waterfall engineering development process. Seven years after it was founded their satellites and ground stations were in place. It was a technical tour de force. What went wrong?

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

MC Hammer’s search engine. His search engine, called WireDoo, is still not ready for a beta release, but Hammer says it has a “deep search” function that will make it better than Google by bringing up topics related to your keywords. Raquel Welch’s line of wigs.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 30, 2019

Today they are all their own success stories: Chef, Coding Engineer and Peace Corps Heatlhcare Educator in Guatemala. I stay motivated every day as I once failed and had to put a company into bankruptcy. As an Entrepreneur, I make choices and decisions that impact employees, contractors, clients – and my 3 sons.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Pacer is useful to search prior litigation, bankruptcies, etc. ff Venture Capital hired two full-time engineers to build out Totem. The majority of funds are using the popular B2C websites and services for basic due diligence, e.g., Linkedin, Twitter, HackerNews. TruthFinder and Intelius provide basic background vetting.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2012

They recently exited their investment in Gaikai for $380 million while their rival OnLive (who had raised > $200 million) just went through bankruptcy. GaiKai had 50 such engineers, which was a large part of its success. 41:45 As a publisher, did I have to do a lot more engineering work to make it available for Gaikai?

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 1, 2016

Having an electrical engineering background, I knew there had to be a better way and I could help build it. Upon realizing that approximately 80% of medical bills contain error and that medical debt was the leading cause of bankruptcy in the U.S., I knew this was not an accurate way to track critical vital signs.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

We are still reeling from the first order of consequences of the pandemic, but we are also starting to see the second and third order effects, unemployment, hunger, mass bankruptcy, and the inequity and injustice of this crisis. I have a bachelor's in computer science and computer engineering. And yeah, I'll never let that go.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 16, 2009

Now we were faced with the fact that even though we were gaining market share daily, there was nothing coming out of Engineering. Instead of eight boards, Engineering was going to be able to deliver one new graphics board. If all you’re doing is shipping and launching the product as spec’d by Engineering, you’re not adding value.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 1, 2011

If a great engineer quit, that was my fault. At Loudcloud, when the dot com bubble burst and subsequently sent most of our customers into bankruptcy, it crippled our business and devastated our balance sheet. Unlike a hired gun that comes in and blames all of the problems on the prior regime, there was literally nobody for me to blame.

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