The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

It went up on their blog yesterday. _. We see this all the time at Forward Partners where we invest right from the idea stage and most of the companies get a first version of their product live for less than £30k (that generally includes founder salaries and time spent doing customer research).

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TechEmpower

AUGUST 14, 2023

Conclusion Bottom line – if you are an early-stage startup with online or mobile technology as part of your solution, you ABSOLUTELY NEED a technical advisor. Please write us at blog@techempower.com ! The post Technical Advisors: Every Startup Needs One appeared first on TechEmpower. innovation

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 20, 2021

As we are approaching the end of another unprecedented year, it’s time to look back and share our top blog posts from the past 12 months. And if you haven’t seen it already, you can read our Year in Review post, where we reflect on the incredible pace of the start-up market in 2021. . Our top three topics from the year: .

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Gust

DECEMBER 17, 2017

The post Beyond VC: Funding Options for Early-Stage Startups appeared first on The Gust Blog. This is also the time when a lot of entrepreneurs wrestle with their plans for the next year, asking themselves: Where should I bet big? Are the growth targets right? How am I going to pay for all these. Read more >.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Median valuations for early-stage valuations tripled from around $20m pre-money valuations to $60m with plenty of deals being prices above $100m. No blog post about how Tiger is crushing everybody because it’s deploying all its capital in 1-year while “suckers” are investing over 3-years can change this reality. It’s just math.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 3, 2021

Still, you need to find some way to pull your company out of this early-stage quicksand. First, we need to address the core challenges of developing effective early-stage growth strategies for new businesses. What are the best tactics to accomplish these goals? Core Challenges to Overcome in Growth Strategies.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

A great way to tell others about your brand and about what you have to offer is to start blogging. Blogging is your gateway to communicating with the outside world and reaching out to potential customers. Reasons to use blogs to benefit your startup include: 1. Giving your business an air of authority in the industry.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2021

This would be ideal for someone who is at the early stages of building their business and looking to stick to a limited budget. You will find plenty of forums, guides, blogs, tutorials as well as websites such as the Pi Hut which will answer all your queries. Fast processor and productivity. Variety of support.

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OnlyOnce

DECEMBER 8, 2021

I divided my response into “early stage” and “later stage” founders. Here’s a summary of what I said about early stage founders. Next week: the later stage founder answer (link won’t be live until 12/16/2021).

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Venture Capitalist : An early-stage VC requires some of the same skills as a Case Officer – spotting, assessing, developing, recruiting, and handling founders building a company amid an uncertain operating environment that will bring a heavy return on investment. Most startups fail, especially those in the early stages.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 10, 2021

Don’t waste time talking to VCs for requests less than $1M, or very early stage, and don’t expect professional investors to jump in if you have no “skin in the game.” The resources are out there to help you, like the book mentioned, this blog, and many more. Not doing due diligence on the funding source. Use them and win.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 About this Blog Ive been thinking about doing a blog with my thoughts on technology and whats happening in the Los Angeles area technology scene for a while, but it was Ben Kuos recent start of a blog that inspired me to actually go ahead and do it. Thanks Ben.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 2, 2024

One of my goals in 2024 is to start blogging again. Admittedly, I stopped blogging a few years ago because of the proliferation of content around VC and startups. Also, blogs felt like an antiquated way to engage with founders vs. threads on Twitter/X. I think a big question facing early stage investors is: are you a hammer?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

I am fond of quoting that about 70% of my investment decision of an early-stage company is the team. Resist the temptation to build a group of “C Level” execs in an early stage business. I especially think “president” and “coo” are bad titles for early-stage businesses.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

You have an edge in the highly competitive world of early stage investing that comes from some combination of your experience, industry knowledge, and personal network. Check out our blog for how we think about company building and investing. You have an authentic passion for startups and a deep respect for entrepreneurship.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

Fortunately, many of the top VCs share their thoughts on their blogs and are full of advice for startups, both big and small. Here’s a list of our favorite VC blogs, in alphabetical order. I like to follow these blogs through Feedly, but you can often sign up to get email alerts for new posts from most of these blogs.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

These usually play a role in the very early stage of your business, primarily pre-revenue. The seed stage is focused on building the core team, product optimization, exploring avenues for monetization. ? Early-stage. An early-stage investor usually looks at a return of 10 to 15 times.

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Austin Startup

JULY 7, 2019

Funding early-stage resources?—?how For early-stage, we raise 77 cents on the dollar to men. Without these things, how are we supposed to get more women past early-stage!? Funding early-stage resources?—?how Please stop saying this is a pipeline issue, it isn’t. The stats that really got me?

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 13, 2023

For us at CEO Blog Nation, we get it. The reason is that every new year brings about a “newness” when we are able to start fresh and change those things that we could do better or things we have been thinking about doing. So, that’s why we are excited about 2023 because there will be more and more entrepreneurs and businesses.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 3, 2021

Xoogler Don Dodge did a comprehensive job of documenting OKRs in an earlier blog post , but the basics were always this: Each quarter individuals and teams document their objectives for the next 90 days and grade the goals they set 90 days earlier. In Q4 teams also set metagoals for the next year.

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View from Seed

APRIL 27, 2020

As I blogged about a few weeks ago, FOMO ( F ear O f M issing O ut) is replaced by FOLD (Fear Of Looking Dumb). We can stay busy by expending time and effort supporting the existing portfolio, which is the right thing to do and a good use of time. Wait and see. Founders do not have this luxury. Number of Investments.

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View from Seed

MAY 2, 2019

This is the logical path that one would think is pretty “standard” for early stage companies. Overall, I think we are seeing that what used to be a fairly formulaic early stage funding journey has become more varied, given the breadth of investors and strategies that exist in the market.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 24, 2020

When you are already juggling several tasks at the early stages of web development, focusing on the content and content quality may not rank high in your list of priorities. Catchy blog titles, such as above, were enough to get clicks on your link. Content Duplication or Spinning Helps in Short Term.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

She is a go to person for me when I have questions around technology or early stage marketing and branding. And I'm looking forward to more interaction now that she's blogging. We do a lot of B2B and also have an "Early Stage Branding" practice for technology startups. Maybe you can blog about that?

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

When Jay joined our team back in 2014, we were the first early-stage VC in Boston to have a dedicated head of platform and one of the first handful in the country to do so. Internally to our portfolio, platform means developing “products” to help our portfolio companies get from zero to one on their most critical seed stage priorities.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

When Jay joined our team back in 2014, we were the first early-stage VC in Boston to have a dedicated head of platform and one of the first handful in the country to do so. Internally to our portfolio, platform means developing “products” to help our portfolio companies get from zero to one on their most critical seed stage priorities.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 13, 2021

It turns out capital is not a weapon, especially in the early stages of building a business, and even experienced founders who can raise huge sums often realize this and right-size their asks. But what has also happened over the last 10 years is the massive expansion of the series A and lifecycle fund market.

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View from Seed

APRIL 2, 2024

Similarly, I’d argue that the early-stage venture “product” has elevated across the board. While this comparison within the craft beer industry and early-stage venture has been fun, I’m somewhat surprised as how closely the two industries have tracked over the past 12 years.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 6, 2018

And early stage investing is about finding outliers, which requires some flexibility to stretch beyond your rules to test your beliefs without going too crazy. Early stage investing is much less efficient than you think, so trust yourself! Except… Spotify). There are a few things that don’t change.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 1, 2019

There are no seminal books and few insightful blogs for them to turn to. These are the consultants and books that offer founders the tools and insights needed to “cross the chasm” ( as Geoffrey Moore put it ) and begin to scale.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). Now, for very early stage companies, you may be thinking, “I don’t have any cash, so outsourcing isn’t an option.&# Start a blog. PR/Marketing.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 22, 2018

Early stage. At this stage, the hiring of employees who are customer focused is paramount. Begin to think about customer self-service: you can start by creating blogs that have information where customers can use to solve some common issues. There are three “shiny objects” that distract most startups in the early stage.

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Gust

OCTOBER 29, 2014

The Digital.NYC hub (an “Ecosystem Hub” as we call it behind the scenes) features every resource and insight for the NYC tech and startup scene including news, jobs, courses, events, blogs, and even available workspaces. For Gust, Digital.NYC represents a new paradigm for connecting the early-stage ecosystem.

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For Entrepreneurs

JUNE 28, 2017

I have the great pleasure in introducing you to a new writer, Jared Sleeper, who will make regular contributions to this blog. We were very excited to have Jared to join Matrix Partners recently as he is a truly exceptional individual. Jared grew up in Maine working in his family’s grocery store. He had a.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2023

If you’re producing just one page, one blog post, or one sketch a week, you expect it to be good and final, and you start to worry about quality. By writing just 500 words a day in a blog, I suddenly realized that I had enough for a book in just a few months. Frequency keeps the pressure off. Frequency is a realistic approach.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 31, 2021

When starting out, many agencies blog about topics directly related to their offering. Follow-up question: Do you read any blogs in this space? Creating a well-document content roadmap is critical for producing blog posts and articles that generate new business. This sets the intention for your early-stage priorities.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Maybe you identified your target audience and conversation through Twitter research, but discover a handful of forums or blogs that attract essential influencers. Building your brand presence on specialized outlets holds immense value for your business – especially in early stages. million people in 24 hours as a result.

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