Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2023

Different types of investors tend to specialize in capitalizing on businesses at different stages. Venture capital firms look for the most mature companies they can find, Angel investors typically deal a tier lower, while friends and family are most likely to help you get started. Congratulations!

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

Similar to the explosion of seed funds in the past decade, we (and some limited partners too ) believe these Flexible VCs are on the forefront of what will become a major segment of the venture ecosystem. We detail below the major categories of VC: VENTURE CAPITAL TYPOLOGY. FLEXIBLE VC VS. OTHER VENTURE CAPITAL MODELS.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 27, 2016

Investor due diligence on a startup is not a mysterious black art, but is nothing more than a final integrity check on all aspects of your business model, team, product, customers, and plan. Through networking with other entrepreneurs, you should find one or more to visit that have relationships with this investor.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

In very few specific cases, depending on the nature of the business, the business model might demand a considerable gestation period or extensive research and development. For these businesses, it is imperative to get funding from the start without which the company cannot be set up. Government programs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2023

Solicit venture capital investors. These are professional investors, like Accel Partners , who invest institutional money in qualified startups, usually with a proven business model, ready to scale. Use online platforms like Gust to find them, and local networking to find ones that relate to your industry and passion.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2020

Solicit venture capital investors. These are professional investors, like Accel Partners , who invest institutional money in qualified startups, usually with a proven business model, ready to scale. Use online platforms like Gust to find them, and local networking to find ones that relate to your industry and passion.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 27, 2023

The government’s unwavering commitment, proactive support, robust investment in research and development, and favorable policies have paved the way for a remarkable transformation. The Korean government has played a pivotal role in fostering this thriving start-up ecosystem through various initiatives.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2020

Different types of investors tend to specialize in capitalizing on businesses at different stages. Venture capital firms look for the most mature companies they can find, Angel investors typically deal a tier lower, while friends and family are most likely to help you get started. Congratulations!

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 5, 2013

That''s why I get excited when companies in my industry create businesses that improve the living experience of being here. So when the city government seems to be bending over backwards to make tech companies want to start and grow their businesses here, conducting business here might be another story. Enter Airbnb.

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David Teten

AUGUST 15, 2013

1) Corporate Venture Capital. Most VCs (including ff Venture Capital ) collect money from independent limited partners in order to form their fund. Some corporations emulate this model by creating their own wholly-owned VC entities, typically with one LP: the corporate balance sheet. 4) Accelerators.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

As customer and agile development reinvent the Startup, it’s time to ask why startup board governance has not kept up with the pace of innovation. Reinventing the board meeting may offer venture-backed startups a more efficient, productive way to direct and measure their search for a profitable business model.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Convertible debt is best when you don’t yet have revenue or a good sense for your valuation, because it allows you to raise money on the basis that the valuation will be set one to three years in the future, based on execution of the early business model. We were able to raise $750k this way.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2011

As customer and agile development reinvent the Startup, it’s time to ask why startup board governance has not kept up with the pace of innovation. Reinventing the board meeting may offer venture-backed startups a more efficient, productive way to direct and measure their search for a profitable business model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Solicit venture capital investors. These are professional investors, like Accel Partners , who invest institutional money in qualified startups, usually with a proven business model, ready to scale. Use online platforms like Gust to find them, and local networking to find ones that relate to your industry and passion.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

Consumer Internet investing seems to have split off from traditional Venture Capital, and is creating a new category of VC’s: Lean VC’s. Electron-based Venture Capital. When I first came to Silicon Valley the world of Venture Capital looked pretty simple. Here’s why.

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

I’m the founder of LinkedIn and a partner at the venture capital firm, Greylock Partners. To achieve that vision, we need new technologies; new collaborative strategies between governments, NGOs, and the private sector; new methods of sharing and scaling what works. The short answer is networks and entrepreneurship.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2018

Different types of investors tend to specialize in capitalizing on businesses at different stages. Venture capital firms look for the most mature companies they can find, Angel investors typically deal a tier lower, while friends and family are most likely to help you get started. Congratulations!

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 16, 2013

We, as a society, put in place structures like government and big corporations largely as an organizational efficiency. Just because the government labels you as the worst thing you ever did doesn''t mean the rest of the world does--and your local network should care more about what you do than what you did. It''s a war.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2014

Solicit venture capital investors. These are professional investors, like Accel Partners , who invest institutional money in qualified startups, usually with a proven business model, ready to scale. Use online platforms like Gust to find them, and local networking to find ones that relate to your industry and passion.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2018

Come network with your friends and share your secret parties, plan your conference sessions, and discuss whose undiscovered indy band is cooler. On the first official day of SXSW I’m going to be at the convention center all day until I head over to Capital Factory to kick off the SXSW Startup Crawl !

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Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

Unfortunately, Mr. Slywotzky makes an important assertion about venture capital that is incorrect. business model is broken. business model that drives job growth in emerging growth companies is IPOs. Government’s commitment to funding breakthrough innovation in basic scientific research.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 1, 2019

Grants are a big opportunity to get some money to start your dream business. State and national governments offer grants to new establishments. You will find a series of organizations and networks, even corporations who make a goal of getting on board of young businesses. Venture Capital.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 4, 2014

Different types of investors tend to specialize in capitalizing on businesses at different stages. Venture capital firms look for the most mature companies they can find, Angel investors typically deal a tier lower, while friends and family are most likely to help you get started. Congratulations!

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

What makes this tricky is that markets evolve, and an innovative technology or business model can transform a normal market into a Glengarry Glen Ross market. It’s a great business. Thanks to the internet and other globalizing technologies, the entire world has entered the Networked Age.

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Haystack

JUNE 30, 2019

The reality today is that, as technology proliferates into all sectors and geographies, venture itself has grown in lockstep with the size of the opportunity. Network your way to observe what a real board meeting is like of a Series B or C-level company. The opportunity cost of those 3-4 years is very large for talented, driven folks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2016

Different types of investors tend to specialize in capitalizing on businesses at different stages. Venture capital firms look for the most mature companies they can find, Angel investors typically deal a tier lower, while friends and family are most likely to help you get started. Congratulations!

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

Solicit venture capital investors. These are professional investors, like Accel Partners , who invest institutional money in qualified startups, usually with a proven business model, ready to scale. Use online platforms like Gust to find them, and local networking to find ones that relate to your industry and passion.

Equity 120

Equity Small Business Administration SBA Syndicate 120

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

It doesn’t mean that you should change your business model because one person suggested it, but listed to the feedback and if you see similar patterns over and over again, make changes. Patents are nice but… in a consumer Internet business, it’s most likely that you aren’t re-inventing the wheel.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 22, 2012

based government, military and educational organizations. Registries are different from registrars like Network Solutions and Go Daddy , which sell or lease second-level domains to public and private entities on various open TLDs. The startup has raised $100 million in venture capital money, according to EVP and co-founder Jon Nevett.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2018

Innovative products and business models are the foundations of a promising startup. Creating a scalable business model. Whether you are hoping to expand a small business with a loan or going for a round of venture capital, you will need a scalable business model.

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 8, 2019

When I started in venture capital in the late 1990s VCs were regularly lambasted for taking long summer holidays and spending too much time on the golf course. Most investors thought of their job as picking good companies and making sure governance was strong. Business model. Low handicaps weren’t good!

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Up and Running

APRIL 24, 2018

If you’ve never written a business plan before, take a look at these sample medical startup business plans. At first, you need to focus on developing your business model and validating it. Once you understand all these points, you can start networking with them. An efficient growth strategy is a must for a startup.

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thebarefootvc

APRIL 9, 2018

Others wanted to know whether venture capital was going away. All were too young to have experienced the internet boom of the late 1990s, and I had deja vu listening to them — remembering business school conferences at Kellogg on “Digital Technology” in 1998. What were students most interested in?

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

It is time to fix your key SaaS metrics: P&L: MRR = MRE: you control your destiny when your monthly revenue equals your monthly expenses Sales & Marketing: Your cost of capital doubled, so if a CAC ratio > 0.5 Is Government a good idea? Small and medium businesses. (2). Venture Capital. (3). internet. (6).

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Professor VC

MARCH 10, 2009

In other parts of the country, this is business as usual: Identify a customer need Build a product Sell the product In the valley, the knee jerk reaction is to start with the powerpoint deck and look for the venture capital drug. Jon Fisher purposely avoided raising venture capital in his ventures.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 13, 2011

As customer and agile development reinvent the startup, it's time to ask why startup board governance has not kept up with the pace of innovation. Reinventing the board meeting may offer venture-backed startups a more efficient, productive way to direct and measure their search for a profitable business model.

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