The Startup Magazine
MAY 26, 2020
Here’s more from The Startup Magazine Founder Interview series. We interviewed Bill Walsh, CEO/Founder of Business Coaching / Venture Capital firm Powerteam International. Get access to low cost capital. Call all of your best customers. Bill hosts and speaks at events all over the world! Stay the course.
The Equity Kicker
OCTOBER 21, 2015
Doing better than average requires what Howard Marks of Oaktree Capital called ‘different and better’ thinking in a recent memo to his investors. This logic applies to startup founders as well as their investors. If around 10% of startups go on to be successful then to be an average founder is to fail.
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Austin Startup
MARCH 15, 2021
The Capital Factory Texas Fund is backed by many of the most successful CEOs and technology investors in Texas and across the U.S., including Charles Butt , founder of H-E-B; Dean Drako , founder of Barracuda Networks and Eagle Eye Networks; and Tim Draper , of Draper Associates.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 24, 2019
When you set up a board it is often initially a combination of the founders and the early investors. It can start 2–1 founders to investors and then sometimes moves to 3–2 but sometime around the A, B or C round the idea of “independent” directors comes up. When an entrepreneur takes on investors who take equity (i.e.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 19, 2015
I felt this myself as we went from a few founders huddled into a tiny room to the front page of the Financial Times, an influx of VC interest, magazine covers, invitations to high-profile events and the pressures of trying to live up to this perception and the economic opportunities everybody expected. Every founder knows this.
View from Seed
MARCH 12, 2015
In a typical first meeting between a VC and team of co-founders, the investor typically ends up asking more questions than the founders. This almost goes without saying, but odds are good that your other founder friends in the startup ecosystem have crossed paths with some of the VC firms you might be researching.
Haystack
SEPTEMBER 2, 2018
If you have conviction : invest and help the founder finish their round with good intros to other investors. There is a process the founder goes through, he or she collects interest, and then works on closing the round with their lawyers at a fixed time. His tweet reads: New weak investor move. No half-conviction. It is not fair.
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