Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2014

Here is my list of the ten most common sources of funding today, in reverse priority sequence, with some rules of thumb to channel your focus: 10. Negotiate an advance from a strategic partner or customer. These are government funds allocated to support new technologies and important causes, like education, medicine, and social needs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Funding sources are still the same as stage one. Now we are ready for demonstration tests conducted on first-time or early-stage products. The demonstration stage usually implies substantial redesign and debugging until final robustness can be established. Prototype development. All is definitely fundable now.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2011

Funding sources are still the same as stage one. Now we are ready for demonstration tests conducted on first-time or early-stage products. The demonstration stage usually implies substantial redesign and debugging until final robustness can be established. Prototype development. All is definitely fundable now.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

Here is my list of the ten most common sources of funding today, in reverse priority sequence, with some rules of thumb to channel your focus: Seek a bank loan or credit-card line-of-credit. Negotiate an advance from a strategic partner or customer. This is the primary source of non-personal funds for very early-stage startups.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

Funding sources are still the same as stage one. Now we are ready for demonstration tests conducted on first-time or early-stage products. The demonstration stage usually implies substantial redesign and debugging until final robustness can be established. Prototype development. All is definitely fundable now.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 20, 2010

Funding sources are still the same as stage one. Now we are ready for demonstration tests conducted on first-time or early-stage products. The demonstration stage usually implies substantial redesign and debugging until final robustness can be established. Prototype development. All is definitely fundable now.

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 8, 2019

Most investors thought of their job as picking good companies and making sure governance was strong. From around 2000, and perhaps coinciding with the need to work harder to win deals as opportunities dried up after the internet bubble burst, individual partners at VC firms began adding ‘helping CEOs win’ to their job descriptions. .

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Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Earlier this year, I was pleased to learn that the UK Government was planning to appoint a Tech Envoy to the U.S. – Now, in addition to assuming the role of Consul General in San Francisco on behalf of the UK Government, Joe will also serve as Tech Envoy, managing tech and entrepreneur relationships for the UK Government.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 4, 2019

Bionic was born six years ago to partner with large enterprises and help them install a new way of working—something we call the Growth Operating System—based on the mindsets, mechanics, and tools of entrepreneurship and venture capital. Tell us about your products and services. How do you help clients?

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Are they running from high prices, high taxes, dysfunctional government, and wildfires? All of the investors, all of the big companies, all of the government groups?—?they These are all potential customers and strategic partners for startups. Tens of thousands visit Austin every year for the Austin City Limits Music Festival.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Brad has been an early-stage investor and entrepreneur since 1987. He's been an early stage investor in entrepreneur since 1987. We had three founders and it was myself, my partner and my dad and we were the board, but I joined a private company board in 94. Marketing Podcast with Brad Feld.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 19, 2013

This post is about choosing the right sales strategy and channels for your startup from the start. There were no sales people in the USSR – the government just decided what to produce and in which quantities, – so I pretty much have an anti-­sales­-and­-marketing background. Step 2: Choose your sales channels.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2013

If you don’t have scale as a goal then you shouldn’t be raising money from angel or venture investors, you should be getting a commercial or government small business loan.). • Search. Who are the partners? And at this early stage you’ll be giving up a larger percentage of your firm to investors. And what are its costs?

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2009

If you were a “with it” VC you needed to have a “Content&# or “Multimedia&# company in your portfolio to impress your limited partners – educational software companies, game companies, or anything that could be described as content and/or Multimedia. We understood none of this. More detail in future posts.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2013

If you don’t have scale as a goal then you shouldn’t be raising money from angel or venture investors, you should be getting a commercial or government small business loan.). • Search. Who are the partners? And at this early stage you’ll be giving up a larger percentage of your firm to investors. And what are its costs?

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 19, 2021

The structural role of a board of directors is corporate governance, specifically, making sure that the company is managed in accordance with the interest of the shareholders (and if liabilities exceed assets, the interest of debtholders), and in compliance with applicable laws and regulations. WHAT DOES A BOARD OF DIRECTORS DO?

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Steve Blank

MARCH 26, 2012

He asked tough questions about why the government not private capital should be doing this. government, American researchers in academia and risk capital can do together. If we’re correct, we can compress the time for commercializing scientific breakthroughs and reduce the early stage risks of these new ventures.

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2015

My guests on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Errol Arkilic , former program director for the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (NSF I-Corps), now founder of M34 Capital. Venk Shukla , president TiE Silicon Valley and general partner, Monta Vista Capital.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

What is the best advice you can give for finding a business partner? Don’t quickly choose any business partner. The key is to ask the right people what they think – not your friends, parents or partner. Government grants – Credit cards / debt. When it comes to early stage investing – it’s all gut.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

While the CAC ratio helps SaaS businesses at scale to manage their Sales and Marketing spend, the SLC is a helpful framework for early stage businesses before you have meaningful data. Ramping up too quickly will burn precious cash reserve and could sink the business. Philippe Botteri. Bessemer SaaS Law #5.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

Advisor, Austin Mayor Steve Adler Eugene has long operated at the intersection of business, government & nonprofits, locally and nationally. An early Human Rights Campaign board member and longtime Austin LGBTQ leader, Eugene co-chaired President Obama’s & the DNC’s LGBTQ Leadership Council.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2011

We will partner with existing vendors of dev-test suites and obviously cloud providers. Some of our paying customers include banks, government agencies, TV channels, online newspapers, gaming and more. VC Cafe: What advice do you have for early stage entrepreneurs coming out of Israel? Alon: Well. the usual.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 27, 2022

Both me and my partner at Remagine Ventures, Kevin Baxpehler, are wrapping up busy weeks. In the panel I moderated on the role of startups in building the new Internet , at Calcalist Mind the Tech 2022, Jay Jubas, a Senior Partner at McKinsey made a clear distinction: Web2 – the Internet as we know it today.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 10, 2017

It was at this point that I decided to start Success Partners Australia, a sales training and consulting company. Thanks Ben Lai, Success Partners ! #5 LDR Ventures was formed with a very clear goal, to help early stage companies and entrepreneurs of all genders, races and places to succeed. Image Credit: Drew Koven.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 13, 2021

The Greylock general partner and the host of The 20 Minute VC pick back up from a December 2020 episode of the popular podcast , during which Hoffman discusses his wide-ranging career and key lessons learned. If you’re a regular listener, you’ll know that Greylock general partner Reid Hoffman joined me on my show in November.

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