Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Kayak was started here in my backyard of Boston… co-founder & CTO Paul English and the product/engineering team is based here in Concord MA. Co-founder & CEO Steve Hafner and the business team are based in Norwalk, CT.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Most of these rhyme with what we’ve said in the past, but some have also evolved to fit the changing landscape and our own convictions about what really matters for founders and their investors at the seed stage. Of the last 15 investments we’ve made, we’ve been the lead or co-lead investor over 80% of the time. .

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Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Merrill, Pickard, Anderson & Eyre [Silicon Valley] –> Itself an outgrowth of the venture investing arm of the original Bank of America (based in SF), Merrill Pickard backed many startups that ultimately went public. July 11, 2012.

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Silicon Valley Carried Interest Cofounder Boston 240

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 11, 2019

Ann Miura-Ko is a founding partner at Floodgate , a seed-stage VC firm. She’s also a founding member of All Raise, a non-profit committed to improving diversity in both funders and founders. Ann will be speaking at this year’s Lean Startup Conference in October about all of this and more. I've been in venture now twice.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 28, 2022

With the rise of startups and growing businesses , it has become more critical for investors to have a thorough understanding of equity to be aware of all of the advantages they are receiving from the companies they have invested in. Why do startups issue company equity? You have a financial stake in a startup if you have equity.

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Agile VC

JUNE 17, 2015

I’ve observed what may be an emerging trend, at least in some startups, that I find somewhat unsettling. But I think it’s important to discuss, particularly given today’s heady environment for startups. But I think it’s important to discuss, particularly given today’s heady environment for startups.

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View from Seed

MAY 27, 2015

We’ll talk to founders as well as executives, investors, and journalists, all of whom did something smart or sneaky or downright brilliant to go from zero to one in an important area of their business. Everyone likes to say that startups should do things that don’t scale. So we wondered – what ARE those things?

Cofounder 120

Cofounder Non-Compete Early Stage Silicon Valley 120

Gust

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Diversification across industry sectors is not as easily achieved for angels as could be accomplished in public markets, but can be achieved by co-investing with trusted angel colleagues in a broader set of businesses. Pre-money valuation varies with the economy and with the competitive environment for startup ventures within a region.

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Valuation Pre-Money Valuation Intellectual Property Technical Review 146

View from Seed

JUNE 17, 2015

I’ve observed what may be an emerging trend, at least in some startups, that I find somewhat unsettling. But I think it’s important to discuss, particularly given today’s heady environment for startups. But I think it’s important to discuss, particularly given today’s heady environment for startups.

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Startup Cofounder Seed Stage IPO 120

View from Seed

APRIL 23, 2015

In the startup world, one POTAJ that’s easy and worthwhile to defend is the need to focus on building great products and innovative technology instead of trying to over-sell lousy solutions. ” Founders must address distribution in their pitches both overtly and succinctly. You can find those here. ). Accidental VC'

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Founder Distribution Viral Seed Stage 120

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Useful blogs and links for startups Click Here ————– 2.

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Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110

Agile VC

JUNE 17, 2015

I’ve observed what may be an emerging trend, at least in some startups, that I find somewhat unsettling. But I think it’s important to discuss, particularly given today’s heady environment for startups. But I think it’s important to discuss, particularly given today’s heady environment for startups.

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Startup Cofounder Seed Stage IPO 100

Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

This post was co-authored with Omri Stern and originally appeared in Harvard Business Review. Israel has been branded the “startup nation.” Frequently cited as one of the world’s most vibrant innovation hubs, Israel boasts more startups per capita than any other country in the world. The founders have started companies before.

Cofounder 20

Cofounder Technical Review United States 20

Genuine VC

AUGUST 3, 2012

The company’s familiarity is along what we consider to be the three most important criteria for an investment in a seed-stage startup – team, market, and product: Team – Two of the co-founders were well-known to the NextView partnership years before a line of code was even written.

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Seed Stage Cofounder Portfolio Curation 199

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). VC & Startup Resources. Seed Startups. VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Hundreds of startups featured since 2005, will yours be next? About VC Cafe.

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Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

In other words, they are facing conditions of extreme uncertainty, just like startups. One is explaining the world as it used to work: the importance of gatekeepers, the scarcity implied by limited distribution, and the resulting quality bar that the industry is so proud of. So I generally feel right at home in these conversations.

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San Francisco Lean Technical Review Distribution 113

David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

In his white paper How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood , PEVCTECH.com founder David Teten explored how private equity and venture capital investors are trying to automate more of their job. I’d expect a similar shift in venture over the next decade or two.”.

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Early Stage Technical Review Software Review Venture Capital 60

Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 14, 2010

After the recent announcement of the Series Seed Financing documents by Marc Andreesen, Brad Feld points out that there are now four sets of “open source&# equity seed financing documents: TechStars Model Seed Funding Documents (by Cooley). Series Seed Financing Documents (by Fenwick & West). Co-sale rights.

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Finance Software Review Term Sheet Liquidation Preference 70

The Next Web

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Jason Freedman is the co-founder of 42Floors , making it easy for everyone to rent office space. But in a rare moment of candidness, he told me that he doesn’t go to conferences to meet new startups. He was there to build relationships with the most successful founders so that they would introduce them to startups they liked.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Essentially they became micro-VCs, still investing at the seed level but with much greater resources behind them. Incubators, too, helped flood the markets with even more startups, and AngelList played its part too. A name like 500 Startups says it all. “Founders don’t think their problems are due to trends.

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Technical Review Silicon Valley Incubator Syria 93

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

I was hanging out the other day with my buddy Jody Sherman, founder & CEO of EcoMom. At first I was cynical about his ability to have 500 startups (or some fraction of that which is still larger than any VC has). Co-founded a company in the private jet business – sold to Virgin America. I am impressed with his approach.

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Valuation Deal Flow Lead Investor Cofounder 292

Hunter Walker

MAY 1, 2016

How do you make the transition from a company like Google to a startup? It’s hard for startups to recruit from Google! That wasn’t the case when I met with Greg Hong and Joe Marchese, the co-founders of Reserve. We’re still a startup, so yeah, I do a lot of problem-solving and fire-fighting. we don’t know.”.

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New York City New York Los Angeles Startup 48

Hunter Walker

MAY 1, 2016

How do you make the transition from a company like Google to a startup? It’s hard for startups to recruit from Google! That wasn’t the case when I met with Greg Hong and Joe Marchese, the co-founders of Reserve. We’re still a startup, so yeah, I do a lot of problem-solving and fire-fighting. we don’t know.”.

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New York City New York Los Angeles Startup 48

Jeff Hilimire

AUGUST 30, 2013

And I’ve been dying to get my hands back into a true startup. Now, the city’s most buzzed-about techpreneur thinks Atlanta has the chops to also build sustainable business-to-consumer mobile startups. David Cummings , who last year sold his marketing automation startup for $95 million, will launch a “mobile app studio.”

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Atlanta B2C Georgia Los Angeles 77

Rob Go

MAY 27, 2015

We’ll talk to founders as well as executives, investors, and journalists, all of whom did something smart or sneaky or downright brilliant to go from zero to one in an important area of their business. Everyone likes to say that startups should do things that don’t scale. So we wondered – what ARE those things?

Cofounder 28

Cofounder Non-Compete Early Stage Silicon Valley 28

Rob Go

MAY 27, 2015

We’ll talk to founders as well as executives, investors, and journalists, all of whom did something smart or sneaky or downright brilliant to go from zero to one in an important area of their business. Everyone likes to say that startups should do things that don’t scale. So we wondered – what ARE those things?

Cofounder 28

Cofounder Non-Compete Early Stage Silicon Valley 28

Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

As companies and cities wrestle with the future of work, future of cities, and future of tech made possible in a post-COVID future, the question is whether it also impacts — and presents an opportunity to address — one of the greatest problems of our time: the unequal distribution of economic opportunity across the United States.

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Silicon Valley Non-Compete San Francisco Government 36

Agile VC

JUNE 12, 2012

How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. It’s not for a lack of technological effort from both startups and huge companies in all of mobile payments’ incarnations – SMS, mobile web, native apps, NFC, etc. How To Think About The Future. June 12, 2012.

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