Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

They don’t realize that this option would likely be their worst nightmare, since it costs millions for the road show, usually dilutes your equity to a tiny fraction, and takes away all your entrepreneurial control. Increasing government regulations. Consider the recent example of Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg. Loss of control.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. That said, Jonathan Bragdon, General Partner, Capacity Capital , points out that Flexible VC terms “twin” well with equity: providing less dilution while still providing investor assistance. . Lower level of community familiarity. Governance.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

As I touched on before, China and India have the most mature VC communities. Singapore is by far the most developed behind those big three markets with government schemes attracting over a dozen early stage firms to set up shop here (e.g. the large government-linked corporations setting up their own venture arms (e.g.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

They don’t realize that this option would likely be their worst nightmare, since it costs millions for the road show, usually dilutes your equity to a tiny fraction, and takes away all your entrepreneurial control. Increasing government regulations. Consider the recent example of Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg. Loss of control.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

The very best analysts distill, rather than dilute. Government: California Department of Motor Vehicles. I love governments! A much more detailed collection of recommendations I’d written for the Government of Belgium a little while back. Web Analytics Success Measurement For Government Websites.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2011

They don’t realize that this option would likely be their worst nightmare, since it costs millions for the road show, usually dilutes your equity to a tiny fraction, and takes away all your entrepreneurial control. Increasing government regulations. Expensive new IT systems, consultants, and investment bankers are usually required.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Non-equity funding has to come from personal sources, or government grants, or bank loans. Of course, that doesn’t dilute the owner’s equity, but it may well limit you to organic growth, versus international rollouts and acquisition options. Enjoy being visible and active in the local community. There is no free lunch for money.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

In my view, we can do a better job of forming strong tech communities. I believe it is our excessive urge to ‘act normal’ and disdain of ‘networking’ that dilutes our social glue. The Next Web and the Next Women) and several government backed initiatives. How to fix this? Rockstart, Startupbootcamp) larger and smaller VCs (e.g.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2017

Non-equity funding has to come from personal sources, or government grants, or bank loans. Of course, that doesn’t dilute the owner’s equity, but it may well limit you to organic growth, versus international rollouts and acquisition options. Enjoy being visible and active in the local community. There is no free lunch for money.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Non-equity funding has to come from personal sources, or government grants, or bank loans. Of course, that doesn’t dilute the owner’s equity, but it may well limit you to organic growth, versus international rollouts and acquisition options. Enjoy being visible and active in the local community. There is no free lunch for money.

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Entrepreneur Equity Dilution LLC 241

The Next Web

AUGUST 19, 2013

It’s always better to be earn money, not just raise it, as money you earn doesn’t dilute your ownership and reassures your investors. 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.

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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 Our community colleges are excellent as well, including the Alamo Colleges, Austin Community College, the Dallas College and the Lone Star Community College.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

What’s the way that you make sure that the stakeholders, whether they’re communities and hosts and all the other folks, and what are some of the things you do? In our case, society, we call the 900,000 communities we operate in. Communities, we want to strengthen the communities we’re serving.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 12, 2012

This post is a translation of the article: « Pigeons » : le cri d'alarme d'un fonds américain published on LaTribune (12/10/2012) and is a response to the proposed tax law proposed by the government of Francois Hollande, suggesting to tax all capital gain at the same level than salaries or 60%.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 7, 2011

Raising the debt ceiling and reducing the budget without additional government stimulus is likely to slow the growth of the overall economy. This means that the shock to the economy will be diluted and consumers will not feel the impact immediately. State and local government cuts may come quickly. Slow growth almost certain.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

What’s the way that you make sure that the stakeholders, whether they’re communities and hosts and all the other folks, and what are some of the things you do? In our case, society, we call the 900,000 communities we operate in. Communities, we want to strengthen the communities we’re serving.

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betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Before there was Fab there was fabulis, a social network meets places guide targeted to the gay community. A couple of dilution points here or there wont matter in the long run but working with the right people will.? Don’t skimp on fundraising because of dilution fears.?. Never, ever, choose your investors based on valuation.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

While not obvious on the surface, there has been a fundamental sea-change in the investment community that has made the incremental Unicorn investment a substantially more dangerous and complicated practice. It will also minimize future dilution. Twelve to eighteen months later, you hit the road and do it again — super simple.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 27, 2010

Kinda seems like that sometimes, right—that the venture capital community seems to chase after the bright shiny object of the moment in droves and then just as quickly moves on to the next new new thing. Good luck trying that *before* Facebook pissed off a lot of influential users and sent the media and even the government into a tizzy.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 27, 2010

Kinda seems like that sometimes, right—that the venture capital community seems to chase after the bright shiny object of the moment in droves and then just as quickly moves on to the next new new thing. Good luck trying that *before* Facebook pissed off a lot of influential users and sent the media and even the government into a tizzy.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Government grants – Credit cards / debt. Create a strong brand, solid social community, sell advertising. I’ve been reaching out to such users in the startup community and have gotten very positive feedback so far. Co-founders are the highest form of dilution to a business. Other sources of capital. A few nuggets.

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