Community, Distribution, Equity and San Francisco

The Impact of Community

Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

The Impact of Community written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Lloyed Lobo In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Lloyed Lobo. He is an entrepreneur, podcast host, and community builder. Would you support that idea? [10:39] 11:32] The subtitle of the book has 13 rules.

Community

Community Kuwait Cofounder Bootstrapping

Does Your VC have an Investment Thesis, or a Hypothesis?

David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

Foundry Group, investing primarily in “ Software and Internet ”, follows six major themes, e.g., Human Computer Interaction (HCI) or Distribution. J-Angels “is a community and a VC fund of top American investors (Jewish-American & Israeli-born) in Silicon Valley and San Francisco.”. 5) Structure-defined funds.

Technical Review

Technical Review Cofounder Venture Capital Deal Flow

This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Helps content publishers and advertisers launch campaigns that develop viral distribution attributes and therefore gain “buzz.”. Platform that provides radio music programming via crowd sourced contributions from social community; programming is syndicated nationally. Total raised: $29.5mm. Read more: CrunchBase profile , TechCrunch.

Partner

Partner New York City Cofounder Syndicate

I Want My CIC! … The Benefits for Startups to Be Co-Located

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 11, 2010

We’re recommending to our companies that they be distributed.&#. I’m 100% certain this would benefit our community and not just the entrepreneurs that work there. These are not to be confused with incubators like YCombinator or IdeaLab which look to invest in your company and take equity positions.

San Francisco

San Francisco Incubator Silicon Valley Startup

On Supercities, Economic Growth, and Income Inequality in a Post-COVID World

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.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley Non-Compete San Francisco Government

Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Our community colleges are excellent as well, including the Alamo Colleges, Austin Community College, the Dallas College and the Lone Star Community College. Dallas, Houston, Austin, and San Antonio are textbook examples of Third Wave cities. Texas dominates every top ten list.

Texas

Texas San Antonio Houston Dallas

An Update on Indie.vc

Bryce Dot VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

In that same time we’ve hosted 4 meetups in NYC, Chicago, San Francisco and Portland. Terms We’ve worked with the team at Cooley to create an investment instrument that has elements of both debt and equity. terms that were most important to us and to founders: cash distributions and contingent equity conversion.

San Francisco

San Francisco Distribution Equity Delaware

Why Startups Fail - 20 Top Reasons Gleaned from 32 Startup Failure Post-Mortems

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

In their startup post-mortem, Nouncer discussed their decision to be in NY as one that hurt their company stating : In my case, New York didn’t lack money, community, able workers, or smart people with good advice. So, the best way of dealing with this issue is to take a long, long vesting period for all major sweat equity founders.”.

Cofounder

Cofounder Startup Technical Cofounder CTO Hire

Finding Your Co-Founders

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Other cities like New York, Boston, Seattle, LA and Austin TX also have pretty strong startup communities. In later posts I’ll get more specific on how to figure out if the folks you’re meeting are the right people to work with, and also how to deal with issues like splitting equity and paying yourselves before raising funding.

Cofounder

Cofounder Founder Silicon Valley Technical Cofounder

Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Create a strong brand, solid social community, sell advertising. Ideally you can pay them based + equity so that you’ll get their attention and focus on the project. I’ve been reaching out to such users in the startup community and have gotten very positive feedback so far. What are the other essentials?

Technical Review

Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review

Mike Michalowicz’s Net Worth

Mike Michalowicz

OCTOBER 14, 2012

I sold the first company I founded, a computer technology integrator, to private equity in 2002. We then wrote out our distributions from there, on the bank starter checks. Your value to our community. My first “major tour” was in California, from Los Angeles to San Francisco for five speaking gigs.

.Net

.Net Securities and Exchange Commission California Angel Investor

My XOXO Talk

Bryce Dot VC

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

For $100,000 we actually don’t take any equity in your company unless you raise more venture capital, at which point we’ll convert into that round of funding or if you sell the company, we’ll have a small piece of that acquisition. If you continue to make those distributions it flips- 80 percent to the creator and then 20 percent to us.

Venture Capital

Venture Capital Valuation Los Angeles Chicago

StartUpRoar