The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Building equity throughout organizations is difficult, painstaking work. For seven years after founding The Rand Group, I worked 12 hours per day and barely took a day off,” says Daniella Rand, a San Francisco-based wealth manager with two decades of experience in the field. Still, professional women aren’t powerless.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 10, 2018

Don’t values and community come from sharing experiences and being vulnerable together? I know I’ve got some reach for what I write, at least within a narrow community. Even though your equity is unlikely to make you rich , there are plenty examples of when it does to extraordinary levels. I LOVE THIS!

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Unlike other incubator-led programs, this workshop is open to anyone who wants to learn, and it does not require companies take investment or give out equity. I have contacts within the university and entrepreneurial communities and would be happy to help you set up something if interested. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Employee Equity: Restricted Stock and RSUs on #mbamondays – [link]. Mike Samson, Co-Founder of @crowdSPRING on Community Building & NO!SPEC Way to go San Francisco! . “ nobody wins if you go out of business&# On Pricing – [link]. Brian Chesky of AirBnB (from Startup School) – [link] ?

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2018

During this discovery stage, entrepreneurs get to hone their business skills via training and support while typically no equity is taken from them. Based out of San Francisco with offices in Santiago (Chile) and Munich (Germany), YouNoodle showcases startup competitions and programs from around the world since 2010.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 20, 2014

After several visits skiing here, I had become smitten with the “mojo” of Bend – its superb quality of life, recreational opportunities and proximity to the San Francisco Bay Area. It’s home to a small but growing tech community that has been developing over the past decade, and that’s what piqued my interest.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

We’re highlighting key members of the community to find out. Another company which is going to have widespread impact is eShares, eShares is going to change the way the private companies manage their equity. Hyper-Local, meaning the entire team should be based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Frighteningly Early.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 24, 2020

Like most of the country, it has become a tale of two communities. Housing costs, while not quite at San Francisco levels, are out of control. In June, de Blasio created a situation where the city tried to address racial equity with competing press releases and speeches. My dad was a NYC firefighter from 1963-1983.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 19, 2019

The results have helped guide our planning and I’m really excited about all the new options and sessions we’ve come up with for the October 23-25 event in San Francisco. We’ve spent a lot of time this past year running Lean Startup tests on our annual flagship conference to really nail down what you’re most interested in.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 17, 2012

On arrival, a government program called Start-Up Chile handed him $40,000, no equity required. The government wants to bring in foreign entrepreneurs to interact with the business community," Davis says. When the six-month program ended, they returned to San Francisco. What to do? They raised $1.6

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 17, 2012

At a recent meeting in ReadWriteWeb’s San Francisco headquarters, new Go Daddy CEO Warren Adelman delighted in reeling off the company’s impressive numbers: almost $1.4 But the company, which was bought by private equity firms for $2.25 But can it really have it both ways? billion last year has even bigger aspirations. “We

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2020

I saw these addressed well in a new book, “ The Startup Community Way ,” by Brad Feld and Ian Hathaway. These guys have been building startup communities like Techstars for over 30 years, so they know what works and what doesn’t. Financial capital – revenue, equity, debt, funding. Cultural capital – mindset, behaviors, history.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

We’re interested not only in bringing folks to San Francisco, but also in helping Lean Startup communities take root beyond Silicon Valley. Individuals can apply, but the scholarship application form is designed for a community leader to bring in a group from a geographic area or from an incubator/accelerator program.

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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. San Antonio also boasts a strong constellation of primary and secondary innovation and research institutions such as the S.W.

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The Equity Kicker

MARCH 21, 2017

Companies with pure for-profit motives aren’t well equipped to solve many of society’s most pressing problems – e.g. homelessness in San Francisco, education, healthcare. Facebook (fake news) and Uber (where do I start…). Companies that aren’t chasing unicorn status find it hard to raise money.

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San Francisco Cap Table Angel Investor Valuation 90

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 11, 2010

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. I spent a day at Dogpatch San Fran and loved the vibe.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Seattle should be the envy of any non Silicon Valley tech community in the country. And that is precisely my thoughts for Seattle and what I plan to deliver on Thursday night: Which few key community leaders are going to step up and get those neurons properly firing and connected? My recipe for Seattle or your community: 1.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2018

For the Central and Southern regions of the United States, the city is the crowned jewel of startup communities. Of these rounds, nearly every one was classified as a Series B or later-stage round, with the exception of a few debt and equity financing rounds. for funding amounts. Last year, nearly $1.2 What does this information mean?

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

Supercities, such as the San Francisco Bay Area, have traditionally attracted lots of newcomers into the network because that’s where the jobs, the labor pool, and the prospects for economic growth lie. In fact, cities represent some of the earliest network effects. Venture capital.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

In case you were asleep and missed it, Salesforce.com’s annual tech conference/religious revival, Dreamforce , took place in the Moscone Center in San Francisco this past week. It was at this point you realize this is much more than a tech conference with Benioff’s reminder for entrepreneurs to give back to their community.

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Kodorra

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

During this discovery stage, entrepreneurs get to hone their business skills via training and support while typically no equity is taken from them. Based out of San Francisco with offices in Santiago (Chile) and Munich (Germany), YouNoodle showcases startup competitions and programs from around the world since 2010.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Selfishly, to me, this means we need more progressive voters coming from Manhattan and Brooklyn and San Francisco and Los Angeles and other cities that will lose some of their grip on jobs and buzz and quality of life for creatives after COVID. We need entrepreneurs with more passion for helping communities than creating monopolies.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 8, 2012

How to build regional entrepreneurial communities has just gotten it’s first “here’s how to do it” book. Feld’s thesis is that unlike the common wisdom, it is entrepreneurs that lead a startup community while everyone else feeds the community. These events are a good proxy for the health and depth of a startup community.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 8, 2012

Derek Shanahan , Chief Community Officer of Foodtree. Take into consideration board seats, the investor’s equity stake in the business and whether they will receive preferred or common stock. Choose your investors carefully. When we raised our $1.3 million round, we almost made a huge mistake: taking money from the wrong people.

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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.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2021

The accelerator provides equity-free financial support through AWS Promotional Credit, technical training and support, access to a global community of EdTech experts, and more. Current AWS loft locations include: New York , San Francisco , Tokyo , Paris (Station F) , and Tel-Aviv (Floor28).

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

previously explained that it usually requires some equity, but here is some more step by step practical advice. It’s a San Francisco Bay Area forum for networking, jobs and education for over 500 Product Management professionals. CompStudy 2008 Report on Equity and Cash Compensation at Technology Startups. Let's recap.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 19, 2014

An angel investor is an affluent individual who provides capital for a business start-up, usually in exchange for convertible debt or ownership equity. Many angels are entrepreneurs themselves, or executives and business or community leaders. Anthony Alfidi, Angel from San Francisco, CA | Website | Twitter.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

If you didn’t come in your own 747, here’s a guide to what to see in the valley (which for the sake of this post, extends from Santa Clara to San Francisco.) From Santa Clara to South San Francisco it’s 45 miles of one bedroom community after another. San Francisco – Startups with a Lifestyle.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2017

million+ company, with 60+ team members doing tours in NYC, San Francisco, Chicago, Washington DC and Los Angeles.”. I wanted to support the local community and stay in Thailand and I’ve been able to keep living abroad and traveling for the past three years. We’ve continued bootstrapping since then — today we are a $2.5

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

That company was founded on filling a need Robert saw while living in San Francisco and working on a radio startup. "I Robert believes in "the powerful idea of self-reliance and this idea that you should know how to take care of yourself, and your family, and your community." I wanted to get to the bottom of that.

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Technical Review Software Review Finance Technology 68

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. The nine teams we have people in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Austin and Atlanta.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 11, 2020

creating programs for Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion e. When the National Science Foundation stopped holding their annual conference of I-Corps instructors, it offered us the opportunity to embrace a larger community beyond the NSF – now to include the Hacking for Defense, NSIN, and Lean LaunchPad educators.

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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. Offer equity to a programmer?

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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.”.

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David Teten

JUNE 12, 2014

Competitiveness Project , which challenged the HBS alumni community to address America’s declining competitiveness. HBSAANY has evolved into an educational organization, holding investor education events in NY , Florida , New Jersey , Connecticut , and San Francisco , as well as many webinars. 1) Curriculum innovation.

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techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

Convertible Equity, A Better Alternative To Convertible Debt? From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. As a refresher, a convertible note is a loan that automatically converts into equity upon the closing of a Series A round of financing.

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