Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2021

But many have no insight or connections to the ethereal angel investment community, which In the U.S. Here are eight key insights that will help you find a productive match: Angels want equity ownership, not causes. Every angel looks to scale the business after you have funded product design, perhaps with friends and family.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. Capacity Capital, Greater Colorado Venture Fund, Indie.VC, Reformation Partners, UP Fund, Versatile VC. Lower level of community familiarity. Of the Inc.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 7, 2015

All of my partners at Upfront do. I see emails from angel syndicates all the time for companies I hadn’t even given 2 seconds thought about investing and I get full info, pitch deck and info about the round size and timing. We fund 10-12 companies per year at Upfront where I’m a partner. That’s a huge problem.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 21, 2014

And finally, in Darwinian fashion, competition for market share amongst the venture capitalists as a result of increased numbers of angel investment syndicates will clear the decks of the low-value add venture capital dollars. All of these attributes will effectively benefit the entrepreneurial community. Clear the clutter.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Negotiate an advance from a strategic partner or customer. These organizations, like Y Combinator , are very popular these days, and are often associated with major universities, community development organizations, or even large companies. Another common example is exchanging equity for legal and accounting support.

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Growthink Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2010

I just reviewed the many companies who recently raised venture capital with an eye towards those that are offering products and services that could benefit other entrepreneurs and business owners. Get Satisfaction Inc. ( [link] ) raised $6 million led by Azure Capital Partners. million led by Greycroft Partners and BV Capital.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Yes… he was a very successful PayPal exec and previously co-founder & VP Product of SocialNet. Not long after the product launch we began the initial conversations with VCs for a Series A round. We’re a how-to site and community for small business on marketing. . We three partners are working hard.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

My colleagues Sebastian Soler , Steven Greenberg and I recently launched a new online community, PEVCTech.com , exclusively for PE/VC investors; engineers who work at PE/VC funds; and other technologists who specialize in working on this problem. Greylock Partners. You can register for the survey here. VC Firm. $ Tech % of workforce.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2014

Negotiate an advance from a strategic partner or customer. These organizations, like Y Combinator , are very popular these days, and are often associated with major universities, community development organizations, or even large companies. Another common example is exchanging equity for legal and accounting support.

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View from Seed

JUNE 16, 2015

Leading up to the event, they published an article listing questions VCs never answer , as submitted by the community. I was recently asked to sit on panel with my fellow VC peers and some top entrepreneurs from the Boston tech community. My POV is that every VC has a core product.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 7, 2020

According to Edison Research , 80% of users listen to most of each episode, averaging 7 per week, while 69% of listeners agree that podcast ads make them aware of new products or services. But podcasting does have a lower cost and barrier to entry than video (at least quality video production). Podcast production.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 22, 2015

One of the best and most positive movements proliferating around the tech community is what Product Hunt founder and CEO Ryan Hoover calls “building in public.” Because of both lean startup principles and a thriving community of pay-it-forward individuals, we can all now build a little, learn a little, and then repeat.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2015

Blogging is one of the best ways to do this and build a brand, even before you have a product or service. If you post on industry sites, or get syndicated to popular sites, your scores and visibility will go up even more. A good blog is a short and tightly-written message, which is key to every business communication.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

Negotiate an advance from a strategic partner or customer. These organizations, like Y Combinator , are very popular these days, and are often associated with major universities, community development organizations, or even large companies. Another common example is exchanging equity for legal and accounting support.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Article: Behind Every Great Product. I titled the paper, “Behind Every Great Product” and it was inspired by the classic Good Product Manager / Bad Product Manager by Ben Horowitz. The paper proved popular and helped many teams to get a better understanding of just what product was all about.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

She had so much insight to share that we broke the interview into two parts, 1) Corporate Venture Capital and more broadly, 2) How the Fortune 500 Can Buy, Invest and Partner with the Innovation Economy (coming soon). . Teten: How do corporate VCs interact with the broader VC community? . Some corporate VCs even have seed funds.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

But many have no insight or connections to the ethereal angel investment community, which actually funds more startups then all other venture sources combined (over $25 billion annually). Here are eight key insights that will help you find a productive match: Angels want equity ownership, not causes.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

These are all potential customers and strategic partners for startups. Our community colleges are excellent as well, including the Alamo Colleges, Austin Community College, the Dallas College and the Lone Star Community College. More than 50 Fortune 500 companies are headquartered in Texas and six of the Fortune 50.

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Genuine VC

MAY 1, 2014

They have relationships with over 3,000 publisher and author partners, including all of the Big Five publishers and hundreds of small-to-midsize presses. Given the long working history of everyone involved, the trust and communication, which lay the foundation for success, are firmly in place. Today BookBub is announcing its $3.8M

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 29, 2012

You're going to want syndication partners on the deals you find and sounding boards on the thesis behind each of your potential investments. A mutual fund manager won't give you their portfolio strategy but most seed funds love having a network of angels to syndicate deals with. Bonus: Never stop learning.

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Brandanew

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

As B2B partners tend to be detail oriented high quality content is a great way to engage with them. As I told you last month, I’m a featured contributor at SheOwnsIt which has a wonderful community to learn with. This post seemed to be hitting the pain points well, and was syndicated by the folks at Business2Community as well.

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Agile VC

JANUARY 12, 2012

When a startup doesn’t match the stage where a particular investor focuses, founders may get a response along the lines of “This is interesting to us, but come back once you get from X phase to Y phase” That could be from seed stage to a larger Series A financing need, or to progress from pre-product to post-revenue.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But in business, you want a lot of partners. To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. . In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers. See Bessemer Venture Partners’ A comprehensive guide to security for startups.

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Rob Go

JULY 17, 2014

As former operators and product-oriented entrepreneurs, Dave, Lee, and I tend to think of our firm as a startup company and our approach to investing as our product. It shows that things are working and there is product/market fit, but there is a long way to go towards building an enduring company of great consequence.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 12, 2019

And not to my surprise, this is what lies in our company’s 360-Degrees Happiness Philosophy aimed at our clients, teams and business partners. In the beginning, he just wanted to pursue his passion of climbing, and built products for himself and his fellow enthusiasts. Thanks to Alfonso Colasuonno, My Career Hacker !

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Rob Go

APRIL 19, 2017

We’ve already collaborated with a number of folks here, and I’m looking forward to more diversity of thought in the future syndicates we’re a part of. I think having technical partners who have actually built machine learning systems will be a distinct advantage. I’m hoping that this trend continues.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 14, 2010

Rich Schefren demonstrated how to easily create all three mediums using live webinars as your base product content production tool, redistributing them in text transcripts, mp3s and video recordings. For me, time in transit is study time , when I get most of my information product consumption done. His justification?

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View from Seed

AUGUST 26, 2015

It was really helpful for the community, and it is something we’ll probably do again, although not every year. Just yesterday, Adam Medros , SVP of Global Product at TripAdvisor and an entrepreneur advisor for NextView, just asked about when the next event will be. Here’s a great recap on the Boston Globe’s tech blog.). Why Invest?

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View from Seed

AUGUST 26, 2015

It was really helpful for the community, and it is something we’ll probably do again, although not every year. Just yesterday, Adam Medros , SVP of Global Product at TripAdvisor and an entrepreneur advisor for NextView, just asked about when the next event will be. Here’s a great recap on the Boston Globe’s tech blog.). Why Invest?

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

The time has come for the Texas startup community to band together to change the world once again. Capital Factory focuses on hosting community programming that educates and inspires entrepreneurs, programmers, designers, and community leaders. These are all potential customers and strategic partners for startups.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Once you master step one… graduate to the next level, aim for the large possible global audience that is relevant for your products/services/mission. Take your existing help videos from your support site or trainings or the CD you bundle with your product, and put them on YouTube. Just do TV on YouTube! See above example.]. #2.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Clearly Define Your Business Model While this may sound like a trivial task, young startups often have an exciting and innovative product, but no real plan for monetizing it. They may also contribute code to the community that comprises the backbone of their technology. in place before you expand.

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mashable.com

JULY 10, 2012

Unusual or Commoditized Products. These products compete on individuality and aesthetics more than price. Lifeproof , a line of waterproof and shock-resistant iPhone cases, aligned itself with Best Buy for this very reason, and it was able to penetrate the mainstream audience, whereas before it was simply a niche product.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

In part 2 , I went through 6 more strategies including forums, guest blogging, email newsletters, CSS galleries, partners and app comparison sites. I was recently in an event in Bangkok where Dan Andrews presented to the whole room a sales pitch for Rob’s product HitTail. App listing sites.

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mashable.com

AUGUST 20, 2011

For them, “working from home is the most efficient situation for us to build our product — we can be machines over here,&# says Golkin, explaining that the two simply “work, eat, sleep and gym, all with a constant Spotify soundtrack.&# Have an account? instead of having to travel home. Let us know in the comments below.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

INFOGRAPHIC] The Interconnected World of Tech Companies [INFOGRAPHIC] Apple Product Design: 35 Years of Consumer Electronics [INFOGRAPHIC] Happy 4th Anniversary, iPhone [INFOGRAPHIC] The History of Advertising on Facebook [INFOGRAPHIC] How Much Data Will Humans Create & Store This Year? Have an account?

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Not to mention, early-stage startups usually only employ a few people focused on product and development. If your startup is in that boat, it’s really not a matter of figuring out how to pitch your company — instead, you may want to consider improving your product before hitting the pavement. Screenshots of the product.

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