YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 28, 2015

by John Vrionis, partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. This article highlights their advice on issues ranging from financing to patent trolls: While startups may believe lawyers are too costly, working with one early on avoids potentially serious problems later. Lightspeed is in the business of encouraging entrepreneurship.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 16, 2021

Greetings from Houston Mural located in Houston Heights If your startup is located in the Houston region you may be eligible to compete for a $50,000 investment! Startups, submit your application Capital Factory Ventures Application Who Can Apply? They’ve raised $7.2 million in funding to date.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 18, 2021

Austin startup, ZPEG, wins $100,000 Defense Innovation Challenge on June 6, 2019 Robots! If your startup works with anything that walks, rolls, flies, or swims by itself, you might be able to win $100,000! The challenge will occur on March 10 in partnership with Guinn Partners and the Center for Autonomous Robotics.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

How to finance a new seed-stage startup? Convertible debt? Convertible equity? As of August 2010, Paul Graham famously proclaimed , “Convertible notes have won. Every investment so far in this YC batch (and there have been a lot) has been done on a convertible note.”

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Hippoland

AUGUST 9, 2016

Get a standard convertible note (or convertible security such as 500 Startups’ KISS A), and fill it out. A few of my friends’ companies had no lead investors in their seed rounds, and they are now valued at hundreds of millions of dollars. Then start bringing checks in.

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Board Effect

MAY 10, 2019

In the early days, tracking the percentage of ownership in a startup is easy. There’s the owner—maybe a partner or two—but unless employees are offered equity from the get-go, there’s typically not a whole lot of dilution. Things can escalate quickly, however, when a startup decides to seek investors. Why do cap tables matter?

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