YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 25, 2017

Traditionally, VC investors would invest $X million in a startup for a certain percentage of equity, decision making rights, and the power to block things they didn’t agree with. Cheaper capital costs. Subsequently, the price of capital has plummeted and with it, borrowing costs. That has now changed for good.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 28, 2015

They also need to decide whether to structure terms as an equity deal or a convertible security deal. ” The Cost of Financing. .” ” The Cost of Financing. Startups bear the costs of their financing, from the first seed investment to the sale of Series A stock. Even $15-20,000 is too expensive.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 10, 2019

Home equity loans and HELOCs provide a faster financing opportunity for consumers. A spouse or child of an individual who needs assisted living services uses the equity built-up into the home to cover the costs. Homeowners calculate the full cost of renovations and repairs before approaching a lender.

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Equity Government Programming Finance 113

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 28, 2011

The cost of giving up more equity early is often more than offset by the increased flexibility to recover from mistakes. Your startup will require more money than you expect, and the cost of going back to the well is very high. Pay people with equity or future revenue. Include buffer when you raise money. Great strategy.

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Burn Rate Startup Salary Equity 231

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Naming a Business. Will Work for Equity. Dave Graham Business Venture Capital Private Equity GlobalLogic Inc. Determined not to miss another opportunity, Graham has begun waiving fees and instead taking equity in clients he thinks have a good shot at success. Theres a huge opportunity cost in not taking equity," he says.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Rebranding a business is a marketing strategy wherein a new name, design, concept, term, symbol, and combination of these elements are created for a brand. Also, identify equities that won’t change. You can add flexibility to your brand by not violating previously established values and equities. Always have an open mind.

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Technical Review Software Review Bankruptcy Equity 149

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Potential customers these days rely more and more on name recognition for credibility and new brand adoption. These advisors need a stake in your success, like a monthly stipend, or an equity share of the business. Client cost differentials of less than twenty percent are usually not enough to incent change.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Naming a Business. Should You Share Equity with Consultants? To grow his cash-strapped start-up, Parker ended up sharing equity -- not only with employees, but also with consultants and vendors. Parker found that equity as compensation helped build loyalty to his company -- even among consultants. Tools & Research.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2021

Those at the other extreme don’t look up from the grindstone long enough to notice whether all their work is producing sweat equity or just sweat. Incorporate, register your domain name, trademarks, and copyrights, then patent if possible. Reserve the same names on the leading social networks and blogs.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Muun found a market need but failed to compete with bigger names that provided customers with authoritative content and resources. Use brand marketing strategies to build brand equity. Brand equity is what makes people reach for Tylenol over the pharmaceutical alternative. Both companies suffered from a fatal lack of marketing.

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Marketing Product Audience Equity 110

www.drowningamerican.com

JUNE 22, 2012

Next → How to Hire for Sweat Equity…. model of offering a more valuable product at no cost to the user (think Mint.Com). That being said the following is available to the right candidate: • 3-5% equity in the company (based on experience). • $50,000/year salary once we obtain funding (target: January, 2010).

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Board Effect

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The goal of Giving Tuesday is to tap into the power of generosity as the heart of our global society to promote a sense of dignity and equity. In many cases, nonprofit organizations have absorbed additional emergency responsibilities while be faced with reduced donations and increased operating costs. They named it simply, We CARE.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 1, 2023

During such times a firm should take measures that have historically been thought to safeguard it, such as cutting costs, lowering goals, and keeping an eye on cash flow to weather the impending storm. If possible, settle debts before being subject to inflationary costs for your business. Thanks to Abdul Saboor, The Stock Dork ! #2-

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2014

This enables the owner to readily name the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) that exist in the business. Shark Question #4: How much equity and debt is there in your business? In other words, how much of the business is financed with equity (owner’s money) or debt (borrowed money).

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CPA Technical Review Later Stage Equity 160

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 7, 2017

It’s a great tool for companies to introduce a new brand and test product-market-fit in an early, low-risk environment; cultivate a group of early adopters who become product evangelists and provide crucial feedback and support; get early customer feedback on product concept and design and build brand equity for a product.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 12, 2017

I remember back in 1994 when a friend asked if I’d like to buy a domain name. I have to believe that Google’s search results will always value high-quality domain names because someone like me who’s investing a lot in the domain name itself, is also likely to invest in developing a high-quality website that will be relevant to users.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2015

Skip the fuzzy marketing terms, such as "easier to use," "lower cost" and "disruptive technology." " Investors want to buy into an entrepreneur with a startup that can provide evidence of an ability to double customer productivity, at half the cost, with patented technology.

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Intellectual Property Elevator Pitch Angel Investor Technical Review 120

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

The cost of giving up more equity early is often more than offset by the increased flexibility to recover from mistakes. Your startup will require more money than you expect, and the cost of going back to the well is very high. Pay people with equity or future revenue. Include buffer when you raise money. Great strategy.

Burn Rate 120

Burn Rate Startup Salary Equity 120

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

File a provisional patent, register a trademark, and reserve your company domain names. These are things that can cost very little money, but go a long ways in convincing someone that you are making progress. Without revenue, your investors are largely limited to friends, family and fools. Register some intellectual property.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

The corporate entity lends itself best to the concept of “sharing” equity required by investors, and unincorporated entities don’t get funding. Get your Internet domain name and website. Reserve the company name on social networks to protect it. Line up an experienced team. Variables for “what if” questions add credibility.

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Intellectual Property Angel Investor Technical Review Elevator Pitch 249

ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

GumGum now also lists similar clients, including Vodafone and Sprint, a sign of how one big-name client can attract others. For example, securing a leading player in your industry could be used as leverage to attract other big names, making a more costly ABM approach worth it in the long run. Winning high-value clients with ABM.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2012

File a provisional patent, register a trademark, and reserve your company domain names. These are things that can cost very little money, but go a long ways in convincing someone that you are making progress. Without revenue, your investors are largely limited to friends, family and fools. Register some intellectual property.

Intellectual Property 260

Intellectual Property Sweat Equity CTO Hire Fractional CTO 260

David Teten

MAY 20, 2013

This is part 2 of a 2-part series on domain names and startups; part 1 was “ Should a Startup Spend VC Funding on a Domain Name? ”. This bench at Cathedral Lawn is engraved with country domain names such as.uk,us,nz Let me propose a path few take: find an under-monetized domain name and start a business on it.

Naming 114

Naming Startup Venture Capital Portfolio 114

David Teten

MAY 20, 2013

This is part 2 of a 2-part series on domain names and startups; part 1 was “ Should a Startup Spend VC Funding on a Domain Name? ”. This bench at Cathedral Lawn is engraved with country domain names such as.uk,us,nz Let me propose a path few take: find an under-monetized domain name and start a business on it.

Naming 114

Naming Startup Venture Capital Portfolio 114

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

I’m sure many of you have heard his name. In spite of this, private equity funds have used the rallying cry of efficiency to hijack corporate strategy and loot the profits that historically would have been reinvested into research and development and new products. Let’s start with Joseph Schumpter.

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Private Equity Metrics China Intellectual Property 329

David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

And that costs more money than most people have in savings (minimum $100-500K). Sometimes, equity in a new company can mean more to these shops than another $100-500K in revenue for simply building out a minimum viable product (MVP). Can a shop work for just equity? A blend of cash and equity? Some were very critical.

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Software Developers Software Development Software Developer 60

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

The corporate entity lends itself best to the concept of “sharing” equity required by investors, and unincorporated entities don’t get funding. Get your Internet domain name and website. Reserve the company name on social networks to protect it. Line up an experienced team. Variables for “what if” questions add credibility.

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Angel Investor Intellectual Property Technical Review Elevator Pitch 224

Berkonomics

JANUARY 26, 2017

The most striking example was the one hundred–million–dollar purchase of one of my companies by a New York private equity investor using only five million of its cash. You name the price; I’ll name the terms. It’s an easy rule to remember. What power!

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 29, 2011

Finance Friday’s gets off the ground with today’s post by introducing you to an imaginary startup, the entrepreneurs that we’ll being following throughout the series, and their first challenges: splitting up the founders’ equity and addressing the case where one of the founders provides the initial seed capital for the business.

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Equity Finance Pre-Money Valuation Denver 137

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2011

File a provisional patent, register a trademark, and reserve your company domain names. These are things that can cost very little money, but go a long ways in convincing someone that you are making progress. Without revenue, your investors are largely limited to friends, family and fools. Register some intellectual property.

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Intellectual Property Sweat Equity CTO Hire Fractional CTO 253

Gust

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Yet amidst all the partisan cheerleading and name-calling, there has been some discussion of substance. In April 2012, Congress passed the JOBS Act , which authorizes equity crowdfunding and liberalizes some requirements regarding the issuance of securities by privately held companies. Free Speech. Healthcare Reform. Yes, really.

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Silicon Valley San Francisco Intellectual Property Accredited Investor 187

The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Franchises are an easy way to trade on the popularity of an established name. They’re a lot cheaper to buy into as a result, and the low cost attracts a short of new entrepreneurs. Watch Out for Private Equity Owners. Private equity firms sometimes run franchises well.

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Private Equity Small Business Administration Equity Operations 167

Austin Startup

JULY 8, 2017

I can’t tell you how many times I run into first-time founders who’ve been fed absolute nonsense from ‘advisors’ ‘mentors’ or similarly named people about their ‘secrets’ for managing legal spend. CEO: “$95K” Me: “Going to be complete s**t, and will cost you 10x more long-term.” Me: “Great. What’s his/her starting salary?” CEO: “What?

Startup 48

Startup Salary Early Stage Software 48

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

As the name suggests, DSCR loans measure available cash flow to current debts a business must pay. Net operating income is the revenue minus the cost of equity capital. It covers the property development cost, including land, supplies, and labor. The one that works best for your needs depends on the circumstances.

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Portfolio SBA Balance Sheet .Net 196

Growthink Blog

MARCH 19, 2012

Letting small companies sell equity stakes online would be a huge boost to those firms—like angel investing on steroids. The businesses would get access to tens of millions more potential investors, and could reach out to them at little or no cost through online outlets like Facebook.

Equity 88

Equity Securities and Exchange Commission Private Equity SEC 88

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Bottom line, early stage equity is very, very expensive. As a thumb rule, try to get enough validation so that you can get to at least a $2 million pre-money valuation before raising equity capital. That is debt financing that converts into equity at the Series A valuation once the price for that is set. (I

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Valuation Silicon Valley Pre-Money Valuation Bootstrapping 119

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 24, 2018

Fraud for profit focuses on misusing the mortgage lending process to get cash and equity from lenders or homeowners. The fake buyer may have had his or her identity stolen and may not know that his or her name, credit, and financial data are being used to perpetuate mortgage fraud. Fraud for Housing. Home Appraisal Fraud.

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Technical Review Demand Equity Cloud 149