Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

Some aspiring entrepreneurs are so desperate for funding, or naïve, that they ignore the obvious signs of scams and rip-offs on the Internet, praying for a windfall. Most of these are easy to avoid if you do your homework up front, but can cost you dearly if you get sucked in. Off-shore unsolicited investor offers. Marty Zwilling.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

The SEC’s proposed rules (mandated by the JOBS Act of 2012) amend the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to allow the offer and sale of securities through an internet crowdfunding campaign, similar in some respects to donation crowdfunding campaigns conducted on Kickstarter and Indiegogo. The investors.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 21, 2014

In the last two weeks there’s been a flurry of articles about the implications of a 25% decline in the public market value of a bunch of Internet stocks. We probably had about $150m committed and were running around trying to get to $300m for what we had positioned as a dedicated Internet VC fund.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

despite having been passed into law in early 2012 via the JOBS Act , and still has no scheduled date for availability, waiting for the rules to be finalized by the SEC. In fact, perhaps the most important model, equity crowdfunding for non-accredited investors, is still not legal in the U.S.,

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Gust

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

As a native of Silicon Valley , I’ve witnessed the creative destruction of wave after wave of innovation as nearby corporate campuses repopulated themselves : From defense contractors to data centers , computer mainframe manufacturers to Internet search engines. Intellectual Property. Free Speech. Healthcare Reform. Yes, really.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

During this time, there’s financial leverage used in the transaction to help buffer the firm’s cost of capital (e.g. Next door in China, too, we see the government being careful with information sharing online within its own borders and restricting access to much of the Internet. 1/ Social Network Interference.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 5, 2021

Elon’s original vision for X.com was to usher in an era of internet-enabled financial services (retail banking, payments, simple stock trading), thus displacing the slow moving incumbent banks that were uninterested in innovation in the late 1990s. The Missionary.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

We needed improvements in video compression and in TCP/IP – the underlying protocol that essentially runs the Internet. I looked at the future predictions for “modem speed” (as I called it back then, today we’d called it internet connection speed or bandwidth). Gene Kim laughed at my prediction. But I digress…).

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Agile VC

MARCH 13, 2012

’s leadership team, I personally would have vigorously opposed this move because I think any benefit which might accrue to the org would be overwhelmed by a range of costs. Are they, were they, and the SEC were when a few brave souls were warning about Madoff to deaf ears? If I were involved with Yahoo!’s Mail, Sports, etc.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

In this case, performance of WiFi in my room sucked and the cost was $15 / device / day. I plugged the MiFi into the wall, pressed the On button, connected each device, and never thought about Internet access again for the remaining twelve days. Nope – that doesn’t work for me.

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Agile VC

AUGUST 9, 2012

You can read about all of this stuff in Zynga’s own SEC filings or the popular press. That’s their revenue minus cost of goods, and keep in mind Zynga’s top line already excludes the 30% take from Facebook (which still accounts for >90% of revenues).

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David Teten

MAY 8, 2012

It allows small businesses to raise $1 million, from a limit of 10% of income or $10,000 from individual investors, without registering their companies with the SEC. It was created before the Internet age to protect investors by promoting full disclosure of information.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 2, 2012

The real truth is, since the "Internet bubble" burst in 2001, initial public offerings have not resumed the vitality levels of the late 1980s, let alone the boom years of the '90s. Doing so would reduce costs for companies while still adhering to the first principle of investor protection.". Stock image by Shutterstock. Discuss.

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Board Effect

AUGUST 14, 2023

Financial services also incurs some of the highest cost for cybercrime, with IBM noting that in 2022, the typical cost of a data breach for this sector stood at $5.97 When did the board last discuss whether the company’s disclosure of cyber risk and cyber incidents is consistent with SEC guidance?​

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Board Effect

AUGUST 14, 2023

Financial services also incurs some of the highest cost for cybercrime, with IBM noting that in 2022, the typical cost of a data breach for this sector stood at $5.97 When did the board last discuss whether the company’s disclosure of cyber risk and cyber incidents is consistent with SEC guidance?​

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

Read more: SEC S1 Filing (amended 05-03-2010) , peHUB. There weren’t enough details to know whether Corduro was trying to build a mobile payments company like Zong or a retail merchant processing solution like Square. Raising $75mm in IPO, values company at $515mm. ICQ (sold by AOL to Digital Sky Technologies ).

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Andrew Payne

APRIL 26, 2011

In that spirit, SEC filings are a great source of entrepreneurial case studies, and recently I’ve been reading about Demand Media. Instead of treating it as an expense (as a newspaper would do with journalist salaries), Demand Media argues their articles are a capital asset, with the creation cost depreciated over 5 years.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

I had a lot of fun learning what the internet could do for me. In fact, my first website I can’t show you, because I don’t think we have internet access, but I had a Geocities website in 1999 for a card game I used to play called Magic the Gathering. I was getting more into internet marketing and trying to ramp up my income.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

“ But hold on a sec. Capital needs are a function of the cost of delivering the product. In software and the Internet, that’s near zero so your capital costs more or less reduce to your cost of building the product. So how many do we need to pay our costs, and is it feasible for us to reach those?

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

The same thing happened to many Internet stocks. In Silicon Valley boardrooms, where “growth at all costs” had been the mantra for many years, people began to imagine a world where the cost of capital could rise dramatically, and profits could come back in vogue. SEC Visits Silicon Valley. Caveat emptor.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Of course, the real thanks should go to a startup - Gogo Inflight Internet - that I was lucky enough to meet at a recent workshop. I started my last company with 100% off-shore resources because I could never have completed Customer Development at a reasonable cost of money or regulatory burden had I employed US Citizens. Thanks guys!)

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

And even then, the auditors do not roll up their sleeves in nearly the same way they do during an IPO process, where they know the SEC will review their work in excruciating detail. Many companies embed costs that are truly variable (for instance customer support, marketing, credit card processing) below the gross margin line.

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Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 17, 2021

The company takes a starkly different approach than its closest competitor by offering ad-free, subscription-based search that does not track users’ internet activity. And I want to dive deeper into Neeva for a sec, you’ve already referenced it. This is the kind of thing you can only get on the Greymatter Podcast, my goodness.

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Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 17, 2021

The company takes a starkly different approach than its closest competitor by offering ad-free, subscription-based search that does not track users’ internet activity. And I want to dive deeper into Neeva for a sec, you’ve already referenced it. This is the kind of thing you can only get on the Greymatter Podcast, my goodness.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

These costs are much higher than those for IPOs, even accounting for IPO Pops; SPAC shares tend to drop by one third of their value or more within a year following a merger, leaving investors who hold shares post de-SPAC most vulnerable to price declines; and SPAC investors typically differ from de-SPAC investors.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

4G/ LTE (Long Term Evolution) -the fourth generation of networks, enabling faster downloading in 4G phones (100 megabit per second compared to today’s 21 megabit/sec in 3G phones). Our solutions provide peace of mind, improve quality of life and save costs to users and service providers.

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Version One Ventures

MARCH 29, 2017

what is a “reasonable” cost for square foot of office space in SF). . Companies (like Mattermark , a V1 company) scrape the Internet, taking raw (and free) public information from social media, SEC filings and press releases and then repackaging that information into a usable database that typically requires a fee to access.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

According to an interview with Elon Musk, this campaign cost Paypal about $60 million , which most Silicon Valley historians would consider money well spent. It would cost a tremendous amount of money to run such a program. With the 7% banker fee that is a 35% AVERAGE cost of capital. Billions of dollars. first-day “pop.”

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 10, 2021

Similarly, I just got a pitch for a startup providing telehealth access that specialized in allergies—which I was pretty excited about until they told me that pharmaceutical companies were fronting the cost of their marketing. They forget that taxpayers funded the creation of the internet and contributed to pharmaceutical discoveries.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

You can argue that the DNA created by Microsoft's over emphasis on distribution (Steve) and development (Bill), has ultimately cost it $50bn or more in lost revenue, market share and market capitalization. Successful startups today more than ever, grow in Internet time. Trying to regain internet connection. startupcto

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

In more than a decade of writing about the Internet and tech-enabled businesses I’ve learned that mobs don’t do nuance well. Decentralized Internet — This is perhaps the most unsexy part of cryptocurrency but the one that most purists I follow on this topic are most excited about.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

tells you how much adwords cost. hire low-cost international engineering talent. Likelihood of Confusion -trademark, copyright and Internet Law. Internet trends. Internet TV. State of the Internet. Find the top ten keywords ranking to your websites. SEMRush â?? SEO and campaign management tool. Clickable â??

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