Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 1, 2016

We just led a $22 million financing in Glowforge. When we led a $9 million financing in Glowforge a little over a year ago, we were excited about the potential to do to the subtractive 3D printing world what we did with MakerBot in the additive / FDM 3D printing world. I’ll start with the punchline – lasers are super cool.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2015

I challenge any entrepreneur, for example, to define the difference between "seed-stage" and "early-stage" financing. Asking for early-stage money before you have customers and revenue will likely kill your credibility with real investors. Yet, knowing this distinction is important. Business accelerator funding.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 2, 2010

But our goal is to make sure that these businesses are sustainable, have customers, revenues, and profits. This is a segment that is well beyond traditional micro-finance, but also somewhat below the scope of the regular financial institutions. million financing round for.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

I have seen this criticism at various places where this recap is syndicated on a weekly basis, as well as in certain random forums on the internet. As you may know, 99% of the entrepreneurs who seek financing, get rejected. The first step is to develop some reference customers, something all early-stage startups should do.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Recently, we looked at our own portfolio at NextView Ventures to dig a little deeper on how startups actually raise that next round of financing. Startups with large, lifecycle VCs included in the seed round syndicate did not reach Series A faster than those who did not. More on these below.). There was no meaningful difference.

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Growthink Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Get Satisfaction has developed a private label social network platform for businesses to use to communicate with their customers, and to help customers communicate with each other. This helps companies bond with customers and provide customer service, and is a much easier and faster solution than building your own system.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

When opening up my men’s clothing shop, I wanted to replicate the feeling of home and for my customers to walk out feeling better than when they walked in. He helps people who have made a complete mess of their finances. My goal was to reach teenagers and young adults before they wreck their finances. Photo Credit: Rob Berger.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2017

by Rhonda Adams, president and founder of PlanningShop and author of “ Successful Business Plan: Secrets & Strategies “ Small business owners never seem to have enough hours in the day to complete all the tasks on our to-do lists — developing new products, searching for new customers, training employees, closing the sale.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

From the customer’s point of view, they would rather wait a little longer and have a better platform-specific solution, than simultaneously ship a generic product on all platforms. They had a couple experienced co-founders, including the now legendary Reed Hastings, but the problem was that they were stuck at about 300,000 customers.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

million in venture financing. No doubt early-stage companies can be started on a shoestring by low-paid entrepreneurs, but when financing a scalable, sustainable product, a free application server won’t make much of a difference. In fact, it’s barely even the beginning for most companies in their seed stage financings.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 20, 2014

Series A Dynamics: This is a middle-of-the-road outcome in terms of optimizing your next round of financing. This tends to be more common on the East Coast where there is more of a history of firms buddying up with the intention of doing the next couple rounds of financing together. Their aggressiveness sends a signal to the market.

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mashable.com

JULY 10, 2012

Chris Andrasick, CEO of Tacit Knowledge , believes that the mom-and-pop advantage extends beyond customer loyalty, and that there is in fact a logistical advantage, as well. “Ads and offers will appear on other pages the potential customer is viewing.”. Image courtesy of iStockphoto , iPandastudio , logorilla. Flag this comment.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 7, 2020

Once objectives are identified and prioritized, your podcasting plan should outline strategies and tactics, which include format, frequency, duration, host/s, point of view, guests, research, syndication, and marketing. podcast directories) pick up and syndicate your podcasts for free via RSS feeds. From there, podcatchers (i.e.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 1, 2018

It requires time, hard work, and consistency to build trust with prospective customers, rank higher in Google searches, and gain a following for your brand. Explore content syndication opportunities to expand the reach of your blog posts. It’s easy to build a brand online. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

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View from Seed

JUNE 16, 2015

Our investment size may differ slightly from one company to the next, but it tends to be driven entirely by situation-specific factors (needs of the company, syndicate composition, anticipated reserves, etc) … and not based on our belief. VCs also love businesses with a high degree of customer referral activity.

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

He is a serial entrepreneur, internationally syndicated columnist, angel investor, public speaker and author of the best-selling book Never Get a “Real&# Job: How To Dump Your Boss, Build a Business and Not Go Broke. Hire someone well-versed in communication between developers, customers and team members. All Rights Reserved.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

This provides us more time to develop meaningful relationships with prospects and customers. A number of analysts have particular focus on serving the customers of technology companies, e.g., Gartner and 451 Research , and their work is also relevant for investors. 3) Raise capital. 6) Due diligence. 7) Negotiate .

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Mike Michalowicz

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Thanks to Kenny Jahng of Big Click Syndicate LLC. Subconsciously they lose their passion and begin to dislike always working to increase sales, to market their businesses or to make customers happy. The more you procrastinate on small and big decisions, the bigger the monster you will have to face eventually. Second Guessing Decisions.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Partners W3 EDGE Concentric Sky Rackspace Intridea Dynect DNS Webtrends Global Syndication Partners ABCNews CNN Metro USAToday Yahoo ©2005-2011 Mashable, Inc. Founded in 2005, Mashable is headquartered in New York City with an office in San Francisco. Reproduction without explicit permission is prohibited. All Rights Reserved.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

And if you don’t have US business activity, then get a beta customer for initial footprint. Better to start with contacts with other entrepreneurs and founders, hopefully those that have already been funded, and approach angels and VC’s through them ( Jüri Kaljundi, Have raised angel & VC financing).

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Genuine VC

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Seed round of financing led by NextView Ventures , where I will be joining the Board of Directors. We’re joined in the round by RRE, BOSS Syndicates, NextGen, and awesome strategic angels like Niraj Shah (CEO of Wayfair) and Fabrice Grinda. The rationale behind our investment isn’t built upon my one lone VC customer experience.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MARCH 18, 2023

Often, they syndicate their investments with other venture capitalists, spreading the risk and giving the entrepreneurs multiple contacts and sources of advice. VCs can also introduce you to potential customers and partners. Additionally, the presence of several VCs adds credibility to the investment process.

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mashable.com

JUNE 30, 2012

From these examples we can see the following: An API may expose business data such as customer data in apps only intended for internal sales staff use. Money and Finance Lists. Global Syndication Partners. The larger picture can be seen at ProgrammableWeb , which catalogs more than 6,000 public web APIs. Holiday Lists.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 28, 2016

When we talk about seeds, we mean your first outside round of financing at the earliest stages of your business. In my prior post, I talked about the rise of the pre-seed and a more nuanced definition of a pre-seed based on milestones, not financing labels. This staged approach is often much better for the founders as well.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

While the aforementioned example may not fit every startup, regardless, you need to have an actionable, scalable business model with measurable metrics (downloads, customers, etc.) Partners W3 EDGE Concentric Sky Rackspace Intridea Dynect DNS Webtrends Global Syndication Partners ABCNews CNN Metro USAToday Yahoo ©2005-2011 Mashable, Inc.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 5, 2016

Those should be strictly reserved for formal company announcements, such as financing. The inventors of a reusable grocery bag were featured in their local Denver newspaper, which then was syndicated and ended up running in newspapers around the country. Release the Release. A local story can extend well beyond your local market.

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Version One Ventures

MAY 22, 2018

Are you looking for help and expertise in hiring, product strategy, customer development, fundraising, coaching, therapy, etc.? co-founder problems, personnel issues, company pivot, customer fall out)? Lastly, dig down into how an investor behaved during new financing rounds or during exits. What is important to you?

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Our startup creates custom vertical search and decision making engines for people or businesses with structured data. Money and Finance Lists. Global Syndication Partners. The insights and tips in this article would have been very helpful when we were trying to select a name the startup that I work for, WebKite (webkite.com).

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

If you can name drop big customers, do that too — you want your profile to look impressive. How many customers have signed up to your service? Money and Finance Lists. Global Syndication Partners. A good AngelList profile doesn’t fit on one page. Include numbers. Don’t say “100K,” say “100,000.”

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mashable.com

MARCH 24, 2011

Often you assume your customer is the same as you — sees the problem the same way, wants to solve it your way, and wants to pay for it. That means admitting the strengths of the competition — who has great customer service, who has more features, who already owns their niche unquestionably? But this isn’t the case.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 5, 2010

ClickFox , the Israeli-American startup developing optimization software for customer service centers, announced it has raised $18 million in financing from a syndicate led by Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners (AIP). Navajo Systems Offers ‘virtual Private SaaS’ for Salesforce.com.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 16, 2010

The company has been making steady progress, culminating in a huge round of financing. The company announced it is raising $48 million from a unique syndicate of investors comprising industry leading venture capital firms and semiconductor innovators. Our goal is to completely remove power consumption as an issue for the data center.

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mashable.com

MAY 24, 2011

In other words, it isn’t just about choosing native apps or choosing the mobile web — it’s also about looking at who your customers are and what devices they use. Mobile websites that aren’t optimized for touch or for larger screens can make customers confused, and again, unlikely to purchase. startupcto

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mashable.com

JANUARY 13, 2012

Hacked Zappos Customers: Beware Phishing Scams. Money and Finance Lists. Global Syndication Partners. World Featured in US & World Videos Featured: Facebook CES 2012 Awards. Trending Stories. iPhone Emoji Fun: Can You Decode Our Emoticon Film Titles? 9 Tech Millionaires Under Age 30 [INFOGRAPHIC]. Holiday Lists. Identity Lists.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 14, 2015

Assuming equity is raised at or above that cap, the total dilution, before the new money, is 16.6% (equivalent to an equity financing of $1m at a $6m post money valuation. The feedback is “come back when you’ve made more progress with customers.” The company spends the $1m building and launching their first product.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 8, 2015

To date, I''ve backed three fashion related companies--Refinery29, chloe + isabel, and Ringly--and now I have the pleasure of joining the syndicate of investors in Bradford Shellhammer ''s new company, Bezar. Small world, it turns out I also knew his husband from the finance world having met him over 10 years ago.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 5, 2012

link] Full story here: [link] Sometimes, we just need to listen to our customers and be nimble enough to act quickly. Money and Finance Lists. Global Syndication Partners. I used that story in the next talk and landed 3 more speaking engagements with companies that wanted their employees to be “RHBs.” Google Lists.

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