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Is a Venture Studio Right for You?

Steve Blank

The culmination of this bootcamp is a “demo day” where all startups in the cohort have a few minutes to pitch their companies to venture capitalists and angel investors. (In In exchange for attending an accelerator, startups give up 5% to 10% of their company’s equity. What percentage of equity are they asking for?

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4 Keys To A Successful Integrity Check With Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

The Founder needs to remember that meetings up to this point have been primarily off-site, with staged demos, and managed personally by the CEO or a small team. Startup equity investments imply a long-term business relationship, lasting an average of five years. My best advice is to stick to the middle ground.

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How To Prepare Your New Venture For Investor Scrutiny

Startup Professionals Musings

The Founder needs to remember that meetings up to this point have been primarily off-site, with staged demos, and managed personally by the CEO or a small team. Startup equity investments imply a long-term business relationship, lasting an average of five years. My best advice is to stick to the middle ground.

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Awesome Austin Tech Events, May 8–15

Austin Startup

Tuesday, May 9: VentureCrush ATX (FREE) VentureCrush is a series of unique events and networks created by the Tech Group at Lowenstein Sandler to bring together carefully selected groups of tech industry founders and senior executives, along with VC, growth equity, private equity and angel investors. At Galvanize at 6:00 pm.

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5 Key Trends Impacting Nonprofit Governance Plus Key Questions Boards Need To Be Asking 

Board Effect

Talent Strategy and Risk, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion What do we mean by diversity? Request a demo and let us share how we help more than 14,000 boards in 48 countries. Start by asking everybody on the board to share their experiences to draw out strands that can be used for knowledge transfer and succession planning.

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Brand Marketing vs. Product Marketing: What’s the Difference and Which Should You Invest In?

ConversionXL

Brand marketing is concerned with objectives such as: Brand tracking , identity, and recognition; Improving brand awareness ; Building brand equity ; Understanding and influencing consumer perceptions about the brand. Use brand marketing strategies to build brand equity. But, consider what equity you hold before executing a rebrand.

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Revisiting Paul Graham’s “High Resolution” Financing

Both Sides of the Table

When I first read Paul Graham’s blog post on “High Resolution&# Financing I read it as a treatise arguing that convertible notes are better than equity. He’s fine with equity provided it’s cheap to paper it legally. Photo credit: D. Blanchard/O’Reilly Media.

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