SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Some really great stuff in 2010 that aims to help startups around product, technology, business models, etc. 500 Hats , February 1, 2010 When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication? 500 Hats , February 1, 2010 When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication?

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Silicon Valley Startup Term Sheet Venture Capital 378

SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

Some great content around the intersection of startups and being a Startup CTO in June this year. This continues my series of posts: Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March There was some really great content in June. It shows a lack of interest.

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Cofounder Technical Cofounder Term Sheet Startup 175

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2018

You race back to the office to tell everybody how well it went and you wait for the follow-up call to have a partners’ meeting or talk about term sheets or at least dip into due diligence. It’s predictable, there is no reason to get mad about it and with a well-designed play book you can overcome this much of the time.

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Software Review Churn Rate Due Diligence New York 381

Austin Startup

JULY 22, 2017

Back in December 2016 I had the idea to develop a startup pledge for diversity and inclusion here in Austin and since have informally been working with some folks to develop the idea. This is similar to something we did at Austin Ventures to encourage startups to make a donation to the Entrepreneurs Foundation of Central Texas.

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Austin Angel Investor Startup Term Sheet 54

David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

However, many industry experts question the accuracy of early-stage market data, given many startups are no longer filing their Form Ds. The traditional NVCA term sheet works well for founders who are comfortable substituting VC capital for revenues, running typically at a loss for many years. All term sheets are a negotiation.

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Revenue Term Sheet Founder Technical Review 60

This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 13, 2021

They’re “playing startup” as opposed to actually building a company. It’s easy… If the very first thing you did after coming up with your idea was make a pitch deck for fundraising, versus trying to sell or test customers on it, you’re probably playing startup, not building a company. How do you know which is which?

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Startup Term Sheet Differentiation Cofounder 156

Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. This also appears as a guest post at Fortune’s Term Sheet. Salesforce.com is a startup with 76,000 subscribers (over 2.1M Reid assembled the founding team drawing largely from his prior startups, with a few other folks he’d known for a long time. May 26, 2011.

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Term Sheet Silicon Valley Technical Review Social Network 178

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

If you’re a startup and you don’t have a close relationship with a few law firms you’re really missing one of the most important relationships that any entrepreneur can have. I write about some of the lessons in my post on Startup Mistakes. Every town has firms that focus on startups – find them.

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Southern California Silicon Valley IP Stock Options 318

The Next Web

APRIL 6, 2013

My daily work consists of connecting innovative A round startups with potential investors or strategic partners. The five suggestions below are designed to help facilitate the investment process which may lead to a more expeditious term sheet and teach entrepreneurs to think more like an investor. Go For The Money NOW.

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Term Sheet Due Diligence Strategic Investors Valuation 126

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2014

Because the hundreds of millions that it takes to greenlight a theatrical film could never be absorbed by a startup and because they way we experience media & characters has evolved dramatically over the past 20 years to a point where the starting point for media is often digital, gaming or even graphic novel oriented.

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Technical Review North America Los Angeles Cofounder 373

mashable.com

JUNE 11, 2013

16 Common Mistakes Young Startups Make. Are you working on a startup? In fact, recent research shows that 75% of startups fail (based on a study of 2,000 startups that received VC funding from 2004 to 2010). Some startups are destined for failure. Dont underestimate the importance of Minimum Viable Design.

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Cofounder Technical Review Startup Software Review 111

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 17, 2013

After all, startups are fast paced, small, and ever-morphing, which means it takes certain type of person to help make things succeed. Design a splash page. Understand a term sheet. Others entrepreneur infographic leadership startup' Here’s a look at what a founder should be able to do: Development.

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Advisory Board Balance Sheet Term Sheet Entrepreneur 279

techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

AngelList Launches Docs To Help Startups Sign And Close Seed Rounds Online With Low Legal Fees. The hybrid social network, communication and crowdsourcing platform allows startups to access investors, and has also become a resource for investors looking to boost dealflow and connect with other investors. Enterprise. Smartphones.

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Term Sheet San Francisco Technical Review Seed Stage 70

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2020

Finding a co-founder is rarely a bad thing, since two heads are always better than one in meeting all the startup challenges. Let me be a bit more specific on how follow-up trumps ideas for success in the key challenges of a startup, or any small business: Networking with investors, partners, and customers.

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Entrepreneur Cofounder Term Sheet Acquisition 307

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Useful blogs and links for startups Click Here ————– 2.

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Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2013

We had them a term sheet the same week. Didn’t I make myself clear about celebrities & startups ? Showing me designs. She talks about creative design of websites and physical products – in our case – stickers. Turns out she’s done this startup thing before. Startup Advice'

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Haiti San Francisco Startup Turkey 398

Up and Running

MAY 18, 2016

Reading lists are dime a dozen, but reading lists that focus on rapid-growth startup businesses? It’s the ultimate startup guide if you’re looking for systematic business growth and guidance on what not to do. The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses.

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Startup Venture Capital Angel Investor Lean 80

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). VC & Startup Resources. Seed Startups. VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Hundreds of startups featured since 2005, will yours be next? About VC Cafe.

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Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

But Cafepress’s most memorable moment was when the founders used a “Lessons Learned” VC pitch to raise their second round of funding and got an 8-digit term sheet that same afternoon. The presentation didn’t have a single word about Lean Startups or Customer Development. Here’s how they did it.

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Venture Capital Silicon Valley RSS Hockey Stick 234

Austin Startup

JULY 22, 2021

On October 4th, five technology startup finalists will pitch to a panel of advisors and judges made up of successful investors, entrepreneurs, and industry leaders. Any software, hardware, or CPG startup in Texas with a female founder or co-founder can apply to participate. Startups, submit your application now! Who Can Apply?

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

Want to start a startup? A typical startup goes throughseveral rounds of funding, and at each round you want to take justenough money to reach the speed where you can shift into the nextgear. Few startups get it quite right. 1 ] A startups life will be more complicated, legally, if any of theinvestors arent accredited.

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Technical Review Startup Software Review Angel Investor 76

Growthink Blog

MAY 14, 2014

And high profile exits on deals like Nest , WhatsApp , and Occulus - where fund investors saw returns in excess of 20x their original investments - have caught the public''s fancy as to the power of startup and emerging company investing. So it should come as no surprise that a lot of folks want in on the action. This all costs money.

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Venture Capital Disintermediation Technical Review Term Sheet 101

Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

I have a standard aphorism I share when I speak with a group of MBA students: “There are two things that need to be explained away in order for me to invest in your startup: An MBA or a background in management consulting.”. Nothing gets in the way of their pursuit of startup success. Not Teaching the Right Skills.

Silicon Valley 69

Silicon Valley Venture Capital Balance Sheet Cofounder 69

Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

I have a standard aphorism I share when I speak with a group of MBA students: “There are two things that need to be explained away in order for me to invest in your startup: An MBA or a background in management consulting.”. Nothing gets in the way of their pursuit of startup success. Not Teaching the Right Skills.

Silicon Valley 69

Silicon Valley Venture Capital Balance Sheet Cofounder 69

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

Diverse – in terms of industries, ethnicities and environments. Creative – we’re a place of writers, directors, producers, musicians, costume designers, make-up artists, graphic artists, 3D modelers. Oblong, led by Kwin Kramer, which houses more MIT grads per startup than probably any other in LA. downtown LA].

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Community Los Angeles Startup Silicon Valley 304

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? Startups, submit your application now! Application deadline is April 26.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2015

Finding a co-founder is rarely a bad thing, since two heads are always better than one in meeting all the startup challenges. Let me be a bit more specific on how follow-up trumps ideas for success in the key challenges of a startup, or any small business: Networking with investors, partners, and customers.

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Cofounder Startup Term Sheet Acquisition 120

Scalable Startup

MARCH 7, 2012

Seth Levine, a successful VC with the Foundry Group , wrote a great blog entry about all the hype going on currently in the startup world. Currently Los Angeles is in what could be a startup renaissance or an apocalypse, dependent on how long the hype goes on. Worth the read. I’ve been harping about this a lot (too much?)

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Software Review Technical Review Los Angeles Due Diligence 26

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Unfortunately in early stage startups the drive for financing hijacks the corporate DNA and becomes the raison d’etre of the company. Chasing funding versus chasing customers and a repeatable and scalable business model, is one reason startups fail. The goal of their startup in this stage becomes “getting funded.”

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Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 10, 2020

And if the reference checks come back positively, then if I believe at startup is a good opportunity, I can lean in right away. So I got the license to put a term sheet down, and we made the investment. THE POWER OF THE DESIGN MINDSET. But the design mindset doesn’t stop there. I think David’s wrong.”.

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Hosting Hockey Stick IPO Silicon Valley 69

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

But Quora boasts active participation from entrepreneurs, engineers, investors, designers, journalists and so on, so that the quality of the responses are quite high. What is the best way to evaluate a potential startup to work at (full-time)? Are there examples of good start up term sheets?

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Angel Investor Term Sheet Startup Curation 145

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

See Bessemer Venture Partners’ A comprehensive guide to security for startups. Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors. For our content creation, we use tools such as Canva (graphic design) and GoToStage (webinars platform) to create and share content for prospects to find.”. 2) Market .

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Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

OnlyOnce

APRIL 27, 2021

Last week, I blogged about Bolster’s Board Benchmark survey results , which really laid bare the lack of diversity on startup boards. My new mantra for Startup Boards is simple: 1-1-1. Your best bet is to do it early in the process before you have a term sheet, and do it as an exploratory conversation.

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Vesting Cofounder Startup Term Sheet 48

www.bothsidesofthetable.com

MAY 13, 2012

I recently did a post for startups on understanding sales people. A few people asked me to try and define the perfect startup organization chart. But I do have more insight into understanding your startup team. Often I’m asked by startup CEO’s about how to best build an engineering team.

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Fractional VPE Part-Time VPE Fractional CTO CTO Hire 89

Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

Browse through the many hundreds of video answers to startup questions that we’ve filmed from the world’s leading VCs and angels. Choose one from our large library of thematic and designer backgrounds or, even better, upload your own. And don’t forget the ability to customize your profile’s background.

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Angel Groups Elevator Pitch Software Review Deal Flow 159

Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 15, 2013

Some are major contributors to their startup communities. As with everything new that grows quickly, it’s a chaotic system with lots of innovation, creative destruction, and rapid change and learning that – if done well – is a great example of the power of the Lean Startup approach to entrepreneurship.

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Global Networking United States Seed Money 179

Haystack

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

At the beginning of 2018, we almost invested in a startup with two strong founders. My old friend Krishna Gade and his new co-founder, Amit Paka, were teaming up to build a new startup in one of the most exciting technology spaces out there today — artificial intelligence. This is the story of how we invested in Fiddler Labs.

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Artificial Inteligence Algorithm Term Sheet Cofounder 107