VC Adventure

MARCH 17, 2022

With the markets down significantly, financings (at least at the later stages) slowing down, and inflation and interest rates on the rise, perhaps now is a good time to talk about your burn rate. Use time and capital to your advantage, accelerating product development as needed, gaining valuable insight on your go-to-market motion.

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Balance Sheet Burn Rate Valuation Metrics 121

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

The batch size is the unit at which work-products move between stages in a development process. Similar results apply in product management, design, testing, and even operations. The sooner you pass your work on to a later stage, the sooner you can find out how they will receive it. I dont think so.

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San Francisco Software Review Continuous Deployment Development Team Review 161

OnlyOnce

MARCH 14, 2011

In Part Two, I’ll talk about some of the practices we’re using in our product management and development teams. Finally, back-end support and process—an accounting team that gets the invoices out, an HR team that helps make strategic hires—makes the folks engaged in product development more productive.

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Software Review Development Team Review Later Stage Technical Review 67

Hippoland

OCTOBER 9, 2016

If you’re still in the early stages of your entrepreneur-education/journey, you may even think you need to protect your idea and not share it with anyone. Demonstrate that you can pull the trigger on things quickly — whether it be getting customers, hiring / firing employees, or product development.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2013

Minimum Viable Product (MVP). For startup new product development, this is a strategy used for fast and quantitative market testing of a product or product feature, popularized first by Eric Ries for web applications. Startup accelerator.

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NZ Entrepreneur

AUGUST 12, 2020

While many large companies invest millions to protect their intellectual property portfolio, startups in their early stages can forget to look into their intellectual property altogether or make decisions that have a negative impact later on when the business develops. i) Assuming your intellectual property is not important.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 30, 2010

“We wanted to check with you in advance to let you know that we are working on development of our latest. We have a good sense of what later stage VCs are going to look for and can help think about how much you need to raise to get additional interest down the line. Sometimes, we even have good product feedback.

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Technical Review Due Diligence Venture Capital Later Stage 106

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

The investment will be used for product development initiatives. Summit is a hugely respected firm in Silicon Valley and a long-term “institution&# but they’re better known as more of a “private equity&# investor meaning that they do later stage investments in much larger companies that are profitable.

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The Equity Kicker

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Different investors place different weights on the three elements but as a rule earlier stage investors place more emphasis on the team and later stage investors place more emphasis on the market. Some very early stage investors go as far as to say that for them team is everything.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 21, 2019

Later stage investors sometimes look for less, since the business has already proven its capability to stay in the game and has already completed its product development cycle, eliminating more risk for the investor. So, you’ve got to play with the numbers to determine your level of comfort.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 10, 2012

You see, equity capital is raised in stages or rounds. The five main stages include the following: 1. Early Stage Investment (Series A & B) 4. Later Stage Investment (Series C, D, and so on) 5. Series B is the round that follows series A in early stage financing. Pre-Seed Funding 2. Seed Funding 3.

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Equity Mezzanine Later Stage Venture Capital 88

K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Unless every aspect of product development is covered by founders who are only receiving equity, there are other parts of building a product that will require hiring highly qualified people. The amount of capital (and therefore the resulting valuation) also sets the stage for the next round of financing for a company.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 30, 2014

My partner is a full-time developer and math teacher, and I’m an engineer. Marketing the site and creating a business behind the product proved much more challenging. Accelerators focus on early-stage startups, while incubators are geared toward later-stage startups. Coding the site was straightforward. Accelators.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 1, 2016

There’s product development, marketing, sales, and plenty of admin tasks to do to make sure your company survives. If you don’t take H&S seriously, it will come back to bite you at a later stage. As a small business owner, you are likely to have a lot on your mind. It’s no real surprise.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Durant Versus Sloan – Part 1 « Steve Blank steveblank.com/2009/10/01/durant-versus-sloan-part-1 – view page – cached + Customer Development Manifesto: The Path of Warriors and Winners (part 5) + Can You Trust Any VC’s Under 40? Some (perhaps including his wife) blame his son’s premature death on Henry’s obstinacy.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 12, 2009

However, this financial bar has had the effect of excluding one segment of potential customers that Id really like to see there - early stage entrepreneurs who have all the intelligence and vision of their later stage counterparts, but simply cannot afford the cash flow to attend.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 6, 2008

When youve mastered that, consider adding operations, customer service, marketing, product management, business development - the idea is that when the team needs to get approval or support from another department, they already have an "insider" who can make it happen. Make sure you keep track of whether thats happening.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

So for this first post, here’s the best advice I can give you: join an awesome founding team and get your product out the door ASAP. One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. I don’t know any developers.

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Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

VC Cafe

APRIL 9, 2010

The combination of companies looking for capital and investors looking for liquidity put a strain on early stage start ups but seemed to have played favourably for growth equity investments and later stage companies. Some of the deals that drew VC Cafe’s attention are: $10 million C round raised by Wix.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

Defense and Intelligence organizations drove the pace of innovation in Silicon Valley by providing research and development dollars to universities, and defense companies built weapons systems that used the Valley’s first microwave devices and semiconductor components. and there were no books, blogs or YouTube videos about entrepreneurship.

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Seeing Both Sides

JANUARY 13, 2015

We pride ourselves on being lifecycle investors, which means we invest very early on (typically at the seed or Series A stage) and then stick with a company through exit. Some VCs prefer investing at the earliest stages and then cycle off the board of directors. Time to enlist some 3rd party developers!

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