Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2017

Executives run the day-to-day so often the board is more involved as a sparring partner at key intervals. ICOs certainly have a place in startup financing. The administrative work we actually do at board meetings? Often we are asked to get involved in executive-level recruiting.

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Genuine VC

JULY 19, 2010

Micro VCs will continue to come in many flavors with slightly different strategies, but there are a few distinctive defining characteristics: On a per partner basis, each investor is investing less than $25M in any given fund. The capital deployment velocity is notably higher than a traditional 1-2 investment per partner per year.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 24, 2017

Lindel joined Foundry Group as a partner to lead the fund investing activity of Foundry Group Next. We’ve had the opportunity to work with Founder Collective’s partners – David Frankel, Eric Paley, and Micah Rosenbloom – over the years on several companies. It starts with the people.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 4, 2019

If you aren’t familiar with these metrics, I recommend reading the original post to get a sense of the numbers that I’ll be reviewing here. Over the last 10 years, we’ve been in a bull market with considerable froth in late stage financing activity and valuations. This would suggest that TVPI would be performing well. LP Constraints.

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Austin Startup

JULY 6, 2018

Ask the Users Startup Accelerators: Bundled and Unbundled Over the past several years, accelerators have emerged as a powerful filtering and signaling mechanism in early-stage startup ecosystems, allowing high-potential young startups to connect with investors, advisors, and other strategic partners far faster and more efficiently than before.

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Dilution Startup Technical Review Equity 48

rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

He or she might call himself a “consulting CTO,&# “freelance CTO,&# “on-demand CTO,&# “CTO on call,&# “CTO for hire,&# or just a “technology strategy advisor.&# Most likely, this is a person who is a serial entrepreneur and was the chief technology officer for two or more web startups.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

High burn-rates fueled by over investment – One of the most damning things that happened to the start-up markets in 97-00 and 05-08 was the overfunding of technology companies. This came in part due to the huge influx of money into VC but also because hedge funds and private equity shops with no VC experience wanted part of the action.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

You get dilution sensitive and you start optimizing on price of a financing deal, versus finding the right partners or raising enough money to grow. You grab who you can, because you’re desperate for bodies to fill roles and you make due—only to realize that six months from now, things aren’t really any easier.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

While the answers are somewhat semantic, the pre-seed funding round is making a comeback in 2024 startup financing. To reduce the impact of dilution, the expectation is that startup valuation should more or less double between the pre-seed to the seed, and seed to series A (ideally backed by reasonable traction/ revenue multiples).

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David Teten

DECEMBER 2, 2019

You’ve decided to launch a technology-enabled startup with a positive social impact! I’m now researching non-dilutive funding for Action Tank , a startup I’m gestating to “Make America Functional Again”. Aspen Tech Policy Hub. Congratulations! Bluhm/Helfand Social Innovation (BHSI) Fellowship. Google for Startups Accelerator.

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www.mattbartus.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

I can’t tell you how often a client calls me up and says something like this: “Matt, we have this great new consultant who is going to make introductions to us to [pick type of business partner]. We will grant him/her X% fully diluted shares up front, and every time he/she makes an introduction, he/she will vest in 100 shares.”

Equity 40

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Startup Company Lawyer

MAY 4, 2009

Applications are due by May 10, 2009. Focus on a high tech or innovative sector, such as biotech, cleantech, and information technology. How to keep your start-up in the sights of both partners and buyers. Description: How to explain and present your business to target partners and investors. Exit Strategies.

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www.seriesseed.com

MARCH 2, 2010

SeriesSeed.com Series Seed Financing Documents Blog Home Documents Blog Archives Subscribe 09/02/2010 Version 2.0   That’s because there are not that many issues to negotiate in a simple equity financing. price based anti-dilution). Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.”

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Austin Startup

MARCH 26, 2019

I frequently see promising startups with a great product and strong initial economics hit a wall due to the piling up of problems relating to these questions, or what I like to call the ‘DTC death by a thousand cuts’. Bloggers are especially valuable in the early days when consumers are looking for actual reviews that are searchable.

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Technical Review Software Review China Acquisition 49

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I have the knowledge in tech to implement it. What is the best advice you can give for finding a business partner? Don’t quickly choose any business partner. If you’re looking for technical talent – go to the dev meetups. I think it’s a huge mistake to outsource technology as a startup. No, I have many ideas.

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Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

If your brand tries to be too many things at once, the message becomes scattered and the brand grows diluted. You may also want to consider measuring social media engagement and keeping an eye on your online reviews. Speaking with people who have only glowing reviews is great, but does not paint the entire picture. Typography.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

Why the Unicorn Financing Market Just Became Dangerous…For All Involved. All Unicorn participants — founders, company employees, venture investors and their limited partners (LPs) — are seeing their fortunes put at risk from the very nature of the Unicorn phenomenon itself. In Q1 of 2016 there were zero VC-backed technology IPOs.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

Editor’s Note: This testimony was delivered by a16z managing partner Scott Kupor to the U.S. By way of background, I am the Managing Partner for Andreessen Horowitz, a $16.5 The value of mutual fund investments in private tech companies was estimated at just north of $7 billion in 2016, or about.05% IPO market.

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Life Beyond Code

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Through this journey, we have raised the visibility of fundamental issues like the causes of exorbitantly high infant entrepreneur mortality, and alerted the entrepreneur community with a simple observation: Entrepreneurship = (Customer + Revenue + Profits); Financing is Optional. The rest of the services are for paying members only.

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