Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2022

This discovery mindset searching for new questions drives real innovators away from more of the same. Overcoming execution obstacles is combating dilution, not compromising, for these innovators. The forces include mindset gravity, organization gravity, industry gravity, country gravity, and cultural gravity.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 17, 2021

at exit due to dilution. It creates dilution, and investing in these rounds increases your effective post-money. As my partner Lee always says, fundraising isn’t about convincing skeptics, it’s a search for true believers. If the company wasn’t that capital efficient, the fund may end up owning 2.5%

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 22, 2023

Even if the other business does not have a registered trademark, they may still be able to sue you for unfair competition or dilution of their brand. Of course, ensure you conduct a trademark search to see if any existing trademarks are similar to the names that online tools suggest.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2019

In this stage, you will also search the market to check if your idea is viable. If you are getting funded for the first time, which means that you have not diluted the shares of your company, you will be receiving Series A funding. Also, search what type of product features your competitors are adding and why? Market Research.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Even if the other business does not have a registered trademark, they may still be able to sue you for unfair competition or dilution of their brand. Of course, ensure you conduct a trademark search to see if any existing trademarks are similar to the names that online tools suggest.

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Naming Cleveland Social Media Dilution 141

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2020

Every startup needs to start their funding search looking for grants, with no equity dilution, as well as contests and foundations. Other project and research reports in their library are a rich source of new ideas, if you are still looking for a place to start. Get help with grant funding and incubator resources.

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Genuine VC

JULY 19, 2010

But leveraged distribution via platforms (organic/paid search, social networks, mobile devices) and self-service monetization (ad networks, app stores, payments) is what has truly empowered startups to become real scalable businesses on very small amounts of initial capital.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 30, 2022

Thanks to Marilyn Gaskell, True People Search ! #13- Many businesses are discovering that the key to successful marketing is interacting two-way with customers, not simply shouting marketing messages at increasingly dilute audiences. . 13- Show more authenticity. Photo Credit: Daivat Dholakia. 18- Switch to remote work.

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 23, 2012

This impact of exceptional returns is diluted some at the fund level due to portfolio effect, so the distribution between the best and worst funds is far narrower than the distribution of startup outcomes. But these long-term LPs are by definition using active managers in search of alpha (i.e.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Either way, if you know you’re going to fail, it’s much better to do so with your own money on the line than money that also costs you in dilution, perpetuity or more. Location was a major factor in our search, wanting to ensure geographical diversity as the board took shape. I speak from experience.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 23, 2015

Small businesses today, more than ever, rely on agencies to help with organic search and local results to drive business in their local markets. Understanding this challenge, we’ve come up with six tactics agencies use to help their small business customers achieve search result success. 1) Pick long-tail keywords.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

They might be ideas they hatch internally (via a Foundry) or a founder who just left SpaceX and raises money to search for an idea. A-Rounds used to be $3–7 million with the best companies able to skip this smaller amount and raise $10 million on a $40 million pre-money valuation (20% dilution). The legends of Silicon Valley?—?two

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 19, 2014

An advanced search tool is provided to search for a grant by eligibility, by issuing agency, or category. To the investors, it means less dilution and lower overall risk. A good place to start looking is the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, which is a lifeline for high-tech startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2019

This discovery mindset searching for new questions drives real innovators away from more of the same. Overcoming execution obstacles is combating dilution, not compromising, for these innovators. The forces include mindset gravity, organization gravity, industry gravity, country gravity, and cultural gravity.

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BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

I can also say that there is a similarly fine line between dilution and delusion but this one is easier to draw. So if faced with this situation, my only word of advice for entrepreneurs is that it is important to know that there is a fine line between dilution and delusion.

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ConversionXL

JULY 22, 2021

The technical elements of your website’s SEO are crucial to search performance. Identifying and merging content targeting the same or similar keywords; Removing duplicate content that dilutes importance, and; Improving metadata so that users see what they’re looking for in search engine results pages (SERPs).

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2013

Because at least while the VC spigot is open and flowing for high-potential individuals that fit a pattern that some VCs seem to favor they can access cheap capital that isn’t terribly dilutive and can use the to fund development and swing for the fences with limited focus on monetization. And the dilution that goes with it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 23, 2013

Google did it with search engines, Apple did it with a personal computer, and even Wal-Mart did it through low prices. Success requires market leadership in your product area, and it’s easy to see that pushing more products and services dilutes your focus and attention. Innovate to market leadership. Maintaining quality is key.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

An advanced search tool is provided to search for a grant by eligibility, by issuing agency, or category. To the investors, it means less dilution and lower overall risk. A good place to start looking is the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, which is a lifeline for high-tech startups.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 1, 2019

With an online load board, retailers can quickly search for available help based on location, availability, and price. There are hundreds to thousands of listing on load boards each day, and the matching of these ground shipping services is faster than searching for freight providers one by one.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

But what is at play with Reid is another principle called “authority.&# Again, even though VCs are populated by Stanford & Harvard MBAs who all seemed to graduate near the tops of their classes – we’re all in search of authorities we trust to help guide our decisions.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

This discovery mindset searching for new questions drives real innovators away from more of the same. Overcoming execution obstacles is combating dilution, not compromising, for these innovators. The forces include mindset gravity, organization gravity, industry gravity, country gravity, and cultural gravity.

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Dilution Social Network Government Restful 264

JANUARY 9, 2014

By trying to appeal to everyone and adding features left, right and centre, you will actually dilute your message and could end up with a complex, bloated product. Great if you’re looking for funding, not so good if you’re on the search for product-market fit. People who focus exclusively on efforts that matter, succeed.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 18, 2011

At this stage, the founders pay for the dilution of the shares and the funders will take 20 to 25% of the company. Unit economics to look at are comparable companies, the lifetime value of a customer, revenue per active daily user, rough acquisition costs per channel (search engine marketing, Facebook campaigns, pay per install).

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 14, 2020

Quora Spaces is already gaining traction in organic search. The feature also has to address a need that people are searching for. In each case, an extension to the existing solution was shipped in a search engine–friendly way and now drives a lot of organic traffic, while also improving the product. People search with queries.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

But I’m working on a large team of people trying to figure out how to make micro improvements to a paid-search algorithm. Dilution / valuation. I hate when companies publish too much information about the total stock option allocations, the company valuations, the dilution faced in every round, etc. ” Yes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

This discovery mindset searching for new questions drives real innovators away from more of the same. Overcoming execution obstacles is combating dilution, not compromising, for these innovators. The forces include mindset gravity, organization gravity, industry gravity, country gravity, and cultural gravity.

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2014

They dilute the focus of the page if you have different promotional offers on each slide. So if visitors are not convinced about buying one product, they can search for another alternative product to solve their need (usually on the same site). A word of caution: this method is often more appropriate for sites that have many products.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Start by searching what hashtags your competitors and industry influencers are using. Tip: Only use these call-to-action hashtags on posts specifically related to that campaign, otherwise, you risk diluting the impact. Niche Hashtags. Looking for ways to ease into hashtag marketing?

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

You can get cash without diluting your ownership in the company. As far as customer acquisition is concerned, we discussed, again the power of organic search engine optimization. In 1M/1M, our preferred financing strategy is customers. Because customer financing equals revenue, not equity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 17, 2012

Google did it with search engines, Apple did it with a personal computer, and even Wal-Mart did it through low prices. Success requires market leadership in your product area, and it’s easy to see that pushing more products and services dilutes your focus and attention. Innovate to market leadership. Maintaining quality is key.

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Bandwidth Dilution Leadership Social Network 235

Gust

MAY 11, 2014

An advanced search tool is provided to search for a grant by eligibility, by issuing agency, or category. To the investors, it means less dilution and lower overall risk. A good place to start looking is the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, which is a lifeline for high-tech startups.

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Seed Money SBIR Dilution Government 164

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2016

Every startup needs to start their funding search looking for grants, with no equity dilution, as well as contests and foundations. Other project and research reports in their library are a rich source of new ideas, if you are still looking for a place to start. Get help with grant funding and incubator resources.

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Intellectual Property Accredited Investor Entrepreneur Incubator 120

Berkonomics

MARCH 21, 2019

If there is no record of revenues, see the “The Berkus Method” available with any search query for valuing the business before revenues. Your future rounds should be at higher valuations if you meet your plan, making dilution of your equity less onerous at that time.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 5, 2010

Brant and Patrick undertook a difficult challenge: to provide a generally accessible introduction to Customer Development, without diluting its impact or dumbing-down its principles. On the minus side, that has made it a wee bit hard to understand. I think theyve succeeded. The Entrepreneur’s Guide is an easy read.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

I advise my clients that you offer stock only after youve searched your heart and soul and cant come up with a way to pay with anything else," says Thomas H. Besides the future potential earnings youre forgoing, youre also diluting your own ownership in the company. Should you use equity to pay for professional services? "I

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

If you search for funds when you’re desperate, you have no leverage and investors will smell that a mile away. Finding the right partner is a much bigger win than the extra cash or minimizing dilution. This is human nature – it’s like that cute girl in high school everyone wanted to date – we all want what we can’t have.

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