nikcub.appspot.com

MARCH 8, 2012

All of this work will help you in convincing a potential technical co-founder that you have what it takes to do the non-technical work necessary. As a non-technical person it is difficult to evaluate a technical co-founder. Once you have put in the effort and found a potential technical co-founder, be generous with equity distribution.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

In an early-stage startup especially, revenue is not an important goal in and of itself. Let’s start with a simple question: why do early-stage startups want revenue? This approach is fundamentally non-scalable. If youre still very early stage, then you need to know what a true early adopter looks like.

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

  If the entrepreneur has two competing offers, that’s an excellent way to understand what the market will pay. Dividends come in two basic flavors – cumulative and non-cumulative.   A cumulative dividend can get to be very expensive and is not often a feature in early stage terms.   Why is this fair?

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

In 2019 and 2020, we saw hundreds of millions of dollars in non-dilutive funding go to Texas startups, most of which had never worked with the government before. In short, the first wave of internet companies were widely distributed and brought people online (AOL in Virginia, Microsoft in Albuquerque and Seattle, Dell in Austin, etc.)

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Up and Running

APRIL 24, 2018

Of course, you will need a killer product—but, you will also need a competent growth strategy that will encompass comprehensive marketing, sales, research and development, technology, and beyond. That’s why having a revenue-minded focus from the early stages helps to secure funding.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

But we created a patchwork of non-standard contracts that added to the overhead of managing a business as it scaled. If I did another startup I would only have standard, non-negotiable t’s & c’s (and maybe agree the occasional side letter to win bigger deals). It seemed a luxury to think about the future.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 25, 2023

And I think you're right, you touched on the advent of technology surrounding publishing, as well as all the different things you can do now as a self-published author, as it relates to, you know, distribution channels. And again, for a lot of people, that's what they were concerned with was distribution.

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View from Seed

MAY 27, 2015

But we noticed that while the information in these podcasts is interesting, many are often far removed from the actual day-to-day challenges of very early stage founders that are just trying to go from nothing to something. Is This Practical If The Stories Are Inherently Non-Scalable or Not Repeatable? Are we in a tech bubble?

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

Mccabe, a Y Combinator alumnus from her previous startup Contagion Health, said her time at Romotive made her realize the need for better early-stage investor resources for startups working on hardware projects. Now, it’s reached a point where non-techie family members know about them and are using them.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

I’ve made a few grammatical and non-substantive updates for clarity. It’s my hope that some of it can be useful to others, specifically other under-represented founders or non-traditional markets. (I There’s a particularly acute leak in the pipeline for non-traditional founders. Several folks asked that I share our story here.

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infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Google is not descriptive of the company’s search core competency nor was it particularly easy to pronounce, spell or remember when the site was initially launched. Amazon – While arguably better than the company’s initial name, “Cadabra.com”, “Amazon” does not convey the company’s initial core competency of online book sales.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

This was actually a great piece of advice, because ideas change and evolve in the early stages of the startup, it’s about the other person not the idea as much. Pitch 2009 is a unique startup competition open to early-stage ventures globally. I received an invitation to attend the event. Palo Alto, CA. Quotable Quotes.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

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 too am looking for someone to work with that knows the manufacturing and distribution end of a solid product. Then, forget everything else, VCs included, and just build.

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Rob Go

MAY 27, 2015

But we noticed that while the information in these podcasts is interesting, many are often far removed from the actual day-to-day challenges of very early stage founders that are just trying to go from nothing to something. Is This Practical If The Stories Are Inherently Non-Scalable or Not Repeatable? Are we in a tech bubble?

Cofounder 28

Cofounder Early Stage Non-Compete Silicon Valley 28

Rob Go

MAY 27, 2015

But we noticed that while the information in these podcasts is interesting, many are often far removed from the actual day-to-day challenges of very early stage founders that are just trying to go from nothing to something. Is This Practical If The Stories Are Inherently Non-Scalable or Not Repeatable? Are we in a tech bubble?

Cofounder 28

Cofounder Early Stage Non-Compete Silicon Valley 28

www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Non-Technical Co-Founders Co-Founders Technical Co-founders Finding Co-Founders Startups & "How Important Are Ideas?" As a developer, I feel that design/creative is undervalued in the early stages of product development.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 21, 2013

Matrix Partners' David Skok agrees with the 5% churn threshold, but only for early stage companies, and says that you have to see a clear path to getting churn below 2% if you want to scale significantly. “In In the early days of a SaaS business, churn really doesn’t matter that much.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Non of this academic stuff. When it comes to early stage investing – it’s all gut. Does it make sense to spend this time speaking about your early stage start-up when your product has not even entered Alpha testing? Entrepreneurs always struggle with competing priorities and manage expenses very closely.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Also, yesterday the winner of the latest Crunchies was GitHub and #2 was Palantir, both non-consumer, big data organizer companies. So these companies that are kind of for — in the sort of mechanical term, distributed workforces and outsource work being run online. Some of these next big startups are in L.A., ALEXIA TSOTSIS.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Just make sure to not violate any non-competes, etc, in the process! Height has a pretty tight, normal distribution. SVASE or Founder Dating in Silicon Valley, First Tuesday in London and Hackers and Founders in New York all come to mind. Team with co-workers at your current job or that internship you did last summer.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 30, 2022

It’s going to take time for the technology to reach a stage that is 1) widely distributed 2) ready for prime time. We’re excited to partner with early stage founders who see the future in the same way, and are working on the technologies that will help bring this vision forward.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

I have come to believe during my time as an operator, entrepreneur and investor that the balance of these skills is so important to the long-term health of a business that if balance is not achieved early then the impact later can be profound - sometimes terminal. They are many more examples. My question is one of timing for the distributor.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. questions and answers for non-programmers. free, distributed source code control management system. It used to be hard to find information about early stage startups. Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013).

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 3, 2020

That’s okay, if the point of departure is about defending our values internationally, as opposed to better competing internationally, which was the Trump administration’s core focus in the national security strategy. They need to start making bigger bets on a smaller subset of non-prime companies.

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