Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Networking to build and maintain positive relationships with the right people outside your company is something you can’t forget in the rush to get your new business going. These advisors need a stake in your success, like a monthly stipend, or an equity share of the business. Enlist industry leaders and influencers as proponents.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

It doesn’t prove your business model of pricing, distribution, and support. Investors like to see that you have committed personal funds as well as “sweat equity,” and they like to see real progress at this level. Real customers give you real feedback, rather than just tell you what you want to hear. Show personal investment.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 6, 2022

More About Duct Tape Marketing Consultant Network: Learn more here. John Jantsch (00:00): This episode of the duct tape marketing podcast is brought to you by the salesman podcast, hosted by Will Barron and brought to you by the HubSpot podcast network. It's just not the same when you're distributed and talking remotely.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2012

It doesn’t prove your business model of pricing, distribution, and support. Investors like to see that you have committed personal funds as well as “sweat equity,” and they like to see real progress at this level. Real customers give you real feedback, rather than just tell you what you want to hear. Show personal investment.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 22, 2019

In the past year, we learned that Bitcoin probably has a large enough worldwide distribution that it’s hard to stop. But you only have to talk to people from high inflation countries like Argentina or Venezuela to understand the appeal of a globally-accessible and permissionless digital currency.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2011

It doesn’t prove your business model of pricing, distribution, and support. Investors like to see that you have committed personal funds as well as “sweat equity,” and they like to see real progress at this level. Real customers give you real feedback, rather than just tell you what you want to hear. Show personal investment.

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David Teten

JANUARY 11, 2020

In the venture capital/private equity business, investors are B2B microinfluencers. Other coinvestors: Limited partners, other VCs who are coinvestors, private equity funds which are potential growth-stage investors, etc. Distributing content. We market to four populations: High-potential founders. Today, I do this manually.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 17, 2023

The platform has raised over $225 million through equity and debt financing to date. Sheela Foam has a market capitalization of over $1 billion and has a network of more than 100 factories across India. For Furlenco, the acquisition will provide access to Sheela Foam’s extensive distribution network and marketing expertise.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Our imagination is bounded by our experience,” Hector shared, and diversity, equity, and inclusion are critical to being able to imagine things properly. Latinas in Tech began as an informal networking group, and now it’s grown into a massive organization that tech companies not only embrace but also view as a recruiting opportunity.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

As opposed to other dividends that are distributed on a quarterly or semi-annual basis, monthly dividends are paid out to shareholders each month. Main Street Capital is a publicly traded private equity firm that offers equity and debt financing to lower middle-market companies with a revenue between $10 million and $150 million.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2010

It doesn’t prove your business model of pricing, distribution, and support. Investors like to see that you have committed personal funds as well as “sweat equity,” and they like to see real progress at this level. Real customers give you real feedback, rather than just tell you what you want to hear. Show personal investment.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

They come to serve as secure storage and distribution systems with in-built computer and sensor networks. The system helped improve equity and asset optimisation. For instance, workers use handheld scanners for inventory management in distribution warehouses. The lockers can alert you of any irregularities in patterns.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

It was this same high-minded collective action that created a network of publicly owned hospitals – controlled by cities, counties, districts, boroughs (in Alaska), parishes (in Louisiana), etc. The buyers (or lessees) in these transactions are pension funds, insurance companies, or private equity representing other institutions.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Ask her if there’s someone senior in her career that’s been a great manager, and if so, bring them on as an equity-compensated advisor to your company. You can even present it as part of their ‘comp’ — an equity grant they have ability to distribute (with your approval). You’re still ‘saving’ equity from the pool.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2012

Those who are accepted will receive an investment of $50,000 in return for some equity in their companies and intensive mentoring at its downtown offices, as we wrote about last year here. Capital Innovators announced that it is now accepting applications for its third class of ventures. Applications are due by June 15th.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 7, 2017

For what they bring to the table, startups are indeed changing the economic landscape in ways that extend to job generation, innovation of products and services, and equal distribution of opportunities among businesses. Angel Networks. You can search for angel networks by area and platform type. Private Equity Firms.

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Growthink Blog

AUGUST 12, 2013

Well, in most forms of angel and early-stage private equity investing, these breakdowns flow from a misunderstanding of the power and nature of outliers. In its simplest form, the Network Effect posits that the value of a network increases exponentially with each new user on it. And so on and so on. Of course not.

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David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

Large private equity funds like KKR can afford to pursue a consulting model ( Capstone ), typically with associated fees, but that doesn’t normally make economic sense for a VC. Startup companies inherently have no brand; we leverage our brand and networks to promote theirs. We have lower AUM, therefore lower management fees.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Helps content publishers and advertisers launch campaigns that develop viral distribution attributes and therefore gain “buzz.”. Huddle allows users to maintain an interconnected network of secure online workspaces for file sharing, ideation, project management and virtual meetings. Total raised: $29.5mm. Total Raised: $17.7mm.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 29, 2010

This tendency to be more outspoken could also be seen in networking and pitching, where there was much less awkwardness than with Europeans. Unsurprisingly, this seems to weed out the less passionate people, while encouraging others to put in sweat equity in their own ideas. Bigger is Better.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 29, 2019

Then, add to that list your social and professional network and your network’s network. Last, consider what your network has in terms of things you can use, borrow or rent. For my part, I distributed weekly invitations and dining coupons to my clients for those restaurants that partnered with me. Write them down.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 14, 2019

Meanwhile, filter out naysayers, seek out connections in your industry who can provide useful guidance, and surround yourself with fellow entrepreneurs (through the EntrepreneurNOW Network , for example) who can share in your struggles and successes. by Ken Burke, founder and CEO of The entrepreneurNOW!

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The Equity Kicker

MARCH 2, 2012

In the past these companies controlled distribution and mobile oriented startups came to MWC in search of partnership agreements. Google/Android had a massive presence, as did Samsung and Nokia but to find startups you had to visit the country promotional stands, hunt upstairs in Hall 2, or go searching in the corners of Hall 7.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

It’s a way of looking at venture that I never thought of before—that venture capital and its distribution of ending outcomes is probably not something you’re going to go after if you don’t have at least a little bit of wealth cushion and definitely not if you’re already under water. First is network bias. It needs to end.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Convertible Debt: really Bridge Loans and Equity Replacement Debt – [link]. How PRWeb Helps Distribute Crap Into Google & News Sites – [link]. Facebook makes it official — an external advertising network is coming soon | Gigaom – [link]. A turkey is a turkey – [link].

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . But, most of use raise capital and source deals the same way people looked for dates 20 years ago: by networking at conferences (or bars). . That’s why 40 million Americans use online dating sites.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

San Antonio has Geekdom with USAA and Port San Antonio with the Air Force Cyber Command; Houston has The Ion with Rice University, Microsoft and NASA and The Cannon distributed across the city; Dallas has Pegasus Park with UT Southwestern and Lyda Hill Philanthropies; and Austin has Capital Factory with the Army Futures Command.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

As companies and cities wrestle with the future of work, future of cities, and future of tech made possible in a post-COVID future, the question is whether it also impacts — and presents an opportunity to address — one of the greatest problems of our time: the unequal distribution of economic opportunity across the United States.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Six months after the launch of its early-stage investment fund, 500 Startups is announcing its accelerator program, a three to six month program that will give early-stage startups funding, a workspace, and access to a vast network of mentors. That network is thanks, no doubt, to its founder, angel investor Dave McClure.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Thanks to Charles Reiling, Coastal Equities, Inc. ! #2- Thanks to Roman Zhuravlyov, Integrated Distributed Ledgers ! #11- We are very involved in community service activities, charity events, and local networking organizations – all of which we have made meaningful connections. 2- People and skills.

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Small Business Force

JANUARY 14, 2016

Equity and percentage ownership has always been a lightning rod for discussion and controversy with startups and entrepreneurs. The point of it was that with any kind of equity distribution, dilution will always occur. The % of equity you own is far less important than the value of that equity.

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nikcub.appspot.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Freenode is the network most popular with developers today, especially with open source projects (channels such as #python, #rubyonrails, ##php etc. This can often lead to introductions to suitable people, or into networks where you can find a technical co-founder. IRC - I booted my entire tech career through people I met on IRC.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2021

That could be a standard sale contract, i.e. buy and sell single items or batches, or a partnership agreement, i.e. contract manufacturing, sales agency, or distribution agreement. You will find European manufacturers and distributors on Globartis, Enterprise Europe Network, Opportunity Network, and UpinSales.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 8, 2018

When you distribute work effectively, you increase your own productivity while developing your employees’ skill sets. Then add in flexible time blocks for networking, communication and planning. An effective leader hires a capable team to support them and trusts their employees to handle important responsibilities.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

The whole reason I’m an entrepreneur and the reason I didn’t take private equity investment when starting my business is that I want all of my employees to own their work and determine their destinies. His non-profit worked to collect and distribute books to underserved communities. Thanks to Robin Dimond, Fifth & Cor ! #5-

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 31, 2015

Welcome to the wave of the future: a vast network of established and fledgling companies creating symbiotic relationships with each other. The benefits may expand further — your startup could receive equity funding and valuable connections in addition to products, services, and exposure. The Mutual Benefits.

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Up and Running

APRIL 24, 2018

Not only that, but global equity funding to digital health companies reached $3.67 Once you understand all these points, you can start networking with them. Venture capital, angel investors, and equity investment platforms (crowdfunding) seem to be the most popular options in the healthcare industry. Where do they hang out?

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