Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

A nonprofit organization is generally defined as an organization that does not distribute its surplus funds to owners or shareholders, but instead uses them to help pursue its goals. Government grants. An example would be getting free office space by agreeing to be the property manager for the owner.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2013

A non-profit organization is generally defined as an organization that does not distribute its surplus funds to owners or shareholders, but instead uses them to help pursue its goals. Government grants. An example would be getting free office space by agreeing to be the property manager for the owner.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 28, 2014

The SBIC was instrumental in the creation of the venture capital business. If you want to see a fun quote on it, read A History of Silicon Valley which quotes: “ …many venture capital pioneers think the SBIC program did little to advance the art and practice of venture investing.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Sedibeng’s primary market advantages are their company culture, consistent “quality” branding, traditional brew recipes, and commitment to rural distribution. Building and learning how to manage a basic website could be a huge marketing asset for Sedibeng. See Also: The Complete Sedibeng Breweries Business Plan. Expansion.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 15, 2012

A non-profit organization is generally defined as an organization that does not distribute its surplus funds to owners or shareholders, but instead uses them to help pursue its goals. Government grants. An example would be getting free office space by agreeing to be the property manager for the owner.

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Gust

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Government Grants. $3 US Government. Center for Venture Research. Venture Capital. $20 So, generally, these three major sources of capital are complementary, not competitive. The figure below shows the number of investors by investment size for startup ventures. Friends and Family (F&F). $50

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2011

A non-profit organization is generally defined as an organization that does not distribute its surplus funds to owners or shareholders, but instead uses them to help pursue its goals. Government grants. An example would be getting free office space by agreeing to be the property manager for the owner.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

A non-profit organization is generally defined as an organization that does not distribute its surplus funds to owners or shareholders, but instead uses them to help pursue its goals. Government grants. An example would be getting free office space by agreeing to be the property manager for the owner.

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Pascal's View

MARCH 12, 2010

This is the fifth in our series of ten frequently asked questions from investors in venture capital partnerships. Susan Mangiero , CEO of Investment Governance’s Fiduciary X , asked me the following: Question: Please differentiate between the governance of a VC fund versus the governance of companies in a VC fund’s portfolio?

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2020

Switching your business entity can help you mitigate risks and losses by providing better options for filing taxes, managing your personal risks and more. Of course, the personal liability protections are not 100% impenetrable; you will still need to manage your business and personal finances separately. Manage Tax Burdens.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2010

A non-profit organization is generally defined as an organization that does not distribute its surplus funds to owners or shareholders, but instead uses them to help pursue its goals. Government grants. An example would be getting free office space by agreeing to be the property manager for the owner.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 30, 2017

If you don’t have time to perform the research or would like a second opinion, there are people you can go to for help, like government departments and your local SBDC. Management Team. Depending on the size and goals of your venture, you may need to seek financing from an “angel” investor or from a venture capital firm.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

While developers can now spin up applications faster than ever before, one of the downsides is the complexity of managing these distributed applications and technologies. Year of HQ2 and Distributed Teams: It was a banner year for non-Silicon Valley cities as NYC and Northern Virginia were selected as Amazon’s HQ2.

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Gust

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Copyright is the right to control reproduction and distribution of original works of authorship fixed in tangible forms of expression. Patents are highly technical, hard to get, and the process is slow and expensive, but for those who succeed, the payoff is a 20-year government-sanctioned monopoly over the patented technology.

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Up and Running

MAY 3, 2012

Entrepreneurship continues to be a sexy topic for governments, with every country worth its salt trying to create its own tech hub, mimicking Silicon Valley. Sean Seton-Rogers of PROfounders Capital recently claimed that of the more than 3,500 business plans they had received, his London, U.K. The list goes on.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Are they running from high prices, high taxes, dysfunctional government, and wildfires? All of the investors, all of the big companies, all of the government groups?—?they In fact, the Houston city government ranks number onein the country in renewable energy use. What’s bringing them here? Count all of the people you know!

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

One of the many challenges facing the world’s governments is the fact that no one really knows how this virus behaves. Thus, the world’s scientists, medical experts, and governments are in new territory, determining what works and what doesn’t work as each country moves through the peaks and troughs of this pandemic. Draw up a budget.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

In addition to Stanford I also teach at Columbia, and at these research universities – Stanford, Columbia, Berkeley, and others – they all now have an internal incubator, they have maker spaces, they have their own venture funds, they connect to the community, they connect to venture capital. It’s a big idea.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

They focus on helping content creators and app developers create, identify, package and distribute those meaningful video highlights in ways that help them reach more customers and generate more revenue. I was living in Sacramento and had worked in venture capital with Intel Capital and a Sacramento-based VC fund.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 2, 2021

When anyone can work from anywhere, they don’t evenly distribute across the country. Some are running away from skyrocketing tax rates, dysfunctional government, and devastating wildfires. There will be some big winners who attract more and higher quality talent than others. Austin is positioned to be the biggest winner of them all.

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Since then, the space has only heated up (bad pun, I know) with more startups building and even more venture capital available to scale them. The resulting growth in EVs will spur lots of infrastructure and software to manage grid interaction, optimize storage, operate fleet networks, and facilitate financing.

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Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 12, 2009

C corps, LLCs, and S corps differ significantly in the areas of taxation, ownership, fundraising, governance and structure, and employee compensation. Any company that raises venture financing will need to be a C corp in order to issue preferred stock. Such inflexible features are typically unattractive to venture investors.

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Up and Running

JULY 16, 2015

Chances are, you would have a personal, long-term relationship with your bank manager, and he or she would know your company, its market, and its challenges. Generally, these grants will be funded by either the British government or the European Union, but the distribution mechanisms tend to be very local in their scope.

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Steve Blank

MAY 16, 2016

Now with over 750 interviews of beneficiaries (users, program managers, stakeholders, etc.) Why Innovation in Government Is Hard. In companies this would be product line extensions, more efficient supply chain, new distribution channels. They have to create incentives for middle management leaders to take on horizon three ideas.

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thebarefootvc

JUNE 21, 2017

As I often do these days, I thought of what we are seeing with I nitial Coin Offerings (ICO’s) and how a more distributed ownership structure could have created change well before the highly centralized board and management team eventually did. The stakes kept getting higher, and the culture solidified more.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

2011 was finally the year when the media spotlight shone on how under-represented women are in almost all power structures in business, government, technology and media – and how crucial it is that we leverage the leadership skill set that they bring to the table to tackle the problems facing the world today. What’s Next in 2012….

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Management. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. SIGNIFICANCE PROMINENT. --> The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail. » More. Real Estate. » More.

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 18, 2018

This blog post was co-authored with Adrian Colyer, Venture Partner and former CTO of Pivotal Nearly all businesses have process-related workflows that govern how their users interact with their service or automate internal tasks.and they are painful to code and even more painful to test. So, why does this happen?

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

I have a standard aphorism I share when I speak with a group of MBA students: “There are two things that need to be explained away in order for me to invest in your startup: An MBA or a background in management consulting.”. I was still unprepared; I had no idea that I also needed to learn about go-to-market strategy and distribution.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

I have a standard aphorism I share when I speak with a group of MBA students: “There are two things that need to be explained away in order for me to invest in your startup: An MBA or a background in management consulting.”. I was still unprepared; I had no idea that I also needed to learn about go-to-market strategy and distribution.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

I lovingly call him the curmudgeon of fintech – in this episode we go deep into how he is building a venture capital firm and practice, not just running a fund and how he views the world of fintech investing. Today, we are lucky to welcome Dan Kimerling of Deciens Capital. Venture Capital is not a complicated business.

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thebarefootvc

JULY 21, 2017

As I often do these days, I thought of what we are seeing with I nitial Coin Offerings (ICO’s) and how a more distributed ownership structure could have created change well before the highly centralized board and management team eventually did. The stakes kept getting higher, and the culture solidified more.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2011

And others are from unusual folks we don't normally think of as entrepreneurs, from corporate managers to government agencies. I believe entrepreneurship is the management discipline that deals with the domain of extreme uncertainty. I once received a phone call from a fund manager for one of the large university endowments.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

She’ll have to quit her well-paid job at a respectable company and tell her parents that although she studied hard throughout school and got into a great college and graduated in 3 years that she is now leaving it to change the way that manufacturers sell products electronically through their distribution systems. Document management?

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Most notably, the ground-breaking development and rapid global distribution of mRNA vaccines highlighted the speed and scale of technological advances to outsmart humanity’s most dire threats. — Sajan Pillai is the CEO and Managing Partner of Season Two Ventures, an early-stage venture fund based in Southern California.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 21, 2014

As with anything, learning to manage, learning to be the boss and learning to run a business, are just things that happen over time and with practice. Beyond this list I encourage you to read about running and managing a business every day. And, depending on the business you start, there may also be various government incentives.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

David Goldhill, in his enlightening book Catastrophic Care , declared: “…a guiding principle of any reform should be to put the consumer, not the insurer or the government, at the center of the system. Most large healthcare IT systems are chosen based on one primary objective: revenue management. No appointment necessary.

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