David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

From RBI, Flexible VCs borrow the ability to reap meaningful returns without demanding founders build for an exit. Every Flexible VC structure allows founders to access immediate risk capital while preserving exit, growth trajectory, and ownership optionality. . Flexible VC 102: Variations.

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View from Seed

APRIL 21, 2015

On the heels of our research on HBS entrepreneurs , NextView’s Dimitri Dadiomov (HBS ’15) interviewed several top founders on the early stages of their companies. Matt Prince , Co-Founder and CEO, CloudFlare (Web performance and security to protect and accelerate websites; $72.1 On Launching and Finding Early Traction.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 1, 2017

by Angela Leavitt, founder of Mojo Marketing. If you’re like many business owners or sales leaders, you may be sweating. Sales tend to slow down in the summer for many businesses and the impact lasts well into the last quarter, and with the holidays fast approaching, that doesn’t leave much time to make an impact.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 25, 2015

Owners of corporations also pay taxes when they are paid dividends or profit from sale of the stock, which is why it is common to say that corporations are “double-taxed.” Corporations are allowed to keep their earnings or pay them out as dividends. There are also limitations on how dividends are paid out.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 20, 2023

4- Find the right relationships Photo Credit: Mike Pio Roda “Never leave money on the table” might seem tempting, but it's not always the wisest path for founders and business owners. Initial perfection is an unrealistic goal and most of my learnings were devised after I started testing strategies and making sales.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

There is a myth among first time tech founders that product is everything. Here are five financial concepts that every startup founder should know to build an everlasting company. The basic lesson that founders can learn about asset valuation is that Accounting is past and Finance is future. Asset valuation.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 11, 2023

He’s founder and CEO of Greenhouse , a ‘hiring operating system’ for companies which spans recruiting and onboarding tools for enterprises and SMEs. It might ‘exit’ again at a later point (anything from a sale to an IPO), but it’s no long dependent on VC funding.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 10, 2023

From the moment such an investor looks seriously at your company, the investor or VC partner is thinking of the end game, the ultimate sale of the company or even of an eventual initial public offering. There is no middle ground. Resetting your priorities Taking money from these sources involves resetting priorities over time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

That’s why investors will usually decline to fund startups made up of family members or fighting co-founders. Funding is depleted before customer sales ramp up. Marketing and sales take more time and effort than anticipated. Even the strongest relationships are often tested and broken by the stresses of a new startup.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 6, 2022

First, the marginal exit event: Sometimes the end game or sale of the company is not a happy event for the early investors, including the entrepreneur or the founders. Most sophisticated investors will take either a promissory note or preferred stock, both of which come before founder or management stock in a sale or liquidation.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

Clearly the founders and senior executives of a company are the most valuable resources and their time should be maximized on the most valuable tasks. I watched Ophir Tanz achieve much in his early days at the Founder & CEO at GumGum, which has now become quite a large business. I have written about the next phases many times.

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The Startup Toolkit

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

As a founder, you get a pile of money in one of four ways: You generate profits and keep some (dividends). companies that can run without founder-involvement or which have a premium brand) and decreased by others (e.g. Career Entrepreneurship Founders Startup Basics' You’re making solid revenue (e.g.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 29, 2012

It had done about $30,000 in sales in a little over a year, and had emerged from a natural trade show with interest but no orders. The company was started six weeks ago, had no sales and no retail distribution yet. The founder, Shelton Wilder (in the middle below), sought to raise $60,000 for 20% of the company to build inventory.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 17, 2020

by Juan Pablo Segura, President and Co-Founder of Babyscripts. Offering flexible pricing (if you have the financial runway to do so) or sharing best practices and tips with traditional competitors will pay dividends in the long run.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

A Strong Pool of Tech Founders – Stating the obvious. Eric Paley , managing partner at Founder Collective , told me that they had implemented a city-wide program in Boston to help local university students get internships at local tech startups. Think Fred Wilson, Tony Hsieh or Brad Feld. Here are mine: 1.

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Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Storing NFTs: Sales of NFT-based art have taken off, reaching an all-time high in December and NFT artists are increasingly showing their work in online showrooms. As Arweave founder Sam Williams tweeted , “After an NFT artist sells their creations, they don’t necessarily have a strong incentive to perform upkeep on their storage.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Registered investment advisors like Rempel have a fiduciary responsibility to act in their clients’ best interests and accept no compensation based on product sales. He is certified as a financial planner through the Financial Planning Standards Council and is a member of the Canadian Institute of Financial Planning.

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

  Note that this applies only to earl stage Series A-type equity financings and assumes no cash dividends are paid to investors. It also assumes the entire value of the investment is captured for investors at a sale of the company in the time specified in the term-sheet.   First , dividends. Let’s start at the end.

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JANUARY 9, 2014

No clear vision or purpose This should be the starting point for any startup founder, but it’s often overlooked. Whilst the tide is turning, there’s still a need to educate startup founders about the competitive advantage well-designed products and services can bring. Life’s too short to build something nobody wants.”

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

If you think the job of a CEO is to increase sales, then Ballmer did a spectacular job. He tripled Microsoft’s sales to $78 billion and profits more than doubled from $9 billion to $22 billion. When visionary founders depart (death, firing, etc.), Ballmer went on to run Microsoft for the next 14 years.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

If you think the job of a CEO is to increase sales, then Ballmer did a spectacular job. He tripled Microsoft’s sales to $78 billion and profits more than doubled from $9 billion to $22 billion. When visionary founders depart (death, firing, etc.), Ballmer went on to run Microsoft for the next 14 years.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

There are clauses in preferred stock investment agreements allowing the investor in many cases to “put” the shares back to you at the purchase price plus dividends or more after a period, usually five years, if no effort is made to find a buyer or begin the IPO process. A personal experience that relates.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

If outward facing, they will attend important sales calls and speak to the technology strategy and vision. Some of my most satisfying projects are when we make improvements in, say, developer productivity that also pay a “security dividend”. I have also included quotes from Austin CTOs to give you additional perspective.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The past year was a wild ride for startups and founders, giving a whole new meaning to the ”rollercoaster” aspect of being an entrepreneur. Sustainable growth: Prioritise sales efficiency over growth at all costs. Patrick Collison , self-made billionaire founder of Stripe. Bill Gates , founder of Microsoft.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 15, 2019

by Shawn Burcham , founder and CEO of PFSbrands and author of “ Keeping Score With GRITT : Straight Talk Strategies For Success “ In business, it’s the major leaps that people notice and remember. Here are a few more examples of small steps that can pay big dividends for you and your business: Make a habit of setting goals.

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Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 14, 2010

Founders Institute Plain Preferred Term Sheet (by WSGR – disclaimer, I represent the Founders Institute and was involved in drafting this document). Dividend preference. Almost all startup companies don’t declare dividends, so deletion of a dividend preference is irrelevant to an investor. Series Seed.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 11, 2021

With their affordability, you can invest in several and gain more return by earning customer trust before a sale occurs. Thanks to Ben Reynolds, Sure Dividend ! #3- As a co-founder of a digital marketing agency, I'm already planing forward to expanding my marketing reach through other ventures. Photo Credit: Ben Reynolds.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2011

Early in a services business there is usually no profits as the company reinvests in hiring people to grow, but by $20 million in sales the company should at least be pulling in 10% profits (if not more) depending on how much is reinvested. No VC is interested in dividends – they want growth. It’s pure irony.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 16, 2018

We were obsessive about that, and it paid huge dividends later on. For example, for a Sales Director candidate, we would continue and say, “We need you to come in on Monday and present to us like we are a prospect”. it is, after all, harder to find that right executive versus the right sales person. And that was the test.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 1, 2017

Some of those tidbits have changed careers and made companies viable; one never knows what effect a different and more experienced viewpoint will have on an impressionable founder. A little personal energy might pay you a dividend, and peons can easily become peers or superiors in the future. You win customers with energy.

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Berkonomics

JULY 23, 2020

Sometimes the end game or sale of the company is not a happy event. Especially when outside investors, venture capitalists, or angels, have put in substantial money and the sales price is less than the value of their investment. There are some questions a distressed sale brings to mind. How about outside investors?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

So spending time thinking about what your leadership style is, whether it’s effective and what you could do to improve it can yield dividends. Most founders have a strong sense of what they’re trying to achieve. They hire their initial co-founders and early employees and everybody has a sense of “mission.”

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Berkonomics

JUNE 15, 2017

From the moment such an investor looks seriously at your company, the investor or VC partner is thinking of the end game, the ultimate sale of the company or even of an eventual initial public offering. Taking in angel or venture money requires a setting of an entrepreneur’s expectations that may come as a shock at least at first.

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Sometimes the end game or sale of the company is not a happy event for the early investors, including the entrepreneur or the founders. Most sophisticated investors will take either a promissory note or preferred stock, both of which come before founder or management stock in a sale or liquidation.

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The Startup Toolkit

MAY 8, 2012

(Note: In this post I’m talking specifically about tech startups, and especially non-sales-driven tech startups). It will pay dividends. Clever landing page tests and interviews can tell you whether an idea is bad , but not whether it will work. If you’re sincere about getting into startups, start learning to code today.

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Mike Michalowicz

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

They might wax poetic about their rockstar sales person or their dedicated assistant, but they’re missing an obvious point. Too many company founders suffer under the delusion that they must sacrifice income in order to start a business. They inevitably give me the wrong answer.

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Startup Company Lawyer

AUGUST 31, 2012

” However, I believe that YC realizes that having debt outstanding that may need to be repaid is not a good situation for founders. I’m not sure that founders really prefer to do convertible debt in order to avoid giving away these rights. as they don’t care — or they trust the founders to do the right thing.

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