The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 18, 2020

As part of The Startup Magazine Female Founder series , we sat down with award-winning entrepreneur Elizabeth Colón. Our services include on-site, telephonic and video remote interpreting, as well as, document translation services in over 100 languages. My parents did not speak English and my two sisters are hard of hearing.

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Eric Friedman

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

To help teams answer this question I have collaborated with Steve Schlafman to create a product – an exercise, to be completed by those founders building a company. Today we are launching a way for co-founders and founding teams to understand themselves and each other better. Tapestry.so Tapestry.so The Tapestry.so

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

But for founders who do their homework, the cost of entry is lower and the opportunity is higher than ever. Excellent detailed resources are everywhere, including a classic book, “ The Startup Checklist ,” by serial entrepreneur and founder of the New York Angels, David S. The cost of social media done well is low.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

by Erin Yurday, CEO, Co-founder and Editor of NimbleFins. Losing documents. Sometimes, documents get lost, and if they are valuable, you can be sued for losing them. It’s a good idea to back up all documents, for example by using an external drive or cloud software. People make mistakes, as do computers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2021

The Founder needs to remember that meetings up to this point have been primarily off-site, with staged demos, and managed personally by the CEO or a small team. That might start with the CEO giving the investor pitch to the whole organization, and distributing the current business plan document to everyone.

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View from Seed

JULY 8, 2020

Over the intervening years, we’ve heard continued and consistent feedback about the value of it for seed stage Founders in providing both strategic thought and tactical help in assembling their post-financing investor communications. Again, we’ve put together the full template here for founders to utilize.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

But have you ever had the opportunity to pick the brains of founders who created amazingly successful startups and companies like Envato , Backblaze , Simple , or Treehouse ? Few people like talking about their mistakes, but thankfully nine founders took some time to share some of their hard-earned knowledge with you. Find your niche.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

A sales fanatic on the founder team helps to contain that risk. The combination of technical insight, founder authority, and sales experience is a hard-to-beat advantage in a competitive market. Young high-tech startups are at constant risk of forgetting that they actually need to sell the wonderful technology they invented.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

But for founders who do their homework, the cost of entry is lower and the opportunity is higher than ever. Excellent detailed resources are everywhere, including a classic book, “ The Startup Checklist ,” by serial entrepreneur and founder of the New York Angels, David S. The cost of social media done well is low.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 12, 2017

For example, this summer the OSC released its annual summary for dealers in which it stated clearly that it still had concerns regarding the collecting and documenting of KYC/suitability and KYP information.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 13, 2018

As part of The Startup Magazine Female Founder Series, we interviewed Ms. As you have a history of building early stage companies, what is the most important thing you tell startup founders? Here are a few simple tips: Make sure you keep proper accounting and documentation from the beginning. Gabriela Rodil. Gabriela Rodil, CEO.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

The “end” in legal organizations, is a document of some kind. Documents are their widget, the thing legal teams build. Finding information that is relevant to creating a document is helpful. Actually producing that document, though, is far more helpful. It is merely a means to an end. Pretty cool stuff.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 28, 2015

Every business has complex and diverse dilemmas which are not specifically covered in documented procedures, so employees need clear values leadership for guidance. While codes of behavior do not guarantee an ethical culture, they do clarify desired behavior and articulate for employees what is expected of them.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2023

Because these considerations can be quite complex, very emotional, and have long-term implications, smart entrepreneurs don’t hesitate to get some legal advice at this early stage, in drawing up an agreement document to be signed by each of the cofounders. The CTO of many technical startups was the original founder.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 21, 2021

Serious investors expect founders to have their homework done before the first interaction – documented executive summary, business plan, and financial model. It doesn’t work if you don’t follow up on networking opportunities, networking referrals, and ongoing networking relationships. Investor negotiations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

I always tell entrepreneurs that two heads are better than one, so the first task in many startups is finding a co-founder or two. Giving a co-founder a salary won’t get you the “fire in the belly” you want. Each co-founder should get equity for value, based on these key variables: Lived a key role in a previous startup.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 13, 2018

As part of The Startup Magazine Female Founder Series, we interviewed Ms. As you have a history of building early stage companies, what is the most important thing you tell startup founders? Here are a few simple tips: Make sure you keep proper accounting and documentation from the beginning. Gabriela Rodil. Gabriela Rodil, CEO.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2021

As an entrepreneur mentor, my mission is to foster the attributes in you as a startup founder that I believe will lead to success. They now expect a solid documented plan, with specific goals and targets based on data. Sometimes good things are easy to see in others, but hard to see in yourself.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

You shouldn’t be surprised to learn that first impressions usually last longer than any documents you prepare. All it takes is the same diligence that every entrepreneur puts into solution development, their business plan and investor presentation.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 30, 2023

” – Andrew Carnegie As a founder, one of the key tasks in raising capital is to effectively communicate the value of your company to investors. In my experience as a seed venture investor, founders that had a full and tidy data room not only came across as more professional, but actually accelerated the process of DD and legal.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

Most startups equate the process of fundraising to dating – founders have to typically kiss a lot of frogs until the find the right fit. It’s been a while since they’ve updated their RFS list and it captures all the buzzword’s of today’s tech world: AI, defence tech, climate, spatial computing, etc.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 6, 2022

Yet too few entrepreneurs have a current list of business essentials, emergency contacts, or documented backup procedures. Expect the unexpected. You can’t predict natural disasters, and economic fluctuations. Even better, you need a “Plan B” for survival when the unexpected arrives. Learn to manage your stress.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2013

“Scope creep” (or feature creep) is an insidious disease that kills more good startups than any other, especially high-tech ones, and yet most founders (who may be the cause) never even see it happening. Here are five basic rules to live by: Document the requirements. Lock down the sign-off authority. Final features approval event.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

John Borchers, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Decathlon Capital, claims to be the largest revenue-based financing investor in the US. RBI structures help to protect the equity of both founders and investors. However, according to Bryce Roberts, co-founder of Indie.VC, only 0.6% of founders raise VC; the other 99.4%

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 10, 2019

Only keep the necessary documents. Companies inevitably collect documents over time that no longer provide value to their business. People are less likely to care about printing out reams of paper when their desk is already piled high with documents. says David Holmes, Founder at Boiler Guide. “If

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Scott Edward Walker

OCTOBER 19, 2020

In a couple of cases, the founders played lawyer on their own; in the other cases, the founders either used (i) a Web service that did not address IP issues or (ii) an inexperienced law firm. This would arise as a result of a founder improperly “moonlighting” (i.e., Any IP created by a founder (e.g.,

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www.seriesseed.com

DECEMBER 9, 2012

Series Seed Financing Documents Blog. « About the Series Seed Documents | Main. Series Seed Financing Documents. Please note, these are the latest versions of the Series Seed Documents.    These are the original versions of the Series Seed Documents.  SeriesSeed.com. Blog Archives.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Often, SaaS company founders are not aware of steps, tools, and checkpoints they should follow while building their product. Create a detailed requirement document. A requirement document defines the system’s purpose, functionality, interface, the scope of the product, and performance criteria. Do your design first.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 17, 2015

I recently chatted with Saurya about how he approaches hiring engineers at Google and what founders can learn. We also talked about how he’d want to be interviewed if approached by a non-technical startup founder. (I’ve How do you position yourself as the latter if you’re a seed-stage startup founder?

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 10, 2023

As a dynamic document, it remains rooted in your business's core objectives while flexibly responding to change. A well-documented plan has allowed us to adapt to market changes and pivot when necessary. #7- This document provides essential clarity on your business vision and mission. Thanks to Jordan Adair, Shirt Max ! #14-

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

A sales fanatic on the founder team helps to contain that risk. The combination of technical insight, founder authority, and sales experience is a hard-to-beat advantage in a competitive market. Young high-tech startups are at constant risk of forgetting that they actually need to sell the wonderful technology they invented.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 16, 2016

To most founders a startup is not a job, but a calling. Founders can now access the largest pool of risk capital that ever existed –in the form of Private Equity (Angel Investors, family offices , Venture Capitalists (VC’s) and Hedge Funds.). (BTW, What does this mean for startup founders? Here’s the thing most founders miss.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

Document why your team is the best for this challenge. As a hardware designer, I’m sure you do the same thing as you document your product specifications and pass them on to other members of your team for implementation. Positioning your hardware solution as almost free may sound attractive to customers, but it won’t attract investors.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2011

One of the best part of my jobs as a technology journalist is getting to hear founders' stories. For his part Matthew Wise wondered what it would have been like to hear stories from founders like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates during their early years. Sometimes these are stories that, in turn, end up in the articles I write. Discuss.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Daily updates from the top and documented processes are critical. In reality, there are an infinite number of ways to jeopardize the future of your business, but these are common ones I see that are often invisible to the business owner or founder. People with the wrong tools or no training.

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Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 14, 2010

After the recent announcement of the Series Seed Financing documents by Marc Andreesen, Brad Feld points out that there are now four sets of “open source&# equity seed financing documents: TechStars Model Seed Funding Documents (by Cooley). Y Combinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents (by WSGR). under $500K).

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Up and Running

JULY 28, 2022

Develop a founders agreement. A founders’ agreement is a legal contract defining and governing the relationship between cofounders. Its importance is to outline founders’ rights, responsibilities, ownership, and roles. The whole point is to avoid business disputes that may come up between the founders.

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