NZ Entrepreneur

AUGUST 4, 2021

Again, use this as an opportunity to pique their interest – and ultimately, land follow-up meetings or enter due diligence. Due diligence, information memorandums & data rooms. Now that you’ve got investors undergoing due diligence, you must secure a lead investor. Lead investors and term sheets.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2010

Yesterday I received a discouraging note from an entrepreneur with a patent and a medical software application who couldn’t find a dime of investment, and was grousing that seed funding just wasn’t available anymore. Failure to prepare for due diligence. Not doing due diligence on the funding source.

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NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Both of these liquidity options are about seeing the venture on to its next stage of value creation, while enabling those very early stage investors to recover their capital to deploy in the next generation of startup companies. Take part in startup investment due diligence. This equity will vest over 2-3 years.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

The FUND Conference brings together over 100 startups to present their early-stage products and pitches in front of hundreds of investors and industry leaders. I work in technology where the dress code is relaxed, but an executive woman my age can wear neither a hoodie nor a stuffy suit.). If so, how?

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NZ Entrepreneur

MAY 31, 2021

The Angel Association of New Zealand ( AANZ ) is co-hosting with New Zealand Growth Capital Partners ( NZGCP ) a series of workshops on early-stage investment. Jason Graham from Movac provided an early-stage venture capital fund perspective, detailing 35 investments made across 5 funds and 22 years.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 12, 2019

There are plenty of entrepreneurs diligently working toward a better future. It shouldn’t be a surprise that the buzz surrounding AI/machine learning and early stage startups peaked in 2018. This decreases 911 response times in a world where your phone, car, or smartwatch will likely be calling far from your home area code.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

I’ve been having discussions with several people recently about the role of the CTO (Chief Technology Officer) in very early stage companies. However, I’ve now begun questioning how and what an early-stage / startup CTO should be. It makes this early stage challenging. How can we address this risk?

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Gust

DECEMBER 22, 2011

It’s possible to have a company with literally millions of customers (users) that employs only a handful of people, working in a small rented office, with hardware and software costing in the tens of thousands rather than millions of dollars. Most of our early-stage startup clients fit this description.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

Any custom manufactured IoT device would require software development as well as hardware customization. These usually play a role in the very early stage of your business, primarily pre-revenue. The seed stage is focused on building the core team, product optimization, exploring avenues for monetization. ? Early-stage.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 25, 2015

The key reason for the explosion in capital flowing into the industry, and therefore the large increase in practitioners, had nothing to do with 1970’s performance, early stage investing, or technology. Some were Silicon Valley early stage companies, such as Apple, Quantum, and Masstor Systems. This isn’t true.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

In venture capital in particular, early-stage companies are often operating in frontier industries, where the rules are unpredictable and conventional analytic frameworks may be misleading. Sebastian Soler recently launched Knowledge.vc , which uses software and machine learning to enhance deal sourcing and diligence for VC firms.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

I think you have to listen to the queue’s.” “…if you look at a lot of the early stage investors, whether it be Union Square Ventures or First Round or Jeff Clavier at Softtech or Dave McClure – we want to try the product, we want to experience the product, we want to get a sense of how the entrepreneur is thinking about it.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

Manuge continues, “Corl connects to a business’ bank accounts, accounting software, payment processors, and other digital services to collect 10,000+ historical data points that are analyzed in real-time. We have reviewed the application process of other RBI lenders and have not found one that has more API connections that ours.

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David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

– Templatize the entrepreneurial process , by providing checklists, standardized agreements and other reusable code. The firm attracts deal flow by promising a decision (positive or negative) in under 2 weeks, with minimal paperwork and without repeating due diligence.

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Business Plan Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2013

angel investors invested $19 billion in 55,000 deals in 2008, with most of the investments being made in start-up or very early-stage companies. Group members meet regularly to review business proposals and watch presentations of the selected businesses. The Center for Venture Research estimates that U.S. What is an angel group?

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

When I went through their financials as part of my due diligence I realized that if they ditched their low margin disk drive products, it wouldn’t take much to make them a profitable company. While I was consulting for them, I got a call from a recruiter for a company called SuperMac, which made add-on products for the Macintosh.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. They read reviews of the products of target investments.

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Rob Go

FEBRUARY 24, 2013

Early stage companies are often refining their stories or narratives. From a fundraising perspective, one of the challenges of telling one’s story is that as an early stage company, you are by definition very very small, but you are trying to convince an investor that you can be very very big.

Software Review 61

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Business Plan Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2013

angel investors invested $19 billion in 55,000 deals in 2008, with most of the investments being made in start-up or very early-stage companies. Group members meet regularly to review business proposals and watch presentations of the selected businesses. The Center for Venture Research estimates that U.S. What is an angel group?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

I know it sounds obvious but just so you understand: There are more capital sources available for earlier-stage capital, the information on which they are evaluating the investment is less (it is almost certainly just team and product) and the risk of the investor getting things wrong is diminished.

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Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 14, 2010

In addition, I think that a “peace treaty&# between early-stage investors and startup companies on standard terms (at least at a term sheet level) is a step in the right direction. I also reviewed the TechStars documents last year and they are similar in concept to the Y Combinator documents as the chart below indicates.).

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Investors use a consulting CTO for technical due diligence. Preserve your equity by using a consulting CTO to ramp up your company before securing early-stage financing and hiring a permanent technology partner. Not all software developers are suited to the role of startup CTO. Why are consulting CTOs so scarce?

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2010

I’m very pleased today to announce that I invested, on behalf of GRP Partners, in Burstly alongside Rincon Venture Partners , an early stage VC in Southern California whith whom we love to work (and were our co-investors on RingRevenue ). What does it do? it has built in iPad support from Day 1.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

In another we decended into a debate about our 5 year forecasts (I built the models so fielded most of these questions), and it became clear they probably weren’t the best fit for our Series A round (this group is no longer in the early-stage VC business). And a third firm “pressure tested” (i.e. link] dazhi chen.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

As a globally focused LP in early stage VC funds, we at Blue Future Partners have observed a growing trend of firms investing substantially in software tools, whether developing proprietary solutions or adopting off the shelf tools. But what tools are they using themselves to automate their own processes?

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Early stage startups have to survive one day at a time and are often presented with limited choices of the moment that enable them to continue. At early stages you probably don’t have an assembly line and can’t clearly define any particular job. More complicated enterprise software applications are a good example of that.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 1, 2014

We pride ourselves on being early-stage (thus the name, Upfront) but in this case it’s as early as it gets. He spent a few months building out the software because just taking stuff from people isn’t that difficult. I wrote about that experience here without giving away the details of the business.

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Scalable Startup

MARCH 7, 2012

Recently there was a developer only coding party where, in a few hours, you form a team, think of an idea, then design, develop, deploy a website. To reuse an overused term – Wait what? They offer them zero to a few thousand dollars and office space. I call it harvesting youth. The compensation?

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BeyondVC

OCTOBER 13, 2004

To make a long story short, one of the co-founders of the company built the company’s software in his spare time. Rather than leave this open to chance, the VC and the early stage company did the right thing and decided to clean up the ambiguity.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

This leads to a set of questions: What is the role of a CTO in the early stages of a company, and does that role change later on as both the company and that individual matures? I've previously addressed the role of a CTO in early-stages in my post Startup CTO or Developer. How will I know when the need has arisen?

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2018

This is particularly true in the early stages of a new venture when you may be a solopreneur or working with a very small team. The Growth Edition (April 29th-May 1st) is for companies whose founders are already making a full-time living from their software products. Business of Software. Boston, USA.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2009

With open source software (LAMP stack) and cloud computing infrastructure it just wasn’t that expensive to get your company going and founders just wanted to raise less money. If a VC term sheet comes in they begin their due diligence process. Many VCs who do lots of seed stage deals are very supportive and active.

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Gust

DECEMBER 27, 2012

These range from outbound materials, such as pitch emails and funding applications, to presentations of your venture in different forms for different purposes, to detailed back-up information that you will be asked to supply during due diligence. This will NOT be your family lawyer, or the one who helped you beat that traffic ticket.

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VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2010

The workshop participants, of which there were about 30, brought diverse experience and expertise to the table – from young entrepreneurs with just a few years of experience in the consumer web, to seasoned executives with decades of experience in semiconductors, telecommunications and enterprise software.

Software Review 116

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Up and Running

JUNE 25, 2014

I think that the team from Palo Alto Software, I think I saw some partners that are in this area that just focus on that early stage business. Then I’ll also say that Palo Alto Software as a whole only partners with companies that we’ve done full due diligence on, we’ve done secret shopping on.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

I wassurprised recently when I realized that all the worst problems wefaced in our startup were due not to competitors, but investors.Dealing with competitors was easy by comparison. Your natural tendency when an investor says yes willbe to relax and go back to writing code. The problems are different in the early stages.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2009

Video Games At SuperMac , Peter Barrett was the witty and creative 24-year old Australian engineer who had designed several of our most successful products, culminating with the software for the Video Spigot. But I wonder if the success is due to or in spite of VCs. Now he wanted to go off start his own company.

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