Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2017

But people are still begging for more technology or laws, often to protect them from themselves. In this scam, you are offered a very attractive term sheet due to close in 90 days or so, with a deposit required to hold your position while due diligence is being conducted. Chain emails leading to a windfall.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

But people are still begging for more technology or laws, often to protect them from themselves. In this scam, you are offered a very attractive term sheet due to close in 90 days or so, with a deposit required to hold your position while due diligence is being conducted. Chain emails leading to a windfall.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 14, 2021

In others, if you cannot find such a champion after initial presentations to a subset of the entire group, you will not be permitted to move from initial application to the next stages of due diligence and final funding. Seek out names from your trusted sources. How to waste your fundraising effort. The post Raising money?

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 25, 2015

In the tech startup context, you’ll typically choose between a Corporation and a Limited Liability Company (“LLC”). If the formalities are skipped, the owners of the company could become personally liable for the debts of the company, or even be personally named in a lawsuit against the company.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 17, 2015

Privacy issues that come to light in the course of the due diligence process for an acquisition can also threaten their valuation. Many startups have learned that being young and small does not keep them off the radar screens of privacy regulators, and they can be vulnerable to costly investigations. Say what you do.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 19, 2014

In others, if you cannot find such a champion after initial presentations to a subset of the entire group, you will not be permitted to move from initial application to the next stages of due diligence and final funding. Seek out names from your trusted sources. Spend time finding your champion.

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David Teten

JANUARY 11, 2020

What tech stack should a microinfluencer use? Many investors including me spend most of our day doing the same things people have always done in our job: in my case, due diligence, deal execution, etc. Tech stack. Superhuman **, my email client. I record here the books I’ve read, not as diligently as I should.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 10, 2018

Make sure you do your due diligence when deciding what site to book on. Once your hotel is booked, don’t just show up the day of your check in and assume that your name and confirmation number is in the system. With over 15 years in the Travel and Technology industry, Basil has become a leading expert in the space.

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Hunter Walker

JULY 10, 2017

My undergrad degree was in history, but I always qualify it as “social history,” which to me means not just focusing on “names, dates, wars” (aka high school history) but understanding the past through stories. Alyssa Bereznak covers tech for The Ringer and her reporting appeals to me for the same reasons.

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Board Effect

MARCH 17, 2021

If you’re like most people, checking your email is part of your morning routine. With the average person getting over 246 emails per day , there’s a lot of information to sift through. While you’re probably get a fair number of spam and social emails, statistics show that as of 2019, over 128 of those emails are business-related.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 25, 2015

I sent out a few emails to mentors of mine who had been VCs in the 1980s. 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. Silicon Valley firms also did many non-tech deals.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

VCs tout themselves as frontier technology investors, but most are using the same infrastructure tools they have used for the past 20+ years: Excel and recent college grads searching Google. According to Knowledge.VC , under 5% of US VCs have a full-time team member focused on technology. . But we’re doing it slowly.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Now, SEO for an ecommerce website requires a great deal of due diligence by the site owner, regardless of the platform. The name of the game here is simplicity. Prolonged technical difficulties will eat into your revenue and turn people away in droves. There are a number of ways you can alleviate friction.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

When I met my now-wife, I realized that any technology that can find me a spouse is a killer app. I’d argue that the same type of technologies that have revolutionized dating can revolutionize our industry. . I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

In the early 80’s he left academia to work on venture capital investing with Jim Simons, Renaissance Technologies. They chose the name First Round Capital because they thought capital would be deployed most efficiently at smaller seed stage rounds considering the cost to build an internet business had come down drastically.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Since 2015, her company, Barney, has guided over 150 media, marketing & tech companies through acquisitions. Questions I ask Amanda Dixon: [1:14] What’s the story behind your company name? [1:57] Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! John Jantsch (01:14): So I have to start with the name.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

He or she might call himself a “consulting CTO,&# “freelance CTO,&# “on-demand CTO,&# “CTO on call,&# “CTO for hire,&# or just a “technology strategy advisor.&# Most likely, this is a person who is a serial entrepreneur and was the chief technology officer for two or more web startups.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Last year, Her Campus was a winner and named Best All-Around Team in MassChallenge, the world’s largest start-up competition. I participated in Teens In Tech, an amazing accelerator for teens. Do Your Due Diligence. – John Hall , Digital Talent Agents. Step Up Your Game, But Don’t Get Distracted.

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Software By Rob

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Every question below has been asked via email, comment or Twitter over the past four weeks. Could you talk a bit about the diligence you did during the acquisition? How long into the discussion before you commenced diligence? What did it entail and how did you verify what was told to you? Monthly expenses. Number of free users.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

As we were out looking for our Series B round, our company had gotten the attention of “name of big VC firm here” who wanted a play in enterprise software. During the due-diligence process, I sat down with one of the partners who pulled out a set of slides and asked me: ”Have you seen these?” Are These Your Slides?

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Small Business Labs, from Emergent Research , covers the key social, technology and business trends impacting small business. New Communications Review. Interest in this waned when the Internet bust resulted in most tech start-up equity becoming worthless, but it seems to be coming back. Most tech start-ups fail.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 21, 2022

One-time password (OTP) verification: Typically, an email or SMS is sent to the customer’s account containing a unique, time-sensitive (i.e., Knowledge-based verification: Asking customers to re-enter personal information about themselves, such as their full name, address, phone number, or email address. Email address.

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David Teten

JANUARY 23, 2021

For more on this, see An Investor’s Personal Social Media Tech Stack. For example, one LP told me she prefers customized emails from fund principals, as opposed to a bulk-mailed quarterly update. Set up a Data Room, with a filled-out Due Diligence Questionnaire (“DDQ”).

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Branding is a process designed to develop, among other things, a unique business name and custom logo design for a company, product, or service. But branding isn’t solely about tangible concepts like a company’s name and logo. Email and customer feedback forms. What is branding? Understanding your customers.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Backup paper copies if the on-screen presentation fails are a bit low-tech but work almost as well. Spending too much time on introductions, small talk, and the name-game detracts from the opportunity to convey the primary message. Mistake #3: Not knowing who you are talking to ahead of time.

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Instead of hearing from your long lost third-cousin, you will be inundated with an avalanche of ‘congratulatory’ emails, calls and letters from people who want to relieve you of the burden of your hard-earned equity round. We are in Nashville which is not tech friendly. Many such ‘congratulations’ will come from consultants.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

We’ll also be sending out a follow-up email after this webinar and we will be recording the broadcast and making it available as well. Forbes Magazine named her number one woman for entrepreneurs to follow on Twitter and she hosts hashtag small biz chat Wednesdays on Twitter from 8 to 9pm eastern time for emerging entrepreneurs.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

All of you people who haven’t seen my blog, please remember my name or that website address. I’ve built my email list through that as well. I’ve got a subscriber base of about 40,000 emails as well, and it’s the centerpoint for everything I’ve done and the exposure I’ve gained. I changed the name, by the way, to MTGParadise.com.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 10, 2011

One of the biggest lessons I learned is when going into business that requires heavy technical work, such as the e-commerce website (programmed in PhP) we ran, it is better to find a programmer that will work with you on a profit sharing basis rather than payment per task. Maybe the first-mover anxiety got to me?

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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. Angels whove made money in technology are preferable,for two reasons: they understand your situation, and theyre asource of contacts and advice.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! Duct Tape Transcript Email Download New Tab John Jantsch (00:00): This episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is brought to you by Outbound Squad, hosted by Jason Bay, and brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network. So they're fearful. You can find it @ marketingassessment.co

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VC Adventure

MAY 21, 2014

And depending on how many members there are to the syndicate and what crowdfunding exemption you use (more on that below) the actual limit will likely be quite a bit less than the total you see next to the syndicate name on AngelList. Also reply to each request for intro and expect these people to email you back, usually with questions.

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VC Adventure

MAY 21, 2014

And depending on how many members there are to the syndicate and what crowdfunding exemption you use (more on that below) the actual limit will likely be quite a bit less than the total you see next to the syndicate name on AngelList. Also reply to each request for intro and expect these people to email you back, usually with questions.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Also worth a read after you review these startup failure post-mortems. A month ago, half way through my angel funds raised from family members, I decided to review the progress I’ve made and figure out what still needs to happen to make this a viable business. We focused too much on technology. Company : Nouncer. Too much money.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

In late 2015, many public technology companies saw a significant retrenchment in their share prices primarily as a result of a reduction in valuation multiples. In Q1 of 2016 there were zero VC-backed technology IPOs. They basically cannot afford to expose themselves to any more risk in a particular name.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Guess which technology we have the least trouble with. You have a CEO that clearly hasn’t taken the time to understand a technology platform. who forms technology biases based on old Visual Basic stereotypes or shallow interpretations of. ability based on one of many technologies. March 25, 2011 at 1:36 pm.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Every startup faces multiple choices and decisions when it comes to technology. Whether you’re wondering what site search you should use or what is the best email marketing tool, knowledge is power. Email Integration. Email marketing.

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