ReadWriteStart

MARCH 3, 2021

Still, you need to find some way to pull your company out of this early-stage quicksand. First, we need to address the core challenges of developing effective early-stage growth strategies for new businesses. What are the best tactics to accomplish these goals? Core Challenges to Overcome in Growth Strategies.

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View from Seed

MAY 2, 2019

This is the logical path that one would think is pretty “standard” for early stage companies. Overall, I think we are seeing that what used to be a fairly formulaic early stage funding journey has become more varied, given the breadth of investors and strategies that exist in the market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2012

The good news is that he is all about helping early-stage startups. Early-stage startup. Every startup is early-stage to someone. For a startup founder, this stage is when the “big idea” has become a passion for him, but he hasn’t written anything down yet.

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Our Own Start-up

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

The post Everything you need to know about early stage VC funds first appeared on Our Own Startup. There are heaps of financial alternatives for firms trying to innovate and expand. However, one of the common options is venture capital funding.

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Eric Friedman

JULY 19, 2019

Many early stage investors look for financial models for 3+ years from founders to make an investment. I can’t remember an early stage team putting together a model that has been accurate for 3 years. In fact, for early stage companies you are usually wildly wrong.

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OnlyOnce

DECEMBER 8, 2021

I divided my response into “early stage” and “later stage” founders. Here’s a summary of what I said about early stage founders. Next week: the later stage founder answer (link won’t be live until 12/16/2021).

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2013

Investors often say that successfully navigating the early stages of a startup requires lots of street smarts, guts, and luck. Trusting your gut at this stage isn’t good enough. During the early stages, you are the company, processes are not documented, you don’t have much help, so you need a fanatical attention to detail.

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SiliconHills

MARCH 27, 2021

Austin-based KdT Ventures announced a new $50 million fund to back early-stage science companies. The firm made 18 investments with that fund in early-stage science companies including PathAI, 54Gene, Checkerspot, Dyno Therapeutics, Terray, and Solugen. This is the company’s second fund.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

I was asked by a reader how much equity he should give out to early employees and to service providers in a very early stage startup. Founders vs. Early Employees To help with this discussion, let me start with a definition of "early employee." I'll get to service providers in a later post.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

A critical stage for most first-time entrepreneurs is getting their idea developed into at least a prototype to validate their technology. This process costs money, which professional investors are not willing to contribute, since their interest is in scaling a proven product and business model into a growth business.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 18, 2019

There’s always a tinge of “TBD” that accompanies the role of an early stage startup CTO. Early stage companies can’t immediately hire someone with the tech and executive know-how needed to handle the job. The post 4 Ways Early Stage CTOs Can Learn to Roll With the Punches appeared first on ReadWrite.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2011

The good news is that he is all about helping early-stage startups, the hard part for entrepreneurs is figuring out what it takes to play. Early-stage startup. Every startup is early-stage to someone. For VCs, early-stage means customer revenue is less than $10M.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

There is one source I never liked and no early-stage VC should – investment bankers. But as a source of deal flow it is last on my list and both entrepreneurs and VCs should be careful about working with bankers on an early-stage (seed, a-round) deal. [no, They are venture bankers not investment bankers.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2011

The following are some lessons I learned about early-stage startup marketing. For early-stage consumer companies I would be careful not to market futures at all. . “ We need to learn from doing, by trial-and-error. If I can help you avoid some of my first-time mistakes it would be a victory.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2014

Part 2: Early-stage Regional Venture Funds. as a distribution channel have vastly reduced the amount of capital a startup needs at the early stage when the risk is greatest. What’s Missing Is Early Stage Capital. Late stage large regionally based funds that invest in late stage or mezzanine deals.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 19, 2018

In addition to our own funds, we are investors in a number of other early-stage VC funds as part of our Foundry Group Next strategy. “Historically, the $10 million valuation mark has been somewhat of a ceiling for seed stage startups. The post Early Stage VCs – Be Careful Out There appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

The post 7 Benefits Startups get From HR in the Early Stages appeared first on ReadWrite. You have to be a marketer, IT head and even customer care at times. Managing a start-up is quite perilous and chaotic both. Things become a little flexible for you only when […].

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Genuine VC

JULY 8, 2014

The standard seed round will buy the company 12 to 18 months of runway as it looks to prove out early-stage milestones to raise a Series A before running out of cash. Note that some institutional VC investors who invest at the seed stage may also make these investments: Continue reading this post on The View From Seed.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

As an early-stage investor that is not always aligned with my goal, which I would express as, “pay the right price for the stage & risk in a way that is fair to the founders yet preserves our ability to grow into our valuation at the next financing event.” I’ll take messy and hard work any day. *.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

While the rewards may be a boon to their company in the short term, the consequences of accepting outside funding too early can be debilitating. There’s a reason why I refer to early-stage VC funding as vulture capital, and to be honest it’s pretty accurate. Money in Exchange for Control.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 8, 2018

Many early stage CEOs and board members have asked for some guidance regarding pay and time commitments for board members. Pay early stage board members of companies that are not lifestyle businesses one percent of the fully diluted equity in the form of an option that vests over four years of service.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 28, 2021

The post Don’t get hung up on early stage valuation. The chances of the latter occurring are much greater than the former. This founder was not hung up on valuation for the second company, just upon efficient use of capital. first appeared on BERKONOMICS.

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Gust

JULY 8, 2012

The good news is that he is all about helping early-stage startups. Early-stage startup. Every startup is early-stage to someone. For a startup founder, this stage is when the “big idea” has become a passion for him, but he hasn’t written anything down yet.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 8, 2021

Here’s how 5 Sputnik-backed, woman led early stage startups began and how they’re growing today. after founding her first company Alex Porter, co-founder of MOD Tech Labs Learning to Humanize Tech : how Alex Porter and Tim Porter started MOD Tech Labs and how they learned to succeed in the early days during Sputnik ATX.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 18, 2013

Trying to get inside the mind of an early stage VC investor. [[ This is a content summary only. Interesting infographic from Anna Vital in San Francisco, from the Kickstarter campaign "Becoming an Entrepreneur" Kickstarter campaign. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]].

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Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

tldr: instead of choosing between in-person or remote, your seed stage company (or team) should be more hybrid, tied to the type/phase of project going on. With in-person being used during periods of intense team ideation, collaboration or debate. While remote is best for execution sprints and concentrated individual problem solving.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Before making the decision to join ff Venture Capital , I did some research on early-stage tech investing as an asset class and how it’s evolving. Although any given early-stage company is quite risky, when aggregated across a large portfolio, returns are very attractive. They’re also inflation-hedged.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Investing has always (and will always) come with a long laundry list of liabilities that can deter even the most experienced investors from making a generous contribution to a startup or early-stage company they believe in. The technology that powers up any developing start-up or company is the foundation of its projected success.

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SiliconHills

APRIL 30, 2020

The venture capital firm, founded in 2006, focuses on early-stage companies and just in the last two years, its seed-funded startups have exited for a combined $3.2 The post Silverton Partners Raises $144 Million Fund Focused on Investing in Early-Stage Startups Primarily in Austin and Texas appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Austin Startup

JULY 7, 2019

Funding early-stage resources?—?how For early-stage, we raise 77 cents on the dollar to men. Without these things, how are we supposed to get more women past early-stage!? Funding early-stage resources?—?how Please stop saying this is a pipeline issue, it isn’t. The stats that really got me?

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

And then there are options: [Email readers, continue here…] Stock options or phantom stock are the tools of early stage businesses used to attract great talent when there is not enough cash to pay market rates. There are some rules. The fee for registration is well under $100, so this is not an issue.)

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SiliconHills

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

The Texas Health Catalyst held its Demo Day Tuesday afternoon with 13 early-stage ventures showcasing their new projects. These are really, really early innovations,” said Nishi Viswanathan, director, Texas Health Catalyst at Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin. The […].

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SiliconHills

JUNE 21, 2018

Those early-stage companies have raised $2.5 The post Nine Early Stage Startups Pitch at DivInc’s Fourth Demo Day appeared first on SiliconHills. million and generated more than $1 million in revenue, said Preston James, DivInc co-founder. “In In the next three to five years, you are going […].

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SiliconHills

AUGUST 30, 2019

Quansight Futures, based in Austin, announced the launch of a new $20 million early-stage investment fund focused on open-source technology. The post Quansight Futures is Raising a $20 Million Fund to Invest in Early-Stage Open-Source Tech Startups appeared first on SiliconHills.

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SiliconHills

APRIL 9, 2019

Krishna Srinivasan, Venu Shamapant and Ben Scott founded Austin-based LiveOak in 2013 and raised a $100 million fund to invest in early-stage Texas startups. The post LiveOak Venture Partners Closes a $105 Million Fund to Invest in Early-Stage Texas Startups appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 3, 2021

You’re Not Yet Google, So Don’t Blindly Mimic Their Processes. Google’s internal management approach has sustained and scaled pretty impressively over the years. Quantitative goal-setting, setting stretch targets — these principles are as evident in the 2020s as they were when I arrived in 2003.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 8, 2014

As Product Hunts first hire, I work with our founder Ryan Hoover oncommunity, marketing, business development, and all the other random things that people at early-stage startups do. The post The 7 (mostly free) tools Product Hunt used to build its early-stage community appeared first on The Next Web.

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