The Startup Lawyer

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Previously, she was with HP Growth Partners, an early stage venture fund in Dallas. True to her entrepreneurial roots, she left to follow her passion for nutrition by opening a specialty foods retail store, while simultaneously consulting with numerous Dallas-based startups on strategic planning and finance.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

That prediction obviously turned out pretty wrong, but it did drum up a whole lot of chatter about the right ingredients for building a startup community—about New York vs Boston on the East Coast and whether cities like Austin and Seattle would ever break through. You need both. New Yorkers help each other out. Angels can’t do it alone.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

The Foundations of the Seattle startup community. The problem that I’ve seen historically in cities like Los Angeles, San Diego or Seattle is that their historic high-net-worth individuals didn’t come from the tech startup world. It really only needs a few community leaders to kick things off and land a community on a map.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

VC Financings: 1. Seattle-based company specializing in mobile analytics. I knew that OATV had invested in the company and I typically like to look harder at stuff that they do since I consider them to be very savvy with early stage trends. I keep meaning to get him drunk to spill the stories. 10mm in Series C.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 7, 2011

But recognizing that the funding landscape has changed - more angels, more Web startups - this year the firm conducted its first Angel/Seed Financing Survey. The survey includes responses from 52 Internet, digital media, and software companies that raised money in the Silicon Valley and Seattle in 2010. Discuss.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 26, 2022

I had gone to high school with the founders in the Seattle area, and we had recently reconnected. The first was in July of 2014, when we made the unusual move of raising and announcing another round of private financing while on file to go public. Enter Box. They gave me a shot. Working at Box was a revelation.

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Haystack

MAY 4, 2019

You will see the majority are in the Bay Area, and then New York City, and a bit more around LA and Seattle — and things get really scattered.

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keen.io

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

To begin answering this question, I started on a quest to understand startup financing. This book was written to help founders negotiate financing with investors, but it really helped me understand Keen’s financial situation, and I highly recommend it to anyone joining a startup. Startup Equity for Early Employees.

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Version One Ventures

MAY 24, 2016

billion in financing in 2015 (with 395 deals). Yet, having a vibrant ecosystem to seed early stage startups is one thing. If you’re not in one of these major metropolises that Graham wrote about (say, Seattle, Toronto, Chicago, Boulder…), what’s your city’s collective drive? Waterloo has another unicorn with Kik.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

We want to invest in early-stage technology enabled startup businesses – upfront in the funding cycle. He picked up an expensive defensive player, Byron Maxwell, from the talented Seattle Seahawks for big money. Yes, great leaders need to travel more than programmers or finance directors. So he picked up Murray.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 6, 2011

This curriculum is based on the various questions entrepreneurs have asked me over these 64 sessions, spanning financing, positioning, customer acquisition, marketing, sales, channel, and various other early stage, startup-related issues. He is looking for financing for the show. Mava Consulting.

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mashable.com

MARCH 24, 2011

As a side note, if you’re interested in applying to TechStars Seattle for this fall, the application page just went live a few days ago and can be found here: [link] It was by far the best decision we’ve made, and I’d highly recommend this route for any early-stage entrepreneurs.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Preserve your equity by using a consulting CTO to ramp up your company before securing early-stage financing and hiring a permanent technology partner. I also run a small firm that provides CTO level help to start-ups in Los Angeles and Seattle.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 21, 2020

billion Strategic Investment Fund “to catalyze the rapid procurement of essential medical supplies and help life sciences companies secure financing to produce COVID-19 products.”. In addition, Bill supported the Seattle Flu Study, which launched in 2019 to learn how the flu and other respiratory illnesses spread through local communities.

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www.currentlyobsessed.com

MAY 28, 2010

It hardly deserves any attention at all in the early stages. For some closing thoughts, I’ll just add that: Valuation tends to be too much of a focus for most early stage companies. He tries to write things that havent already been written 9000 times. I know this sounds crazy, but it’s not.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

In short, the first wave of internet companies were widely distributed and brought people online (AOL in Virginia, Microsoft in Albuquerque and Seattle, Dell in Austin, etc.) At the same time, early-stage companies are thinking beyond the high prices of Silicon Valley to put down roots and find financing and growth partners.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 19, 2012

Conceptually, this is very intriguing and goes against the current popularity of accelerators in start-up hubs (Silicon Valley, New York, Boston, Seattle, Boulder) that are filled with recent grads and drop outs looking to build the next web sensation. I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State.

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www.readwriteweb.com

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

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