VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

VC investors rely heavily on referrals, but what should a non US startup do when looking to raise funding in Silicon Valley? How best can European startups land VC funding in the US / Sillicon Valley? If you are in the very early stages with your company and there are no major reasons (e.g. If not, raise locally.

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Silicon Valley Startup Seed Stage Delaware 104

David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

A typical VC thesis: “we invest in tech startups in Europe at an early stage” However, our experience shows that in many cases: . “Tech” means B2B Saas/Fintech or Consumer apps. Technical” Companies (i.e. any mention of a focus on tech companies). Technical founders .

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Technical Review Cofounder Venture Capital Deal Flow 78

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

——— I’m getting ready to go overseas to teach , and I’ve spent the last week reviewing several countries’ ambitious attempts to kick-start entrepreneurship. In Silicon Valley the equivalent is the journeyman coder or web designer who loves the technology, and takes coding and U/I jobs because it’s a passion.

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Government Silicon Valley Startup Venture Capital 335

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

The functions of an early-stage board are pretty obvious and well understood: Providing introductions to customers, biz dev partners, recruits, the press, other investors, etc. Reviewing financial & operational performance. when to build out our offices in Silicon Valley, New York & Los Angeles. Mentorship.

Technical Review 325

Technical Review Early Stage Software Review Los Angeles 325

Professor VC

JANUARY 27, 2011

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. How Much Diligence is Due.Or Ive addressed the due diligence question in previous posts, but this came up again in a debate we were having at a recent meeting of the Sand Hill Angels. Not exactly extensive diligence. ProfessorVC. Thursday, January 27, 2011.

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Technical Review Due Diligence Silicon Valley San Jose 31

Mucker Lab

AUGUST 27, 2014

As an entrepreneur himself, founding and operating printed circuit board factories in Taiwan, my father was debating between two places to immigrate to and build his next new venture: Los Angeles (“The Valley” aka San Fernando Valley) and Santa Clara (“Silicon Valley”).

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Los Angeles Southern California Silicon Valley Technical Review 138

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Unfortunately in early stage startups the drive for financing hijacks the corporate DNA and becomes the raison d’etre of the company. What are Early Stage VC’s Really Asking? Reply Week 2 – Customer Discovery & Listening « Iain’s Chips & Tech , on November 6, 2009 at 9:44 am Said: [.]

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Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 262

Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2019

Meet the Locals Here are the most active early stage investors in town that you should meet while you’re here and do deals with. It’s a robust ecosystem so I’m only listing the ones we’ve done the most deals with here but Capital Factory is the most active early stage investor in Texas so this is a good sampling.

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Silicon Valley Technical Review Texas Venture Capital 50

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Craig Schmitz, a partner in the Technology Companies Group at law firm Godwin Proctor LLP who works on corporate, governance, board and fundraising issues, and Erika Fisher, an associate in the firm’s Business Law Department who deals with IP, fielded questions about the legal issues startups face. ” The Cost of Financing.

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Convertible Security IP Technical Review Software Review 100

David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

Since 2017 we’ve managed $3 million in revenue-based financing, which helps cash-strapped technology companies grow. Investment Criteria: B2B SaaS or tech-enabled services with proven, recurring contracts. According to John Borchers, Co-founder, Decathlon is the largest revenue-based financing investor in the US.

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Revenue Technical Review Software Review Equity 60

philipsmith.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Silicon Valley Frontlines. Compensation-wise the biggest challenge is insuring people are respectful of my time and skills (when they don't write real checks for hourly or project work they don't tend to be quite as diligent on this as one would like!). In-the-Trenches Consulting to Startup and Emerging-Growth Companies.

Silicon Valley 40

Silicon Valley Equity Technical Review Recapitalization 40

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

2 preamble issues having read the comments on TC today: 1: I know that the prices of startup companies is much great in Silicon Valley than in smaller towns / less tech focused areas in the US and the US prices higher than many foreign markets. This article originally appeared on TechCrunch. I acknowledged this in the article.

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Pre-Money Valuation Valuation Silicon Valley Stock 336

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 9, 2013

This is final part of a series that describes a sales methodology for technology companies or frankly many other types of companies, too. It’s why many modern technology companies prefer to sell individual products to end-buyers who can buy on their credit cards with limited need for approval from others. Compelling Event.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Jacqueline asked an important question: how do you mitigate your working capital challenges in an e-commerce company at the very early stages without raising financing? First, there are two primary aspects that have to be managed: inventory financing and customer acquisition costs. Google Adwords advertising.

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Silicon Valley Malaysia India China 117

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

I recently wrote a post on angel financing covering the topic of convertible notes but I realized I was thinking about the issue more from investor perspective and a very narrow topic of how to price the round. So if you’re casually reading and don’t really care about angel financing – abort now! That’s OK.

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Silicon Valley Ireland Technical Review Valuation 291

Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2018

The biggest week of the year for tech and startups in Austin, Texas as South by Southwest (SXSW) descends upon the city from March 19–15. Bose will be demonstrating the new technology to app and device developers in a fun, informative setting. There are a zillion things to do, both official and unofficial?—?so Did I miss something?

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Technical Review Austin Texas Cofounder 89

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

They allow you to hire more people, purchase new technology, and establish new business connections, among many other benefits. Proposed private equity deal: Eventually, this business will require private equity to provide sufficient funding to develop some of the more robust aspects of the technology that will attract Fortune 500 clients.

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Private Equity Pre-Money Valuation Equity Startup 94

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Well, I have coached early stage entrepreneurs for a couple of years now - diligently, patiently - and have learned a few things. We're trying to bring the lessons we have learned in Silicon Valley to a million entrepreneurs. As you may know, 99% of the entrepreneurs who seek financing, get rejected.

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Silicon Valley Technical Review Startup Early Stage 114

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 6, 2011

She is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and strategy consultant. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. And today, we have a group of early adopter premium members who are making good use of the program.

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Silicon Valley India San Francisco Entrepreneur 118

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 7, 2010

At today's roundtable we had some interesting companies and a lot of fundraising discussions, and I will review them shortly. Bottom line, early stage equity is very, very expensive. That is debt financing that converts into equity at the Series A valuation once the price for that is set. (I We will work on that with her.

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Valuation Silicon Valley Pre-Money Valuation Bootstrapping 119

VC Cafe

APRIL 23, 2016

Another Vietnamese government arm, the Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST), published their intention to launch a VC fund in 2015. Though Vietnamese policy-makers had ambitions of making Vietnam more “Silicon Valley-like”, they translated the idea of venture capital investing into debt finance.

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Vietnam Venture Capital Silicon Valley Early Stage 60

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

Right for my stage? I get approached about clean tech or biotech periodically – I don’t focus on these. In ad tech there’s Seth Levine at Foundry Group and both Dana Settle & Ian Sigelow at Greycroft. And trust me, if you’re early stage you DO want to meet Bryce. Meet early.

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Developer Silicon Valley PR Las Vegas 366

Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

Our venture was selected for competitive accelerator spots & recognition from media and mentors from Austin, Chicago and Silicon Valley to work on this problem and capture the value its solution provided. Early on we reached out to friends & family. He then called me “a real bone-crusher of a founder”. Of course I do.

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Silicon Valley Startup B2C Sweat Equity 54

Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2010

When I saw Rudy at the most recent Austin Tech Happy Hour , I was excited to hear that the app had been submitted to the app store for review. Company CEO Rudy Prince is a tech veteran, having founded pioneering company eFax back in the early days of the web. today), and pricing details. Why start this company in Austin?

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Technical Review Silicon Valley Austin Early Stage 72

mashable.com

JUNE 11, 2013

Young founders tend to complicate things too much, from structuring partnership agreements, financing, leases, etc. Some entrepreneurs think it’s a luxury to have accounting, finance, or other support functions, but it’s important not to be afraid of spending resources early on for administrative efficiency.

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Cofounder Technical Review Startup Software Review 111

Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. How would Billy Beane have done as an early stage investor? Dan Frommer, in Moneyball for tech startups , interviewed Fred Wilson, Chris Dixon, Paul Graham and Ben Horowitz on the topic. Labels: due diligence , early stage investing , moneyball , valuation.

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Technical Review Early Stage San Jose Angel Investor 38

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

I will work with him on his inventory financing strategy. Then Dhana Cohen pitched TheNextBigZing.com where she has collected various merchants with video reviews of products. Sramana Mitra is a technology entrepreneur and strategy consultant in Silicon Valley. JCLABoutique.com. TheNextBigZing.com.

India 114

India Silicon Valley Incubator Bootstrapping 114

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

I call it drip-financing. Most entrepreneurs have no choice but to avail of this sort of financing along with the mentoring and the contacts that could come with it (doesn't always come along, though). In 1M/1M, our preferred financing strategy is customers. Because customer financing equals revenue, not equity.

Cloud 115

Cloud Silicon Valley Incubator Finance 115

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Charge-back accounting solution for large enterprises deploying cloud technologies. Ric Telford, VP of cloud services, IBM pointed me to the rather significant move towards rolling out private clouds at large enterprises, a move that IBM is spearheading by providing full stacks of infrastructure technologies. Sequoia has financed them.

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Cloud Fractional CTO Entrepreneur Bandwidth 117

K9 Ventures

JUNE 5, 2015

Together this means that Seed stage companies need to run longer and at a higher expense structure, meaning they need to raise a lot more capital. A re-jiggering of deal stages and sizes had begun in 2013. I still wanted K9 to be the first institutional money in a company and work with “frighteningly early-stage” companies.

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Seed Stage Venture Capital Early Stage Valuation 48

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. There are many ways to measure technical skills and check work histories and achievements, but assessment of team chemistry is a high art form. How about your Investors ?

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Technical Review Software Review Cap Table Securities and Exchange Commission 48

Up and Running

MAY 3, 2012

Entrepreneurship continues to be a sexy topic for governments, with every country worth its salt trying to create its own tech hub, mimicking Silicon Valley. And besides, obtaining early-stage investment is no guarantee of success, either. The appeal of promoting entrepreneurship is obvious.

Entrepreneur 82

Entrepreneur Technical Review Silicon Valley Lean 82

pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

This time around, there has been an explosion at the early stages, and the very late pre-IPO growth stages. Multiply that by literally a couple thousand, and that’s what 2013 is going to look like in Silicon Valley, and to a lesser degree some other startup ecosystems. In fact, if anything, there are fewer.

Technical Review 93

Technical Review Silicon Valley Incubator Syria 93

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. Girls in Tech. Ad Serving Technology. Analytics review â?? mixpanel vs kissmetric vs google analytics review. Tech*if*er0*urs â??

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Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Being an outsider, I also wanted to lean heavily on the actual research available on the subject, as well as the voices of women both in the tech space and who have successfully received venture funding. It seems remiss, therefore, to not shed light on this issue. A rare success. Giadha Aguirre de Carcer has had an impressive career.

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Venture Capital Lean Cofounder Technical Review 82

reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

we weren’t the natural leader of a market or technology trend that everyone was paying attention to, we didn’t have substantial organic growth, and. You may happen to emphasize the right points that pique an investor’s interest, but you shouldn’t leave your financing up to chance. Second, understand the broader financing climate.

Entrepreneur 111

Entrepreneur Revenue Viral Networking 111

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

Why the Unicorn Financing Market Just Became Dangerous…For All Involved. Ironically, Carreyou is not a Silicon Valley-focused reporter, and the success of the piece served as a wake-up call for other journalists who may have been struck by Unicorn fever. In Q1 of 2016 there were zero VC-backed technology IPOs.

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