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.
Mucker Lab
OCTOBER 12, 2016
The expected lull between “seed” and “harvest”. So when an investment thesis becomes popular, when a new technology becomes available, when a new media consumption platform becomes dominant, if we believe in the trend, we have to “seed” an investment within the first three years and hope to “harvest” 5–10 years later.
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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. The Pocket Negotiator is very early-stage attempt to aid in the negotiating process itself. . Accompany focuses on this use case.
VC Cafe
APRIL 8, 2011
Help with recruiting – Finding and helping interview candidates is invaluable, especially in the early stages. Sow the seeds & harvest the dealflow later. Prototyping the idea: VCs should give early product feedback, 1-on-1 if possible. Several entrepreneurs asked: Not just the what but the why.
Hunter Walker
JANUARY 25, 2018
Even when you can grow, can you harvest? If you’re working in this area and think we could be good early stage funders for you, please do let us know. Our beliefs about water supply and where crops will be grown informed our investment in Bowery Farming , now one of the leading indoor vertical agriculture startups.
crowdSPRING Blog
MAY 9, 2018
Customers want to know what ingredients are involved and where they’re coming from, said Jonathan Keidan , the founder of early-stage venture fund Torch Capital. Think of wood (which can be grown, harvested and regrown) as opposed to coal (a finite resource ) which will inevitably run out. Know what matters.
Scalable Startup
MARCH 7, 2012
I call it harvesting youth. Don’t put real business people on the actual team. To reuse an overused term – Wait what? They offer them zero to a few thousand dollars and office space. 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.
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