The Startup Magazine

APRIL 14, 2022

While certain aspects of setting up a startup can be exhilarating, especially in the early stages of the business, there are also plenty of bumps along the road, big and small. Choose a unique brand name. A good startup name should be easy to remember, short and unique. Image Source.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Venture Capitalist : An early-stage VC requires some of the same skills as a Case Officer – spotting, assessing, developing, recruiting, and handling founders building a company amid an uncertain operating environment that will bring a heavy return on investment. Most startups fail, especially those in the early stages.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Nokia as “He Who Must Not Be Named”. You find early stage employees expecting to work normal hours, to get paid a regular salary, and not asking or expecting equity. While it might have been politically expedient, it was not a welcome sign for long-term investment. Nokia was Finland’s symbol of national competence.

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techcrunch.com

AUGUST 12, 2012

Zachary Bogue And Matt Ocko Launch Data Collective, An Early Stage Fund For Big Data Startups. Data Collective has already made 46 investments from its first fund, which it calls “comparable with other seed and early stage funds” (Ocko and Bogue wouldn’t reveal fund size.). Headphones. CrunchBase.

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Up and Running

JULY 28, 2022

Register your business name. The name of your business identifies your enterprise, which makes it easy for people to notice and understand your business. After you pick a good business name, it’s advisable to register that name to certify and protect it. Obtain the right business permits and licenses.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 4, 2019

Most early stage startups tend to do well in this area because entrepreneurs generally launch their startups believing they have a great product idea. What does this mean for their early stage investors? Weak revenue architecture poses the greatest near-term risk of failure for most early stage startups.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 24, 2019

Most early stage startups tend to do well in this area because entrepreneurs generally launch their startups believing they have a great product idea. What does this mean for their early stage investors? Weak revenue architecture poses the greatest near-term risk of failure for most early stage startups.

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David Teten

JUNE 22, 2012

HBS Angels of NY and the NAIC have named the finalist women and minority entrepreneurs of the Venture Capital Access Program; check out the press release below. Founded in 1970, NAIC firms deposit in try (early stage/later stage) and private equity (growth/buyout/mezzanine/ distressed/secondary funds).

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 13, 2023

#5- Offering photography and website packages Photo Credit: Nathan Darma I am a professional photographer/content creator and have realized that a commonality among my primary clientele is that a lot of them are early-stage startups/small businesses that have yet to dedicate time and resources to developing their own website for their business.

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David Teten

JUNE 22, 2012

HBS Angels of NY and the NAIC have named the finalist women and minority entrepreneurs of the Venture Capital Access Program; check out the press release below. Founded in 1970, NAIC firms deposit in try (early stage/later stage) and private equity (growth/buyout/mezzanine/ distressed/secondary funds).

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Programming Accredited Investor Naming New York 114

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2023

The name “investment bank” somehow always sounded like a place where I could deposit my investments, and maybe even earn a little interest. None normally work for or provide funds for early-stage startups. Typically, their service is to help you invest in stocks, bonds, or mutual funds, much like independent financial advisors.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 8, 2010

Very few of them are started, in my experience, by sales people and very few early stage companies really understand sales. are, as the name implies, the people who have “ learned a trade and work for another person usually by the day.&# More on that later. Journeymen - Journeymen (Journeywomen!) Have to ask yourself why.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2014

I got three calls from another big name, big check VC. For all the things he’s likely known for, he probably hasn’t yet built a strong relationship as an early stage venture investor (he invests often in later-stage deals where he is very respected). They have some of the best names in the Valley.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 2, 2013

Then I got an email that asked: I'm leading the marketing efforts for an early-stage startup. The challenge is that LinkedIn is not that great with finding people who were at early-stage startups. An early-stage startup is a different animal. For me, I'd use LinkedIn. Most of us are not Google.

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 25, 2015

At the time, no one was investing in early stage consumer companies — it wasn’t a “thing” yet. HW: Both you and Kirsten have deep strategy/investment experience but less operational experience, at a time when some might claim early stage VC is tilting towards the hands-on model. EK: It’s a great question.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 11, 2016

Instead of being limited to domain names such as.COM,ORG,EDU , etc., And, it’s not just brands, it’s also people buying domains to secure their family name or an easy to remember email address for business cards or redirecting to an existing personal website. NEWS ,LIVE,ROCKS,ATTORNEY,REVIEWS, and.VIDEO.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 13, 2021

From Amazon basing recommendations on past browsing behavior to companies greeting people by name, you’ll see examples of personalization everywhere. A free gift makes people more loyal to your brand and they’ll certainly remember your name. How can you offer them a gift to help meet their needs at this time and alleviate their fears?

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Up and Running

AUGUST 1, 2018

Namely, you. 3 steps to take as an early stage entrepreneur. As boundaries blur, companies who’ve long captured a disproportionate percentage of economic profit within traditional industries face off against companies they’d previously never viewed as competitors. And here it gets interesting. Let’s see how.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2011

Your name has come up a lot in that regard. Max and his partners interviewed and analyzed over 650 early-stage Internet startups. Today they released the first Startup Genome Report — a 67 page in-depth analysis on what makes early-stage Internet startups successful. It was signed Max Marmer. Congratulations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2023

It never hurts to start networking personally with all levels of investors early, but sending out teasers and business plans to every name you can find on the Internet is a waste of your time and theirs. You are now entering the rollout stage , with money required for marketing, hiring a full-time team, and a production process.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 25, 2023

I also suggest protecting your brand by trademarking your business name, ensuring it's uniquely yours. The first step is to have a domain name that matches your business name. And that can make or break your customer retention, especially in the early stages.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2013

Santa Monica is the place where the highest concentration of early-stage startups are created if you consider also the contiguous geography of Venice Beach. Perhaps the biggest piece of new news is that after 17 years of operations we’ve changed our name from GRP Partners to Upfront Ventures. What’s up with that?

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

At this early stage in the game you just can’t afford to have potential customers getting turned away by an unprofessional and sloppy website experience. Get a website up on that domain name fairly quick too; you don’t have to wait until you have a perfectly polished website before going live with it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 11, 2016

Angel investors are still the lifeblood of early-stage startups, despite the surge of activity in crowdfunding and an increasing early interest from venture capitalists. In addition, your company and social media names are key intellectual property. These are all accredited investors who risk their own money.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Traditional brands, namely eCommerce/luxury fashion and CPG brands are trying to figure out how to get in the action. It takes a LOT of courage to say no to potential revenue, especially in the very early stages of a startup. Saying “no” can be equally important as saying “yes” to a potential partner or client. .

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Segmentation is a strategy best utilized in the early stages of a marketing campaign or life of your business. This can take the form of product recommendations, messaging that addresses the customer by name, and ads based on customer interests and needs. When to use it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

As an advisor to many early-stage entrepreneurs, I caution them to always be prepared for that chance meeting with a famous investor, a potential partner or an industry guru. Quick to name-drop common friends and business links. It’s not smart to believe that your passion and gift of gab will impress anyone.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

She is a go to person for me when I have questions around technology or early stage marketing and branding. Our name Reality2 stands for Reality2.0. We do a lot of B2B and also have an "Early Stage Branding" practice for technology startups. I've known Farida for quite a while. Maybe ten years.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 8, 2021

A catchy name goes a long way to cement your brand in people’s minds, but you’ll also need the help of brand differentiation to distinguish your company from others. . Everything from the naming of your startup to your ongoing marketing efforts depends on your high-level strategy. What is this business’s course of growth? Dead Weight.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The name “investment bank” somehow always sounded like a place where I could deposit my investments, and maybe even earn a little interest. None normally work for or provide funds for early-stage startups. Typically, their service is to help you invest in stocks, bonds, or mutual funds, much like independent financial advisors.

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Silicon Valley Private Equity Initial Public Offering Term Sheet 362

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Most entrepreneurs have found by now one or more of the many popular crowdfunding sites , and have the name and contact information for at least one of the big venture capital firms. Early stage research and development won’t excite angels. contributes more than $25 billion to fund 70,000 startups every year.

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View from Seed

MARCH 4, 2020

In a few months, we are likely to see the annual Forbes Midas list of top performing early stage VC investors. Name brand firms like Benchmark, Sequoia, and NEA had 4+ partners on the list. Getting on the Forbes Midas list is a nice milestone for an individual investor.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

We back very early stage companies and work alongside executive teams as their build their teams, launch their products, announce their companies and raise their first downstream capital rounds. The biggest change for us in early-stage investing is that we now need to commit earlier. just to name a few!

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

Almost every early-stage startup who has approached investors for funding has heard the innocuous sounding rejection “I love your idea, but come back when you have more traction.” Percentages may be difficult at this early stage, but you need to get creative about slicing and dicing the market, sector, demographic, and sub-categories.

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Gust

DECEMBER 22, 2011

So you’ve chosen a name for your startup, product, or both. Most of our early-stage startup clients fit this description. Trademarks , which we touched on last week, are brand and product names, graphic logos, slogans, taglines, and other indicators of origin of the goods or services in question.

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Intellectual Property Technical Review Software Review IP 149

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2020

It never hurts to start networking personally with all levels of investors early, but sending out teasers and business plans to every name you can find on the Internet is a waste of your time and theirs. You are now entering the rollout stage , with money required for marketing, hiring a full-time team, and a production process.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2023

In the name of this cause, the company donates time, services, and at least one percent of their sales to hundreds of grassroots environmental groups around the world. In the difficult early stages of any business, it can also seem like you are leaving some things for others that should be in your pocket.

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