SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Review the code being built. And it made me come to a new realization: Every early-stage web/mobile/online startup should have at least one technical advisor, probably two. We are producing the right functionality, but is the code that's being produced the right product? Plan for past the initial MVP.

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Technical Review CTO Hire Fractional CTO Software Review 332

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 16, 2022

In addition to being the startup entrepreneur, there are other key roles where Boomers can be a force in driving successful startups, in concert with leaders from Gen-X and Gen-Y: Early-stage angel investors. Software and hardware development architects and designers. All the learning from parenting pays big dividends here.

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Advisory Board Dividend Angel Investor Cofounder 368

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2022

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. In the early days (20 years ago), most new e-commerce sites cost a million dollars to set up.

Intellectual Property 261

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

They may be interested in consumer products, software, fintech, AI, or green technologies. Each firm can also focus on a particular stage of investment, from seed and early-stage funding all the way through to Series C and beyond. Due Diligence and Closing the Deal. Understand VC Term Sheets.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Software Review Security 144

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

A while back I received a discouraging note from an entrepreneur with a patent and a medical software application who couldn’t find a dime of investment, and was grousing that seed funding just wasn’t available anymore. Failure to prepare for due diligence. Not doing due diligence on the funding source.

Software Review 265

Software Review Due Diligence Elevator Pitch Startup 265

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2019

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. In the early days (25 years ago), most new e-commerce sites cost a million dollars to set up.

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Finance Intellectual Property Technical Review Incubator 320

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2012

A while back I received a discouraging note from an entrepreneur with a patent and a medical software application who couldn’t find a dime of investment, and was grousing that seed funding just wasn’t available anymore. Failure to prepare for due diligence. Not doing due diligence on the funding source.

Software Review 250

Software Review Due Diligence Elevator Pitch Entrepreneur 250

Up and Running

APRIL 12, 2018

Objectively reviewing your finances is important, and this is a prerequisite to creating a forecast. You can track your most important financials in Excel spreadsheets, but using a business dashboard tool that integrates with your accounting software can make it easier and help you avoid doing double data entry. Show and tell.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2020

In addition to being the startup entrepreneur, there are other key roles where Boomers can be a force in driving successful startups, in concert with leaders from Gen-X and Gen-Y: Early-stage angel investors. Software and hardware development architects and designers. All the learning from parenting pays big dividends here.

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Advisory Board Startup Dividend Angel Investor 312

The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2022

It’s not just the hardware product design process and all of what this entails – from developing and testing a prototype, to engineering the mechanics, electronics and software, to setting the product up for manufacturing. certified test equipment and test environment) results available for governing agency review.

Design 132

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2011

A while back I received a discouraging note from an entrepreneur with a patent and a medical software application who couldn’t find a dime of investment, and was grousing that seed funding just wasn’t available anymore. Failure to prepare for due diligence. Not doing due diligence on the funding source.

Software Review 246

Software Review Due Diligence Elevator Pitch Early Stage 246

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 19, 2013

The era of VCs investing in successful consumer Internet startups such as eBay led to a belief system that seemed to permeate many enterprise software startups that hiring sales or implementation people was a bad thing. We only want software revenue.” We prefer to sell software, not get involved with client systems.”

Technical Review 403

Technical Review Software Review Startup API 403

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 31, 2020

In addition, not everyone has the privilege of having a real personal assistant due to high costs. Due to advancements in technology, assistants are now becoming a common good — even for businesses — and are no longer limited to the high-earners. This is something that we will probably not see within the next 15 years.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 22, 2021

In preparing to write his acclaimed book David and Goliath , Malcolm Gladwell recalls an encounter with a software programming legend named Vivek Ranadivé. How is the company culture, in its early stages, set up to process a setback ? Likewise, how does the team grapple with an undesirable outcome?

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Early Stage Technical Review Software Review Algorithm 133

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

While the success of a product is heavily dependent upon value, it’s not uncommon for many to fail in their very early stages—this is especially true with little funding, research, and long-term planning. Detractors – who are unhappy users that may damage your brand through negative reviews.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2019

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. In the early days (20 years ago), most new e-commerce sites cost a million dollars to set up.

Intellectual Property 219

Intellectual Property Technical Review Startup Incubator 219

NZ Entrepreneur

MAY 31, 2021

The Angel Association of New Zealand ( AANZ ) is co-hosting with New Zealand Growth Capital Partners ( NZGCP ) a series of workshops on early-stage investment. Jason Graham from Movac provided an early-stage venture capital fund perspective, detailing 35 investments made across 5 funds and 22 years.

Portfolio 81

Portfolio New Zealand Management Technical Review 81

NZ Entrepreneur

AUGUST 4, 2021

Again, use this as an opportunity to pique their interest – and ultimately, land follow-up meetings or enter due diligence. Due diligence, information memorandums & data rooms. Now that you’ve got investors undergoing due diligence, you must secure a lead investor. Lead investors and term sheets.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2010

Yesterday I received a discouraging note from an entrepreneur with a patent and a medical software application who couldn’t find a dime of investment, and was grousing that seed funding just wasn’t available anymore. Failure to prepare for due diligence. Not doing due diligence on the funding source.

Software Review 239

Software Review Due Diligence Elevator Pitch Startup 239

Up and Running

AUGUST 8, 2018

But, here at Palo Alto Software, we’ve found one meeting that is simply indispensable. This meeting is our monthly plan review meeting. Instead, it’s an ongoing process where we are constantly reviewing our process and adjusting course as necessary while ensuring that we’re staying on track toward our larger goals.

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Software Review Business Plan Product Forecast 65

View from Seed

JULY 5, 2022

We’re excited to back Caesar, which is creating the software layer that has the potential to become the “system of record” and primary business intelligence application for corporate ESG data.” RH: What’s your favorite thing about being an early-stage founder? ” – Lee Hower. And your least?

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DC Software Review Government Boston 156

Gust

DECEMBER 22, 2011

It’s possible to have a company with literally millions of customers (users) that employs only a handful of people, working in a small rented office, with hardware and software costing in the tens of thousands rather than millions of dollars. Most of our early-stage startup clients fit this description.

Intellectual Property 149

Intellectual Property Technical Review Software Review IP 149

Gust

DECEMBER 13, 2012

A good list of just about everything you could possibly want to have in your arsenal is listed in the answer to What materials or software should I use to pitch a VC? If you are going around personally to talk to potential high net worth investor to whom you have an introduction, you probably don’t need a video.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Indeed, Silicon Valley was born as a center for weapon systems development and its software and silicon helped end the Cold War. And from then on, innovation in semiconductors, supercomputers, and software would be driven by startups, not the government. Some of the speed is simply due to development methodologies.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 19, 2012

I was talking with an early-stage founder who has a product vision and wants to get it built. It's the same as when I've created financial models and then have it reviewed by a hard-core CFO, sophisticated investor or similar kind of expert. He is not a technical person, but is somewhat web savvy. I know how it feels.

Developer 354

Developer Technical Review Fractional CTO Software Review 354

NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Both of these liquidity options are about seeing the venture on to its next stage of value creation, while enabling those very early stage investors to recover their capital to deploy in the next generation of startup companies. Take part in startup investment due diligence. This equity will vest over 2-3 years.

Technical Review 88

Technical Review Software Review New Zealand Due Diligence 88

Up and Running

JULY 28, 2022

Still, you can use accounting software or work with a tax professional. The right time for drafting a founders agreement is in the early stages of business. A company handbook is a collection of information regarding a company’s values, policies, mission, and code of conduct. Secure your intellectual property.

Small Business 167

Small Business Intellectual Property Cofounder Software Review 167

The Startup Magazine

JULY 1, 2019

What you may not know is that 82% fail due to poor cash flow management, according to a study by a US Bank. In their study, they found that most businesses fail due to poor understanding of cash flow and lack of a well-developed business plan. Accounting Software. In such cases, accounting software will do just fine.

CPA 70

CPA Software Review Bankruptcy Early Stage 70

View from Seed

APRIL 27, 2020

Trying to be transparent has always been a core value of NextView, and we hope that this will help founders and our co-investors better understand how we intend to operate in the early stage ecosystem in the next several years. . Number of Investments. Thematically, we are doubling down on our focus on the Everyday Economy.

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Cofounder Software Review Portfolio Technical Review 194

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. Defections of large swaths of talented employees due to low morale. Mentorship.

Technical Review 325

Technical Review Early Stage Software Review Los Angeles 325

Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

I led the seed round not long ago for an Austin-based SaaS company that had all of the qualities I look for in a software investment?—?a a founding team with deep domain expertise, novel technology, and rabid early adopters. The startup founder had a notable coastal VC firm that they really wanted in the round.

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Austin Technical Review Software Review Early Stage 63

ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

Any custom manufactured IoT device would require software development as well as hardware customization. These usually play a role in the very early stage of your business, primarily pre-revenue. The seed stage is focused on building the core team, product optimization, exploring avenues for monetization. ? Early-stage.

Startup 150

Startup Entrepreneur Elevator Pitch Seed Stage 150

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2014

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. In the early days (20 years ago), most new e-commerce sites cost a million dollars to set up.

Entrepreneur 283

Entrepreneur Intellectual Property Technical Review Incubator 283

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2017

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. In the early days (20 years ago), most new e-commerce sites cost a million dollars to set up.

Product Development 177

Product Development Cost Developer Product 177

Up and Running

OCTOBER 28, 2022

And there are often many unexpected expenses in the early stages of a new venture. Office space, equipment, software, and talent are the most obvious, but you’ll also need tax help, general counsel, and marketing (among other services) to get operations off the ground. There will be expenses that require estimations.

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Cost Startup Early Stage Vesting 138

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

I’ve been having discussions with several people recently about the role of the CTO (Chief Technology Officer) in very early stage companies. However, I’ve now begun questioning how and what an early-stage / startup CTO should be. It makes this early stage challenging. How can we address this risk?

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CTO Fractional CTO CTO Hire Technical Review 225

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 23, 2012

I recommend that every early-stage startup find three Advisory Board members. For example, if your startup is building a high-tech software product, a dream team of advisors would be a former CEO or high-level exec in another software company, a former software marketing executive, and a former financial executive.

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