Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Planning for the future must be a regular activity, not just an early-stage or once-a-year event. That first burst of customers via word-of-mouth or a viral video won’t sustain your growth. Strategic planning is a required ongoing investment. If you wait for a growth crisis to kick off your next step, it’s probably too late.

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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.). Enterprise. Smartphones.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 13, 2020

Early in the relationship, every investor instinctively looks for some key indicators of the ability to get results, like the following: Communicates well in every business medium. Some entrepreneurs love to talk and produce videos, but hate to write anything down. Effective communication requires real listening, as well as talking.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 27, 2012

” He gives a nice little 6-minute video interview on Bloomberg reinforcing these ideas. No wonder there’s a growth in video game companies and photo apps. As I point out in my video. Most large companies (tech or otherwise) have two functions that make it hard to drive the most successful early-stage innovation.

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The emails I’m highlighting here are easy to set up and pack a punch – ideal for early-stage products. Today I’m going to show you 3 emails that can change the trajectory of your SaaS business. You’ll learn how to: increase your signup conversions by 15%. improve your “trial-to-paid” conversions. prevent payment-related churn.

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The emails I’m highlighting here are easy to set up and pack a punch – ideal for early-stage products. Today I’m going to show you 3 emails that can change the trajectory of your SaaS business. You’ll learn how to: increase your signup conversions by 15%. improve your “trial-to-paid” conversions. prevent payment-related churn.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

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. An early-stage investor usually looks at a return of 10 to 15 times.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

There are very few people in Silicon Valley who have such a precise grasp on what defines success of early-stage startup companies than Eric Ries. And there are very few people who so consistently exceed my expectations when I hear them speak. ” This week was no exception.

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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. a) they don’t tend to make great heads of sales departments and b) they aren’t the people you want early in your company. And in my experience Journeyman are not good in two scenarios.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 16, 2018

Apps popularly started out as a means for communication (call, SMS), which then evolved to a platform for content consumption in the early stages of data (news, MMS and YouTube), and finally to what we now define as demand services (food delivery, transport and e-commerce).

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

So super angel and seed funds are proliferating – As a result there has been an explosion in the number of amazing early-stage investors such as Softtech VC , Floodgate , Felicis Ventures , K9 Ventures , OATV , Lowercase Capital , Founder Collective , and many, many more. I have written more in depth on this topic in the past.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

If you have time check out the video (or download on iTunes – Episode 27 - and listen at the gym or on your commute!). And especially if you are dealing with early stage firms where partners might have different areas of specialization but they might have a lot of connective tissue across things.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Almost every day I'm talking to early stage startup founders (see Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions ) about what they plan to do. Video (and Audio) - if you have video, are you hosting it or can we use YouTube, Vimeo? Do you want Flash video, HTML 5 video, or both? Are there achievements and badges?

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 4, 2011

Almost every day I'm talking to early stage startup founders (see Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions ) about what they plan to do. Video (and Audio) - if you have video, are you hosting it or can we use YouTube, Vimeo? Do you want Flash video, HTML 5 video, or both? Are there achievements and badges?

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 19, 2017

The more team members you include in early stage brainstorming, the better. When presenting the points you want to deal with during the brainstorming, you can use online courses and include media resources, such as videos or images, to enrich the presentation and enhance the creativity of your employees. Group brainstorms.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 22, 2010

NOTE: In the video I talked about how VC’s and entrepreneurs decide the total number of shares at the first major funding round and why it’s often a high number. We walk through this in the video. Privately some early-stage VC’s talk about participation helping them to “juice their returns&# on smaller exits.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2014

Early in the relationship, every investor instinctively looks for some key indicators of the ability to get results, like the following: Communicates well in every business medium. Some entrepreneurs love to talk and produce videos, but hate to write anything down. Effective communication requires real listening, as well as talking.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

I hear tons of ideas for early-stage apps. 12m on a $60m for an early-stage business is a not a bet that most LA firms could or would take. If you really want to know how I feel about Snapchat then you need to check out www.snapstorms.com where I post short advice videos that I previously recorded on Snapchat.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Building your brand presence on specialized outlets holds immense value for your business – especially in early stages. Any brand wants to promote a culture and an experience to some extent, but in early stage-startups, an innovative product drives reputation.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 24, 2014

Working with early-stage teams : coaching, mentoring, setting strategy, rolling up sleeves: 9/10. I divided success into the phases of venture capital and 18 months into writing my first check here was my view (details on each in the link above). Sourcing high-quality leads : 9/10.

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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. each with partners as the lead.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 1, 2010

And while I’m at it, a great post by Steve Blank No Accounting For Startups looking at early stage score keeping. HTML5 video markup, compatibility and playback - Niall Kennedy's Weblog , February 8, 2010 The emerging HTML 5 specification lifts video playback out of the generic element and into specialized handlers.

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View from Seed

JULY 13, 2022

RH: What’s your favorite thing about being an early-stage founder? CN: I generally enjoy all parts of being an early-stage founder, you’re all kinds of free and perhaps really naive, which is just a really great mindset for innovation. RH: What’s your favorite thing about being an early-stage founder?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 12, 2011

He and I once took different sides of an debate about whether “VC signaling&# in early-stage deals is a serious problem or not. I think you’ll really enjoy this video , but as always I have summary notes for those with less time. I’ve also found him to not be dogmatic either.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 26, 2015

They have insights others don’t, they are getting into early-stage deals across the country that have become big but they backed the companies before others. And they have started cranking out super interesting videos. Honestly, they are a refreshing group of hustling, young, early-stage VCs and I love working with them.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 25, 2015

The key reason for the explosion in capital flowing into the industry, and therefore the large increase in practitioners, had nothing to do with 1970’s performance, early stage investing, or technology. Some were Silicon Valley early stage companies, such as Apple, Quantum, and Masstor Systems.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 31, 2019

Ten years ago, Ward Cunningham published a Youtube video that introduced the concept of “technical debt” to the world. by Anish Sebastian and Juan Pablo Segura, co-founders of Babyscripts.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 27, 2014

What you’ll see if you watch the video is an unscripted and unfiltered look into how Scott Kupor & I see some of the changes and challenges of the venture industry. Here is the video of the presentation that I gave that preceded our debate. Each of the two videos is about 10 minutes long. tl;dr version.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Bellroy follows this with a brief animated video that uses storytelling ( scientifically linked to emotional responses ) to describe common pain points and answer the critical question, “Why do I need it?”. Here’s a video on Twitter featuring their products being packed away onto airplanes and put through trials: Image source.

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Up and Running

JUNE 28, 2021

For example, you can implement an individual development plan by using the Indeed template in the early stages. Any platform can provide a learning experience, starting with YouTube for videos and Netflix for work-related movies. Today, video training is very popular. Online live training tools.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 22, 2019

almost every week in this area: decentralized encryption ( NuCypher ), decentralized wireless telecommunications network ( Helium ), and decentralized live video streaming ( Livepeer ), just to name some of the most interesting ones. . Wave 4: Disruption of what a firm means (pre-product market fit).

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Eric Friedman

JUNE 26, 2017

The default answer in the early stage investing business is “no” and this shouldn’t deter you from building your vision. Anyone who ever says otherwise isn’t being realistic because many great things don’t appear that way at the earliest stages. This entire process helped me continue to develop my own pattern recognition.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 26, 2021

In the past few years, several of his video campaigns have amassed more than five billion views, and 35 of them have landed on the first page of YouTube. He then went on to found his own business and run marketing for a number of early-stage startups. Biggest takeaway: Today everybody has a megaphone.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Users can now easily create: AI generated text (blog posts, ads, emails) AI generated code AI generated music Text to image Text to video Text to audio/ speech Text to 3D model Text to movement. The application landscape, while still in the early stages, seems to be rapidly growing. AI hype cycle.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

Though RBI will displace some traditional equity VC, its much bigger impact will be to expand the pool of capital available for early-stage entrepreneurs. . However, only recently have early-stage companies started to use this model at any scale. . So what is Revenue Based Investing?

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David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

As a globally focused LP in early stage VC funds, we at Blue Future Partners have observed a growing trend of firms investing substantially in software tools, whether developing proprietary solutions or adopting off the shelf tools. But what tools are they using themselves to automate their own processes? Methodology.

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www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Entrepreneur Homepage Startups Starting a Business Home How-To Guides Startup Basics Business Ideas Business Planning Startup Financing Success Stories Home-Based Business Starting a Business Play Video How to Take a New Product from Just an Idea to a Business (Video). Sweat equity is just one component of early-stage valuation.

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