David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

Jonathan Bragdon , CEO, describes Capacity as “a team of founders-turned-funders making non-dilutive, founder-aligned investments of $50-$300k in post-startup, post-revenue businesses planning to 2X revenues in 12-24 months. GCVF is pioneering the future of venture capital and high growth startups for all small communities.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Eighty some pages later I realized that a) I had some great war stories as a good marketeer and failed CEO, b) I’d have to pay my wife and kids to read them, c) the three of them were probably the entire total available market, and d) when I looked at what I had done and what other entrepreneurs had done at their startups, that there was a pattern.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 22, 2010

And for some strange reason entrepreneurs didn’t share this information. I’ve started from day one trying to build total transparency into my process with entrepreneurs. This starts with understanding how VCs and entrepreneurs often see valuation differently. Back then VentureHacks didn’t exist.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2011

tl;dr version: If you’re an entrepreneur or VC or will be working in this industry - buy this. When I first started as a startup CEO in 1999 there were no guides on raising venture capital. Redemption rights? – entrepreneurs never seem to focus on anything other than ownership percentage. Drag along rights?

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Up and Running

JUNE 14, 2017

Almost on a weekly basis, I meet new aspiring entrepreneurs looking to execute on their ideas. In both scenarios, it seems that startup venture initiation and idea validation are strictly dependent on the app. The best entrepreneurs are able to get at interviewees’ real intentions. Testing: The approach that makes sense.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 8, 2014

Redemption is all around us every wherever we look, whether as a plot-line in a movie or in the world of politics. Entrepreneurs make mistakes every single day, many of them completely unforced errors. Related posts: Small Business and Startups: Thinking About Business Plans (again). Mom told us to learn from our mistakes.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 21, 2015

See Also: The Year’s 10 Best Movies for Entrepreneurs. See Also: 7 Startup Lessons from an Inspiring Entrepreneur. This year, Bradley Cooper takes on a similar role as a head-chef looking for redemption. Everyone’s tastes are different, but I’m sure there are two or three on this list you’ll enjoy. Inspirational films.

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Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. In addition, Groupon has a favorable cash cycle as they collect cash up front from consumers but don’t have to pay merchants for awhile (in US typically 60 days, int’l usually upon consumer redemption). Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 30, 2015

When raising your first round of capital, there are a few common mistakes many entrepreneurs make. I’ve been lucky enough to screw up by both funding my startup too early and too late. I then signed off on an ugly redemption clause without analyzing the waterfall in an average exit scenario. Raising too early or too late.

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Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 14, 2010

My general opinion is that anything that makes the financing process faster and easier or otherwise educates entrepreneurs is a good thing. (A In addition, I think that a “peace treaty&# between early-stage investors and startup companies on standard terms (at least at a term sheet level) is a step in the right direction.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2011

My third story is about Failure and Redemption. Endlessly curious, I went from startups in military intelligence to microprocessors to supercomputers to video games. As time went on, I was a co-founder or member of the starting team for six high-tech startups…. With every startup came increasing responsibility.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 20, 2015

The most glorious media story arc is rags to riches to rags with redemption back to riches. Great startup communities work the same way. Whenever someone introduces me as the leader of …, the king of …, or the creator of the Boulder Startup Community, I cringe and go into a rant about how I’m not that.

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Scott Edward Walker

JULY 11, 2011

I’m using Twitter as a form of micro-blogging to share interesting blog posts, articles and podcasts relating to entrepreneurship and startups, M&A and legal issues. If you missed this past week’s Twitter updates, below are my five most popular tweets (via bit.ly ) and my blog-related tweets.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

When I looked at the diagram in that ski cabin I realized there was a fundamental question I couldn’t answer: if all startups follow that model, why is it that some companies are opening bottles of champagne at their IPO and others who almost followed the same rules are selling off their furniture? Were all startups the same?

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Scott Edward Walker

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

I have previously discussed this issue in detail, and the importance of choosing solid investors, in my post “ Doing Deals In The New Decade: 7 Tips For Entrepreneurs ” (see tip #1). Indeed, some very pro-entrepreneur investors, like Fred Wilson , do not require no-shop provisions (see rule #4 in Fred’s post “ Competing To Win Deals ”).

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

One of the most successful aspects of the Jumpstart our Business Startups (JOBS) Act was the creation of the EGC designation for growth companies accessing the public markets. This inability to differentiate between good faith technology entrepreneurs and get-rich-quick schemes makes the SEC’s job of policing this activity even harder.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 14, 2012

Although the entrepreneur doesn’t mention price on the show, the Cozy Bug website shows the dresses selling for around $20. The entrepreneur is seeking not just money, but primarily contacts with buyers at big retailers to get wider distribution. The entrepreneur made the right decision. WIRED WAFFLES.

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Scott Edward Walker

AUGUST 31, 2011

Introduction This post was originally part of the “ Ask the Attorney ” series which I am writing for VentureBeat (one of my favorite websites for entrepreneurs). Thanks, Scott Question We’re a startup based in Palo Alto, and we just received a Series A term sheet for a $725,000 investment. Any advice would be appreciated.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Getting Out of the Building Wasn’t Entertainment – Discovery and Validation Now that I was the master of the “facts” about customer needs in these specialized vertical markets , and with my team of vertical marketers , I thought I had achieved absolution and redemption. But there was one fatal flaw.

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Diego Basch

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

I read this story yesterday about a failed startup acquisition. It’s one of the big nightmares of an entrepreneur: Big Company shows interest in Startup. Startup day-to-day is disrupted during the lengthy acquisition process. Startup is now much worse off than before: less money, low morale.

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Scott Edward Walker

JULY 27, 2011

There is, however, another set of rights with which many entrepreneurs may not be familiar: State law rights. These are rights granted to stockholders pursuant to the respective laws of the company’s State of incorporation and are often the only rights that minority common stockholders have.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 8, 2012

Which, BTW, is a phenomenal rate of redemption in the universe of online marketing.). They are also smart enough to understand the ‘cookie’ strategy; in other words along with the valuable content they send me the occasional sweet goodie in the form of a coupon or discount offering. Target and segment.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Next month, I’ll return , Jason Wang’s Going back to prison as the founder of my own startup , Kobie Fuller’s (Upfront) How a day in prison could give you a lesson on judgement , and Kara Nortman’s (Upfront) Spending a day in prison lead me on a path of radical self-improvement.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Buying into such a notion is dangerous – dangerous for the entrepreneur and dangerous for the investor. As a simple example, many investors and entrepreneurs do not realize that coupon or discount use is a contra-revenue event when it comes to revenue recognition. You must subtract it from your top-line revenue.

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