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Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than early projections and product development. Software apps that once required a 10-person team can now be done with the Lean Development methodology by two people in a couple of months.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 29, 2010
We received so much positive feedback from our This Week in Venture Capital show walking through valuation calculations & term sheets that we decided to do a Q&A show this week to address topics that entrepreneurs want to learn about. on the entrepreneur side of the table) when I raised at too high of a price.
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David Teten
APRIL 1, 2021
Almost every private equity and venture capital investor now advertises that they have a platform to support their portfolio companies. This typically includes: Relationships with relevant service providers in your vertical, often with pre-negotiated discounts: coaches, lawyers, accountants, common software vendors, consultants.
ReadWriteStart
APRIL 5, 2023
The last few months have been an unprecedented time for entrepreneurs and startup founders on the market. Figures provided by Crunchbase show venture capital funding dropped by 33% in Q3 2022 compared to Q2 and almost 53% down from the same time in 2021. The days of lavish seed funding rounds are over — for now, at least.
David Teten
MARCH 14, 2018
– Templatize the entrepreneurial process , by providing checklists, standardized agreements and other reusable code. – Build out low-cost force multipliers such as scouts , Advisors, Entrepreneurs in Residence, Venture Partners, and so on. – Launch a venture capital fund of funds.
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 30, 2016
In a flash of brilliance, we took our dial-up filter technology and built a software product that would run on any computer regardless of its Internet connection type. We had no experience in running an Internet filtering software business, but this didn’t concern us. The best part was that it was a blind review.
Feld Thoughts
AUGUST 25, 2015
In January, Jerry Neumann wrote a long and detailed analysis of his view of the VC industry in the 1980’s titled Heat Death: Venture Capital in the 1980’s. As dollars flowed into the industry, cooperation was replaced by competition, to the detriment of deal flow, due diligence, ability to add value and, of course, returns.
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