Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2013

Fast forward a decade, today the Private Equity and Venture Capital business is booming in China with over 1000 firms actively investing. Most of the early deals were done by offshore venture funds – with their fund registered in countries outside China and using dollars. Investing in China Today.

Venture Capital 271

Venture Capital China Offshore SBIR 271

Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

For example, you can barter for a service or you can negotiate payment terms or even equity for service. One consideration that comes up often when outsourcing is whether to go with a local or offshore vendor. Having managed a lot of software development both local and offshore, this is a topic I plan to write more on.

Software Review 65

Software Review Offshore Startup Boston 65

Steve Blank

APRIL 12, 2013

Fast forward a decade, today the Private Equity and Venture Capital business is booming in China with over 1000 firms actively investing. Most of the early deals were done by offshore venture funds – with their fund registered in countries outside China and using dollars. Investing in China Today.

Venture Capital 163

Venture Capital China Offshore SBIR 163

YoungUpstarts

JULY 1, 2019

You can even consider offshore forex brokers when you start your journey. When accessing a line of credit, you will keep all the equity within your company. But the smartest decision you could make is the one that preserves your full equity over your company and doesn’t force you to pay back the amounts you borrow.

Finance 127

Finance Angel Investor Offshore Equity 127

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 11, 2012

Here is the inverse, sometimes called reverse due diligence, describing what you should do to validate your investor before signing up for an equity partnership. Be wary of individuals or funds sourced from offshore. I’ve had startup founders tell me that it’s only about the color of the money, but I disagree.

Due Diligence 241

Due Diligence Entrepreneur Offshore Angel Groups 241

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

But when done well it can really help get a company going fast, professionally and without the founders having to give up much (if any) equity - or bankrupting themselves. The founders may believe they are onto such a good idea that they don’t want to give up any equity. Should I offshore? I hope the next one is ready soon!

Bootstrapping 41

Bootstrapping Offshore Startup EC2 41

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Here is the inverse, sometimes called reverse due diligence, describing what you should do to validate your investor before signing up for an equity partnership. Be wary of individuals or funds sourced from offshore. I’ve had startup founders tell me that it’s only about the color of the money, but I disagree.

Due Diligence 224

Due Diligence Offshore Angel Groups Matching 224

Gust

DECEMBER 27, 2011

Here is the inverse, sometimes called reverse due diligence, describing what you should do to validate your investor before signing up for an equity partnership. Be wary of individuals or funds sourced from offshore. Look for a background and experience in your industry, as well as quality and style.

Due Diligence 119

Due Diligence Entrepreneur Offshore Angel Groups 119

nikcub.appspot.com

MARCH 8, 2012

The sites to consider to find potential developers are: Elance - This is the original offshore/contract development site and has been around since the late 90s. Once you have put in the effort and found a potential technical co-founder, be generous with equity distribution.

Cofounder 40

Cofounder Web Founder South Korea 40

Lightspeed Venture Partners

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

She is looking to move production offshore where costs will drop to $11.36, but has not done so yet. He sought $25k for 15% equity in the company. The second time, on the show The Doctors, she agreed to give away her entire stock of inventory to the audience for free, and was unable to make meaningful sales.

Offshore 103

Offshore Equity Stock Distribution 103

David Teten

APRIL 13, 2021

Private equity/venture capital managers have a much longer duration than most any other fund type. In 2018, the 8,000 active private equity funds globally had a 15 to 16 percent annual performance differential between top and bottom quartile funds. Fundraising hacks for VC and private equity funds. No historical relationship.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Technical Review Management LP 60

David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Not surprisingly, the list above also is ranked from least to most equity stake in an investment for the investor, relative to the cash they invest. How would one set up such a startup to eventually raise capital from outside VCs, who will be wary of ‘dead equity’ (i.e., equity that belongs to departed cofounders)? The cliffs?

Software Developers 60

Software Developers Software Development Software Review Technical Cofounder 60

Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

This morning Seth Godin published a post titled Debt, equity and a third thing that might work better. 10k can pay for a senior offshore developer ($15/hour) full-time for 4 months. Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Think 1-3 person teams who release v1.0

Equity 42

Equity Software Review RSS Widget 42

blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

It's not a question of me being unwilling to work for equity -- I am. Also hire offshore devs to assist you in building your product. If there's a business co-founder with an idea looking to partner with me, they've flunked their first test if they weren't able to raise cash. Raising cash is an easy test.

Cofounder 40

Cofounder Technical Cofounder Founder Software Engineering 40

David Teten

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

This is effectively a sequel to my study of best practices in deal origination , published last year in the Journal of Private Equity , Harvard Business Review , Institutional Investor , and Business Insider. A team in California is already creating a offshore seastead for non-US citizens who want to build companies in the US.

Government 146

Government Technical Review New York Offshore 146

Pascal's View

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

IPO market and simply dismiss the American equity markets for emerging growth companies today as “no longer engineered for brokers & bankers to make money via flipping over-valued startups to retail investors via institutional cronies” (from Paul Kedrosky’s blog). And then there are those who look at the broken U.S.

Delaware 37

Delaware IPO Venture Capital Private Equity 37

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2013

He believes that one of the financial metrics taught at business schools and reinforced by Wall Street has accelerated offshoring of industries. But “on capital employed” encourages companies to push more off balance sheet and thus into offshore & outsourced situations. He spoke about ROCE (return on capital employed).

Bankruptcy 403

Bankruptcy Offshore Liquidation Preference Balance Sheet 403

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 24, 2019

But assuming without a big budget it’s going to be more about sweat equity and putting in the time to create great content. Quite often when you’re offshoring and producing in another country there will be a proposal from the factory. Jules Pieri: Here’s an example where it often gets skipped.

Product 61

Product Sweat Equity Naming SEO 61

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Olivier Mougenot, Investment Director, NUMA Paris , points out if you start with an offshore tech team, it’s easier and cheaper to expand it than start a new office from scratch. Easier and cheaper recruiting, with less attrition compared with the heated New York tech talent market. Founders’ determination.

New York City 60

New York City Cofounder New York Startup 60

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

This resulted in a recapitilization of the equity away from 33% each (in my favor) and then the ultimate dismissal of one of the co-founders prior to the A-round. However, my two initial co-founders were not technical and couldn’t contribute significantly during the initial year plus of development.

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

In later posts I’ll get more specific on how to figure out if the folks you’re meeting are the right people to work with, and also how to deal with issues like splitting equity and paying yourselves before raising funding.

Cofounder 66

Cofounder Founder Silicon Valley Technical Cofounder 66

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Optimizing profit above else led to wholesale offshoring of manufacturing and entire industries in order to lower costs. The result was that by default, private equity and venture capital were the de facto decision makers of U.S. We ran our economy on this theory as a bipartisan experiment in the U.S. for the last several decades.

China 323

China Venture Capital Government Artificial Inteligence 323

sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Im a UX and front end designer bootstrapping my own products with pure sweat equity at night but always looking for someone else to partner with(engineer/programmer)to bring these ideas life. Dont make cheap skate equity offers, with programmer getting equity share of first employee and salary of founder(nothing or next to nothing).

CTO Hire 84

CTO Hire Hiring Software Review Technical Review 84