Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

We spent our future since the equity was artificial. It is also a result of pent-up demand. In the following post I argue that this increased pace may be temporary. It affects even B2B companies because ultimately most must sell to companies who sell to consumers and if they suffer they cut back on suppliers. So why the ’09 bounce?

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The Next Web

JANUARY 27, 2013

Crowdfunding is the process of raising capital by offering rewards to ‘backers’ by pre-selling your product or offering equity in exchange. Let’s take a look at what equity crowdfunding looks like when compared to the traditional capital raising process. You spend more time pitching.

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 18, 2012

We want to be a social network. Facebook and LinkedIn are highly profitable free social networks, but I can’t think of any others. Four or five years ago the list of free social networks that were popular but not making money was equally long, but totally different. Let’s say advertising.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Investors like to see that you have committed personal funds as well as “sweat equity,” and they like to see real progress at this level. If your business is a new job site for boomers, you need to establish yourself as the expert on this subject in the press, on social networks, and join related organizations.

Intellectual Property 281

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2022

They need a large infusion from venture capitalists, private equity, bank loans, or mezzanine financing. Delivering a superlative experience is the only way to get truly loyal clients, repeat business, and expansion through social networks. Very few startups are cash-rich enough to self-finance aggressive second-stage growth.

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Mezzanine Private Equity Bandwidth Metrics 368

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2012

Investors like to see that you have committed personal funds as well as “sweat equity,” and they like to see real progress at this level. If your business is a new job site for boomers, you need to establish yourself as the expert on this subject in the press, on social networks, and join related organizations.

Intellectual Property 260

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Gust

DECEMBER 1, 2011

Notice what is missing from this list of priorities: The company itself – that is, a business entity, most often a corporation , that will own the entire business (however defined), issue equity to founders, take investment capital , enter into contracts, make sales, pay employees and contractors, and so forth.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 29, 2011

Finance Friday’s gets off the ground with today’s post by introducing you to an imaginary startup, the entrepreneurs that we’ll being following throughout the series, and their first challenges: splitting up the founders’ equity and addressing the case where one of the founders provides the initial seed capital for the business.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

The corporate entity lends itself best to the concept of “sharing” equity required by investors, and unincorporated entities don’t get funding. Reserve the company name on social networks to protect it. Line up an experienced team. Remember the old adage that “investors fund people, not ideas.” Define some intellectual property.

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Intellectual Property Angel Investor Technical Review Elevator Pitch 249

Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

Public investors, cross-over investors, and even traditional private equity firms have taken notice, further blurring the lines of what constitutes true venture capital. 1/ Social Network Interference. In 2017, we learned about how social media feeds were used to surface biased or planted information.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 28, 2012

Give up equity in your company. By doing so, you could save capital and equity, and at the very least, adopt the skill set to better oversee options #1 and #2. When I started my social network, I didn’t have any tech skills. This is the most time-consuming option, but is often the best. Doug Bend , Bend Law Group, PC.

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Technical Review Cofounder Founder Software Review 131

The Equity Kicker

MAY 8, 2012

Social networks (along with email and other communications services) are amongst the worst places for display advertising on this measure as most users are there to talk with their friends and are not thinking about buying anything.

Social Network 96

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 17, 2011

Investors like to see that you have committed personal funds as well as “sweat equity,” and they like to see real progress at this level. If your business is a new job site for boomers, you need to establish yourself as the expert on this subject in the press, on social networks, and join related organizations.

Intellectual Property 253

Intellectual Property Sweat Equity CTO Hire Fractional CTO 253

The Equity Kicker

JUNE 7, 2012

Last week I tweeted a link to this great list of annoying ways that people’s social networks get abused. But I also think that Twitter could have done more to protect me. My experience yesterday seems to be getting more and more common. That’s fine so long as the exchange is explicit and permission is given.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The $130 million Series D investment round was co-led by New York-based global private equity and venture capital firm Insight Partners and Hanaco Venture Capital. The creator economy has changed the way we, as a society, experience social networks. It’s safe to say Lightricks meet all of these criteria down to a tee. .

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Private Equity Developer Venture Capital Merger 145

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

His goal was to find a programmer who would come in as an early partner and work as an Equity-Only Developer. At that point, you can't really just try to find someone to build it on the side, do equity only, etc. Along the way, this gradually turned into hunting programmers in the wild. It needs to be funded to be successful.

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The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 6, 2014

It may be that teenagers are deserting Facebook and that their future prospects aren’t as rosy as they were maybe a year ago, but the chart above makes it clear that Facebook is in a much stronger competitor than any of it’s competitors.

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Social Network Networking Advertising Channel 90

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2015

On the one hand it denied Facebook from enormous amounts of web traffic that Google controlled at the time but in the longer-run due to network effects of social networks it made Facebook significantly more powerful. It is a really big historical decision that Facebook made not to have Google index its pages.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

The corporate entity lends itself best to the concept of “sharing” equity required by investors, and unincorporated entities don’t get funding. Reserve the company name on social networks to protect it. Line up an experienced team. Remember the old adage that “investors fund people, not ideas.” Define some intellectual property.

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Angel Investor Intellectual Property Technical Review Elevator Pitch 224

Growthink Blog

MARCH 19, 2012

Letting small companies sell equity stakes online would be a huge boost to those firms—like angel investing on steroids. Broadening the Base Currently, equity-based crowd funding falls under strict Securities and Exchange Commission rules governing angel investing. That hinders broad-based online fund raising in a couple of ways.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2010

Investors like to see that you have committed personal funds as well as “sweat equity,” and they like to see real progress at this level. If your business is a new job site for boomers, you need to establish yourself as the expert on this subject in the press, on social networks, and join related organizations.

Intellectual Property 222

Intellectual Property Sweat Equity CTO Hire Fractional CTO 222

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

His goal was to find a programmer who would come in as an early partner and work as an Equity-Only Developer. At that point, you can't really just try to find someone to build it on the side, do equity only, etc. Along the way, this gradually turned into hunting programmers in the wild. It needs to be funded to be successful.

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Fractional CTO Southern California Startup Mobile 296

The Startup Magazine

JULY 20, 2021

Betancourt Lopez put together a group of investors, including Félix Ruiz and Hugo Arévalo, who were the founders of Tuenti, a social networking app. In Hawkers, he saw an opportunity to invest in an up-and-coming company that had tremendous potential to disrupt the sunglasses market. Growing Hawkers.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 28, 2012

Give up equity in your company. By doing so, you could save capital and equity, and at the very least, adopt the skill set to better oversee options #1 and #2. When I started my social network, I didn’t have any tech skills. This is the most time-consuming option, but is often the best. Doug Bend , Bend Law Group, PC 7.

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Technical Review Cofounder Founder Software Review 79

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Abraham: As a company we truly believe in justice and a DE&I space (diversity, equity and inclusion) and help leaders understand the importance of diversity and inclusion of different cultures, whilst still creating a sense of unity by appreciating the differences. TSM: How is your company impacting the world/your clients?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

They need a large infusion from venture capitalists, private equity, bank loans, or mezzanine financing. Delivering a superlative experience is the only way to get truly loyal clients, repeat business, and expansion through social networks. Very few startups are cash-rich enough to self-finance aggressive second-stage growth.

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Mezzanine Private Equity Startup Bandwidth 244

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 7, 2017

Professional Social Networking Sites. You can gain investor connections from professional networking sites, whose aim is to help you connect with investors from other countries so that you could launch your product or service on a global scale. Private Equity Firms. Online Lending Platforms.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 9, 2014

Surprising Trends in Startup Founder Equity Stakes | by Tomasz Tunguz – crowdspring.co/1njnhbl. The Answer to the Organic Reach vs Advertising Problem on Social Media Channels – crowdspring.co/1rTUmdM. Why the social networks are falling apart | Computerworld by Mike Elgan – crowdspring.co/1mAjDIB.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

I’ve written on the expert network industry a fair amount in the past: see How to Earn More Consulting Revenue from Expert Networks and How Executives Can Work with Private Equity and Venture Capital Portfolio Companies. Previously posted at Forbes.

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Growthink Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

Well, for starters they focus vigilantly on building distinct and equity – filled brands and strong barriers around their customers. The smart, modern company understands when to marshal this force – in the form of utilizing contractors to fulfill bite and mid-sized projects, and when to resist it. How do they resist? What to do about it?

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SMS Software Review Social Network Equity 69

Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

For the last 10 years China essentially closed its search, media and social network software market to foreign companies with the result that Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Dropbox, and 30,000 other websites were not accessible from China. business models. The overall culture still has a fear of failure.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 20, 2021

Betancourt Lopez put together a group of investors, including Félix Ruiz and Hugo Arévalo, who were the founders of Tuenti, a social networking app. In Hawkers, he saw an opportunity to invest in an up-and-coming company that had tremendous potential to disrupt the sunglasses market. Growing Hawkers.

Viral 78

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

a part of an exciting team, building web applications such as social networking, ecommerce, games, sports, contact management, CMS and more.Re. San Diego, California) Jobs Comentum is a dynamic and cutting edge company.Be

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2013

Those at the other extreme don’t look up from the grindstone long enough to notice whether all their work is producing sweat equity or just sweat. Reserve the same names on the leading social networks and blogs. Starting a business may be fun, but it’s not easy. Marketing is top priority. Start even before the product is ready.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2012

Those at the other extreme don’t look up from the grindstone long enough to notice whether all their work is producing sweat equity or just sweat. Reserve the same names on the leading social networks and blogs. Starting a business may be fun, but it’s not easy. Marketing is top priority. Start even before the product is ready.

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Sweat Equity Intellectual Property Entrepreneur Viral 256

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 22, 2012

Barter services and use equity to get things done for minimum cash. Reserve the same names on the leading social networks and blogs. Make every effort to do things “in house”, rather than rely on outside services, accountants, and law firms. Create intellectual property.

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Intellectual Property Entrepreneur Social Network Naming 247