David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance. Bigfoot Capital.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Henrik Werdelin , the Managing Partner of Prehype , a venture development firm based in New York City that has helped build companies like Tradable , Barkbox , FancyHands , Basno and Path , says recreating Twitter isn’t necessarily difficult, but the layered features will take time to get right. 1) Twitter. 3) Facebook.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2019

As part of The Startup Magazine Founder Interview Series , we interviewed Mr. Felix Shipkevich. As founder of Shipkevich PLLC, I often deal with financial technology issues and have a long history studying and understanding how financial technology, its legal aspects and regulations impact my clients. LinkedIn: FelixShipkevich.

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www.startuplessonslearned.com

MAY 4, 2012

Founders Dilemmas: Equity Splits. The following is an excerpt from HBS Professor Noam Wasserman’s new book, The Founders Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup. On average, the founders who keep the most control over their company make the least amount of money. Lessons Learned.

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David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

Managers of VC funds typically want to grow their business aggressively, just like the founders we back. Among the sites we have found most helpful with practical guides for founders: Biztree , First Search , Foundersuite , Goodwin Founders Workbench , Guides.co , Inc.com , and StartupRocket. . Previously posted on PEHub.

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Scott Edward Walker

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

For nearly eight of those years I worked at two prominent law firms in New York City, where I predominately handled major M&A transactions. Based on the foregoing experience, I am providing three basic tips to founders in connection with doing deals. Tip #1 – Create a Competitive Environment. the money).

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David Teten

MAY 9, 2012

We are in the midst of two great disruptions to American business: the internet’s ongoing disruption of most traditional industries: finance, healthcare, retail, finance, fashion, etc. the shift of America to a majority minority country by 2050.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

In the summer of 2015, our co-founder/managing editor, Stephanie Choporis, was a graduate student at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and tasked with the following assignment: develop an idea for a new media product. Team Info: Co-Founder/Managing Editor: Stephanie Choporis. Sounds like a great team.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

I learned this painful reality firsthand in one of my early businesses producing New York City theater. Like the owner or founder of a business, highly engaged people go to work each day for the difference they are hoping to make. Manage your finances and fuel your purpose.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 13, 2014

The candidates vied for a position described to offer 135-hour workweeks, no vacations, no breaks no pay, and required degrees in medicine, the culinary arts and finance. Stacy quickly made her way from her Atlanta home to her father in New York City. There are 85 million mothers in the United States.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 2, 2011

This is particularly acute in New York City, where you have several industries undergoing serious disruption, a critical mass of creativity from the cross pollination of ideas, and lots of capital. In today’s world, one of the bottlenecks we have to innovation is the lack of software development talent. So where to start?

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 27, 2010

The end result was dozens of kids across universities all around the city writing real, workable code on their own projects—more entrepreneurial than any of the textbook projects they were probably stuck doing in class. Teach ‘em Finance and Chase or Accenture will come and pick ‘em up 30 at a time. It was easy peasy.

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 28, 2022

The other day I was sitting in a New York City park, talking to a senior engineer who had an offer from an early stage startup we backed. It’s my opinion that the founders should be the one to share company-specific data, and I trust they are doing so responsibly.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

New York City is a tremendous place to be an entrepreneur. The City does not coddle, cuddle, or spoon, with the unsettling exception of morning commutes on the L train. As a founder on Day One, you are at zero. In a place this competitive, innovation is the necessary tool for progress.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

New York City is a tremendous place to be an entrepreneur. The City does not coddle, cuddle, or spoon, with the unsettling exception of morning commutes on the L train. As a founder on Day One, you are at zero. In a place this competitive, innovation is the necessary tool for progress.

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Scott Edward Walker

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

I’ve been doing M&A transactions for 25+ years (including nearly eight years at two major New York City law firms), and I wanted to briefly discuss an important issue for founders interested in selling their company: the distinction between strategic and financial buyers. What Are Financial Buyers?

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

2- Business and Finance. I am the CEO of Venyou and the founder of Money Therapy, my side hustle. We opened in Scarsdale, NY and the program was so successful that we expanded in 2016 to Rye Brook and 2017 to Armonk, all in Westchester County, just north of New York City. Photo Credit: Elizabeth Urenda.

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David Teten

MAY 13, 2012

I hope you’ll join us at: The Power of “Social,” Venture Capital & Financial Engineering: How Tech Startups Are Challenging The Titans of Finance . Co-sponsored by Harvard Asian American Alumni Alliance – New York, the Founders’ Circle, and Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of Greater New York.

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Haystack

MAY 4, 2019

And then, after a few years, I started to wonder — with all these new startups forming while all these huge growth rounds were happening, how would a founder even be able to recruit after raising a couple of million bucks?

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 15, 2012

What I do care about is that a person who is long on vision and has a knack for being around big companies early on is now living in New York City. Parker made a huge dent in the web as co-founder of Napster, then built Plaxo up to 20 million users. or would he have been convinced to take a financing round?

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Two Sigma is a technology and finance company in Soho filled with incredibly bright engineers and developers, so I’m really excited about leveraging that partnership in a number of cool ways. Most firms still have founders involved and they live fund to fund the way startups live customer to customer.

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Mike Michalowicz

APRIL 16, 2019

Doug Spurling, President and Founder of Spurling Fitness, and author of “One Percent Better” knows the power of building a great team. “If Mark Fisher operates his ultra-successful “Ninja Clubhouse”, Mark Fisher Fitness, in one of the most competitive environments in the world, New York City. Tip 3: Track Your Numbers.

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Early Growth Financial Services

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Michael Jacobson brings to EGFS his background as a founder, entrepreneur, and advisor to startups. His work includes building and leading high performance finance, operations, sales and marketing organizations for venture-backed technology, Internet and services companies.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 30, 2014

Some accelerators have themes or focus on certain business sectors such as education, healthcare, or finance. We used AngelList to learn about available accelerators and applied to the JFE Network, which accepted us into their most recent class in New York City. Our Accelerator Experience So Far.

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VC Adventure

OCTOBER 17, 2011

And I love the story of four founders, friends and colleagues for over a decade, coming together to form a business (sounds like the Foundry story). seed financing led by Foundry and RRE (there’s a great write-up on TechCrunch here ). seed financing led by Foundry and RRE (there’s a great write-up on TechCrunch here ).

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mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

Frances McInnis is a journalist and crossword enthusiast based in New York City. I suggest you never call this person again for information TheNameInspector The founder of Kodak was George Eastman. 38 New Social Media Resources You May. Was looking for something like this. He invented the name Kodak.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 22, 2019

He is a marketing consultant and founder of Menadena in lovely Keane, New Hampshire, a city I’ve actually been to. I was a financial consultant and a business consultant, so I was doing my start-up finance and strategy and even working as a CFO in start-ups and small investment companies and stuff.

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www.drowningamerican.com

JUNE 22, 2012

Well, I am not in the Bay area, I am in the New York city area. I don’t have a technical co-founder on my team but am apt in graphics design and have a lot of ideas bursting out of my head. To get traction, won’t I need the finances to market it? Spent a lot of money on that.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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VC Adventure

OCTOBER 17, 2011

And I love the story of four founders, friends and colleagues for over a decade, coming together to form a business (sounds like the Foundry story). seed financing led by Foundry and RRE (there’s a great write-up on TechCrunch here ). seed financing led by Foundry and RRE (there’s a great write-up on TechCrunch here ).

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Richard Witten , special advisor on entrepreneurship to the President of Columbia University ; and Kathryn Minshew , co-founder of the popular online career platform TheMuse.com both joined me in Sirius’ New York studio and shared their version of being knocked down and coming back stronger. Broken startup dreams.

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Scott Edward Walker

AUGUST 31, 2011

This is not uncommon, but I still cringe when I hear it (probably because I was trained at two big law firms in New York City and this kind of stuff typically doesn’t happen there). How should the founders divide the initial stock ownership? Which financing sources should they consider?

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

The founder of early internet startup Freeloader (acquired for $38 million in 1996) and anti-spam company Brightmail (acquired for $370 million in 2004), Paul went on to pioneer the ride-hailing space. In other words, what percentage of sales are available to pay for growth, and to reward investors for financing that growth.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

The day after the election, Alex Iskold (Techstars NY Managing Director) wrote a great post titled Dear Founders, I Commit to Double My Support For You and Your Startups. Work even more closely with the founders to help them with their financings. Help founders drive up revenue, achieving profitability and independence.

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blogs.hbr.org

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Sign up for events newsletters in your industry ( The Fetch and Charlie ODonnells This Is Going to Be BIG are good examples for the New York City area). Kathryn Minshew is founder and CEO of The Muse and The Daily Muse. Finance & Insurance. More blog posts by Kathryn Minshew. Kathryn Minshew. Competition.

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www.quora.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Type to Add and Search Questions; Search Topics and People Startups Startup Compensation Entrepreneurship Compensation Stock Options Major Internet Companies Silicon Valley Why is there such a large founder to early employee equity drop-off? The real question here is: why is it fair for founders to get so much more?

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mashable.com

DECEMBER 29, 2011

New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg has been trying very hard to raise New York City’s profile in the tech scene. The city appointed its first chief digital officer , Rachel Sterne, in January. That same month, prestigious startup accelerator TechStars announced its first New York City class.

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