In the sidebar, you’ll see a section, Startup Resources , which includes links to pages where I’ve aggregated a bunch of content. Lean Startup Resources. Startup Recruiting. Startup Financing. Startup Accelerators. Startups financing lean startup startup accelerators startup recruitingI’ve never found a great system for bubbling up older content on a blog. It’s so transient. MORE
Bank, 82 percent of startup and small business failures can be traced back to cash flow mismanagement. Let’s learn more about invoice financing, discuss your options, and see why it’s so important. What is invoice financing? Should you consider invoice financing? MORE
by Anthony Coundouris , trade finance evangelist for ApexPeak. Alternative finance has grown slowly in these countries, because both are the historical treasurers of Asia. In Asia Pacific, the volumes in alternative finance have come from South Korea and China. MORE
There are many things that entrepreneurs don’t know about startups—and an equal number of things that they think they know, but about which they are wrong! Some common startup myths have frequently been debunked, like how running your own company will give you freedom (yeah, right!) And then there are those startup insights that seem to linger and gain traction over the years. MORE
If you are new to the entrepreneurial world of startups, you are likely confused by the terminology of seed-stage, lean startups, micro-VCs, and Super Angels. The good news is that he is all about helping early-stage startups. Early-stage startup. Lean startup. MORE
Fred once again delivers with his post Financing Options: Capital Equipment Loans and Leases. In this post, he talks about ways to finance your capital equipment without using cash from your equity financing, which is usually your most expensive source of capital. Fred isn’t a fan of debt, so this is a well considered piece on when debt can be useful in an early stage startup. VC Post of the Day financing fred wilson vc post of the day MORE
Your blog really is like a startup business. Startup entrepreneurs and bloggers have many similarities; both need to generate leads and sales to make and grow their income. Just as important, they need to manage their finances in order to thrive in the long term. MORE
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. However, Jane was in a position to invest some of her savings into the startup. MORE
While investors in some less well-developed startup hubs are still largely resistant to using convertible notes and some angels prefer priced rounds, according to SEEDCHANGE’S Kevin Smith, 93% of early-stage rounds in coastal startup hubs use convertible notes. MORE
Check out my financial strategy overview for startups, presented for The Design Business. This short video includes a good overview of startup finances including important tips and advice for startup accounting and finance. Have any questions about startup finance or accounting? Let us know in comments below or contact Early Growth Financial Services with your questions. MORE
I challenge any entrepreneur, for example, to define the difference between "seed-stage" and "early-stage" financing. Crowdfunding is rapidly becoming the major source of funding for seed-stage startups. Startup incubator seed funding. MORE
While your focus is understandably on immediate survival and how you can hit your first big hurdles, what else should you be thinking of, especially where your finances are concerned? But it’s much easier to establish your system from the get-go, rather than to try to roll over your accounting into a system at later date when your finances become more complex. So your company’s in its very early stages. We’re talking a skeleton crew of staff, minimal sales, and even less cash. MORE
If you are new to the entrepreneurial world of startups, you are likely confused by the terminology of seed-stage, lean startups, micro-VCs, and Super Angels. The good news is that he is all about helping early-stage startups. Early-stage startup. Lean startup. MORE
Full disclosure – any kind of financing comes with costs, whether it’s interest payments, equity, and/or your very valuable time which, as an entrepreneur, is the thing you will always wish you had more of. Purchase order financing. MORE
I’ve observed what may be an emerging trend, at least in some startups, that I find somewhat unsettling. But I think it’s important to discuss, particularly given today’s heady environment for startups. But I’ve witnessed more and more “playing startup” in recent months. MORE
I’ve written ad nauseum on this blog (see contents page) about venture financing so hadn’t planned to blog more on the topic. successful fashion people investing in a fashion-related startup). As Paul Graham says : By far the biggest influence on investors’ opinions of a startup is the opinion of other investors. Follow investor/startup people on Twitter (Sulia has some good lists to get you started here and here ). startups venture capital MORE
The most successful serial entrepreneurs in the world may found three or four, perhaps even eight or ten venture-backed startups over the course of their careers. It should therefore come as no surprise that an asymmetry of information exists, mostly gleaned from experience, between founders and investors in a venture financing deal. For more on working with startup lawyers, see Mark Suster’s classic post, How To Work With Lawyers At A Startup.). MORE
What I like to do, as I mentioned in the post I linked to, is agree with the entrepreneur that the option pool will have enough unissued options to fund all the hiring and retention grants that need to happen between the current financing and the next one. Then we'll do the same thing at the time of the next financing. If the financing is $1mm, it's not going to be that many. We've talked about this issue before here at AVC. MORE
Their suggestion was to write a series of posts that follows the development of an imaginary startup as the company navigates various events, focusing on how each event will impact not only the P&L, but also the Balance Sheet and Cash Flow Statement. They suggested we call this “Finance Fridays&# to bookend Fred’s MBA Monday’s – I checked with Fred to see if he was ok with this and his response was “Hell yes. Finance Fridays finance fridays MORE
The post is aimed at CEOs of startups who have at least 15 employees. If you don’t have a VP Finance on your team reporting to you, do yourself, your team, and your investors a favor and go hire one right now. I don’t care whether you call the person a VP Finance or VP Accounting. This should be someone who has been in at least two startups prior to joining yours. You especially don’t want someone who is trying to break into the startup game. MORE
Most startup founders do not have enough capital to launch their companies and need to raise money at some point. Individual investors who provide financial funding to startups are called ‘Angel Investors.’ Convertible Debt Financing. Let us assume there was a financing of $1.5m MORE
This is arguably the worst small business financing strategy: The entrepreneur develops what they believe to be a sure-fire business plan that can't fail. If you take the time to ask one of these entrepreneurs about their startup period, what you learn may shock you. MORE
It will make follow-on financings much harder and people will have to consider whether or not to do inside rounds. Startup Lessons MORE
So what I would like to do here is layout a more comprehensive framework for the pros and cons of debt versus equity and when you could look at each for financing your business. Therefore, this is often not the starting point for financing your business. Deciding how to finance. MORE
The greatest revenge is to execute like hell, bootstrap all the way, and do what we said we’d do – become Seattle’s next billion-dollar startup, and make the world of marketing a better place. Fundraising financing fundraisingRand Fishkin, the CEO & co-founder of SEOmoz, has an long, thorough, and incredibly detailed blog post up about The $24 Million Moz Almost Raised. MORE
Finance Grow investment pitch investors moneyRemember that an investor is not a bank, but is a well-connected strategic partner. MORE
We talk a lot about managing cash flow if you start a new business, but less about managing your own finances while you do that! How do you keep your personal finances (and cash flow) organized? Originally published in KillerStartups. MORE
What’s of course more relevant is: what does it mean for startups ? With super high capital efficiency, transparent markets, standardized investment terms, the rise of platforms, post seed chaos is the "new normal" in startup life. MORE
I've been on a mission to dramatically reduce the legal costs of a venture financing. But we are still seeing company counsel costs of $15k or more on venture financings even with our "no negotiation" approach. I'd like to see venture financing legal fees get to $5k or less. I am going to find out if we can use Docracy on our next venture financing to make things more efficient. MORE
Finance Grow employee stock options money raising capital raising startup capital stock optionsOne of the toughest compensation-related questions that founders and executives face is that of granting stock to key employees, board members, advisors or consultants. MORE
Marc Andreessen posted a tweetstorm last week and he talked about how to think about seed financings and how they lead into Series A and Series B rounds. I think of building a startup and funding it as walking up a flight of stairs. I think that’s what seed financing should be used for. Feature request for Twitter: Please make it possible to permalink to and embed a tweetstorm. You can call this the @pmarca feature. MORE
In my experience as an advisor to aspiring entrepreneurs, I often encounter the myth that an initial startup requires investors. Outside funding is not a startup entitlement. Flaws in a business plan are often masked by money, but ultimately will kill any startup. MORE
Series AA Equity Financing Documents Y Combinator and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati are happy toannounce the Series AA Equity Financing Documents. Their goal is to makeangel funding rounds for startups easier for both sides. MORE
Every startup needs access to capital, whether for funding product development, for initial rollout efforts, acquiring inventory, or paying that first employee. Thus “creative” really means maximizing non-bank financing. We all know startups that have been built on one or both of these. MORE
This post is the third part of a three-part primer on convertible note seed financings. Part 1, entitled “ Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Convertible Note Seed Financings (But Were Afraid To Ask) ,” addressed the basics. MORE
This means that in a data driven economy, areas that previously did not affect insurance and finance industries are starting to. Data Driven Insurance: Real Data versus Actuarial Estimations will change the approach to costing all forms of finance and insurance. MORE
that provide venture debt to a start-up often with the expectation that the start-up can pay back that debt with its next round of equity financing. When the equity financing market was hot, the banks got much more aggressive in handing out venture debt: they wrote larger cheques, made their loans cheaper, got more creative in lending, and extended credit to companies in earlier stages. News startup financing venture debt MORE
Launch Finance money starting a business startup lessonsHere's a look at key lessons we learned growing from zero to $1 million in revenue. MORE
I’ve observed what may be an emerging trend, at least in some startups, that I find somewhat unsettling. But I think it’s important to discuss, particularly given today’s heady environment for startups. The post Playing Startup appeared first on AGILEVC MORE
We compiled the top audience questions and answers: How is getting funding from VCs different from obtaining financing from other types of investors? This guest post was contributed by BJ Lackland, CEO of Lighter Capital. Recently Lighter Capital and VentureBeat teamed up to host a Fundraising Roundtable webinar examining fundraising options for tech companies. MORE
Finance Grow bookkeeping business finance money money management small business accountingWith planning, dedication, and an emergency fund you can prepare to weather many financial storms and build your new business into a lasting venture. MORE
Sourcing capital for your startup is never easy, especially when you are pre-product completion and before the proof-of-concept the traditional venture investors are looking for. Entrepreneur advice startup MORE
SeriesSeed.com Series Seed Financing Documents Blog Home Documents Blog Archives Subscribe 09/02/2010 Version 2.0 That’s because there are not that many issues to negotiate in a simple equity financing. Of course, one could argue, that I’m just not taking comments I disagree with (or that nobody cares enough to comment), but I am of the opinion that these documents represent the 95% consensus of what should be in a very basic set of equity financing documents. MORE
A VC : Venture Capital and Technology
JUNE 18, 2014
Marc Andreessen posted a tweetstorm last week and he talked about how to think about seed financings and how they lead into Series A and Series B rounds. I think of building a startup and funding it as walking up a flight of stairs. I think that’s what seed financing should be used for. Feature request for Twitter: Please make it possible to permalink to and embed a tweetstorm. You can call this the @pmarca feature.
Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 5, 2015
I challenge any entrepreneur, for example, to define the difference between "seed-stage" and "early-stage" financing. Crowdfunding is rapidly becoming the major source of funding for seed-stage startups. Startup incubator seed funding.
Feld Thoughts
JULY 27, 2016
The post is aimed at CEOs of startups who have at least 15 employees. If you don’t have a VP Finance on your team reporting to you, do yourself, your team, and your investors a favor and go hire one right now. I don’t care whether you call the person a VP Finance or VP Accounting. This should be someone who has been in at least two startups prior to joining yours. You especially don’t want someone who is trying to break into the startup game.
Up and Running
AUGUST 26, 2016
Bank, 82 percent of startup and small business failures can be traced back to cash flow mismanagement. Let’s learn more about invoice financing, discuss your options, and see why it’s so important. What is invoice financing? Should you consider invoice financing?
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 1, 2016
Full disclosure – any kind of financing comes with costs, whether it’s interest payments, equity, and/or your very valuable time which, as an entrepreneur, is the thing you will always wish you had more of. Purchase order financing.
Early Growth Financial Services
JULY 16, 2013
We talk a lot about managing cash flow if you start a new business, but less about managing your own finances while you do that! How do you keep your personal finances (and cash flow) organized? Originally published in KillerStartups.
Feld Thoughts
JULY 22, 2011
Their suggestion was to write a series of posts that follows the development of an imaginary startup as the company navigates various events, focusing on how each event will impact not only the P&L, but also the Balance Sheet and Cash Flow Statement. They suggested we call this “Finance Fridays&# to bookend Fred’s MBA Monday’s – I checked with Fred to see if he was ok with this and his response was “Hell yes. Finance Fridays finance fridays
Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 24, 2015
It will make follow-on financings much harder and people will have to consider whether or not to do inside rounds. Startup Lessons
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 16, 2012
If you are new to the entrepreneurial world of startups, you are likely confused by the terminology of seed-stage, lean startups, micro-VCs, and Super Angels. The good news is that he is all about helping early-stage startups. Early-stage startup. Lean startup.
The Next Web
SEPTEMBER 16, 2015
Sourcing capital for your startup is never easy, especially when you are pre-product completion and before the proof-of-concept the traditional venture investors are looking for. Entrepreneur advice startup
Business Plan Blog
NOVEMBER 13, 2013
Most startup founders do not have enough capital to launch their companies and need to raise money at some point. Individual investors who provide financial funding to startups are called ‘Angel Investors.’ Convertible Debt Financing. Let us assume there was a financing of $1.5m
Gust
JULY 8, 2012
If you are new to the entrepreneurial world of startups, you are likely confused by the terminology of seed-stage, lean startups, micro-VCs, and Super Angels. The good news is that he is all about helping early-stage startups. Early-stage startup. Lean startup.
Early Growth Financial Services
JULY 23, 2015
While investors in some less well-developed startup hubs are still largely resistant to using convertible notes and some angels prefer priced rounds, according to SEEDCHANGE’S Kevin Smith, 93% of early-stage rounds in coastal startup hubs use convertible notes.
Growthink Blog
SEPTEMBER 25, 2012
This is arguably the worst small business financing strategy: The entrepreneur develops what they believe to be a sure-fire business plan that can't fail. If you take the time to ask one of these entrepreneurs about their startup period, what you learn may shock you.
Version One Ventures
MAY 31, 2016
that provide venture debt to a start-up often with the expectation that the start-up can pay back that debt with its next round of equity financing. When the equity financing market was hot, the banks got much more aggressive in handing out venture debt: they wrote larger cheques, made their loans cheaper, got more creative in lending, and extended credit to companies in earlier stages. News startup financing venture debt
A VC : Venture Capital and Technology
MAY 18, 2011
What I like to do, as I mentioned in the post I linked to, is agree with the entrepreneur that the option pool will have enough unissued options to fund all the hiring and retention grants that need to happen between the current financing and the next one. Then we'll do the same thing at the time of the next financing. If the financing is $1mm, it's not going to be that many. We've talked about this issue before here at AVC.
StartupCFO
JUNE 14, 2012
So what I would like to do here is layout a more comprehensive framework for the pros and cons of debt versus equity and when you could look at each for financing your business. Therefore, this is often not the starting point for financing your business. Deciding how to finance.
Scott Edward Walker
MAY 15, 2012
This post is the third part of a three-part primer on convertible note seed financings. Part 1, entitled “ Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Convertible Note Seed Financings (But Were Afraid To Ask) ,” addressed the basics.
A VC : Venture Capital and Technology
MAY 31, 2011
I've been on a mission to dramatically reduce the legal costs of a venture financing. But we are still seeing company counsel costs of $15k or more on venture financings even with our "no negotiation" approach. I'd like to see venture financing legal fees get to $5k or less. I am going to find out if we can use Docracy on our next venture financing to make things more efficient.
Agile VC
JUNE 17, 2015
I’ve observed what may be an emerging trend, at least in some startups, that I find somewhat unsettling. But I think it’s important to discuss, particularly given today’s heady environment for startups. The post Playing Startup appeared first on AGILEVC
View from Seed
JUNE 17, 2015
I’ve observed what may be an emerging trend, at least in some startups, that I find somewhat unsettling. But I think it’s important to discuss, particularly given today’s heady environment for startups. But I’ve witnessed more and more “playing startup” in recent months.
Start Up Blog
DECEMBER 21, 2014
This means that in a data driven economy, areas that previously did not affect insurance and finance industries are starting to. Data Driven Insurance: Real Data versus Actuarial Estimations will change the approach to costing all forms of finance and insurance.
YoungUpstarts
FEBRUARY 8, 2015
by Anthony Coundouris , trade finance evangelist for ApexPeak. Alternative finance has grown slowly in these countries, because both are the historical treasurers of Asia. In Asia Pacific, the volumes in alternative finance have come from South Korea and China.
Early Growth Financial Services
FEBRUARY 24, 2015
We compiled the top audience questions and answers: How is getting funding from VCs different from obtaining financing from other types of investors? This guest post was contributed by BJ Lackland, CEO of Lighter Capital. Recently Lighter Capital and VentureBeat teamed up to host a Fundraising Roundtable webinar examining fundraising options for tech companies.
YFS Magazine
JUNE 4, 2016
Finance Grow bookkeeping business finance money money management small business accountingWith planning, dedication, and an emergency fund you can prepare to weather many financial storms and build your new business into a lasting venture.
Early Growth Financial Services
AUGUST 11, 2015
There are many things that entrepreneurs don’t know about startups—and an equal number of things that they think they know, but about which they are wrong! Some common startup myths have frequently been debunked, like how running your own company will give you freedom (yeah, right!) And then there are those startup insights that seem to linger and gain traction over the years.
ycombinator.com
MARCH 2, 2010
Series AA Equity Financing Documents Y Combinator and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati are happy toannounce the Series AA Equity Financing Documents. Their goal is to makeangel funding rounds for startups easier for both sides.
Blogtrepreneur | Entrepreneur Blog
FEBRUARY 3, 2013
Your blog really is like a startup business. Startup entrepreneurs and bloggers have many similarities; both need to generate leads and sales to make and grow their income. Just as important, they need to manage their finances in order to thrive in the long term.
YFS Magazine
JULY 30, 2016
Finance Grow employee stock options money raising capital raising startup capital stock optionsOne of the toughest compensation-related questions that founders and executives face is that of granting stock to key employees, board members, advisors or consultants.
Chris Dixon
JUNE 9, 2011
I’ve written ad nauseum on this blog (see contents page) about venture financing so hadn’t planned to blog more on the topic. successful fashion people investing in a fashion-related startup). As Paul Graham says : By far the biggest influence on investors’ opinions of a startup is the opinion of other investors. Follow investor/startup people on Twitter (Sulia has some good lists to get you started here and here ). startups venture capital
Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 6, 2013
Every startup needs access to capital, whether for funding product development, for initial rollout efforts, acquiring inventory, or paying that first employee. Thus “creative” really means maximizing non-bank financing. We all know startups that have been built on one or both of these.
Ask The VC
AUGUST 8, 2011
Fred once again delivers with his post Financing Options: Capital Equipment Loans and Leases. In this post, he talks about ways to finance your capital equipment without using cash from your equity financing, which is usually your most expensive source of capital. Fred isn’t a fan of debt, so this is a well considered piece on when debt can be useful in an early stage startup. VC Post of the Day financing fred wilson vc post of the day
Early Growth Financial Services
MAY 8, 2014
While your focus is understandably on immediate survival and how you can hit your first big hurdles, what else should you be thinking of, especially where your finances are concerned? But it’s much easier to establish your system from the get-go, rather than to try to roll over your accounting into a system at later date when your finances become more complex. So your company’s in its very early stages. We’re talking a skeleton crew of staff, minimal sales, and even less cash.
www.seriesseed.com
MARCH 2, 2010
SeriesSeed.com Series Seed Financing Documents Blog Home Documents Blog Archives Subscribe 09/02/2010 Version 2.0 That’s because there are not that many issues to negotiate in a simple equity financing. Of course, one could argue, that I’m just not taking comments I disagree with (or that nobody cares enough to comment), but I am of the opinion that these documents represent the 95% consensus of what should be in a very basic set of equity financing documents.
Gust
SEPTEMBER 29, 2011
The most successful serial entrepreneurs in the world may found three or four, perhaps even eight or ten venture-backed startups over the course of their careers. It should therefore come as no surprise that an asymmetry of information exists, mostly gleaned from experience, between founders and investors in a venture financing deal. For more on working with startup lawyers, see Mark Suster’s classic post, How To Work With Lawyers At A Startup.).
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. However, Jane was in a position to invest some of her savings into the startup.
YFS Magazine
AUGUST 24, 2015
Launch Finance money starting a business startup lessonsHere's a look at key lessons we learned growing from zero to $1 million in revenue.
YFS Magazine
SEPTEMBER 10, 2016
Finance Grow investment pitch investors moneyRemember that an investor is not a bank, but is a well-connected strategic partner.
Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 5, 2016
In my experience as an advisor to aspiring entrepreneurs, I often encounter the myth that an initial startup requires investors. Outside funding is not a startup entitlement. Flaws in a business plan are often masked by money, but ultimately will kill any startup.
Early Growth Financial Services
NOVEMBER 20, 2012
Check out my financial strategy overview for startups, presented for The Design Business. This short video includes a good overview of startup finances including important tips and advice for startup accounting and finance. Have any questions about startup finance or accounting? Let us know in comments below or contact Early Growth Financial Services with your questions.
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