Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

According to the International Business Innovation Association ( InBIA ), there are over 2,200 of these locations worldwide, and new online versions springing up all over the place, like Founders Space in Silicon Valley. Peer-to-peer networking with other startups and founders in the same stage.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 6, 2014

Whether you’re considering hiring a new employee or as an investor whether you’re looking to do a background check on the founders of a company. And they have a general sense of reputation. I know that in later-stage growth equity deals some firms even hire third-parties who will do the reference calls.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 9, 2021

Looking back, I believe that Jeff is one of most iconic, successful founders and CEOs of all time. Jeff is also one of the few founders I know of who sets OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) for his board members. What I say is only speculative, but hopefully helpful and insightful. You can listen to the entire podcast here.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 2, 2012

“Vinnie was amongst the most popular and valued mentors on the bootcamp we operated earlier this year,” says Hugh Mason, co-founder and CEO at JFDI.Asia. “Jeff and Paul also both have great reputations for sharing their know-how. ” “The next billion people are coming online in our region.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

But there are notable examples of for-profit incubators that are thriving, including YCombinator , led by Paul Graham in Silicon Valley, and TechStars , led by David Cohen and located in several key cities around the country, that have an excellent reputation and track record. Mentoring and technical assistance from volunteer or paid experts.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2016

According to the National Business Incubator Association ( NBIA ), there are over 7,000 of these locations worldwide, and new online versions springing up all over the place, like Founders Space in Silicon Valley. Peer-to-peer networking with other startups and founders in the same stage.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

You’d imagine that every founder was getting rich. Actually, positive outcomes for founders are quite rare. As a startup founder you rarely have much money in your bank accounts. Maybe I need to do slightly later stage.” You have secret doubts about your co-founder. It’s not. I know, right?

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 26, 2017

With each passing year, we get another set of lists: Startups to Watch Founders Who Crushed It Bald VCs in NYC You Should Pitch When you're on the list, you're tweeting the heck out of it, very modestly of course, and getting all your investors in friends to do the same. So how do you get on one of these lists? 4) Offer up your own lists.

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Hunter Walker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

My particular POV is that piggy rounds, just like party rounds, are risky choices for most founders (and have my own obvious bias in this statement). Four months later, wanted to update the “piggy round” hypothesis with some additional data around large fund motivations.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

Previously she was Co-Founder and CEO of SNAZZ, a cloud-based event management platform. What are some of the unique benefits and constraints from the point of view of a founder? . However, founders shouldn’t take money from corporate VCs because of an exit expectation. Can the founders communicate well?

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 6, 2015

So, I was going to do a Five Question Interview with my friend Brooklyn Bridge Ventures founder Charlie O’Donnell but he turned the tables on me. Our “product lines” are Credibility (in the marketplace), Community (among Homebrew founders, advisors, friends) and Counsel (high quality and scalable). Brad Feld 2.0

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Gust

OCTOBER 2, 2014

You’d imagine that every founder was getting rich. Actually, positive outcomes for founders are quite rare. As a startup founder you rarely have much money in your bank accounts. Maybe I need to do slightly later stage.”. You have secret doubts about your co-founder. You’re where you should be.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2010

Because it is a “series&# I plan to get into some of the deeper complexities of funds such as “cross over funds&# and “why VC’s hate to price their own deals&# at a later stage. I believe these VC funds have suffered some amount of reputation fall out. That founder wasn’t one of your angels.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2017

Upfront VI is our latest core fund and is $400 million to invest in early stage entrepreneurs. A huge thank you to all of the Limited Partners who have entrusted us with your capital, time and reputations. The investment partners are Yves Sisteron (the founder), myself, Greg Bettinelli , Kara Nortman , Kobie Fuller & Kevin Zhang.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

I think it would help founders to understand funding better—notjust the mechanics of it, but what investors are thinking. And if trouble withinvestors is one of the biggest threats to a startup, managing themis one of the most important skills founders need to learn. Few startups get it quite right. Many are underfunded.

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Rob Go

JANUARY 10, 2017

BTW, once you are an investor, it will serve you well to continue to cement your reputation as one of the up-and-comers that is an established expert in this emerging space. A number of funds that invest in growth-stage companies have established sourcing teams that essentially cold-call founders and track them over a long period of time.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

All Unicorn participants — founders, company employees, venture investors and their limited partners (LPs) — are seeing their fortunes put at risk from the very nature of the Unicorn phenomenon itself. We have already seen examples of founders and management obtaining liquidity in front of investors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2012

Generally, the same criteria applies to venture capital investors, although they invest other people’s money, at a later stage, in larger amounts. This type of business is usually based on the expert skill and reputation of an individual or small group. First-time founders will find that most angels turn into mirages.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2011

Generally, the same criteria applies to venture capital investors, although they invest other people’s money, at a later stage, in larger amounts. This type of business is usually based on the expert skill and reputation of an individual or small group. First-time founders will find that most angels turn into mirages.

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Gust

JULY 1, 2012

Generally, the same criteria applies to venture capital investors, although they invest other people’s money, at a later stage, in larger amounts. This type of business is usually based on the expert skill and reputation of an individual or small group. First-time founders will find that most angels turn into mirages.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. Why was it ok for you to have no talent but a great idea and label yourself a co-founder of a company but advise against it for anyone else? and Google. fits well with Mint.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 3, 2010

Generally, the same criteria applies to venture capital investors, although they invest other people’s money, at a later stage, in larger amounts. This type of business is usually based on the expert skill and reputation of an individual or small group. First-time founders will find that most angels turn into mirages.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2010

They had an offer to be acquired for $80 million, which would have dramatically changed the lives of the founders forever. I’ve had the conversation of what will happened upon an exit with founders so many times I feel like a broken record. Some people assert that the later stage investors didn’t make a high enough return.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

I have these 3 ‘problem children’ that are having some difficulties (founder quit, product has no uptake, Facebook just copied them) but at least I have meaningful stakes. If you’re company is successful there will be plenty of chances to bring in strategic investors at a later stage when your company is more mature.

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