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Seeking CEO+team for VC-backed startup: Make America Functional Again

David Teten

Briefly, we think there’s a substantial market for a business which helps enterprises to execute initiatives which require coordination across diverse stakeholders, e.g., make a large sale to a critical client, or lobby for a change in regulation. This work is unpaid, as with any other startup at the pre-seed stage. A nonprofit?

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Seeking CEO+team for VC-backed startup: Make America Functional Again

David Teten

Briefly, we think there’s a substantial market for a business which helps enterprises to execute initiatives which require coordination across diverse stakeholders, e.g., make a large sale to a critical client, or lobby for a change in regulation. Once we’ve executed all the steps above, we go to VCs and raise seed capital of $1-2m.

America 60
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The Summer of Initial Coin Offerings

Seeing Both Sides

Instead I will make a few observations about how an investor might think about the impact of ICOs / token launches on the venture capital industry, in particular, and some of the downstream ramifications that need to wrestled with. Need for growth capital. Fuzzy Governance. But many are.

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The Summer of Initial Coin Offerings

Seeing Both Sides

Instead I will make a few observations about how an investor might think about the impact of ICOs / token launches on the venture capital industry, in particular, and some of the downstream ramifications that need to wrestled with. Need for growth capital. Fuzzy Governance. But many are.

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JOBS Act to Change Startup Funding Landscape

ReadWriteStart

IPOs by year, 1980-2011, with pre-IPO last 12-month sales less than (small firms) or greater than (large firms) $50 million (2009 purchasing power). The most important belt that the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act loosens concerns the amount of capital a new company may raise through the sale of securities in a 12-month period.

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Fund Raising is a Means Not an End

Steve Blank

If you don’t have scale as a goal then you shouldn’t be raising money from angel or venture investors, you should be getting a commercial or government small business loan.). • Search. These are great, but they are not repeatable by a sales organization. The goal is to scale. (If Why small amounts? Lessons Learned.

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Fund Raising is a Means Not an End

Steve Blank

If you don’t have scale as a goal then you shouldn’t be raising money from angel or venture investors, you should be getting a commercial or government small business loan.). • Search. These are great, but they are not repeatable by a sales organization. The goal is to scale. (If Why small amounts? Lessons Learned.