Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

One would think entrepreneurs would never want less available cash – until such time as their competitors ridiculously and unnecessarily all raise $50 million in the name of a “land grab” thus making it much harder for your totally reasonable company to attract investors.

Software Review 150

Software Review Turkey Portfolio Syndicate 150

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

Early-stage investors in technology startups are only looking for growth-oriented companies that can achieve an “exit&# someday – either via selling your company to a larger company or via an IPO. And the CEO they would hire to come in and run the business when you go would always be a mercenary. Are we in a bubble?

Pre-Money Valuation 336

Pre-Money Valuation Valuation Silicon Valley Stock 336

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2020

It never hurts to start networking personally with all levels of investors early, but sending out teasers and business plans to every name you can find on the Internet is a waste of your time and theirs. You are now entering the rollout stage , with money required for marketing, hiring a full-time team, and a production process.

Angel Investor 370

Angel Investor Intellectual Property Investment Bankers Private Equity 370

www.drowningamerican.com

JUNE 22, 2012

Next → How we Hire for Sweat Equity (Part 2)… Posted on April 7, 2011 by Travis Biziorek. The first time we hired partners for Kibin was way back in late 2009. I’ve heard people say it’s impossible to hire good developers right now. I want to hire before I have the ability to pay anyone.

Sweat Equity 40

Sweat Equity Equity Hiring Technical Review 40

Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Hiring an expert or a coach to walk you through this stage can help you minimize the chances of failure although identifying the problem first can be a great way to create a long-lasting strategy. I admire Howard Schultz for using his thinking skills in taking over a company name where he previously worked as an employee. 12- Disney.

Entrepreneur 94

Entrepreneur Bankruptcy Southern California South Africa 94

VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

It goes beyond the change of name, to reflect the company’s intention to become fully metaverse focused within 5 years – Facebook is investing billions and hiring 1,000 people in EMEA to build their vision for our future online social interactions. No company has more riding on the Metaverse than Meta.

IP 206

IP Cofounder Valuation Acquisition 206

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

In 2001 companies IPO’d very quickly if they were working, by 2011 IPOs had slowed down to the point that in 2013 Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures astutely called billion-dollar outcomes “unicorns.” In fact, we just announced that we hired a new head of our Growth Platform, (follow him on Twitter here ? just to name a few!

Pre-Money Valuation 471

Pre-Money Valuation Valuation Venture Capital Early Stage 471

Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The signals are loud and clear : seed and late stage valuations are getting frothy and wacky, and hiring talent in Silicon Valley is the toughest it has been since the dot.com bubble. With Netscape’s IPO , there was suddenly a public market for companies with limited revenue and no profit. Carpe Diem. Breathtaking Scale.

Internet 335

Internet IPO Silicon Valley Agile 335

crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 18, 2013

Thanks To Facebook, Strongest Year For IPOs Since 2000 With $21.5 Don’t Hire the Perfect Candidate | Lance Haun-Harvard Business Review – [link]. Logo Design: Personal Names | Abduzeedo – [link]. Good discussion about the tension between being a maker and manager … Becoming A Boss - [link].

Social Media 94

Social Media Small Business Design Media 94

Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2011

Today, the signs of the new bubble are the Linked-In initial public offering (IPO), Facebook’s stratospheric valuation and the rapid rise of early-stage startup valuation. Hiring technology talent in Silicon Valley is getting difficult, and the time it takes to drive across Palo Alto has tripled—all signs of the impending apocalypse.

Silicon Valley 330

Silicon Valley Stealth Valuation Mississippi 330

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2018

It never hurts to start networking personally with all levels of investors early, but sending out teasers and business plans to every name you can find on the Internet is a waste of your time and theirs. You are now entering the rollout stage , with money required for marketing, hiring a full-time team, and a production process.

Angel Investor 184

Angel Investor Intellectual Property Investment Bankers Private Equity 184

crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 24, 2012

Building a company’s culture and hiring – [link]. Returns for brand-name VC funds – [link]. Groupon’s Andrew Mason Talking About Daily Deals Site’s Stock Smack, Future Plans and IPO Regrets (Or Lack Thereof) – [link]. Why Email Marketing is King – [link]. Mistakes versus Experiments – [link].

Social Media 92

Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Mike founded GrubHub in his spare bedroom and grew it into the multi-billion-dollar online food delivery colossus that is a household name. Questions I ask Mike Evans: [1:46] Could you give us a high-level overview of the startup of Grubhub to IPO to what you’re doing now? My guest today is Mike Evans. There's a lot of reasons.

Founder 79

Founder Chicago Kansas Startup 79

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 4, 2014

It never hurts to start networking personally with all levels of investors early, but sending out teasers and business plans to every name you can find on the Internet is a waste of your time and theirs. You are now entering the rollout stage , with money required for marketing, hiring a full-time team, and a production process.

Angel Investor 232

Angel Investor Intellectual Property Investment Bankers Private Equity 232

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

So, if youre interested in helping avoid mistakes like that, here are the steps: Get a domain name. It doesnt have to be the worlds catchiest name, just pick something reasonably descriptive. If youre concerned about sullying your eventual brand name, dont use your "really good" name, pick a code name.

Demand 167

Demand San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 167

Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

“There are now more seed funds whose names begin with the letter ‘F’ than there were seed funds [in total] when we started our firm!” New GPs are hired or grown, and in several cases, the bench strength seems to be there. Also, a partner who is transitioning into a non-FT role going forward. In others, TBD.

LP 92

LP Early Stage Syndicate Syndication 92

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 20, 2012

Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley lead the IPO market because they are perceived to have reliably procured capital, at the right price, to hundreds of newly listed companies. Is your name clearly associated with a powerful value proposition? Do you have strong name recognition in your market? Bankable Advisors are well known!

IPO 154

IPO Initial Public Offering Naming Reputation 154

The Equity Kicker

DECEMBER 18, 2014

However, my experience across over 100 portfolio companies and my colleagues experience in hiring getting on for 1,000 people is that employees often don’t understand or value those options very highly.

Lock-up Period 125

Lock-up Period Angel Investor IPO Salary 125

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

Quick caveats: having fewer investors (3-5) is better than many investors (10-15) and PLEASE make sure you hire a great lawyer who has experience in doing start-ups to avoid pitfalls that will make VC harder down the line. Their name alone is enough to get meetings set up. Also, make sure that your investors are accredited.

Silicon Valley 291

Silicon Valley Ireland Technical Review Valuation 291

Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Bill Gurley’s excellent piece on Silicon Valley IPO Anxiety inspired me to take a companion look at the East Coast, particularly Massachusetts and New York, and evaluate the health of the local IPO economy and prospective pipeline. Yet, when you evaluate the pipeline of IPO candidates, the results in MA are less inspiring.

IPO 34

IPO Massachusetts New York Silicon Valley 34

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

I know he’s smart but you wouldn’t hire a Javascript developer to do your database design – would you? When we want to sell or IPO companies they’re there again. In Silicon Valley the name I hear mentioned most often for very early stage deals is Joey Tran from Fortis. Here’s a hack for you.

Southern California 318

Southern California Silicon Valley IP Stock Options 318

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2016

It never hurts to start networking personally with all levels of investors early, but sending out teasers and business plans to every name you can find on the Internet is a waste of your time and theirs. You are now entering the rollout stage , with money required for marketing, hiring a full-time team, and a production process.

Matching 120

Matching Angel Investor Intellectual Property Investment Bankers 120

This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 21, 2023

In other words, you’re one of dozens, perhaps 100’s of companies getting the same exact e-mail where the VC says they’re really excited about what you’re doing and they work with such and such partner and the firm has done such and such IPOs, etc. All they’re doing is filling a database. Do you know how I know?

Cap Table 78

Cap Table Term Sheet Database Option Pool 78

Steve Blank

JUNE 24, 2013

These opponents have their own name – “rent seekers” – the landlords of the status-quo. Instead of offering better products or better service at lower prices, rent seekers hire lawyers and lobbyists to influence politicians and regulators to pass laws, write regulations and collect taxes that block competition. Lessons Learned.

North Carolina 335

North Carolina New Jersey New York Government 335

Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 20, 2013

In another study of 212 startups , Wasserman found that it was rare for Founder-CEOs to run their companies in the long term; less than half were still CEO after 3 years, and less than a quarter of the CEOs of the companies that reached an IPO were Founder-CEOs. Couldn’t we just hire a COO and have you stay as CEO?”.

Founder 78

Founder Hiring Cofounder Hawaii 78

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Of the techniques he mentioned, I think four are fundamental and critical for any lean startup: TDD (or the even more politely named TATFT ) Continuous integration Automate your deployments Collect statistics The tools to help you do these things are getting better and better every day, but dont confuse tools with process.

Software Review 68

Software Review San Francisco Technical Review Continuous Deployment 68

www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

NAME THAT TECH TUNE. The company is hiring 300 employees in 2012, particularly software engineers with talent in key areas such as interactive analytics, mobile applications, internet scale distributed systems, high performance graphics, user experience and human oriented design. Small tech firms outpace big counterparts with IPOs.

Venture Capital 42

Venture Capital Seattle Cofounder Software Engineering 42

Gust

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Talented entrepreneurs are nothing if not resilient in the face of change: Market forces, competitive threats, technological shifts, you name it. Technology companies in particular, which often grant stock or options to every employee, can easily pass the 500 mark if rapid growth results in rapid hiring.

IPO 110

IPO Prospectus SEC Intellectual Property 110

The Startup Magazine

JULY 29, 2021

The SaaS startup out of Sweden was named one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies last year and has recently been getting a lot of buzz from music publications, including Billboard , for its pioneering work in the B2B music streaming space. Quality control?

Founder 158

Founder B2C B2B Audio 158

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

It’s easy to overestimate the impact of this kind of traffic because it just feels good to have your name and company featured. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th.

Audience 119

Audience San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean 119

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

They not only have gotten bigger but they have an amazing track record of funding the biggest names in the sector: Cisco, Apple, Google, Facebook. You don’t have a pool of thousands of Google engineers to hire when they’re ready to leave the mother ship. TechCoast Angels backed GreenDot should be a major IPO this year.

Silicon Valley 290

Silicon Valley Technology Los Angeles Southern California 290

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Names have, of course, been changed to protect the innocent: Hope youre well; I thought Id relay a recent experience and thank you. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th.

Customer Development 131

Customer Development Engineer San Francisco Developer 131

Steve Blank

JUNE 24, 2013

These opponents have their own name – “rent seekers” – the landlords of the status-quo. Instead of offering better products or better service at lower prices, rent seekers hire lawyers and lobbyists to influence politicians and regulators to pass laws, write regulations and collect taxes that block competition. Lessons Learned.

North Carolina 227

North Carolina New Jersey New York Government 227

View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2018

And they tell us over and over again that they just care about four things: Hiring and developing a great team. Here is who will be joining the NextView Operator Guilds (for full bios, click the link in their name): Product Guild. Pierre was also named to MIT Technology Review ‘s Innovators Under 35 list. Back to Top).

Operations 177

Operations Cofounder Technical Review Angel Investor 177

Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 27, 2023

So I could say, Hey look, here's some areas to focus on, or here's how you can position the company or hire some talent that's really valuable for them too. Like when, when Slack IPOed, I went down to Wall Street and saw the banner up there and it was kind of cool. So they really like that, right? But it, it was pretty nice.

Cofounder 55

Cofounder Artificial Inteligence New Zealand Analytics 55

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 30, 2009

I want to thank Techstars for putting this event together and giving me a chance to experience the scene, even if it lacks a name. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th.

Lean 68

Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment DC 68

www.mattbartus.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Matt is a lawyer representing technology companies through all phases of their lifecycle, from pre-incorporation, seed & VC financings, exit transactions and IPOs (read more). Do the implications of hiring independent contractors differ state to state? Thanks Casey! About Matt. Recent Posts. This and that. Venture Capital. startupcto

Equity 40

Equity Vesting Silicon Valley Intellectual Property 40