YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 4, 2018

The die cutter also features a 300-dpi scanner, which means you are able to capture your very own backgrounds and images to use at a later stage. This ScanNCut is USB compatible and it already operates in the form of a 300-dpi scanner. The Advantages. The Drawbacks.

Technical Review 109

Technical Review Software Review Later Stage Stock 109

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Most new teams are geographically dispersed these days anyway, so paying rent for an office should be differed to later stages when revenue is plentiful. Operate small, but show a big-company image. With the advent of the Internet, the size and address of your office is irrelevant.

Equity 349

Equity Hockey Stick Bootstrapping Sweat Equity 349

The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 19, 2015

In the words of an alum from the 2006 cohort: Companies are joining YC at a much later stage. Today, most new YC companies have been operating for a year or longer and have customers and revenue before starting. That marks a shift in the YC investment strategy which used to focus on younger businesses.

Later Stage 60

Later Stage Private Equity Venture Capital Valuation 60

Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2014

If they acquire later stage companies who already have users/customers and/or a predictable revenue stream, they are acquiring companies which are executing. Often they have brought in an operating executive as the new CEO. Predicting Success or Failure of an Acquisition.

Acquisition 332

Acquisition Intellectual Property Silicon Valley Startup 332

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Replacing the founder when the company needed to scale was almost standard operating procedure. To continually innovate, companies need to operate at startup speed and cycle time much longer their 20th century counterparts did. And in later stage rounds an explosion of corporate VCs and hedge funds now want in to the next unicorns.

Founder 245

Founder Technical Review CTO Hire IPO 245

Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 11, 2023

He’s founder and CEO of Greenhouse , a ‘hiring operating system’ for companies which spans recruiting and onboarding tools for enterprises and SMEs. They help with issues of scale and growth, with operational questions, and even with things like purchasing and cash management. And they bring great resources to bear.

Private Equity 78

Private Equity Equity DC Leveraged Buyout 78

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2014

Marketing plans that worked during the early life cycle of your business might have to change during later stages based on a number of variables, such as the economy, your competition, and new products or services. This will enable you to operate day to day with a clear direction for the future. Take a free quiz here.

CPA 160

CPA Technical Review Later Stage Equity 160

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2020

Most new teams are geographically dispersed these days anyway, so paying rent for an office should be differed to later stages when revenue is plentiful. Operate small, but show a big-company image. With the advent of the Internet, the size and address of your office is irrelevant.

Hockey Stick 423

Hockey Stick Bootstrapping Sweat Equity Intellectual Property 423

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2022

In addition, huge amounts of executive time are required, as well as hits to key operational, accounting, and communication processes. Startups are typically run by a couple of executives who are reluctant to disclose via the prospectus and SEC reports all the decision-making criteria, operational financial details, and compensation formulas.

IPO 245

IPO SEC Prospectus Startup 245

Eric Friedman

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

I have been thinking about early stage equity and advisor grants for some time, including a post in 2016 , that I rely on and wanted to revisit. I have had a few founder friends reach out to me asking about how much equity to give to an advisor, and had some operators reach out asking how to become an advisor for an early stage founder.

Early Stage 103

Early Stage Equity Vesting Cap Table 103

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

In addition, huge amounts of executive time are required, as well as hits to key operational, accounting, and communication processes. Startups are typically run by a couple of executives who are reluctant to disclose via the prospectus and SEC reports all the decision-making criteria, operational financial details, and compensation formulas.

IPO 120

IPO SEC Prospectus Startup 120

View from Seed

JUNE 7, 2016

For an entrepreneur to grow from founder to true CEO, it helps to act as if your business is already at the next stage. Central to any CEO’s job is thinking through strategy and reflecting on operations, as well as communicating these things to various constituents. Here’s where board meetings can be so useful.

Seed Stage 120

Seed Stage Founder Seed Capital Institutional Investors 120

This is going to be BIG.

MAY 5, 2023

I understand that now, being an investor in companies that have over 100 employees, closing in on $100mm run rates, where it’s been a long time since I was a Board Observer and most of their interaction is with the bigger, later stage investors that came after me.

Later Stage 218

Later Stage Venture Capital Term Sheet Limited Partner 218

Steve Blank

MARCH 17, 2020

Here are a few thoughts about operating in uncertainty in a pandemic. Revise your sales revenue goals, product timelines and create a new business model and operating plan – and communicate them clearly to your investors and then to your employees. And what’s in my lifeboat?”.

Burn Rate 436

Burn Rate Startup Valuation Sales Cycle 436

VC Cafe

APRIL 29, 2020

According to the Covid-19 impact report by research firm Beauhurst: 5,070 UK companies are at a ‘severe’ or ‘critical’ risk 615K startup and scaleup jobs are at risk Later stage startups are at the most risk Across the board, tech sectors and verticals are the most likely to experience a positive or low impact.

SBA 124

SBA Technical Review Startup 124

Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

To continually innovate, companies need to operate at startup speed and cycle time much longer their 20 th century counterparts did. A few, like John Doerr at Kleiner Perkins and Don Valentine at Sequoia, had operating experience in a large tech company. When the speed of how businesses operated changed forever. The founders.

Restful 222

Restful Silicon Valley Puerto Rico San Jose 222

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

Scott Kupor is the managing partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he’s responsible for all operational aspects of running the firm. Coming from an operating role in a company, that can feel odd - that doing nothing is in fact accomplishing your objective - so that takes some getting used to.

Lean 108

Lean Venture Capital Conversion IPO 108

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

For those that did tap VCs, 90% were either Seed or Series A stage companies. Fewer established Series B+ startups shuttered operations, though the 34 later stage shutdowns exceeded last year’s 25. In raw numbers, 87 startups that had raised at least $10 million ended up closing down.

Valuation 103

Valuation Startup Angel Investor Dilution 103

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

He has grown our US operations from 1 employee (him) to a global organization of 75 employees that will finish the year with 8-digit revenues (90+% recurring) and more than 350% year-over-year growth. I would say the norm for many early-stage companies is somewhere between 6-10 in-person meetings per year. Have topics.

Advisory Board 365

Advisory Board CTO Hire Fractional CTO Los Angeles 365

View from Seed

MAY 18, 2016

At the seed stage, we typically have three-person boards with two founders and one VC — though as companies grow at later stages, five-person boards and ultimately six- or seven-person boards become more common. In subsequent rounds of VC funding, for instance, additional investors may seek/require a board seat.

Seed Stage 216

Seed Stage Cofounder Later Stage Government 216

Gust

JANUARY 4, 2012

Later stage companies have some additional concerns: What favorable impact could IP have for PR, marketing and investor relations purposes, or as an attraction to potential acquirors? It’s often possible to “ design around ” a patent to operate a business that achieves similar results in different ways.)

Intellectual Property 143

Intellectual Property IP Startup United States 143

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations. We are also seeing technology evaluation as an increasingly important part of LP operational due diligence. To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. .

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

David Teten

MAY 9, 2012

HBSAANY is comprised of New York City tri-state area Harvard alumni who are venture capitalists and other accredited investors investing in early-stage, private companies around the United States. Founded in 1970, NAIC firms invest in venture (early stage/later stage) and private equity (growth/buyout/mezzanine/distressed/secondary funds).

Venture Capital 154

Venture Capital Programming Accredited Investor New York 154

The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

The rest of Asia is still developing with far more angel and early-stage investors than mid-to-later stage folks. Singapore is by far the most developed behind those big three markets with government schemes attracting over a dozen early stage firms to set up shop here (e.g.

Asia 132

Asia Silicon Valley India Term Sheet 132

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

In venture capital in particular, early-stage companies are often operating in frontier industries, where the rules are unpredictable and conventional analytic frameworks may be misleading. ExitRound helps early stage companies identify buyers. 9) Time, market, and exit investment.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Similarly, my research on venture capital portfolio operations found that Portfolio Operator VCs such as Andreesen Horowitz , First Round Capital , ff Venture Capital , and Google Ventures are hiring unusually large teams and structuring them in traditional pyramids. I’m looking forward to seeing how they evolve.

Private Equity 114

Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Equity 114

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

You then draw the hierarchy of your operational and managerial roles. And lastly summarise all the above points for easy referencing at later stages. Then you give an elaboration about your app where you define every single thing about it. Now you design a sales and marketing strategy. Then you figure out all the finances.

Mobile 104

Mobile Developer Social Media Later Stage 104

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

People who think of fund raising as a “distraction away from the core business” fundamentally don’t understand that running a business comprises of: Shipping products, selling to & servicing customers, marketing, HR, recruiting, financial reporting AND making sure you have enough money to support operations.

Burn Rate 150

Burn Rate Cap Table Valuation Software Review 150

David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

Avataar Ventures invests exclusively in companies which fit these criteria: “$15 Million + in Annual Recurring Revenues; Strong Tech-Led B2B & SaaS Companies; Core Operations in India/ South East Asia; Open to Active Partnering.” You can always mention you do other things later, as they reach out knowing you are awesome at something.”.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Cofounder Venture Capital Deal Flow 78

David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

I saw “ portfolio operations ,” i.e., levers to enhance the operations efficacy of portfolio companies, become a standard part of the private equity toolkit. In a prior life, I served as a consultant to Goldman Sachs Special Situations Group, Carl Icahn’s organization, and some other very large private equity investors.

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Private Equity Silicon Valley Differentiation 60

David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

I saw “ portfolio operations ,” i.e., levers to enhance the operations efficacy of portfolio companies, become a standard part of the private equity toolkit. In a prior life, I served as a consultant to Goldman Sachs Special Situations Group, Carl Icahn’s organization, and some other very large private equity investors.

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Private Equity Silicon Valley Differentiation 60

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

Teten: How is the corporate VC model evolving: in how they interact with portfolio companies or the operating side of their organization? Corporate venture funds compete against their independent peers for the best deals by doubling down on their ‘strategic’ benefits, mainly access to the operating units of their parent companies. .

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Balance Sheet Technical Review Portfolio 60

View from Seed

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Analytics is about designing, reporting, and leveraging operating metrics to aid strategic and functional decision-making. These are operating metrics because they are not part of GAAP financial statements, even though they are critical for everyone from the CEO to marketers and PMs to make data-informed decision on a daily basis.

Analytics 149

Analytics Hiring SQL Forecast 149

Reid Hoffman

JUNE 11, 2020

Embedding individual performance metrics in team performance metrics is a central part of how Jeff operates, but he also concerns himself with setting a cultural drumbeat and making everyone feel part of the team. This is so important that I wrote an essay on how to hire a CEO as a later-stage co-founder.

Cofounder 36

Cofounder Leadership Metrics Later Stage 36

Reid Hoffman

MARCH 9, 2021

But I knew that there was a ton of work to be done to scale the business into multiple business lines, and that we would be better off with a CEO who was a grand master of organizational growth and had the product vision to serve as a later-stage co-founder. Sometimes, it’s not obvious.

Leadership 42

Leadership Technical Review Cofounder Later Stage 42

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 15, 2015

Lecture 14: How To Operate. Lecture 20: Closing Thoughts and Later-Stage Advice. Sooner or later, founders need to be thinking about the second and third product. Repeatable innovation, and a culture of operational excellence, is what will help your company create enduring value over time. 3) Who’s in your team? (4)

Cofounder 100

Cofounder Delaware Startup Technical Review 100

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 3, 2021

Growing a business is always challenging, but it’s often the hardest in the earliest stages of development. You’ll be operating with limited resources, limited knowledge, and quite possibly, a business model poised to change in the immediate future. Depending on which keywords you target, it can also be inexpensive. Email Marketing.

Early Stage 125

Early Stage PPC Retention Churn Rate 125