Gust

MAY 11, 2014

If you meet all the requirements, complete all the paperwork, and submit your grant application today, it will likely be six to nine months before you see any money. In today’s fast moving technology world, that may give your competitor the edge, or your startup may wither and die waiting. Professional help costs money.

Seed Money 164

Seed Money SBIR Dilution Government 164

Steve Blank

JANUARY 28, 2013

In 2006, as a new employee of the Fortune 100 provider of wireless technology and services, San Diego’s Qualcomm , I volunteered to salvage a fledging idea management system (fancy term for an online suggestion box) by turning into a comprehensive corporate entrepreneurship program. ———-. The origin.

Programming 283

Programming Design Lean Seed Money 283

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

Since they don’t know you (yet), their first integrity check on you as a person is whether your friends and family believe in you strongly enough to give you seed money for your new idea. Network to build investor relationships before you ask for money. If they won’t do it, they why would I as stranger invest in you?

Technical Review 233

Technical Review Elevator Pitch Due Diligence Angel Investor 233

Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 14, 2016

At the same time, seed money is still abundant due to the proliferation of micro VC over the past few years. If we look beyond the cyclical nature of computing platforms, we can see that technological innovation comes in waves – with a surge of technological development followed by quieter periods of adaptation.

Technical Review 60

Technical Review Early Stage Portfolio Valuation 60

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2011

If you spent the 3 years perfecting some hugely differentiated technology IP that may also be different. Company 2 might represent an “ad mediation company” where the company gets paid by ad networks for running ads on publisher websites and the company in turn must pay the publisher 85% of the revenue it collects.

Startup 418

Startup Revenue Technical Review Flash 418

This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

How else can you explain this headline matching a story about a professional social network still trying to explore revenues raising $17mm on an $80mm valuation? The industry has made it very easy for companies to raise seed money through online marketplaces like Angel List, accelorators. Perhaps I need to rethink that.

Venture Capital 114

Venture Capital Marketing Term Sheet Software Review 114

Scalable Startup

AUGUST 9, 2018

High growth startup companies need seed money to get things going. They need the money to rent offices, hire staff, and establish their initial presence (website, incorporation, marketing). Your strategy is to create growth with little or no money. There are several great examples of technology startups that do this.

Technical Cofounder 20

Technical Cofounder Silicon Valley Early Stage Cofounder 20

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

GEW offers both virtual and face-to-face activities, ranging from large-scale competitions to intimate networking gatherings. “There are no requirements to take part – anybody, anywhere can find a way to get involved in events that will change lives.”. A list of the activities during the week can be found here.

Global 167

Global Non-Compete United States New York 167

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

This includes seed funding Automattic (who produce WordPress, the blog I use for this website) and investing in formspring.me, stickybits, Thing Labs (producer of Brizzly), KissMetrics and many others including Quantcast. So how is Mike able to do this at a time where others have warned against taking seed money from VC funds?

San Francisco 230

San Francisco Los Angeles Cofounder SMS 230

cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Interesting idea, but what happens when you share your idea with, say, a candidate for head of all your back-end and technology, don’t bring him in as part of the team, and then he goes out, takes the entire idea (including pitch details), and starts a competitor? link] What’s the right amount of seed money to raise?

Stealth 68

Stealth Startup NDA Cofounder 68

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2019

It’s also important to say that while many successful technology companies have been venture-backed--Apple, Amazon, Google and Facebook come to mind-- it’s not solely a funding method for technology companies. First, the introduction of seed money as an institutional form of capital. but globally.

Lean 108

Lean Venture Capital Conversion IPO 108

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 23, 2018

And Apple is famous for taking existing ideas (wireless networks, media creation, mice, mp3 players, smartphones) and doing them really, really well. While it’s true that you sometimes need to spend money to make money, the amount of money you need to spend is where things get murkier. Web search existed before Google.

Entrepreneur 69

Entrepreneur Startup Seattle Social Media 69

Seeing Both Sides

MARCH 2, 2011

I had the pleasure of teaching a new case at HBS yesterday on foursquare that I co-authored with Professors Tom Eisenmann and Mikolaj Piskorski as part of Tom's new course "Launching Technology Ventures". million in its series A financing and kept the burn rate at less than $100k per month to make he money last.

API 44

API Valuation Lean Burn Rate 44

www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Share this: net c# development django java language php software Were often asked by entrepreneurs which language their startups should adopt when developing their technology. Technology enthusiasts tend to get tangled up in enthusiasm for their chosen platforms, so wed like to provide an objective summary. PHP is insecure?

Fractional CTO 40

Fractional CTO CTO Technical Review CTO Hire 40

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

link] tenthings most business-grads are too arrogant to realize that they are selling technology, not hot air, so they need a tech team to build upon, not a product. I plan to use the internet as my networking base, and friends as my streettalkers. I plan to use the internet as my networking base, and friends as my streettalkers.

Technical Review 84

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

Campus Entrepreneurship

JUNE 3, 2010

This competition makes use of some Cisco technology so participants can interact while building and presenting their firms. The competition is designed to elicit new technology-oriented ideas from aspiring college and university student entrepreneurs around the world. Fourteen finalists will be announced on June 22, 2010.

Business Plan 34

Business Plan Global San Jose Venture Capital 34

This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 6, 2014

A founder will raise one party round worth of seed money and they''ll go teach a class on how to raise venture capital. Even if they have prior experience, they don''t have experience at *this* company at *this* particular moment in technology with *this* particular product. Venture Capital & Technology' Growth hacking?

Startup 147

Startup Venture Capital IPO Viral 147

pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

The numbers I’ve heard from most everyone is that only about 20 percent of companies that have gotten a seed round in the last year will be able to raise a Series A. I recently went to a networking event for one of the seed funds that invested in PandoDaily, and I’ve never seen such worry on the faces of the entrepreneurs.

Technical Review 93

Technical Review Silicon Valley Incubator Syria 93