Board Effect

AUGUST 14, 2023

Ensuring continuity of operations: The board should ensure that the organization has a robust backup and disaster recovery plan in place, and that the plan is regularly tested.​ When did the board last discuss whether the company’s disclosure of cyber risk and cyber incidents is consistent with SEC guidance?​ It’s about people, too.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 28, 2019

Don’t let an overly-specific name restrict your product offerings later. . LegalZoom also provides many related services and products that might help guide your new business in the right direction. . The purpose of the bylaws is to outline the basic procedures and operations of your business. In that case, use it!

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Delaware Stock Nevada Technical Review 83

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 9, 2018

They use the Business Model (or Mission Model ) Canvas to keep track of their key hypotheses and then rapidly test them by talking to customers and iterating their Minimal Viable Products. This allows them to quickly find product/market fit. Except when they’re in a regulated market. Regulation. In the U.S. In the U.S.

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Marketing Startup Government SEC 324

The Startup Magazine

JUNE 26, 2020

The early days of a business’ journey require the founders to pour their energy into focusing on getting their product or service perfected and out to customers in the marketplace. If your startup business has more than one founder, a Partnership Agreement, which is an operating agreement, is essential. SEC Regulations.

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Intellectual Property Startup SEC Stock Options 158

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 5, 2019

Did the former head of the SEC just join your board of directors? Blenders don’t exactly energize an audience, but that didn’t stop Blendtec from developing a popular YouTube channel around their product. Blendtec took its own “boring” product and made it into something for people to talk about. You must be the man (or woman)!

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Valuation Cofounder Metrics SEC 162

Women Entrepreneurs Can

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

They can also help you develop your product and sales channels. This is usually done through a prototype , which shows the key characteristics of your product. They also look for a robust business model and product/market fit. In addition, a startup needs to demonstrate product-market fit. Seed Rounds. Management Company.

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Venture Capital Early Stage Liquidity Event SEC 52

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Often I find that experienced investors scan ahead to the management page of a business plan, even before they read the product description. These days, with Sarbanes-Oxley and all the new SEC regulations, an MBA does not begin to cover the accounting, process, and tax knowledge needed to steer a company’s finances.

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Agile VC

MARCH 13, 2012

Patents and the threat of patent infringement lawsuits provide maximum leverage against a competitor when they’re in the middle of a strategic inflection point… a major financing, acquisition, or large product launch. Are they, were they, and the SEC were when a few brave souls were warning about Madoff to deaf ears?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

A few weeks ago, Coinbase , which facilitates buying, storing and purchasing cryptocurrency and also operates a cryptocurrency exchange, went public. Coinbase was founded in 2012 and operates a cryptocurrency exchange. But beyond its products, Coinbase is an interesting company in itself. And I actually really liked doing this.

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IPO Cofounder Technical Review Government 113

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 9, 2013

Often I find that experienced investors scan ahead to the management page of a business plan, even before they read the product description. These days, with Sarbanes-Oxley and all the new SEC regulations, an MBA does not begin to cover the accounting, process, and tax knowledge needed to steer a company’s finances.

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NDA CPA Startup SEC 237

Steve Blank

JUNE 24, 2013

The greatest number of jobs is created when startups create a new market – one where the product or service never existed before or is radically more convenient. Rent seekers spend money to increase their share of an existing market instead of creating new products or markets. How do Rent Seekers win?

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

After a somewhat disappointing congress in 2009, in which companies showcased products from previous years, this year is expected to be faster, greener and ‘cloudier’ Looking at the conference agenda , it’s not hard to spot the trends for 2010: Mobile Clouds – additional storage and new revenue streams to operators.

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Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 17, 2021

Greylock investor Sridhar Ramaswamy , who co-founded search engine startup Neeva , says it’s more important for startups to think about creating a product that is useful and resonates with people before worrying about whether a large incumbent is doing it. ’ Remember, you got to be successful, that’s a great place to be.

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Cofounder Differentiation Search Advertising 69

Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 17, 2021

Greylock investor Sridhar Ramaswamy , who co-founded search engine startup Neeva , says it’s more important for startups to think about creating a product that is useful and resonates with people before worrying about whether a large incumbent is doing it. ’ Remember, you got to be successful, that’s a great place to be.

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Mike Michalowicz

AUGUST 1, 2014

It is even supported – scratch that, required – by Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), which is enforced by the SEC in the United States and the International Accounting Standards Board internationally. Then the business deducts the expenses utilized to deliver its product or service and to run its operations.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

Often I find that experienced investors scan ahead to the management page of a business plan, even before they read the product description. These days, with Sarbanes-Oxley and all the new SEC regulations, an MBA does not begin to cover the accounting, process, and tax knowledge needed to steer a company’s finances.

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NDA CPA SEC Startup 147

Berkonomics

APRIL 17, 2014

Are you an artist with a new record, a new movie idea, a new small product to offer? Perhaps you can attract a large number of investors who just want to support your idea, or get discounts for your product. Hence, all general solicitations for crowdfunding must at all times flow through an SEC-registered intermediary.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 7, 2011

Often I find that experienced investors scan ahead to the management page of a business plan, even before they read the product description. These days, with Sarbanes-Oxley and all the new SEC regulations, an MBA does not begin to cover the accounting, process, and tax knowledge needed to steer a company’s finances.

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NDA CPA Startup SEC 233

Steve Blank

JUNE 24, 2013

The greatest number of jobs is created when startups create a new market – one where the product or service never existed before or is radically more convenient. Rent seekers spend money to increase their share of an existing market instead of creating new products or markets. How do Rent Seekers win?

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North Carolina New Jersey New York Government 227

Version One Ventures

APRIL 8, 2014

The net effect is powerful: it empowers all of us (no matter who we are or where we are) to learn more quickly, make better decisions, and operate more efficiently. The product collects, cleans, and curates data from news sites, SEC filings, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, AngelList, CrunchBase, and more.

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Venture Capital Vertical Curation SEC 160

Startup Company Lawyer

MAY 26, 2012

Crowdfunding: Its Practical Effect May Be Unclear Until SEC Rulemaking is Complete. On April 23, 2012, the SEC published guidance reminding issuers that “any offers or sale of securities purporting to rely on the crowdfunding exemption would be unlawful under federal securities laws” until the SEC adopts new rules.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 1, 2018

It appears in our SEC filing as $5 million because we had $2.5 For this round, we chose to work with Active Capital , a new fund based in Texas led by Pat Matthews and Pat Condon, because they agree wholeheartedly with the funding and operating strategy I describe below. We use the Touch Zero Operating Model to manage our business.

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Silicon Valley SEC Venture Capital Angel Investor 48

Growthink Blog

MARCH 19, 2012

The result is that far too many entrepreneurs can't start or grow their ventures—and can't provide jobs and new products and services to spur our economy. First, the SEC largely limits private-equity investments to accredited investors—those with $1 million or more in net worth, among other tight standards.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

As discussed above, these terms can cleverly fool the inexperienced operator, because they are able to “meet the ask” with respect to cover valuation, and the accepting founder does not realize the carnage that will come down the road. SEC Visits Silicon Valley. This is uncharted territory. You might also know what percentage you own.

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

A few years ago this was sort of a novelty… not that many startups were going public and not that many bloggers or mainstream journalists took the time or had familiarity with combing these SEC filings. Games monetized via in-app purchases are a premium service. Instagram hadn’t built a true business (e.g.

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techblog.netflix.com

NOVEMBER 26, 2011

by Adrian Cockcroft and Denis Sheahan Netflix has been rolling out the Apache Cassandra NoSQL data store for production use over the last six months. We picked a write oriented benchmark using the standard Cassandra "stress" tool that is part of the product, and Denis ran and analyzed the tests on Amazon EC2 instances.

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EC2 Caching Software Review Java 68

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2020

As Alpha explained, it's "not in any way tied to PostEra's commercial operations. Once we saw this evidence, we thought, "Wait a sec, we can actually do something about it." Some of them derived from oil, some of them derived from other natural products. It's solely used to make and test compounds against COVID."

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Artificial Inteligence Open Source Cofounder Design 60

www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

The SEC defines an "accredited investor" as someone with over amillion dollars in liquid assets or an income of over $200,000 ayear. Then you can gradually transformyourself from a consulting company into a product company, and haveyour clients pay your development expenses. Those remedial actions can delay, stall or even kill the IPO.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I'll add two ideas: The modern structure of university patent licensing and technology transfer works really well in the life sciences and other fields with expensive product development processes. September 9, 2009 7:00 AM Anonymoussaid. Ease the process for startups to get access to global talent. Each requires the step before it.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

I have come to believe during my time as an operator, entrepreneur and investor that the balance of these skills is so important to the long-term health of a business that if balance is not achieved early then the impact later can be profound - sometimes terminal. No startup will ever succeed without a persuasive and visionary sales leader.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 3, 2016

What this report will tell you: The larger your company is, the more likely it is that your growth / marketing team operates in silos. Page Load Time (sec)” so that you can instantly see your biggest problem areas. Who created the report: Avinash Kaushik created this report. Where to find this report: You can import it directly.

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Analytics Customer PPC Metrics 48

The Equity Kicker

APRIL 13, 2012

Our enduring love for Google comes from a strong desire to create technology products that enrich millions of people’s lives in deep and meaningful ways. Technology products often require significant investment over many years to fulfill their potential. In our experience, success is more likely if you concentrate on the long term.

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Dilution Stock Government SEC 87

Hippoland

MARCH 30, 2018

And you have to worry about SEC compliance A LOT. In many cases, you need a community of users already (in addition to a product) in order have a successful token sale. B) Operations costs more. And as an app, I would get a full v1 product and start pulling together community.

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Hippoland

MARCH 30, 2018

And you have to worry about SEC compliance A LOT. In many cases, you need a community of users already (in addition to a product) in order have a successful token sale. B) Operations costs more. And as an app, I would get a full v1 product and start pulling together community.

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Seed Stage Syndicate Syndication Convertible Security 48

infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Performance-based deals can effectively mitigate your monetary risk of entering into a non-productive consulting relationship. Such positions include: PR, Sales, Product Development, Lead Generation, Strategic Planning, Fund Raising, etc. Thus, as your startup matures, many of your operational functions can be successfully outsourced.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Great for visualizing work of product development. agile product management. agile product management and Scrum tool. agile product management and Scrum tool. Agile project management tool collaborative product life-cycle. Craze Productions. Kanban Pad â?? Nice and leanâ?? and free online Kanban tool.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

In fact, I based myself in Toronto for a couple months over the summer there and did a product launch while I was there. As I said, I have a very small operation and I’m able to make much more than the average person. THE POWER OF OUTSOURCING & CREATING YOUR OWN PRODUCT. This is me at Niagara Falls. I went to the U.S.

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