SiliconHills

JUNE 27, 2018

It allows military personnel to collaborate with industry, educators, entrepreneurs and others on new ideas and products without dealing with […]. Air Force Sec. AFWERX is like the skunkworks of the Air Force. The post U.S. Wilson Launches AFWERX Innovation Lab at Capital Factory appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2021

Many entrepreneurs never get past their first-stage focus on their innovative product, to scaling the business globally, organizing a structure to handle thousands of employees, and concentrating their focus “on the business” rather than working “in the business.” Switch your focus from product development to sales.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 21, 2013

However, before entrepreneurs could start using equity-based crowdfunding, the SEC had to write the specific rules governing it. The SEC was given 9 months to write those rules; they were due on December 31, 2012. However, the SEC failed to meet that deadline. The good news is that any day, they will.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

It usually takes more than you can collect just to build and deliver the product. The biggest surge in expectations occurred way back in 2015, when the SEC “ democratized ” everyday citizens (non-accredited investors) to participate in equity crowdfunding. Making something awesome will cost more than you expect.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 27, 2013

Crowdfunding is the process of raising capital by offering rewards to ‘backers’ by pre-selling your product or offering equity in exchange. While the latter is not yet legal in the United States, the JOBS Act, which was signed into law in April 2012, mandates that the SEC makes it legal by January 1st of 2013.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Whether launching the next internet sensation, filming a sci-fi fantasy, mass producing savory barbecue sauce, or creating a must-have tech gadget, entrepreneurs will witness this spirited support—not only from the public’s funding, but also from their subsequent purchases of the products they help forge. The investors.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 21, 2020

In commercial tech you call that an integrated product team, It’s acquisition with software engineering with UI/UX. And we took the classic commercial tech approach of building minimal viable products: Get something that will work good enough. Minimal Viable Products. Lean, MVPs and the DOD. That world is gone.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 6, 2017

In order to become an angel investor, one must have a net worth of at least $1 million, an annual income of $200,000 and be accredited by the SEC. Crowdfunding allows startups to seek out small donations from a large number of people, allowing startups to gauge interest in their product or service before launching.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2020

It usually takes more than you can collect just to build and deliver the product. The biggest surge in expectations occurred back in 2015, when the SEC “ democratized ” everyday citizens (non-accredited investors) to participate in equity crowdfunding. Making something awesome will cost more than you expect.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

despite having been passed into law in early 2012 via the JOBS Act , and still has no scheduled date for availability, waiting for the rules to be finalized by the SEC. Product pre-order model. With this model, a startup pre-sells their product early, at a cheaper price, in exchange for a pledge.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

After helping build the first Ethernet switch startup, I was attracted by Asynchronous Transfer Mode 25Mbit/sec technology, (ATM25) which was 2.5x I discovered my product was a “nice to have,” not a “must have,” and we shut the company down a year a later. faster than Ethernet and ran data but plus voice and video.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 6, 2011

million in a private placement transaction in December and an additional $3,7 million in option sales according to a recent SEC D filing. The company’s flagship products are uniPaaS and iBolt. From the announcement: “Under the terms of the offering, the Company will sell an aggregate of approximately 3.26 per share.&#.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 9, 2019

To refresh your memory, angel investors are typically high net worth individuals, accredited by the SEC and willing to invest their own money in a high-potential startup for a share of the ownership. Business-to-business products need professional investors. In the real world, most angels are regular business people like you and me.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 25, 2020

SXSW brings a huge chunk of the music and tech world together in one city every year in March, and most startups launch their products there every year. The startup was launching its product there, and as part of the promotion plan, we were to go into bars in the evenings and sign people up to use their service. How did I get the gig?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2010

It’s common, perhaps the norm, for startups to pivot like that—to discover that a product is catching on in unintended ways worth pursuing. First, because the amateurs weren’t SEC-registered, the site had to refer to them with awkward terms like “geniuses.&# Thus far the results are encouraging.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 25, 2011

And this year, we’re going to talk not just about business and product development, but we’ll be exploring one of the Lean Starutp movements next big frontiers: the role of design. Yes, you really can use continuous deployment – even in an SEC regulated environment. Wealthfront CTO Pascal-Louis Perez will show you how.

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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. . Some corporations also need to register with the SEC , so be sure to research whether that is required for your company.

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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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Board Effect

AUGUST 14, 2023

When did the board last discuss whether the company’s disclosure of cyber risk and cyber incidents is consistent with SEC guidance?​ These measures support business continuity, reduce loss of productivity and help the organization to get onto the path to recovery more quickly.

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Board Effect

AUGUST 14, 2023

When did the board last discuss whether the company’s disclosure of cyber risk and cyber incidents is consistent with SEC guidance?​ These measures support business continuity, reduce loss of productivity and help the organization to get onto the path to recovery more quickly.

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Version One Ventures

AUGUST 29, 2017

First, the bubbly nature of the ICO market seems to favour the ability to tell a story over the ability to create a great product. The risk here is we’ll end up with more “stock promoters” than “product makers.”. Second, many ICOs are built around tokens with no real utility value.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 6, 2018

We built out our CXO advisory board and further cemented our Fortune 500 relationships to help our portfolio cos scale from “founder-market” fit to product market fit in an accelerated timeframe ( meet our advisors ). 2018 will be the year that many Fortune 500s that are piloting this tech will bring applications into production.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

HBSANY members are required to be accredited investors (per SEC regulations) and are expected to agree to the terms of the HBSANY Membership Agreement. Remedy Systems ( www.remedysystems.com ) designs and builds practical mobile product platforms that lower the costs and improve the quality of healthcare.

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ConversionXL

JULY 7, 2019

Quality product images. If I had to pick one thing that would sell a product online, it’s images. Technically, you could have an ecommerce site with only images and no product descriptions, but I don’t recommend it. Show the products from different angles and in context; make them zoomable. Great product copy.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2010

Back off SEC: Let’s Put the “Risk&# of Secondary Markets in Perspective – [link]. Can minimal design work for product packaging? Can minimal design work for product packaging? Good summary by @stammy of the trials and tribulations of startup fundraising – [link]. – [link]. – [link].

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Mike Michalowicz

APRIL 12, 2017

After a rocky leadership, profanity laced memos to the SEC, fuzzy accounting practices, SEC investigations, and a whopping 77 percent decline in the company’s share price, Mason now joins the ranks of the unemployed. The vendor thought that would be ok, since people now had a sampling of their products or services.

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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. SEC Regulations. Getting your business up and running is also of supreme importance. These complicated agreements need to be drafted by an attorney.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Now all eyes are on the SEC as it adopts regulations to implement the new law with the hope that it won’t get tied up in red tape. In April 2012, Congress passed the JOBS Act , which authorizes equity crowdfunding and liberalizes some requirements regarding the issuance of securities by privately held companies.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 14, 2018

For the official policy, see Financial Services: New restricted financial products policy (June 2018). When I first heard the phrase “ ICO ” three or four years ago, my immediate thought was something like “that’s just an invitation to the SEC to regulate that. Oh – and happy Pi Day.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 5, 2013

“Products take off not just because of WHAT they do but HOW they make us feel.” “Products take off not just because of WHAT they do but HOW they make us feel.” SEC Greenlights One Style Of Equity Crowdfunding For Startups | TechCrunch – [link]. The Law of Timing in Negotiations – [link].

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

The data in Bizshark ‘s database is compiled from a multitude of sources – including SEC filings, government records, public directory listings, business sites, as well as major news and social media sites – through its proprietary technologies. per month, or US$44.85 per month, or US$89.95

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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.

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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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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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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 11, 2019

Teams don’t find product-market fit fast enough, or they can no longer raise the capital required to keep going. Creating new industries is incredibly expensive, gaining customers when you have no prior track record is hard, and product or service performance rarely hits the mark immediately. You skip to the good parts.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 29, 2011

When you do a financing, you file something called a Form D with the SEC. But it’s meaningless – “Joe’s Company Raised $X From Investors A, B, and C according to a filing with the SEC.” ” Next. Have your jobs page up. Make it clear that you are hiring.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 11, 2012

I can't tell you anything about it thanks to the SEC. 16k+ Twitter followers, 5500+ e-mail subs a week, 6th most read VC blog, appearences on Bloomberg and CNBC and I can't use any of it to market any kind of financial product--but if I wanted to sell you a watch or build a video game, I'd be set. scratches bald head].

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