Austin Startup

JULY 29, 2018

Some invest in tech startups and others only do restaurants and office buildings. Some will invest in a great person with a big idea and others need to see customer traction and revenue first. If you want to expand your network, consider applying for an accelerator program such as Capital Factory , Techstars or Y Combinator.

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Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. They’ve grown from nothing to >$2B in revenue in 30 months time, making the company among the fastest growing businesses in the histroy of the world. Financial Snapshot: 2010 Revenue: $713M. in net revenue and passes $0.58

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

The web and technology bubble has a lot in common with the rest of the business world in that there are essentially two disparate groups — the haves and the have nots. For the first-time entrepreneur or founder looking for seed stage funding, this circle can be especially difficult to penetrate. and Path Intelligence.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

That's why the Corona Initiative is a Public Benefit Corporation--a for-profit company dedicated to the public good that aims to fund its research with its revenues. Most people I think at least in the technology community know you as the inventor of Soylent and the company by the same name. You really want to see the whole system.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Firms like Accel and Greylock and Menlo Ventures announced discovery or seed funds, while other firms like Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz pioneered stealthy scout programs to give entrepreneurs their money, whether they knew it or not. “The tech industry creates roughly 10 awesome companies per year,” he says.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

The other revels in the world as we all know it will be someday: limitless distribution enabled by new technologies, the importance of collaborative filters, and on-demand availability of all content for end-users. But the same technologies that make life difficult for traditional marketers also offer them unprecedented new opportunities.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

I wassurprised recently when I realized that all the worst problems wefaced in our startup were due not to competitors, but investors.Dealing with competitors was easy by comparison. There never has to be atime when you have no revenues. So seed investors usually care lessabout the idea than the people. Whendel.icio.us

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

This post was co-authored with Omri Stern and originally appeared in Harvard Business Review. As a result, tech-sector employment has declined as a percent of the workforce, from 11% in 2006–2008 to 9% in 2013. Although the technical team often remains in Israel, many of the executives interviewed recommend departing for the U.S.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 5, 2011

I'm a strong believer in having a board, even at a seed stage, to report to and set strategy with. Most successful businesses have a plan for real revenue right off the bat and a clearer value proposition than "let the community figure it out". Advisors, investors and board members come in all shapes and sizes. The Unicycle.

Technical Review 111

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