Gust

JULY 12, 2012

In all four countries we met passionate entrepreneurs who were eager to discuss their exciting startups, as well as angel investors looking to support them. The following day, I delivered a four hour workshop on capital sources and pitch strategies for fifteen entrepreneurs in the Propel program.

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View from Seed

JUNE 10, 2020

of teams’ online pitch decks and recorded videos, as well as loved the dozens of second-round video conversations which we had with Founders working on quite compelling startups. Many of these Founders we wouldn’t have had an opportunity to connect with if we hadn’t launched this program.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

During this week's roundtable I addressed a commonly held critique of the 1M/1M program: that we're focusing on the basics and stating the obvious. I have seen this criticism at various places where this recap is syndicated on a weekly basis, as well as in certain random forums on the internet. Tags: StartUp 101.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 2, 2010

During this week's roundtable, one of the questions that I answered was about the One Million by One Million program's plans around supporting social enterprises. Next Annette McClellan presented DaisyClip , a non-surgical contraception device for women that she is in the process of syndicating a $1.8 million financing round for.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2014

In general, this won’t happen for a new startup unless you have a good credit history, or existing assets that you are willing to put at-risk for collateral. Trade equity or services for startup help. Join a startup incubator or accelerator. Variations on this theme include early licensing or white-labeling agreements.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 6, 2016

How to make corporate innovation work and drive success in startups were the topics of discussion with the guests on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show. The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2018

In general, this won’t happen for a new startup unless you have a good credit history, or existing assets that you are willing to put at-risk for collateral. Trade equity or services for startup help. Join a startup incubator or accelerator. Variations on this theme include early licensing or white-labeling agreements.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 21, 2014

As the seed-stage startup fundraise process has received more transparency in recent years, ranging from published advice on how to raise seed capital to increased availability through AngelList, Funders Club, and various accelerator programs, I’ve noticed another trend emerging. Lower-Than-Market Value.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Crowdfunding is rapidly becoming the major source of funding for seed-stage startups. This is a relatively new term loosely applied to angels who invest their own money in a portfolio of startups (typically 20 or more) and are willing to lead multiple rounds, usually starting with a seed round. Startup incubator seed funding.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio form a massive startup Megalopolis that is attracting top talent, impact-focused investors, and the most innovative companies in the world. Startups and investors should treat Texas like one big city. These are all potential customers and strategic partners for startups.

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

He is a serial entrepreneur, internationally syndicated columnist, angel investor, public speaker and author of the best-selling book Never Get a “Real&# Job: How To Dump Your Boss, Build a Business and Not Go Broke. A Painter With Programming Chops What I usually look for is a developer who is creative. Experience with Startups!

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 2, 2024

What John (00:16): You just heard was a testimonial from a recent graduate of the Duct Tape Marketing certification intensive program for fractional CMOs marketing agencies and consultants just like them. He's been an SEO specialist to Fortune 500 companies and venture backed startups around the world for two decades.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 20, 2017

A key ingredient of Techstars accelerator programs is our experienced and engaged mentor community. It provides an outlet for mentors to engage in their local startup communities and keep a pulse on emerging technologies. Our first two pilot funds will be the 2017 city programs in Austin and Boston, launching on January 23rd.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Salesforce.com is a startup with 76,000 subscribers (over 2.1M I also joke with Reid Hoffman that this was back in the days before he was “Reid” Reid’s an incredible entrepreneur, startup investor, and human being. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. May 26, 2011.

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David Teten

JUNE 12, 2012

Harvard Business School is featuring an article about the Venture Capital Access Program on the website of the U.S. Because of our large network, we can identify angels who have very specific industry background pertinent to a given company, and solicit them to join a given syndicate. Competitiveness project.

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David Teten

JULY 10, 2017

– Gives executives more incentive to track relevant startups, which helps inform the firm’s strategy , and gives the executives credibility and influence when they consider investing. Adam Carver of AngelList observed that this is parallel to late-stage funds’ scouts programs, some of which have 50-150 scouts (e.g.,

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

In general, this won’t happen for a new startup unless you have a good credit history, or existing assets that you are willing to put at-risk for collateral. Trade equity or services for startup help. Join a startup incubator or accelerator. Variations on this theme include early licensing or white-labeling agreements.

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OnlyOnce

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

On the heels of the announcement we made last month about our Series B financing , we are now announcing the launch of a new program called Bolster Prime and a new venture capital fund called Bolster Ventures. worked as advisors and mentors to numerous early stage founders and startups. This is another big week for us at Bolster.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Today, TechStars announced that they’ve raised $24 million from a broad syndicate of investors to fund an additional $100,000 for every TechStars company going forward. One of the principles of TechStars has been to be as inclusive as possible for the VC and angel investors in the communities in which we run programs.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. After all, our startup is on a fixed budget. Whats wrong with this picture?

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Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. How They Do It: Build email list of consumers interested in local deals (mainly via paid search & social network ads), sell coupon programs to merchants via telesales. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. How To Think About The Future. June 5, 2011. What’s Your Favorite Future?

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Join me on an investor’s tour of the most vibrant startup ecosystem in the country?—?Dallas, Find out what the buzz is all about and make valuable connections with local investors who you can syndicate deals with. Morgan Texas Startups Roadshow: Innovation is bigger in Texas What will we do on the buses? June 4–6, 2019.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

The time has come for the Texas startup community to band together to change the world once again. Texas has produced world-changing startups in the past such as Dell Software , National Instruments and Whole Foods Market but all of those were founded more than 30 years ago. We truly are an accelerator of the Austin startup ecosystem.

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 17, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Comcast’s Internet Essentials program ), education, and non-profit initiatives a broad swath of the American public now has a broadband connected computer at home. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. How To Think About The Future. The “PC” Era Finally Arrives.

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Hunter Walker

JULY 19, 2017

.'” Yup, after Sequoia and a few others funds debuted a ‘Scouts’ program several years back, many firms have lined up their version. As Tomio Geron wrote in this week’s WSJ , At Homebrew , we don’t currently use Scouts, but generally welcome any investors into syndicates who can provide value to the founders.

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Genuine VC

JULY 30, 2012

Although some investors will certainly recognize value in a startup which is raising at a modest valuation level, sharing this aspect as a feature to the investment (which I have seen) will likely result in the perception that the company is weak and undeserving of additional capital.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 1, 2010

Like Brad Feld I’m syndication agnostic but I have a slight preference toward working with others. But if you had a seed program that guaranteed the next round of investment it would be even more liberal than an A Round investment and there’s no reason for that. This is the nature of compromise.

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Gust

OCTOBER 29, 2014

” If we’re talking about the US and you are NOT at the Accredited level ($1 million in investable assets, or $200,000 annual income), then for the moment you are actually not allowed to invest in privately held startups (emerging public companies, of course, you can buy on the stock market like everyone else.). Once the U.S.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 8, 2012

We are syndication agnostic – happy to invest alone and equally happy to invest with firms we like to work with. We don’t have a seed program, nor do we expect to – if we invest, we are in for the long term. So – what do we do?

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Professor VC

JULY 25, 2013

Startup outcomes tend to be very binary. Another area where I''m not sure I stand is with some of the more formal referral and syndication programs that are emerging now. AngelList (which I remain a big fan) also recently launched a syndicate program.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 28, 2016

This means that we have resisted the temptation to create a “pre-seed program” or some structurally different approach to investing in different sorts of companies. Above all, we frame pre-seeds as a natural part of our singular focus on being your first outside investor and helping startups gain initial traction.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

But in practice, these phenomena create a tremendous volume of startups, which investors then have to filter. Build a specialized outbound origination program. Summit Partners and TA Associates have leveraged their origination programs to move into later stage buyouts. Just do a search online and the VC’s job is done!

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

So allowing consumers to share video content will be a key objective as retailers launch or expand their video programs. The player seamlessly integrates with all the elements of Invodo’s full-service eCommerce video solution, including the platform and video syndication network. We’re making that easy for them to accomplish.”.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

Want to start a startup? A typical startup goes throughseveral rounds of funding, and at each round you want to take justenough money to reach the speed where you can shift into the nextgear. Few startups get it quite right. 1 ] A startups life will be more complicated, legally, if any of theinvestors arent accredited.

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mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

That company, which now has a client list of more than 200 companies and additional offices in the Philippines and New York, takes on the startup projects that Kayweb Angels selects. In exchange for $150,000 to $300,000 of work, each startup has given Kayweb 14% to 40% equity.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2010

The problem with VC Seed Funding – Chris is right to raise the issue with entrepreneurs because there have been instances where large VC funds have set up seed programs where the investments have been used as “options.&# There are many problems with this. and a VC’s fund has one purpose – startups.

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mashable.com

DECEMBER 29, 2011

6 Important Startup Trends that Defined 2011. Startups have an inherently predictive quality. As the innovation engines of the economy, what startups figured out in 2011 will likely appear on other sectors’ trend lists in 2012. Several startups embraced the idea of the preemptive checkin.

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