Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Startups are typically run by a couple of executives who are reluctant to disclose via the prospectus and SEC reports all the decision-making criteria, operational financial details, and compensation formulas. Thus, there is tremendous pressure to increase current earnings, and little appetite for strategic investments.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 30, 2010

So I put my head down and focused on operation, focused on technology, focused on the user’s experience, and I delivered. Once we’ve taken all of this into account, we see that black box results are a lagging indicator. And as they say in the mutual fund prospectuses, “past performance is no guarantee of future performance.&#

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Start Up Blog

JULY 3, 2025

Yesterday, I spent a couple of hours translating an investment prospectus for Macro3D into Chinese for a group of interested investors from the Middle Kingdom. Here’s proof from the front line Listen to Steve read this post below… You Might Not Know This, But I Have a Business-Level Understanding of Mandarin Chinese – Both Spoken and Written.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 13, 2019

As capital becomes less available and upticks in valuation take longer to prove (unlike what Scott Galloway calls the ‘ Softbank effect ‘ of multiplying valuations in the billions), controlling cash and tightening the belt might become necessary.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

Investor prospectus . Also see Why I Invested in SparkToro. You can see their Folder with All the Documents , including the: LLC Agreement. One-Page Term Sheet. Class A Unit Purchase Agreement. FOR FURTHER READING. Other observers on RBI and other new approaches. More Start-Ups Have an Unfamiliar Message for Venture Capitalists: Get Lost.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Prepare a detailed prospectus. The prospectus will lay out the story and details of your business and help generate interest in it before listing, so it’s important that you get this right. This will require plenty of time and resources, so be sure to prepare adequately.

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Gust

APRIL 11, 2014

If you read the “ Dilution ” section of an IPO prospectus , you’ll see that the opposite happens to investors in the new public shares. That is not economic dilution, but rather its opposite ( accretion ).

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VC Adventure

JULY 6, 2011

Reading (or trying to read, at least) and mark up a prospectus. He introduces himself and picks up the conference phone: “Barbara [I'm making that up - I can't remember his assistant's name], Seth Levine is on his way up – can you please make him comfortable in my office.&# Mack’s office was probably 8 times that size.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 14, 2018

Last night, at the Aspen Entrepreneurs event, I was asked to describe several failures and I rolled out my story about Interliant, which, for a period of time (1999 – 2000) appeared to be hugely successful before going bankrupt in 2002. A few days ago, Fred Wilson wrote a post titled Capitulation?

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 18, 2019

If you really want a solid startup ecosystem, you need multiple seed funds all coming at the community from different perspectives both funding a wide variety of companies but also working collaboratively together. It’s not just about having one dedicated fund—you need many funds coming together in a marketplace of ideas.

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Up and Running

JULY 16, 2015

People in Eugene loved it,” Red Wagon says in a funding prospectus (more on that in a bit). “In Red Wagon immediately got on board, prepared a funding prospectus, and launched their $120,000 campaign in January. In our second year, we bought a small commercial ice cream machine, added a second cart, and almost tripled our sales.”.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

AUGUST 26, 2021

If you do not yet have any numbers to show, because you have not started your business yet, perhaps a simple prospectus can help bring the investment home. Grow Your Money, Woman. One of the easy ways of raising money for it is probably to simply start saving up your own money long before launching the business.

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VC Adventure

JULY 6, 2011

Reading (or trying to read, at least) and mark up a prospectus. He introduces himself and picks up the conference phone: “Barbara [I’m making that up – I can’t remember his assistant’s name], Seth Levine is on his way up – can you please make him comfortable in my office.”

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

If you’re talking with an investor competent enough that you’d want her to invest in you, that investor will also be competent enough to surface the negative information you’re trying to hide. By surfacing the negatives early, you help establish a relationship of mutual trust and respect.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Startups are typically run by a couple of executives who are reluctant to disclose via the prospectus and SEC reports all the decision-making criteria, operational financial details, and compensation formulas. Thus, there is tremendous pressure to increase current earnings, and little appetite for strategic investments.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2019

Startups are typically run by a couple of executives who are reluctant to disclose via the prospectus and SEC reports all the decision-making criteria, operational financial details, and compensation formulas. Thus, there is tremendous pressure to increase current earnings, and little appetite for strategic investments.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

Startups are typically run by a couple of executives who are reluctant to disclose via the prospectus and SEC reports all the decision-making criteria, operational financial details, and compensation formulas. Thus, there is tremendous pressure to increase current earnings, and little appetite for strategic investments.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2022

Startups are typically run by a couple of executives who are reluctant to disclose via the prospectus and SEC reports all the decision-making criteria, operational financial details, and compensation formulas. Thus, there is tremendous pressure to increase current earnings, and little appetite for strategic investments.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

The Securities Act of 1933 requires that any type of securities offered to the public be registered with the SEC, involving a major undertaking to prepare and file a registration statement on Form S-1 – known to many as an IPO prospectus.

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Scott Edward Walker

DECEMBER 5, 2011

vp68LI Facebook To Bankers: Hands Off Our $10 Billion IPO – “Facebook has gone so far as to craft its own prospectus.” .” - @mlevchin on.wsj.com/vwmMDi “Think really hard about whether you actually need that business cofounder.” ” - @jasonfreedman bit.ly/vp68LI ” - @sgblank bit.ly/umd8Vp

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Youve probably heard CEOs talking about how AI is reshaping the workforcesometimes in ways that sound straight out of a sci-fi script. Goldman Sachs CEO recently suggested that AI could take over writing IPO prospectuses. At Meta, executives have hinted that AI will reduce the need for entry-level coding jobs.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2025

Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon says that AI can draft 95% of an S1 IPO prospectus in minutes (vs. Google also introduced Titans , a research paper detailing a novel approach that could replace the transformer model used by LLMs today. Are we about to see layoffs in banking? a team of 6 and weeks of work before).

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