YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 27, 2019

In Silicon Valley it’s referred to as “ fake it till you make it” Far too many innovators believe it is okay to bend the truth or lie in pursuit of their goal. They described seven behaviors you should be prepared to deal with in addition to disrupting industries and changing the world. Sometimes they lie.

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Austin Startup

MAY 13, 2019

Silicon Valley tends to be an enthusiastic adopter of new technology, so the move surprised some, but face recognition technology has been plagued with accusations of racial bias and low accuracy in addition to the “Black Mirror”-esque introduction of mass surveillance into our society. We think the parallels are clear.

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David Teten

JANUARY 13, 2015

Next, I would push ‘anti-pattern’ entrepreneurs to remove the convenient (and often true) excuses for not warranting investment. Nobody wants to talk about this because you can get into hot water – I don’t care because there are smart people in Brooklyn who don’t realize that dialect is KILLING them in Silicon Valley.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

Like other RBI firms, Decathlon does not require warrants, governance involvement, or the types of financial covenants that are often associated with other venture debt type solutions. His description: “We announced a new $500 million fund in Q1 of 2019, in our 10th year.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2010

Anyone who works in the venture business or frankly just lives in Silicon Valley will be used to hearing a buzz word rise up out of nowhere to capture the technology zeitgeist and find its way into every entrepreneur’s product development plan or every aspiring entrepreneur’s pitch deck.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 21, 2013

During Techstars 2013 Boulder Demo Day, led by Managing Director Luke Beatty – who skillfully took the baton from Nicole Glaros – it occurred to me that reflection is now warranted. Boulder is comparatively not well situated to have large scale immigration ties a la Silicon Valley or New York.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2010

It places undue pressure early in the company’s history to “do big things&# when sometimes what is warranted is more prudence. I’ve even heard people repeat this bullsh*t Silicon Valley mantra about “failing fast&# which is horse puckey.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 10, 2012

This is a loan with a 15% warrant attached at a zero strike price. Some banks, including Silicon Valley Bank and Comerica , specialize in funding startups and will lend against inventory, infrastructure or for general corporate purposes. As O’Leary said, this isn’t an equity investment.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Startups often hand out shares, options, and warrants for employees and for contractors rendering needed services. That will keep the Silicon Valley wags buzzing for some time to come. Your Cap Table is something that deserves constant care and attention. How about your Investors ?

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 21, 2016

These teams are working on projects like streamlining the access to food assistance and job re-training or reducing unnecessary incarceration by making it easier to avoid bench warrants or to comply with probation. HW: Talk a little bit about project selection. Do you work with a government entity at the local, state or national level?

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ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

If you look at the numbers of super angels in Silicon Valley, they are even scarier. Very few businesses address large enough market opportunities to warrant professional investor involvement, especially VCs. To give you some further context, we recently spoke with a VC in Boise, Idaho, who gets 500 deals a year.

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abovethecrowd.com

AUGUST 23, 2020

If you are looking past or through Covid — and why not, all of Wall Street is — the topic du jour in Silicon Valley is Special Purpose Acquisition Companies, or SPACs. The traditional way of going public is systematically broken and is robbing Silicon Valley founders, employees, and investors of billions of dollars each year.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 27, 2011

And a few words about Persistent Systems, an outsourced software product development (OPD) company that is navigating its next phase of evolution are also warranted. Social CRM is becoming quite a trend, and CrowdEngineering really pushes the envelope on the subject.

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David Teten

MARCH 2, 2013

See the Techcrunch posts by my Partner John Frankel and Professor Robert Wiltbank , my recent post on the quality of angel returns data , as well as reports from the Silicon Valley Bank and Kauffman Foundation. While I don’t ultimately agree with the article’s conclusions, I think it warrants consideration.

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Professor VC

JULY 25, 2013

It is the story of the founding of the venture capital industry in Silicon Valley and features many of the iconic companies created including Apple, Intel, Genentech and Cisco. Angel Investors Silicon Valley term sheets venture financing venture capital'

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Up and Running

JANUARY 7, 2020

Most of them didn’t even think they had a problem to warrant a need for our tech. I took the stage at the Gore Silicon Valley Innovation Center in Santa Clara. We ran around asking top executives at various firms in all sorts of industries if they’d find a place for our solution. Naturally, they couldn’t help us.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

But it is clearly not warranted in all cases. I think the following circumstances warrant consideration, but there is no doubt it is deal specific. I’m assuming this in Silicon Valley, LA or similar locations. The entrepreneur would be free to “swing for the fences&# with the VC’s.

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venturehacks.com

OCTOBER 21, 2010

To allocate the option pool from the hiring plan, use these current ranges for option grants in Silicon Valley: Title Range (%) CEO 5 – 10 COO 2 – 5 VP 1 – 2 Independent Board Member 1 Director 0.4 – 1.25 How do you create an option pool from a hiring plan? # Manager or Junior Engineer 0.2 – 0.33

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

We did find some specific industry verticals where the model works (some high schools, some boxing and mixed martial arts events, some exclusive conferences), but not enough to warrant a large market and an independent company. Title: Startup: A Silicon Valley Adventure. Post-Mortem Title : Leaving IonLab. Company : IonLab.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

There was also a litany of errors made in determining which developers had in fact passed UFI products into the catalog warranting their punishment. Loyalty is not something that people distribute to all and any that they come into contact with regardless of warrant. You earned their loyalty.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2010

A few years ago I was having dinner with a friend of mine who works for one of the biggest known Silicon Valley firms. Each situation warrants different amounts. A few years ago I was having dinner with a friend of mine who works for one of the biggest known Silicon Valley firms. And sometimes it is warranted.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Or at least companies where you have enough money in the deal and enough ownership that it warrants rolling up your sleeves and doing the hard work when things aren’t going well. “We want some investors in New York, some in Silicon Valley and some in Los Angeles to help us with Hollywood.&# You don’t.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

When women do it, they don’t get to stick around long enough to see if their company is successful enough to warrant a biography. Lack of care for “distracting” political issues like racism is a brand new management style that some Silicon Valley elites say aspiring founders should strive to adopt.

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