Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 10, 2012

Later, when your venture is trying to close on financing, or even going public, that forgotten partner surfaces, demanding their original share. Entrepreneurs often put off the hassle and the cost of filing a patent until first funding. Then you will only have pay tax on the increasing value of your shares when they are sold.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 2, 2011

Later, when your venture is trying to close on financing, or even going public, that forgotten partner surfaces, demanding their original share. Entrepreneurs often put off the hassle and the cost of filing a patent until first funding. Then you will only have pay tax on the increasing value of your shares when they are sold.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2013

Later, when your venture is trying to close on financing, or even going public, that forgotten partner surfaces, demanding their original share. Entrepreneurs often put off the hassle and the cost of filing a patent until first funding. entrepreneur startup legal shortcuts investor founder business' Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2012

This term is replacing “startup incubator,” which is a facility provided by an individual, university, or local community for any new startups to congregate for almost no cost, with the hope of learning from each other. This should be a wake-up call for traditional entrepreneurs and investors alike. Crowd funding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2023

Now there are dozens of online equity portals, including WeFunder and Microventures , already geared up to help regular people buy equity in a startup, without qualifying as an accredited investor. Have you ever wondered what professional startup investors think about all this? Lack of checks and balances on startup valuations.

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Angel Groups Accredited Investor Due Diligence Equity 201

Gust

MAY 10, 2014

Since the average investment amount per angel per company is about $35,000, you can calculate that using the same 2-3% management fee metric as a venture fund, the opportunity cost of the angel’s time for all those deals would be somewhere between $700 and $10,000 per year.

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Gust

JULY 8, 2012

This term is replacing “startup incubator,” which is a facility provided by an individual, university, or local community for any new startups to congregate for almost no cost, with the hope of learning from each other. This should be a wake-up call for traditional entrepreneurs and investors alike. Crowd funding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Boy wearing Oculus Rift via Wikipedia As an advisor to many entrepreneurs, I still hear frequently the irrational exuberance that crowdfunding is the quick alternative for startups that are passed over by overly demanding angels or venture capital investors. Making something awesome will cost more than you expect.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 20, 2016

With the advent and growth of crowdfunding over the past few years, many entrepreneurs have predicted the demise of those demanding angel investment groups and venture capital organizations. At least ten online portals are already gearing up to help regular people buy startup equity, without abiding by accredited investor rules.

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Angel Groups Accredited Investor Equity Due Diligence 136

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 19, 2010

Later, when your venture is trying to close on financing, or even going public, that forgotten partner surfaces, demanding equity. Entrepreneurs often put off the hassle and the cost of filing a patent until first funding. This will hold your place in the patent line for a year, and the costs and time for this filing are much less.

Non-Compete 125

Non-Compete Accredited Investor Startup Cofounder 125

Growthink Blog

MARCH 19, 2012

The businesses would get access to tens of millions more potential investors, and could reach out to them at little or no cost through online outlets like Facebook. First, the SEC largely limits private-equity investments to accredited investors—those with $1 million or more in net worth, among other tight standards.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

accredited investors in 1,000 angel groups and venture capital funds to. And what upsets people is that there are different quantities of those components available in the economic marketplace; and the law of supply and demand is pretty good about consequently assigning a value to them.

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Venture Chronicles

MARCH 23, 2010

Just consider that every H1-B visa is snapped up within 12 hours of becoming available and you see how not only demand outstrips supply but an industry has grown up around a flawed system for the sole intention of gaming it for profit. and be comprised of a majority of partners who are U.S.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

There are three maindisadvantages: you mix together your business and personal life;they will probably not be as well connected as angels or venturefirms; and they may not be accredited investors, which couldcomplicate your life later. The regulatory burden is much lower if a companys shareholdersare all accredited investors.

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Technical Review Startup Software Review Angel Investor 76

Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

Second, by better matching supply and demand, direct listings have generally mitigated the magnitude of IPO Pops, thus engendering better overall price discovery. Most IPOs have lockups that prevent additional secondary shares coming into the market, sometimes for as long as 6-months. Time Period IPO Pop* 1980-1989 6.1% 1990-1998 13.3%

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