Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

As the company announces its $530 million Series F at a valuation of $8.5 What was your approach to picking co-founders, and what advice would you give entrepreneurs on this? I think having a co-founder is very important. The co-founder / marriage analogy is apt. The entrepreneurship journey is hard.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

by Alejandro Cremades , cofounder of Panthera Advisors and author of “ The Art of Startup Fundraising: Pitching Investors, Negotiating the Deal, and Everything Else Entrepreneurs Need to Know “ Why should entrepreneurs intentionally be generous when negotiating with investors? Generosity is nowhere on their radar.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. From RBI, Flexible VCs borrow the ability to reap meaningful returns without demanding founders build for an exit. Of the Inc. 5000 companies, only 6.5%

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Her background includes senior roles in both the banking and tech sectors, and she has launched four data businesses—including her current firm, New Frontier Data , which boasts a $20 million valuation and has received $5 million in funding. According to Fortune , in 2006, female founders were involved in only 2.95

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

” – Marc Andreessen In the book “ Super Founders “, author Ali Tamaseb, studied 200 Unicorns, aka startups valued at over $1 billion, started between 2005 to 2018. The 7 Traits of “Super Founders” 1. They are able to articulate this vision in a way that inspires others and generates excitement.

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betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Before there was Fab there was fabulis, a social network meets places guide targeted to the gay community. When we pivoted from fabulis to Fab, we pivoted towards building a business around the unique tastemaker talents of one of our founders, Bradford Shellhammer. Founders need to personally own something big themselves.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Paul Graham’s recent essay, Founder Mode , describes the mindset that founders need to adopt to navigate the early stages of building a startup, and how they’re different than ‘manager mode’ which is traditional management/corporate best practices.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 19, 2014

Many angels are entrepreneurs themselves, or executives and business or community leaders. I have pitched to hundreds of angel investors over the years as a result of co-founding two tech companies and raising just shy of $1M in angel capital. Too many founders tread the fine line between arrogance and ignorance.

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www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

When you're getting started, sweat equity is often a critical component of your negotiating leverage with co-founders, early stage employees and others who aren't paid market wages to help you grow your business. Sweat equity is just one component of early-stage valuation. Here are some tools for tackling the challenge.

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David Teten

AUGUST 20, 2019

Many are reporting that they’re seeing a more diverse pool of applicants than traditional equity VCs… even though virtually none have a particular focus on women or underrepresented founders. For more background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A new option for founders who care about control.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Funding challenges and other issues founders face in the early days of starting up were the focus of interviews with the latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on SiriusXM Channel 111 (airing weekly Thursdays at 1 pm Pacific, 4 pm Eastern). Will Zell , co-founder and CEO of Nikola Labs wireless power company.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

It shows Kinneret Gat, 69, defiantly sticking her tongue out at a Hamas attacker, even as the community was being overrun. Mira Murati , co-founder and CTO of OpenAI announced she’s leaving as well as the company’s head of research. billion at $150 billion valuation. That’s all for this week.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 11, 2024

billion valuation of your foot traffic analytics platform that crossed the $100M in ARR! There’s a lot to celebrate in our “small” community. tech #Israel #venturecapital #innovation #startups #founders Answer – the lady with the blue background is real. on your $75M series D and $1.5 Keep on creating!

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

Building relationships with vendors and the local community. Word of mouth is no substitute for market research , says Ben Price, co-founder of Hard Knocks Brewing, a small brewpub in its second year of operation. Step 4: Building relationships with vendors and the local community. Finding a brewery location.

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thinkspace.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

How to Divide Equity to Startup Founders, Advisors, and Employees. The part that I’d like to zero in on is when you’ve got a high growth company what are some of the best practices out there to distribute equity to the founders, advisors, and employees? Equity for Founders. Should founders have anti-dilution rights?

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. . Tim Friedman, Founder, PE Stack , said, “If I could offer one piece of advice to today’s managers, it would be to take the time to understand the demands of the modern institutional LP. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies.

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Austin Startup

JULY 18, 2018

It leads to better products, better strategy, better marketing, bigger valuations and faster growth. Diverse in this context means “not a white male,” members are coworkers in our community and investments are Accelerator startups. Eugene Sepulveda was co-chair of the LGBTQ Council for President Obama.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Women Rising: Microfinance institutions have known for years that women have higher repayment rates than men and that women are more likely to invest the borrowed capital back into their families and local communities. Kiva co-founder Jessica Jackley’s latest venture Profounder is one platform that could power these transactions.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Microsoft launched co-pilot vision , a tool that read your screen and act as a personal helper (US-only). Kol hakavod Dave Waiser and team Accumulator on raising $46M to help founders navigate illiquid wealth with an equity pooling platform ! There’s much to celebrate in our “small” community.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 14, 2012

Did raising money at a $500 million valuation help secure the $1 billion deal? And what can we – as the entrepreneurial community learn from that? “Impending” valuation. In a perfect world you’d like to hit your always-dreamed-of valuation of $100 million pre. Was this a good thing? Let me explain.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

We added a podcast to our blogging community and we wanted to hear from entrepreneurs some of their favorite business or entrepreneurial podcast. #1- In just 45 minutes, you learn how these brilliant minds take ideas from infancy to – in many cases – companies with billion-dollar valuations. 1- The Forecast Podcast.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 28, 2011

Unlike previous generations young Australians are participating in community activity, many of which do not involve any economic incentives. We are more interested in a niche fringe community than a mass event. What we’ve seen in digital…’A mashup co-creation, mass customised society’… we will inevitably see in retail….

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techcrunch.com

APRIL 26, 2013

From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. Co-founder Naval Ravikant explains that 18 pilot companies in the program, including Transcriptic, Double Robotics and Tred, received $6.7 → Learn More. Wednesday, April 24th, 2013.

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Genuine VC

JULY 9, 2013

Recently, we surveyed our Boston-based NextView portfolio Founder/CEOs asking them about which service provider firms they’ve been using. But rather than just keep the info internal, wouldn’t it be more productive to publicly publish the aggregate results for the whole community?

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 21, 2025

[While I’m going to focus on investor secondary here, I support common share sales as well – for example, back in 2014 writing “ Getting Some Founders Early Liquidity Can Benefit VCs ” during a period where many founders were being shamed for even asking about taking some money off the table.]

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

My colleagues Sebastian Soler , Steven Greenberg and I recently launched a new online community, PEVCTech.com , exclusively for PE/VC investors; engineers who work at PE/VC funds; and other technologists who specialize in working on this problem. to motivate their angel community to support their startups. Pitchbot.vc

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Up and Running

MARCH 21, 2016

If you’ve been building a great business, getting out and networking within the local startup and investing community can be a great way to meet investors,” recommends Diana Goodwin of AquaMobile Swim School. Have co-founders. With that said, don’t take on just anyone. With that said, don’t take on just anyone. That sucks.’”

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VC Cafe

APRIL 4, 2024

While investments to generative AI startups are red hot, founders have to battle quite a few investor biases. Despite being less than 2 years old, Mistral is now looking to raise funding at a $2 billion valuation in December 2023. Shameless plug, at Remagine Ventures , we’re looking to back founders that have internalised this.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

I was hanging out the other day with my buddy Jody Sherman, founder & CEO of EcoMom. Co-founded a company in the private jet business – sold to Virgin America. Part 2/3 of Interview: AngelList: A Quick Introduction and Interview with Founders Babak Nivi & Naval Ravikant – [Minutes: 23:00 – 55:00].

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David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

In his white paper How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood , PEVCTECH.com founder David Teten explored how private equity and venture capital investors are trying to automate more of their job. However, 87% of our respondents don’t actively participate in any such community.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 31, 2021

In November 2020, Appsflyer announced a $210 million round led by Salesforce Ventures at over $2 billion valuation. If you’re inventing a category, marketing needs to come really early on, because market education and brand / community building is critical for business success. VC Cafe: There’s a rise in community led startups.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

I discuss category creation with one of the co-authors of Play Bigger , Christopher Lochhead, in episode #232 of Legends and Losers if you would like to really delve into that (it is a very important topic). As the founder, that was more of my personality at that time, having grown up as a programmer. make that fourteen years now).

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Entrepreneurs and investors who have spent any time dealing with convertible debt seed financing transactions are likely to have encountered the subject of valuation caps. Valuation caps can come into play in settings other than seed-stage convertible note financing rounds. Read on for a fuller explanation.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Word of mouth is no substitute for market research, says Ben Price, co-founder of Hard Knocks Brewing, a small brewpub in its second year of operation. Co-founders Jamie Floyd and Nikos Ridge leased their startup system from a family running a German restaurant out of a former brewpub. Click To Tweet. “No

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

I gained nearly 20 pounds during those two years, in part because of the growing frustration I felt when I would leave yet another meeting with VCs who I felt didn’t genuinely listen to, understand, or value my experience as a black founder and CEO. Those were teachers, accountants, consultants, entrepreneurs, and community leaders.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

I met a founder who’s sister was kidnapped (and later released). powered AI Co-Scientist multi-agent system to aid researchers. The valuation of Safe Superintelligence Inc. billion valuation ) to provide comprehensive cybersecurity protection for governments and national organisations! ? Google announced Gemini 2.0-powered

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 29, 2011

Finance Friday’s gets off the ground with today’s post by introducing you to an imaginary startup, the entrepreneurs that we’ll being following throughout the series, and their first challenges: splitting up the founders’ equity and addressing the case where one of the founders provides the initial seed capital for the business.

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