Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

They come at the early stage while a startup has no revenue or valuation, so professional investors are hard to find. Network with potential cofounders and strategic partners. Meet the new consumer demand for customization. Customers today increasingly demand solutions that are customized just for them.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 14, 2022

While certain aspects of setting up a startup can be exhilarating, especially in the early stages of the business, there are also plenty of bumps along the road, big and small. Startups that are named after their founders sometimes do not succeed. The only way to know if this is to find out if there is a demand for it.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 19, 2016

Ideally, tech startup founders stay on till the very end. Without a contingency plan, companies that unexpectedly lose a co-founder find themselves in muddy water. Obtain a Confidential Information and Invention Assignment Agreement as early as possible to make sure the IP is clearly (and legally) assigned.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 25, 2017

Just like everything else, VC investment is subject to the whims of supply and demand. The most pressing advantage for startups, in this, is an increased number of options when it comes to staying alive in the early days of the company. Germán Montoya is Co-Founder and Chief Strategy and Creative Officer at Rokk3r Labs.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 17, 2021

Last September (2020), six months after the 1st lockdown, my co-founder Vladimir Blagojevic and I decided to run market research to figure out what challenges B2B companies face and how they solve them. And while this was a good start, a significant position of these companies were early-stage startups. Let’s dive in.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

Though RBI will displace some traditional equity VC, its much bigger impact will be to expand the pool of capital available for early-stage entrepreneurs. . However, only recently have early-stage companies started to use this model at any scale. . So what is Revenue Based Investing?

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Reid Hoffman of LinkedIn and Greylock Partners will be talking about “blitzscaling” with his co-author Chris Yeh, and Stanford Professor Bob Sutton. Kabam, the mobile gaming company, hit a major stumbling block in its early days when its financing was lost due to the 2008 financial collapse.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

It partners with sales to close more revenue, informs product teams to deliver better products, and in some cases, co-owns demand generation activities with marketing teams. Post-launch, product marketers focus on improving sales enablement and work to drive demand and adoption of the product. Image source.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

We had another solid year filled with learning, growth, laughter, and new projects and partners. Thanks to all of the amazing founders, advisors, co-investors, corporate partners, and others that helped make 2018 an amazing year. AWS Reinvent Survivor Dinner with founders, Fortune 500 execs, and VCs.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

PEVCTech is partnering with Blue Future Partners to run the first large-scale survey of VCs’ technology stack. Johann Kratzer of Blue Future Partners , a fund of funds, observed, “The majority of the hundreds of funds we’ve diligenced rely predominantly on their relationships to source deals. Greylock Partners.

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2022

This behavior has marketers pledging to up their demand generation budgets. Because if people are making up their own minds, without coercion from sales, creating demand is the best way to get them to choose you. What is a demand generation manager and why do they matter? Demand generation owes a lot to inbound marketing.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

This week’s guest was David Travers from Rustic Canyon Partners. What I found strange about this funded was the fact that it was led by Summit Partners. Investors: Summit Partners (lead), Jeff Clavier, Aydin Senkut, Gary Vaynerchuk. The investment will be used for product development initiatives. 4mm in Series A.

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Up and Running

JUNE 14, 2017

Others believe in the start small, grow strong approach: build a small version of the app, test user demand, and then take it from there. Early stage idea validation can be accomplished without building an application. Those partners paid for a membership with Recycler Spotter. 60 percent of respondents chose premium!

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

is the CEO and co-founder at ShoutEm , a self service mobile website and mobile apps creator, a ‘Wordpress for mobile apps.’. This demand led to the creation of a number of differently designed CMS aiming at mommy bloggers, artists and anyone who wanted to have a Web presence, which today is almost every living person.

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David Teten

JUNE 22, 2012

By excising just the tumor and leaving the rest of the organ, surgeons can help patients reduce the risk of early mortality, reduce patient complications, reduce costs of healthcare, and reduce the backlogged demand for kidney donations. We think the potential of the companies we’ve met through this initiative is exceptional.”.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Founder Dialogues : Eric Paley plays talk show host on this recurring fireside chat style event with Boston area founders. The next one is TechProm , organized by Dave Balter, the founder of BzzAgent. OnStartups: One of the largest online startup communities founded by HubSpot founder Dharmesh Shah. University Resources.

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David Teten

JUNE 22, 2012

By excising just the tumor and leaving the rest of the organ, surgeons can help patients reduce the risk of early mortality, reduce patient complications, reduce costs of healthcare, and reduce the backlogged demand for kidney donations. We think the potential of the companies we’ve met through this initiative is exceptional.”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2014

They come at the early stage while a startup has no revenue or valuation, so professional investors are hard to find. Network with potential cofounders and strategic partners. Meet the new consumer demand for customization. Customers today increasingly demand solutions that are customized just for them.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 10, 2022

I love working with great people and as a venture capitalist, am fortunate the number of founders I’m impressed by far exceeds our investment capacity. Here’s an example of a founder that I’ve known for a while who recently raised a seed round with different firms than ours. and we also had a great relationship with the partner.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

All of this is according to Paul Graham, co-founder of the early-stage investment fund Ycombinator. Because they offer competitive investment terms and don’t usually demand a board seat, super angels have become major power players in the startup scene. Angel rounds also tend to close quicker.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

All of this is according to Paul Graham, co-founder of the early-stage investment fund Ycombinator. Because they offer competitive investment terms and don’t usually demand a board seat, super angels have become major power players in the startup scene. Angel rounds also tend to close quicker.

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www.startuplessonslearned.com

MAY 4, 2012

Founders Dilemmas: Equity Splits. The following is an excerpt from HBS Professor Noam Wasserman’s new book, The Founders Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup. On average, the founders who keep the most control over their company make the least amount of money. Lessons Learned.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 7, 2016

Most early-stage companies have little registered intellectual property, such as patents. First all employees, including founders, should sign invention assignment agreements. Develop a patent strategy early on to evaluate whether the costs for protecting an innovation makes sense. What should my IP strategy be?

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OnlyOnce

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

In our prior lives, the Bolster founders worked together to scale up a business called Return Path and also. worked as advisors and mentors to numerous early stage founders and startups. The one our team was particularly excited about was a concept we were calling at the time “Venture Acceleration Partners.”

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 30, 2018

I know that some founders feel uncomfortable with this as though they might somehow be sharing something so confidential that it ultimately hurts you. Many VCs will have a distribution curve where they’ll do a small number of early-stage deals (say $1.5–3 Why shouldn’t most founders just name a price? After all?—?we

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders?

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Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 14, 2010

Founders Institute Plain Preferred Term Sheet (by WSGR – disclaimer, I represent the Founders Institute and was involved in drafting this document). I suspect that this seems reasonable if there is basically no due diligence due to the early stage of the companies. (By Co-sale rights. “ . Legal fees.

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Basing a consultant’s compensation on the incremental revenue they generate is a great example of a deal that is on The Fringe (for other creative approaches to partnering, see Agreements on The Fringe). Given all the demands on your time, the hours spent educating a consultant regarding your business are costly. Pyramid Power.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 24, 2012

The following is an excerpt from HBS Professor Noam Wasserman’s new book, The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup. The book taps Noam’s analyses of data on 10,000 founders, plus the personal stories of Evan Williams of Twitter, Tim Westergren of Pandora, and two dozen other founders.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2010

First, if the VC does 15-20 of these under one partner then it is certain he can’t spend any time with these investments. So if a VC wants to work with really talented early-stage entrepreneurs there are times where they have to be willing to seed fund them in order to be in the deal. And they don’t. is now a VC.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

What a pleasure that I got to spend an hour talking with both Om Malik (whom I’ve always respected his views) and Paul Jozefak , a venture capital partner at Neuhaus Partners in Germany (and formerly the head of Europe for SAP Ventures). His view: sometimes entrepreneurs expect too much value from the partner.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Brad has been an early-stage investor and entrepreneur since 1987. Prior to co-founding Foundry, he co-founded Mobius Venture Capital and is also a co-founder of Techstars. Key Takeaway: The first time many founders see the inside of a board room is when they step in to lead their board. [12:15]

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 27, 2014

We brief our major investors quarterly and decided to model our LP meeting after what “big funds” do, albeit with a few Homebrew flourishes :) Logistically this meant an afternoon session with presentations/Q&A then a dinner with founders/advisors. We love our founders. Roughly 50% result in a first meeting.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2022

It’s a tough time for a lot of startup founders right now. This is not meant to be a negative post, but rather a temperature check of today’s market environment and the levers founders can pull on to survive this period. The later the stage, the bigger the impact. What is a founder to do? In Q3/2022, $2.6

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But in business, you want a lot of partners. To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. . In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers. See Bessemer Venture Partners’ A comprehensive guide to security for startups.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Andrew is the co-founder and CTO of Parse.ly , a technology startup that provides big data insights to the web’s best publishers. He wrote: When startups die, the official cause of death is always either running out of money or a critical founder bailing. Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Andrew Montalenti.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 28, 2011

“In the online advertising industry there is never a dull moment&# , told me Assaf Roth the founder of IgniteAd. Indeed, this early stage startup has a lot going on. VC Cafe had a chance to ask ignitAd ‘s CEO and co-founder Assaf Roth a few questions. Can you name a few that caught your attention?

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