BeyondVC

JANUARY 6, 2018

2017 Recap 2017 was another year of growing, learning, investing and partnering with amazing founders. Once again, we are grateful to have the opportunity to work with so many amazing founders, advisors, co-investors, and other collaborators to bring the boldstart family together.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

We all can intuit the benefits to founders of these trends so there’s little reason to elaborate. How founders get screwed on convertible notes. They have listed forward revenue figures that are highly questionable and bring the issue of SEC oversight to my mind. We all know that funding markets have changed for startups.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 6, 2018

2017 was another year of growing, learning, investing and partnering with amazing founders. Once again, we are grateful to have the opportunity to work with so many amazing founders, advisors, co-investors, and other collaborators to bring the boldstart family together. 2017 Recap. 2 exits including yhat (sold to Alteryx?—?AYX

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

It might appear that origination is becoming much easier because of new tools like AngelList and the SEC moving toward adoption of rules that will allow equity based crowdfunding. A number of the funds we studied use an origination approach that allows them to proactively co-create companies or opportunities.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

According to the SEC we’re not allowed to market the fact that we’re fund raising, so I won’t. You’d imagine that every founder was getting rich. Actually, positive outcomes for founders are quite rare. As a startup founder you rarely have much money in your bank accounts. And so it goes again.

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www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

Meanwhile, SEC filings indicate that Frazier Healthcare and Voyager Capital — both of Seattle — are on the prowl for more money. Co-founder, National Editor. Co-founder, National Editor. Co-founder, National Editor. Co-founder, National Editor. Co-founder, National Editor.

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Pascal's View

OCTOBER 6, 2009

The new white paper provides fresh market data and incorporates additional insight gleaned from discussions with a wide range of key market participants, including former senior staffers at the SEC and senior executives at “bulge bracket” and “major bracket” investment banks. By killing the IPO goose that laid the golden egg of U.S.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 11, 2021

We then co-founded Sage Networks (which changed its name to Interliant) with Raj Bhargava (NetGenesis co-founder) and Steve Maggs (whose company was also acquired by AmeriData.) At Mobius, we invested in Vytek, another company Len co-founded. Len loved to smoke a cigar. Our order book collapsed two days later.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Camden is the Founder and CEO of the Nonprofit Organization Beyond the Crisis Beyond the Crisis, the food-distribution charity, which has distributed over 100,000 dollars of food items to housing communities and homeless shelters across Massachusetts. He's the founder and c e o of a nonprofit organization called Beyond the Crisis.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Then we eroded toward the opposite: a cozy government-industrial complex that can't tie its own shoes (Katrina response, Iraq administration, SEC/Madoff, general regulatory bloat). Support the Startup Founders Visa with a tweet Testing the new Disqus comment system Gov 2.0 Each requires the step before it.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 21, 2014

I was a co-founder and co-chairman. Our underwriters (Merrill Lynch) told us not to worry that the SEC hadn’t cleared our filing yet – they always did it a few days before you went public. Day after day passed and we didn’t hear from the SEC. In 1999 we filed an S-1 to take Sage Networks public.

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Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 17, 2021

Greylock investor Sridhar Ramaswamy , who co-founded search engine startup Neeva , says it’s more important for startups to think about creating a product that is useful and resonates with people before worrying about whether a large incumbent is doing it. So as a founder, how should you respond to this competitive effect? TRANSCRIPT.

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Reid Hoffman

AUGUST 17, 2021

Greylock investor Sridhar Ramaswamy , who co-founded search engine startup Neeva , says it’s more important for startups to think about creating a product that is useful and resonates with people before worrying about whether a large incumbent is doing it. So as a founder, how should you respond to this competitive effect? TRANSCRIPT.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 5, 2019

by Dan Abatte, co-founder of 81-c. Did the former head of the SEC just join your board of directors? Dan Abatte is one of the co-founders of 81-c , a company that’s pioneering entrepreneurship as an asset class enabling anyone in the world to invest in businesses that would typically never be available to the public.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

This is interesting because just 2 years ago many of these businesses were shut down by the SEC. I spent a bunch of time with Co-founders Alex Bard and Gary Benitt. .&# P2P lending networks are revived and brought it a whopping $40 million in investments announced recently. So there is likely robust demand from borrowers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 29, 2010

As bills in both chambers of Congress pick up supporters and co-sponsors, its more important than ever for citizens who care about this issue to call, write, and tweet their representatives. On our most recent trip to DC, the Startup Visa team produced two new videos to encapsulate our work to date, and hopefully inspire future action.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 8, 2010

I can’t interpret any of the Supreme Court inside baseball, but I do know how I feel about software patents and expressed my frustration in an article that I co-authored with Paul Kedrosky titled Software Patents Need to Be Abolished that showed up in the Huffington Post yesterday. Tags: Patents sec Startup Visa.

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Austin Startup

JULY 19, 2021

To give a high-level snapshot of the activity in just the investment community alone this past June, ATX Venture Partners closed a $150M fund, 8VC filed with the SEC regarding plans to raise an $880M fund and Mainsail Partners, a growth equity fund based in San Francisco, is planning to open an office in Austin this September ( Source: AustinInno ).

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View from Seed

MARCH 12, 2015

In a typical first meeting between a VC and team of co-founders, the investor typically ends up asking more questions than the founders. This almost goes without saying, but odds are good that your other founder friends in the startup ecosystem have crossed paths with some of the VC firms you might be researching.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 6, 2016

by Amit Damani , cofounder of Vista Rooms. 10 sec rule. Amit Damani, cofounder of Vista Rooms , when not having quintessential talks on anything entrepreneurial, runs one of the fastest growing online aggregator for budget hotels in India. Anyone who watches Shark Tank would swear that it is by far the best reality show ever.

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View from Seed

MAY 16, 2019

Practically speaking this doesn’t mean that all of the shares owned by founders, investors, employees (RSUs), or others will be available to trade immediately as they will need to be converted and registered for public trading. So it’s reasonable to assume that were it a standalone company, “Microsoft Office Co.” ARPUs/year.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 1, 2017

My journey as an entrepreneur really began in 2009, when I co-founded an event-driven hedge fund called Tiburon Capital Management. When my friend and co-founder Leon Stiel and I read the JOBS Act, we knew building an equity crowdfunding platform was our destiny. It’s the piece de resistance for success.

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Gust

OCTOBER 2, 2014

According to the SEC we’re not allowed to market the fact that we’re fund raising, so I won’t. You’d imagine that every founder was getting rich. Actually, positive outcomes for founders are quite rare. As a startup founder you rarely have much money in your bank accounts. You have secret doubts about your co-founder.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Because Intermix was a publicly traded company (AMEX: MIX), the related SEC filings and their exhibits, including the 81-page proxy statement and 42-page merger agreement, make for good bedtime reading. The MySpace founders took some money off the table in the Redpoint deal, albeit at a $35 million pre-money valuation. of MySpace, Inc.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 17, 2011

As Facebook grew, founder Mark Zuckerberg traded share of ownership for investment money. This chart shows how founders’ ownership gets diluted as a successful startup collects investment through various rounds. Similarly, Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page own between them about 20 percent of Google.

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Scott Edward Walker

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Netflix CEO Hastings Faces SEC Action Over Facebook Post [link]. “Co-founders, man. If you’d like to see all of my tweets (or an RSS feed of them), you can do so here. Cheers, Scott. . Top 5 Tweets. “[H]ere’s my advice: go & build amazing applications. Build them with the most boring technology you can find.”

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David Teten

AUGUST 20, 2019

RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance. For more background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. Underaddressed market.

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Agile VC

MAY 16, 2019

Practically speaking this doesn’t mean that all of the shares owned by founders, investors, employees (RSUs), or others will be available to trade immediately as they will need to be converted and registered for public trading. So it’s reasonable to assume that were it a standalone company, “Microsoft Office Co.” ARPUs/year.

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Lock-up Period Retention .Net Azure 100

thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 2, 2018

In his fireside chat with Silver Lake co-founder Glenn Hutchins, SEC Chairman Jay Clayton started his remarks talking about the promise of distributed ledger technology (aka blockchain). It’s a concise read on the SEC’s perspective and provides clear guidance on their current thinking.

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Rob Go

JUNE 24, 2011

The entrepreneur could have done a hundred crazy things as a founder over the last two years, and I’d have no clue unless I do due diligence or have been tracking her for a while. . I was meeting with the founder of one of our portfolio companies, and we were talking through his product roadmap.

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Professor VC

AUGUST 14, 2012

I had a conversation recently with Alex Mittal, Co-founder and CEO of FundersClub (FC) and decided to revisit my blog post from last fall that was skeptical of crowdfunding for angel investments. I'm curious as to how the SEC will view FC.

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Pascal's View

MAY 23, 2009

Former DOD Deputy Under Sec. Managing Director and Co-Founder. Bob Ackerman, Managing Director & Co-Founder, Allegis Capital. Co-Chair, Committee on Assessing the Impacts of Changes in the. EE and Computer Science Department, UC Berkeley.   Dr. James Finley. CEO, The Finley Group. Allegis Capital.

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Scott Edward Walker

JANUARY 2, 2012

rJgnV1 The SEC’s final rule re NET WORTH STANDARD FOR ACCREDITED INVESTORS and the exclusion of primary residence’s value: 1.usa.gov/tcGLpX usa.gov/tcGLpX Learn to Code: A Non-technical Co-founder’s Guide (via @kathrynhough ) bit.ly/tLRCpR My answer: b.qr.ae/rJgnV1

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

In the mid-1990s, a good friend of mine, Gene Kim (founder of Tripwire and author of When IT Fails: A Business Novel ) and I were in graduate school together in the Computer Science program at the University of Arizona. I believe that looking at hardware curves is always simpler and more accurate. Why It Works Part Two: Crowdsourcing.

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Professor VC

MARCH 11, 2013

The founding duo of SocialParent (Reza Raji and Gerry Gutt) were also co-founders of iControl Networks , where I was also an investor and part-time CFO. I imagine the original intent was to make this real, but with the SEC dragging their feet, this provision of the JOBs Act is far from final.

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Hippoland

JULY 24, 2018

And I enjoy working with founders immensely. Having raised money before for my startup and having coached a lot founders on fundraising over the last few years, I’ve grown to love it. Per SEC rules, you can only accept 99 accredited investors into your fund. You need your founders to get downstream capital.

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Hippoland

JULY 24, 2018

And I enjoy working with founders immensely. Having raised money before for my startup and having coached a lot founders on fundraising over the last few years, I’ve grown to love it. Per SEC rules, you can only accept 99 accredited investors into your fund. You need your founders to get downstream capital.

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