Steve Blank

JUNE 27, 2017

If they select a business model that targets industry incumbents, they don’t have to worry about upsetting existing customers, partners or distribution channels. Existing companies also use network effects of monopolies/duopolies, distribution channel kickbacks, etc., to stifle competition.). What can a company do?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 22, 2010

Things like “ participating preferred stock &# in legalese unsurprisingly never actually call out, “hey, this is the participating preferred language.&# We got a3x participating liquidation preference with interest (not participating with a 3x cap, but 3x participating. 4 * $4 million) and not $4 million.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Posted on September 14, 2009 by steveblank Over the last 30 years Wall Street’s appetite for technology stocks have changed radically – swinging between unbridled enthusiasm to believing they’re all toxic. Your firm worked with an investment banking firm that underwrote and offered stock (typically on the NASDAQ exchange) to the public.

Silicon Valley 237

Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 237

The Startup Magazine

MAY 13, 2022

Equity distribution among co-founders may be a complex procedure while starting any business. We’ll address the fundamental considerations to consider when distributing stock in a business, including the method of dividing equity among founders and typical traps to avoid, in this post.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 2, 2010

I always encourage people to allocate a few extra stock options to those that join super early when your company is risky and they just believed in you. years where I developed skills building distributed systems over networks. Sure, you can get away with less, but why? He didn’t have the work in Europe to carry me.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. They controlled distribution to the masses. MySpace would liked to have owned YouTube but didn’t have the public stock valuation to purchase them at the price that Google did. AOL was closed, the Internet was open. Google acquired YouTube for $1.65

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Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 30, 2020

Speed equals immediacy AND certainty of delivery (in stock): Consumers want same day or next day delivery more than ever before. In our view, retailers must absorb the additional costs of the new distribution requirements if they want to be part of the future retail landscape.

America 222

America New York City Technical Review Distribution 222

Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Over time, capital requirements for insurance companies became quite large and most insurance companies have adopted the model of a “stock insurance company” (an insurance company that is owned by investors who have purchased company stock).

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Semantic Software Review Stock Technical Review 101

Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

They come up with two options: Hire Praveena as an employee and offer her stock options. Bring Praveena in as a founder and offer 10-20% of the company as stock. In this manner, you can see both the current equity distribution of the company, as well as historically what the equity holdings looked like.

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Cap Table CTO Hire Technical Cofounder Cofounder 133

Agile VC

OCTOBER 23, 2012

For example, if there were no S&P 500 ETFs or index mutual funds an investor could easily buy a “synthetic” equivalent by buying shares of all the S&P 500 stocks in proportion to each company’s weighting in the index. Startup outcomes are a power law distribution rather than a standard distribution.

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LP Accredited Investor Carried Interest Distribution 176

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 25, 2015

Owners of corporations also pay taxes when they are paid dividends or profit from sale of the stock, which is why it is common to say that corporations are “double-taxed.” Ownership of a corporation is measured in stock. Stocks are issued at the time the company is formed, and more can be issued over time. Verdict : It’s a tie!

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LLC Technical Review Software Review Limited Liability Company 100

YoungUpstarts

MAY 22, 2016

Their website provides stock market information, business news, useful article – and it all looks just perfect, thanks to Rails. Used mostly for code, this repository hosting service also offers all source code management and distributed revision control functionality. Couchsurfing. Traveling can be cheap.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2022

This is largely due to several major stock market crashes and global economic uncertainties. Venture-capital firms are jumping into the stock market, buying up battered shares in publicly traded tech companies at a time when they are investing less in the startups that have long been their focus.

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Founder Technical Review Down Round Liquidation Preference 173

Gust

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Copyright is the right to control reproduction and distribution of original works of authorship fixed in tangible forms of expression. (What do you suppose the market value would be of the trademark “Facebook,” its lowercase “f” symbol, or the Facebook.com domain?).

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Intellectual Property Technical Review Software Review IP 149

Gust

JANUARY 31, 2013

Modern theories of economics and finance teach us that in a world of perfect information, the market will decide what a fair price is for any company’s stock at any point in time based on its current financial condition, results of past operations, analysts’ forecasts of future performance, industry conditions and so on.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2015

That might start with the CEO giving the investor pitch to the whole organization, and distributing the current business plan document to everyone. Sales and distribution channel activity will be analyzed, as well as cost of customer acquisition, to make an independent assessment of your financial projections.

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Technical Review Due Diligence Startup Term Sheet 120

NZ Entrepreneur

DECEMBER 10, 2020

The pitch: StockTrim is a SaaS API which uses a machine learning algorithm to look at past stock behaviour and project future demand to avoid the common situations of over-ordering, under-ordering or miscalculating delivery times and quantities. StockTrim is cloud-based and deliverable anywhere worldwide.

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Technical Review Software Review Due Diligence Startup 105

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Customer Lifetime Value is first and foremost, influenced by factors that are your KPIs: RFM distribution; Margin; Customer Experience (Product reviews, Net Promoter Score, Customer Effort Score, etc.); RFM distribution. Once you have RFM groups, you’ll better understand the distribution of your customers. Image source ).

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2016

LPs have been feeling great about venture capital due to holding valuable paper positions in companies like Uber, Lyft, Airbnb, Dropbox, all of which they feel confident will drive large cash distributions in the future. Without some cash distributions, eventually LPs will become stretched.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 25, 2011

The issue was that for the last two weeks in August, there were no VCs around to pitch, no distribution partners to meet with for biz dev deals, and seemingly no one else around actually working for me, the non-technical co-founder to push ahead toward milestones. Second, there was way too much to do. Look ahead to the conference schedule.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 1, 2011

In the traditional stock market an index is a small sample of the market that represents the stock market as a whole. Dave argues that instead of providing connections you should let founders do 95% of the work and offer support with operational areas of expertise like design, data and distribution. Just look at AngelList?'s

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Technical Review Due Diligence Cofounder Startup 123

The Startup Magazine

APRIL 21, 2021

Looking into the near future, it’s entirely possible that virtual forms of currency could allow for much more efficient and capital and securities markets, like the major stock exchanges. The chain makes it possible to represent any asset, be it a bond, a stock, or a precious metal, as a token for the purposes of trading.

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Technical Review China Stock Government 116

Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Over time, capital requirements for insurance companies became quite large and most insurance companies have adopted the model of a “stock insurance company” (an insurance company that is owned by investors who have purchased company stock).

Software Review 66

Software Review Stock Technical Review Distribution 66

YoungUpstarts

MAY 13, 2020

Take stock of your office culture and develop a right-sized space that plays to the culture’s strengths. He has managed award winning, distributed, remote marketing teams spanning the globe for over 20 years. People may still need their personal space and naturally section off. for your team to be productive. .

Product 147

Product Software Review Due Diligence Agile 147

ConversionXL

MAY 6, 2014

In 2012, I launched a kind of ‘Groupon deal for musicians’, where I gave away $1,250 worth of products, including recording time, iTunes distribution, and a guitar string endorsement deal for just $69 for 100 hours only. 3 Adding Stock Urgency. There are two ways to do this: through stock urgency, and through time-based urgency.

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Sales Conversion Stock PPC 132

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Part I) - ArcticStartup , September 26, 2010 As you all know, it’s been an interesting few weeks at Nokia - a new CEO, top executives leaving, the company stock wallowing at absurdly low values. APIs provide a way to “federate&# web services from a single website to a distributed network of 3rd party sites. Another important web 2.0

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Technology Product San Francisco CTO Hire 191

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 23, 2011

Under the 1976 Copyright Act (United States), the copyright owner has the exclusive right to reproduce, adapt, distribute, publicly perform and publicly display the work. Ask crowdSPRING: Can Royalty-free Stock Be Used For Logo Design? Copyright is a form of legal protection provided to those who create original works.

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Intellectual Property Software Review Design Software 134

thebarefootvc

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

The combination of mobile technology, sensors, robotics, and data analytics will create businesses that can empower billions of people around the world through decentralized and distributed networks where the “middlemen” are no longer required. Now expand this to a cross border world.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 27, 2021

Now synonymous with video-conferencing, the company-name-turned-verb stock peaked in October 2020, a market interpretation of how the Zoom Boom has defined the daily lives of many millions throughout the COVID-19 outbreak. 2020 was a good year for Zoom.

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Vertical Video Technical Review Europe 148

YoungUpstarts

JULY 23, 2013

As the “ Wealth Inequality in America “ video describes, a Harvard business professor and economist asked over 5000 Americans how they thought wealth was distributed in the U.S, Moreover, the top 1% own half the countries’ stocks, bonds and mutual funds, while the bottom 50% own only.5% which was about $54 trillion in 2009.

America 133

America Bankruptcy Distribution Video 133

Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 7, 2012

Week three’s breakdown covered topics like how hard momentum is to turn around, and how participating preferred stock works. He had been at it for 6 months and had no sales or distribution lined up yet. I’ve been writing up reviews of this season’s Shark Tank pitches from a silicon valley VCs perspective. BACK 9 DIPS.

Technical Review 110

Technical Review Technical Cofounder Valuation Pre-Money Valuation 110

Up and Running

AUGUST 28, 2019

Agree upon how much of this business each of your leaders owns, and write that down on slips of paper called “stock certificates”. Finally, they will outline the next two steps we’ll discuss below: board meetings and distribution of shares. . Issue stock. Write that stuff down in a special book. Hold your first board meeting.

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Delaware Stock Nevada Technical Review 83

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

Everyone involved in the business, whether it’s your uncle that does accounting, or your teenage kids that distribute surveys, needs to know how to protect your data. Take stock of the ways data currently flows throughout the company and decide if those processes make sense.

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Software Review Technical Review Security Cloud 100

Ben's Blog

AUGUST 31, 2020

IN THIS EDITION Fintech products ease more Americans into the stock market In defense of the IPO, and how to improve it What’s inside your (mobile) bank? Among the most interesting is Stash’s “stock back” program, which is essentially an alternative form of rewards. Thanks for signing up. in addition to home ownership.

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abovethecrowd.com

AUGUST 23, 2020

Most potential buyers of stocks are blocked out of the IPO process. It has to do with the trends in how much effort the investment banks put into marketing and distribution, versus how much effort they put in historically. Stock markets do not have have historical artifacts hidden in them.

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IPO Silicon Valley Warrant Matching 118

Up and Running

JUNE 28, 2016

Key marketing tactics including pricing, messaging, and distribution, while others are about positioning your business against the background of the other offerings. Competitive positioning. You need to know how your business stacks up, in terms of the values it offers to its chosen target market. How do you stack up against the others?

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Business Plan Technical Review Software Review Vertical 109

David Teten

MARCH 24, 2014

Chernick : However, it should be noted that some outstanding asset allocators, just like some outstanding stock pickers, do beat the odds and indices. Teten : I’m not sure I agree, as inevitably some people will look like geniuses in a random distribution of outcomes. We over-weighted small cap value stocks in 1998-2002.

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Software Review Due Diligence Venture Capital Portfolio 114