Scott Edward Walker

JUNE 30, 2011

Introduction I’ve been helping entrepreneurs raise capital as a securities lawyer for 17+ years, and there are certain fundamental legal mistakes that I’ve seen entrepreneurs make over and over again. Accordingly, I thought it would be helpful to share three basic tips for entrepreneurs in connection with raising capital.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 10, 2011

One of my beliefs is that such a theory should be addressed to entrepreneurs and the people who hold them accountable. It’s this latter criteria that I think tends to get overlooked in most writing about entrepreneurs. Who holds entrepreneurs accountable? And it’s not just investors who are having trouble. I’ll be honest.

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Mucker Lab

AUGUST 27, 2014

As an entrepreneur himself, founding and operating printed circuit board factories in Taiwan, my father was debating between two places to immigrate to and build his next new venture: Los Angeles (“The Valley” aka San Fernando Valley) and Santa Clara (“Silicon Valley”).

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Being an entrepreneur is so often like being a lawyer – you have to constantly build a case for your company. At the end of the day, so many factors go into your company’s ability to win an investment, but if you use these five steps as your guide, you will increase your chances for success. In Closing.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Although underwriting an IPO shares some similarities with ICOs, it’s only at the highest level and the details of executing — both technically and pragmatically — are quite different (for some insight think of old-line white shoe investment bankers versus millennials, and how and where they communicate differently).

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

One of the most common questions that entrepreneurs who meet me for the first time like to ask is, “Do you miss being an entrepreneur? I thought I’d talk a bit about the differences I’ve experienced between being an entrepreneur & a VC – you know, from “both sides of the table.&#. On Being an Entrepreneur.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Being an entrepreneur is so often like being a lawyer – you have to constantly build a case for your company. At the end of the day, so many factors go into your company’s ability to win an investment, but if you use these five steps as your guide, you will increase your chances for success. In Closing.

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Spencer Fry

AUGUST 20, 2018

It's like walking up to the investment banker or a lawyer at a party who’s wearing a light blue button up, dark slacks, and brown loafers -- just like every other investment banker I've ever met. No number of articles written by entrepreneurs will get you the answers you need.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Helping Entrepreneurs Get To Where They Want To Go Faster written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Elizabeth Gore and Carolyn launched Hello Alice with the goal of helping entrepreneurs thrive with access to funding, resources, mentorship, and more. Marketing Podcast with Carolyn Rodz. We never have.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 26, 2017

The fact that we’ve done all of that with no external investments (we’ve bootstrapped until now) and with no previous formal experience in education makes it even cooler (my business partner worked in infrastructure projects and I was an investment banker on Wall Street for five years prior to this). Daniel Pink.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Helping Entrepreneurs Buy And Sell Their Agencies written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. In this episode, she’s sharing how she’s helped many entrepreneurs buy and sell businesses. And we're gonna talk today about helping entrepreneurs buy and sell their agencies. So Amanda, welcome to the show.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

“Hi [entrepreneur], I hope all is well. I know the firm well and I know the entrepreneur & his business well. There is no chance they’re going to invest and it’s not even a close match. But if that’s all that they’re after then entrepreneurs should definitely be wary of taking these calls.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

But it’s rare that an entrepreneur or business owner doesn’t leverage their background in some way to launch their business. No one even “born entrepreneurs”aren’t born as CEOs. No one even “born entrepreneurs”aren’t born as CEOs. 6 – Investment Banker.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

Many entrepreneurs still dream of “going public,” making billions of dollars, and playing with the big boys. Expensive new IT systems, consultants, and investment bankers are usually required. Consider the recent example of Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg. Increasing government regulations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 5, 2011

Many entrepreneurs still dream of “going public,” making billions of dollars, and playing with the big boys. Expensive new IT systems, consultants, and investment bankers are usually required. Increasing government regulations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2020

On the other hand, if you are a new entrepreneur, still in the idea stage, professional investors will only tell you to come back later when you have traction (customers and revenue). Growth stage investments from VCs are usually $5 million and up. This is the exit stage for the entrepreneur, and for all earlier investors.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 19, 2010

He also write a nice post on limiting email and managing on the important / urgent matrix from the perspective on a recovering ex investment banker. Compared to being an entrepreneur it feels like I didn't learn much there but on reflection I learned much more than I think even I realize.

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thebarefootvc

JANUARY 27, 2014

I think that later stage valuations are frothy (for reasons I explain below) while earlier stage valuations are starting to stabilize from previous highs (with the exception of the superstar serial entrepreneur) - turns out scaling in a sea of competition (both startup and entrenched) is not so easy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2023

On the other hand, if you are a new entrepreneur, still in the idea stage, professional investors will only tell you to come back later when you have traction (customers and revenue). Growth stage investments from VCs are usually $5 million and up. This is the exit stage for the entrepreneur, and for all earlier investors.

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Rob Go

JANUARY 18, 2012

I think this is an interesting question, because it seems to defy the logic (or conventional wisdom) that a VC with more operating experience should be better suited to help entrepreneurs. Nick Beim (Gilt, The Ladders, JBoss) was a consultant and investment banker. Couple observations. First, consider the many counter-examples.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2012

Business ventures build on top of one another like Lego towers — they don’t spring Athena-like from the foreheads of entrepreneurs, no matter what some may claim. Patrick Chukwura at Young Entrepreneurs , Sept. Anyone with a strong idea, a lot of luck, and even more hard work can succeed in the for-profit and nonprofit sectors.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

And there is so much money around being thrown at so many entrepreneurs that many firms don’t even care about board seats, governance rights or heaven forbid doing work with the company because that would eat into the VCs time needed to chase 5 more deals. And the truth is that several entrepreneurs prefer it this way.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Those nice, encouraging and feel-good stories of self-made, successful entrepreneurs make you feel like you can do anything! And those feel-good stories of extremely successful entrepreneurs? But once you pull these factors all together, you’ll find out for yourself if you fit the equation of being an entrepreneur.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2010

If you connect these dots, it becomes clear that middle-aged entrepreneurs will play a central role in leading us out of our recession and restoring normal levels of employment. He has a diverse background as a Tier I management consultant, investment banker, technologist, and Silicon Valley entrepreneur.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Many entrepreneurs still dream of “going public,” making billions of dollars, and playing with the big boys. Expensive new IT systems, consultants, and investment bankers are usually required. business entrepreneur exit founder IPO startup' Consider the recent example of Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg. Marty Zwilling.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 1, 2011

I’ve suddenly become very popular with investment bankers and have been on the receiving end of over 50 emails that look something like the following: “We met once a long time ago when I was with firm X. Entrepreneurs beware. In the last month I’ve had the chance to make about 50 new friends.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 28, 2010

Finding the best jobs takes a lot of commitment to taking many different networking meetings with executives, recruiters, entrepreneurs, VC’s, investment bankers, etc. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice. Let’s start with the obvious.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Should you hire an investment banker? The good news: even if you are a small company and can’t afford a banker, you can synthetically and cheaply replicate a banker. That’s part of the value proposition of an institutional VC; I have been the (unpaid) investment banker for many of my portfolio companies. .

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 4, 2014

On the other hand, if you are a new entrepreneur, still in the idea stage, professional investors will only tell you to come back later when you have traction (customers and revenue). Growth stage investments from VCs are usually $5 million and up. This is the exit stage for the entrepreneur, and for all earlier investors.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2010

This is the final stage of investment in venture opportunities, and is the point where investors expect to see the return and gain from the original investment. At this stage, you need investment bankers to negotiate a merger or acquisition (M&A), go private, or help you go public with an Initial Public Offering (IPO).

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David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

A nalysis – One of the luxuries of being a VC is that we have a larger data set than most entrepreneurs of performance. Based on our data set, we help our entrepreneurs measure, understand, and report their performance. N etwork – We organize events regularly to build out our community. I’ve listed a few ideas below.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

This post highlights some of the reasons why the market is moving again and what entrepreneurs should do about this. There’s no doubt (at least anecdotally) that the pace of VC investments in early-stage technology companies has picked up in the past few months. but I’ll save that for post 3/3).

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

One of the most common questions that entrepreneurs who meet me for the first time like to ask is, “Do you miss being an entrepreneur? I thought I’d talk a bit about the differences I’ve experienced between being an entrepreneur & a VC – you know, from “both sides of the table.&#. On Being an Entrepreneur.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

If you have or are thinking about a business in the video space you’ll enjoy hearing from Gregg but even more broadly this is a great conversation for entrepreneurs, investors or industry analysts. Gregg is an ex Investment Banker and Wharton MBA. Here’s the link. This video discusses issues like: 1.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

While I wish my lawyers, accountants, and investment bankers offered a money back guarantee, I accept that isn’t changing anytime soon. After all, our mission is to help entrepreneurs. The only requirement is that you have to give us detailed feedback on what you didn’t find useful about Techstars.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

This is the final stage of investment in venture opportunities, and is the point where investors expect to see the return and gain from the original investment. At this stage, you need investment bankers to negotiate a merger or acquisition (M&A), go private, or help you go public with an Initial Public Offering (IPO).

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 12, 2014

The people in the room are the founders of the company, the executives, the board members, other major investors, the lawyers who worked on the deal, and the investment bankers – if any were involved. Tickets will be available for purchase the week of May 19 with proceeds going to Entrepreneurs Foundation of Colorado.

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