techcrunch.com

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

As a refresher, a convertible note is a loan that automatically converts into equity upon the closing of a Series A round of financing. The Founder Institute is a global network of startups and mentors that helps entrepreneurs launch meaningful and enduring technology companies. Company: Founder Institute. Website: fi.co.

Equity

David Teten

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The Aspen Tech Policy Hub is a West Coast policy incubator, training a new generation of tech policy entrepreneurs. We model ourselves after tech incubators like Y Combinator, but train new policy thinkers and focus the impact of their ideas. Bloomberg New Economy Forum Solutions. Summit Fellows. Thiel Fellowship.

Technical Review

Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Decades ago, the thesis of Yossi Vardi , a prolific technology entrepreneur who has invested in 75 Israeli startups, was that Israeli entrepreneurs should seek quick exit opportunities through global corporations interested in buying a window into Israeli talent and technology. Today, this thesis is less relevant. American VCs are critical.

Israel

online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Loading… Personal Finance. Personal Finance. Craig Walker, co-founder and CEO of Firespotter Labs, a technology incubator, said it feels unnatural to bestow so much voting power on one executive. Ritter, a finance professor at University of Floridas business school. Finance Jobs |. Global Support.

Silicon Valley

ReadWriteStart

MAY 5, 2011

Meanwhile, financing the company will be quite challenging, and I advised Satya to manufacture parts based only on signed contracts and advances against orders, to avoid getting into an inventory-rich, working capital-poor situation. This is an interesting trend we're seeing as we connect with incubators around the world.

Costa Rica

Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

This enabled Torch to evolve with China’s rapidly global economy. Torch has four major parts: Innovation Clusters , Technology Business Incubators (TBIs), Seed Funding (Innofund) and Venture Guiding Fund. They provide consulting, promotion, product testing, hiring, training and incubation services to startups.

Programming

pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

I’ve been hearing about the so-called Series A Crunch for at least six months, and in recent weeks, I’ve spoken with more than 20 venture capitalists, angel investors, incubator heads, lawyers, and other necessary cogs in the ecosystem trying to get some details about it. Those numbers are likely conservative. Open Sesame! (A

Technical Review

mashable.com

MARCH 24, 2011

Thinking of applying to one (or all) of the summer accelerator/incubator/angel/mentoring programs like TechStars , Joystick Labs , or any of those found on this comprehensive list ? Dir, Global Partnerships, UN Foundation David Jones CEO, Havas & Global CEO, Euro RSCG Worldwide Raymie Stata SVP & CTO, Yahoo!

Programming

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

easy business finance software. YCombinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents. Incubator List/ Local Startup Resources/ Startup Q&A. List of Startup Incubators. Startup Threads. Videos/presentations. SlideShare. Haiku Deck. GoAnimate *. Customer service. Get Satisfaction. Event platforms. Eventbrite. Women Focus.

Software Review

mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Joshua Baer is the co-founder and CEO of Otherinbox , a prolific angel investor and the director of Capital Factory , Austin’s seed-stage incubator. Money and Finance Lists. Global Syndication Partners. Share on Tumblr email share Share on Tumblr email share. You can follow Joshua on Twitter @joshuabaer. Holiday Lists.

Social Media

mashable.com

OCTOBER 5, 2012

He currently runs marketing at tech incubator QLabs and previously co-founded travel site Wanderfly. Money and Finance Lists. Global Syndication Partners. October 3, 2012 by Cezary Pietrzak. Like Tweet +1 Share Pin It Share. Cezary Pietrzak is a New York-based creative marketer and growth strategist. Google Lists. Holiday Lists.

Naming

Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

There’s non-profit organizations, and incubators, and accelerators, of like-minded people, and startup weekends are now global, and that’s a great place because everybody that goes there is interested in starting a business, and there’s usually a great mix of talent. There’s a lot of chambers of commerce.

Technical Review

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

If you believe in it – then finance whatever you can yourself. 2) Do you recommend joining an incubator for first time entrepreneurs who know exactly what they want? (3) 2) yes, join an incubator, (1) Read this [link]. Pingback: You’ve Got Questions About Startups, Dan Martell has 189 Answers — Global Nerdy.

Technical Review

David Teten

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

. – Indiegogo.com is a crowd-funding platform allowing contributors to empower hundreds of thousands of inventors, musicians, do-gooders, filmmakers – and many more – to bring their dreams to life. – Clarity.com proactively advises you on managing your personal finances efficiently. Goldman Sachs bought Clarity for ~$100m. .

Venture Capital

NZ Entrepreneur

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

A new study considers whether it is better to “go global” from day one, or to grow locally first. With talent in sales, marketing, and technology, Niesh was still missing some critical processes and systems – including elements of finance and human resources – to support their growth. The post Go global or grow local?

Global

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

I call it drip-financing. Most entrepreneurs have no choice but to avail of this sort of financing along with the mentoring and the contacts that could come with it (doesn't always come along, though). In 1M/1M, our preferred financing strategy is customers. Because customer financing equals revenue, not equity.

Cloud

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Sramana Mitra is the founder of the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative, an educational, business development and incubation program that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond. This, of course, doesn't mean that we discourage entrepreneurs from seeking financing.

Silicon Valley

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 7, 2010

That is debt financing that converts into equity at the Series A valuation once the price for that is set. (I Our discussion today was largely around her financing strategy, and one of the key milestones that I probed her on was: What does it take to get a validated customer? Sub-$2 million pre-money, it is better to bootstrap.

Valuation

Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

A 20 th century VC was likely to have an MBA or finance background. What this means is that the emergence of incubators and super angels have dramatically expanded the sources of seed capital. (And the results do appear years earlier than in a traditional startup.). Third, venture capital has now become Founder-friendly.

Restful

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Sequoia has financed them. These roundtables are the cornerstone programming of a global initiative that I have started called One Million by One Million ( 1M/1M ). Its mission is to help a million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond, build $1 trillion in sustainable global GDP, and create 10 million jobs.

Cloud

Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2017

Although we were studying finance, we were always more interested in tech. Before graduating, I decided to forgo the finance path and instead dove into engineering and later sales and product management roles at VersaSuite (health IT) in Austin. But we never lost the finance bug. We were infatuated with tech.

Technical Review

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 1, 2010

A social translation program is one way you can make your website more accessible to a global audience for less. A social translation program is one way you can make your website more accessible to a global audience for less. Hilton D – Only a fraction of business financing comes from Sand Hill Road. Saturday, March 13th.

Omaha

www.founderinstitute.com

MARCH 2, 2010

With 1,100 lawyers, 150 practice areas and a global presence, Holland & Knight offers the experience and resources to handle your most difficult legal challenges. Think of it as “shared office space meets incubator meets entrepreneurial club-house.”

Term Sheet

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

I will work with him on his inventory financing strategy. These roundtables are the cornerstone programming of a global initiative that I have started called One Million by One Million ( 1M/1M ). In addition, we are offering entrepreneurs access to investors and customers through our recently launched our 1M/1M Incubation Radar series.

India

mashable.com

OCTOBER 5, 2012

He currently runs marketing at tech incubator QLabs and previously co-founded travel site Wanderfly. Money and Finance Lists. Global Syndication Partners. October 4, 2012 by Cezary Pietrzak. Like Tweet +1 Share Pin It Share. Cezary Pietrzak is a New York-based creative marketer and growth strategist. Google Lists. Holiday Lists.

Naming

The Next Web

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

From Silicon Valley to Silicon Alley, and Berlin’s hip coffee shops to East London’s Silicon Roundabout , the world is well versed in the global innovation boom towns. What’s the magic formula that helps a city to incubate innovation? What’s the magic formula that helps a city to incubate innovation? Malmö, Sweden.

North Carolina

Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

*A social impact investor I highly respect took on what I consider to be a predatory lending company: a fintech operation offering 18% interest loans to women so they can finance daycare and stay in the workforce (like any finance company, the loans were secured on the wages from their employment, a default resulted in collections).

Silicon Valley

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 7, 2011

Finnish startup successes on a global stage include MySQL , F-Secure , Rovio , Habbo , Playfish , The Switch , Tectia , Trulia and Linux. Ironically one of the things that’s holding back the Finnish cluster is Tekes , the government organization for financing research, development and innovation in Finland. 9-to-5 Venture Capital.

Finland

YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 4, 2011

Professor Wong Poh Kam of the NUS Entrepreneurship Centre said that there can be too much micromanagement by bureaucrats on entrepreneurship incubators, which tends to then disincentivize them. The conversation later moved to the Singapore education system and the need to encourage more locals to take up the entrepreneurial path.

Singapore

Feld Thoughts

MARCH 27, 2018

Now that we are 13 years into the accelerator journey, an accelerator is a well-established construct that is part of the global startup ecosystem. Accelerators and Crowd-Funding: Complementarity, Competition, or Convergence in the Earliest Stages of Financing New Ventures? Wikipedia has a good summary of the history of accelerators.

LP

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Finnish startup successes on a global stage include MySQL , F-Secure , Rovio , Habbo , Playfish , The Switch , Tectia , Trulia and Linux. Ironically one of the things that's holding back the Finnish cluster is Tekes , the government organization for financing research, development and innovation in Finland. 9-to-5 Venture Capital.

Finland

Life Beyond Code

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

One Million by One Million is a global initiative that aims to nurture a million entrepreneurs reach a million dollars each in annual revenue and beyond by 2020, thereby creating a trillion dollars in global GDP and ten million jobs. By April 2010, the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) global initiative had been formally named.

Programming

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

As I keep reiterating, 99% of the businesses that go out for financing get rejected. Ledface is not ready for financing, even though that was one of their first questions. As I keep reiterating, 99% of the businesses that go out for financing get rejected. About Sramana Mitra.

Brazil

The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 4, 2023

Chicago’s 1871 Chicago’s Technology and IHCC’s LatinX Incubator Selection. Chicago Council on Global Affairs 2010 Emerging Leaders Program Selection. How has the Pandemic changed the way one should approach their finances? Aspen Ideas Festival Ricardo Salinas Scholar. Olga: I always tell people to be proactive!

Founder

ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 29, 2010

The Internet might be truly global then, but the world of startups still revolves much around Silicon Valley. The incubators and co-working spaces are on par with what we have. Access to Finance. To my surprise, the ideas and technology behind that startups were not superior to the ones we have in Finland.

Silicon Valley

ReadWriteStart

MARCH 24, 2011

The discussion today was around Social Media financing and go-to-market strategy. Sramana Mitra is the founder of the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative, an educational, business development and incubation program that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond.

Illinois

ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Parallel6 is already clocking over $1 million in revenue and is looking to enhance its customer acquisition and also raise some financing. The offering is a managed service, priced at $7,000-$10,000 for a one-time setup fee and a $2,500-$3,000 per month maintenance and services charge. Statisco Economic Analytics.

North Carolina