Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2023

It never hurts to start networking personally with all levels of investors early, but sending out teasers and business plans to every name you can find on the Internet is a waste of your time and theirs. No professional investor will be interested at this point, so count only on yourself, friends, family, and fools for money. “My

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Steve Blank

JUNE 12, 2020

In 2016, brainstorming with Pete Newell of BMNT and Joe Felter at Stanford we observed that students in our research universities had little connection to the problems their government was trying to solve or the larger issues civil society were grappling with. Every year they fund several teams as they launch companies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2020

It never hurts to start networking personally with all levels of investors early, but sending out teasers and business plans to every name you can find on the Internet is a waste of your time and theirs. No professional investor will be interested at this point, so count only on yourself, friends, family, and fools for money. “My

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Pitchbook Data released a new report on the state of Private Capital in Israel 2020 , covering private equity and venture capital. I’ll focus on VC only here as it’s the core focus of this blog. Israel based startups raised $4.1 billion in 2019 and are pacing for a high showing in 2020 as well. billion in H1 2020.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 1, 2020

Accelerators and incubators support the startups with a small amount of funding, mentorship, networking opportunities, resources, and workspaces. ? Government programs. For mature businesses, there are Private Equity or PE firms. ? These usually play a role in the very early stage of your business, primarily pre-revenue.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 8, 2022

Our current approaches – both in the past and current administration – to innovation across the government are piecemeal, incremental, increasingly less relevant and insufficient. Integrate and incent the Venture Capital/Private Equity ecosystem to invest at scale. Make it permanent by creating innovation doctrine/policy.

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Growthink Blog

MARCH 25, 2013

Crowdfunding, private equity and debt secondary markets like Second Market and SharesPost, peer-to-peer lending sites like Prosper.com and Lending Club, and the Big Three social networking giants - Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter - have made information and intelligence on, and access to opportunities better and greater than ever before.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 20, 2019

If the primary reason is an insufficient business plan, start networking with experts who can help you craft a better business plan. The government decided that entrepreneurs need a little bit more assistance. If the primary reason for your rejection is a poor credit history, start taking steps now to fix your credit.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2018

It never hurts to start networking personally with all levels of investors early, but sending out teasers and business plans to every name you can find on the Internet is a waste of your time and theirs. No professional investor will be interested at this point, so count only on yourself, friends, family, and fools for money. “My

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 29, 2014

For public sector roles, such as government employees, teachers, and firefighters, DB pension funds are still the norm, and many public pension funds still invest in VC funds (though some of these are very large entities, making scale an issue, which I’ll discuss more below). What Are These Intermediaries? Why Write About This Now?

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 29, 2014

For public sector roles, such as government employees, teachers, and firefighters, DB pension funds are still the norm, and many public pension funds still invest in VC funds (though some of these are very large entities, making scale an issue, which I’ll discuss more below). What Are These Intermediaries?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 4, 2014

It never hurts to start networking personally with all levels of investors early, but sending out teasers and business plans to every name you can find on the Internet is a waste of your time and theirs. No professional investor will be interested at this point, so count only on yourself, friends, family, and fools for money. “My

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Are they running from high prices, high taxes, dysfunctional government, and wildfires? All of the investors, all of the big companies, all of the government groups?—?they In fact, the Houston city government ranks number onein the country in renewable energy use. What’s bringing them here? Count all of the people you know!

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2016

It never hurts to start networking personally with all levels of investors early, but sending out teasers and business plans to every name you can find on the Internet is a waste of your time and theirs. No professional investor will be interested at this point, so count only on yourself, friends, family, and fools for money. “My

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

Like other RBI firms, Decathlon does not require warrants, governance involvement, or the types of financial covenants that are often associated with other venture debt type solutions. Most programs culminate with a Pitch Day and Investor Networking Event where the companies present their newly defined and expanded growth playbook. .

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Growthink Blog

MARCH 26, 2012

As exciting, the amazing, networked power of crowdfunding will usher in a true golden age for U.S. So for those of you that despair for the fate of our world and of the inefficacy of our government and political systems, hold on just a little longer.

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Growthink Blog

MARCH 19, 2012

Broadening the Base Currently, equity-based crowd funding falls under strict Securities and Exchange Commission rules governing angel investing. First, the SEC largely limits private-equity investments to accredited investors—those with $1 million or more in net worth, among other tight standards. million U.S.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

MARCH 13, 2013

The Times Higher Education site has an interesting piece highlighting the difficulties British universities are having commercializing all of the research funding they receive from their government. via MPs criticise government over research commercialisation | News | Times Higher Education.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 8, 2013

There are excellent websites such as National Enterprise Network to provide advice on your business idea. There are a number of options for funding your business: Government schemes: The government usually has some sort of funding available for business startups.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

It's easy to say that companies, universities and the government should be doing more to find a cure, but that ignores years of overlooking the importance of the work of those studying infectious disease, and in many cases, the lack of sophisticated tooling that they urgently need. Robert Rhinehart : It's a bit of a roundabout path.

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

And with over 50% of this spending coming from government - primarily from Medicaid spending (up 10%) and Medicare (up 8%) - there is no end in sight to the growth. Let's put that number in perspective - the increase in healthcare spending in the U.S. in 2009 was greater than the revenues of Microsoft, Cisco, Google, and Apple.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

John Warrillow: They sure are, and by the way, that’s a typical fishing letter used by either a private equity group or a business broker, as flattering as it can be, it probably doesn’t mean a whole lot. So that’s just another one of the benefits of being part of the Duct Tape Marketing Consultant Network.

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Professor VC

MARCH 10, 2009

We dont know the end of the story, but they have built a real business with hundres of machines sold to gyms all over the world along with government contracts for military purchases. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? A Lot of Horn Tooting over a Kazoo sized deal. ► January. (1).

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

This article will focus on the impact of hospitals in that equation, specifically those public health system owned and controlled by local Governments. [2]. Further into their lifecycle, though, they found themselves beholden to certain financial and governance handicaps. Enter the privatization transaction.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 3, 2012

brian_wong : Follow Brian Wong, founder and CEO of Kipp, a rewards network for virtual achievements. jamescaan : James Caan is a serial entrepreneur and CEO of the Hamilton Bradshaw private equity firm. skaritt : Social media junkie and CEO of FlockMarketing.com tweets all about marketing through social networking.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

You succeed in convincing one company and a government to adopt computers and learn to code much faster than their competitors /adversaries. These technologies will transform businesses and government agencies. Today, 100s of billions of dollars in private capital have been invested in 1,000s of AI startups.

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Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2022

For decades, satellites that took detailed pictures of Earth were only available to governments and the high-resolution images were classified. government satellite in orbit. Another startup is providing a resilient, mesh local area network for secure tactical communications supporting ground units.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 19, 2020

Impact Investing has been around for a long time, most prominently since the 1960’s as companies and governments began engaging with the concept through private equity and debt investing in developing economies. Cohen asks. Impact Tech: the intentional use of technology and science to benefit people and the planet.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 23, 2020

She is a business psychologist, advisor and consultant to public and private companies as well as government and nonprofit institutions. I’ve had a private practice for the last 30 years and I’ve had a corporate consulting practice for the last 28 years. This is John Jantsch and my guest today is Dr. Melanie Katzman.

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Transformify

MARCH 4, 2018

Having 70 000+ employees in 60+ countries, Adecco is also a member of National Minority Supplier Development Council, Women’s Business Enterprise National Council, and Elite Service Disabled Veteran Owned Business Network. Integrity Staffing Solutions. They provide temp-to-hire , temp, direct hire, and contract work solutions.

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