Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 7, 2013

For the full year 2012, venture-backed initial public offerings raised $21.5 Your friends and family are really the only answer until you have a significant revenue stream. Use friends, family, and angels, if possible, to get a product, revenue, and customers first before the VC connection.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 23, 2011

Through connections, or through a chance meeting at a networking or social event, an angel investor hears the entrepreneur's story, likes them and their technology, and on the spot, writes a check to provide the company with its first outside financing. There are a lot of dark, hard days. Venture capitalists Cut Tough Deals.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

I myself have two investors, Arlan Hamilton of Backstage Capital and Chris Shonk, an angel investor in Localeur but founding partner of ATX Seed Ventures, who are VCs. Are there amazing Silicon Valley VCs out there with whom entrepreneurs should work to partner? Most definitely. This premise has become doctrine in Silicon Valley.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. If failure is defined as failing to see the projected return on investment—say, a specific revenue growth rate or date to break even on cash flow—then more than 95% of start-ups fail, based on Mr. Ghoshs research. Topics: 12.

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Pascal's View

MARCH 9, 2010

Answer: Actually there is plenty of financial information available from private companies, but that does not mean that it is available to institutional investors as passive investors who are Limited Partners in venture capital or other private equity partnerships. Share and Enjoy:

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