A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 24, 2012

Pin It Listen to this episode if you want to learn what a VC investor thinks about “Internet scale” and how you can usually simplify your idea by charging a fair price for your product. We’re building a product. You don’t exit at north of a billion dollars unless you’re operating at scale.

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Silicon Valley Software Review Internet Technical Review 204

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

I’ve written on the expert network industry a fair amount in the past: see How to Earn More Consulting Revenue from Expert Networks and How Executives Can Work with Private Equity and Venture Capital Portfolio Companies. GLG Share is really a membership more than a product, and we want to serve our members however we can. Who are they?

New York 114

New York Technical Review Networking Advisory Board 114

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 9, 2018

Tie payments to your product or service revenue. With “cash flow” obligations, investors receive a percentage of your operating cash flow (if any) until they have been repaid in full, or have achieved a specified percentage return on their investment. Try to avoid obligations with fixed repayment schedules.

Cram Down 148

Cram Down Angel Investor Equity Dividend 148

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Tie payments to your product or service revenue. With “cash flow” obligations, investors receive a percentage of your operating cash flow (if any) until they have been repaid in full, or have achieved a specified percentage return on their investment. Try to avoid obligations with fixed repayment schedules.

Founder 254

Founder Cram Down Angel Investor Equity 254

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Amidst the rise of new funds, new technologies, and potentially disruptive late stage players, I thought it was important to share what we consider to be our core operating principles here at NextView. . Of the last 15 investments we’ve made, 8 have been pre-product or pre-seed style rounds.

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North America Seed Stage Early Stage Lead Investor 36

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Venture debt provides a very cost-effective way to receive capital from a big financial institution if you have liquidity or existing financial backing from a well-known investor. Venture debt is a no-brainer if you have liquidity or backing from an institutional investor. The downsides of venture debt?

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Covenant Institutional Investors Balance Sheet Warrant 60

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Tie payments to your product or service revenue. With “cash flow” obligations, investors receive a percentage of your operating cash flow (if any) until they have been repaid in full, or have achieved a specified percentage return on their investment. Try to avoid obligations with fixed repayment schedules.

Cram Down 120

Cram Down Angel Investor Equity Dividend 120

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

In venture capital in particular, early-stage companies are often operating in frontier industries, where the rules are unpredictable and conventional analytic frameworks may be misleading. To measure product usage and traction over time, we use tools like Alexa , AppAnnie and Google Analytics.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2010

The acquisition is a bitter-sweet end to the story of Veoh, which has raised $70 million since getting funded in 2005 from institutional investors (Goldman Sachs, Intel Capital, Shelter Capital and Spark Capital among others) and big media companies such as ABC, CBS and Warner Brothers.

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Bankruptcy Early Stage Merger Institutional Investors 74

Austin Startup

JUNE 4, 2017

Recently I was fortunate enough to have raised a seed funding round from a fantastic group of investors for my pre-product, pre-revenue B2B SaaS startup here in Austin, Texas. If you would like to read more about my company, here is the product launch and funding announcement. Mark Cuban leads $1.5 Remember that.

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Austin Institutional Investors Angel Groups Deal Flow 54

Growthink Blog

MAY 10, 2012

Put everything else on your "wish list" to buy with revenues from sales or additional financing. That is, you'll use the funding to build a product or service and prove that customers want to buy it. At this point, you will be ready for institutional investors who can provide funding to scale or rapidly grow your business.

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Equity Mezzanine Later Stage Venture Capital 88

grasshopperherder.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

As such, you should make sure to think of the proposals as an investor and get a reasonable term sheet. Please note: I am not an institutional investor and I am not a consultant although I occasionally dabble/consult in projects I find particularly interesting. Which country’s laws does the corporate entity operate under?

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Sweat Equity Equity Cofounder Non-Compete 41

Small Business Force

JUNE 11, 2010

A fundable business plan has, at a minimum, a business that has passed "proof of concept" (defined as cash paying customers successfully buying and using your product for a period of time) and has a scalable business model. This is why, in the early going, you should bootstrap your operation the best you can.

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Entrepreneur Institutional Investors Angel Investor Business Model 30