Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

With the advent of the Internet, the size and address of your office is irrelevant. Most new teams are geographically dispersed these days anyway, so paying rent for an office should be differed to later stages when revenue is plentiful. You will be in good company with the many legends who used this approach. Marty Zwilling

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The Next Web

JULY 29, 2013

If you are an Internet/software business, take care you pick a location that helps you to start. We decided to go for Berlin also because we want to shape Berlin’s startup culture, always with the goals to expand to the US at a later stage. It also helped us to start lean and simple, and grow our product into something bigger.

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San Francisco Cofounder Germany Europe 125

Austin Startup

MAY 11, 2017

We focus primarily on software and Internet companies in areas such as SaaS, application software, financial software, consumer internet, and online marketplaces. These sectors generally leverage the Internet or software in a fundamental way.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2013

These sources are a lot more forgiving of iterations and pivots than later-stage venture-capital funds. In a Lean Startup , the goal is to preserve your cash until you find a repeatable and scalable business model. A seed round can come from friends, family, Kickstarter, angels – and most importantly, early customers.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

But at a macro level, widespread failure this early is far less painful than if it came at later stages. Pandora begs Congress to lower Internet music licensing rates. Syria shuts down Internet in attempt to quell uprising. New Internet Explorer ad shows Microsoft as comeback kid. The stakes for everyone are lower.

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Technical Review Silicon Valley Incubator Syria 93

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

But the larger funds usually have lower returns because they are often investing bigger dollars at later stages with less risk and therefore lower returns. As you can see in this Cambridge Associates data, early-stage investing beat later stage investing in returns in 70% of the past 30 years. Yeah, true.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Meyler Capital is taking the analytical rigor of modern internet marketing and applying it to fund marketing. . Data companies focused on early-stage startups include Aingel , fundsUP , Preseries , PredictLeads , and Sploda. Other VCs use Contently * or Social Native * to create relevant content. 11) Exit .

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2013

These sources are a lot more forgiving of iterations and pivots than later-stage venture-capital funds. In a Lean Startup , the goal is to preserve your cash until you find a repeatable and scalable business model. A seed round can come from friends, family, Kickstarter, angels – and most importantly, early customers.

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Venture Capital IRR Liquidity Event Business Model 227

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 12, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, June 12, 2009 Lean Startup Workshop scholarship program I havent had much time to write lately, and so havent been able to share much about the Lean Startup Workshop series I have been producing with OReilly in their Master Class division. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2016

With the advent of the Internet, the size and address of your office is irrelevant. Most new teams are geographically dispersed these days anyway, so paying rent for an office should be differed to later stages when revenue is plentiful. You will be in good company with the many legends who used this approach.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

He focuses on investments in fintech, the internet, and software. I think every company’s portfolio is different, so they’re all different sizes, different stages, different geographies, different cash positions, and different market leadership positions. . I like the get fit and lean in. Jonathan Siddharth .

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Peter: I’m feeling agile, I’m feeling lean, nice and spry. Jonathan: I don’t know about the agility thing, but you’re looking lean. You can do a quick Google search, internet search and find information. How do you keep it lean? Audio transcript: Peter: Hey, good afternoon Jonathan.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. I can’t tell you how frequently teams of three business school students tell me they’re going to start the next great consumer Internet company. I don’t know any developers.

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Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84