This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

How else can you explain this headline matching a story about a professional social network still trying to explore revenues raising $17mm on an $80mm valuation? venture capitalists are now asking tougher questions about start-ups' revenue and profits.". Perhaps I need to rethink that. But second, how do you back this up?

Venture Capital 117

Venture Capital Marketing Term Sheet Software Review 117

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

Before you bring on partners, develop intellectual property, raise capital, or generate revenues, you need to establish an official business entity. Networking no longer is primarily a face-to-face serial activity. Incorporating a business entity early through online services. The cost of social media done well is low.

Intellectual Property 120

Intellectual Property Startup Angel Groups Social Media 120

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

As the former CEO of a professional expert network , I’m a firm believer in the value of speedy access to relevant experts. I was excited to see that GLG (formerly Gerson Lehrman Group), the industry leader, is now offering a professional network service geared to the needs of the startup community: GLG Share.

New York 114

New York Technical Review Networking Advisory Board 114

VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2010

In addition, we are working with more modest capital, for example, the current fund we are putting together (first of many), is $5.0M, which will be used to invest up to $500K in approximately 10 seed stage companies in the Internet, software, telecom, security/defense and alternative energy sectors. Janvest: Yes.

Israel 106

Israel Technical Review Software Review Seed Stage 106

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2020

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. Use your networking to get advice, but all jobs can be do-it-yourself. Defer your desire for expensive perks and vacations until later when you have time for them.

Hockey Stick 423

Hockey Stick Bootstrapping Sweat Equity Intellectual Property 423

Up and Running

AUGUST 19, 2014

I like how the Angel Capital Association describes the difference between angels and venture capitalists: “Angels generally invest their own money in start-ups and very early stage companies, while VCs mostly provide capital they have raised from others to later-stage businesses for growth.”. 51 percent). ” - Gena H.,

Angel Investor 161

Angel Investor Technical Review Due Diligence Startup 161

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

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. Use your networking to get advice, but all jobs can be do-it-yourself. Defer your desire for expensive perks and vacations until later when you have time for them.

Equity 349

Equity Hockey Stick Bootstrapping Sweat Equity 349

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But, most of use raise capital and source deals the same way people looked for dates 20 years ago: by networking at conferences (or bars). . Boardex and Relationship Science make it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. That’s why 40 million Americans use online dating sites.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Software Review Analytics Private Equity 78

Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2011

In the case of this bubble, it was social networks, consumer and mobile applications, and the cloud. Long before others, they saw that these applications could have hundreds of millions of users with “off the chart&# revenue and profits. No one doubts that social networks and web and mobile applications are reinventing commerce.

Silicon Valley 331

Silicon Valley Stealth Valuation Mississippi 331

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Even for later-stage companies with predictable financials, the lack of liquidity, audited financials, and standardized metrics creates real challenges to scaling quantitative investing. The historic capital-raising process is driven by face-to-face networking and salesmanship. 2) Raise capital.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Technical Review 60

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2020

Angels are more likely to fund new entrepreneurs, and early-stage or seed rounds, while VCs tend to focus on entrepreneurs with a successful track record, and later stage rounds. For angel investors, you only need to do some local networking to get interest. In fact, the reality is quite the opposite.

Angel Investor 314

Angel Investor Entrepreneur IRR Valuation 314

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

You also will find that the stage your startup is in dictates where you go to seek funding. Funding sources specialize in certain growth stages. Angel investors typically provide early-stage funding, while venture capital firms typically come in at later stages. Growth stage. Exit stage.

Investment Bankers 241

Investment Bankers Venture Capital Startup Initial Public Offering 241

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 2, 2014

Angels are more likely to fund new entrepreneurs, and early-stage or seed rounds, while VCs tend to focus on entrepreneurs with a successful track record, and later stage rounds. For Angel investors, you only need to do some local networking to get interest. In fact, the reality is quite the opposite.

Angel Investor 266

Angel Investor Entrepreneur Venture Capital IRR 266

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 13, 2010

You also will find that the stage your startup is in dictates where you go to seek funding. Funding sources specialize in certain growth stages. Angel investors typically provide early-stage funding, while venture capital firms typically come in at later stages. Growth stage. Exit stage.

Investment Bankers 231

Investment Bankers Venture Capital Startup Initial Public Offering 231

Austin Startup

JULY 29, 2018

Some will invest in a great person with a big idea and others need to see customer traction and revenue first. It doesn’t make any sense to pitch a later stage, “growth” investor with your seed stage idea just like it doesn’t make much sense to pitch a new tech startup to an investor who only does oil & gas.

Angel Investor 59

Angel Investor Technical Review Los Angeles Seed Stage 59

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 12, 2023

Angels are more likely to fund new entrepreneurs, and early-stage or seed rounds, while VCs tend to focus on entrepreneurs with a successful track record, and later stage rounds. For angel investors, you only need to do some local networking to get interest. In fact, the reality is quite the opposite.

Angel Investor 246

Angel Investor IRR Venture Capital Valuation 246

Genuine VC

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Yet the company hasn’t figured out product-market fit yet, hasn’t figured out its customer proposition, doesn’t have revenue… it doesn’t have traction. For some, the proverbial two-guys-in-a-garage-stage is the ultimate allure… but they’re not ready just yet to be one of those couple founders.

Startup 241

Startup Later Stage Angel Financing Seed Stage 241

This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The other thing that happens to diverse founders is that they wind up talking to a lot of less experienced or later stage investors who seem to specialize in diversity from the outside--many of whom may not take the same amounts of risk as others. 1) Either no one ever fundraises before X stage of revenue or traction.

Founder 60

Founder Angel Groups Cofounder New York City 60

Gust

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

You also will find that the stage your startup is in dictates where you go to seek funding. Funding sources specialize in certain growth stages. Angel investors typically provide early-stage funding, while venture capital firms typically come in at later stages. Growth stage. Exit stage.

Venture Capital 171

Venture Capital Investment Bankers Angel Investor Initial Public Offering 171

Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 4, 2023

It's brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network, the audio destination for business professionals. Then I want to talk to you about adding a new revenue stream to your business that will completely change how you work with clients. This episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network.

SEO 95

SEO Audience Channel Campaign 95

Reid Hoffman

JUNE 11, 2020

So I met Jeff at a dinner organized by Adam Lashinsky , and a few weeks later, we met for a late lunch and talked for a couple of hours. Jeff was responsible for the Yahoo Network and many of the company’s consumer-facing properties. This is so important that I wrote an essay on how to hire a CEO as a later-stage co-founder.

Cofounder 36

Cofounder Leadership Metrics Later Stage 36

Genuine VC

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Once you’ve figured out whether you want to find a very early stage startup or a late stage one (the topic of my first post in this series ), the real hard work begins. The right approach is to think broadly but network and search to ask specifically. My advice: search for heat, but don’t follow - evaluate.

Startup 148

Startup Portfolio Later Stage Hiring 148

Reid Hoffman

MARCH 9, 2021

I helped establish the network. I established some of the baseline for the network as a platform. Many default to sales (because that’s what drives revenue) or product (because that’s what customers buy). I helped establish product market fit. I helped establish the business model. Sometimes, it’s not obvious.

Leadership 45

Leadership Technical Review Cofounder Later Stage 45

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

It was this same high-minded collective action that created a network of publicly owned hospitals – controlled by cities, counties, districts, boroughs (in Alaska), parishes (in Louisiana), etc. to lease the meter network for 75 years in exchange for a one-time upfront payment $1 billion. [5] Photo by Daan Stevens on Unsplash.

Private Equity 164

Private Equity New York City Chicago Investment Bankers 164

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2016

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. Use your networking to get advice, but all jobs can be do-it-yourself. Defer your desire for expensive perks and vacations until later when you have time for them.

Bootstrapping 120

Bootstrapping Hockey Stick Sweat Equity Intellectual Property 120

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

If I was to guess, the demographics of people pitching me are reflective of two things—what my own network looks like and what my portfolio looks like. First is network bias. Is it possible this gets to $100mm in annual revenue? I’m going to break this up into three parts. It needs to end.

Venture Capital 171

Venture Capital Cofounder Deal Flow Later Stage 171

Growthink Blog

JUNE 9, 2011

The event gives emerging companies the opportunity to pitch and network with investors, executives, customers and the media. Bigger companies like Google have tons of cash and are looking to buy early stage companies (so you can get a big payday). Last week marked the 6th year for the conference "Launch: Silicon Valley."

Silicon Valley 107

Silicon Valley Later Stage Early Stage Cloud 107

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2016

Angels are more likely to fund new entrepreneurs, and early-stage or seed rounds, while VCs tend to focus on entrepreneurs with a successful track record, and later stage rounds. For Angel investors, you only need to do some local networking to get interest. In fact, the reality is quite the opposite.

Angel Investor 120

Angel Investor IRR Valuation Startup 120

The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2018

You can go with the base plan for starters and choose to upgrade in the later stages for additional features such as full API access and multiple monetization options. Pay Per View model of Revenue generation. Built-in social media integrations with popular social networking platforms. Multiple monetization options.

Software 136

Software Bandwidth API Flash 136

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Social networking finally came of age connected the planet and leading to enormous wealth creation for Facebook employees and investors. forward revenue for SaaS businesses when in the years before it had been less than 5x. So the multiples paid by publics matter and when they drop, the late-stage markets drop, too.

Valuation 150

Valuation Down Round Startup Later Stage 150

Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 1, 2013

If you are a risk-taker and enjoy the challenges and roller-coaster ride, then the jungle phase is for you and you should bias towards seed funded or recently Series A funded companies that are pre-revenue. These networking meetings will help you establish valuable relationships, even if the job fit isn't there.

Boston 52

Boston B2C Salary Cofounder 52

Small Business Force

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

In early stage companies (and even some later stage or mature ones), there is no one area where most entrepreneurs and small business owners are lacking in just basic fundamentals, than in dealing with their company's finances and financial management. Follow the "gospel of cash flow" and it starts with revenue generation.

Finance 37

Finance Management Forecast Entrepreneur 37

K9 Ventures

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

The venture business is a people business — it’s all about meeting people, networking, evaluating ideas (and people) and making educated bets (on people). First, these sources of funding may not have the capacity to sustain the company till it begins to bring in revenue or is ready for a professional round of financing.

IRR 48

IRR Venture Capital LP Early Stage 48

pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

I recently went to a networking event for one of the seed funds that invested in PandoDaily, and I’ve never seen such worry on the faces of the entrepreneurs. But at a macro level, widespread failure this early is far less painful than if it came at later stages. HealthTab acquires Avvo Health to double its doctor network.

Technical Review 93

Technical Review Silicon Valley Incubator Syria 93

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2012

These people are highly focused on investment areas they know, which have a large opportunity for growth, revenue projection of $20M or more in five years, and a high return that can be realized via an exit within five years. This is definitely the space for bootstrapping and personal networking. Real estate.

Angel Groups 237

Angel Groups Angel Investor Early Stage Startup 237

Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

They cover funding for small businesses from the initial funding stage to later stages of growth, and other areas in between. Two, revenue. Many business owners today really think of financials as being about the past, how much revenue have we had, how much cost did we have. What do you do? Three, growth rate.

Small Business 95

Small Business Finance Forecast Metrics 95

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2011

These people are highly focused on investment areas they know, which have a large opportunity for growth, revenue projection of $20M or more in five years, and a high return that can be realized via an exit within five years. This is definitely the space for bootstrapping and personal networking. Real estate.

Angel Investor 217

Angel Investor Angel Groups Early Stage Startup 217