The Equity Kicker

JULY 22, 2013

Investors are frequently asked what they look for in a good startup and most good ones answer “Great team, great product and great market” With early stage companies team is paramount because that’s just about all there is in the company. Later stage companies have the reverse situation.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

He says they are just as selective on seed investments as they are in later stage deals. Web service that allows parents to monitor children’s activity on social networks in realtime for about $10/child/month. Simple: according to Mike Polaris has followed on nearly every seed investment that they’ve done.

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Austin Startup

JULY 29, 2018

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. Leverage your local network and social network to figure out who the most active local angel investors are.

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Angel Investor Technical Review Los Angeles Seed Stage 59

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

At Virgin Mobile USA, Mari led early initiatives in mobile commerce, social networking and advertising. Bodas notes, “Some corporations are very technology and engineering centric so the technology risk that may come with investing in an earlier stage startup is more broadly understood within the corporation. Mari Holds a B.A.

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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. So the multiples paid by publics matter and when they drop, the late-stage markets drop, too. And down rounds might favor later-stage investors over earlier-stage investors who get wiped out.

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Valuation Down Round Startup Later Stage 150

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. Built-in social media integrations with popular social networking platforms. Multiple monetization options. 2. Vidizmo.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 14, 2019

We felt that we were seeing something that others didn’t (specifically, the value of a professional social network), and understood that it would take a long time for the world to come around. You don’t want to prematurely hire people who are best-suited to the later stages.

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Silicon Valley Early Stage Hiring Employee 28

View from Seed

MARCH 8, 2016

They might believe that branding is a fluffy idea or a later-stage need, and right now, they need to move faster, launch, learn, grow, and survive. If you’re building a product that can grow virally—a social network, for example—brand is almost certainly less important at launch than product. Is that the wrong mentality?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I invested in LA-based Gogii , one of the fastest growing, most exciting mobile social networking companies you’ve never heard of and maker of a product called textPlus. This is a post I’ve been dying to write for 18 months. I know this because you’re not a young teenager.

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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. HealthTab acquires Avvo Health to double its doctor network. Doctors are in high demand, not just by their patients, but by startups looking to create social networks, marketplaces, and portals around their expertise.

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Technical Review Silicon Valley Incubator Syria 93

This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 1, 2013

Meeting in person is no longer the only way an angel investor can get looped in a network of other investors. By participating in social networks, angels are making themselves more findable, and entrepreneurs can do a better job targeting exactly who the most likely investors are. For entrepreneurs, it's quite the same.

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Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 17, 2018

This meant hiring someone who had experience with much bigger organizations, the idea being that their experience would come in handy at a later stage. The Darwinian competition is so fierce that your organization needs to be all-in on the current stage of scaling. In today’s startup world, this rule no longer applies.

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Finder Rhode Island Cofounder Engineer 28

techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Giving a start up less money makes them aim to waste less and not rely on funding to run the company in the hope that one day ‘we’ll turn profit positive’ [link] Bob Butler Another bit of bad news is that VC funds are now on average in their later stages, meaning most of the money is already invested.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Sweat Equity Valuation 62