Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2014

This approach has been used for years, and implies very little risk, but many startups are still “too busy” to pursuing possible partners. Competitors can become strategic investors or merger candidates. Good strategic partnerships often lead to strategic investments, or great acquisition relationships.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 16, 2012

The associate can be very productive with the company after the meeting and likely has more capacity to help with followup than the typical busy partner. And if management values the opinions of the associates (and often they should!) Just know that two partners talking = 2x the board influence. Some Exceptions.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2010

Had a great chat with Jim Armstrong who is a General Partner at Clearstone Venture Partners today on TWiVC. We also talked a lot about Geodelic , a portfolio company of Clearstone, who is trying to change the metaphor of how people discover location based information by partnering with large companies and brands. billion. .

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 14, 2009

As an entrepreneur you don’t want 5 investors on your board because then board decisions will be more representative of investor concerns than management concerns. The third scenario I’ve seen is with “strategic&# investors. I’ll cover strategic investors in a different post.

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Rob Go

DECEMBER 14, 2016

In almost all cases, when a term sheet doesn’t result in a deal, it’s because of the investor feels like there was some form of indiscretion on the part of the company, or something catastrophic has happened in the outside world or to the partner or fund itself. M&A is much less of a multi-turn game.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 30, 2018

If a VC prices a flat or down round it means that management teams are often taking too much dilution. Each new investor knows that the people who have the MOST asymmetric information on your performance are the previous round investors. Strategics (ie industry investors vs. VCs).

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

She had so much insight to share that we broke the interview into two parts, 1) Corporate Venture Capital and more broadly, 2) How the Fortune 500 Can Buy, Invest and Partner with the Innovation Economy (coming soon). . Previously she was Co-Founder and CEO of SNAZZ, a cloud-based event management platform. I don’t think we are.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 24, 2016

A find many board meetings highly unproductive in that they are often just a date in the calendar where management is set to update its investors and other board members of its performance over the past time period. It ought to lay out the key issues, provide 3 options per issue and state which one management is leaning toward.

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Hunter Walker

APRIL 4, 2014

strategic investors (including corporates). traditional institutional LPs such as fund of funds, endowments, foundations, sovereign wealth funds ( our investors ). The result has been many new managers, many new funds. It’s being a partner of conviction to an entrepreneur and working with them for several years.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Israeli startup Siklu Wireless Communications has raised a series B round of $19 million led by new investors Amiti Ventures , Qualcomm Ventures and joined by all existing investors: DFJ- Tamir Fishman Ventures , Evergreen Venture Partners and Argonaut Private Equity. We’re looking forward to working with Siklu.”.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

Previous Celeno investors Pitango Venture Capital , Greylock Partners , Miven Venture Partners, and Cisco Systems Inc. Mobile gaming company Oberon Media raised a fifth round of $16 million – some of the funds raised are from previous investors Goldman Sachs, Infinity I-China Fund and Oak Investment Partners.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 8, 2017

composed of these investors and management. However, most often, these funds are solicited by a well-meaning entrepreneur from investors who are not qualified as accredited investors under the law (currently requiring a proved income of $200,000 a year or $1 million in net worth for an individual investor).

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 7, 2016

Bettina Stern: My business partner Suzanne Simon and I have been cooking together for many years. HotSchedules – a restaurant management platform for scheduling employees, plus more. Asana – a project management tool to help our team track our work and current and past projects. How did it all begin?

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Since the beginning, the week’s programming has been lovingly organized by Jacqueline Hughes , Events Manager at Kauffman Fellows, Joshua Baer , Founder and CEO of Capital Factory, and the Capital Factory Dream Team. Ram Jambunathan and Natasha Franck, Founder and CEO of NYC-based EON, and Joshua Baer, Founder and CEO of Capital Factory.

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BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 12, 2003

Strategic investments do not mean anything if you are not going to generate revenue for your company and for your partner. In addition, when you sign a reseller or OEM contract it means that the hard work has yet to begin-an early stage company has to throw resources behind a partner to make things happen.

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Growthink Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2011

you know how to manage and motivate people, you have great marketing and sales tactics, etc.), you know how to manage and motivate people, you have great marketing and sales tactics, etc.), One of Harrison's companies received early funding from a strategic investor (a large corporation).

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Today, more than 125,000 businesses and individuals at 92 percent of the Fortune 500 use Box to manage information and collaboration in the cloud. Venture Partners, and strategic investors salesforce.com and SAP. One of his older partners said, “What if the US government allowed the Internet to be commercialised?”

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 7, 2016

Bettina Stern: My business partner Suzanne Simon and I have been cooking together for many years. HotSchedules – a restaurant management platform for scheduling employees, plus more. Asana – a project management tool to help our team track our work and current and past projects. How did it all begin?

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 21, 2017

In AH's case, ultimately, the person we started talking with didn't actually wind up participating, but still remains a valuable contact and potentially a key partner for the future. Ice cream has gotten to be a pretty hot space, ironically, for high profile investors to get into lately. You just don't know.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 20, 2010

Friends, family and fools: This term, although pejorative, describes the typical mix of early investors in a small, young growing business. Money from these sources is relatively easy to come by, and most often comes with no strings as to oversight by a formal board composed of these investors and management.

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