Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 27, 2014

I always advise software startups to file patents to protect their “secret sauce” from competitors, and to increase their valuation. The good news is that a patent can scare off or at least delay competitors, and as a “rule of thumb” patents can add up to $1M to your startup valuation for investors or M&A exits (merger and acquisition).

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2020

Although his focus is naturally on bigger companies, I contend that his recommended strategies apply equally well to entrepreneurs and startups: Demand a mindset of deep thinking for the long term. In my experience, even in startups, longer-term strategy often gets pushed off the agenda due to current challenges.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

The last thing a new entrepreneur wants to think about for a new startup is how it will end. Startups with no exit planned will minimize investor returns. Most entrepreneurs like the startup role, but not the big-company role. Yet one of the first things a potential equity investor asks about is your exit strategy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2012

This has value now, and is critical for maximum value in a merger or acquisition. Allows sufficient time to find capital, including due diligence time for investors. The technology or product may be at an embryonic stage. Not in a heated rush. Calm and self-assured, rather than desperate.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 22, 2013

This has value now, and is critical for maximum value in a merger or acquisition. Allows sufficient time to find capital, including due diligence time for investors. The technology or product may be at an embryonic stage. entrepreneurs intestors startups characteristics business' Not in a heated rush.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2022

Most of their new claims to innovation are acquired through mergers and acquisitions from the entrepreneurial pipeline. Internal corporate processes thwart innovation due to inherent inefficiencies of scale, high overhead, and the risk of impact on the corporate bottom line. Existing technologies have been “commoditized” globally.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Posted on September 14, 2009 by steveblank Over the last 30 years Wall Street’s appetite for technology stocks have changed radically – swinging between unbridled enthusiasm to believing they’re all toxic. Each VC firm/partner has a different spin on what to weigh more.) 3) invest in and take equity stakes in exchange for capital.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2013

Within the venture community, the first rule to remember is that opportunities abound these days, due to the increasing pace of technology evolution, and the scope and creativity of the global community. Angel investors look for prior domain and startup experience. The same hold true for venture capital investors. Funding risk.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 27, 2010

This has value now, and is critical for maximum value in a merger or acquisition. Allows sufficient time to find capital, including due diligence time for investors. The technology or product may be at an embryonic stage. Tags: startup founder entrepreneur skills investors business. Not in a heated rush.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 12, 2010

until the technology matures?&#. Find ways to get friendly people to do peer reviews on parts of your business and offer the same in return. Of course there are times where a board’s voice is gospel: mergers, raising capital, replacing the CEO, etc. Tags: Startup Advice. And don’t limit it to VCs.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

On the other side of the spectrum, the idea of finding a unicorn has attracted many investors toward the much riskier venture capital and emerging technologies. Over the past decade, advancing technologies and social consciousness have been causing unprecedented and exciting shifts in every sector of the economy, not just the tertiary.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

The last thing a new entrepreneur wants to think about for a new startup is how it will end. Startups with no exit planned will minimize investor returns. Most entrepreneurs like the startup role, but not the big-company role. Yet one of the first things a potential equity investor asks about is your exit strategy.

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Gust

OCTOBER 19, 2014

I always advise software startups to file patents to protect their “secret sauce” from competitors, and to increase their valuation. The good news is that a patent can scare off or at least delay competitors, and as a “rule of thumb” patents can add up to $1M to your startup valuation for investors or M&A exits (merger and acquisition).

Software Review 173

Software Review Software Technical Review Intellectual Property 173

The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

When your company is, for instance, raising funds, internal and external stakeholders like investors , credit unions need to review the financial documents of your business. An excellent Virtual Data room should provide privacy in business mergers and acquisitions, regulatory compliance, due diligence , amongst other solutions.

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VC Cafe

JULY 13, 2022

With 2022 half done, there’s a number of new reports slicing and dicing funding data for Israeli startups in H1 2022. IVC/Leumi Tech Israel tech review Q2 2022. A new report by IVC and Leumi Bank shows that in the first half of 2022, Israeli high-tech companies raised $9.8 Israeli gaming startups reached $8.6

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NZ Entrepreneur

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

If we want to maintain and support sustainable economic growth while meeting the broader needs of society, we will need an economy underpinned by innovation and new technologies. It is our startup sector which will drive this innovative progress. Startup founders are our ambitious problem solvers. Risk and reward. Compliance.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 24, 2013

Most of their new claims to innovation are acquired through mergers and acquisitions from the entrepreneurial pipeline. Internal corporate processes thwart innovation due to inherent inefficiencies of scale, high overhead, and the risk of impact on the corporate bottom line. Existing technologies have been “commoditized” globally.

Entrepreneur 263

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 6, 2013

Although I put the general terms together, I will ultimately utilize an attorney for formality of the deal and to review anything that I may have missed. Being wholly owned has the same effect, but it does obviously require a merger or an acquisition to occur. Due Diligence. Here are the 14 points not to forget: 1.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Murdoch seethed at these “startups&# getting rich off the back of MySpace. At the top end is the business logic created by startups and established technology companies. People feared they were going to have a monopoly over the Internet due to “bunding&# Internet Explorer with their operating system.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 17, 2015

Startups have bigger concerns than privacy, or so they think. Many startups have learned that being young and small does not keep them off the radar screens of privacy regulators, and they can be vulnerable to costly investigations. By Janis Kestenbaum , a partner in Perkins Coie. Do what you say.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 2, 2021

If you’re thinking about starting a tech startup you already know — there are a lot of things to consider. But what if a tech startup uses the LLC structure? And this is not only due to lack of liability protection, though it is a significant factor attracting investors. Long-Term Strategy. Definitely not.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 1, 2014

For many start-up companies, the dream is to one day become the other half in a merger or acquisition with a larger, more developed organisation. Currently, all things technology based have a high acquisition rate if they can provide a service for a wide range of emerging technology markets. Build Strategic Partnerships.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2019

Successful startups seem to follow similar paths to greatness, and unfortunately all too often that path leads them back down the hill much faster than they went up. By definition, most startups begin as a result of some innovation in product, process, or service. Consider MySpace and Webvan. Geographic expansion.

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Up and Running

JULY 2, 2014

Picking the right attorney in your startup is as important as picking the right business partner. My business partner and I made many mistakes in our first tech startup, and so many of them were the result of choosing a lawyer who was a terrible fit. We gladly handed it over to him as part of the due diligence process.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

But Friendster’s computer systems couldn’t keep up with the explosive growth (reportedly due to the complexity of the security model set up to control connections, privacy and authenticity of users) so MySpace was hot on the heels and swept up the market in a very rapid ascent. Is the game over?

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

David Teten

JULY 29, 2011

A bit belatedly (due to a backlog of blog postings), I wanted to announce ff Venture Capital ‘s summer intern class. Franklin Bi became passionate about venture capital and entrepreneurship after he spent a summer in Silicon Valley, working on an information services startup focused on innovation management. Franklin Bi.

Software Review 133

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

To say that the tech elite were cynical of Hulu’s launch would be an understatement , but by the time it launched just a few months later it was getting great reviews. Amongst other things it chronicles the frustration many media companies have had in not being able to play by the same rules as the tech companies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Most of their new claims to innovation are acquired through mergers and acquisitions from the entrepreneurial pipeline. Internal corporate processes thwart innovation due to inherent inefficiencies of scale, high overhead, and the risk of impact on the corporate bottom line. Existing technologies have been “commoditized” globally.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Successful startups seem to follow similar paths to greatness, and unfortunately all too often that path leads them back down the hill much faster than they went up. By definition, most startups begin as a result of some innovation in product, process, or service. entrepreneur culture startup internet lifecycle Kai Hammerich Richard D.

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VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2017

According to the IVC Meitar exits report for H1 2017, Israeli high-tech exits total $1.95 The report sums up the exits of Israeli high-tech companies in merger & acquisition deals and initial public offerings, as well as buyout deals, from 2012 to H1/2017.

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Technical Review Merger Initial Public Offering Israel 94

Start Up Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

What has the impact of technology been on human evolution? Especially given that this technology is created by us, for us. With the rate of technological change and power increasing exponentially, will it eventually leave humans behind or be the bastion of human dominance and longevity? Technology is becoming more human.

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Technical Review Technology Merger Software Review 72

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2016

The last thing a new entrepreneur wants to think about for a new startup is how it will end. Startups with no exit planned will minimize investor returns. Most entrepreneurs like the startup role, but not the big-company role. Yet one of the first things a potential equity investor asks about is your exit strategy.

Equity 120

Equity Exit Strategy Private Equity Startup 120

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Techventure 2011 – one of Asia’s topmost events for the venture capital community to engage with the latest technology entrepreneurs organized by Asiasons WFG and presented by National Research Foundation (NRF) and Singapore Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (SVCA) – will celebrate its 15th year on October 13 and 14.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 14, 2015

Successful startups seem to follow similar paths to greatness, and unfortunately all too often that path leads them back down the hill much faster than they went up. By definition, most startups begin as a result of some innovation in product, process, or service. business culture issues market pace startup culture'

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

Most of their new claims to innovation are acquired through mergers and acquisitions from the entrepreneurial pipeline. Internal corporate processes thwart innovation due to inherent inefficiencies of scale, high overhead, and the risk of impact on the corporate bottom line. Existing technologies have been “commoditized” globally.

Offshore 120

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 30, 2020

Mergers and acquisitions are an integral part of the business world. Forecasters believe that M&A deal activity will continue to happen, though these figures may be tempered by the economic issues created already in 2020 due to the coronavirus. The Basic Principles of Mergers and Acquisitions.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

During a presentation at Startup School at Stanford University earlier today, the prolific investor discussed the state of startup funding with a packed auditorium of students and entrepreneurs. These investors usually raise a smaller fund and make investments into startups that range in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.

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