Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2021

Most entrepreneurs have found by now one or more of the many popular crowdfunding sites , and have the name and contact information for at least one of the big venture capital firms. Here are eight key insights that will help you find a productive match: Angels want equity ownership, not causes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2022

This is another very popular website for raising equity or debt investments for startups. In addition, they serve as a jobs available site for 24,000 startups. My real message is that the best angel you can find is a local high net-worth individual, with whom you or your advisors have an established prior relationship.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Today most startup investors still register with the SEC as “ accredited ” investors before they buy any startup equity in the U.S. This requires a simple signature that you have a net worth of at least $1M or have made at least $200K each year for the last two years. Use the surge of crowdfunding sites for small amounts.

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socalTECH

MAY 30, 2012

That's the idea behind a new startup, Fundable , headed by serial entrepreneur Wil Schroter , which allows you to use rewards -- product, company schwag, an even equity -- as a tool to get your startup to the next stage. We allow startups to raise money, both based on equity, as well as rewards. What's Fundable?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2018

For example, professional investors put great priority on your previous experience in building a business, and they expect to own a portion of the business equity and control for the funds they do provide. Trade equity or services for startup help. Another common example is exchanging equity for legal and accounting support.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

Today most startup investors still register with the SEC as “ accredited ” investors before they buy any startup equity in the U.S. This requires a simple signature that you have a net worth of at least $1M or have made at least $200K each year for the last two years. Use the new Crowdfunding sites for small amounts.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

For example, professional investors put great priority on your previous experience in building a business, and they expect to own a portion of the business equity and control for the funds they do provide. Trade equity or services for startup help. Another common example is exchanging equity for legal and accounting support.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 18, 2019

Launched by the music and cultural impresario with more hustle than hustle and his business partner Jason Geder, the new collaborative investment strategy focused on tech startups will allow high net worth individuals to participate in deals. Live streaming studio, Culture Genesis, launches its first show, the quiz-based Trivia Mob.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Let’s take a few minutes to examine the kind of equity financing available to small or early stage businesses. In most cases, these applicants for equity funding must be rooted in technology to apply to this limited discussion. The post When should you go for equity financing? Friends and family investors. Venture farms.

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Xconomy

JULY 27, 2016

per share, for a total equity value of $302 million. LabCorp will also assume net debt of San Diego-based Sequenom (NASDAQ: SQNM ), bringing the value of the cash deal to approximately $371 million. The company said the North Carolina site would expand its reach in genetic testing. LabCorp reported $8.5

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2014

For example, professional investors put great priority on your previous experience in building a business, and they expect to own a portion of the business equity and control for the funds they do provide. Trade equity or services for startup help. Another common example is exchanging equity for legal and accounting support.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

Most entrepreneurs have found by now one or more of the many popular crowdfunding sites , and have the name and contact information for at least one of the big venture capital firms. Here are eight key insights that will help you find a productive match: Angels want equity ownership, not causes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2019

This is another very popular website for raising equity or debt investments for startups. In addition, they serve as a jobs available site for 24,000 startups. My real message is that the best angel you can find is a local high net-worth individual, with whom you or your advisors have an established prior relationship.

Angel 96

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Today you still need to be registered with the SEC as an “ accredited ” investor to legally buy any startup equity in the U.S. This requires a simple signature that you have a net worth of at least $1M or have made at least $200K each year for the last two years. Use the new Crowdfunding sites for small amounts.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

People are even talking about “decacorns" -- investable companies with net worth now exceeding $10 billion -- like Dropbox and Pinterest. Sweat equity. Equity crowdfunding. Hundreds of crowdfunding sites claim to help you get funding for your startup in the form of a donation, pre-order or a token reward.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Today you still need to be registered with the SEC as an “ accredited ” investor to legally buy any startup equity. This requires a simple signature that you have a net worth of at least $1M or have made at least $200K each year for the last two years. Use the new Crowdfunding sites for small amounts.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

But, we have a non-equity dilutive product, and we accelerate cash flow. Jed Simon: We did something unique, is instead of raise a ton of money and then try to build our product and launch it, we soft launched last year, raised money from two high net worth individuals. So how do you do that for those publishers?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Today you still need to be registered with the SEC as an “ accredited ” investor to legally buy any startup equity. This requires a simple signature that you have a net worth of at least $1M or have made at least $200K each year for the last two years. Use the new Crowdfunding sites for small amounts.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2017

This is another very popular website for raising equity or debt investments for startups. In addition, they serve as a jobs available site for 24,000 startups. My real message is that the best angel you can find is a local high net-worth individual, with whom you or your advisors have an established prior relationship.

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socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2010

Richards , who most recently sold The NTI Group to Blackboard, and previously also was CEO of Vivendi Universal Net USA, the founding president and COO of MP3.com, Robin's latest startup is Internships.com (www.internships.com), an online site focused on aggregating internship opportunities and providing resources to potential interns.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2011

At TripUp, we had lots of user generated reviews and hotels, and we were the first to add user general video to a travel community site. Yelp and CitySearch have been around for awhile, but Foursquare is really built on local businesses, Groupon, LivingSocial, and other deal sites are built on the backs of local businesses.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

MARCH 9, 2011

Investors and entrepreneurs who won at the fundraising game during and after the Great Recession offer advice on landing equity money. Learn from the presentations of Steve Jobs,” says Elie Seidman, a serial entrepreneur and CEO of Oyster.com , a hotel research and booking site that has raised $11 million. By Monica Mehta.

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Frank Addante

OCTOBER 31, 2006

It results in a lack of focus and diluted brand equity. Starting Point was best at searching the search engines and, as a result, we quickly became the 7th most popular site on the Internet. This is especially true, and very tempting, for startup companies who can seemingly do "anything" because they are so flexible and agile.

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