Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 19, 2022
Yet as I mentor entrepreneurs around the country, crowdfunding still seems to be one of the least understood approaches to startup funding, with more myths than accredited angels and professional venture capital investors combined. As a summary, crowdfunding today can mean any one of the following five quite different models: Rewards model.
InfoChachkie
AUGUST 11, 2011
What follows is a summary which paraphrases Naval’s responses. Venture Hacks is educating entrepreneurs on the game theory of how to raise venture capital. We are productizing the raising of capital for startups. ”. One mistake I made early on is I thought, ‘capital is fungible, look at the foreign exchange markets.’
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Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 14, 2014
I had witnessed a number of early-stage tech startups in LA raise seed capital from the Bay Area and relocate. And Jim & I went on to raise several more venture capital funds in our day jobs. As we started to focus on what each of us wanted to do, Adam raised his venture capital fund – Plus Capital.
socalTECH
APRIL 4, 2013
Form there, we got interest from incubators, angel investors, and venture capital. When they''re in there, they put in a summary of an athlete. We thought--there has got to be another way. This private coaches network was the topic of a business plan we wrote for an entrepreneurial contest.
socalTECH
DECEMBER 10, 2009
We spoke with Nikhil, to hear why he thinks the site is important for green technology companies and investors, as well as how the effort is related to his own incubation firm, Artilient Labs. Nikhil Jain: The concept behind Artilient Labs is it's a way to take a business, from the ground up, with very low capitalization.
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 22, 2014
The other problem with extreme success is that for some VCs it makes them disinterested in middling outcomes, things that take a long time to incubate or solving thorny problems when a company doesn’t immediately move up and to the right. And so is venture capital. SEO marketing vs. social marketing. Commitment.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 29, 2011
Yesterday I wrote Part 1 of the series on the changes to the software industry over the past decade that has led to changes in the venture capital industry itself. If you don’t want to read that post, the summary is: Open source computing drove computing costs down 90%, which spurred innovation in technology. That’s wise.
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