Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

Direct seed funding, for a share of the equity, and introductions to investors. Mentoring and technical assistance from volunteer or paid experts. Peer-to-peer networking with other startups and founders in the same stage. Health, life, and other insurance at group rates.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Direct seed funding, for a share of the equity, and introductions to investors. Mentoring and technical assistance from volunteer or paid experts. Peer-to-peer networking with other startups and founders in the same stage. Health, life, and other insurance at group rates.

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Incubator Startup Help Resource 106

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2012

A while back I heard a talk by Dave McClure, a long-time angel investor, who also proclaims to be one of the “new breed” of venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, as CEO of 500Startups , which is either a micro-VC seed fund, or a startup incubator, or both. He is going gangbusters, and is now targeting a $50M second round of funding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2011

Recently I heard a talk by Dave McClure, a long-time angel investor, who also proclaims to be one of the “new breed” of venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, as CEO of 500Startups , which is either a micro-VC seed fund, or a startup incubator, or both. Early-stage startup. Every startup is early-stage to someone. Lean startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

Here are eight key insights that will help you find a productive match: Angels want equity ownership, not causes. Early stage research and development won’t excite angels. Every angel looks to scale the business after you have funded product design, perhaps with friends and family.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

Direct seed funding, for a share of the equity, and introductions to investors. Mentoring and technical assistance from volunteer or paid experts. Peer-to-peer networking with other startups and founders in the same stage. Health, life, and other insurance at group rates.

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Incubator Startup Help Resource 98

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

For the life sciences industry, one of the largest landlords, and closest observers, is Alexandria Real Estate Equities. from San Francisco, San Diego, and Seattle on the west coast to Boston, New York, and Research Triangle Park out east. Both are accompanied by separate new investment funds of between $10 million and $25 million.

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Xconomy

JUNE 3, 2016

Contravir will pay $17 million in cash and 10 percent of its equity to Ciclofilin shareholders, but only if the company’s lead drug, CPI-431-32, hits certain milestones. million in seed funding from RA Capital Management and others to help sell a liquid formula for infants to help prevent the onset of peanut allergies. .

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

He wants a chance at changing life’s circumstances with building equity value that might free him and his family from the rat-race of 529 accounts, property taxes, summer-school tuitions and even spending some cash on aging parents. In fact, I would argue that most people don’t. He still has the dream. He has the hunger.

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