Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

But safely seeking equity investments from the crowd via the Jobs Act of 2012 is problematic and has still not been defined. No one contemplates including a business plan, investor presentation, or even the equivalent of an executive summary. Crowd sample size and makeup not representative of market.

Funding 101

Funding Equity Entrepreneur Invest 101

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

IPOs in 2008, the market was up to a still trivial 128 in 2012 (compared to 675 in 1996). I reviewed a good summary of the advantages and disadvantages of an IPO exit strategy for startups in a widely-used textbook “ Entrepreneurship ,” by Robert Hisrich, Michael Peters, and Dean Shepherd. After a record low of 39 U.S.

Startup 89

Startup Entrepreneur Report Summary 89

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2014

In summary, the transformation starts with placing leaders with a purpose at the core, hiring talent with a purpose at the frontier, and then building and extending the culture of purpose both inside and outside the organization. Shape how people relate to one another and collectively go for what would be out of reach to them individually.

Startup 91

Startup Organization Pricing Customer 91

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 17, 2013

But safely seeking equity investments from the crowd via the Jobs Act of 2012 is problematic and has still not been defined. No one contemplates including a business plan, investor presentation, or even the equivalent of an executive summary. Crowd sample size and makeup not representative of market.

Funding 106

Funding Equity Entrepreneur Sample 106

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 5, 2013

In 2012, total entrepreneurial activity in the United States hit its highest level since their survey started in 1999, according to Babson College. In summary, whether you are running a startup, a family business, or a famous brand like IBM, you are all part of the jungle. It’s a jungle out there. That’s the good news and the bad news.

Startup 99

Startup Competition News Framework 99

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

If you want to understand my thesis behind Maker you can read this article that outlines the trend , but in summary: People watch 5.3 Ynon & I first discussed Maker in early 2012. hours of TV / day. They read less than 30 minutes. You can’t change media consumption patterns easily. The future of the Internet is video.

Media 320

Media CTO Coach CTO Hire Los Angeles 320

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

But these requirements may go away with the Crowdfunding JOBS Act passed into law back in 2012. In summary, investing in startups can be very rewarding, both financially, and in your ability to really help someone who needs help. There is no “exchange,” so you can’t sell the stock at will.

Entrepreneur 102

Entrepreneur Startup Invest Incubator 102

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DECEMBER 14, 2014

Throughout 2012 & 2013 we funded many companies and then pulled together a second fund. This is just a quick summary. While many people were involved with helping Launchpad over the years – it was really a partnership between the 5 of us: Sam, Adam, Jim, Peter and me – for a couple of years. What have I learned?

Venture Capital 290

Venture Capital Startup Idealab Funding 290

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OCTOBER 21, 2009

Summary of Montgomery & Co’s views on the road ahead for tech M&A of venture backed companies: (the whole presentation is later in the post, which I suggest you look at because it has insightful data. More interestingly Montgomery expect the M&A market to grow to 600 in 2011 and 750 in 2012.

Venture Capital 241

Venture Capital Technical Review Southern California Company 241

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APRIL 25, 2011

They feel very confident they can hit $18 – 20 million in 2012. So assume that in 2012 the company would do $20 million in sales and $2 million in profits (10%) and 2013 they would do sales of $25 million and $4 million in profit (16% net margin) and then slow growth in 2014 to $30 million and $6 million in profit (20% profit).

Services 332

Services Venture Capital IP Startup 332

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

In summary, investing in startups can be very rewarding, both financially, and in your ability to really help someone who needs help. Marty Zwilling First published on Forbes on 9/21/2012. Liquidity events include merger or acquisition (M&A), or Initial Public Offering (IPO) when the stock goes public.

Startup 91

Startup Invest Incubator Ideas 91

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APRIL 17, 2012

For me Silicon Beach doesn’t quite encapsulate the wonderful, dynamic, creative, large, thriving community that is the 13 million proud Angelinos any more than Silicon Alley captures the bustling 2012 community of New York City. In Summary. If anything using the word “Silicon” seems a bit derivative to NorCal.

Startup 304

Startup Venture Capital Los Angeles Woodland Hills 304

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

A side proving hard to argue “with almost 20% of the newest Fortune 500 companies­—those founded between 1985 and 2010- have an immigrant founder,” employing hundreds of thousands of US nationals, proving that the numbers show a need for reform (more from the Morgan Lewis, immigration webinar, 2012).

Technical Review 77

Technical Review Startup Offshore Entrepreneur 77

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NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Summary Startups are fun and exhilarating and filled with challenging problems to solve. Sam’s vision was to build a world-class “reverse logistics” company that could be as ambitious as Amazon has been in delivering goods to our houses. MakeSpace (as he named it) would help you get your excess goods into low-cost warehouses.

Startup 286

Startup Technical Review Customer Custom 286

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JUNE 8, 2014

In 2012 Upfront Ventures raised its 4th venture capital fund – this one was $200 million. We started investing the fund in April 2012 and by early 2013 had closed our fund to new investors. Here Cincinnati was really creative to its approach to attracting more venture capital to the region – including this author.

Startup 390

Startup Venture Capital Capital Funding 390

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AUGUST 9, 2011

tl;dr summary. If you want a comprehensive summary of the industry in this era it’s worth a read: VC Ice Age Part 1 – What Happens When a Market Comes to a Standstill? Summary version? My year-over-year summary sounds very similar upon re-reading them. VCs were very active in this period. No chart was good.

Marketing 305

Marketing Venture Capital Funding Technical Review 305

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OCTOBER 18, 2015

In 2012 I penned an article called “ It’s Morning in VC ” that highlighted many of these trends and in 2014 I published a series of data in this VC SlideShare presentation of “ Why VC is Much More Compelling ” now, which updated many of our earlier analysis. Final venture outlook 2016 from Mark Suster.

Venture Capital 150

Venture Capital Pricing Platform Marketing 150