Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2023

They don’t realize that according to statistics from Startup.co , almost 60 percent are funded with personal savings and credit, and another 25 percent get their money from friends and family. That leaves only about fifteen percent that actually get their funding from investors, through crowdfunding, banks, angels, and venture capitalists.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2014

Entrepreneurs who require funding for their startup have long counted on self-accredited high net worth individuals (“angels”) to fill their needs, after friends and family, and before they qualify for institutional investments (“VCs”). Angel groups fear the loss of members for the same reason. billion collected in 2012.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2021

Many first-time entrepreneurs find themselves unable to bootstrap their startups, and also unable to find early funding at the venture capital level or even with angel investors. The average amount per startup has been $23,000, usually in the form of a convertible loan, rather than an equity investment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2022

That’s not an attractive statistic if you crave control and power. You have very little money, and you don’t want to give away your equity. Giving equity is realistic, but base it on contribution and role, with vesting after time and milestones. Recognize that the best people don’t work for free.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Check competitor numbers and industry average statistics to get you in the right range. Project your cash burn rate to keep at least 18 months between venture capital or angel investments. Be willing to give up 20 to 33 percent of your equity to support this. Calculate investment amounts and timing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

They don’t realize that according to statistics from Startup.co , almost 60 percent are funded with personal savings and credit, and another 25 percent get their money from friends and family. That leaves only about fifteen percent that actually get their funding from investors, through crowdfunding, banks, angels, and venture capitalists.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

Los Angeles-based Rubicon Project , which supplies ad optimization software to web publishers, announced today that it has released a new version of its VANTAGE Firefox browser plug-in, which helps provide its publishers with revenue and impressoin statistics and other information. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Check competitor numbers and industry average statistics to get you in the right range. Project your cash burn rate to keep at least 18 months between venture capital or angel investments. Be willing to give up 20 to 33 percent of your equity to support this. Calculate investment amounts and timing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 20, 2016

With the advent and growth of crowdfunding over the past few years, many entrepreneurs have predicted the demise of those demanding angel investment groups and venture capital organizations. At least ten online portals are already gearing up to help regular people buy startup equity, without abiding by accredited investor rules.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2019

That’s not an attractive statistic if you crave control and power. You have very little money, and you don’t want to give away your equity. Giving equity is realistic, but base it on contribution and role, with vesting after time and milestones. Recognize that the best people don’t work for free.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 5, 2013

To try to figure out a better model to support great content, Los Angeles-based Tubestart (www.tubestart.com) recently launched a crowdfunding site, specifically aimed at digital video and YouTube creators. That''s the statistics across the board. Josef Holm: Equity-based crowdfunding. They are all rewards-based campaigns.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2015

According to recent statistics , there are already over 500 website crowdfunding platforms, such as Kickstarter , available; and over $5 billion was raised this way last year. A seed-stage “super angel.” Ron Conway , of SV Angels, and Reid Hoffman , LinkedIn's founder, are names often mentioned in this category.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 1, 2015

Image via Flickr by Jupiter Labs Many first-time entrepreneurs find themselves unable to bootstrap their startups, and also unable to find early funding at the venture capital level or even with angel investors. The average amount per startup was $23,000, usually in the form of a convertible loan, rather than an equity investment.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

I think from the perspective of real credibility, what we need is venture capital in the private equity marketplace. No matter what we say, the statistics are what they are and invested capital in Silicon Valley still dwarfs Southern California. Also hold on to your equity as long as you can and keep as much of it as you can.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 14, 2014

That’s not an attractive statistic if you crave control and power. You have very little money, and you don’t want to give away your equity. Giving equity is realistic, but base it on contribution and role, with vesting after time and milestones. Recognize that the best people don’t work for free.

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Entrepreneur Statistics Equity Satisfaction 107

socalTECH

MARCH 31, 2014

Bitvore is based in Irvine, and is backed by serial entrepreneur Yuri Pikover, as well as other angels. Our system will go off and watch those things for you, trend them over time, do statistical analysis on them, or you can use it as a very advanced news gathering system, which is what we''re doing with it today for Wall Street.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2017

That’s not an attractive statistic if you crave control and power. You have very little money, and you don’t want to give away your equity. Giving equity is realistic, but base it on contribution and role, with vesting after time and milestones. Recognize that the best people don’t work for free.

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Entrepreneur USC Statistics Equity 57

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2013

That’s not an attractive statistic if you crave control and power. You have very little money, and you don’t want to give away your equity. Giving equity is realistic, but base it on contribution and role, with vesting after time and milestones. Recognize that the best people don’t work for free.

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Startup Entrepreneur Statistics Equity 98

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2010

In case you think that all of these are employed by big companies, listen to these statistics: According to an article in U.S. How can you beat finding someone who has been there and done that, able to mentor Gen-Y, has lots of connections to people in your industry, and is often willing to work for equity alone? Angel Investor.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 13, 2016

They don’t realize that according to statistics from Startup.co , almost 60 percent are funded with personal savings and credit, and another 25 percent get their money from friends and family. That leaves only about five percent that actually get their funding from investors, through crowdfunding, banks, angels, and venture capitalists.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2015

Check competitor numbers and industry average statistics to get you in the right range. Project your cash burn rate to keep at least 18 months between venture capital or angel investments. Be willing to give up 20 to 33 percent of your equity to support this. Calculate investment amounts and timing.

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Entrepreneur Startup Pricing Sales 102

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2017

As an angel investor and business advisor on new ventures, I expect to see five-year financial projections from every entrepreneur. Check competitor numbers and industry average statistics to get you in the right range. Project your cash burn rate to keep at least 18 months between venture capital or angel investments.

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Pricing Startup Entrepreneur Invest 57

Steve Reich

MARCH 30, 2012

Let me give you a few examples: SwingbySwing Golf created an iPhone/Android app that lets golfers use the GPS in their phone to measure distance to the hole and track statistics. 20k from StartEngine, and a lot of sweat equity from the founders. Get Angel capital and build a prototype. They are nearing 1mm registered users.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2016

They don’t realize that according to statistics , more than 90 percent of satisfied entrepreneurs use bootstrapping, since other people’s money always comes with strings, most of them negative. Most entrepreneurs never forget for a moment that having investors means owing money, even if they can legally argue that equity is not debt.

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socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2010

We spoke to Robin about the new startup, his executive team, as well as his angel investing activity here. As an aside, I see you've been active as an angel here in LA? There's not a lot of statistics on internships, but if you look at the giant companies that do job postings, it's very clear this is very different.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

We’re a national venture capital investment firm but with our roots firmly in Los Angeles. You don’t have unlimited equity to dole out. Chip Kelly believes in the statistics of players: ages, sizes, speeds – and everybody is clear what the “Chip Kelly system” was. He believes in execution.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

As an undergradudate, Leila authored background papers for the World Bank's Development Research Group and Ashoka on equity and social rights. He currently works for Founders Fund and coordinates FF Angel LLC, a seed-stage investment program; as well as fbFund REV, a micro-seed incubator program for Facebook-related startups.

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