Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2020

Most aspiring entrepreneurs look to their alma mater, or any university, as a source of classes that can help them, but neglect to think outside the box or take advantage of all the other resources to be found there. Online or evening entrepreneurship classes for anyone. Online or evening entrepreneurship classes for anyone.

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Class Startup Resource Mentor 124

Berkonomics

JANUARY 6, 2022

Promissory notes come before any equity, and most late equity investments come before early equity investments, even of the same class of security. Most sophisticated investors will take either a promissory note or preferred stock, both of which come before founder or management stock in a sale or liquidation.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Here is the warning: The execution of equity allocations and of a good incentive program using equity is often mismanaged, damaging the corporate capitalization structure and even affecting the outcome of subsequent investment into the company. … Equity is divided between the founders and the business begun.

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Equity Class Pricing Sales 156

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 23, 2013

Bootstrapping avoids all the cost, pain, and distractions of finding angels or VCs, and allows you to keep control and all your hard-earned equity for yourself. Use voicemail, a world-class website, and personal customer service, with small expenses, to beat your big competitors. Hire experts, not help. Do it yourself.

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Equity Startup Summary Tips 96

Berkonomics

JUNE 8, 2017

This class of investor, once quite disorganized, has become much like the venture capital community, creating a process including due diligence (careful examination of a business before investment), terms of investment that match those of venture capitalists, and a process that often takes.

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Venture Capital Class Invest Equity 266

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2022

A major chunk of this activity is provided by the newer class of “super angels,” who often look more like micro-VCs, except that they are investing their own money. This helps the startups with the most opportunity move forward quickly to greater success. Super angels have greater scope to match talent with a startup.

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Guide Venture Capital Funding Class 136

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2014

Whereas the first two funds I was involved in helping raise each took more than a year this fund was less than 6 months. Fund of Funds (people who raise money from large funds and then break it up to invest into VCs and other asset classes). Many people have helped us along the way with guidance, mentorship, introductions and advice.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Unfortunately, most of us don’t have enough resources to bootstrap our own startups, so we are completely dependent on investors to help turn great ideas into great businesses. Emphasize your real ambition to change the world, through helping the underprivileged, improving healthcare, or saving the environment.

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Ideas Entrepreneur Equity Resource 140

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Being the leader doesn’t mean more equity, nor does it mean the leader will necessarily be CEO. A sales fanatic on the founder team helps to contain that risk. The rest can come from early hires (with stock options to assure commitment), equity investors, or even strategic partners. The industry veteran. The sales professional.

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Technical Advisors Startup Outsource Development High Tech 123

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2023

Venture capital firms look for the most mature companies they can find, Angel investors typically deal a tier lower, while friends and family are most likely to help you get started. Different types of investors tend to specialize in capitalizing on businesses at different stages. Tune your investor pitch and funding expectations accordingly.

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Funding Startup Ideas Equity 125

socalTECH

APRIL 13, 2021

They are always overlapping, so in essence, we have a freshman and senior class, so teams can collaborate, and get the benefit of the peers before them. Dave Eastman: For one thing, although we're not completely unique in this, is we don't take equity. Those are faculty members who have a commercialization idea and want help with that.

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Marina Del Rey Startup USC Incubator 150

Berkonomics

JUNE 12, 2014

It is rare when one person starts a company, supplies all the funding, and shares no management tasks or equity with others, and still grows the company to any significant size, worthy of a multi-million dollar opportunity to cash out at exit. It is the old story of “100% of nothing is worth far less than 10% of a large number.”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Often these communities are built around special interest groups, where the members interact through social media, help each other, and trust each other, and the relationships go well beyond the transactions. Fertility can be helped by less restrictive ways for people to share their sperm and eggs. Healthcare.

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Resource Commerce Social Media Platform 126

socalTECH

JUNE 20, 2012

We caught up with Sam Teller , who is directing efforts at the accelerator, to help fill entrepreneurs in on where the program fits in the world of technology and startup acceleration. It was really just something built for the community to help support entrepreneurs. Our current class has performed incredibly well.

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Class Mentor Startup Santa Monica 261

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 19, 2020

A major chunk of this activity is provided by the newer class of “super angels,” who often look more like micro-VCs, except that they are investing their own money. This helps the startups with the most opportunity move forward quickly to greater success. Super angels have greater scope to match talent with a startup.

Funding 125

Funding Venture Capital Startup Class 125

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. Often grouped into formal organizations, these investors are sophisticated, helpful, and connected.

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Equity Technical Review Class Organization 156

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 22, 2020

Venture capital firms look for the most mature companies they can find, Angel investors typically deal a tier lower, while friends and family are most likely to help you get started. Different types of investors tend to specialize in capitalizing on businesses at different stages. Tune your investor pitch and funding expectations accordingly.

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Startup Ideas Equity Invest 148

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 12, 2015

Every investor in your startup, even friends and family, normally expects a share of your company (equity), which means your return for all your effort goes down quickly. This is at least double the time required for most equity investments, and may be a delay you can’t afford in keeping up with the market and your competitors.

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Pricing Equity Technical Review Research 100

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Being the leader doesn’t mean more equity, nor does it mean the leader will necessarily be CEO. A sales fanatic on the founder team helps to contain that risk. The rest can come from early hires (with stock options to assure commitment), equity investors, or even strategic partners. The industry veteran. The sales professional.

Technical Advisors 123

Technical Advisors Outsource Development Startup High Tech 123

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2016

Most aspiring entrepreneurs look to their alma mater, or any university, as a source of classes that can help them, but neglect to think outside the box or take advantage of all the other resources to be found there. Online or evening entrepreneurship classes for anyone. Online or evening entrepreneurship classes for anyone.

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Entrepreneur Capital Class Startup 55

Berkonomics

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Promissory notes come before any equity, and most late equity investments come before early equity investments, even of the same class of security. Most sophisticated investors will take either a promissory note or preferred stock, both of which come before founder or management stock in a sale or liquidation.

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Angel Sales Pricing Equity 120

socalTECH

MARCH 11, 2009

4Ds said that Poly Plant Project made the investment as part of a multi-million dollar equity investment. Poly Plant Project describes itself as helping companies design, plan and build world-class polysilicon production plants. Amount of the investment was not disclosed.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

For those negotiating equity allocations it covers some of the most complex issues to address in the process. Equity is divided between the founders and the business begun. Let me try to advance a few rules of thumb to help guide you here. This post is longer than usual. a share, then options must be priced at that amount.

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Equity Class Pricing Sales 256

socalTECH

OCTOBER 27, 2011

K5Launch (www.k5launch.com) is modeled after the successful Y-Combinator and TechStars acceleration programs, and invests equity, provides mentors, and runs a three month program to get very early stage startups off the ground. Our challenge is to help start, fund, improve, and grow 1000 companies in five years.

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Orange County Southern California Startup Class 192

socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2019

To tackle this, we formed Retina in 2017, so that we could help businesses find out the true lifetime value of their customers, not just after they had them for years, but when they just walked in the door. We were acquired in 2014 by Summit Partners, and I ended up in private equity, post-acquisition at Summit Partners.

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Dollar Shave Club Artificial Inteligence Customer Custom 113

socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2017

I'm looking forward to opening up new markets, including the expansion of family offices and other traditional investors to the amazing asset class that cryptocurrency has become. He also co-founded Direct IPO, one of the earliest equity crowdfunding companies, and founded and sold his first PR firm, The Terpin Group.

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Southern California Santa Monica Conference Newsletter 189

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 20, 2009

But I’m also sending this to a couple of class-action lawyers. Trilegiant Corporation , (who is owned by Avis Budget Group (yes, that Avis & Budget), in turn owned by the private equity group Apollo Management ) does business as PrivacyGuard and has engaged in the most unethical of business practices I have come across in years.

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Marketing Startup Education Class 263

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

Understanding where your VC partner sits in their respective fund and where their fund is in the cycle of its investment lifecycle will help you understand your VCs behavior. In addition to helping manage the board Chris also helps represent the interests of the angel investors / common stock holders.

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Tips Email Venture Capital CTO Coach 365

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

Often these communities are built around special interest groups, where the members interact through social media, help each other, and trust each other, and the relationships go well beyond the transactions. Fertility can be helped by less restrictive ways for people to share their sperm and eggs. Healthcare.

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Commerce Social Media Platform Class 98

InfoChachkie

APRIL 24, 2012

Kim Kovaks, Founder and CEO OptionEase , recently spoke to a class of emerging entrepreneurs at UC Santa Barbara. With over 700 customers, OptionEase has become the leading enterprise class SaaS solution for stock option and equity compensation tracking and compliance. Getting Fired.

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Startup Santa Barbara Entrepreneur Class 258

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

through Grants.gov , an online directory of more than 1,000 federal grant programs that don’t look for equity or payback. Experts are available to help, but fees are high. You need to make an ROI assessment of value versus cost on outside help at this stage. Another alternative is to find an inexpensive class on grant writing.

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Funding Technical Review Startup Research 90

socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2012

If you're looking get your startup off the ground in Los Angeles, it always helps to have help from folks with connections to the venture and angel community. The standard model for an accelerator is, they provide a tranche of equity, along with a suite of services that varies by different accelerator.

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Startup Los Angeles Entrepreneur Media 254

socalTECH

MAY 25, 2016

You have to help people get better, and not try to fix things. The reason for that, and it's really important, is the bane of this asset class is the generally poor liquidity that venture capital provides. When I talk to LPs, that's always the one or two major pain points of the asset class they talk about.

Southern California 113

Southern California Capital Funding Invest 113

InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Craig Harris, Co-Founder and CEO of HG Data , knows first-hand that it is possible to recruit top talent, without the benefit of a lot of cash or equity. The existence of a common enemy also helps bring both organizations together. Lousy Cash Compensation, No Equity, No Bonuses. Educational Opportunities.

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Startup Organization Education Equity 233

TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 16, 2019

As Vertical Networks was winding down, Solve was spinning up with help from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Upfront Ventures, and Advancit Capital. Games have attained a first class status as media but we’ve yet to see a crime mystery format game achieve the same success, and Solve is going to right that wrong.”.

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Social Media Media Startup Mobile 131

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2014

A major chunk of this activity is provided by the new class of Super Angels, who may look more like micro-VCs, except that they are investing their own money. Because of their high visibility and huge portfolios, this new class of investors can match the right talent to the right startup quickly and efficiently with introductions and mergers.

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Angel Funding Startup Venture Capital 104

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

Being the leader doesn’t mean more equity, nor does it mean the leader will necessarily be CEO. A sales fanatic on the founder team helps to contain that risk. The rest can come from early hires (with stock options to assure commitment), equity investors, or even strategic partners. The industry veteran. The sales professional.

Technical Advisors 105

Technical Advisors Outsource Development Startup High Tech 105