Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2022

If you are one of the many entrepreneurs who aspire to get beyond the “art of the start,” there are some proven principles to follow. They need a large infusion from venture capitalists, private equity, bank loans, or mezzanine financing. In his classic book, “ Second Stage Entrepreneurship ,” Daniel J. There is no free lunch.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 8, 2019

The biggest challenge these days doesn’t seem to be in starting a new business, but sustaining it against the onslaught of market changes and new competitors that emerge every day. That starts with initially building a solid business strategy, including a strong support system for scalability, long-term leadership, and adaptability.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

There''s just simply no way that the founder or the management or anyone with equity in the company, besides the investor with a six-x liq pref (liquidation preference), could make any money. The funded was really started as a way to counterbalance the bad behavior and harsh economic terms that the venture capitalists had adopted.

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socalTECH

JULY 1, 2013

He sat down with us to tell us more about the incubator, plus why--having started an equivalent of what would be called accelerator today, but during the dot com days--he''s a fan of a different model today. Why did you decide to start Greenwings? After we sold that business, I started an incubator during the dot-com bubble.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 4, 2014

A co-founder who started by working hard but gets sucked into the tech party circuit and has more interest in socialize than building cool s**t. One who wants to commercialize his product and start charging while the other prefers to not charge. She started it with a partner, 50-50. Equity for the future? Nurture it.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2018

Let me start out with my premise: “Data rooms are where fund-raising processes go to die.” I’m going to start with the reasons and then explain how to use your best data to your advantage. I hired a sales coach named Kai Krickle who helped me figure out how to close more deals. I have to back up and give you more context.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

If you are one of the many entrepreneurs who aspire to get beyond the “art of the start,” there are some proven principles to follow. They need a large infusion from venture capitalists, private equity, bank loans, or mezzanine financing. In his classic book, “ Second Stage Entrepreneurship ,” Daniel J. There is no free lunch.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

And, the equity markets are certainly a more challenging environment. The other thing, which we started a couple of years ago that has proven to be interesting, is we're also talking to people at an earlier stage than we used to. Mike Napoli: Obviously, it's still tough. The environment has gotten more constrained.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2017

When I hear executives and professionals in larger businesses talking about their dream of going out on their own to start a new company, I always cringe. The longer you wait to start your own business, the higher the default burn rate, and the less happy you will be to take a financial step down. I have been there and done that.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 6, 2014

I would start by asking the candidate, “How did you decide on these five people” as part of your review process. I usually start with, “Obviously Stacy has made it far into the process or I wouldn’t be calling you. I usually try to disarm the person I’m calling this way. In that post I wrote.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 22, 2017

Usually this stage only really starts after an investor has expressed serious interest, or already informally agreed to invest. Others schedule long and exhaustive practice and coaching sessions for everyone on the team, including showcase customers, to make sure that everyone tells the most positive and consistent story.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

If you are one of the many entrepreneurs who aspire to get beyond the “art of the start,” there are some proven principles to follow. They need a large infusion from venture capitalists, private equity, bank loans, or mezzanine financing. In his recent book, “ Second Stage Entrepreneurship ,” Daniel J. There is no free lunch.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 3, 2014

There are three classes of equity investors for early stage businesses that we have not yet considered. If you are starting a virtual company with your employees working from home locations, as many startups do, it should be the location of the founder.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

If you are one of the many entrepreneurs who aspire to get beyond the “art of the start,” there are some proven principles to follow. They need a large infusion from venture capitalists, private equity, bank loans, or mezzanine financing. In his classic book, “ Second Stage Entrepreneurship ,” Daniel J. There is no free lunch.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

But if we make changes in our investment practices or behaviors we need to start to update how we talk about our firm’s vision or we’ll start to drift in our sense of purpose. You don’t have unlimited equity to dole out. This is something I try to coach against. That’s healthy. Happy New Year.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

If board members start joking amongst themselves (as we at DataSift do) that you “got another Rob assignment” you know you’re on the right track. You start to act cohesively as a group. You may know how much to pay in cash or equity for your new VP Engineering. Rob jokes about it. More information comes out.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2012

Like most angels and micro-VCs, however, they still start with relatively small sums of money, often investing only $10,000 to $50,000 in the first increment. Since the economic downturn started, neither angels nor VCs have given much attention to startups without a product and a revenue stream. Series-seed round. Early-stage startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

If you are one of the many entrepreneurs who aspire to get beyond the “art of the start,” there are some proven principles to follow. They need a large infusion from venture capitalists, private equity, bank loans, or mezzanine financing. I just finished a new book, “ Second Stage Entrepreneurship ,” by Daniel J.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2011

Like most angels and micro-VCs, however, they still start with relatively small sums of money, often investing only $10,000 to $50,000 in the first increment. Since the economic downturn started, neither angels nor VCs have given much attention to startups without a product and a revenue stream. Series-seed round. Early-stage startup.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

MARCH 9, 2011

Investors and entrepreneurs who won at the fundraising game during and after the Great Recession offer advice on landing equity money. “Our executive director works with entrepreneurs [who] have been selected to pitch, coaching them to improve their presentations and helping them anticipate questions.” By Monica Mehta.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Yes, I know it’s my job as the CEO to be the coach for people and that’s fine. He wanted to know how to get started and “Could I intro him to a couple of local angels?&# One night after a DealMaker Media event we got 20 minutes together after the event ended. This was such a guy. He was stuck on capital raising.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

The women in the program commit $5,000 and invest as a group of woman in a social venture in exchange for equity. NON: I very much started with people in my network in the beginning. In addition to coaching and mentoring, I want to put them in the game of investing into startups. Starting that conversation is the way to go.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2009

He’s joining you because your company offers him/her the hope of the big equity package but likely the step forward in his career that he’s been looking for. So we were starting to become a real business. I had given him a small equity stake in my company. Tags: Start-up Advice startup technology.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

As some of the last generation of startups have gotten bigger many VCs have also chased later-stage investments that were traditionally dominated by growth equity or mezzanine funds. And of course hedge funds and growth-equity funds can’t resist trying to get earlier-stage exposure again. They should start “lean.&#

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 4, 2010

That said, I think it starts with what a laundry list of different kinds of needed technology activities and what the current team can reasonably accomplish. CTO Founder – Direct responsibility for technical direction and development, sometimes operations, implies greater authority on product and company direction and higher equity position.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

We brought together Peter Cowen of Groundwork Equity , Mark Suster of GRP Partners , Rick Smith of Crosscut Ventures , and Richard Yen of Saban Ventures -- all of who will be on the judging panel for the Tech Coast Angel's Fast Pitch on February 24th, to give us a their hints and tips about pitching to venture capitalists.

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socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2010

How did you decide to start Internships.com? We started taking a deep look into this. From a larger perspective, they'd like to be able to reach into a database, and look at students in the community, and see if they can give someone in that community a head start. But, there's no easy way to go do that.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Seth attended UCSB but dropped out to start a denim company. . They are starting to see the light. In the beginning, when there is nothing, it’s easy to make promises or throw around equity. Value Prop Twitter Style : SocialStay is: "An easy to set up & manage mobile platform designed for the hospitality industry.

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