Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2019

According to a well-researched Motly Fool report, the challenge is very real, since around half of all businesses fail in the first five years. Nevertheless, it’s an option that doesn’t cost you equity. I often get asked about the real alternatives to bridge this valley, and there are some good ones I will outline here.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2014

Yet credible reports on current trends tell us just the opposite. According to the most recent report from the Kauffman Foundation , the highest rate of entrepreneurship in America shifted a few years ago to the Boomer age group, compared to Gen-X (1965 to1980) and Gen-Y (1981 to 1995). Don’t expect them to go away any time soon.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2012

.” Matt Ocko also revealed to Silicon Beat that they have been getting a lot more press inquiries due to the number of deals they were doing. Data Collective founders say they still read code and understand chip architecture and how to build racks. 35+ Equity Partners on board. Big Data Shift.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

The burn rate was extremely high, with no one working for equity or deferred compensation. For example, IBM was always under scrutiny for potentially impacting small competitors, equitable contracts, and meeting the reporting and disclosure standards for public companies. Compensation and support carried the corporate burden rate.

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socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

The consumer piece is a big part of our business, and the next big piece is the advertiser platform, plus everything we wrap around the advertiser experience, helping them to manage their content, and provide great reporting, and helping them to understand the ROI of doing business with us. We''ve been very aggressive on the technology front.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2018

According to a recent Motly Fool report, the challenge is very real, since around half of all businesses fail in the first five years. Nevertheless, it’s an option that doesn’t cost you equity. The positives are that you give up no equity, and these apply to the early startup stages, but they do take time and much effort to win.

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socalTECH

MAY 21, 2013

A consumer piece is a big part of our business, and the next big piece is the advertiser platform, plus everything we wrap around the advertisers experience, helping them to manage their content, and provide great reporting, and helping them to understand the ROI of doing business with us. We''ve been very aggressive on the technology front.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 9, 2014

Due Diligence. And in some cases, as Stephen reports, consultants have gone on to secure full time jobs for their contract employers – like the story of Anna Johnson, a Harvard Business School grad who was hired bySkillbridge as an HR contractor who helped her client create manuals for a fledgling startup’s HR team. .”

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

This is why investors really like SaaS software companies where you have recurring revenue and your largest customer accounts for < 5% of your revenue and your renewals rates are > 90%. Many software companies have > 80% gross margins which is why they are more valuable than say traditional retailers or consumer product companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

So even within the “alternative class&# our LPs are looking at other asset investment choices such as distressed buyout funds, private equity or hedge funds. PE Hub reported that there were mass defections. You don’t need to buy expensive software – there are free open source solutions for nearly everything.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 11, 2011

This drove Mike to follows his passion in lieu of returning to the private equity world he had been in prior to business school. Bill pay aggregation software has been around for a few years now and is nothing revolutionary, but PayDivvy is not just an aggregation service. by %, by $ amount).

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. These are probably the two sites where I've posted the most reviews.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

In no expert in Seattle but when I look around I see: enterprise software (Microsoft), the market leader in cloud services (Amazon AWS), games (Xbox), some of the most innovative retailers in the country (CostCo, Starbucks, REI) and what is left of Boeing (HQ moved to Chicago). Marketing Muscle. It’s awesome. We know it can be done.

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