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. Every founding member wants to be compensated richly for the risk and the unknown.

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Startup USC Entrepreneur Statistics 97

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Seed-stage, meanwhil e, is technically that critical period when you need funding to do solution- and business-model development, to prove that your new product or service works, before you try to sell it to customers. These funders often offer convertible notes, rather than the traditional priced equity. Business accelerator funding.

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Funding Venture Capital Startup Seed Funding 104

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2016

According to recent statistics from the International Business Innovation Association ( InBIA ), there are about 7,000 business incubators and accelerators worldwide, with over 90 percent being non-profit and focused on incubator programs for community economic development. Costs, returns in equity and funding access.

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Incubator Startup Seed Funding Equity 58

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. Every founding member wants to be compensated richly for the risk and the unknown.

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Entrepreneur Statistics Equity Satisfaction 107

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. Every founding member wants to be compensated richly for the risk and the unknown.

Entrepreneur 57

Entrepreneur USC Statistics Equity 57

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2019

If you type “baby stroller” into the search bar they’re able to statistically validate whether you’re likely to buy more baby products in part based on your search queries and in part based on the websites you visit (your clickstream). Users type a search query into their search bar and Google knows the “purchase intent” of the customer.

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Venture Capital IP Startup Google 223

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. Customers benefit from early solution access, priority input on requirements, and personalized customer service.

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Startup Entrepreneur Statistics Funding 61

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? Customer Service.

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Mentor Statistics High Tech Demand 75

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. Every founding member wants to be compensated richly for the risk and the unknown.

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Startup Entrepreneur Statistics Equity 98

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2015

Most aspiring entrepreneurs understand that you can’t build a business if you won’t commit to delivering a product or service, but many are hesitant or refuse to commit to any financial forecasts. Check competitor numbers and industry average statistics to get you in the right range. Calculate investment amounts and timing.

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Entrepreneur Startup Pricing Sales 102

socalTECH

MARCH 31, 2014

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. It''s built and deployed as a service in the cloud, with nothing to install. How did you end up raising both?

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Orange County Startup News IBM 245

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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Funding Startup Satisfaction Entrepreneur 57

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2012

Statistically, the costs to the first inventor of a new technology are at least a third higher than to follow-on innovators in the same technology. Even banks, as well as equity investors, look more favorably on a proven business model than a new and unproven one. Of course, the first one gets the patent. Easier to find investors.

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Patents Startup Statistics Course 84

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 26, 2011

Statistically, the costs to the first inventor of a new technology are at least a third higher than to follow-on innovators in the same technology. Even banks, as well as equity investors, look more favorably on a proven business model than a new and unproven one. Of course, the first one gets the patent. Easier to find investors.

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Startup Patents Statistics Course 91

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Manatt Digital Media is a professional digital media service for businesses. 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.

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Los Angeles Media Invest Startup 84

socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2010

We've also hired a tremendous set of experience career counselors, who have had colorful or substantial careers, to supply services and products to our students. 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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Startup Content Sites CTO Coach 223

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. In 2002 he described a simple statistical spam filter that inspired a new generation of filters. Dave McClure. . Essayist, programmer, and programming language designer. ycombinator.com. .

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Twiistup Riot Games UCLA Media 40

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

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. What I’m talking about is making tough decisions. As a leader you live in a world with limited resources. He believes in execution.

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Startup Coach Course Invest 150