Both Sides of the Table

MAY 14, 2018

I Know Everybody Told You to Send Your Fund-Raising Decks as a Link. Here’s Why You Should Just Send the Deck I know you have your document sending tool to send your fund-raising deck to VCs and track who read your deck, which pages they read and how much time they spend on each page. Many of my colleagues do, too. A deck is a deck.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2020

The only way an entrepreneur can really dodge this issue is to totally fund the startup with personal funds (bootstrapping). For entrepreneurs, friends and family money usually represents the smallest increment of funding, yet requires the most time to manage. Don’t forget a couple of additional potential negative realities.

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socalTECH

MARCH 31, 2014

Update: Crossbar informs us that its investment announcement incorrectly identified the investor in this story as Tao Venture Capital Partners, when it should be an entirely different company -- Tao Invest, the investment fund of Nick and Joby Pritzker (also referred to as Tao LLC). The two funds are not related.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2021

Like any enterprise sale, you want to think from the perspective of the buyer and what they need to feel confident about the decision to buy a stake or ownership in your fund. Research everyone who has raised a comparably-sized fund and find out who backed them? OK, so you’ve found your target LPs who invest in funds at your stage.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

New research has found that San Francisco and London have become two of the world’s leading hubs for VC investment into tech solutions that address one or more of the 17 UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), more commonly referred to as “Impact Tech” They are followed by Paris, Berlin, Stockholm, Shanghai and Beijing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 28, 2018

It’s helpful to think of startups as proceeding through several stages, which I have defined some time ago from a funding perspective. Separately at this stage, you may look for small funding amounts from angel investors , called seed investments. Funding or rollout stage. Don’t waste your resources on the wrong ones.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 11, 2018

This morning, Moonshots Capital (www.moonshotscapital.com), led by Kelly Perdew and Craig Cummings , announced its first formal fund, a $19M seed stage fund. In October of last year, we did a first close on our first committed fund, which we're announcing. It's much better with committed funds and bigger checks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Make sure everyone accurately posts their role with your startup on social media profiles, resumes, and references. Visit reference customers, partners, and vendors. For reference, here is a quick summary of key elements which most investors include in their due diligence process: Key personnel review.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 28, 2014

Tradesy, one of the fastest growing sharing economy companies, was initially funded by the sharing economy. Eventually, Tracy''s cash flow desperation fortified her resolve and she accepted the inquiry of a musician, after he sent her a song as his "reference." Sharing Leads To More Sharing. Share and Enjoy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Acquiring seed-stage funding is admittedly tough, but a source that I find often overlooked is government grant funding, accessible in the U.S. The resulting delays can give your competitors an edge, or the market requirements can change before you get the funding you need. Experts are available to help, but fees are high.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Struggling entrepreneurs are often so happy to get a funding offer that they neglect the recommended reverse due diligence on the investors. Taking on equity investors to fund your company is much like getting married – it is a long-term relationship that has to work at all levels. A sample of three views is adequate.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

Very few people fund individuals. Professional angels / former entrepreneurs / seed funds – In Silicon Valley there are people like Ron Conway, Jeff Clavier, Mike Maples and many more. And whenever I needed to round up signatures for future fund raisings it was difficult to track him down / get him to care.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

I’m writing this post to explain to entrepreneurs what you should be thinking about in terms of the VC’s you approach and the size and stage of their funds. VC’s often talk about this term as in the total amount of funds EVER raised by that VC. What is a VC fund? What is total assets under management? -

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2010

But I used to jokingly refer to bridge loans as “pier&# loans. And startup CEO’s can often suppress the anxiety that goes along with the funding uncertainty – even to themselves. He had raised about $500,000 in seed funding that lasted a long time. Better even still if there’s a way to fund 9 months.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

million in seed funding from Crosscut, a Los Angeles-based venture capital firm, and Female Founders Fund. then affirms the providers use research-backed methods and that they have vetted peer references and clients who can provide positive feedback. “When you look at health as a whole today in the U.S.,

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2020

I’ve become fond of saying “if I had a dollar for every person who told me just how much they loooooved Kara Nortman, I’d have a 10x fund.” Our industry needs more female leaders and they shouldn’t have to all quit their respective firms and raise their own funds to get a shot at running things. Does This Mean You’re Retiring?

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

It has so far raised around $9 million in funding from investors including IDG, Sequoia Capital China and, most recently, Baidu Ventures. do but for video production,” Xu said to TechCrunch, referring to two of the top AI content helpers of today. How China’s synthetic media startup Surreal nabs funding in 3 months.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Good Money , a new Los Angeles digital banking startup founded by Gunnar Lovelace, the co-founder of Thrive Market , announced on Monday that it has raised $30M in a Series A funding round.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2013

It’s helpful to think of startups as proceeding through several stages, which I have defined before from a funding perspective. Separately at this stage, you may look for small funding amounts from Angel investors , called seed investments. Funding or rollout stage. Don’t waste your resources on the wrong ones. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2014

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Solicit funds from friends and family. Use crowd funding. Set expectations accordingly.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 21, 2021

When it comes to content, the group wants Netflix to increase its funding of trans and non-binary talent, bring employee resource groups into conversations about potentially harmful content, hire more trans and non-binary content executives, and revise internal procedures around commissioning and releasing sensitive works.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 25, 2024

If the coach is also a significantly large investor such as a VC fund, the board member-coach will offer a limited amount of time outside of board work at no extra cost, all for the good of the investment. How do you pay a coach? The post Do you even need a business coach? first appeared on BERKONOMICS.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

After you’ve received your first round of funding, that’s when your startup finance strategy needs to deepen. Here’s how to build out your finance function, post-funding: Hire a professional. Pre-funding, you may have been managing your finances yourself. Pre-funding, you may have been managing your finances yourself.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Solicit funds from friends and family. Use crowd funding to build reserves.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

We’ve called these nine and 10-figure deals, which shine brightly in the media and are hefty enough to bend the curve of VC fund sizes upwards, “ supergiants ” after their stellar counterparts. 2018 is already a record year for venture funding worldwide. 2018 in perspective.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2020

It’s helpful to think of startups as proceeding through several stages, which I have defined a long time ago from a funding perspective. Separately at this stage, you may look for small funding amounts from angel investors , called seed investments. Funding or rollout stage. Don’t waste your resources on the wrong ones.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 30, 2014

As I’ve written about recently, at Upfront Ventures we started talking a couple of years ago about wanting to fund stuff with more meaning. I think this is a combination of being realists as venture capitalists that outsized returns in our funds must come from taking on bigger, more impactful projects that can move markets.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2014

The only way an entrepreneur can really dodge this issue is to totally fund the startup with personal funds (bootstrapping). For entrepreneurs, friends and family money usually represents the smallest increment of funding, yet requires the most time to manage. Don’t forget a couple of additional potential negative realities.

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socalTECH

JUNE 18, 2013

Are you a fan of the NFL or NBA--and wish you had an easy reference to the players and picks in the draft for those two sports leagues? The startup is now in the midst of seed funding efforts, after seeing uptake and large numbers of downloads of the app.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 9, 2018

The only way an entrepreneur can really dodge this issue is to totally fund the startup with personal funds (bootstrapping). For entrepreneurs, friends and family money usually represents the smallest increment of funding, yet requires the most time to manage. Don’t forget a couple of additional potential negative realities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2021

One of the business ironies that many entrepreneurs have learned the hard way in the past is that ideas which are truly disruptive carry the highest risk of failure, take the longest to gain traction, and thus are the least likely to get external funding. Listen for insights from others, and follow-up on every reference to spark new learning.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

For our Insights and Opinions section on a quiet holiday Monday, we're featuring some background on the concepts behind anti-dilution and how it's used by venture capital firms in fundings. This piece comes from Louis Wharton , Partner with Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, LLP.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Now, Microsoft-owned GitHub is gearing up to remove these references to slavery by naming primary code repositories “main” instead of “master.” Bezos Academy, funded by Jeff Bezos’ $2B ‘Day One Fund,’ launches first free school in Seattle area – GeekWire. These changes will go into effect on October 1.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Asa result, the entrepreneur could avoid a fundraising effort, reduce working capital, make friends with the salespersons of multiple companies that could supply leads and references, and become instantly profitable. So, what if that startup could not have raised funds? Some fatal elements that might become only a near miss.

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socalTECH

JULY 15, 2011

Los Angeles-based Scopely , the stealth-mode startup which announced a funding round this week, has a unique pitch to potential employees: the firm is offering up $11,000 wrapped in Bacon, an oil painting of the new employee, Cuban cigars, a year's supply of beer, and more prizes to new employees or people who refer friends to work at the startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2019

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Solicit funds from friends and family. Use crowd funding to build reserves.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2022

The “valley of death” is a common term in the startup world, referring to the difficulty of covering the negative cash flow in the early stages of a startup, before their new product or service is bringing in revenue from real customers. Solicit funds from friends and family. Use crowd funding. Set expectations accordingly.

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