InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Professional investors do not fund great ideas. The reality is that most venture capitalists are not very venturesome. Thus, it is incumbent on entrepreneurs to turn their ideas into viable businesses before seeking venture funding. Wiley entrepreneurs pre-sell their products and get customers to fund their businesses.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 5, 2022

But across the country in Atlanta, a fast-growing tech hub , a cohort of Black creators reimagined that idea. The productivity at the studio is much better than the house for business and content.”. What if an influencer collective could be truly collaborative, rather than fodder for a depressing Netflix reality show ?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

Having re-read it, I believe his real premise instead is, “Fixed-size, multi-investor angel rounds are such a bad idea for startups that one wonders why things were ever done that way.&#. The reason I have generally been against convertible debt is that historically it was a mechanism that avoided price. rings true to me.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2020

Then you don’t have to worry about the fact that most angel investors and venture capitalists won’t take a bet on you if none of your friends and family have given you a vote of confidence with money. Even if you passionately believe that your idea is a winner, it’s smart to remind friends of the historical facts with startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Even with that, you should expect your first seed investment from friends, family, or business associates, who know your capabilities and believe in you more than the idea. To me, this is a logical step function, and confirmation that the right founders are always more important than the right product.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2010

They often make great team members such as head of products, CTO, head of sales, CFO, etc. And we’re lucky because they deliver many of the great products, services and content that we consume in our lives every day. He had built and sold his first company and had good ideas for his second company. Why should I be?

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

Most entrepreneurs have found by now one or more of the many popular crowdfunding sites , and have the name and contact information for at least one of the big venture capital firms. Here are eight key insights that will help you find a productive match: Angels want equity ownership, not causes. Angels prefer strong teams to big ideas.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

The new hot topic for entrepreneurs the last couple of years is crowd funding, which is anticipated to at least supplement, if not replace, the slow and mysterious process of current Angel and venture capital investors. There is no concept of ROI other than product. Debt-based crowd funding. Ideas crowd sourcing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 25, 2012

Don’t believe the urban myth that you can sketch your idea on a napkin, and professional investors will throw money at you. You need to explore more common and more productive approaches for getting your startup moving forward. Use this approach before you have a real valuation, a real product, or any real customers.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

What I love about my job is getting to see teams of super-early-stage companies develop ideas that while raw have potential to make an impact on the market. I can’t tell you how many people have thanked me for this advice and say their productivity increased exponentially. And board confidence matters in growing companies.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

Yet as I mentor entrepreneurs around the country, it still seems to be one of the least understood approaches to startup funding, with more myths than accredited angels and professional venture capital investors combined. Product pre-order model. Interest on debt model.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

Right before I got into the industry I was at a cocktail party in Palo Alto and spoke with James Currier , the founder of Tickle and a former VC for Battery Ventures. Is venture debt a good idea? Should we charge for a product or offer fremium? So he left and focused on starting companies. I get that.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2012

The new hot topic for entrepreneurs these days is crowd funding, which is anticipated to at least supplement, if not replace, the slow and mysterious process of current Angel and venture capital investors. Here people make online pledges with their credit cards during a campaign, to pre-buy the product for later delivery, if it is ever built.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 19, 2016

The round is led by Subtraction Capital, and includes investments from PayPal co­founder Peter Thiel , Indicator Ventures, and venture debt lender Western Technology Investment (WTI). Given the nature of the venture capital industry, we understand the need for a secure deal management and stakeholder communications platform.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

The company recently raised a round of funding from Santa Barbara-based ScOps Venture Capital. There's a lot more intricacy going into those algorithms and how the preferences work, but that's the general idea. How did you connect with Kevin and ScOps Venture Capital, and why did you decide to raise a round?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2011

Don’t believe the urban myth that you can sketch your idea on a napkin, and professional investors will throw money at you. You need to explore more common and more productive approaches for getting your startup moving forward. Use this approach before you have a real valuation, a real product, or any real customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 19, 2014

Typically they can be used to fund product development and commercialization that would otherwise require outside investors. Grants start as small a few thousand dollars, but can provide millions of dollars in capital to new ventures. Violations can lead to jail time. Pursue grants and investors in parallel. Extend your networking.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Typically they can be used to fund product development and commercialization that would otherwise require outside investors. Grants start as small a few thousand dollars, but can provide millions of dollars in capital to new ventures. Violations can lead to jail time. Pursue grants and investors in parallel. Extend your networking.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

APRIL 21, 2010

In this way you don’t have to worry about debt as you try and get your business off the ground; you can focus on revenue increasing tasks. It's ironic that the best businesses did not spend a fortune in franchise fees, hire a huge staff, or even start with venture capital funds. First of all, don't start big.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 16, 2013

Scott Morrow is an Internet and startup veteran, having run such companies as Oversee.net and ThisNext, and headed up product marketing for IAC/Citysearch. We''re privately owned, and we don''t disclose our financials, but we''re profitable, debt free, and growing. I would use this product even if I wasn''t working here.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Then you don’t have to worry about the fact that most angel investors and venture capitalists won’t take a bet on you if none of your friends and family have given you a vote of confidence with money. Even if you passionately believe that your idea is a winner, it’s smart to remind friends of the historical facts with startups.

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socalTECH

APRIL 13, 2015

We''re all about communications, outreach, and consumer facing products, in addition to those core business solutions built around the enterprise. As you know, that company grew through lots of acquisitions, so they had a lot of technology debt. You point out that there''s a lot of folks in this market, why jump in with a new service?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 9, 2018

Then you don’t have to worry about the fact that most angel investors and venture capitalists won’t take a bet on you if none of your friends and family have given you a vote of confidence with money. Even if you passionately believe that your idea is a winner, it’s smart to remind friends of the historical facts with startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Then you don’t have to worry about the fact that most Angel investors and venture capitalists won’t take a bet on you if none of your friends and family have given you a vote of confidence with money. Even if you passionately believe that your idea is a winner, it’s smart to remind friends of the historical facts with startups.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 13, 2010

Language Weaver was happy to have many alternatives, including bank financing, operating lines, and equity investors willing to make pure equity investments, and even venture debt firms, who were willing to do a combination of equity and operating line of credits. I came into this with the idea that we'd be a publicly traded company.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 11, 2012

Then there are the more pragmatic questions of how to make concurrent startup efforts productive. Even if you are not in that category, I recommend the following guidelines, summarized from real experiences of Babak Nivi on Venture Hacks a few years ago: Team with a partner. Pick an idea that is viable part-time.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2014

I reviewed an email from Kara Nortman, the CEO of Moonfrye who is working on putting together venture debt. Let’s say your a junior developer, marketer, product manager, biz dev person at a startup or well-established technology company. I’ve done that 20 times so I gave her my quick feedback on terms.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 1, 2010

Don’t believe the urban myth that you can sketch your idea on a napkin, and people will throw money at you. In reality, there are multiple more productive approaches you should explore in getting your startup moving forward. Use this approach before you have a real valuation, a real product, or any real customers.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

Good idea & plan: You must start with a good idea and a PowerPoint deck (my outline is here , scroll down mid way). Product : You should build a product or a prototype. You cannot be just a biz dev type, salesperson, marketing genius or whatever and divorce yourself from product. I get that. Go research it.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 16, 2015

You don’t raise as a way to test your idea. And when it comes to timing, wait until you’ve come up with a working prototype and developed your product before you seek external funding. This can be a great way to test your product and get customer feedback. Convertible debt. Venture debt. Crowdfunding.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 23, 2011

Then there are the more pragmatic questions of how to make concurrent startup efforts productive. Even if you are not in that category, I recommend the following guidelines, summarized from real experiences of Babak Nivi on Venture Hacks a few years ago: Team with a partner. Pick an idea that is viable part-time.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I came across this blog post about getting a computer science degree as the best degree for getting into venture capital or working at a VC-backed start up. I took an advanced computer course in high school where I learned to build databases in Ashton Tate’s dBase III+ and to compile my designs using a product called Clipper.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 17, 2018

One thing that comes with being a venture capitalist is you see hundreds and hundreds of businesses. More people aren't the answer if your core business isn't already productive. Usually a terrible idea as runway extension. Things happen, people tire, sometimes tragedies.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Publicity and positive word-of-mouth can help grow your start-up into a successful venture. Bootstrapping process, product development, Prototyping. . Have you ever had an idea for a great product, but thought any of the following: "I don't have en. Step by Step From Idea to Bootstrap Startup. The constrai.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

StartupDemo is an opportunity for early stage startups to showcase their new products and/or services. Allen Morgan , Mayfield Ventures. We facilitate the most productive business-to-consumer relationship with a pioneering solution that finally makes proactive information updates useful. Be sure to tune in at 5:30pm PT.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Allen Morgan , Mayfield Ventures. We facilitate the most productive business-to-consumer relationship with a pioneering solution that finally makes proactive information updates useful. Neerg is an ecommerce store and community where consumers and merchants can "be and buy green" products and connect with like minded individuals.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2020

I support their summary of the seven capital assets that are the core required to create a thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem, and produce real economic value for your startup and the rest of us: Intellectual capital – ideas, information, technologies. Contrary to popular belief, innovative new ideas don’t often spring from a single mind.

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