Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2013

I think the issue I have always had with investment bank pitches was best summed up in this article about Y Combinator in which Paul Graham apparently made the following quotes. ” The other Paul Graham quote from the article is this: “The other thing they say is that they can’t tell on Demo Day which are the good start-ups.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 27, 2023

We summarize these pearls of wisdom in our new book, Smart Startups: What Every Entrepreneur Needs to Know — Advice from 18 Harvard Business School Founders. The book is full of insights and advice for every stage of your entrepreneurial journey. and more articles from the EO blog.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2014

In that article I talked about how PR drives: recruiting, employee retention, biz dev deals, funding and even M&A and that often “attribution” to your PR activities is unknown. The reality is you must be great at HR, PR, finance AND product. ” Many CEOs act like VPs of product or CFOs.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 31, 2010

This article was originally posted in a much more concise version over GigaOm if you prefer the shorter version. You have no choice since in the first few years everything you do is about showing results to justify financing to continue your operations. Tags: Sales & Marketing Advice Startup Advice.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 5, 2025

This article will explore how one-on-one mentoring can transform your entrepreneurial experience and help you achieve your business goals. Personalized Advice and Guidance One of the most significant advantages of one-on-one mentoring is the personalized advice you receive.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

The single best (and most important) article I’ve read on the topic was published today by Joseph Floyd asking whether Black Friday was a DiSaaSter or a Reversion to the Mean. You should read the article but I’ll provide the money shot. The terrible consequence is that some great companies struggle to get financed.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

Otherwise, grab a cup ‘o coffee … Clicking on any graph below will take you to that article. My advice to entrepreneurs was and is “ when the hors d’oeuvres tray is being passed take two ” (e.g. Tags: Startup Advice Tech Market Analysis. raise money now to weather any storms).

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 25, 2011

All it says is that the VC has the right (but not obligation) to invest his/her proportional ownership in the next round of financing. They might own 8% of your company after the first funding but demand up to 33-50% of your next round of financing. Why would this happen? Often it’s when a larger fund (e.g. Two at a push.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2010

I guess let’s file this under sales & marketing advice. I have a very detailed article that covers stuff I won’t cover in detail in this post. If you’re a financial services firm blog about personal finance. But if you like this topic please consider reading the Mashable article. Be authentic.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

This article originally appeared on TechCrunch. I acknowledged this in the article. I said both in the article but felt compelled to provide a statement up front for the skimmers. It’s the one bit of advice I find myself giving most frequently these days, “raise money at the top end of normal.&#.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 18, 2009

Journalists have just written an article that wasn’t favorable. We got their commitment and our existing investors bridged us until the new financing round could close. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice. That next round of investment is proving difficult.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 19, 2013

This article initially appeared on TechCrunch. But Salesforce knew how important this process is to their success so they actively encouraged the development of an ecosystem so much so that they even invested in these third-parties to make sure they were well-enough financed to survive. That it is non-dilutive financing?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

This is the third article in a series on what it takes to be a great angel investor (and why this should matter to entrepreneurs). Tags: Startup Advice Tech Market Analysis VC Industry. Part 1 – Access to Great Deal Flow – is here. And resist the temptation to extend thy middle finger.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 2, 2021

Contributed By Susan Michel, EO New Jersey member and founder and CEO of Glen Eagle Advisors , which provides investment management and financial planning advice. Since 2016, not one US state has added personal finance to its K-12 standards. and more articles from the EO blog. .

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

This article was originally published on TechCrunch. Finance where needed. The full articles are linked below. He pinged me for advice. Venture Capitalists typically have partners’ meetings on Mondays. Why is that? But probably because as a group we travel a lot. Yesterday was a Monday. And not a pleasant one.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 21, 2013

This article originally appeared on TechCrunch. it's all in this article if you want the details]. It also is a great way to finance your business without facing dilution before you actually raise venture capital and when the valuation you might get from angels is less than you’d want.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Read his earlier posts on how EO members define success , the impact of core values , lessons learned from their best and worst partnerships and the best advice they’ve ever received and nine lessons learned from entrepreneurial projects. and more articles from the EO blog. When asked, “What was your first entrepreneurial project?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2022

Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. ” My prediction: We’ll be running many articles in 2022 with tactics for zero-party data collection. . ” My prediction: We’ll be running many articles in 2022 with tactics for zero-party data collection. Live shopping goes mainstream.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 25, 2021

This article is the second in a series of three about having “The Talk” with your business partners , parents and adult children. Lincoln Financial Advisors does not provide legal or tax advice. As we get older and hopefully wiser, more responsibilities fall upon us. CRN-3730060-082421.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

This is the fourth article in a series on what it takes to be a great angel investor (and why this should matter to entrepreneurs). “When our capital and participation has helped de-risk a business to the point where it is appropriate to follow on and finance growth, we want to step up to do our pro rata and beyond.&#.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

article in a series on what it takes to be a great angel investor (and why this should matter to entrepreneurs). Not exactly the easiest time to be selling a credit business as the finance world around them was melting and the company was negotiating its credit facilities if it were to stay independent with the likes of Citibank.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2013

There is no better article on the topic than Reid Hoffman’s post about giving up the role of CEO at LinkedIn. To watching Fred lead our sales, marketing and implementation efforts and driving the recruiting & financing of the company. Startup Advice'

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

Another good article. One investor played chicken with me by threatening not to approve my next-round financing unless I gave him more equity. Our advice is what helped them target the right market, hire the right team, build the right products.&# And there are some delusional people who really believe it. Holy sh*t!!!

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

In this article, well explore essential strategies to help small business owners improve their cash flow to maintain a positive cash position for financial stability. Leverage Financing Options Strategically Sometimes, external financing can help bridge short-term cash flow gaps.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

So he searched Google and “read a lot of NerdWallet articles” but still “made a ton of mistakes.”. While he declined to reveal valuation, Peng noted that the new financing was a “significant up round.” Financial advice is something that fundamentally everybody needs. Presently, Northstar has about 50 employees.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 23, 2019

Finance and accounting was the most common area of concern (39%), followed by IT and technology (31%), digital marketing (20%), and business planning and strategy (25%). The post Finance and accounting biggest headache for small biz owners followed by tech appeared first on NZ Entrepreneur Magazine. Business mentors & coaches.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

It is an LA-based company that was recently acquired by Amazon, which you can read more about in this incredibly well-researched article. Yes, you have to figure out how to finance inventory and sure, it’s harder to iterate products when it involved physical production?—?but

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 7, 2024

Dozens of investors have approached me for advice on assessing the effectiveness of such policies. and more articles from the EO blog. Indeed, a number of investors have explicitly and publicly integrated work-from-home (WFH) policies into evaluations of prospective investment targets.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Contributed to EO by Alex Diaz-Asper , the principal and founder of VentureCount , a B2B accounting services firm that provides small- to medium-sized companies with comprehensive financial and accounting services, including bookkeeping and strategic business advice. and more articles from the EO blog.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

Because my wife is a superstar she published them all on a blog here along with much other wonderful type-A mom advice. I was sick of hyperbole articles pronouncing that VCs were “scared or AngelList&# or “it was disrupting VC&# or some other BS exaggeration like that.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. Simon Wu, an investment director with Cathay Innovation, says he’s paying particularly close attention to these areas of convergence : Data and the transition to value-based care. Gamifying consumer wellness to stave off chronic illnesses. Since the U.S. Congress passed a $1.9

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

.” Here are some key attributes of CFOs who fit the dream team definition, based on an old article by Mark Macleod from StartupCFO: “It’s all in the details” - A professional accounting designation (CA, CPA) is the foundation. A few years ago it was all the rage to have MBAs in the top finance role.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

This article initially appeared on TechCrunch - with a minor update highlighted in red below. Was Paul Graham right in his “high resolution” financing post? We’re back to discussing convertible debt again. This time by the efforts of Adeo Ressi to introduce a new kind of structure called “ convertible equity.”

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

The path I went down after a few years was to hire more process driven people and devolved more daily operational ownership to people running individual functions such as product management, sales management, finance, etc. Tags: Startup Advice. Unwillingness to devolve power is the bane of many management teams at startup companies.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

Does the traditional VC financing model make sense for all companies? 2018 also had the fewest number of angel-led financing rounds since before 2010. John Borchers, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Decathlon Capital, claims to be the largest revenue-based financing investor in the US. Absolutely not.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 13, 2018

This is part of a series of advice for founders who need to raise money from venture capitalists. The most important advice I could give you before you set out in fund raising mode is to understand that fund-raising a sales & marketing process and needs to be managed. I think there’s some truth in this. Plan accordingly.

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Founder Bounty

JANUARY 1, 2023

So that you know we are legit our author of this article has his biography to show he has build and raised capital and been through top tier accelerators and is trying to help show steps from years of trying failing and building businesses and finally building europes first ondemand fuel business and lot of capital for it.

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