Startup Blogpost

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

To provide insights into the role of partnerships in new business development, we asked 13 CEOs and Founders for their expert advice. From collaborating for brand awareness and leads to sharing costs and growing with partnerships, discover the key strategies these leaders recommend for capitalizing on business partnerships.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Advanced tax strategies for startup founders. Taxes owed will ultimately depend on the type of equity owned, how long it’s been held, where the shareholder lives, potential tax rate changes in the future and tax-planning strategies. I’ll also touch on advanced tax planning and optimization strategies, state tax and future tax risks.

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Startup Blogpost

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

From optimizing employee benefits for tax advantages to setting aside funds for year-end tax liabilities, we’ve compiled the top thirteen strategies shared by seasoned professionals. The initial investment that you make in your company is referred to as your “basis,” although many individuals are unaware of this fact.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

Plus, they were gracious enough to share some of the advice they’re giving to their portfolio companies. We see tremendous opportunity for innovation in the world of B2B payments. We try to predict where there will be opportunities for seismic innovation before we find the entrepreneur. What do you feel might be overhyped?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

I had an enjoyable conversation this morning with a young team straight out of college this morning and they were calling to ask advice on how to approach fund raising (angels vs. VCs, how to select a VC, etc.) Nothing blows up great opportunities faster than founders who are constantly fighting. Deals done in your industry?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2023

After attending TechCrunch Early Stage last week, I was cheered to meet so many first-time founders and experienced investors who are looking for opportunities. I asked five early-stage investors to share frank advice for first-timers, and I’m going to save you some time: many (if not most) of you are probably not ready to pitch an investor.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

It partners with entrepreneurs in funding their growth stories through innovative market access and public venture capital strategies. He talks to AsiaTechDaily about the firm’s investment strategies, the fundraising journey, and other points. Edited excerpts below : What background and domain expertise do you have?

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

And one of my biggest advice to those folks is, look, presumably, we all have the technical and functional skill set for this job. And then I also think with references, founders are typically showing up with their 5 to 7 reference questions. Let’s go ahead and figure out who’s gonna be able to do the job with you.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 28, 2012

Having been on both sides of this sensitive topic, the following is my personal advice. The best advice I could give you for first meetings is that you should have a limited number of discussions until you’re pretty sure that you’re likely to have positive results in fund raising and you should be open in the meetings that you do have.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 19, 2021

This may quickly lead to a stranglehold on new opportunities and undermine your efforts to expand your market share. Administrative tasks can take up much of your time — time that would be better spent developing your product, designing a marketing strategy or performing other tasks that encourage growth. Outsource them. .

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Y Combinator

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Would you recommend this strategy to founders? This strategy worked for two reasons: 1) By the end of the contract, the contractors had poured weeks of energy into the work – learning the code base and investing their time – and getting to know potential coworkers. It was an all-encompassing process.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 12, 2021

Still, new opportunities are popping up in remote work, psychedelics and wellness. The advice is to “be frugal to accommodate to the new situation and roll on.”. What are some overlooked opportunities right now? How should investors in other cities think about the overall investment climate and opportunities in your city?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

I started in 2007 with a thesis that my primary investment decision would be about the team (70%) and only afterward about the market opportunity (30%). And why my advice to newer VCs would be not to feel bad if you’re missing out on what is perceived as a few hot deals. Even if we miss on lots of great opportunities.

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Y Combinator

JANUARY 30, 2023

It was the type of opportunity that would be hard to discover through market analysis or spreadsheet exercises. You had to get deep into the problem set to see the opportunity and develop the right strategy—and that ultimately worked to our advantage. As a bootstrapped company, what was your strategy around hiring?

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Campaign Monitor

APRIL 27, 2022

Make a strategy and set a schedule. You can build off your existing email marketing strategy, and use practices you already know are successful. Rely on the advice of experts who have been where you are. Each installment you send is an opportunity to improve on your process and your results.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 23, 2022

Content marketing in this new realm can seem daunting, but luckily, there are plenty of effective strategies that promise to work well. In this blog post, we’ll outline five of the most important tips and actionable advice to get your content marketing game on in the metaverse. Tip #4: Embrace live streams.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 19, 2019

If we look at a mistake as fatal, we’ve just made the mistake I reference above and let it become a permanent failure. That was likely the best advice I ever heard. Books, podcasts, videos, blogs, classes, on and on… the opportunities to expand our horizons are endless. How we look at failure is often the key.

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Gust

JULY 23, 2014

So even if my own mother asked me to meet with you, and you were pitching me a biotech opportunity for a $10 million investment at a $90 million valuation, I might take the meeting, but it wouldn’t be particularly useful for either of us. But the good thing is that this is where you can call in some reinforcements.

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Y Combinator

JULY 15, 2019

When people refer to setting up a board, what they usually mean is the process of adding outside directors, after the company raises money. One thing you can do is check references with founders that those investors have worked with – just as with recruiting any talent. option grants). Managing Your Board. Meeting Schedule.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2021

E-commerce, fintechs and the rapid digitization of the region’s SME workforce are a few of the factors reshaping the landscape for Southeast Asia’s startups, but supply chain technology is also a major opportunity, Anand says. Dear Sophie: Any advice for living my dreams in Silicon Valley? Any advice?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Even though she was mid-maternity leave from her managerial role at Airbnb, she jumped at the opportunity. “I But, she says, it was an opportunity to be entrepreneurial in a sector she cared about. The business is pivoting its product strategy to grow beyond recorded meditations. Even if it was just for a few months.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2022

” He added: “I had heard that the Russian government was beginning to censor Western news websites and realized that we had a unique opportunity to deliver a concise, informative message via an atypical channel: our npm package installations.”

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

There is all sorts of advice on the Internet about how to raise capital. I’ve tried to make this advice as well-rounded and biased free as I can. Every company is different so it’s hard to listen to advice from the uber-successful fund raisers. So they go out of their way to offer advice and introductions.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Having worked in entrepreneurial ecosystem building ourselves, we were not surprised that the main challenges in our field arise around a typical old-school mindset and a severe lack of equal opportunities for entrepreneurs of ALL ethnicities, backgrounds and gender. The biggest challenge we see is burn-out. Lack of awareness: Eco… what?

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NZ Entrepreneur

OCTOBER 8, 2019

A patent provides an opportunity to create income by setting up a sole manufacturer and market supplier of the patented invention. However, the function of the bottle shape remains the same and is not new, so does not qualify for patent protection. But changes in shape are enough to quality for new design protection.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Opportunities – “opportunities for investment” which would include an amount, expected commitment date and other sales details. It’s also helpful for identifying people with whom we can do reference checking. I asked Franklin Tsung, CEO, BlackCrown Corporation , for his advice to buyers.

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NZ Entrepreneur

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The easiest way to get your 2021 sales rolling more quickly is spotting the opportunities that are within your reach. Usually, careful analysis of your last 12 months of sales data will show you exactly where these opportunities are hiding. This exercise will flush out insights that power your sales strategy for the year ahead.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2011

And when you finish the demo you can bring in the other important components such as competition, team, customer acquisition strategy, etc. In Bijan’s post he references Bryce Roberts who recommends getting up and white-boarding. Talk about the existing solutions, the market opportunity and the competition. Mobile app?

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NZ Entrepreneur

JULY 28, 2020

There are still opportunities, but you might just have to look a little harder to find them. One of the biggest sales growth opportunities right now, is to sell what your customers really want. Happy customers are usually more than happy to refer business to you. How about booking a strategy call direct from your website?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Now they’re moving to commercialize their XayNet technology by applying it within a user-facing search app — aiming for what CEO and co-founder, Dr Leif-Nissen Lundbæk bills as a “Zoom”-style business model, in reference to the ubiquitous videoconferencing tool which has both free and paid users.

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NZ Entrepreneur

MARCH 21, 2024

Even if you didn’t, this new financial year has new opportunities. Anyone whose entire customer base looks to be struggling, you have a tougher job where you will need to look harder for opportunities. The amazing thing about opportunities is that when you go looking for them, you usually find them. Those who do not have budget.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 29, 2024

This article is the final installment in our series, How Fintech Companies Can Simplify Their Funding Strategy. We also sought the advice of several software providers who work with fintech borrowers to get their best approaches to managing one or more debt facilities. Read part 1 on Choosing the Right Funding Structure here.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

Yet, now is a very apt time to take another look at the cannabis opportunity in the U.S. The latter refers to companies that are working on the infrastructure the sector will rely on once in full bloom, and the consensus among specialized investors is that they make for very worthy bets. Quite a lot has changed since our previous U.S.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 8, 2022

You can use multiple strategies. Invest in funds, and tell them you’re evaluating them based in part on the number of direct opportunities they’ll provide. In addition, many family offices find it hard to execute these strategies without giving up some of their traditional deliberate obscurity. But don’t do it half-heartedly.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 9, 2024

The number one input to whether or not someone buys that next incremental piece of software or potentially engages that service provider is actually how well it interacts and interoperates with the other technology decisions they’ve already made to drive it some kind of bigger strategy. And that is absolutely transformational and huge.

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NZ Entrepreneur

MAY 16, 2019

Sales and marketing have really changed over the last few years and no discussion about sales pipelines is complete without reference to social selling and digital marketing, and the important part that these often play in helping you to attract new customers. There are all kinds of discussions we could have about sales pipelines.

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The Entrepreneurs Library

JUNE 24, 2015

Then in another month we look at an in depth study of what we call the company merit, what many people refer to as the swan. What are the companies strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities? Then another month we talk through exercises about what strategies are needed. Add him to Twitter: [link]. Facebook: [link].

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