Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Open source computing, which reduced costs to start a company by 90%. The New York startup scene is vibrant and launching companies that play to NYs great strengths which are many. Changes in the Startup Ecosystem. Web Services, led by Amazon’s AWS, which reduced the costs a further 90%. KickStarter? And on and on.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2015

” Today I want to talk about how a VC thinks about equity pricing on your round and particularly if you’re coming off of a convertible note. Pre-money ($8m) + investment ($2m) = Post-money ($10m) and the investors now own 20% of your company $2m / $10m. So how DOES a VC think about financings at early stages?

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 6, 2015

When you think back to your time at USV, FRC and BBV, can you identify a time you passed on a founder because of a blind spot or unconscious bias you possessed at the time and if so, what did you do going forward to not make the mistake again? Normally, unless you realize the latter occurred, you don''t think much about your passes.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Understanding how your company will change as you move through these phases is critical if you hope to scale to a large business one day. There is nothing more pure than building a product, putting it out in the world and seeing paying customers using your product and in some cases loving it.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 4, 2023

As an entrepreneur or founder starting a business, you may think of capital as purely monetary. Capital is often viewed only as an opportunity for an infusion of money into a business to get it started or grow and scale your company. Outside investment is not mandatory when starting a business. To raise or not to raise?

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

APRIL 22, 2020

Uncertainty in our lives is a given, particularly when it comes to our finances. Financial resilience is the ability to withstand life events that have an impact on your income and your assets. How diverse are your sources of income? How secure are those sources of income? What is your debt-to-income ratio?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

I asked him if he’d be willing to allow me to interview him for This Week in VC and we filmed it in the offices of Stack Overflow – his new company. Joel moved to Seattle, and worked at Microsoft for three years as a program manager on Excel 4.0 They want to ensure they can easily migrate to a new system.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

The price of property has an inherent value tied to two factors: 1) the rental rate you could charge for your property and 2) annual salaries in a given geography. For reason number two people pay a higher price & rent in New York than they do in San Antonio, Texas. It is the new cocktail party conversation.

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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. It’s like “direct” traffic to your website that seems to magically appear. I have no money?

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Gust

DECEMBER 7, 2014

In my experience, that’s actually the worst way to start, for reasons I will outline here, and also the least common way, according to an authoritative survey of new startups. Eighty percent of new entrepreneurs use this approach, with only six percent using investor funding. Managing investors is a distraction from your core business.

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Gust

DECEMBER 15, 2013

There is so much written these days about how to attract investors that most entrepreneurs “assume” they need funding, and don’t even consider a plan for “bootstrapping,” or self-financing their startup. On the other hand, there are clearly situations where your needs call for investors. Your company has outgrown you.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

A number of tips and tools are presented that help small businesses better manage their cash flow. Unknown This quote emphasizes that while high revenue and profit margins may look good, having sufficient cash on hand is what truly keeps a business running successfully— avoiding a cash flow crisis.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2010

Often when startups who have raised venture capital need another round of financing they will turn to their existing investors to give them money before raising from outsiders. a loan) that is later converted to equity at the time of the next financing. It starts as a debt instrument (e.g.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 20, 2022

How is that impacting businesses when failure is not an option? Our small business has absolutely been impacted by higher transportation costs and shipping delays. As a result, we’ve had to forgo package design for some products, postpone hiring, and delay new product launches.” . Here’s what they shared: Take creative actions.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

To give visibility to these companies to: Sources of funding (angels / VCs), business development partners, mentors who have themselves built successful companies, the press and potential employees to hire. But this year there are two new components: funding & a facility. GumGum – Raises $11 million financing.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

I hear from several sources that Sequoia is very active in the market aggressively chasing several deals and even driving up prices on some early-stage deals. So what is driving the new energy in the remaining venture capital firms when we kept hearing how much the whole industry was “against the ropes?&# … 1.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 5, 2021

When starting your new business, one of the biggest, and most common, challenges you will face is finding sources of funding to build your business from the ground up. Below, you will learn about the importance of raising capital, and how it plays a vital role in the success of your startup.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Imagine the kind of relationship you’d have with these folks and your ability to discuss their needs as well as your portfolio successes at which they should be looking. Think about their ability to drive business development, c0-investment or M&A decisions. Have fun with your angel investments. Or the CEO?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

VC Financings: 1. Here’s why that is important: when users are on your website you want to convert them to become paying customers. Blippy is a service that allows you to automatically share your credit card transactions as you make them. Do you really want that level of information about your family exposed?

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

JUNE 7, 2019

Starting as a project manager with a background in engineering, Ashna launched YHS to develop and implement community projects supporting the U.N. Ashna shares that her inner motivation to do new things has continued to develop and grow through successes and the positive acknowledgement of her work. Absolutely! And undoubtedly.”

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

One of the things that founders have the most angst about is whom they should have on their board and at what stage of the business. Bad board members can make business very unpleasant. If the angel board member is hugely valuable you can always keep them on the board at your discretion. Of course it happens all the time?

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

To begin with, it is important to understand some basic facts about the world of entrepreneurial finance: There are many more entrepreneurs than there are investors, with the result that only one company out of every 400 that seeks venture funding actually receives it. One of the primary ones is the referral source.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 28, 2020

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is not a new concept. Under the surface, it’s considered an essential element of your business model and a critical driver of your company’s bottom line. Under the surface, it’s considered an essential element of your business model and a critical driver of your company’s bottom line.

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Founders Coop

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

As Managing Directors of Techstars Seattle, we raised a series of funds from mostly local LPs, including participation from some of our best-known local VC firms, as well as many of the mentors who worked with the founders during and after each program.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

I started this series in part to help entrepreneurs but also to help newer investors because I’ve know with so many new companies you have so many new board members and many people are trying to figure out there respective roles. One of few ways to learn is by doing (or observing your own partners, or other senior investors).

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Most venture capitalists who have been in this business for a long time foresaw this correction and have been talking about it privately for the better part of the last year or two. We write about $40 million of first-checks into new deals / year and about $40 million of follow-on investments. So prices start dropping.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

JUNE 4, 2021

Minority businesses make up a large part of the American economy. Here’s a list of top sources for funding minority entrepreneurs. Unfortunately, these businesses have had the hardest time scaling up, in part because of a lack of funding. These are needed for any business to grow. Website: [link].

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

The easiest way to work with and for VC funds is to become a part-time scout, getting paid for sourcing investments. Syllabus for how to launch, manage, and invest a VC fund. At Versatile VC , we’ve been studying VC scout programs, not just to improve our deal sourcing , but for four broader reasons: .

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Gust

DECEMBER 28, 2011

In the “good old days,” angels invested in seed-stage startups and teed up promising companies for subsequent venture capital financing. SOX and radically higher NASDAQ fees have limited those new ventures going public to much more mature and highly visible companies. Design your milestones around the capital sources available.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

billion 2013 figure) have been massive financings at Honest Company ($70mm), JustFab ($85mm), ZipRecruiter ($63mm) and lord only knows how much SnapChat has actually accumulated. What Has Given Birth to This New Movement in LA? . In the last month alone (ie not captures in the $1.5 Success begets success. and are guiding LA 2.0.

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Dream It

APRIL 12, 2020

In New York, for instance, there are now venture funds with a West Coast mentality and firms with an East Coast mentality; the same is true for firms in San Francisco. VCs look to source great investments and take 20-25% carried interest on the returns of those investments and typically take a 2% management fee.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 2, 2014

Professionals maintain that there is plenty of money and equity for qualified startups, and funding marginal startups via any source will only make more people unhappy. But from my perspective in really helping entrepreneurs, both fall short on several counts: Focus too much on the product, not enough on the business model.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

Often I find that experienced investors scan ahead to the management page of a business plan, even before they read the product description. A few years ago it was all the rage to have MBAs in the top finance role. Also you want someone who can stretch your funding by knowing which expenses to cut without harming your business.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2010

It’s also a great way to build relationships with people interested in your topic area. Define your customers, partners and other relevant people to your organization (e.g. That’s blogging to the echo chamber unless they’re your target customers. How to find your “voice&# ? Be authentic.

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Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

And, I think but can’t prove, both were business failures. Investment and startups problem : we all want disruptive and game-changing businesses. The 10 Best Sources of Cash to Start Your Business. Money to build the business is the number one challenge for most startups. June 19th, 2012.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Today, a startup that believes it can stem that tide with a more inclusive, global approach to sourcing, hiring and managing talent is announcing a big fundraise to continue building out its platform. Popular requests are for full-stack engineers, those who specialize in front-end or back-end languages, and site reliability engineers.

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David Teten VC

JUNE 9, 2021

Not surprisingly, the tighter your relationship with the firm, typically the more money you will earn: . However, historically most private equity professionals were former investment bankers and other finance professionals. PE funds now almost always require an upgrade in management and change management teams if necessary. .

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