Startups usually take many years to exit. So it is important to figure out up front whether what you're working on is a fad or a real market. You don't want everything to fall apart two years in because a fad passes.Even if you plan to sell at the earliest opportunity, you won't be able to unless a buyer is convinced it is in their long-term strategy to buy you. And so then you're back to...
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Find and compare venture capital firms around the world based on location, industry, investment stage, investment range and fund size.
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You are a fisherman, your startup is your net and your goal is to catch as many of these fish as possible. If your net (your startup) isn’t well-built and ready for them, the fish will swim right by you and they’ll never come back. It’s tragic and a huge blown opportunity. It happens to so many startups and you can see it in their traffic.
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We looked on in a mixture of wonder and envy last week as the UK Government launched StartUp Britain, a scheme aimed at propelling wannabe Richard Bransons into business. Every new business in the UK will be able to claim a support package worth £1,500 (about $2,300) to help them get up and running. There will be a raft of other technical and educational help for start-ups.
The annals of business history are full of tales of companies that once dominated their industries but fell into decline. The usual reasons offered—staying too close to existing customers, a myopic focus on short-term financial performance, and an inability to adapt business models to disruptive innovation—don’t fully explain how the leaders who had steered these firms to greatness lost their...
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So with all due respect to my good friend and uber-Angel investor Ron Conway, here are five reasons why I’m glad I didn’t move us from Atlanta to the Valley. And why Silicon Valley, despite still being the capital of the technology world, doesn’t necessarily make or break a company.
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As investors chase after the latest social network start-ups, company founders are in a better position to keep control and get rich while still attracting investors to their company. As these factors coalesced, a founder’s bargaining position at the negotiating table has also improved. Several years after the dot-com bust, a wave of progressive financing terms started to gain traction in...
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You might spot Leonard Lodish riding his bicycle to his Wharton office. The 67-year-old vice dean commutes the six miles from his home in Wynnewood by bike ‘everyday’ that he’s at the University of Pennsylvania, he says, which might keep him active enough to spot the next startup exit.
Over a decade ago, I made the acquaintance of CIO of a major Bank, and asked him to become involved in my small IT services business which was growing like a rocket; 0-$2M revenue in year one. He declined, and said that “he didn’t find our business model scalable”. After the rejection I thought “how ridiculous, look at our growth!”
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Start with zero-based budgeting. Cutting deeper is the formula to survive, and this is an era of survival of the quickest. Make sure you have one year’s worth of cash. If you have a product, reduce expenses around it and boost sales. If the product is ready, cut the number of engineers.
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