For many, the idea of a startup conjures up romantic notions of young guns going from rags to riches. However, ask any successful entrepreneur and he/she can tell you it was by no means an idyllic road to success. Below we dispel some of the most prolific fantasies about a startup’s road to success.
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Over the weekend, I have written a series of posts about how to raise a series A, and why this differs pretty dramatically from raising a seed round. I thought it might help to first clarify the difference between the various funding rounds and their characteristics.
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On the surface, it seems like the Y Combinator formula is “money and mentoring for equity”. That seems like a simple enough formula, and clones around the world are rushing to replicate it. Unfortunately I think they mostly miss the point, because there is so much more to YC which the others lack.
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I was delighted to receive an e-mail, last week, from Garrett Johnson, who works for Senator Richard Lugar (R-Ind.). Garrett said that the Senator had read my articles and asked his staff to consider my comments. After consulting with Bob Litan, of Kauffman Foundation; Brad Feld, of Foundry Group; Eric Ries, of the lean-startup movement; and other champions of the visa, Garrett had revised...
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Tech's titans used to wonder about Yuri Milner. Now he's the guy everyone wants to copy. It's hard work bankrolling the Web. Thanks to Milner's enviably early investments in Facebook (he controls about a 10% stake), social gaming phenomenon Zynga and the local-discounts company Groupon (Milner controls about 5% of each), this onetime doctoral candidate in particle physics has generated...
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We decided to model out his specific dilution path, and factor in the imminent Series-A ‘seed’ round from the VC, a follow on Convertible note ‘bridge’ round of $2 million, and a final $5 million Series B ‘growth capital’ raise. The dilution results are typical of what most entrepreneurs face when raising capital in today’s environment.
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SXSW has become cluttered with startups, and is a celebration of startups in general. But celebration has turned into a fetish -- placing the act of creating a startup on a pedestal without casting any sort of critical eye on the likelihood of that startup succeeding.
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It may be too soon to equate the "Xooglers," as members of the ever-expanding network of ex-Google employees call themselves, with the "PayPal Mafia" -- the founders and early employees of the online payment company who went on to start Yelp, YouTube and LinkedIn. But they're getting closer. For years, Googlers, many of them flush with the proceeds of the company's successful IPO in 2004...
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A few weeks ago I had very long lunch at Vitrine with Steve Blank, who’s famous in entrepreneurship circles as the originator of the “customer development” methodology for getting a technology startup off the ground. Here at Xconomy, we’ve been cross-posting Blank’s blog posts for a few months, but the lunch was my first chance to meet him in person, and we had a long, winding, enlightening...
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Tim O’Reilly said that early bits of ignorance that were helpful in getting them started. For example, the first books they produced didn’t have spines. They discovered people actually liked it because then the books could lay flat. Since they had a unique design that forced them to be displayed in a different way, they had their own shelves in book stores which helped them stand apart from...
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