The Startup Term Sheet Explained In Detail
Jason Mendelson and Brad Feld wrote a really detailed series of posts describing the ins and outs of the startup venture financing term sheets. The posts were written already three years ago, but Feld has revisited them and come to the same conclusion as I did, that the information is still valid, although some references to 24 might seem old.
It’s definitely worth the effort to go through the 26 articles if you are interested in term sheets and startup financing in general. I personally learned a lot from the first ones I have had the time to read.
[Via Texas Startup Blog]
The Next Web – Day 1 Wrap-up
This seems to have been the overall opinion so far.
A very concise wrap-up of all the presentations.
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YouNoodle Picks Winning Startups Through Artificial Intelligence, Networking
YouNoodle is a new startup that tries to automate a significant part of venture capitalists’ decision-making process. It uses artificial intelligence to predict if a startup is going to succeed in the future. They focus on factors such as the social and business networks and previous work experience of the founders which with other non-disclosed factors create the base for their Startup-predictor.
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36+ Tips For Startups
Read/WriteWeb’s Alex Iskold has constructed a great article 36 Startup Tips: From Software Engineering to PR and More!. It covers the most important topics and is must read for anyone interested in startups.
Here are also some other resources for startups I’ve come across lately: Read more…
The Pmarca Guide to Startups
Marc Andreessen’s The Pmarca Guide to Startups is a very good guide addressing the issues a high-tech startup founder will be facing.
- Part 1: Why not to do a startup
- part 2: When the VCs say “no”
- part 3: “But I don’t know any VCs!”
- part 4: The only thing that matters
- part 5: The Moby Dick theory of big companies
- part 6: How much funding is too little? Too much?
- part 7: Why a startup’s initial business plan doesn’t matter that much
- part 8: Hiring, managing, promoting, and firing executives
- part 9: How to hire a professional CEO
The post are quite long (except the last one), but comprehensive. Definitely a must for any wannabe-founder like me.
Go BIG: Where Startups and Investors meet
The Go BIG Network is claiming to be the worlds biggest community of startup companies. It’s a place where startups and investors meet. They answer the problem most startups have at the beginning, and something I myself find to be true: “The startup community is highly disconnected.” Go Big aims to solve this problem and at a quick glance seem to do just that. The site features member profiles, requests (”Requests are just like classified ads. Members post anything from Requests “Looking for Funding” to “Jobs Available”.”) and Member networks. I definately must take a closer look.
Web Startups: From Idea to Launch
What do you do after you’ve had your mind-blowingly-simple-but-extraordinarily-unique idea for a web startup? I really hadn’t put too much thought into it, before I read Matt Rogers’ articles on bootstrapping and the functional specification. Good advice for anyone from a person who’s just gone through the process.
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