FastCompany.com - Where ideas and people meet. Business - Start a Startup. Brand Name A brand name is a name that you use to identify a family of products, services, or a single line of products or services that a company offers.
For instance, Apple is the brand name used on most products manufactured by Apple, Inc. In this example, the business name and brand name are the same, a common use case. Your brand name is who you are to your customers. It is the pillar your business's public image will be built around. Venture Hacks - Good advice for startups. Everything you ever wanted to know about advisors, Part 1. Nivi · January 31st, 2008 Here are answers to some frequently asked questions about advisors.
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Funding. Daniel R. Odio - Hardcore LifeHacker Entrepreneur in Silicon Valley. Kickstarter. Internet StartUp. Lean Investing by Dave McClure. Website: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati - Term Sheet Generator. This tool will generate a venture financing term sheet based on your responses to an online questionnaire.
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ByScott Austin Two Silicon Valley law firms, Cooley Godward Kronish and Fenwick & West, are out this week with reports analyzing the terms of venture financings in the fourth quarter.
While the firms canvassed different pools of venture deals, the results suggest similar conclusions: 2009 flat-out stunk for venture-backed companies, but the fourth quarter brought some optimism. Cooley Godward analyzed 98 completed deals nationwide in the fourth quarter, while Fenwick & West looked at venture financings for 112 companies headquartered in Silicon Valley. Daniel R. Odio - Hardcore LifeHacker Entrepreneur in Silicon Valley. Fundraising Cribsheet: George Zachary of Charles River Ventures Speaks To Entrepreneurs As part of my Fundraising Cribsheet series of blogs to help entrepreneurs raise money more quickly and efficiently, I interviewed today George Zachary, a Venture Capitalist with Charles River Ventures.
CRV is very well known out here in Silicon Valley, as is George, who's been in the business for 15+ years. Previously, I interviewed Naval Ravikant of AngelList, and interviewed Shai Goldman of Silicon Valley Bank, and I participated on a panel about the differences raising an angel round vs. a Series A round. GeorgeKellerman/angels-and-vcs... GeorgeKellerman/angels-and-vcs... TheFunded.com: The Resource for Entrepreneurs. Blowing Up Startups Since 2010. Cutting Up the Founder’s Pie. The Founders’ Pie Calculator By Frank Demmler Several weeks ago, we took a look at the founders’ pie.
I noted that frequently the founding team divides 100% by the number of founders. I also cautioned that this is the WRONG WAY! I then went on to identify the factors that should be considered when making these decisions. Since then, I have had several people tell me that while what I wrote certainly made sense, it wasn’t very helpful. Marshall Auerback and Rob Parenteau: The Myth of Greek Profligacy & the Faith Based Economics of the ‘Troika’
By Marshall Auerback, a portfolio strategist and hedge fund manager, and Rob Parenteau, CFA, sole proprietor of MacroStrategy Edge and a research associate of The Levy Economics Institute Historically, Greeks have been very good at constructing myths.
The rest of the world? Not so great, if the current burst of commentary on the country is anything to go by. Reading the press, one gets the impression of a bunch of lazy Mediterranean scroungers, enjoying one of the highest standards of living in Europe while making the frugal Germans pick up the tab. TechStars. Floodgate Fund: Opening the Gates to Success. Founders Fund. VCs and Angels.
SVAngel. The Great Startup Game: How to Close Angel Investors. How to Kill the Angel Investor "Deal-Killers" Have you experienced the frustration of dealing with a self-proclaimed "interested" angel investor who you just cannot close, no matter how hard you try or how many months go by?
If you have, read on. After writing last month about angel investment "Deal-Killers," I received a slew of emails and calls from frustrated and angry entrepreneurs unable to close deals with angel investors. Many of them had invested more than a few months talking to investors who had repeatedly expressed a commitment to invest. Yet every attempt at closing the deal had ended in frustration. SoftTechVC: Building great companies... Seed Stage Venture Capital Fund in San Francisco, New York and Philadelphia. Content Curation.