But real estate owners are not especially well suited to evaluating early stage startups.
New Orleans Entrepreneur Week has been a platform for these early stage startups that are vying for seed money.
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FundersClub is designed to give access to early stage startups for smaller investors.
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Convertible debt has long served nobly as the default form of financing for early-stage startups.
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Pointing to the impact of this investor community, he notes that angel investors are doing 90 percent of early financing for startups.
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In contrast, the operational experiences required to take a company from its founding through a successful exit are additive to early-stage startups.
Finally, in addition to data, investors are funding more unproven, early-stage startups with a smaller amount of upfront capital, later doubling down on those that achieve traction.
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She attended Demo Days for Y-Combinator, an investment firm involved in early-stage startups, and eventually invested in the education-technology company Clever, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Despite some firms raising larger and larger funds, Index has kept its fund size the same, opting to keep to its strategy of finding the best early-stage startups.
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Early-stage startups are often understaffed and overworked, with each employee taking on a slew of responsibilities, usually including getting their hands dirty with support tickets at some point.
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In this section of the series, the three discuss the gritty early days of their startups.
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The dream is to make a fraction of the fortunes made from early deals with China startups Baidu and Tencent.
Moreover, the Innovation Works fund has made early investments in 12 startups.
If the company succeeds, these investors can get a windfall by providing this early stage capital to startups that had a great idea.
As is usually the case at startups, early funding for Messrs.
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While previous years have been dominated by health and renewable energy-focused ventures in developing countries, this year the early frontrunners are largely startups focused on water and sewage or mobile applications that enable socially responsible startups to connect with funding, services and customers.
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It took nearly three months to get government approvals in China for investment in the startup, set up as a wholly owned foreign subsidiary, like many of the early venture-backed Chinese startups, in the Cayman Islands.
That said, a flip side to this is that as an early stage investor involved in creating these new startups, the supply-and-demand dynamic reinforces my belief that this a great time for early stage venture creation.
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If half as many startups across Europe received the early-stage money, that would mean the remaining ones should, all other things being equal, get U.S.-level funding.
Overall, I think more startups do fail by being too early to market than fail by being too late.
Over three decades he served as an early employee or founder of eight high-tech startups.
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With the glut of seed stage funding for startups, is there room for another early stage fund?
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Scott Johnson, a 52-year-old multiple sclerosis patient who served as chief executive of three startups, is influencing the direction of early drug research for his disease.
Are they funding early stage innovative drug discovery companies, or are they startups formed around in-licensing clinical stage compounds?
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While we paid special attention to female entrepreneurs by sponsoring Women 2.0 PITCH, we know that all tech startups could likely use a helping hand in the early stages.
That left players lower in the batting order to handle the new wave of Net startups--and who missed chances to make early bets on the likes of Facebook, Twitter and Groupon.
At the same time, startups are still looking for secondary liquidity for their founders, early investors and employees.
Startups often utilize the convenience of a place holder name during their early days.
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