FounderLine is a live weekly webcast devoted to helping startup founders succeed, hosted by seven-time startup entrepreneur and investor Joe Beninato. Each week, Joe welcomes an experienced entrepreneur or investor to discuss startup-related topics and field questions from entrepreneurs around the world. For more information, go to founderline.com.
In this episode, host Joe Beninato and guest Russ Siegelman answer viewer questions including:
- When you are angel investing, is there a valuation amount or structure (e.g. convertible debt vs. equity) that causes you to invest or not invest?
- Knowing what we know now about the social web, what things would you like to have seen Friendster do differently?
- What are some of the success stories from Startup Garage, either products or teams? What does Startup Garage do differently than Y Combinator?
- It seems that big companies like Google, Facebook, Yahoo, etc. have huge resources but are out-innovated by smaller startups. How does that happen?
- Can you share some insight into the decision process at a large VC like Kleiner-Perkins? For example, what are the steps? Do the decisions have to be unanimous? What happens when there are disagreements about investing?
In this episode, host Joe Beninato and guest Russ Siegelman answer viewer questions including:
- When you are angel investing, is there a valuation amount or structure (e.g. convertible debt vs. equity) that causes you to invest or not invest?
- Knowing what we know now about the social web, what things would you like to have seen Friendster do differently?
- What are some of the success stories from Startup Garage, either products or teams? What does Startup Garage do differently than Y Combinator?
- It seems that big companies like Google, Facebook, Yahoo, etc. have huge resources but are out-innovated by smaller startups. How does that happen?
- Can you share some insight into the decision process at a large VC like Kleiner-Perkins? For example, what are the steps? Do the decisions have to be unanimous? What happens when there are disagreements about investing?