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From Side Hustle to Business — How to Determine When the Time is Right

Up and Running

So in this article, we’ll be covering the following factors: Do you have a financial safety net? You have a financial safety net. If you’ve been running your side project whilst employed , you may have had a chance to build a safety net that puts you in a much more comfortable place to launch fully. So let’s get into it.

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What’s Really Going on in the VC Industry? What Does it Mean for Startups?

Both Sides of the Table

The VC industry grew dramatically as a result of the Internet bubble - Before the Internet bubble the people who invested in VC funds (called LPs or Limited Partners) put about $50 billion into the industry and by 2001 this had grown precipitously to around $250 billion. What accelerated this was the collapse of the public stock markets.

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Why cash is king

BeyondVC

Ultimately what will give you the best chance for success is focusing on the things that you can control – building a real business with a real economic model that can generate cash from internal operations vs. through external financing. As he discusses in his blog post: Why I decided to pull our IPO filing.

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Building The Machine Podcast Episode 5: Dan Kimerling Deciens Capital

Eric Friedman

This doesn’t concern any specific industry, but that kind of behavioral finance. If you aren’t doing things which are sufficiently crazy, you’ll never generate a 5x net fund. That means we want to put up 5x net funds, we want to be investing in owning non-trivial quantities, generally at least 10%, of companies.

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Bubble Trouble? I Don’t Think So

Ben's Blog

Similarly, in recent high profile private financing rounds for private technology companies with valuations over $1B, the valuation multiples were at or below corresponding multiples for publicly traded companies such as Google. And hence the great crash of 2000 and 2001. Public market comparables. Much better.

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Episode 50: Video Content and Profitability with Seth David

Mike Michalowicz

An accounting firm based in Santa Monica, CA, specializing in bankruptcy, from 2001 to 2003. Previously, from 1999 to 2001, Seth was a Senior Revenue Accountant for the Veterinary Centers Of America. An accounting firm based in Santa Monica, CA, specializing in bankruptcy, from 2001 to 2003. There is no more getting around this.

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

online.wsj.com

Loading… Personal Finance. Personal Finance. Ritter, a finance professor at University of Floridas business school. Netscape and Opsware, which he helped found, went public with single-class share structures in 1995 and 2001, respectively. Finance Jobs |. Personal Finance. » More. » More.