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Add Startups to Balance Your Portfolio, If You Dare

Startup Professionals Musings

This requires a simple signature that you have a net worth of at least $1M or have made at least $200K each year for the last two years. With all these considerations, I recommend the following steps and considerations for investors newly interested in startups: Build a balanced investment portfolio. Do your homework before investing.

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How To Create Buzz Around Your Startup

David Teten

I emphasize that the best PR you can build is through satisfied customers with high Net Promoter scores. We’ve listed below some of the more creative ways that we’ve seen our portfolio companies and others attract the media, at zero or trivial cost. There’s a world of difference between PR success and actual business success.

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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

Howard Lindzon is Co-Founder and CEO of StockTwits, a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information. Mr. Parekh started his career at Goldman Sachs, developing the firm’s equities business in the Middle East, with high net worth family offices and sovereign wealth funds.

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Building The Machine Podcast Episode 5: Dan Kimerling Deciens Capital

Eric Friedman

What I mean by this is that a lot of folks are perched on soap boxes across social networks, shouting from the hilltops. I don’t worry about my anti-portfolio. Just to talk a bit more about this,, I was talking with a VC that you know well about my portfolio company, Chipper Cash. You take a more tacit approach.

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Who are the Major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

David Teten

We’re also regularly following-on for existing portfolio companies.”. Founder Earnings = Net Income + any amount of founders’ salaries over a certain threshold. The combination of investment capital and credit card processing (CCP) fees creates a “win-win” partnership for investors and portfolio companies. ARR of $500K+.

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How To Create Buzz Around Your Startup

David Teten

I emphasize that the best PR you can build is through satisfied customers with high Net Promoter scores. We’ve listed below some of the more creative ways that we’ve seen our portfolio companies and others attract the media, at zero or trivial cost. There’s a world of difference between PR success and actual business success.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter March 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

ISRAELI CABINET APPROVES 2-YEAR MODEL FOR BUDGET 2011-2012. The Israeli Cabinet approved Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz’s proposal to continue with the biennial state budget model in 2011-2012. WARREN BUFFET’S BERKSHIRE HATHWAY UNIT TTI BUYS ISRAEL’S NET AYE. Net-Aye is a subsidiary of Bar-Tec Ltd.

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