Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 11, 2020

Sam is one of the most prolific company builders in Silicon Valley. Eric Ries : You were one of the first people who when the crisis was breaking, I saw your name all over Silicon Valley, in the Y Combinator forums. I would encourage people to just reach out to the normal crew of Silicon Valley Investors [for].

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

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. These may be aggregated by an angel group up to about $1M for an angel round. But these requirements have been relaxed with the Crowdfunding JOBS Act implementation in 2016.

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

How They Do It: Aggregate data from travel data warehouses like ITA as well as indexing travel providers websites, provide this information to consumers in a highly customizable search engine. 2010 Net Income: $8 million. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. Founding Date: 2004. Author howerl.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

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. These may be aggregated by an Angel group up to about $1M for an Angel round. Finally, it’s an opportunity to “give back” what you have learned in your own career for the next generation.

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Accredited Investor Liquidity Event SEC Stock 219

pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Multiply that by literally a couple thousand, and that’s what 2013 is going to look like in Silicon Valley, and to a lesser degree some other startup ecosystems. “There are so many companies in Silicon Valley that have raised $30 million and done absolutely nothing with it.” Source: AllThingsD ]. -

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Technical Review Silicon Valley Incubator Syria 93

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

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. These may be aggregated by an Angel group up to about $1M for an Angel round. Finally, it’s an opportunity to “give back” what you have learned in your own career for the next generation.

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Portfolio Accredited Investor Liquidity Event SEC 228

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

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. These may be aggregated by an Angel group up to about $1M for an Angel round. But these requirements may go away with the Crowdfunding JOBS Act passed into law back in 2012.

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Accredited Investor Liquidity Event SEC Entrepreneur 120

VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

PMC-Sierra is buying Wintegra for a net purchase price of $213 million and will pay up to an additional $60 million based on growth and performance milestones in 2011. billion net profit. PMC-Sierra, a premier Internet infrastructure semiconductor solution provider, is purchasing Wintegra Inc. , billion, of which $2.5

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Bandwidth Framework Forecast 79

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

Many have noted that the aggregate shareholder value created by all of the Unicorns will vastly overshadow the losses from the inevitable failed unicorns. Ironically, Carreyou is not a Silicon Valley-focused reporter, and the success of the piece served as a wake-up call for other journalists who may have been struck by Unicorn fever.

IPO 40

IPO Term Sheet Silicon Valley Valuation 40

Venture Chronicles

MAY 26, 2010

Back in March, Ben Horowitz of Andreessen Horowitz wrote a post called The Case For The Fat Startup, where he outlined some of the reasons why a fledging company might want to consider taking a large amount of funding — a strategy that contrasts with the ‘lean startup’ model that has become common in Silicon Valley.

Lean 40

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Hippoland

JANUARY 4, 2017

Later, if you sell the whole company to Google at say $5 per share, I will earn $500k for a net gain of $400k. So, in the aggregate, it is possible that you may be required to pay as much as $30k-$50k to get an equity round done. Most Silicon Valley investors won’t call your note when the maturity date arrives.

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Convertible Security Equity Security Silicon Valley 48

abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Our firm has had the good fortune to invest in many two-sided networks that used information aggregation, supplier aggregation, and user generated content to attract and inform consumers and resultantly disrupt and change different industries. He is one of Silicon Valley’s legendary venture capitalists.

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Singapore Government Silicon Valley Software Review 43

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

For many of us in Silicon Valley, one of the notable events of the crisis was Brian's public stance about the role of corporate leadership in social issues. It kind of aggregates technology content, I suppose. And as Fred happened to move to Silicon Valley, he saw the prototype I had posted on Reddit, I think.

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IPO Cofounder Technical Review Government 113

Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

A bit like Silicon Valley. Like most politically important information, consumers will eventually get to be in control of their own aggregated data. The net effect of all this, is that being authentic is now becoming a cost of entry, rather than a point of difference.

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Uruguay Technical Review Vertical Las Vegas 123

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

For those who aren’t familiar, Mobius was a VC fund with offices in Silicon Valley and Boulder CO and at it’s peak Mobius had $2B+ under management. a VC fund’s entire portfolio in aggregate, net of management fees and carried interest) a good return from an LP’s perspective would be 2.5-3.0x

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

of VCs said they had a decreased appetite for risk and that more than half of those polled expect their firms to do between zero and three deals in the next year and you start to get the feeling things are going to get a lot worse for private companies, in aggregate, before they get better. Add to this that 72.7% next to nothing, charge?

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Venture Capital Technical Review Sweat Equity Valuation 62

Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

We’re building a True SaaS company in Boise, Idaho, not in Silicon Valley or not in New York. You don’t want to be in a dynamic where you basically don’t have the capital that you need at the most important time to use it. The second concept which really builds upon the first is all about unique economics.

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Small Business Finance Forecast Metrics 95

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 11, 2008

Looking back the reality has been different in so many ways, even for a jaded Silicon Valley veteran of layoffs and cool companies like myself. Each in a small way makes life easy for someone working at Google, but taken in aggregate, in my opinion, add up to a big advantage for the company. Here's a tiny example.

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