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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

The terms and valuation for both offers were comparable and when the team debated which path to choose, we all agreed both firms would have made good partners. round which closed in November 2003, and the pre-money valuation between $10 million and $15 million. It was a pretty good valuation for the time. It was a $4.7M

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10 WAYS TO MAKE YOUR NEW RESTAURANT MORE PROFITABLE IN 2019

Mike Michalowicz

There is a lot happening in the Boston restaurant landscape. Some say it’s the ridiculous and ever-escalating Boston rents, some say Millennials are to blame, but in either case – complaining never pays the bills. He has owned and managed restaurants in several of the different Boston Neighborhoods. link] [link].

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Should You Share Equity with Consultants?

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Before Roving Software could receive its first round of financing from professional investors, in early 1999, he had to put all the stock arrangements in writing. Durkin , managing partner with the Boston -based law firm Lucash, Gesmer & Updegrove LLP. Chip Morse , cofounder and partner with Morse, Barnes-Brown & Pendleton P.C.,

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I Want My CIC! … The Benefits for Startups to Be Co-Located

Both Sides of the Table

This past December I spent a week in Boston to try to get to know some of the local VC’s and entrepreneurs a bit better. I’m surprised how few people talk about valuations, term sheet terms, how much to pay recruiters, etc. Dogpatch was the brainchild of Mike Hirshland , partner at Polaris.

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The Playbook for Scale Up Nation

Seeing Both Sides

Only a handful of so-called unicorns — companies that have achieved a valuation of over $1 billion in the last 10 years — come from Israel, and only one Israeli firm, Teva, ranks in the world’s 500 largest companies by market capitalization. One of the key lessons CyberArk learned is to partner with VCs in order to source top talent.

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Feb. 28, Stamford, CT: HBS Event on Angel Investing 101 – Best Practices

David Teten

David Teten, Partner, ff Venture Capital ; Chairman, HBS Alumni Angels of Greater New York. From the perspective of best practices, we will address questions such as: How to assess opportunities (idea, team, valuation). . - Susan Balloch, Managing Director, Golden Seeds; formerly Executive Director and Principal, The Blackstone Group.

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Returns for brand-name VC funds

finance.fortune.cnn.com

Now Fortune has obtained more granular data, including returns for dotcom-era funds managed by such firms as Accel Partners, Benchmark Capital, General Catalyst Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners. Overall, the fund-of-funds is 97% called for 45 funds raised between 1999 and 2002. Onset Ventures IV (2000): 31% (4%).

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