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Want to Know How VC’s Calculate Valuation Differently from Founders?

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Back in 1999 when I first raised venture capital I had zero knowledge of what a fair term sheet looked like or how to value my company. Other founders, “as a privately held company we don’t disclose our valuation.&# Me, “dude, I’m not a journalist. Investors own 25%, the founders own 75%.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

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If you have time check out the video (or download on iTunes – Episode 27 - and listen at the gym or on your commute!). So we have five themes – Digital Life and Distribution are the other two.”. Distribution. One of the successful investments was a company called Nigenisis, which ended becoming a public company in 1999.

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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

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We had Farb Nivi , who is the founder & CEO of Grockit , a website that enables online group learning. Farb is the founder & CEO of Grockit.com. Estimated 15mm downloads to date. Founded in 1999 in Austin, Texas. Here’s this week’s outline: INTRO to FARB NIVI. Competes with Seesmic , HootSuite , Brizzly.

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How 99Designs.com came to be

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

Today, I went to an event in the city of Campbell to hear Matt Mickiewicz, Founder of SitePoint, Flippa, and 99Designs, talk about how he got started. SP had a lot of tutorials that were downloaded a lot. The main difference is that they were able to leverage their distribution channel. All of them for free.

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Why the Browser Matters

Ben's Blog

After Mosaic, even Marc and his co-founder Jim Clark originally planned a business for video distribution to run on top of the proprietary Information Super Highway , not the Internet. After AOL acquired Netscape in 1999, the browser wars ended and browser innovation stopped for many years.

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

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To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. One of its champions includes Jason Goldberg, the co-founder and CEO of online design retailer Fab.com Inc., Personal Technology. What They Know.

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Exclusive: AfterDownload, The Israeli Ad Network that Serves 15 Million Ads Daily [Interview]

VC Cafe

The company is focused on re-thinking software advertising, in particular download software and plugins. They are the first company specializing in the monetization of after-download pages (“thank you&# pages) using their own fully developed ad-serving platform. Below is the transcript of our exclusive interview.