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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

The browser and thus the WWW and the first Internet businesses were born circa 1994–95 and there was a golden period where anything seemed possible. I started my first company in 1999 and was admittedly swept up in all of this: Magazine covers, fancy conferences, artificial valuations and easy money. There was no money train.

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Should You Share Equity with Consultants?

www.inc.com

Finance | Tuesdays. Financing a Small Business. Financing A Small Business. Personal Finance. Internet and Online Business. Should You Share Equity with Consultants? To grow his cash-strapped start-up, Parker ended up sharing equity -- not only with employees, but also with consultants and vendors.

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Feld Thoughts

Rates have risen significantly in the last eighteen months, pulling capital out of the equity markets and into the fixed income markets. This dynamic is reflected in the article Scooter Firm Chases Funding to Staunch Losses about the current Lime and Bird financings. I also have no idea what the timing of anything is.

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Stitch Fix: Reinventing Retail Through Personalization

abovethecrowd.com

In addition to market concerns, I had the unique experience of working with Dan Nordstrom and the team at Nordstrom.com in August of 1999. On August 23, Stitch Fix announced that it had shipped its 100,000th Fix , and today the company announced that it has grown 500% since its last financing round this past February.

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How Top Venture Capitalists Create (and Sometimes Destroy) Portfolio Company Value

David Teten

Fralic has 25 years of technology industry experience, with significant Internet business development roles since 1996. Mr. Fralic earned his BS in Finance from Villanova University and his MBA from St. through the Yahoo! acquisition. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia. You can reach Chris at www.nothingtosay.com and @ChrisFRC.

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Zilliant Raises $13M Series….G?

Austin Startup

Having been founded in 1999, Zilliant is hard to categorize as a startup anymore. So why would you not think that internet retailers are interested in maximizing pricing as well? The company creates the leading software in an enterprise niche called pricing optimization and margin management. An item’s price is the price.

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Is There a Valuation Bubble for Social Media Companies (and if so, is it Bursting)?

Pascal's View

Capital Markets Advisory Partners cleaves the demand for pre-public VC-backed equities into two worlds: “Demand Pull (Buzz) and Supply Push (No Buzz) companies. For me Bubble will always be inexorably linked to what went down in 1999 and 2000 in the internet sector. It is intentional. I do not think we are in a Bubble per se.”.