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Don’t Sleep on Lightning

Version One Ventures

Up until late August, Lightning Labs had capped the channel capacity and payment size for users of their popular implementation of the network to ~$2000 USD and ~$500 respectively to better protect user funds with experimental software. . synthetic stocks or futures) and prediction markets.

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Disturbing

Austin Startup

I recall that MSA’s stock increased 5X or thereabouts after our deal, which by no means implies that Peachtree deserved sole credit for all that. The youngest of the litter has been busy tuning a very attractive general idea into a very specific and more IP-based product offering. I got the message. Yes, that has multiple meanings!)

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Making Decisions in Context

Austin Startup

Between day one and your first confrontations with those issues, particularly if you’ve raised any outside capital, you will have formed a board and stocked it with people you can really get to work on your behalf. If you’ve got patent or other IP needs, you may want to engage specialists in those areas.

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In a Strong Wind Even Turkeys Can Fly

Both Sides of the Table

Within a year, by late 2000 / early 2001 consulting firms were firing people en masse. Since that date the S&P 500 is up 2.45% while Accenture stock is up 206% with revenue of $23 billion and a market cap of $32 billion. Double-down on great people, process & IP. The things that always differentiated Accenture?

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Time is the Enemy of All Deals

Both Sides of the Table

We moved into the legal process and final due diligence in January and February of 2000. Our final closure was the first week of March 2000. If anything changed (stock market crash, real estate crash, somebody trying to buy Salesforce.com, whatever) I could end up with goose eggs. They accepted my argument.

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Behind Every Great Product

SVPG

Hate mail started streaming in from everywhere - including emails directly to Bill Gates who would forward them on to the team with messages like "this is depressing MSFT's stock price. The year was 2000, and the hardest part about the AdWords project was simply getting agreement that they could work on it.

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

This has presented a problem of the decision makers at resorts balking on spending 50K+ on an unproven idea, although we did a beta test around 2000 with 3 mountains that went well. for most seed investments, investors will put more stock in the person and the traction they get with the resources at hand. That’s your call.