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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

In theory when you went public, everyone’s shares were now tradable on the stock exchange, but usually the underwriters required a six month “lockup” when company insiders (employees and investors) couldn’t sell. For the next four or five years, technology M&A boomed, growing from 50 in 2003 to 450 in 2006.

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The Crucial Questions Every Project Manager Needs To Ask – And The KPIs To Answer Them

YoungUpstarts

A report that can be filtered and aggregated by data points like team, portfolio, or customer, also acts as a KPI that allows teams to identify which projects need attention, which are profiting, and which are facing losses. He has over 20 years of experience in the IT industry and has managed dozens of software development projects.

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What is an employee retention or M&A carveout plan?

Startup Company Lawyer

Due to aggregate liquidation preferences that may exceed the acquisition price in an M&A deal, common stock may be rendered worthless. In response to the problem of worthless common stock, some companies have implemented employee retention plans, which are also referred to as M&A carveout plans. Straight Retention Plans.

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29 Seriously Inspiring Interviews For Aspiring Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

Kevin Rose at TechCrunch , April 20, 2009: Digg founder Kevin Rose almost sold his wildly popular aggregator to Google in 2008, and subsequently turned his resources toward creating a much stronger independent business instead. Sheila Johnson at Prendismo Collection , Dec. This article was first posted on Online Universities.

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Evolution of a Founder: Lessons I have learned

om.co

I had been writing GigaOM (the blog) since December 2001, but in 2003, I started working on a piece for Business 2.0 In the early days, my belief was that blogs (or as I called them micro-pubs back in 2002) would grow really fast and it would allow me to aggregate large subsets of audiences around specific niches. STARTING IT UP.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter March 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

As a boon to the Israeli market’s future stability, the Bank of Israel approved a new law that specifies price stability as the central bank’s primary goal, forms a board of directors with a majority of members who are not bank employees, and creates a six-member committee to set interest rates.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

Tony P great, though meebo’s place as a “successful&# start up is still open to debate – from consumer IM aggregator to white label IM, still not making big $$. also, just to clarify, the first idea we worked on that we called “meebo&# back in 2003 was my idea. This is the blog post I needed to read.