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4 Considerations for Expanding Your Startup to International Markets

mashable.com

Clearly Define Your Business Model While this may sound like a trivial task, young startups often have an exciting and innovative product, but no real plan for monetizing it. It’s critical to establish this component of your business before thinking seriously about growth. in place before you expand.

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Urbanization of Startups ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

The kinds of places where you have to sign an NDA when you walk in the lobby… When I lived and worked in the bay area (2000-2005) virtually all the startups were down on the peninsula somewhere. for college students and recent grads to work in startups. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC.

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ProfessorVC: How much is enough?

Professor VC

had mixed emotions when I read the the press release on the recent funding of iControl Networks. I took a look back at our original financial model we presented to VCs in 2004. But of course, the model had us requiring only $10M equity to breakeven and to achieve $185M in revenues in 2008 (the magic Year 5 in all business plans).