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What Everyone Should Take Away from Twitter’s 8% Staff Reductions

Both Sides of the Table

The truth is that the brutal reality of public markets is that they self correct much more quickly than our shitty little private equity illiquid corner of the universe. What is your revenue growth rate and what does this imply about your number of months of capital remaining? I put up this slide as part of my discussion.

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4 Reasons You Might Not Want to Be VC Funded

Up and Running

Venture capitalists essentially buy equity in your brand, which means they now have a say in how you operate. In 2005, Claus Moseholm co-founded GoViral, a Danish company which specializes in harnessing the internet to promote advertisers’ videos and make them go viral. You give up some control of your company.

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Out of the Crisis #4: Carl Liebert, crisis veteran and radical optimist

Startup Lessons Learned

We can't make a 5-year plan or a 10-year forecast right now, but we know there are investments we can make today that will set ourselves up for success in the future. And then from there, I was running a fitness company on the west coast by the name of 24 Hour Fitness, which was private equity backed and quite a bit of debt.

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Channel your Inner VC to Understand Startup Valuations

www.currentlyobsessed.com

The net effect was more money raised, higher valuation and the same percentage of equity sold. Snapvine was my first experience being in the driver’s seat of the fund-raising process, and in the 3 years prior to our acquisition we raised over $10mm in venture capital. I know this sounds crazy, but it’s not.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter October 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

ISRAEL’S STATISTICS BUREAU FORECASTS 4% GROWTH IN 2010. The Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) forecasts 4% growth for 2010 based on data it accumulated over the first nine months of the year. growth forecast for 2010 exports. In 2008, the company, which employs about 30,000 worldwide, reported revenues of $28.8