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How to Raise Money – It’s a Journey Not An Event

Steve Blank

Btw, the definition of each startup financing stage has changed in the last decade. What was a Series A round in 2005 is now a pre-seed or seed round. Step 3: The Series A – you raise $5-$10M. Step 4: Series B – you raise $10-$50M. Step 5: Series, C, D…. And what used to be a seed round a decade ago is now a pre-seed round.

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

Both Sides of the Table

Or worse yet they may never get financed. Raise at “ the top end of normal &# but not so high that future financings in a corrected market become impossible. An obvious example is Google who may have gotten less market attention if there would have been 8 well-financed competitors during the 2001-2005 timeframe.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. Yes, it’s true that FOMO (fear of missing out) is driving some irrational behavior and valuations amongst uber competitive deals and well-financed VCs. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin! The Exit Problem.

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Does Fintech Disruption Break The Investment Banking Model?

YoungUpstarts

As always the key challenge here is to reduce the number of “false negatives” (an undetected breach) to as close to zero as possible while limiting the number of “false positives” (a non-breach identified as an investigative-event). Today employment in the sector is comparable to levels from 2005-2006 when revenues were also similar.

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Attracting a CTO to your startup

www.thisisgoingtobebig.com

Blog Tumblr About Me NYC Events Meet with Me NYC Community Blog Tumblr About Me NYC Events Meet with Me NYC Community Top Blog Tumblr About Me NYC Events Meet with Me NYC Community Search Chat Links LinkedIn Twitter Facebook Flickr Last.fm Lets start with finances. So, what makes you worth 50%? (Or

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Understanding The Role Of The Chief Behind The Chief

Duct Tape Marketing

And that was, you know, 2004, 2005 was, I was realizing that it was no longer about working harder. I was at a Verne har event about 14 years ago and I came off stage speaking and someone came up to me said, oh my gosh, you're Cameron. So, you know, Brian did not need someone to run finance in it cuz he liked finance in it.

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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

This is another joint event between HBS Angels of NY and the HBS Club of New York. He holds a Master of Science in Finance from the London Business School and a Bachelor of Arts from Tulane University. We also have a great panel coming up next Thursday night, Jan.