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The Twenty Year Itch: My Last VC Investment Out of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures

This is going to be BIG.

It will be the 105th deal out of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, the firm I started back in September 2012, and it will be the last deal I’ll be making out of my third fund. It will also be my last venture capital deal. Around that time, I’ll be able to mark twenty years since I started as the first analyst at Union Square Ventures.

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ProfessorVC: How much is enough?

Professor VC

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). In looking back at the old financials, at the end of Q2 2005, our cash balance was a whopping $546. offering to invest $75K if we could find another $250K by September 30, 2005.

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4 Considerations for Expanding Your Startup to International Markets

mashable.com

If you’re working with an open source project, for example, it’s important that you have a definitive business model to drive revenue — though not at the cost of alienating your community of core contributors. Generally speaking, the European venture capital community is more likely to commit larger investments in more mature companies.

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How to Fund a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

November 2005 Venture funding works like gears. There never has to be atime when you have no revenues. Some angel investors join together in syndicates. You can find groups near you through the Angel Capital Association. [ Want to start a startup? Apply for funding by March 3. Few startups get it quite right.