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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. My blog was wiped out. Tempus Fugit.

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Valuations 101: Scorecard Valuation Methodology

Gust

Product/Technology 0-15%. Marketing/Sales Channels/Partnerships 0-10%. Looking at the strength of the competition in the market, the target is weaker (75% of norm) but early customer feedback on the product is excellent (Other = 100%). Product/Technology.

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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

VC Cafe

Chen Zamir is the company’s CTO and former Intelligence officer in the IDF as well as Paypal risk manager. Innoviz Technologies (2016)- High Definition Solid State LiDAR (HD-SSL), enables smart and advanced 3D remote sensing for fully autonomous vehicles, while significantly reducing both cost and size.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #18: The strength of natural network effects

Austin Startup

This, by the way, isn’t very different from how the term social commerce became muddled after Bazaarvoice first started promoting it in 2006 to describe what we do?—?unfortunately, and therefore the sales?—?that I’ve also heard BDAs called SaaS 3.0 although the SaaS 3.0 The retailers were to provide the audience?—?and

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Transcript of How to Prepare to Sell Your Business

Duct Tape Marketing

He started Stackify to solve the biggest challenge he had as the CTO of VinSolutions, so Matt, thanks for joining me. We basically automated that and then the business grew over eight years to do a bunch of different things that were related to sales and marketing for car dealerships. Matt Watson: Yeah. Absolutely. Glad to be here.

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SundaySky Raises $9 Million to Disrupt Dynamic Video

VC Cafe

The company said it will use the proceeds of this round to strengthen its sales and marketing efforts. SundaySky’s SaaS platform leverages existing website assets, mainly product listing feeds, eliminating the need for customers to maintain the videos. It currently has 31 employees, mostly creative producers, copywirters, etc.

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Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard

rob.by

It means they have to deal with finances and customers and investors and other things that aren’t what they love to do, which is building software. Business & Technology (18). Music Gear for Sale/Trade. © 2006-present Robby Grossman. But software engineers also pay a price for working by themselves.