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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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Want to Know How VC’s Calculate Valuation Differently from Founders?

Both Sides of the Table

When I went to raise money in 2006 I thought I knew every term in a term sheet but somehow I still got a bit duped by the option pool shuffle. The more senior members you have (say you already have a CEO, CTO, VP marketing, VP Biz Dev, VP Products) then the less options you’ll need and vice versa. That’s normal.

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Venture Capital Funding and the Sexism You Can’t Quite Prove

Up and Running

According to Fortune , in 2006, female founders were involved in only 2.95 examined over 20,000 VC-backed companies and found that women’s positions have primarily been in sales and marketing, rather than more “heavy-hitting” roles like chief technology officer and so on. 33 billion in venture funding.

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How to Go From Google Engineer to First-Time CTO

firstround.com

How to Go From Google Engineer to First-Time CTO. How to Go From Google Engineer to First-Time CTO. Today, he’s the co-founder and CTO of Artillery , bringing console-quality gaming to the web browser. When Google offered me a job in 2006, turning it down wasn’t an option. Product and Engineering.

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Finding Technical Cofounders Is Hard

rob.by

Whilst the average tech entrepreneur may lack some of the more business relationship, networking, and sales/marketing skills – they still need to have an entrepreneurial mindset, understand financial models, market factors, and how the business ultimately makes money. Business & Technology (18). Music Gear for Sale/Trade.

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Valuations 101: Scorecard Valuation Methodology

Gust

Product/Technology 0-15%. Marketing/Sales Channels/Partnerships 0-10%. The company needs some additional work on building sales channels and partnerships (80% of norm). Product/Technology. Marketing/Sales/Partnerships. TARGETCOMPANY.

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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.