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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

Both Sides of the Table

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. So money spent should add equity value or create IP that eventually will.

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What Did I Learn From the First VC Check I Ever Wrote?

Both Sides of the Table

I became a VC 12 years ago in 2007 when the pace of deals was much slower. Defensible IP When I’m asked by newer, younger VC partners for advice on our sector, one of the things I always emphasize is looking for companies who have built defensible intellectual property (IP). Defensible IP becomes insanely valuable?—?particularly

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Zayo Group – One of Boulder’s Amazing Startup Stories

Feld Thoughts

By the time we sold to Level 3, our total proceeds to equity owners and management were $225M. By 2007, they were doing quite well. Instead, we sought to provide raw fiber, wavelengths, ethernet, IP, and technical space to those entities that needed a whole lot of bandwidth. Circa 2007, this was considered a ridiculous approach.

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Making Decisions in Context

Austin Startup

They’re looking to be paid properly in the context of the overall salary structure, including cash, benefits, and equity, and to be paid commensurate with performance. If you’ve got patent or other IP needs, you may want to engage specialists in those areas. What will most upset them is what they perceive as unfair treatment.

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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

www.readwriteweb.com

But when done well it can really help get a company going fast, professionally and without the founders having to give up much (if any) equity - or bankrupting themselves. The founders may believe they are onto such a good idea that they don’t want to give up any equity. Posted by: Matt | September 10, 2007 4:46 AM Good read but.

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This Week in VC: Michael Montgomery (President, Montgomery & Co.)

Both Sides of the Table

Michael is a very accomplished corporate executive in his own right having run Sega Gameworks and helped IPO EuroDisney as well as having been on the founding team of DreamWorks SKG (where he helped them raise their first $900 million in equity). Founded in 2007 by Oxford Univ. We discussed: 1. TechCrunch. GroupSpaces. students. -Is

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Beware The Consultant

infochachkie.com

Instead of hearing from your long lost third-cousin, you will be inundated with an avalanche of ‘congratulatory’ emails, calls and letters from people who want to relieve you of the burden of your hard-earned equity round. IP) is an ugly thing at a startup. Many such ‘congratulations’ will come from consultants. link] Luis Rivera.

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